Films that get better the more you watch them

King of comedy...the kidnap knitted jumper scene takes the biscuit

Hell in the Pacific

Mean Streets
 
12 Angry Men.
Perfectly cast with every actor getting 100% of the character they're playing, Lee J. Cobb is just superb. It has subtleties that i notice for the first time at every new viewing. Love the key scene where the old man on the jury quizzes E.G. Marshall about the marks on the side of his nose on the way to showing that the prosecution's sole eyewitness is unreliable - she wasn't wearing her glasses when she saw the murder happening. ""Can those marks be made by anything else?" he is asked. And E.G. concedes "no, now I have a reasonable doubt - not guilty." "You can't send a man to die on evidence like that!" one juror exclaims. The scene is built slowly, step by step, so first time viewers have the "oh, wow!" moment when the penny drops while repeat watchers can enjoy the anticipation.

The film shows how things are done, or should be done, in a democracy and how justice works, or ought to work. The message is eternal and especially meaningful for America in 2025. Trump and his followers would not enjoy it.
 
The Day of The Jackal. 1973. Superb.

However I watch like zero films
BUT every year I will make an exception for Dirty Dancing! Script is dross, it was cheaply made, but by heck Patrick Swayze could dance and then some. Sadly missed.
 
King of Kings, which is just coming to the end of the film. I think I have seen it about four or five times. I think it’s a really good film.
 
city saint said:
debbie does dallas my mate said was really good hes watched it a million times
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How Bambie never got the accolade she deserved is nothing short of a national disgrace. Considered by many to be one of our all time greats, and without reservation should at the very least have been nominated for an Academy Award.
 
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