For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.

    • sarahcanary@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 year ago

      Came here looking for this! I knew I couldn’t be the only fan of the Winchester. I first saw the movie playing at my neighbor dive bar, which was bunker like, and yep, could definitely get with the plan of holing up there until this all blew over.

      All the scenes are great and hilarious no matter how many times I see this movie.

      Fun fact: Have you seen Spaced? The old friend he comes across leading the group through the back fences is a character from a prior show they were both in together.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    29·
    1 year ago

    The Princess Bride is definitely up there for me. I don’t usually rewatch movies, but this is one that I’ll always be glad to sit through again and again.

  • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
    201·
    1 year ago

    Somehow I stopped watching movies a few years ago, which kind of annoys me but we can’t find time that much for a long movie. Of course binge watching TV series is another thing…

    For me, the three rewatchables were:

    • Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon - If you’re into cinematography and ultra techy perfection, this is the movie. And the main character is such an asshole.
    • Celine Sciamma: Portrait of a Lady on Fire - This beautiful piece hits hard. Celine has an eye for women, and the story how the ladies take care of their own business since the beginning of time is really captivating.
    • Pedro Almodóvar: All About My Mother - A queer classic. I really like the old Almodóvar telenovelas on acid, but this mid-career masterpiece has everything: the cinematography, the crazy characters and the melodrama.
    • niktemadur@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      That mid-Almodovar peak was incredible, now that you mention it. My personal favorite from that time has to be Habla Con Ella (Talk To Her), in parallel Woody Allen filmography terms I would equate it with Hannah & Her Sisters, in artistic achievement.

      Barry Lyndon is currently a rising “underrated masterpiece” topic with most of the best film critic podcasters. My personal favorite film has nearly always been 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I just recently rewatched Barry Lyndon and man… in any other filmography this would have stood alone at the top.
      And we still have the rest of Kubrick’s work to contend with… Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Paths Of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut… it’s just ridiculous.

      For a long time now, I’ve regarded two people as my artistic heroes of the 20th century: Stanley Kubrick and John Coltrane. Mark Rothko could be up there, too, I cannot imagine my day-to-day life without his work to stop and look at, or to simply have as a presence in my surroundings.

      • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
        1·
        1 year ago

        Do you have some good podcast recommendations on Barry Lyndon? I really like the movie. For people who are reading this and thinking Barry Lyndon is some kind of super boring and high-minded art movie, just watch it. If you appreciate photography, pictures in general, the movie is done really well. It’s like watching live paintings from that era, nothing else looks like that movie.

        Edit: And what is fascinating with Barry, is how the actor Leon Vitali who did Lord Bullingdon in the movie, just abandoned his acting career and started working as an assistant for Kubrick until his death in 2022.

    • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
      4·
      1 year ago

      How could I forget these

      • Hayao Miyazaki: Kiki’s Delivery Service - the perfect movie for a sick day. A guaranteed good mood after.
      • Hayao Miyazaki: My Neighbor Totoro - the kids are some of the best kid characters in any movie ever.
      • Hayao Miyazaki: Spirited Away - cold shiver moments like the train on top of the flooding water.
      • Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke - how we can finally maybe agree even when we disagree.
  • Surp@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    Peter Jackson’s lord of the rings trilogy extended edition. I bought a 4k tv and bluray player just for the 4k release last summer I think it was. (not the shitty hobbit)

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      We do an extended edition marathon at least twice a year, sometimes more if it’s been a tough time. Last time we watched them was the week before getting married, to distract me from my stress.

      I’m currently rereading the books and once that’s done we’ll do our first marathon as marrieds! 😄

      I simultaneously hate to think, and also am very proud, of how many times we must have seen them by now.

  • Mane25@feddit.uk
    15·
    1 year ago

    Literally Groundhog Day, it’s one of my favourites and about 20 years ago I started a tradition of always watching it every Feb 2nd, and so I’ve watched it 20 times plus maybe half a dozen times before then.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Grosse Point Blank is not my favourite film of all time. But it’s the only one I’ve ever been able to honestly give a perfect 10/10 score.

      The story, the cast, the script, the pacing, obviously the soundtrack, there is just not a single flaw I can find.

    • dubble_deee@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Hackers is a great choice, it’s so cheesy but it just draws you in and completely suspends your beliefs. Every character is likeable and the lines are so well delivered, man now I got to rewatch it. Terminator 2, hackers, and Pokemon 1st gen probably made more SDEs than any stem outreach program.

    • niktemadur@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t Grosse Pointe Blank from around '98 or ‘99?
      That’s when VHS was on its’ very last legs. I think my first DVD player was from around 2001, by that time the graph line of DVD rising and VHS falling had already intersected, and this was in Mexico, I’m not sure when other parts of the world made the transition, say in the US, Europe or Japan it happened earlier.