I watched “Fried Green Tomatoes” yesterday for the second time after 26 years and I can’t believe how uninformed and naive I was. I loved the movie then but I finally “get it” completely now. This is an amazingly good movie that is still currently relevant.
I forgot to add “Do The Right Thing” such brilliant directing. Also watched it yesterday on HBO., I got it then but some how it’s still going on.
Do The Right Thing is a long time favorite of mine. It would probably make my top 20 list. Spike Lee’s best work.
I’d like to watch Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It again… when I watched it the first time I thought it was sexist and racist.
@katliamom , watch it again with an open mind you might see it in a more nuanced light. Sometimes age and experience leads to deeper thoughts. But then again it’s your opinion which is equal to anyone else’s .
I liked The English Patient much, much more when I saw it the 2nd time about 5 years after the 1st time.
@conmama I agree It is tragic and so loving. I would watch it a third time.
I’ve loved rewatching The Sting over the years, knowing how it played out and watching the character interaction.
@bjkmom I need to see this again because I don’t even remember who is in it. Paul Newman possibly?
Paul Newman and Robert Redford are the two biggest names.
It’s been on a LOT lately; you can probably catch it if you try.
Love Story.
In the intervening years, people told me that it wasn’t primarily about Oliver and Jenny. It was primarily about Oliver and his father. They said that the real love story is their father-son story.
They were right.
Ohh, I haven’t seen that one in decades!!! I’ll have to find it and get a box of tissues!!!
@bjkmom You sure you aren’t watching it over and over just to watch Newman and Redford? 
They are and will always be beautiful men. Have you seen “All Is Lost”? I could watch this movie over and over.
Let’s consider it a “two-fer.”
Saw The Sting with my kids a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The eye candy was okay too. 
Not a movie, but I got the entire set of MASH when my kids were in high school and couldn’t believe how well it held up. The movie not so much - it’s brilliant in it’s own way, but still kind of weird, and Hotlips doesn’t really get to be a person. In the TV show you end up appreciating that there’s a lot of good in her.
“watch it again with an open mind you might see it in a more nuanced light.”
@1Tiger21 – I will try! I admire so many of Spike Lee’s movies, and hope that I will think differently about “She’s Gotta Have It” now. I saw somewhere it’s being adapted into a series, maybe on HBO? (?) Clearly others think highly of it.
Did not get Monty Python and The Holy Grail in 1976. Couldn’t stop laughing when I saw it in 1979 and the probably 30+ times I’ve seen it since. I’ve seen Gone With The Wind more times, but I loved it the fist time.
I’d like to try giving any Bergman film another go to see if I’m as confused as I was when I saw most of them the first (and only time) 40 something years ago.
Also Last Tango in Paris. I was definitely way too young when I saw it.
@1Tiger21 What new insights did you get from Fried Green Tomatoes this time around? I loved it when it came out 25 years ago and saw it twice, I think, but not since then. And whatever happened to Mary Stuart Masterson? I liked her in those '90s movies.