Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dado5 on October 10, 2002 at 05:38:14

In Reply to: movies you've been compelled to see more than once posted by njjohn on October 10, 2002 at 03:13:49:

Singing in the rain....20+
Wizard of OZ.....20+
My fair lady.....20+
Casablanca.....10+
All the Hitch'es from the 1950's .....5+
The Hope/Crosby Road flicks.....5+
Marx Bros. flicks....5+

More recent ones..

Beauty & the Beast....10+ (picking up the re-release this week)
Chicken Run...5+
Shakespear in Love....3
Pride & Prejudice (A&E version) 4
Hard Days Night.....5+
The Princess Bride....4

I can think of a whole lot more given time.

I think great musicals and fantasies stand up to repeat viewing better than any other type of film. Dramas tend to loose their impact unless they are extremely well done and horror/mysteries fare the worst, for obvious reasons. Hitchcock being an exception (especially when Grace Kelly is in the film! hubba hubba).

All the films I have listed I would watch again and again. They all gain with each viewing. Of course one has to wait some time before watching them one more time, otherwise you saturate your taste buds, as it were.

Great films were made to be seen many times, just as great literature is to be read and reread throughout ones life.

Thanks,
Rob