Which movie have you seen the most times?

[EmmAgain]

There’s a very old movie called Fargo I saw on AMC as a kid. I didn’t really appreciate at the time, but after watching it again later in life I’ve really come to love its grisly black humor and brilliant acting.

I’ve seen it half a dozen times now and discover something new every time.

 

[iwatchus]

There’s a very old movie called Fargo I saw on AMC as a kid. I didn’t really appreciate at the time, but after watching it again later in life I’ve really come to love its grisly black humor and brilliant acting.

I’ve seen it half a dozen times now and discover something new every time.

First off, that is not a very old movie. It barely qualifies as an old movie. I hate to think what you wound consider me.

But it is a wonderful movie, and not at all for kids (not for the themes, although the wood chipper is pretty inappropriate for anyone under, I don't know, 99?)

Surprisingly, the TV series is one of the best TV remakes of a good movie I can think of. It's not really a remake, but more of a sequel. If you have not seen the first season of the Fargo series (Billy Bob Thornton was wonderful in it), it captures the quirky humor of the movie extremely well. The other seasons less so.

 

[EmmAgain]

First off, that is not a very old movie. It barely qualifies as an old movie. I hate to think what you wound consider me.

But it is a wonderful movie, and not at all for kids (not for the themes, although the wood chipper is pretty inappropriate for anyone under, I don't know, 99?)

Surprisingly, the TV series is one of the best TV remakes of a good movie I can think of. It's not really a remake, but more of a sequel. If you have not seen the first season of the Fargo series (Billy Bob Thornton was wonderful in it), it captures the quirky humor of the movie extremely well. The other seasons less so.

Thank you for the recommendation! I saw another old (sorry - not so recent ) movie with Billy Bob Thornton called Sling Blade. He was incredible. I’ll def check out the Fargo series.

Sorry about the terminology. I looked it up and Fargo came out in 1996. It’s truly before my time but I do appreciate the wonderful demographic diversity on this forum.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Other than the movies put on every holiday season, I'd say the one I watched the most is Casablanca.

 

[SimonDoom]

There’s a very old movie called Fargo

My goodness. The movie came out in 1996. That's "very old"? That's only 29 years ago. Now I feel old. I still think of that as a recent movie. I suppose that if one were born after that movie, it would seem old the way a movie from the 1950s seems "old" to me.

I second what iwatchus said: the first season of the Fargo TV series is excellent. It has a similar blend of drama, suspense, and dark humor, and Billy Bob Thornton plays a hit man who is one of the best TV villains ever. The lead character is played by Martin Freeman (Bilbo in The Hobbit), who is a wonderful actor. Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key play bumbling FBI agents.

The second season of Fargo is excellent as well. I didn't care for the two seasons after that, although the latest one with Jon Hamm is pretty good.

The currently running sci fi series Alien:Earth is made by the same guy, Noah Hawley, who made the Fargo TV series. It's surprisingly good. I had no expectations for it, but it's more intelligent than I supposed it would be.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

First off, that is not a very old movie. It barely qualifies as an old movie. I hate to think what you wound consider me.

But it is a wonderful movie, and not at all for kids (not for the themes, although the wood chipper is pretty inappropriate for anyone under, I don't know, 99?)

Surprisingly, the TV series is one of the best TV remakes of a good movie I can think of. It's not really a remake, but more of a sequel. If you have not seen the first season of the Fargo series (Billy Bob Thornton was wonderful in it), it captures the quirky humor of the movie extremely well. The other seasons less so.

Fargo is older than I am, it's an old movie.
Stuff from the 60s is borderline ancient.

Which isn't to say Fargo wasn't a great movie. You have to appreciate the classics.

 

[SimonDoom]

I saw another old (sorry - not so recent ) movie with Billy Bob Thornton called Sling Blade.

You're killin' me, kid.

 

[SimonDoom]

Fargo is older than I am, it's an old movie.
Stuff from the 60s is borderline ancient.

Which isn't to say Fargo wasn't a great movie. You have to appreciate the classics.

Oh my God.

I have to remember to pick up some Depends on the way home to the Assisted Living Facility. Then I'll plug my Atari console into the TV and play some Pong with my doddering neighbor while I listen to "Kung Fu Fighting" on the record player, sitting on my shag carpet and wondering if I have to feed my pet rock.

 

[EmmAgain]

Oh my God.

I have to remember to pick up some Depends on the way home to the Assisted Living Facility. Then I'll plug my Atari console into the TV and play some Pong with my doddering neighbor while I listen to "Kung Fu Fighting" on the record player, sitting on my shag carpet and wondering if I have to feed my pet rock.

You forgot the prune juice!!!!

I’m sorry. My own kids will be doing it to me someday….

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

My goodness. The movie came out in 1996.

I'm not sure I've watched many, if any made after that.

By 2K movie makers were more movie fakers with almost more computer stuff than real people.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Oh my God.

I have to remember to pick up some Depends on the way home to the Assisted Living Facility. Then I'll plug my Atari console into the TV and play some Pong with my doddering neighbor while I listen to "Kung Fu Fighting" on the record player, sitting on my shag carpet and wondering if I have to feed my pet rock.

Think about it this way, if you were standing in line to buy a ticket for Fargo in 1996 and talking about Cool Hand Luke, you would have thought of it as an old movie.
That movie came out in 1967, 29 years before Fargo, and Fargo is 29 years from now.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oh my God.

I have to remember to pick up some Depends on the way home to the Assisted Living Facility. Then I'll plug my Atari console into the TV and play some Pong with my doddering neighbor while I listen to "Kung Fu Fighting" on the record player, sitting on my shag carpet and wondering if I have to feed my pet rock.

LOL. I was toddler when Fargo came out, oh Ancient One. LOL. Console yourself with the thought that you're as old as you feel.

But I do like movies even you seniors would probably thing of as old. I have a lot of them on DVD's....garage sales are wonderful things!

Bhowani Junction
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Godfather
Annie Hall
Manhattan - I love that one, Woody Allen could be really good sometimes
Alien - ohhhhhhhhh
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah's best movie!!!!!!
Lawrence of Arabia
Rebel Without a Cause
Roman Holiday
Fitzcarraldo
The Serpents Egg
Doctor Zhivago
Dirty Dancing
Breathless (À Bout de Souffle) - Jean-Luc Godard
In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
Wild Orchid

 

[iwatchus]

Think about it this way, if you were standing in line to buy a ticket for Fargo in 1996 and talking about Cool Hand Luke, you would have thought of it as an old movie.
That movie came out in 1967, 29 years before Fargo, and Fargo is 29 years from now.

I don't think it works like that, at least not for me. Roughly speaking, my gut reaction is that somewhere around the late 40's or early 50's is the cut off for old movies. Maybe they had to be twenty years old when I first started really paying attention to movies seriously. My gut is not to call African Queen an old movie, although even I admit it is.

I have the same with music. I noticed it with Neil Young first. Anything he did much before I started seeing him in concert is old. Anything after that is new. Ridciulous definition, i Know. Harvest (1972) is old. On The Beach (1974) is not. But it's the way my mind thinks about these things.

It does not shift that line.

 

[iwatchus]

LOL. I was toddler when Fargo came out, oh Ancient One. LOL. Console yourself with the thought that you're as old as you feel.

But I do like movies even you seniors would probably thing of as old. I have a lot of them on DVD's....garage sales are wonderful things!

Bhowani Junction
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Godfather
Annie Hall
Manhattan - I love that one, Woody Allen could be really good sometimes
Alien - ohhhhhhhhh
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah's best movie!!!!!!
Lawrence of Arabia
Rebel Without a Cause
Roman Holiday
Fitzcarraldo
The Serpents Egg
Doctor Zhivago
Dirty Dancing
Breathless (À Bout de Souffle) - Jean-Luc Godard
In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
Wild Orchid

As I just indicated, only a few of these count as old to me.

Wild Orchid? My first thought is that is only like ten years old, and then I think about it more closely. That still counts as a recent movie to me. My son gives me serious grief for thinking things from the 90's are recent.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I don't think it works like that, at least not for me. Roughly speaking, my gut reaction is that somewhere around the late 40's or early 50's is the cut off for old movies. Maybe they had to be twenty years old when I first started really paying attention to movies seriously. My gut is not to call African Queen an old movie, although even I admit it is.

I have the same with music. I noticed it with Neil Young first. Anything he did much before I started seeing him in concert is old. Anything after that is new. Ridciulous definition, i Know. Harvest (1972) is old. On The Beach (1974) is not. But it's the way my mind thinks about these things.

It does not shift that line.

I suspect it's a common phenomenon. My dad is pretty insistent that the 1980s were 20 years ago... one of his favorite movies is The Final Countdown. I pointed out to him the other day that the movie is now further from today than from the day of Pearl Harbor.
He wasn't amused.

 

[ChloeTzang]

As I just indicated, only a few of these count as old to me.

Wild Orchid? My first thought is that is only like ten years old, and then I think about it more closely. That still counts as a recent movie to me. My son gives me serious grief for thinking things from the 90's are recent.

LOL I was born in in the 90's - if its before 2005 it's ooooold, baby. Ooooold

 

[ChloeTzang]

I suspect it's a common phenomenon. My dad is pretty insistent that the 1980s were 20 years ago... one of his favorite movies is The Final Countdown. I pointed out to him the other day that the movie is now further from today than from the day of Pearl Harbor.
He wasn't amused.

Their's plot bunny there - B52 pilot from the 70's gets caught in a timewarp and lands at a military base and they refuel him load him up with bombs and send him out again without realizing it's an aircraft from 50 years ago LOL

 

[iwatchus]

Or to put this a different way, I have been alive well more than half the time that movies have existed. But our perception of time is not linear. The old cleopatra lived closer to today than when the pyramids were built.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Their's plot bunny there - B52 pilot from the 70's gets caught in a timewarp and lands at a military base and they refuel him load him up with bombs and send him out again without realizing it's an aircraft from 50 years ago LOL

March 2025
C-130 lands at Green Ramp on Pope Army Airfield. Takes an infantry company from the 82nd Airborne on board and takes off on a training exercise.

The aircrew starts to wonder why all the paratroopers are wearing strange uniforms. The jump master can't figure out why the equipment on the plane is all wrong....
The Pilot in Command comes over ther intercom, it's Major Przybyl announces they will be over the DZ in 5 minutes.
SFC Przybyl the 2nd platoon platoon sergeant feels a chill run down his spine. His grandfather flew C-130s in the 1960s.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

LOL I was born in in the 90's - if it’s before 2005 it's ooooold, baby. Ooooold

From where I’m standing, if you can’t remember the world before the internet you’re basically a baby.

Honestly, though, I think I’d agree that the early 2000s is roughly when contemporary shades into old. Fight Club is old, for example, Children of Men is still young, though only just.

 

[GoodButGoneBad]

kagemusha

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

March 2025
C-130 lands at Green Ramp on Pope Army Airfield. Takes an infantry company from the 82nd Airborne on board and takes off on a training exercise.

The aircrew starts to wonder why all the paratroopers are wearing strange uniforms. The jump master can't figure out why the equipment on the plane is all wrong....
The Pilot in Command comes over ther intercom, it's Major Przybyl announces they will be over the DZ in 5 minutes.
SFC Przybyl the 2nd platoon platoon sergeant feels a chill run down his spine. His grandfather flew C-130s in the 1960s.

Perhaps, Global 33?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_of_Flight_33

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Probably The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It ran for 19 years at the old Riverside Theater in Austin. My friends and I went at least once a month while I was in school there.

 

[nice90sguy]

For me an "old" movie has to be 4:3 ratio, not 16:9 or wider. I have a projector (no TV), and the wall in my room is the perfect shape to project the image fully, with a 8 foot wide by 6 foot high "screen" above the fireplace.

The feeble letterboxing of movies from the lat 1950s onwards (including of course some of the greatest movies ever made) just fails to make those "new" movies really immersive for me.

A super-close-up of a young Ginger Roger's lips singing "We're in the Money" in Pig Latin (Gold Diggers of 1933), or Claudette Colbert laying seductively on on the grass with Gable leaning close over her, trying to resist his desire to kiss her -- these close-ups could only work in that old 4:3 format, and was part of the reason that the stars of that era were so powerful.

 

[iwatchus]

My dinner with Andre is the epitome of ruining movies with letterboxing. Much of it was filmed with a single fixed shot just encompassing both actors, which was a very aesthetically interesting shot. But when letter boxed, they had to keep cutting the shot from one to see the actor who was speaking. Went from a beautiful picture to almost unwatchable. I am surprised Malle didn't throw a fit about it. I guess he liked his paycheck.