Yeah, I'll Watch That Again (and Again…)

Some things just don’t fit
in a tweet.

Today I saw a tweet that said:

Name a film you can watch over and over and over again.[1]

A friend had answered it and I thought about the films that answered the (implicit) question for me.[2]

I immediately came up with fifteen films, though seven of them were films by the Marx Brothers (how I love those movies). I thought I was done. I thought wrong.

Then another hit me. A while later, two more, then another. Then nine more.

At that point I decided to stop making an ever-growing list on Twitter and instead concluded that since I have a blog, I ought to use it. I decided to omit short films from the list. There are certainly shorts that I have seen many times,[3] but I didn’t want to clutter up the list with a mix of feature-length films and shorts (so no short films were listed on Twitter).

Feature-Length Films I Have Seen More than Three Times
[Posted 4 March 2022, revised 5 March 2022]

The Addams Family
Animal Crackers
Auntie Mame
Barbarella
Beetlejuice
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
The Bride of Frankenstein
Casablanca
The Coconuts
A Day at the Races
Dogma
Duck Soup
Frankenstein
Ghostbusters
Go West
Help!
High Society
Horse Feathers
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)[4]
The Maltese Falcon (1941)[5]
Mars Attacks[6]
Monkey Business
The Muppet Movie
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
A Night at the Opera
A Night in Casablanca
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Producers (1967)[7]
Repo Man[8]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Some Like It Hot
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars VI: The Return of the Jedi
Time Bandits
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Wizard of Oz
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Women (1939)[9]
Young Frankenstein

The list started off at 30 films, grew to 34, and is now at 42.

And, for the hell of it…

Short Films I Have Seen More than Three Times
[Posted 4 March 2022]

Bambi Meets Godzilla
Duck Amuck
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
Hardware Wars
Rabbit Fire
Rabbit Seasoning
What’s Opera Doc
The Wizard of Speed and Time

Both of these lists are subject to revision as I realize, “oh yeah, I’ve seen that at least three times.”

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1. The original tweet posed it as a question, but the it isn’t “what film can you watch over and over and over again?” but the imperative, “name a film.”  ↩

2. It’s that one in the previous footnote: What films can you watch over and over and over again? (Except I’ll use the plural here.)  ↩

3. Oh, fuck it, I’ll add that too.  ↩

4. I’ve seen the 1960 original at least twice, but probably not three times. The list of movies I’ve seen twice is fairly large.  ↩

5. There’s a 1931 Maltese Falcon. I’ve seen it once.  ↩

6. I’m cringing a little at this one. I saw it in the theater (and viewed it as Burton’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a film I probably have seen three times). I saw it again on home video. I put it on in the background recently while I was doing some thing tedious and it was the most tedious part of the task. It’s a pretty bad film.  ↩

7. I’ve seen the musical remake once and am unlikely to do so again.  ↩

8. The first movie I ever went to on a date.  ↩

9. When the remake (2008) came out, I rewatched this.  ↩

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