Movies I will watch every single time they come on, anywhere:
The Breakfast Club, LotR(s), the Matrices, HHGttG, The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World (yes, I am that sort of person), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Sound of Music, Funny Face (Audrey Hepburn as bookish idealist turned model! Fred Astaire as freewheeling photographer in love! Awesome dance scene that got turned into not awesome commercial!), The King & I, Monty Python's Holy Grail, probably Life of Brian, too, Instinct, The Art of War.
I recently rewatched Harold & Maude, and I didn't think much of it. I can see how I used to love it, and why, but I just don't think I'm in the same headspace anymore. I wonder if I would feel the same way about Dead Poets.
This popped up recently on another board I frequent: [link] Enjoy!
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson to co-produce a series of Tintin films: [link]
I just saw Brick today and very much loved it.
I saw that movie a week or two ago, and I watched it with subtitles on just to make sure I actually heard all the lingo. (Interpreting it once you've heard it isn't so hard, but it can take me a while to hear the word properly.) It was like watching my first New Zealand movie (
Once Were Warriors
) all over again!
It was a cute movie, but I'm ready for Indie King Wossname of the Hyphens to play adult roles now.
Movies watched far too many times:
Center Stage
Dirty Dancing
Wimbeldon
Original Star Wars trilogy
The Anne of Green Gables movies (not feature films, I know, but that's a lotta hours of my life)
The BBC Narnia films
Ocean's Eleven (we're talking dozens of times at this point)
King Arthur (the clive owen one)
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson to co-produce a series of Tintin films
Hmmm, I don't know what a think about that. Live-action Tintin just seems so wrong to me. But that world is probably a good fit for Spielberg. Jackson I'm less sure about.
I think I have to subdivide my Rewatch List into:
Movies I Saw Multiple Times In the Theater
Movies I Bought on DVD (or VHS) and Voluntarily Put In
Movies I Will Stop Channel Surfing To Rewatch
and
Movies I Will Rewatch If There's No Other Interesting Option
Oh, and from above, the guy was talking about the Wise version of
The Haunting.
In my world, there exists no other. Whatever that recent movie was that was called
The Haunting,
with characters named the same? It wasn't the same.
Seen a berjillion times, will stop and rewatch if I flip past 'em on TV, and have never seen 'em on the big screen but would definitely go out of my way to do so if they ever showed up there:
Holiday, The Princess Bride, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Citizen Kane, In A Lonely Place, Bringing Up Baby, Groundhog Day, It's A Wonderful Life, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona
Seen a berjillion times including on the big screen, will rewatch on TV, and will make a special trip to see on the big screen again:
Touch of Evil, Mary Poppins, Vertigo, LOTR, POTC, Fargo, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Seen a berjillion times, wouldn't make a special trip for the big screen but will happily rewatch and rewatch again:
The Cutting Edge, Beetlejuice, Buffy The Vampire Slayer,
all the
Back to the Future
movies, anything with Brendan Fraser (though
Gods and Monsters
probably belongs on the make-a-trip-to-the-theater list), and, to my near-utter shame,
Fools Rush In.
(I can't help it! Matthew Perry is all young and skinny and free from pain-med issues, and Salma Hayek knocks my Kinsey all askew like woah, and her character is witty and snarky, not just pretty, and actively religious without it being a sign that she's a craxyhead, and the relationship between her and her best friend is kind of sweet, and -- okay, really, it's kind of a crap movie. But I still can't help it.)
Stuff on most people's most-watched list that I've never seen or seen only once and in part that left me completely cold because I have no magic in my heart:
Grease, Dirty Dancing
Kathy: Tintin.
I can see the differing sorts of childlike wonder of Jackson and Spielberg working well together. Even better if there are spiders.
Just keep Tom Hanks away.
