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I've seen this film before but will watch it again and again ......

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tattynan Tue 07-Aug-12 22:27:31

Does this happen in your house ..... you switch the tv on to find a film you've seen hundreds of times before but think 'oh I'll watch this'. Even though you've seen them loads of times you still enjoy them. In Tatty's house our guilty pleasures include Die Hard , The Running Man , Aliens , any Indiana Jones, Oh and dare I admit it Predator.

MercedesYang Fri 22-Feb-13 07:47:36

Yeah, if there is some point of that movie that can touch my nerve regardless of happiness or sorrow, I would watch it every time I get sight of it! Well, it can always remind me that I have emotion, and I can enjoy the real life reflected from a movie! smile

Eloethan Fri 22-Feb-13 00:43:26

The Sixth Sense

I've always loved "Rebecca" and have watched it many times but a few weeks ago I watched it again and have suddenly fallen out of love with it. Does this happen to other people?

tattynan Sun 19-Aug-12 19:59:50

It happened again last night - should have been getting ready to go out but watched Indiana Jones instead!(Missed first five minutes but didn't matter because I'd seen it before.)

Anagram Fri 17-Aug-12 22:02:34

absent - I so agree! And how about all those films you recorded to watch 'later'....

Ella46 Fri 17-Aug-12 22:01:08

Howards End was on this afternoon, and I've seen it so many times, but I got sucked into it again and had to stop the vacuuming and sit down and watch it!

absentgrana Fri 17-Aug-12 20:32:01

Of course, the converse is that a film starts on the tv and you (I) think, "I switched this off last time; I'll watch it now". Then it gets going and you think, "Bedtime would be nice. I'll maybe watch it another time". That way you become the world's greatest expert on the first 15 minutes of some of the world's most popular movies, with absolutely no idea how they end.

dorsetpennt Fri 17-Aug-12 13:33:47

Gone With the Wind, Howards End, Room with a View, Kramer V Kramer, Heat,Midnight Cowboy, Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellers, Passage to India, This Happy Breed, War of the Worlds, 9all these and some more or on my Sky Plus list

EEJit Fri 17-Aug-12 12:58:30

Hunt for Red October. Superb film and book.

Anagram Thu 16-Aug-12 22:31:52

So that makes you, what, crimson - 92? confused grin

crimson Thu 16-Aug-12 22:16:46

Oh crikey; I forgot it was older than that blush. I know I took my, then, boyfriend to see it for my nineteenth or twentieth birthday [because I was feeling down at getting so old].

Elegran Thu 16-Aug-12 22:00:56

Smellivision?

feetlebaum Thu 16-Aug-12 21:47:19

What - in 1940? Oh, well, I suppose it's possible... some of it was fairly trippy!

crimson Thu 16-Aug-12 21:29:24

I remember seeing Fantasia at the cinema when it first came out; there were people there smoking stuff that wasn't yer usual tobacco. Came out passively stoned I did wink....

vampirequeen Thu 16-Aug-12 20:29:48

Any Arnie film. Top Gun, Die Hard, Columbo, Witches of Eastwick, Carry on anything, Sailor Beware (Peggy Mount is wonderful), any Indiana Jones, National Treasure, Boat Trip, Rat Run, any St Trinians although I prefer the old b&w, The Ladykillers.....the list could go on and on.

Wheniwasyourage Thu 16-Aug-12 19:34:54

What's Up, Doc?, Where Eagles Dare, Airplane, all the St Trinians films, The lavender Hill Mob, The Happiest Days of Your Life, Thoroughly Modern Milly, Fantasia (the original one) and It's A Wonderful Life for Christmas time. What a lovely thread with some great suggestions!

numberplease Thu 16-Aug-12 16:33:46

All the Howard Keel musicals, almost anything with Doris Day in it, and, most of all, The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond.

artygran Sat 11-Aug-12 18:12:27

If this were Desert Island Films the one I would take to my desert island would be Rebecca. I was never keen on Joan Crawford, but Olivier and that old smoothie George Sanders were wonderful, and Judith Anderson was the creepiest Mrs Danvers.

Anagram Thu 09-Aug-12 21:35:43

I find all films at the cinema TOO LOUD these days! I suppose it's so that the dialogue can be heard above the rustling, talking and phone ring-tones of the audience...confused

Grindos Thu 09-Aug-12 21:31:46

I LOVE Finding Neverland with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. It's sooooooooo sad and lovely. And Chocolat with Johnny Depp, but I don't like any of his other films, especially Pirates of the Carribean.
To Sir With Love was fab with Sidney Poitier and Lulu.
Nowadays I can't cope with violence or sci-fi or anything really LOUD. Went to cinema to see Lord of the Rings and had to stuff tissues in my ears.

artygran Thu 09-Aug-12 17:55:49

How could I have forgotten To Kill a Mockingbird! Flying down to Rio (ALL Fred and Ginger, in fact); Mrs Miniver; The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; A Bridge Too Far, which had the most authentic casting of any war film I have ever seen (we watched it at a NATO base where we were stationed - the Germans on one side of the cinema and the Brits and everyone else on the other! It was all very good natured though and no-one came to blows!)

GoldenGran Thu 09-Aug-12 15:11:48

It's A Wonderful Life- I watch it every Christmas and still cry, High Noon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Citizen Kane, Sleepless in Seattle and all the Ealing Comedies. I also love Grease, The Railway Children and.... have to stop could go on for hours!

harrigran Thu 09-Aug-12 15:10:19

The Full Monty, Brassed Off and all films for children because they are so entertaining.

Frankel Thu 09-Aug-12 14:53:14

The Life of Brian, Blazing Saddles and Disney's Jungle Book - we've just bought Jungle Book for my grand-daughter and I hope she'll want to watch it a few times. The cartoons are a little dated but the songs and characters are just great for little kids - and big ones.

whitewave Thu 09-Aug-12 11:17:39

Love anything from the 1930's especially all the musicals with Fred and Ginger. Also have watched the Godfather trilogy a few times.

Yummygran Thu 09-Aug-12 10:20:53

I loved The Red Shoes when I was little, though I was a little scared when I watched it, it's quite dark! My must watch films are: Brief Encounter; The Full Monty; Brassed Off (Pete Postlethwaite, the best!); Some Like it Hot, Tony Curtis was the most incredibly good looking man EVER! and any Ealing comedies such as Passport to Pimlico; The Lavendar Hill Mob...all so funny! grin