Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

1y ago

What movies are worth rewatching?

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The Lord of the Rings
- Doesn't matter how often you see scenes like ride of the rohirrim, they remain just as epic as they were the first time.

The Big Lebowski
- Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
- You are doing it wrong if you haven't seen this at least 10 times. You have to watch it once sober too, but just once, don't panic.

Hot Fuzz
- I watched that movie stoned off my ass and with the catchphrases the characters do, I thought I was in a time loop. 10/10
  Also adding Shawn of the Dead/anything Edgar Wright
  
  Anything Edgar Wright, or just the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy of Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead and World's End.

Everything Everywhere All at Once, Interstellar, Fight Club, Arrival, The Sixth Sense, Primer. I'm sure I could go on but all of those are great on a rewatch.

Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
All three of those make much more sense the second time around.
In general, though, that's a matter of personal preference. I will never turn down Young Frankenstein, The Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles, Groundhog Day, or The Princess Bride.
- You make a good distinction. In my opinion this question can be answered in two ways:
  A movie that holds up being just as good on a rewatch.
  Movies where you either pick up on clues/details on further rewatches once you know the full movie. Or that are just so dense/layered that you just can't catch everyrhing the first time you watch it

The Fifth Element
- AZIZ
  
  LIGHTS

Matrix. I've watched the trilogy god knows how many times, I still find it entertaining.
- The first one is the best and one I enjoy rewatching.
  
  The Smiths fight scene in the park that happens in Reloaded is arguably one of the best fight sequences out of the OT.
  The first movie was ground breaking though and holds up so well. I think if Equilibrium had a higher budget and visionaries like the Wachowskis working on it, it likely would be as highly regarded as the Matrix.
  
  Agreed 👍.

The princess bride
- As you wish.

I felt like I noticed something new every time I watched Arrival
- Interesting. I've only seen it once ... should watch again I guess!
- I absolutely loved this film but it hit me hard, so far I haven't been able to watch it again.

Shrek

Dune
- I'm a simple man, I see Dune mentioned I upvote.
  
  I'll watch any Denis Villeneuve movie on repeat tbh. The audio alone can carry my evening
- Which one though? There's the David Lynch version, the Sci Fi mini series, and the most recent adaptation. They all have their pros/cons, but I honestly prefer the Sci Fi mini series. It's lower budget than the movies, but I think they did a great job at adapting the source material.
  
  Honestly, all three. I love all of them for different reasons
  
  Not that the new one isn't nicely done, but David Lynch's creativity will always stand out as the superior film. The new one borrows some of his stuff which is more than fine, but it just isn't as willing to get weird as Lynch was.

Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Spirited Away
  Princess Mononoke
  5 Centimeters per Second
  Your Name
  A Silent Voice
  Suzume
  I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
  Wall-E
  Zulu
  The Lost Battalion
  Léon: The Professional
  Serpico
  Starship Troopers
  The Graduate
  Taxi Driver
  Lost in Translation
  The Virgin Suicides

Interstellar.
- And the incredible soundtrack by Hans Zimmer.

Groundhog Day
- And Groundhog Day
  
  And Groundhog Day

Memento The Prestige The Sixth Sense Fight Club Interstellar Pulp Fiction

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, extended edition
- Great for an international flight.

Memento
- All Nolan movies, except Tenet.

Darren Aronofsky's Pi. I've watched 3 times, each separated by a decent amount of time, and I think the third was my favourite.
Its short runtime (84 mins) is I suspect a major factor in this. Nowadays it's almost like rewatching a favourite episode of a beloved Sci-Fi.
- It definitely would make a good Black Mirror episode. My problem is the ending sequence is so brutal and off putting that I find it hard to rewatch for recommend to others.
  It was neat to recognize the actor who played Hector Salamanca in it though as the professor. That guy has awesome range!

I love Korean movies like
Last train to busan
Parasite
Oldboy
- Snowpiercer! Great movie by the same director as Parasite
  
  Good movie. Weird flow.
- The Good, The Bad and the Weird

The Back to the Future trilogy is good for a re-view.

The Sound of Music
Blade Runner
Raiders of the Lost Ark
12 Angry Men

I pick up something new almost every time I watch Memento.

Interstellar

The Naked Gun series. Leslie Nielsen was a legend. John Wick series Matrix series Airplane 1&2 Die Hard 1/2/3. I don’t count the 4 & 5th movies.

Contact
- Arrival as well
  
  Oh heck yeah!

Primer or really any good time travel movie. For Primer, you pretty much have to re-watch out to make sense of what is going on. Highly recommended though!

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
My Neighbor Totoro
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
5 Centimeters per Second
Your Name
A Silent Voice
Suzume
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Wall-E
Zulu
The Lost Battalion
Léon: The Professional
Serpico
Starship Troopers
The Graduate
Taxi Driver
Lost in Translation
The Virgin Suicides
- I was wondering who’s be first to say Studio Ghibli films. They’re all super rewatchable except for Grave of the Fireflies. That one is just hard to watch but great.

5th Element.

The Emperor's New Groove

Fight Club
- Shhhh!!

Star Wars (original trilogy), lord of the rings extended editions, Wrath of Khan, Blader Runner
~~These are just my hyperfixations ~~
- Bladder Runner just REALLY wants to go to the toilet
  
  It's an underrated film

Definitely Arrival

All David Lynch movies and Interstellar off the top of my head.
- my biggest mistake was watching inland empire before i had learned to appreciate lynch through twin peaks
  
  Inland Empire would be a hard film of his to start with for sure.
- Yesssss

Weekend At Bernie's.

Hmm, I rewatch almost anything, especially comedy movies like White Chicks and Shrek 1 and 2 lol.
I'd recommend the Guardians of The Galaxy trilogy or Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
Also LOTR movies, but those were already recommended.
- Agree about the POTC movies. The first three are very entertaining!

Hackers

Movie: hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, RRR, most of Ghibli studios, drunken Master.
Shows: house, Dirk gently's holistic detective agency, the Blackadder

Alien
I can watch it on repeat and die happy
- Definitely in the running for best movie ever made.

Goodfellas, every time

The Blues Brothers
Ghostbusters
Lord of the Rings
Hot Fuzz
- I usually don't enjoy rewatching movies unless it's been a few years. With that said, I watch The Blue Brothers 2-3 per year minimum.
  
  You're clearly on a mission from God

Big Trouble in Little China

The Blade Runner films and the Spider Verse films

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Sneakers (1992). Plot makes me laugh every time. Stellar performances by all actors.

Lord of the rings fellowship, two towers, and return of the king extended editions.

Pacific Rim
- But ignore the sequel entirely. The drop in quality is impressive.
  
  I'm baffled at how much they screwed it up. They really didn't need to change the formula much for the sequel to be a success. Just come up with a new portal or some excuse why the portal from movie 1 didn't close and do the same thing as the first movie.
  Instead they did whatever they ended up doing in movie 2 and killed what could've been a fun blockbuster franchise.
  Hell they could've adapted one of the the hundreds of fanfics online and it would've been a better starting point than whatever they ended up with.
  
  yeah it had a different director.

Your Name

Some lesser popular options:
The Incredibles
Monsters, Inc.
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home and VI The undiscovered country
Star Trek Beyond
Top gun
Bloodsport
Jaws
Vertigo
- Star trek VI is Undiscovered Country, but it is a good movie. Unless you mean Star Trek IV The Voyage Home which is personally my favorite Star Trek movie of them all.
  
  Thanks, corrected, sorry I was too tired when I wrote that.

Primer First time I watched it I had to restart the DVD immediately after it ended.

The Shawshank Redemption. I don't have cable any more, but when I did, I'd watch it any time i saw it on.

WALL-E

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