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Movies You Can't Pass Up

#1 Post by fantine33 » Sat May 10, 2008 12:47 pm

I mentioned in the "other" thread that I should start one, but of course I didn't. Since people have started to reply on that comment, I decided it needed its own thread, to be neat and organized and all.

So, what are the top three movies that you have to keep watching when you flip past on the screen or the channel guide, no matter at what point it is when you pick it up?

It has to be a movie that is on constantly. Like, one of my favourite movies is Scott Joplin (with Billy Dee Williams). I love that movie and it's never been released on home video and they never show it on tv. In recent months (or whatever the name of the channel is) has shown it twice so I was all excited, because it has been years since I've seen it. (My other please release this movie is That's the Spirit).

So of course you're going to stop and watch something like that. This list is for movies that you've seen 478506780633 times, they show it incessantly and you probably have the tape/dvd of it anyway, but you still sit there and watch it.

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#2 Post by fantine33 » Sat May 10, 2008 12:49 pm

peacock2121 wrote:Dirty Dancing
The Postman

shut up
TheCalvinator24 wrote:The Negotiator
Better Off Dead
Ritterskoop wrote: So my list is

Dirty Dancing
Shawshank
Back to the Future
Bob Juch wrote:The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Dances With Wolves

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#3 Post by fantine33 » Sat May 10, 2008 12:51 pm

The Big Lebowski

All That Jazz

Fallen
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#4 Post by silvercamaro » Sat May 10, 2008 12:55 pm

Blade Runner

There are others, but none I have watched so often with complete fascination.

My "others" list might start with Homeward Bound. I cry at the end every darn time!

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#5 Post by ulysses5019 » Sat May 10, 2008 12:59 pm

fantine33 wrote:I mentioned in the "other" thread that I should start one, but of course I didn't. Since people have started to reply on that comment, I decided it needed its own thread, to be neat and organized and all.

So, what are the top three movies that you have to keep watching when you flip past on the screen or the channel guide, no matter at what point it is when you pick it up?

It has to be a movie that is on constantly. Like, one of my favourite movies is Scott Joplin (with Billy Dee Williams). I love that movie and it's never been released on home video and they never show it on tv. In recent months (or whatever the name of the channel is) has shown it twice so I was all excited, because it has been years since I've seen it. (My other please release this movie is That's the Spirit).

So of course you're going to stop and watch something like that. This list is for movies that you've seen 478506780633 times, they show it incessantly and you probably have the tape/dvd of it anyway, but you still sit there and watch it.

Casablanca
Shawshank Redemption
Blues brothers
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#6 Post by Jeemie » Sat May 10, 2008 1:02 pm

The Shawshank Redemption
The Sting
National Treasure
1979 City of Champions 2009

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#7 Post by silverscreenselect » Sat May 10, 2008 1:39 pm

Die Hard
Flight of the Phoenix (original version)
Ten Commandments (every time it comes on I wind up watching an hour or two of it, it's so campy I love it)

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#8 Post by gsabc » Sat May 10, 2008 2:19 pm

The American President
Notting Hill
The Mummy (Brendan Fraser version)
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.

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#9 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat May 10, 2008 2:20 pm

Ha, this is way too revealing

North By Northwest
The Replacements
It Could Happen To You.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#10 Post by silvercamaro » Sat May 10, 2008 2:43 pm

The Commitments would be on my list, except they never show it on television. They would have to bleep so many words that not much dialogue would remain for the sound track. They could leave in the music, though, and I would sing along.

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#11 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat May 10, 2008 3:13 pm

silvercamaro wrote:The Commitments would be on my list, except they never show it on television. They would have to bleep so many words that not much dialogue would remain for the sound track. They could leave in the music, though, and I would sing along.
I really can't remember it ever being on TBS
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#12 Post by silvercamaro » Sat May 10, 2008 3:23 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:The Commitments would be on my list, except they never show it on television. They would have to bleep so many words that not much dialogue would remain for the sound track. They could leave in the music, though, and I would sing along.
I really can't remember it ever being on TBS
It made it to HBO long ago -- 15 years or so? I never saw it on the small screen again.

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#13 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Sat May 10, 2008 3:44 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:The Commitments would be on my list, except they never show it on television. They would have to bleep so many words that not much dialogue would remain for the sound track. They could leave in the music, though, and I would sing along.
I really can't remember it ever being on TBS
It made it to HBO long ago -- 15 years or so? I never saw it on the small screen again.
I recorded it off HBO when I was in Law School. Probably 1994. The last 5 minutes got cut off because the tape ran out.
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#14 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat May 10, 2008 3:47 pm

Dave
The Shawshank Redemption
That Thing You Do

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#15 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat May 10, 2008 3:49 pm

silvercamaro wrote:The Commitments would be on my list, except they never show it on television. They would have to bleep so many words that not much dialogue would remain for the sound track. They could leave in the music, though, and I would sing along.
I live this movie! We just rented it on Netflix so that the kids could see it.

The red-headed guitarist in the movie is Glen Hansard from The Frames and the movie Once.

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#16 Post by Beebs52 » Sat May 10, 2008 3:51 pm

I know this is going to bring raining down beatings upon my head:

A Christmas Story
Rat Race
Waterworld


I really, really like Waterworld.

I love A Christmas Story and Rat Race.
Well, then

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#17 Post by BackInTex » Sat May 10, 2008 3:51 pm

Tremors
Remember the Titans


3rd is a toss-up of many so for now I'll go with

Field of Dreams
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#18 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Sat May 10, 2008 3:52 pm

I will stop and watch That Thing You Do, but I don't have to watch it to the end.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore

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#19 Post by Beebs52 » Sat May 10, 2008 3:53 pm

BackInTex wrote:Tremors
Remember the Titans


3rd is a toss-up of many so for now I'll go with

Field of Dreams
I love Tremors! I forgot about that one.
Well, then

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#20 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat May 10, 2008 3:53 pm

If Aliens is on, I would watch it too.

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#21 Post by silvercamaro » Sat May 10, 2008 3:56 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
I live this movie! We just rented it on Netflix so that the kids could see it.

The red-headed guitarist in the movie is Glen Hansard from The Frames and the movie Once.
According to IMDB, The Corrs got their start by auditioning for this movie. Several of them were cast in small parts.

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#22 Post by Beebs52 » Sat May 10, 2008 3:57 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:If Aliens is on, I would watch it too.
This thread is bringing out all the lack of high concept that I am all about.

I, too, love the Aliens movies. They're all perfect B movies.

Best of Show is one of the all time best movies in the world-I can't believe I don't have the dvd.

Spinal Tap majorly sucked for me. I was so disappointed. I had heard so much and expected so much from it.

I know. I know.
Well, then

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#23 Post by silvercamaro » Sat May 10, 2008 4:01 pm

Beebs52 wrote:I know this is going to bring raining down beatings upon my head:

A Christmas Story
Rat Race
Waterworld


I really, really like Waterworld.

I love A Christmas Story and Rat Race.
I like Waterworld, too. And I sometimes find myself tuning in to any of the Mad Max movies.

My all-time favorite movie -- in terms of admiration, not necessarily total enjoyment -- is Clockwork Orange. I have to get mentally prepared to watch it all the way through.

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#24 Post by ulysses5019 » Sat May 10, 2008 4:02 pm

I recorded it off HBO when I was in Law School. Probably 1994. The last 5 minutes got cut off because the tape ran out.

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#25 Post by christie1111 » Sat May 10, 2008 4:10 pm

The Hunt for Red October
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing

But if I get more, Princess Bride is up there.
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