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You know when you're flipping through the channel guide and you see a favorite movie, which movies will you watch till the end no matter the hour?
Me?
If The Great Escape is on, I'm watching it.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...They Live, Enemy of the State, Brazil, Assault on Precinct 13 (the original version), The Big Lebowski...
Etc.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)irisblue
(32,973 posts)Independence Day is a guilty pleasure, I love the scenes of Will Smiths' character dragging the alien that he punched out across Nevada to area 51.
1monster
(11,012 posts)better than the real thing (except for maybe Bill Clinton whose speeches can rival anything Hollywood puts out there.)
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)great movie.
Initech
(100,070 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)flying rabbit
(4,632 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Cadfael
(1,297 posts)I've just always loved that movie.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)What can I say-I have eclectic tastes....
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)As for directors, I like anything by Sayles or the old masters like Spielberg, Mel Brooks, those guys. And now Steve McQueen the director.
Most of my favorite movies are older ones. A few here, in no particular order:
Salt of the Earth (1950's, b&w)
The Black Stallion
Mississippi Burning
Norma Rae
Mosquito Coast
Matewan
Lone Star
A Time to Kill
Michael Collins
Anything with Johnnie Depp or Hobbits
White Nights
Secretariat
Pharlap
Romero
Man From Snowy River
A lot of foreign films, even or especially the old silent classics
etc. I'm a movie buff though pretty selective. Action movies don't move me the way character driven one do.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I just hear the opening notes of that theme, see the young men running on the beach and I can't resist it. My husband looks for it all the time on our movie channels. Best script, story, direction, acting, cinematography, you name it. Best. hands. down.
And why no Animal House on your list? Just for the sheer nuttiness of it...
Sedona
(3,769 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Chief Dan George cracks me up.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet."
Rambis
(7,774 posts)And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.
1monster
(11,012 posts)Great movie.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Munificence
(493 posts)Pulp Fiction & The Big Lebowski
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)Mods and Rockers
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Brother Buzz
(36,427 posts)and it's like watching eight or ten vignettes all glued together seamlessly.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)One of these days I'm going to catch who's doing that.
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)MissMillie
(38,556 posts)Love that movie
libodem
(19,288 posts)Raising Arizona or Vacation came on I think I'd leave 'em on. I like, oh, gad, I'll never spell it right, I'll be banished from the lounge...Beetle-Juice. I know it's a star. I can't even put down enough for a spell check to guess. Spank me.
I love Wizard of Oz, too. I love, Glenda the Good Witch.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)the Lord of the Rings movies, and the first two Star Wars movies.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)I'm always seeing stuff I don't remember seeing.....
benld74
(9,904 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I can mute GPB and supply all the dialogue myself.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I've bought lots of DVDs of older movies I've come to like when being aired on TV, mostly classic movie channels like TCM. Some movies I like so much that when I see it on, I'll watch it right there even though I have the DVD of it.
'Dial M for Murder' I don't yet have and is a must-watch movie for me.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I also have the DVD, but if I see it on TV, I will watch it because I love, love, love Vin Diesel.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Spencer Tracy is just superb. The whole cast is superb. It's just a terrific and important movie...
irisblue
(32,973 posts)still makes me tear up. Excellent movie
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)it seems like they were all gone and dead only a few years later...incredible...I thought they were stronger but they won't. How sad...
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)lame54
(35,290 posts)applegrove
(118,649 posts)I don't watch when I come across them on the tv.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)or any Nick & Nora flick.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)White Christmas
Holiday Inn
almost anything Bette Davis from the 40's.
Scent of a Woman--at least until I see the tango scene.
Driving Miss Daisy
The First Wives Club
Working Girl
Sleepless in Seattle
I would watch Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County if it
ever ran--but never have seen it.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...among many, many others... ...
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)It's always. And I watch it every time!
Same here. That is the only movie I will stay on the channel and watch every time I come across it.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)very good movie.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Also Vertigo
I know Hitch was weird, but he made fantastic films
Also, All About Eve
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)kidding
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)....The Great Escape, An American In Paris, Bullitt, L.A. Confidential, Twelve O'clock High.....and a number of others.....
valerief
(53,235 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)I love that one, too. "Mame" with Lucille Ball was fun, but the earlier one was better.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Russell, OTOH, was made for the role. Or she made the role. Whatever!
Codeine
(25,586 posts)all come to mind. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly as well.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Anything Hitchcock.
mokawanis
(4,440 posts)Response to mokawanis (Reply #56)
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ashling
(25,771 posts)"If I was t' pray, I wouldn't just pray for an old man that's dead - cause he's alright. I'd pray for them that's alive and don't know which way t' turn."
TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)the third time in a row on when they do A CHRISTMAS STORY marathon.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I triple-dog dare ya not to watch it this year!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Carolina
(6,960 posts)A Few Good Men: You can't handle the truth...
Gladiator: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next!
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)and Blazing Saddles
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)I still go "huh" when Mr Tibbs tells the Sheriff ("I have a motive which is money and a body which is DEAD!" how he figured out the murder.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)So many great lines:
Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.
Josey Wales: Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy
Josey Wales: Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.
From The Ashes
(2,629 posts)Every. Single. Time. And it doesn't matter to me how far into the movie, either. It is (to me) the quintesential movie about Star Trek and its fans.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)anything with Jack Lemon in it.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)That's a feel good movie par excellence.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)...and strangely enough, any of the old Godzilla movies. (not the CGI one, but the ones with a guy in a rubber suit)
sammytko
(2,480 posts)mithnanthy
(1,725 posts)It's an oldie but a goody...I fell in love with this movie as a young child.
eShirl
(18,491 posts)Princess Bride, Life of Brian, The Man Who Would Be King, Little Big Man, Ghostbusters
(edited to add after reading thread) The Lion in Winter
hay rick
(7,611 posts)chungking34
(51 posts)I'm a big action movie buff, and Die Hard is an old favorite.