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[Dash Kappei]

Damn, yesterday night I was channel surfing at 4 am tring to get sleepy and I catched they were broadcasting Aliens. I must have seen that masterpiece at least 15 times, and despite having more than one DVD edition (SE, OC, DC) and even the 720p satellite broadcast, I was still grabbed till the end of it from a crappy aerial tv broadcast in mono...
no shit today I was zombie'd at work.

I guess the same happens to me when I catch a glimpse of Ghostbusters, The Thing
Dumb & Dumber, Good Fellas or Young Frankenstein: I'm hooked until the end no matter how many times I've seen 'em or that I have the very same movie sitting in my DVDs cabinet.

I don't know why is that.
Yes, they're all awesome piece of work in my book, but it's not like I don't feel the same for many many others.

What are the films you could (and have) see literally countless times without gettin bored?
Those aren't necessarily your top movies of all times, "just" movies you love that you keep watching over and over no matter what.
For example, I fucking love Full Metal Jacket, Godfather, 2001 and others and I watched them a good numbers of times (anywhere between 5 or 10 times) but it's not the same feeling as those mentioned above, where really I'll be hooked on the sofa watching them, when it was not in my plans in the slightest (ie broadcast tv) and no matter whatever I was doing before that.

Kinda special ones

 

[VALIS]

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Big Lebowski

Two movies that reward repeated viewings because you catch something new each time. I've probably seen 'em both 15+ times. I've also seen The Wild Angels about 30 times, but that's 'cuz it was my favorite drunk movie.

 

[S. L.]

I'm sure we already had this thread a couple of times, but:

 

[subzero9285]

Gladiator
Leon
Nikita
Aliens
Alien
Requiem for a dream, and many others.

 

[NameGenerated]

Jurassic Park

Kung Pow

Jaws

 

[Darklord]

All the Star Wars.
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Star Trek: First Contact
Hot Fuzz
Jurassic Park 1 and 2

 

[2 Minutes Turkish]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Along Came Polly
Blades of Glory
Dark Knight

Not necessarily stellar movies or anything, but I can just seem to keep watching them without getting bored with them.

 

[JayDubya]

Aliens & T2
Most Kurosawa...
Batman Begins has had a heavy, heavy rotation in my house since that DVD came out...

Fellowship of the Ring

Raiders of the Lost Ark

And of course, Empire. All of the Star Wars movies, really, but Empire.

 

[Kagari]

Titanic
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Star Wars IV, V, VI
Jurassic Park
Godfather Part 1
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

 

[Hootie]

A Christmas Story
Rocky I-IV
Any Rambo
Bloodsport
Commando
Any Die Hard
Godfather Parts I and II
Hot Fuzz
Mummy Returns (might not be a masterpiece but boy it's a great popcorn flick)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Gladiator

 

[Ceres]

I can usually only watch comedies and Disney movies over and over again.

Young Frankenstein
History of the World Part I
Monty Python
Austin Powers
Kung Pow
Superstar
Princess Bride
Beauty and the Beast
Lion King
Aladdin
Sleeping Beauty

I've seen SW Ep IV, V, & VI and all the LotR quite a few times but they're the exception to the rule for the most part aside from Princess Bride. I now hate Spiderman because of repeated viewings.
As soon as Stardust comes out on blu-ray, I'll probably watch that a few times. I've only seen it twice now but have been itching to watch it again.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

Wall-E would be the most recent one.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

haha, i immediately thought 'the only movie i could watch like that, and can't turn off if i see it on tv, is aliens' , and mentioned in OP. nice

 

[element]

blues brothers
animal house
dazed and confused

 

[BakedPigeon]

Scary Movie 2
Harold and Kumar go to white castle
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
idiocracy
Clerks II
Casino Royale
Meet The Parents
Mall Rats
The Matrix
Half Baked
Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny
Waiting
Freddy Got Fingered
Blood Diamond
Pineapple Express
Zack & Miri Make A Porno
Pulp Fiction
Happy Gilmore
Office Space
Billy Madison

 

[Hilbert]

Ten Commandments.

Any of the Heston greats.

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

Transformers the Movie
Saving Private Ryan
Chronicles of Riddick (because of TNT)
Blade
LOTR Trilogy

 

[Lakitu]

Die Hard & Die Hard With a Vengeance
Aliens
Blade Runner
Amelie
Pixar Movies
Children of Men
Arnie Flicks
Big Trouble in Little China

 

[Sinatar]

Robocop
Die Hard 1 & 3
Hard Boiled
Gladiator
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
The 5th Element
Army of Darkness
13th Warrior
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
They Live
Children of Men
Commando
Starship Troopers
Total Recall
The Running Man
True Lies
Conan the Barbarian
Demolition Man
The man with no name trilogy
Full Metal Jacket
Fist of Legend
The Big Lebowski
Snatch
Ronin

Yea I do a lot of movie rewatching.

 

[canoli2006]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Any Indiana Jones
Any Back to the Future
Any Star Wars (except AotC)
Either Ghostbusters
Either Men in Black (yes, even the second one)
Batman 89, Batman Returns, Batman Begins (and TDK obviously)
Any Pirates of the Caribbean
The Goonies
Pulp Fiction
Lost in Translation
Any Matrix
Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2
Jurassic Park
Spider-man 2
Home Alone 2
+ others I'm no doubt forgetting.

 

[kkaabboomm]

 

[Jamesfrom818]

Jumanji
Ocean's 11
Shawshank Redemption
Band of Brothers (not a movie but whatever)

There are probably a few others but I'm frazzled from work and I can't think.

 

[clemenx]

For some reason i love The 6th Day, and it's always on tv, have seen it countless times.

 

[Lakitu]

Robocop
Die Hard 1 & 3
Hard Boiled
Gladiator
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
The 5th Element
Army of Darkness
13th Warrior
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
They Live
Children of Men
Commando
Starship Troopers
Total Recall
The Running Man
True Lies
Conan the Barbarian
Demolition Man
The man with no name trilogy
Full Metal Jacket
Fist of Legend
The Big Lebowski
Snatch
Ronin

Yea I do a lot of movie rewatching.

You have fantastic taste.

 

[Kagari]

So much love for Jurassic Park ;D And I agree. Amazing move... so awesome that for a while when I was in highschool I watched it every day for about 2 months straight. Wore the VHS tape right out too :lol

 

[The Librarian]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Need more mentioning. Best movie ever, imo.
Jurassic Park
Aliens
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terminator 2
Star Trek IV
Star Trek: First Contact

 

[Cooter]

Wow....

Back to the Future II
Anchorman
Dumb and Dumber
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
Matrix I
Total Recall
Pineapple Express
Bloodsport
Kickboxer
Dark Knight
Batman 89'
Bedazzled
Toy Story
Groundhog day
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction
Tommy Boy
South Park
Click
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
Wedding Crashers
Old School
Office Space
12 Monkeys
Rounders
Meet the Parents
Face Off
300

I'm sure there are more.

 

[Haly]

Gladiator
The Pianist
LotR trilogy
Millenium Actress
5cm per second

 

[karasu]

Mighty Aphrodite
Ping Pong
Rear Window
Fist of Fury
Clan of the White Lotus
The Sentimental Swordsman
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (original Shaw Bros film version)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Vanilla Sky (That's right. The remake)
Lethal Weapon (only the original)
Anything with Gregory Peck
The Double Life of Veronque
Rouge


Anime series:

Air Master
Grappler Baki
Hajime no Ippo
Nana

 

[Learn2read]

Unforgiven

 

[atomico]

aliens
back to the future 2
beetlejuice
dark knight
demolition man
die hard 3
dirty harry
face/off
office space
pineapple express
terminator 2
the big lebowski
total recall

 

[AndresON777]

The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Big Lebowski
Back to the Future 2
300
Jurassic Park
Cowboy Bebop The Movie
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
Star Wars A New Hope
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
The Incredibles
Groundhog Day
Terminator 2
Predator
Office Space
The Dark Knight

 

[backflip10019]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Spaceballs
Young Frankenstein
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Dark Knight
Dumb & Dumber
Both Ace Venturas
Superbad
The Meaning of Life
The Bourne series
Crank/Road Trip (Amy Smart titties -- woop woop!)

 

[zoku88]

Pretty much none. I have trouble rewatching/rereading/replaying almost anything.

 

[Ezduo]

I had never seen the original Die Hard until a few days after Christmas when Fox Movie Channel happened to be showing a marathon. My parents were watching it and I walked in on the scene where Bruce Willis first talks to the head bad guy over the walkie-talkie.

"Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?"
"Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker."

I must've watched that movie 3 or 4 times in a row and I could easily watch it twice that many times in one sitting. Jurassic Park is another one that would get my vote though I can really only stand to watch it once every couple of months.

 

[Blutonium]

Damn, yesterday night I was channel surfing at 4 am tring to get sleepy and I catched they were broadcasting Aliens. I must have seen that masterpiece at least 15 times, and despite having more than one DVD edition (SE, OC, DC) and even the 720p satellite broadcast, I was still grabbed till the end of it from a crappy aerial tv broadcast in mono...
no shit today I was zombie'd at work.

I came in here to post Aliens

But hell, there are loads of movies I can watch countless times. Stuff like:

True Lies
Terminator
Terminator 2 Motherfucking Judgment Day
Alien
Aliens
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Back to the Future trilogy
The Thing
Evil Dead trilogy
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction

And good comedies never get old, I quote

Ace Ventura 1 & 2
Dumb & Dumber
Superbad
Monty Python stuff

atleast twice a week

 

[SUPREME1]

BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT: BOUND BY HONOR

:lol

 

[Dash Kappei]

I don't see how a movie like The Dark Knights (which I LOVE, just to be clear) can be eligible, the DVD/BRD just came out...

 

[British Monsoon]

Back to the Future I, II & III
Bird People in China
Bright Future
Conan the Barbarian & Conan the Destroyer
Die Hard & Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying & love the Bomb.
Dune
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
The Godfather
Hawk the Slayer (laugh all you want, this film fucking owns)
Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark/The Temple of Doom/The Last Crusade
Natural Born Killers
Throne of Blood
Time Bandits

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Pretty much none. I have trouble rewatching/rereading/replaying almost anything.

Personally, I wouldn't say "none" but it's pretty uncommon for me to rewatch many movies simply because I always want to see something new. It almost feels like I'm using up precious time sitting down with one I've seen before when there are so many others out there to be discovered.

Even all-time favorites (Hitchcocks, Bergmans, WKW and the like) I've only seen a couple of times. Oddly enough, I think the only two movies I've seen a number of times would be Babe: A Pig in the City (six) and the Matrix Reloaded (nine times in the theater, several more on DVD + HD). Heh.

 

[Dash Kappei]

I came in here to post Aliens

The Thing
Dumb & Dumber

Fuck yeah!
Those two, they have the same grip on me!
I can't stop to watch once Ive started, even if they're already in the middle of the movie by the time I catch them on brodcast!

Especially The Thing, sitting on the edge of my sofa until the end when they show it on TV, usually very late at night

Again, I'm a huge movie buff with close to a thousand original DVDs and a lot of them that I put on heavy rotation and I'd consider my fav movies ever, but mostly I can't be bothered to watch them in non-HD/DVD/7.1/etc.

Instead those two you mentioned are part of the special ones
Damn, I'm putting them in my list in the OP even if I wanted to mention just a couple only to give you guys the meaning of what I was saying.

 

[Blader]

Star Wars trilogy
The Matrix
Batman Begins/The Dark Knight
The Bourne trilogy
Die Hard 3
Apollo 13
Cinderella Man
Rocky 1-4 (just the training/fight scenes)
Inside Man
40 Year Old Virgin
Zoolander/Old School/Anchorman/Wedding Crashers
Wayne's World

 

[Finn]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

This. I watch this movie on Bravo every single time it airs, and often they do a back-to-back airing of it, and God help me if I finish watching the first airing and then stick around too long for the second. Because then, yep, I have to watch it again.

Also, The Goonies and My Cousin Vinny. Love them both to death.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Goodfellas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Christmas Story
Big Lebowski
Jurassic Park
Empire Strikes Back
Aliens
Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump
Matilda

 

[Decado]

Really good movies in my favourite genres:

Historical epics
Hard "R" action
Spy/Action films (essentially Bond and Bourne)
sci-fi
fantasy

I've only recently started buying movies because I thought I'd see them multiple times.

 

[roosters93]

Not many anymore.

Mostly just fun movies and A Clockwork Orange.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Clueless
Titanic
Pulp Fiction
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Aliens
John Carpenter's The Thing
The Terminator
The Piano
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Fugitive

 

[Spotless Mind]

Aliens was the first thing that sprang to mind. Probably my most watched movie ever. It still keeps me riveted every time i watch it.

These also NEVER get old for me:

North By North West
Raiders of the Lost Ark
From Russia With Love
Casino Royale
Lost In Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Big Trouble in Little China
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Die Hard
Twelve Monkeys
The Fifth Element
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Jaws

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]