Personally, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I knew it was going to be quite the experience before I went for the first time‡ but it was so much fun I had to keep going back bringing friends each time.
It’s still a fun tradition to do though we haven’t done it since last year, we’re probably going to try and go again in a few weeks.
‡ I had seen it many times before going to see it in theaters for the first time.
Inglorious Basterds. Christopher Waltz is just so good in that role.
I dunno why someone downvoted you for this one - Christoph Waltz is amazing in everything.
The Matrix. I saw it at least four times in the theater.
Barbie. The details in the background of the movie (side comments, set, clothes etc.) capture the female experience better than anything else I’ve seen.
The Fellowship of the Ring. Probably the other two movies as well but this one stands out in my mind.
The first Pirates of the Caribbean as well. Back before they turned it into a franchise. Such a fun adventure movie.
I have a huge soft spot for the second and third pirates films. I think looking at the first and thinking it could make a great trilogy is totally valid and although they’re definitely much more long winded than the first with less lovable characters, they’re good films and if I ever revisit the first, I generally revisit the second and third too.
I watched the Dungeons and Dragons movie when it came out and really enjoyed it, but it definitely felt like I was watching a marvel movie, albeit a well written one, Pirates may be the last YA action adventure franchise that isn’t just the re-skinned marvel formula, which makes it far more watchable than 80% of the genre since.
Also Pirates 3 is basically the creator of the horrible pressure CGI artists have suffered under for the past 15 years, so take that as you may.
While I enjoy the Pirates trilogy, I feel like they could just as easily have kept it a single movie. It was fine, the story was conclusive enough to satisfy and open ended enough to tickle the imagination.
Not everything has to be turned into a franchise or a ‘verse.
I do agree, and generally I don’t want everything to be a franchise or a verse. However I feel that a trilogy although generally profit driven can expand a film in a nice way, such as the original star wars or Indiana Jones trilogies.
The first Spiderverse. Saw it with the girlfriend then again with a buddy. I maintain that these are the best movies ever made.
I went to Pulp Fiction 3 times on opening weekend.
That was a good weekend.
Bladerunner 2049. I saw it five or so times in IMAX.
At the time the release flew under my radar so I completely missed it in cinemas, if I could I would go at least twice.
I’m usually the first to complain about character driven movies, as opposed to story driven. Usually I despise the former category.
Somehow, blade runner 2049 is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. That’s how fucking good it is.
Ohhh I’m so jealous. That’s my favorite movie and unfortunately I missed it when it was playing in cinemas. Such a gem and the soundtrack is amazing
I skipped school (and got away with it) to watch lotr:2towers 3 times in one day at the theater
matrix I, skipped classes and watch it more than ten times in cinema.
Follow the white rabbit.
Man I remember the marketing campaign for that movie was incredible too.
The marketing was incredible because it leaned heavily into “What is the Matrix?” and didn’t spoil the plot. It made the movie itself amazing, because you had no idea what to expect.
I cringe just thinking about how that movie would be marketed today. The trailer would probably start off with all the action scenes voiced over by Morpheus explaining exactly what the Matrix was, followed by Agent Smith monologuing about how humans are a virus that needs to be wiped out.
Yes yes 1000 times yes. It was so incredible and there were so many great lines in the film talking about what the Matrix was without actually revealing the mystery. “The matrix is all around you” etc.
Absolute master class in building hype for a movie and as you say, puts modern marketing campaigns absolutely to shame. Although to be fair they did have solid gold to work with.
Matrix. I think I’ve watched it over 30times
That best my top movie. Which is also Matrix, but I only saw it 3 times in the theater.
Cinema around 12 times (best friend was a Cinema manager back then), the rest at home. Occasionally I throw in the Blu-ray and watch it from time to time…
The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit movies. If I could manage it usually would head up to the theater to re-watch every 1-2 weeks.
They were all movies released in December. I still distinctly remember heading up to the IMAX in Manhattan late night after work so the movie would finish up around midnight(?). After watching these movies I’d walk out of the theater into a cold and snowy NYC. Felt a bit surreal, especially after the last 2 Hobbit movies where most of the movies were centered around cold climates.
The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Pulp Fiction, among a few others but I was a huge film nerd in the late 90s/early 2000s
The big lebowski is worth a few rewatchs
Dark Knight, Fury Road, and… Hellboy 2019.
I feel like Hellboy is a hot take. It bombed and even other Hellboy fans seem to hate it.
Star Wars.
Watched the matinee every day for a week when it first came to our local cinema.
Dune
Now here’s the question of the evening:
The old one or the new one?
New
