Ask HN: What is a movie you keep watching again every couple of years? | Hacker News Reader

Ask HN: What is a movie you keep watching again every couple of years?

12 pointsTekMol34 comments

The Thing. Probably part of the reason why it'd be a dream job for me to work in Antarctica.

Watched it again last week. Then another time with the director's commentary (commentary can be found on youtube, audio only). The fun thing is that Kurt Russel is usually there with Carpenter: They have a drink, tell stories about the shooting and have a good time.

From the top of my mind that movie is "Terminator 2".

Runners-up: "Scent of a woman" and "The talented Mr. Ripley". Several Woody Allen movies are worth to revisit. "Deliverance" and "Pulp fiction" also.

Pulp Fiction. The combination of the upbeat music and memorable dialogue used to make me rewatch it at least once a month, as a feel good movie. I've since dialled it down but will still occasionally watch parts of it.

The funny thing is the first time I saw it I didn't like it all due to it's mixed-up order of story telling and, once you put it all together, fairly mundane plot. It was over time that I realised the plot is not really what you watch it for but you watch it for the overdrawn, yet interesting, character interactions in combination with the music and general vibe.

Airplane (aka 'Flying High').

Every time I watch it I see yet another sight-gag or 'get' another joke.

Excellent writers, they had jokes within jokes, even. One of the best writing teams ever.

Did you know Airplane was a remake of an earlier film ‘Zero Hour’? Most impressively, Zero Hour was a serious film that had a script adjusted and combined with directing, acting, and visual gags to create this comedic masterpiece.

Zero Hour? What is it?

I've seen Airplane! many, many times and I just found this out recently. There are a dozen or more videos on YouTube comparing the two movies.

Meet Me in St. Louis

It's a Wonderful Life

We watch one or the other of these whenever my (now adult) children are home for Christmas. It's family tradition going back to their childhood, and nobody wants to break it.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (a tale about a time and place I have not experienced), The Rum Diaries (surprisingly such a feel good movie), Bang Boom Bang (a hilarious German Comedy)

Dogma, Baraka, Space odyssey 2001 (and other Cubric's movies)

The Doors, love the look of the film and always enjoy kicking back and listening to the music

Labyrinth, with the kids now (and Spirited away and Totoro)

David Lynch films

American Splendor, becomes more relevant with age.

Porco Rosso, The Wind Rises, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service. The Ghibli films keep me coming back.

Barton Fink. Weirdly inspiring, and tells a story like almost no movie I have seen before and after.

Here is a few: Dogma, Baraka, Space odyssey 2001 (and other Cubric's movies)

There are a few (all are based on true story):

- Moneyball

- Good Night, and Good Luck

- Kinky Boots

- Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

- Ek Doctor Ki Maut (a hindi-language movie based on actual events, chronicling the sad state of Indian research scientists in government institutions; the movie is based on the life of an Indian doctor from Kolkata who developed a vaccine for leprosy. The doctor committed suicide, but the movie has changed that)

Nice one, Ek Doctor Ki Maut.

Hot Fuzz

2001, King of Hearts, They May Be Giants

Risky Business, Terminator 1 & 2 and Office Space

Bad Education (La Mala Educación) by Almodóvar.

The Truman Show

I’ve always been fascinated by this movie.

Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola.

The Big Short

Die Hard every Christmas.

Happy Gilmore periodically.

Persuit of Happiness

Not "Happiness", but "Happyness" :) There is a scene in that move that talks about this.

- Casablanca

- five graves to Cairo

- stalag 17

- the big sleep

- north by northwest

- the 39 steps

- the third man

- the great escape

- where eagles dare

- a bridge too far

- the bridge on the river kwai

- dr no

- goldfinger

…amongst many many others

Forrest Gump

Die Hard 4.0

Rocky

Braveheart

Phenomenon

- Sin City

- Forrest Gump

- Fight Club

- Mulholland Drive

- Mall Rats

Reply on news.ycombinator.com