Watched it again last week. Then another time with the director's commentary (commentary can be found on youtube, audio only). The fun thing is that Kurt Russel is usually there with Carpenter: They have a drink, tell stories about the shooting and have a good time.
Pulp Fiction. The combination of the upbeat music and memorable dialogue used to make me rewatch it at least once a month, as a feel good movie. I've since dialled it down but will still occasionally watch parts of it.
The funny thing is the first time I saw it I didn't like it all due to it's mixed-up order of story telling and, once you put it all together, fairly mundane plot. It was over time that I realised the plot is not really what you watch it for but you watch it for the overdrawn, yet interesting, character interactions in combination with the music and general vibe.
Did you know Airplane was a remake of an earlier film ‘Zero Hour’? Most impressively, Zero Hour was a serious film that had a script adjusted and combined with directing, acting, and visual gags to create this comedic masterpiece.
We watch one or the other of these whenever my (now adult) children are home for Christmas. It's family tradition going back to their childhood, and nobody wants to break it.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (a tale about a time and place I have not experienced), The Rum Diaries (surprisingly such a feel good movie), Bang Boom Bang (a hilarious German Comedy)
- Ek Doctor Ki Maut (a hindi-language movie based on actual events, chronicling the sad state of Indian research scientists in government institutions; the movie is based on the life of an Indian doctor from Kolkata who developed a vaccine for leprosy. The doctor committed suicide, but the movie has changed that)
