Movies You Like (Not Love) And Watch Repeatedly

Ocean's 11 ( I chalk it up to Soderbergh's command of ambiance)
Akira (A bit messy movie that bit off more than it could chew. The escalation to such devastation is mesmerizing)

I used to be a sucker for watching Heaven Can Wait (either the 43 or 78) whenever I came across it. Neither are especially great but engaging.

I find myself watching Sweet Virgina (2017) a lot. Its just one of those movies you can watch over and over again. Especially good to put on as background noise whilst doing other things.

Any stupid 'Disaster Movie'

If there's a plane, a planet, the Earth's core or a major city in peril I'm all in, especially if it's really stupid, high budget and has a great cast

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Wall Street
Footloose
The TOS-cast Star Trek films.

Some Like It Hot! I've seen it a dozen times.

Theres very few movies i go back to.

'The Dish' is one
It Perfectly captures a spirit of 60s space age optimism and excitement for science,
and is a great feelgood movie

Instead of replying to every post (which would bump it up, but I won't do that), I'll culminate and add thoughts I've had since then.


I'm always fighting against generalizations, and the subject line doesn't have enough characters for your better worded paragraph above, but part of it was to get the opinions of those in here. I'd also point out that these sites (and message boards, and movies - directors) are dominated by males. I'm always looking for the exceptions to the rule. I think it's too simple-minded to say that men prefer violence and capers while women like romantic comedies. But I'd also love to read what other women (or men) think of their fellow women's tastes, and maybe why this is so. Yeah, men are more violent, more prone to engage in bank robberies, but then you have many who say they watch movies for escapism.



Another sub-question I'd like to ask is if people can tell who directed a movie (male or female) after they've seen a particular movie. Personally, I always catch the name of the director, so its not possible unless I avoid that too, and I wonder how viewers (again, the disparity between men and women) watch a movie if they know it's directed by a woman. Do they put on a different lens trying to understand the female point of view, and the female characters? I'd love to do an experiment where I show movies, but intentionally flip the genders. I think some would say "Yeah, see, typical woman" despite it not being typical. I'd like to quantify what I think I know; that we are prejudiced, but to what extent, how much, and can we fool ourselves or be fooled? I'd love to see adapted movies made by each gender and see if there is a difference or at least an emphasis. From my observations, it seems men are moving into the direction of women, and vice-versa. To throw another curveball, I wonder how much of this is organic and how much is conformity because of social norms.