What movie(s) did you watch 10+ times and offered something new with each view?
What movie(s) did you watch 10+ times and offered something new with each view?
Buffalo 66, Bringing Out the Dead, Rear Window…
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Princess Bride
Strictly Ballroom
Paul
LOTR
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The Big Lebowski. Every time.
He just picks things up through the movie and uses them later. One of the best examples starts in the opening scene of the movie where he's buying milk and paying with a check, as he's writing it out there's a t.v. behind the cashier playing GWB Sr saying "This aggression against Kuwait will not stand", then way later in the movie someone is shouting at him and he uses the line "this aggression will not stand" and you know he's picked it up from that earlier scene and used it again. The movie is full of this kind of callback and interaction.
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The conversation with him and Maude Lebowski is also a great example of this:
Maude Lebowski: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: 'Scuse me?
Maude Lebowski: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?
The Dude: I was talking about my rug.
Maude Lebowski: You're not interested in sex?
The Dude: You mean coitus?
Gets me every time
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Also the self-correction of from "beaver" to "vagina."
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The elder President Bush was HW.
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I’ve passed through Everything Everywhere All At Once approximately eighty times now, because on every single viewing, I’m discovering one or two tiny fragments of interrelationship that I’ve never seen before.
It’s a marvelous, marvelous movie.
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I'm one of the few that hated that movie. Started strong, got weird in a fun funny way, got weirder to the point where I'm in just to see where it's going, then idk it just lost me and I was out
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I think it speaks to me cause I have unmedicated ADHD.
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The YouTube videos and analysis is also so fascinating. Everyone finds something different!
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- Terry Gilliam's Brazil
- Akira
- What are you doing, step-bro?
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Brazil is wild, always weird how little screen time De Niro gets, but how much presence he has in the movie!
I guess I 2nd that 3rd point.
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I'm a fan of Fifth Element. Super enjoyable and there is a lot going on. It took a few watches before I realized the protagonist and the antagonist never actually meet in the movie.
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Life of Brian.
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I've watched that probably a dozen times just for my favorite part... "Alright, I AM the messiah..."
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The thing is, a lot of the humor in that movie is like not that funny when you first see it, but then a couple days later out of nowhere you suddenly think: "He has a wife, you know..." And you're like: why did I think that? Oh yeah it's from the Life of Brian! That was hilarious!
"Blessed be the Cheesemakers...?"
"All I said was: that halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"
"Worse? How could I be making it any worse?"
"you are ALL INDIVIDUALS!!!"
"He's not the messiah! He's a very naughty boy!"
fml I'm dead....
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Mine is, "but you are the Messiah my lord and I should know I've followed a few".
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12 Monkeys
In The Mouth of Madness
The Thing
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The Netflix TV show Dark. Holy hell. I missed SO much the first time. If you haven't seen this show do yourself a favor and watch it, the amount of detail is crazy, and the casting is top notch. Watch it in German with English subtitles though, the English dubbing is really, really horrendous.
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I watched a bit of Dark when it came out, will look into its status as I'm not inclined to watch (NF) shows that slowly die. Not sure if that's what happened here.
What is interesting tho, is that I have Paper Moon (1973) scheduled to watch tomorrow night. Never seen it before.
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Nah, Dark has a proper, satisfying ending, they didn't just abandon it. Definitely worth watching.
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Hah, I randomdly picked this screen name, never seen paper moon either! Just looked it up, seems Interesting, added it to the queue.
Dark had a planned ending, it was 3 seasons and then done.
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I don’t think I did 10 times, but Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sure offered something new every time I watched it.
God that movie was subtle.
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Other than what everyone else has said (great taste in film, lemmings) I'll throw out...
In the Mouth of Madness. People tend to rank The Thing as his best movie, but the other two parts of the "Apocalypse Trilogy" are also excellent. Prince of Darkness has plenty to reccomend it, but I actually have watched IMM at least 10 times. The practical effects hold up well, and I feel like I catch new little details or acting quirks on each watch. Sam Neill and Julie Carmen are both really on their game and amazingly bring a lot of both subtlety and camp to the roles. The soundtrack is really banging too, if you're a fan of Carpenter's synth-rock.
And for something completely different, but still an "at least 10 views" favorite: Rian Johnson's Brick. You'll probably need at least 2 viewings just to catch all the dialogue, which is very fast and uses a weird made up slang. The main victim makes a phone call in the first act that basically reveals everything if you understand what she's saying, but it takes the whole movie for that to happen. It's just a fun, good mystery story too. Great sense of style, great (slightly off kilter) acting choices all around. Its one of those movies that's a little like poetry or a great album, just fun to watch and enjoy for itself.
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Brick is wonderful, such a brilliant movie.
There's a new film on Netflix called Brick and I was so disappointed that it's not the same one!
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God I love Brick. Watched it countless times growing up and don't see it talked about enough online.
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I also recommended In the Mouth of Madness for the same reasons!
Prince of Darkness needs a high budget modern remake. Such killer ideas held back by budgetary constraints and practical effects limitations. It doesn't have quite as many new details to notice on repeat watches though.
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If you liked Brick, you might also like Assassination of a High School President by Brett Simon: Similar noir type tone with little details that reveal the underlying mystery. You'll probably figure it out before the end (it's a little cliche) but it's still a decent watch.
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Secretary.
Doubt ne if you want, that movie has serious layers and is brilliantly written.
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That movie is so hot. And I've met plenty of young women in the BDSM community who use submission as a mechanism to cope with trauma and fear. Its a better BDSM story than 50 Shades of Grey, that's for zure.
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12 Monkeys
Princess Bride
Fight Club
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Blade Runner (both movies)
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Good list. I'd like to add:
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Inception
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The Matrix.
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This was the first DVD I ever purchased, and it was glorious being able to pause the movie & go frame by frame.
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Clue
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Yesss I have found my people
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Princess bride
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The whole movie is quotable from start to finish.
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Primer
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Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated. They were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. And there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment, they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new. Except maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more.
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SCOTT!
PIL-GRIM!
Edgar Wright is amongst my favorite directors, and the first half of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is my favorite movie ever. Fuck, I had to take a film class with one of the world's oddest professor in college before I could properly explain why I love the movie so much.
Each time I watch it I notice a little something more. I've lowkey been thinking about making a fan-cut with the deleted scenes and everything.
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Memento
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"Perfect Blue" by Satoshi Kon. Watching it dubbed multiple times so I notice the visuals. Also the changes between the sub and dub can bring more understanding.
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Excuse me, who are you?
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Lots of movies I’ve rewatched a lot of times but one I can think of off of the top of my head that offers something new on subsequent rewatched is The Truman Show.
There’s just… soooo much stuff there. Like, does Truman become aware of what’s going on over there course of the beginning of the movie, or is he already aware before the movie even began and trying to blend in?
And because the movie is really fun to watch, you will come back to it, and notice something new every time.
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A fun little game is to point out all of the cameras that are visible. If you make that into a drinking game you would be dead by the end of the first act..
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Snatch. Always picked up something new every watch.
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Not exactly 10+ times for... Probably any of these. But enough times that I'm certain I'd still discover more on another rewatch
- Airplane!
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Longlegs
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Silence of the Lambs.
It's my favorite movie. So well done. Every set is a work of art, with so many tiny details added. Pause at any point when it's panning through Buffalo Bill's basement, and you can see a dozen different things that tell you about him.
All of the scenes lead into each other perfectly. Hannibal tells her Bill is probably on the hunt for his next victim, then it cuts to Catherine Martin driving home, singing to the radio and loving her life.
The scenes where people are "studying" each other has the actors looking directly into the camera, so you feel the discomfort of being stared at.
Clarice spends most of the movie being towered over or being fixated on my intimidating men. You can really see it impacting her as she tries not to show it.
I have to make myself shut up when I watch it with someone new, because I have something to say about every frame of the movie. 10/10
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Blade Runner
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Monte Python and the Holy Grail
Christmas Carol (1951 w/Alistair Sim)
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My Fair Lady
History of the World, Part I
Any/every Hitchcock movie.
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I love Rear Window and Psycho, have had those 10+ times. I haven't seen a lot of his movies tho, so maybe I should get a bag of chips and load some of them up, for they seem unlikely to disappoint me.
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I had a lot of fun trying to look for more surveillance with each watch through of The Truman Show.
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Tenet
I'm as much intrigued by the concept as I am confused. It's hard to put into words, really. At the very beginning they say something along the lines that he needs to "feel" it, pure intuition, because because he needs to have done it already. Chills me every time because it's such a fantastic idea. Like is he writing it into existence the moment he/someone travels back (doing things they "did" already). Or was it actually in the timeline already, and he did do those things which he is about to do now. According to the "window in the time switching room" explanation it should be the second option, but the first one would still work imo. I'm absolutely positively confused, and I love it.
Btw the movie lacks a scene, where he absolutely fumbles it, because he's thinking what to do, instead of using his instincts to reverse-do what he has done already. But then: Could he fumble it, considering he did it already?
Last thought: while traveling back do they get younger, or older? Even the oxigen cycle reverses (hence the masks)...
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A Beatutiful Mind
Fight Club
Galaxy Quest
Twelve Monkeys
Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
True Romance
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Naked Lunch. That movie is so dense. Particularly when you find out what parts are ba based on real life.
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Memento. Upon the 10th re-watch I actually managed to follow the story.
Jokes aside, I love that movie. It just takes a lot of effort to actually learn wtf is happening.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel.
If we're counting musicals then Hadestown. The lyrics have so many moments of for-shadowing and calling back, it's beautiful. There was a pro-shot filmed earlier this year, hopefully they'll release it soon 🤞
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Forrest Gump
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Great stuff, on the list to rewatch!
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Tenet. I got the story the first time, but there are so many little details in it...
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So you're the guy who liked that movie!
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Like? I love it!!
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I really don't watch very much movie so I probably have the saddest comment of all. But on my fourth watching of office space I noticed that there's a misspelling on the jump to conclusions mat, it should say lose a turn not loose a turn.
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You know, I doubt I've seen any movie over 10 times, at least not since I was a kid watching the same vhs over and over. But I've probably seen office space more than any other and I've definitely never noticed that. Good eye.
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Amelie
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You mean Fitgirl?
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Star Wars OT and PT
Schuh des Manitu, (T)Raumschiff Suprise,
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Stay - great acting by Ewan Mcgreger, Ryan Gosling and Naomi watts. Super trippy, hard to understand completely in first tries and a great watch.
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What ? Do people do that ?
I have nevwr watched a.moive even twice let alone 10 times. How in hell.do you find the time ? I retired at age 35 and am now 60 and always struggle to find time to do things.
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Everyone has time for the things they prioritize. And not much more.
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I like to exploit content (movies, music, books) instead of it exploiting me. So many copycats throughout the years!
Good for you that you were able to retire at such a young age. You think that's a good reason not to enjoy stuff you once enjoyed before? Have you ever eaten the same meal twice because it was that good?
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You should try being a crazy loner. You'll have time for all kinds of frivolous shit.
Source: lifetime of experience
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Growing up in a small town, movie selections were slim, so I watched a lot of movies back them multiple times. I don't get to watch movies as often as I'd like and when I do I usually choose gaming over movies. So when I do watch something I want it to be new. However there is at least 10 movies I will rewatch at least once every couple of years.
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It's a show, not a movie, but I have been watching Fleabag at least 20 times on repeat within half a year (November to April). I do a lot of housework and it often plays in the background while I cook or clean. I know every line. I know every shot and smile and can basically watch it in my head.
When I was 11, I was watching the VHS tape with Pirates of the Caribbean daily for about 1.5 months.
Movies and series are just one of my favorite things in the world. I do want to make time for that. Are there more important and wholesome things to do? Absolutely. But I also feel like I should be allowed to do something not meaningful or important every now and then. I've been thinking about it a lot throughout my life, whether, on my deathbed, I will regret having watched so much stuff, thinking I should have spent that time differently. I don't think I will. Because I love stories. I think it is one (possible) meaning of life, to listen to as many stories as you can. I listen to people's stories, to things that are actually happening, and TV and movies are another medium that also tells stories. I understand that a lot of people prefer books, maybe that's objectively the better, healthier choice, but I am fine with choosing the former. I once fancied a career in that field, but after a year I realized that it killed any joy I got out of it, and fucked up my health (99.9% of people are smokers). But at the end of the day, thinking of something from scratch and conveying this idea of events to someone else is fantastic. It is amazing. I feel like I have lived a thousand lives, and I want to live another thousand.
And I reevaluate that question and my answer to it often, on a regular basis. So far, I am very d'accord with it.
Also, just to make it clear, of course I do other stuff. I go outside with my kid every day, we play, we are being creative, I meet a lot of people and always have. I just don't see less value in watching a movie than in woodwork, gardening, sewing. Also, to be fair, a lot of times when I watch something, it's because I can't do anything else, "more productive", in that moment. I'm not gonna go turn on the sewing machine at midnight. The realistic choice is between watching tiktoks, shorts, etc, or hanging at lemmy for an hour, or watch a movie. I think watching a movie (or half) is time better spent than on social media clicking through short videos.
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Austin powers
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The Princess Bride
Shawshank Redemption
Penguins (of Madagascar): The Movie
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"Marathon Man."
I think it was my fifth viewing that I realized a character from the beginning shows up briefly in the middle.
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Seen this once, but I think there is no argument to be made about watching it again.
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Victoria (2015) does that for me. Maybe it's because the whole movie is recorded in a single take, but it holds my attention in a way most others don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(2015_film)
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By the end of the film I'm always so shocked by how things have developed over the last few hours. Seeing the light change into morning is very sobering
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I know what you mean. I feel like I’ve lived through an experience. Actually, I hadn’t thought of the light until you said it just now. They did time it perfectly to include that. I must watch it again!
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Longlegs was deffo one of those films where you get a better understanding of it the more times you watch
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Simone (2002)
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Thanks I'll give that a shot. From that period (2004) I love Paranoid 1.0 (or whatever they name it, the one with Jeremy Sisto).
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Hot Fuzz
Every watch you notice new little details. This film is the (modenr) textbook example of Checkov's gun.
"You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village."
Good choice, I have not seen that 10+ times yet, so on the list it goes!