What's a movie you can watch often and it never gets old?

For me is the Back to the Future trilogy but I usually watch just the first one..every year

Down Periscope

Galaxy Quest

Big Lebowski

Station Agent

LOTR Triology

Office Space

Jurassic Park

UHF

Idiocracy

Rat Race

Hot Tub Time Machine

Tropic Thunder

Event horizon.

THE Suicide squad. It was so good that Tim Gunn earned the right to be boss of the DCU, and has proved it again and again.

The Thing (1982)

It’s my favorite movie of all time and I watch it every October.

I watched this for the umpteenth time just last night! Always a good one.

Constantine Matrix ... I do love Keanu, but I don't care for his latest movies much.

Jurassic Park

Office space

Mean girls

The devil wears prada

Emperor's new groove

Lilo & stitch

Wall-E (and most Pixar movies)

Airplane

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Edit: forgot about Ghibli movies, watch them constantly too, specially spirited away and totoro

Alien

Aliens

Too bad they didn't make any more of them.

Romulus is better than it has any right to be. The Alien 3 “Assembly Cut” is also decent. Not good, but not awful.
Best movies ever? Maybe. Maybe.

Ghost in the shell (anime movies).

Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Life of Brian

Coen Bros. films.

Super cliche answer but:

The Shawshank Redemption

UHF

Mouse Hunt

Supplies!

Six String Samurai

Hackers. Yes, it's corny - cheesy, even - but it had a great cast with awesome chemistry, and it did a great job at capturing the zeitgeist of hacker/punk culture. Plus so many memorable quotes...

You are forgetting the soundtrack! Its still amazing and slaps!
Hack the planet!
- CLI + VR and specially GPUs to be able to hack in those UI... For a moment while watching Superman (2025) I had those flashbacks (Luthor's employees in fight scenes).

The Princess Bride

Shawshank Redemption

Hot Fuzz

Penguins (of Madagascar): The Movie

Raiders of the Lost Ark

White Chicks

Mean Girls

The Devil Wears Prada

The Proposal

I like to shut my brain off and have simple entertainment that doesn’t require much thinking during watching watch time.

My favourite movie of all time is Enemy 2013 and Black Swan but these are movies that go under your skin and everytime I watch them I have to go into spirals of overthinking etc while the above mentioned movies don’t give me that.

Kung Fury

Office Space

It's wild how relatable it still is nearly 30 years later.
I could set the building on fire....
PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

The Big Lebowski. Simultaneously ridiculous and incredibly sophisticated. People who think its "just" a stoner comedy may have some more viewings to go 🙂

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I never realized it was considered a stoner comedy! It's quite a bit better than one I've seen in that category!
- It gets the stoner comedy reputation as the dude is stoned throughout. He's a character in the movie though, not then full tone. That's probably why it's so good. It blends so many genres with an interesting interweaving plot and wonderful dialogue.
  It's a deserved reputation as it's great to watch stoned. Especially when the dude is confused and so are you. Or the psychedelic sequences. However it's also not deserved as it's so much cleverer than that with differen levels. A stoner comedy doesn't normally have a coherent plot and levels.
Don't be fatuous.
Especially when you dive into the fan made theories, like Donny is a figment of Walters imagination, Walter killed his ex-wife and her husband, the dude is the big Lebowski's illegitimate son.
- I don’t think the Dude could be his illegitimate son since that’s part of the reason Maude referred him to that doctor. He wouldn’t have been very “thorough” if he missed that they were related.
- Roll tide.

The good old Blues Brothers boys.

"No, ma'am, we're musicians."

*Jurassic Park

Mean Girls
Zombieland
Elemental
The Matrix
Crazy Stupid Love

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy,The big lebowski, Dogma, Pulp fiction, Conspiracy,

Moooulllttteeee Paaassss_ssss

The Fifth Element

Idiocracy

There’s something about that close-to-home dystopian outlook that calms me. Now go away, I’m batin’!

Its a little darker but have you seen god bless america?
I like money.

Jurassic Park

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Harry Potter films

Ghostbusters. Absolute perfection.

Yes, it's true, this man has no dick.
And Ghostbusters II.

Liar, liar.

Nearly every single line in that movie that Jim Carrey delivers is not only funny but his delivery and antics are a work of art. It's like watching Messi dribble the soccer ball. Cary ewles gets an honorary mention for playing the straightman and absolutely killing it.

What’s wrong with me?!
I’m getting what I deserve I’m reaping what I sow—
- I'm so glad my gift could bring them closer together. My plan to phase myself out is nearly complete.

A Knights Tale
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Young Frankenstein
The Matrix
The Big Lebowski

Life of brian

I raise you The Holy Grail.
- Blasphemer! You're only making it worse for yourself!
- The Meaning of Life; Jabberwocky & Brazil if you're adventurous (Gilliam's hand directing, these last 2).

Groundhog Day

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Megamind

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)

The Princess Bride

The thing about Groundhog Day is that you only have to watch it once to have seen it several times.
- I live that movie every damn day
Wish they'd make a new release for the 4k version of Pirates. From what I've heard the one out now is pretty bad in terms of color grading and detail.

When I'm sad or depressed, I rewatch Inside out (1 or 2) and it puts me in a content and indifferent headspace.

For me it's The Matrix.

I never like to retread old ground, but this one's an exception. It's hard to overstate how much it blew our minds 26 years ago. I might have a soft spot for it too because I was raised sheltered and it was the first rated R movie I saw.

It's a shame they didn't make any sequels. The creators probably decided it was a complete story rather than milk it to death like Star wars. Guess that's for the best!
- Indeed. (Reloaded does have its moments, but yeah.)
I saw The Matrix a few times in theaters and watched it regularly when the dvd came out.

Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The greatest cinematic masterpiece of the 21st century, of course: Shrek

Big Trouble In Little China.

Marathon Man [Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier] seems to have been designed for multiple viewings. A character seen briefly in one scene turns up later in the movie. A quick telephone call becomes incredibly important but you have to be paying close attention to every minute.

Sabrina

Galaxy Quest

Fifth Element

Joe vs the Volcano

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist

LOTR Two Towers (extended, for more Ents)

Clue.

Sometimes my friends and I just sit around quoting it until we've made it through the entire movie, so maybe there's no point in rewatching it, but we do anyway.

It... it... flames. Flames, FLAMES, on the side of my face!

Rear Window

The Princess Bride

Joe vs the Volcano

Idiocracy

Rear windows is such a fantastic film. It surprised me how well it holds up.

Blade Runner

I'm surprised this hasn't been said already and would expect it to be one of the top comments.

Mad Max: Fury Road

Lord of the Rings

Die Hard

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Princess Bride

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Hot Fuzz

The Big Lebowski

The Blues Brothers

Rat Race

Airplane!

The Big Lebowski

Hot Fuzz.
Pride and Prejudice (the one with Kiera Knightley).

Lord of War

Total Recall (1991)

Casino Royale (2006)

Seven Psychopaths

The Nice Guys (2016)

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Evolution.

It knows what it is, and nobody in it is under some illusion that they're making some masterpiece of cinema. That is not at all a criticism or even backhanded compliment. I like when the actors have fun with the things they're working on. I mean, who doesn't love seen behind the scenes of Ian Mckellen slapping a dummy of Sean Aston around.

It's fun, it's ridiculous, and it leans into it a bit.

Plus they came up with the Thanos Weakness a long time before the avengers fans. ::: spoiler spoiler (it's the butthole, they attacked a giant alien anus with soap to save the day) :::

Anti dandruff shampoo!
Oh shiiit, I used to love this movie as a kid/teen. Time for a re-watch I think.

Clerks

Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot.
BERSERKER
- Would you like some making fuck BERSERKER
In a row?!

My Neighbour Totoro

Super troopers

Harold and Kumar go to white castle

Ghost busters

Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension.

It's the quintessential 80s movie.

Gone in Sixty Seconds.

Moneyball.

Addendum: Kung Fu Panda

Gone in 60 is so rewatchable
- Hey hey, check this out! Check this out! She’s a brick. Nuh nuhnuh. Hooooouse!
Moneyball - very good choice. I'd like to add "The Big Short" as well.
- Both based on books by the same dude! Something I didn't realize for quite some. I need to go read his shit.

Lord of the Rings (whole trilogy)

Jurassic Park

Tropic Thunder

Escape from New York

Zombieland

The Crow

Zombieland is mine!!

Fight Club

It sucks that people take the movie the wrong way and think it glorifies male toxicity. Now there’s nazi fight clubs happening all around the world.
- Now there’s nazi fight clubs happening all around the world.
  I’m OK with this. No amount of blows to the head is a healthy amount. Let them knock each other concussed or blind.

Spirited Away
Wall-E
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
How to Train Your Dragon
The Bee Movie
Matrix
Kung Pow : Enter the Fist
Apollo 13
Spaceballs
Alien
Aliens

I have plenty more but this is just off the top of my head.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Apollo 13 Hot Fuzz Shawshank Redemption Forrest Gump

Too Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! Julie Newmar

Joe Versus The Volcano.

Also another vote for The Princess Bride

Mel brooks the history of the world part one
That and spaceballs

Kill Bill

What I wouldn’t give for Tarantino’s single-film supercut. 😞

White Men Can't Jump

Mrs. Doubtfire

HELLO

Goodfellas

Shawshank Redemption

There Will Be Blood

Truman Show

Clueless

Gladiator

Terminator 2

Groundhog Day

Snatch

I think I like more Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Good Will Hunting

Singing in The rain

Casabianca

Independence Day Rambo: First Blood North To Alaska Total Recall Open Season

Yeah, my parents watched a lot of old shows while I was growing up so it kind of shaped my likes.

Harry Potter series The Matrix Tangled The Wolf of Wallstreet Coraline

As an oldster, I notice that almost all of the movies listed here are more than 20 years old. Most of the cultural references on Lemmy are much more recent than that.

Forest Gump

What we do in the shadows

Most Villenueve movies are very rewatchable for me. Sicario, BR2049, Arrival, and the Dune films. Others like Incendies, Enemy, and Prisoners not as much, not because they are bad, but because they are pretty heavy to be watched repeatedly.

I must have seen Old School at least twenty times.

It was pretty much the perfect movie before streaming services existed and you were too lazy to go to the video store or P2P-download another movie because you'd rather hang out on your friends' couch and smoke weed all day.

Ready Player One

the nice guys apocalypse now zodiac green mile closer kings speech anything Villeneuve has made more or less

Sissy boy slap party!

Miami Connection

A Silent Voice/Koe no Natachi

I'm currently learning Japanese, and this has been my go-to to rewatch without subtitles, picking up a little more each time I revisit it.

Harry potter 1-7

Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972)

1 Night in Paris

Singin' in the rain.

Baby Driver, The Gentlemen

Couldn't even get through one whole watch of Baby Driver, tried several times but cringe quit sometime before the midpoint every time.
- Style kinda shat on substance with this one. I didn't feel like it was unwatchable, but the parts where they synchronized gunfire to music felt excessive.

Martyrs