Films that you can watch over and over are certainly a different category to favourite films or films you think are the best films.  While I do really like serious, sad and heavy going dramas for me to be able to watch a film over and over it cannot be any of these things but it certainly cannot be stupid or too light either.  Anyway, here are the films I can think of right now:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  I love these films.  I have tried reading the books but cannot get into them.  However, the films, I just adore.  This is totally unlike me, normally it’s the opposite.  I feel like I shouldn’t like them this much.  I wouldn’t say I am that into fantasy and they are very “good vs evil” and totally dominated by typical male heroes who worship royalty which also isn’t my thing but they are such a good adventure story and I still notice new little details when I watch them.  Set in New Zealand they are very beautiful and a number of the actors are too.  Like many people I would say the ending of the last film goes on way to long.  I think it should end when Aragorn is made king or at least with the Hobbitts return to “The Shire.”  But you know who am I really to decide that. 

Harry Potter.  Just recently Martin and I finished watching all these films again.  Last time we did was just before we went and saw the last one at the cinema which was only a year ago.  Like Lord of the Rings they are such a good adventure story and I notice new little details each time.  They are also very beautiful.  I especially love Hogwarts.  I love seeing the kids get older, the characters develop, the relationships form and that they get darker each time.  I am not convinced the last ones really should be called children’s films.  I often do think in real life Harry Potter would be totally messed up but I guess there are lots of things about Harry Potter that are not real life and that element of total escapism is probably what makes them possible to watch a lot.

Love Actually.  I am not usually a huge fan of romantic comedies but I do really like this one.  Unlike most I think it is genuinely funny and apart from pouty Keira Knightley I think the actors are fantastic.  It’s light so possible to watch over and over but it’s not stupid or crass at all and has some more serious moments.  I think I quite like that style of a number of different stories going on and interweaving in different ways.  It honours lots of different stages and types of love, not just “falling in love” which most movies tend to focus on.  There is falling in love of course but there is also long term marriage, unrequited love, love of children and friends and the cross culture/language relationship which of course if my favourite.

Dirty Dancing.  Obvious really why one can watch this over and over.  The dancing, the music and Patrick Swayze.   It always reminds me of being 15.  Not that that was an age I particularly liked but this film makes me nostalgic for the few good things about it.  I know I deserved to be teased for loving this film so much, it is as cheesy as it gets, but I don’t care, I do love it.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert.  This film makes me laugh out loud, still.  It has some of the best lines ever I reckon and the actors do them so well.  Again I think it’s a beautiful film and having now made that drive myself a few times I think even more so.  I love the Australianess of it too.  While it does have its more serious moments it really is just so much fun especially the music.