DVDs with "Rewatchable" value (1 Viewer)

[Scott Weinberg]

You guys can add the Speed Five-Star Collection to your lists. I watched the movie last night, and I could easily watch it again tonight...if I didn't have 23 other ones to watch first.

 

[Daniel J]

Anybody want a peanut?
I can't believe only one person has listed The Princess Bride! It's the most watchable film ever made! In fact, it gets more watchable every time you see it! The swordplay alone is worth it! I feel like using another exclaimation mark! this is fun! wheee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...
ahem...
The Iron Giant is another personal favorite, though I try to savor the experience by only watching it when I won't be thinking about the ending. It's the type of movie I love to savour, kind of like an elegant dessert that takes me hours to prepare.
I could watch either 'old' Star Wars movie (filmed before 1980) in a looping cycle until the VCR or tape died. DVDs cannot come too soon.
Winnie The Pooh has always gripped me in a way that's indescribeable; I need to go pick up that DVD ASAP.
Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing, while not exactly heavy-duty cinematic art (it's a Japanese TV series about teenage boys piloting huge robots, though alot more 'traditional' than most anime) is totally re-watchable. I don't have any DVDs yet, but I spent a few months capturing it to my hard drive a year and a half ago, and I love being able to watch any episode with only a double click
I wish I could watch The Seven Samurai more often, but I don't own the disc. :frowning: That's mostly because I don't often have time to sit through a 4-hour movie, and I can't watch it in small pieces.
The Matrix is the kind of movie that gives me a new epiphany every time I watch it. Even when I just listen to the isolated score. I love that
If I could get any of Link Removed old movies (Link Removed, Link Removed, etc.) on disc, I'd watch them till they broke. I loved that man. :b
The Prisoner is awesome. I haven't bought any discs yet, but I watch it on TV whenever I can. Favorite episode: The Schitzoid Man. Patrick Mcgoohan is incredible!
Star Trek VI is so very unlike a typical Star Trek movie, and yet so very essentially Star Trek, it's my favorite ST movie without hesitation. They nailed everything to the wall in that movie.

 

[RoyGBiv]

North by Northwest

In my opinion Hitchcock's best film. Who wouldn't love Eva Marie Saint looking better than any other movie she made getting together with Cary Grant. And what a finish! It's one of the best DVD transfers. I've probably watched this movie twice a year for the last 25 years, and I've already watched the DVD 3 times this year.


The 39 Steps

Maybe the second best Hitchcock film made in the mid '30's. If you're a fan of movies where one, simple man has to struggle to outwit the spies around him, this is a great movie. I watch it about once a year.


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington


Probably Frank Capra's best film. I think it's better than It Happened One Night (which is also pretty good). It's a Wonderful Life is enjoyable at the holidays, but MSGTW is much better. If you again are interested in watching an ordinary person struggle against greed and corruption, this is your film.


Then there are the movies I call the 3F Comedies:
Full Monty
Four Weddings and a Funeral
A Fish Called Wanda

All are very witty (not just funny) movies that are extremely rewatchable .


One last comedy no one has mentioned
Waking Ned Devine


What an enjoyable movie from any perspective. I've watched it about 10 times in the four or five years it's been out.


SMK

 

[Thane]

Seeings how I purchase most of the DVD's that I watch, I guess I would hope that they all have rewatch value! But in reality, there are certain titles that find themselves spinning more often than others. My collection numbers over 1440, so the list is rather long: (No particular order)
Maurice (Reg. 2)
Out Of Africa
Legends Of The Fall
All Over The Guy
Urbania
Big Eden
Last Of The Mohicans
Dances With Wolves
Stargate
Fearless
Fight Club
Fly Away Home
Four Weddings & A Funeral
Gladiator
Goldeneye
Last Temptation Of Christ
Mission (LD)
Northern Exposure Season 1 (Reg. 2)
Abyss
Babette's Feast
Barry Lyndon
Big Blue
Braveheart
Brideshead Revisited
Chariots Of Fire
Contact
English Patient
Reindeer Games
Talented Mr. Ripley
Three Kings
Titanic
A Walk In The Clouds
Of course there are many others, but these are the titles that jumped out at me as being frequent players when I skimmed over my list.

 

[Joe Bernardi]

Fargo
Last Action Hero
Welcome to the Dollhouse

 

[StephanieC]

The 39 Steps
Alien/Aliens
Amelie
Big Daddy
Bring It On
Charade
Clerks: The Cartoon series (highly addictive!)
The Client
Detroit Rock City
Dick
Dogma
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Evil Dead 2
The Goonies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Shrek
Superstar
And UHF and Empire Records have been watched about 900 times on VHS, yet I've only watched it once on DVD so far.

 

[Ted Todorov]

Excellent question:
Get Shorty
Almost Famous (Untitled)
The Limey
Out of Sight
Croupier (R2 UK)
L.A. Confidential
Rough Magic (R2 France)
The Matrix
The Thomas Crown Affair (remake)
Stolen Kisses (R2 France)
Fabulous Baker Boys
All The President's Men
Yojimbo
Sullivan's Travels
Tequila Sunrise
The Hunt for Red October
Rear Window
A great movie does not necessarily guarantee rewatchability, but it does help.
Ted

 

[Chuck Schick]

I can't believe no one mentioned Office Space (or did I miss it?)

Some other gems I didn't see:

Eiger Sanction
Leaving Las Vegas (at least up to the last 20 minutes or so)
Bad News Bears
Dirty Work
Commando

 

[Earl J]

Nice thread:

5th Element (SB ofcourse)
Matrix
Notting Hill (My wife makes me....ahemmmm)
Jerry Maguire
Braveheart
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 2
Armageddon

Coming Soon:
Monsters, Inc.
LOTR

 

[Shad R]

Wow, your all gonna think I'm nuts but...
Fast and the Furious(the soundtrack is AMAZING!)
Jurassic Park
Fight Club
Gladiator

 

[Dave Getson]

Matrix
MIB
Gladiator
Goonies
Shrek
A Christmas Story (For sure!!)
Austin Powers 1 + 2
Any Jim Hensen movie

 

[Bill J]

Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Black Hawk Down
Pi
JFK
The Right Stuff
Traffic
Three Kings
Dark City

 

[Jack Briggs]

It gladdens me to read these lists, ya know.

 

[Christ Reynolds]

2001: a space odyssey
being john maklovich
fargo
the big lebowski
bottle rocket
rushmore
the royal tenenbaums
the shining
fight club
seven
godfather
brazil
a clockwork orange
one flew over the cuckoos nest
drowning mona
fletch
ghostbusters
memento
rutles
requiem for a dream
vertigo
the trouble with harry
LA confidential
boogie nights
magnolia
snatch
trainspotting
a hard days night
this is spinal tap

ok thats it (for now)

 

[Joshua Clinard]

Thanks for this thread. I always have a hard time deciding what I want to watch. I have seen so many of them so many times. By the way, you should be hitting Shift+B not Ctrl+B.

 

[Scott_J]

My most watched discs include:
Kentucky Fried Movie (since I was finally able to get a replacement from Anchor Bay for my copy that went kaput) - am I really the first one to list this?
South Park BLU - I can't tell you how many times I have gone through just the songs in that movie
the Naked Gun trilogy - for some reason I always seem to watch the final act of the first one, the baseball game
UHF
"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Videos - my first disc, and still one of my favorites
"Weird Al" Yankovic: Live
Clerks
Clerks Uncensored
Simpsons season1 (and season 2 soon)
All in the Family season 1
Larry Sanders Show season 1

 

[Chris Xolotl]

Been in the player at least five times:

B.B. King - Live in Africa
Blacksheep Affair
Brother
Caddyshack - 20th Anniversary
Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams
Dead Alive (Edited)
Dellamorte Dellamore
Desperado - SuperBit
Drive -- REGION 2
Drunken Master 2
Drunken Tai-Chi
Duel to the Death
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn - Special Edition
Fist of Fury
Fist of Legend
Five Deadly Venoms
Fong Sai Yuk
Fudoh
Fulltime Killer
Ginger Snaps - Collector's Edition
God of Gamblers
God of Gamblers Return
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Iron Monkey, The -- REGION 2
Jackie Chan - My Stunts (1999)
James Brown: Live From The House Of Blues (DTS)
Jazz Channel Presents, The - B.B. King
Joe Satriani - Live in San Francisco
Kid With The Golden Arm
Leon - The Professional - Uncut International Version
Martial Arts of Shaolin -- REGION 2
Meet The Feebles -- REGION 2
Metallica - S&M With the San Francisco Symphony
Ministry - Sphictour
Miracle Fighters
Motorhead: 25 & Alive - Boneshaker
National Lampoon's Animal House - Collector's Edition
New Legend of Shaolin, The
Once Upon A Time In China
Once Upon A Time In China 2
Once Upon A Time in China and America
Others, The
Ozzy Osbourne - Live at Budokan
Phenomena (Creepers)
Predator - 2 Disc Special Edition
Re-Animator: Special Edition
Riki-Oh - Story of Ricky
Santana: Supernatural Live
Scorpion King
Scorpions: Acoustica
Shaolin Drunkard
South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut
Space Jam: Special Edition
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live At The El Mocambo
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live from Austin, Texas
Tai Chi Boxer
Tai Chi Master
Taxi -- REGION 2
Taxi 2 -- REGION 2
Terminator 2: Judgement Day - UltImate Edition
Tokyo Raiders (DTS)
Twister: Special Edition (DTS)
Up in Smoke

 

[David Oliver]

ACtually the pone that came immediately to my mind was Tombstone. Others:
Memento
Casablanca
The Natural
X-Men
Godfather I, II
Slap Shot

 

[LeeL]

Almost forgot...

Princess Bride (okay, I was guilted into this)
A Christmas Story (Shitty transer notwithstanding, we watch this easily 7-10 times during the season)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (great disc! Yes, the stop-motion one, one of the best Xmas discs I own)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (one of my daughter's favorites, too, I'm training her so well)
Bowfinger
Quills (Geoffrey Rush so kicks ass in this movie)
Requiem For A Dream (Everyone should watch this movie when they think their life can't get any worse)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Trouble With Harry
Mystery Men (!)

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Most of the work by Scorsese falls into this category, especially Taxi Driver and Goodfellas.
I also find The Big Blue to be extrememly re-watchable!