movies you always watch

gmorris
gmorris Posts: 1,179
edited September 2006 in Music & Movies
What are some of those movies that you always watch, no matter how good or bad it is, no matter how many times you've seen it? You know the ones, if you flip past it on TV on a Saturday afternoon, you just end up watching it, even if you hadn't planned on watching it.

Here is a list of some "classic Saturday afternoon" flicks of mine.

1. The Goonies
2. Any Back to the Future movie
3. Predator
4. Office Space
5. Harry Potter & the Socerers Stone
6. Weird Science
7. The Blues Brothers
8. The Great Outdoors
9. Uncle Buck (UB!!)
10. Searching for Bobby Fisher
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited April 2004
    Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells....Killer flick
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited April 2004
    A Christmas Story -the one with the Messy Marvin kid.

    "You'll shoot your eye out!"
    Never Forget
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited April 2004
    1. Home Alone
    It just doesn't feel like Christmas without this movie playing around mid Dec.

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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited April 2004
    Moulin Rouge
    Edward Scissorhands
    Nightmare Before Xmas
    Lord of the Rings
    Alien
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Legends of the Fall
    Black Hawk Down


    Can't think of much more right now, too much beer for lunch. :)
    If...
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  • gatemplin
    gatemplin Posts: 1,595
    edited April 2004
    The Big Lebowski
    Graham
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited April 2004
    Dumb and dumber
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by gatemplin
    The Big Lebowski

    2nd that


    Heartbreak Ridge
    Se7en
    Back To School
    What About Bob?
    Groundhog Day
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  • howie777
    howie777 Posts: 357
    edited April 2004
    Lake Placid. I just love the bears expresion...
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited April 2004
    The Matrix
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2004
    very few movies i watch more than just a few time..

    I do really like

    Black Hawk Down i've seen that maybe 4 times now.

    I've watched the entire series of Band of Brothers about 4 times now too.

    others i guess would be

    SPR
    Pirates of the Caribbean
    Signs
    Monsters INC

    most any movie by M. Knight Shyamalan, and Tim Burton
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited April 2004
    Raising Arizona
    Local Hero
    Wall Street
    Caddyshack
    Any Monty Python Movie

    If I'm channel surfing while sitting down between chores on the weekend and any of those are on, forget it, the afternoon is over and I'm planted on the couch. Much to the chore-assigners' chagrin.
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited April 2004
    Robinson Caruso on Mars!!
    9/11 - WE WILL NEVER FORGET!! (<---<<click)
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2004
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Animal House
    War Games
    Bullitt (the chase scene anyway)
    Stripes
    Caddyshack
    Raiders of The Lost Ark (all three Indiana Jones probably)
    Jaws
    The Blues Brothers
    Patton
    Kelly's Heros
    The Great Escape
    Mash
    Star Wars (all of them)
    The Battle of The Bulge
    Conan The Barbarian
    Conan The Destroyer
    Terminator I & II
    Duel
    Midway
    Any James Bond Movie
    The Princess Bride
    Field Of Dreams
    The Quick and the Dead
    Most any Ray Harryhausen movie (ie: Jason and the Argonauts)
    Forbidden Planet
    any Planet of the Apes
    War of the Worlds
    The Day The Earth Stood Still
    Risky Business
    Young Frankenstien
    Blazing Saddles
    The Pink Panther


    Dang...this list is long....and there are quite a few more...and I have most of these on DVD and will still sit through them when they come on. Not so much on a Sat. afternoon, but I've been known to stay up nearly all night watching a movie I've seen lots of times.
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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited April 2004
    Can't believe no one mentioned "Planes, Trains & Automobiles".

    Dell Peterson RULES!!
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited April 2004
    The Perfect Storm, great sea-going picture, lots of action and Diane Ladd to boot.:D
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  • kberg
    kberg Posts: 974
    edited April 2004
    Definitely The Shawshank Redemption.
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  • Pablo
    Pablo Posts: 723
    edited April 2004
    Actually everything I have in my collection (the only reason I buy them is because I will watch them again), but some of my favs;

    Aliens
    Starship Troopers
    The 5th Element
    Galaxy Quest

    (can you tell I like si-fi?!?!).
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    Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, PS3, PS4, xbox360, Wii, WiiU, n64
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  • MSkeezer
    MSkeezer Posts: 1,183
    edited April 2004
    Any LOTR film
    Any Matrix film
    Ghostbusters 1 and 2
    Black Hawk Down
    Titanic
    Terminator 2
    The Ring
    Howard The Duck
    Aliens
    Any Planet of the Apes films
    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    Trading Places
    Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited April 2004
    Glad I'm not the only one.

    Many of mine are on shack's list, and yes, I too end up watching ones I own on DVD but rarely play...
    Jason and the Argonauts rules!

    Others not mentioned that stop my surfin' in its tracks are:

    Ben Hur (at least the chariot race)
    Ten Commandments
    Big Trouble in Little China ("It's all in the reflexes")
    Tora Tora Tora
    A few Marx Brothers'
    Dr. Strangelove Or: HILTSWALTB
    Hiroshima (dead on Truman portrayal by Kenneth Welsh)
    And the Band Played On
    Alien or Aliens
    Wyatt Earp or Tombstone
    Hudson Hawk
    Doctor Zhivago
    Escape from Alcatraz
    The Missiles of October (the old made for TV version)
    Kennedy
    Major League
    The Bad News Bears
    The Carpetbaggers

    and last, but not least...
    The Cincinatti Kid
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited April 2004
    The movie that has got the most play in my system by far is WE WERE SOLDIERS.....EXCELLENT movie!!!
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by brettw22
    The movie that has got the most play in my system by far is WE WERE SOLDIERS.....EXCELLENT movie!!!

    i haven't seen this one yet. is that the one that has Mel Gibson in it? Or am i thinking of a diff one?

    either way.. i like war time movies.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited April 2004
    Yes, that has Mel Gibson........the sound's from your sub on this one with the choppers should thump you in the chest
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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by MSkeezer
    Any LOTR film
    Any Matrix film
    Ghostbusters 1 and 2
    Black Hawk Down
    Titanic
    Terminator 2
    The Ring
    Howard The Duck
    Aliens
    Any Planet of the Apes films
    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    Trading Places
    Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2

    Howard the Duck? Are you feeling alright?
    Bob Mayo, on the keyboards. Bob Mayo.
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  • MSkeezer
    MSkeezer Posts: 1,183
    edited April 2004
    You don't like Howard the Duck??? It's not the greatest movie ever, but I simply cannot see why the entire world HATES this movie. I think it's entertaining, funny, touching, the special effects were pretty good, especially for its time. Why am I the only person who likes this movie? :confused:
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited April 2004
    Gladiator!!!! are u not entertained?
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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by MSkeezer
    You don't like Howard the Duck??? It's not the greatest movie ever, but I simply cannot see why the entire world HATES this movie. I think it's entertaining, funny, touching, the special effects were pretty good, especially for its time. Why am I the only person who likes this movie? :confused:

    I feel the same way about "Revenge of the Nerds". I seem to be the worlds only fan of this epic story of Nerd persecution.
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  • R2D2
    R2D2 Posts: 14
    edited April 2004
    I don't mean to hijack this thread, but it reminded me of something my wife tends to do. If we're channel surfing and one of "those" movies comes on (like Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles) she HAS to watch it... Even though the movie has already been on for half an hour and we have the DVDs! Why is she compelled to watch it just because its on TV? :rolleyes: :D

    Later,
    R2
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2004
    OK..."Midway" was on the history channel last night...came on at midnight. Did I watch it?....sure did! I remember watching this one in the mid 70 at the theater with the NEW "Sensurround" which may have been the first attempt to use subwoofers in a theater setting. I've watched it many times since then, although it's been a couple of years since I've seen it. This is exactly what gmorris was talking about.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited April 2004
    The History channel is getting pretty cool. They've been showing Band of Brothers lately.

    Sixteen Candles.... now there's a classic. Molly Ringworm... Long Duc Dong.... DONGER!!:p

    Breakfast Club is also super great. John Bender was my hero from when I was a kid.
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  • Grimster74
    Grimster74 Posts: 2,576
    edited April 2004
    Any Raiders of the Lost Ark or and Bond films.:D
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