Results: There are some movies so good that I have watched them 3 or more times. There are some with sequels or prequels that I have also watched many times. This survey is about those "three-peat movies."
Published on 02/11/2025
The current crop of Hollywood movies does not interest me. Most seem to be regurged from previous versions and are mostly special effects, highly predictable plot lines, and unconvincing dialogue. They could easily be churned out using AI. There are some movies from the 1960's, onward that are not from Hollywood or, if the are, they got it right this time. Here are some favorites for each decade you may have missed or might want to watch again (and again). Please suggest some of your own.
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The 1950s movies weren't memorable. My buddies and I had found a way to sneak into one of our movie theaters to watch mostly horror movies such as "House of Wax" and "The Mummy". Strictly B movie stuff. By the 1960s however, the movies were the place to go with a girlfriend and this required a different type of movie. These movies were funny or action packed or something else other than "B Grade." Some that I saw in the 1960s, I have seen again and again since then. Here are a few from the 1960s and subsequent decades. Which of them have you liked enough to want to see them again? (Suggest some from this century.)
The Beatles first movie "A Hard Day's Night" which I saw 3 times in one day when it first came out. Honorable mention to the 2nd Beatles movie called "Help"
21%
487 votes
Any of the "Spaghetti Westerns" from Clint Eastwood e.g. Hang Em High, Fistful of Dollars and of course The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
29%
666 votes
""The Pink Panther" and its spawn.
29%
673 votes
"It's A Mad,Mad, Mad, Mad World." I wanted to visit where it was shot when I was in California until I discovered it was several places rolled into one. Watch the movie and you will see what I mean.
19%
431 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
40 votes
Not Applicable
42%
956 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.65% | 15 | |
| The Godfather | 0.09% | 2 |
| Lord of the Rings is my all time favorite. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Bridget Jones movies the American president | 0.04% | 1 |
| Great Escape classic and old Ben Hur and Ten Commandments | 0.04% | 1 |
| Jerry Lewis Movies | 0.04% | 1 |
| Blazing Saddles | 0.04% | 1 |
| Support Your Local Sheriff (James Garner) | 0.04% | 1 |
| witness | 0.04% | 1 |
| PRETTY WOMAN | 0.04% | 1 |
| Sound Of Music, The Apartment, My Fair Lady, Oceans 11,( this century) (Clooney Oceans 11, 12, 13,) Oceans 8, All The Harry Potter Movies, Ghostbusters (all of them) Gone In 60 | 0.04% | 1 |
| Some Like it Hot; Sound of Music | 0.04% | 1 |
| The Sound of Music! | 0.04% | 1 |
| Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia and many many more, The Lion In Winter, A Man For All Seasons | 0.04% | 1 |
| the star wars films | 0.04% | 1 |
| It s a Wonderful Life, Casablanca | 0.04% | 1 |
| GREASE | 0.04% | 1 |
| Casablanca and groundhog day | 0.04% | 1 |
| the great escape | 0.04% | 1 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | 0.04% | 1 |
| Loving Leah | 0.04% | 1 |
| Dr. Strangelove | 0.04% | 1 |
| many more 60s movies | 0.04% | 1 |
| After you dismissed every movie released from 1950 to 1959, why should anyone listen to your opinion on any other movie? | 0.04% | 1 |
| The Graduate | 0.04% | 1 |
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Here are some from the 1970s. Which do you like?
Monty Python's Life of Brian
18%
413 votes
Smokey and The Bandit
38%
885 votes
Clint Eastwood back again in "Dirty Harry".
41%
933 votes
Redford and Newman together in "The Sting"
37%
848 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
22 votes
Not Applicable
30%
686 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.29% | 9 | |
| Monty Python s Quest for the Holy Grail | 0.03% | 1 |
| None of these | 0.03% | 1 |
| many more 70s movies | 0.03% | 1 |
| My Name is Nobody was a really good movie. | 0.03% | 1 |
| Apocalypse Now | 0.03% | 1 |
| Superman | 0.03% | 1 |
| Animal House | 0.03% | 1 |
| "Airplane" and "Blazing Saddles". | 0.03% | 1 |
| Godfather | 0.03% | 1 |
| Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid | 0.03% | 1 |
| Grease | 0.03% | 1 |
| GREASE, The GoodBy Girl, Cannonball Run, Little Darlings, The Owl and The Pussycat | 0.03% | 1 |
| Brendan Fraser movie blast from the past | 0.03% | 1 |
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The 1980s had some good ones. Which do you like?
The Blues Brothers.
33%
756 votes
A Fish Called Wanda
26%
597 votes
"Risky Business" with a young Tom Cruise
31%
723 votes
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
39%
895 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
29 votes
Not Applicable
30%
693 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.40% | 12 | |
| Top Gun | 0.07% | 2 |
| Many | 0.03% | 1 |
| Coming to America trading places, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd movies which I would never suspect but a big racist would like any movies with Black people in them??? Huh DavKar | 0.03% | 1 |
| Breakfast club, 16 candles, pretty woman | 0.03% | 1 |
| The Princess Bride, Ladyhawke, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones) | 0.03% | 1 |
| Airplane 1 and 2, Trading Places, 9 to 5, Beverly Hills Cop, When Harry Met Sally, Parenthood, Private Benjamin | 0.03% | 1 |
| Outsiders | 0.03% | 1 |
| back to the future | 0.03% | 1 |
| Chinatown | 0.03% | 1 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | 0.03% | 1 |
| The Breakfast Club | 0.03% | 1 |
| Clash of the Titans, Xanadu | 0.03% | 1 |
| Full Metal Jacket | 0.03% | 1 |
| sixteen candles | 0.03% | 1 |
| Not any of these | 0.03% | 1 |
| The Princess Bride | 0.03% | 1 |
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Here are some 1990's standouts. Like any of them?
An Irish movie "The Commitments"
9%
202 votes
Hugh Grant came on the scene and one of his was "Notting Hill"
25%
582 votes
Sleepless In Seattle and the Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks pairings.
41%
952 votes
The Shawshank Redemption
41%
954 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
17 votes
Not Applicable
28%
654 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.26% | 7 | |
| Pretty woman | 0.11% | 3 |
| Waking Ned Devine | 0.04% | 1 |
| Bunch of losers | 0.04% | 1 |
| Dazed and Confused, Clueless, | 0.04% | 1 |
| Since you showed the pic, how about Pretty Woman? | 0.04% | 1 |
| Clueless, Birdcage, Austin Powers (all), The Wedding Singer, Sister Act, Romy and Michele, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Big Hit | 0.04% | 1 |
| The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain (Hugh Grant), Crimson Tide (Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Viggo Mortensen), A Perfect Murder (Viggo Mortensen, Michael Douglas) | 0.04% | 1 |
| Why do all your favorite movies have all white people in them? | 0.04% | 1 |
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