Movies you haven't seen in ages but still resonate with you?

I read that David Lynch emulated a scene from Erich Von Stroheim's 1929 silent movie 'Queen Kelly' with Gloria Swanson in his movie 'Inland Empire'. I was already a fan of Swanson, who also could have been a professional singer and pianist, and she probably did that often. She sings some songs in her movies. I took 'Queen Kelly' out of the library and quite liked it. I thought Swanson in her middle years was quite beautiful, as many others did, so it is easy for me to enjoy this film. Although 'Queen Kelly' has a strange plot, a prince falling for a convent girl with both subsequently reviled and punished by the Queen and Kelly ending up being a madame in a brothel, I thought the film was fun to look at with it's elaborate scenery. And the scene that inspired Lynch, a candlelit Kelly praying, I find moving. I'm still not sure I will ever buy this, but I will probably check it out of a library again.

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For me... movies I don't want to see again are ultimately a Thumbs Down in my mind as I can't see praising a movie and then never bothering to see it again. so while those might have been decent/enjoyable enough for a viewing movies are ultimately made or broke based on whether I want to re-watch them from time-to-time or not. that separates the truly good movies from everything else.

but with that said... I can see how some movies might be fairly decent but have more of a bleak/depressing outlook and that might get people to not want to experience em again. but in these cases I would give it my usual score... 5/10 which are typically decent enough for a viewing but ultimately a Thumbs Down as they got no re-watch value.