The Most Rewatchable Films Of All Time?

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By Garth Franklin Thursday October 15th 2015 11:49AM
Though frequently aligned, a film's quality and its rewatchability are hardly synonymous. There are plenty of great films that one only catches a few times in one's life, and others that get slipped onto the disc or media streaming player quite regularly. The same goes for bad films - some you'd never touch again, yet others you keep coming back to because there's something compelling about them.
Earlier this week, FiveThirtyEight decided to explore this question in an effort to figure out the most rewatchable movies of all-time. Using a SurveyMonkey Audience poll, they asked people to list the five films they consider the most rewatchable. With over 1,100 respondents voting in the results they got back were not unexpected:

1. Star Wars
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Sound of Music
4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5. Gone with the Wind
6. The Godfather Films
7. The Princess Bride
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Harry Potter Film Series
10. It's A Wonderful Life
11. Forrest Gump
12. Grease
13. Dirty Dancing
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Titanic
16. The Lion King
17. Pretty Woman
18. Casablanca
19. The Matrix
20. The Notebook
21. Star Trek
22. Finding Nemo
23. Goodfellas
24. Pride & Prejudice
25. Caddyshack
26. The Avengers

 

[Napoleon]

For me it's:

Star Wars OT
LOTR
Back to the Future trilogy
Napoleon Dynamite
The Big Lebowski
Pretty much anything Christopher Nolan or Quentin Tarantino do
Zoolander
Braveheart
Gladiator
The Shawshank Redemption
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Tenacious D In: The Pick of Destiny

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Is that Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice? If so,

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Goodfellas

 

[Drizzle]

I was surprised to see Star Trek on that list. I'm assuming it's got to be the '09 version and not the original from 1979. I'm also surprised The Dark Knight didn't make it.

 

[Dark Victory]

Is that Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice? If so,

Haven't seen it, but do not underestimate the legions of young white girls who binge that type of ****. The only young female who didn't like these movies when they came out was Lisbeth Salander. Surprised Mean Girls didn't pop up along with P&P and The Notebook, though.

 

[Drizzle]

The fact that there isn't a single Spielberg film on that list is shocking too.

 

[superhero]

my top t0 are :
#1 back to the future series
#2 harry potter series
#3 lord of the rings including the hobbit I acutely like the hobbit series better then lord of the rings series
#4 x-men movies including first class days of future past & the two the wolverine movies
#5 spider-man movies including the both amazing spider-man movies
#6 batman movies with Christian bale & justice league cartoons like flash paradox and war
#9 plant of the apes including plant of the apes remake with mark whalbuger and rise & dawn of plant of the apes
#10 the terminator movies

 

[Breogan]

Of the OPs list

1. Star Wars - Lost Count
2. The Wizard of Oz - Lost count
3. The Sound of Music - 1, if that, I don't think I finished it.
4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Lost count
5. Gone with the Wind - 2
6. The Godfather Films - 4-5, I'd probably still watch again.
7. The Princess Bride - Lost count
8. The Shawshank Redemption - 4-5
9. Harry Potter Film Series - 1
10. It's A Wonderful Life - 4-5
11. Forrest Gump - 1
12. Grease - 1
13. Dirty Dancing - 0
14. Pulp Fiction - 3
15. Titanic - 1
16. The Lion King - 1
17. Pretty Woman- 2
18. Casablanca - Lost count
19. The Matrix - 3-4
20. The Notebook - 0
21. Star Trek Reboot - 1, Original - 2-3
22. Finding Nemo - 2
23. Goodfellas - 2
24. Pride & Prejudice - 1
25. Caddyshack - 2-3
26. The Avengers - 1, I'd watch again.

Except for those bolded on that list, most of those I have zero interest in watching again.

Movies I've already seen more times than I remember, that are not on the list I would still watch again :
2001
Young Frankenstein
Most Chaplin films
High Noon
Seven Samurai
Mag Seven
Yojimbo
Dollars Trilogy
Mad Max movies
Easy Rider
Butch Cassidy &the Sundance Kid
El Topo
OG Planet of the Apes movies
Dollars Trilogy
Superman 1&2
Several Godzilla movies
Jaws
Logan's Run
Dog Day Afternoon
Scarface
All Bruce Lee movies
Warriors
Papillion
Indiana Jones films particularly Raiders
Blade Runner
The Thing
Die Hard
Highlander
The Crow
Gladiator
Mask of Zorro
Several Bond films
Ghost Busters 1
Alien(s) 1-2
Dune Mini Series
Kill Bill
Batman Begins
Inception

 

[childeroland]

1. The Godfather I and II
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. Spirited Away
4. The Neverending Story
5. Millennium Mambo
6. Christiane F
7. A Brighter Summer Day
8. Days of Heaven
9. Three Times
10. The Double Life of Veronique

 

[weezerspider]

I don't know if I've ever really bought into the whole rewatchability vs overall quality thing. I feel this mostly started due to someone being self conscious about watching something like Jaws(which is great) way more than something like The Godfather. My favorite films are the same films that I rewatch regularly. I don't think I've ever seen a film and gone "oh wow, what a great film! However, I will never see that again!"...eh, I understand where this concept is coming from and I'm not completely discounting it, but eh. You watch good films over again if you like watching films over again in general. Some people don't really do that. Maybe this is more for causal film fans and not film dorks like myself who watch everything way too many times?

 

[Thundercrack85]

It's an interesting topic. Some of the greatest movies I have seen, I have absolutely no interest in rewatching. Star Wars and Lord of the Rings come to mind.

I would say I have seen Star Wars about 4 times from opening to credits. I really don't feel a need to watch it again.

I find movies that are so bad that they are entertaining to be more rewatchable.

Signs is a great example. Really, any bad M. Night Shymalan movie. Except notAvatar. That was just terrible.

 

[jaymes_e06]

I agree about Star Wars. i CAN, however, watch LOTR over and over again. I've seen them at least 6 times each of the OT.

 

[AnneFan]

Anne Hathaway movies.

 

[Pittman4Two]

Top Gun

 

[Erzengel]

I only haven't watched the Notebook and Godfather 3 off that list.

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm surprised that Groundhog Day isn't in there.

Also Back to the Future.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I don't know if I've ever really bought into the whole rewatchability vs overall quality thing. I feel this mostly started due to someone being self conscious about watching something like Jaws(which is great) way more than something like The Godfather. My favorite films are the same films that I rewatch regularly. I don't think I've ever seen a film and gone "oh wow, what a great film! However, I will never see that again!"...eh, I understand where this concept is coming from and I'm not completely discounting it, but eh. You watch good films over again if you like watching films over again in general. Some people don't really do that. Maybe this is more for causal film fans and not film dorks like myself who watch everything way too many times?

For me, the films I like the most are the ones I rewatch the least. Because I don't want to burn out on them.

 

[Dark Raven]

The early Bond films are very rewatchable for me.

And also the original series of Star Trek, although those aren't movies. But I've watched those episodes over and over again.

 

[Evelisse]

hmm, no Rocky, Rocky 2, Rocky 4, or Jaws? I seem to always watch them from start to finish when they're on.

 

[Donnie Darko]

The Goonies is far and away #1. That is the one movie that I can say with confidence that I have seen 100+ times in my life.

Some others that are extremely re watchable:

Uncle Buck
Mallrats
The Monster Squad
Swingers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Remember the Titans

Many others, but I'll stop there.

 

[-Arya-]

The most rewatchable films for me are comedies. You can literally throw it on at any time without thinking about it.

- 40 year old virgin
- Dumb and Dumber
- The Big Lebowski
- American Pie
- Billy Madison
- Happy Gilmore

Etc...

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

In no order:

X-Men Franchise
Star Wars OT
BTTF
Indiana Jones Trilogy
POTA - all except Burton
Treasure Planet
Willy Wonka
Harry Potter 1-5
James Bond Franchise
Rocky 3 & 4
Blood sport
Cyborg
Kick boxer
Predator
Terminator 1-2
Alien 1-3
Clue
Misc Carry On films
Conan the barbarian
Beauty and the beast
Aladdin
Little mermaid
Die hard trilogy
Logan's Run
Meet the robinsons

 

[Lord]

To me it's:

Star Wars Original Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Harry Potter 3
Pirates of the Caribbean 1-2
Die Hard
For A Few Dollars More
Mad Max: Fury Road

While Godfather, lord of the rings and Dark knight are among my favorites, they're not films i can watch over and over again, they're usualy more exhausting experiences.

 

[CFE]

The Original "Star Wars" Trilogy
"Batman" (1989)
"RoboCop"
"Aliens"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"

There are more, but I think all of those are infinitely watchable and rewatchable.