Movies you watch every damned time you find 'em on cable

[MorningGlow]

You know the ones--you've seen them a hundred times, yet every time you run across these movies when you're channel surfing, you just have to watch as much of them as you can. They can be classics or crapfests...but there's just something about them. You can't turn them off.

Here are mine:

- This Is Spinal Tap
- The Cutting Edge ("toe pick!")
- Grease
- The Blues Brothers
- Dirty Dancing (I have to see it at least till the line "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!")
- Groundhog Day
- Ella Enchanted

Now...let's have yours! :hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Airplane, This is Spinal Tap, Apollo 13, The Year of Living Dangerously.

[JTG of the PRB]

2. Oh, let's see...

Office Space
Half Baked
The Core (because it's so bad)
Forrest Gump (because it's so good)
Any Star Wars or Star Trek movie
Independence Day
Young Frankenstein
Major League
Dogma

It's just a short list, to be honest.

[MorningGlow]

18. Office Space! Of course!

My list is incomplete without it. Dogma too--wickedly funny.

[GRLMGC]

3. Showgirls

It's entertaining edited or non-edited.

Speaking of which, it's apparently on VH1 right now!

[Mz Pip]

4. Forbidden Planet

I get sucked in every time.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Cetacea]

85. That one and "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Both have no equals imo.

[Scout]

108. what does "Gort, klaatu barada nikto" really mean? n/t

[HeeBGBz]

119. Ooh I've loved that one (DTESS) since I was little

It used to scare the crap outa my little brother and me.

[AlCzervik]

5. my list

Caddyshack
goodfellas
Steel magnolia's-i know if i watch one more time Shelby will live, she'll live i tell ya
Stalag 17
any Mel Brooks movie
Stripes
Meet the Parents
Zoolander
The Women
All about Eve
Gone with the wind

i'm sure i'm leaving out a few.

[MorningGlow]

14. D'oh! Caddyshack!

I knew I forgot one!

[AlCzervik]

16. i own it but still watch it when it's on.

goodfellas and Caddshack, my 2 all time favorite movies.

[MorningGlow]

19. But of course--that should be one of the rules

"You have it on DVD but watch it on TV, even with commercials..."

[LeftyMom]

6. The Wrath of Khan

Any craptacular Dune adaptation
Little Nicky
Jaws

[Broken_Hero]

7. Superman

the movie, conan the barbarian, sin city...:D

[Bjornsdotter]

8. Dogma

...Lake Placid, Harry Potter 1-4, Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Great Race, any Marx Bros movie, In the Heat of the Night, Rocky Horror, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

Cheers

[MorningGlow]

20. That reminds me...

Arsenic and Old Lace and Bringing Up Baby remind me I should have added The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. I can never resist that one. Or any Cary Grant movie, actually.

[LoveMyCali]

40. I'm with you

Any Cary Grant movie catches my attention. Also
Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
Office Space
Burbs (I know, it's kind of embarrassing but it makes me laugh)

[Bjornsdotter]

76. Oh I forgot "The Burbs"

...I love that movie!

:toast:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky IV, Tommy Boy, Rudy, Zoolander, Airheads,

Gotta say groundhog day too.

[BulletproofLandshark]

10. Serenity

[Richard Steele]

11. Army of Darkness is the only one that springs right to mind...

I'm sure more will come to me.

[leeroysphitz]

12. God help me I watch ROADHOUSE.

I acknowledge that it is CLEARLY the worst most puerile, hackneyed, joke of a movie ever.

I'll even tell my wife over and over how horrible it is as I'm watching it.

It's like a train wreck. No it's like a circus train wreck where the train ran into a tour bus full

of strippers and the crash set off an explosion at the nearby fireworks factory...

[MorningGlow]

22. God/dess bless you my child

It is a terrible affliction you carry. But great description! :rofl:

[carly denise pt deux]

13. here's mine

The Godfather 1 and 2
Pulp Fiction
Dirty Dancin (simply because it's on ALL THE TIME)
Grease 2
Dazed and Confused
Animal House
Memoirs of a Geisha (I have no idea why)
That Thing You Do!

Carly

[MorningGlow]

17. Ohhh I LOVE That Thing You Do

That should be on my list as well. It's such a cute movie--fluffy and comfortable. But actually well written.

[JTG of the PRB]

29. That Thing You Do prevented Tom Hanks from appearing in ST: First Contact.

First Contact was filming at the same time as That Thing You Do, and had Tom Hanks been available, he would have played Zefram Cochrane. Instead, the shooting schedules conflicted, Hanks wasn't able to appear, and James Cromwell took the role.

Cromwell did a damn good job too, but every now and then I catch myself imagining what it would have been like to see Tom Hanks as Zefram Cochrane...

[MorningGlow]

30. No kidding! I didn't know that.

Wow, I just can't picture That Thing You Do without Hanks...and I just can't picture him as Cochrane. Cromwell was perfect for that role. I think it worked out as it should have.

[JTG of the PRB]

You're probably right.

But he would have been a VERY good Cochrane as well. He's one of my favorite actors, and he would have pulled it off admirably.

There's been talk that he would like to at least make an appearance in some future Star Trek project, but First Contact has been the best chance so far it seems.

[MorningGlow]

33. Agree--Hanks can do ANYthing

Which is why I added Sleepless in Seattle to my list (belatedly). The man has such...heart, and it shows in all his roles. I find it so hard to believe this megastar is the same person as that funny-looking guy in the lousy cross-dressing sitcom lo these many years ago. But you know, he even added heart to Bosom Buddies. Not many actors are capable of THAT! :D

[yellowdogintexas]

55. what you said. LOVE Hanks! He has been called this generation's

Jimmy Stewart and I think that is true, and it because his heart is on his sleeve in every part he plays

[Generic Brad]

15. The Godfather saga and assorted romance movies

-Sleeping in Seattle
-A Walk in the Clouds
-Somewhere in Time
-Bridgit Jones: The Edge of Reason
-Hope Springs

[MorningGlow]

21. I actually Tivoed Sleepless in Seattle

a month ago. Why? I have no idea. I've seen it 10,000 times, and once the holidays come around, it'll be on 10,000 more times. But there it sits, and I have some half-baked notion of actually watching it. :eyes:

ITA with A Walk in the Clouds (unexpectedly captivating) and Somewhere in Time, but I'd have to go with the first Bridget Jones flick instead of the second.

[hibbing]

23. Neighbors

Hi,
I wish this was on DVD, why it is not is beyond me. Last movie John Belushi made I believe.

Peace

[MorningGlow]

24. Good one

And welcome to DU!

:toast: :hi:

[hibbing]

27. Thanks!

Earl tried to pork me.

[Zomby Woof]

25. Roadhouse

[LynneSin]

56. another vote for ROADHOUSE

:woohoo:

[BlooInBloo]

59. Yep - I'll watch that everytime.

[GOPisEvil]

87. Two words: Road House.

Pain don't hurt.

[Zomby Woof]

103. Calling me sir

Is like putting an elevator in an outhouse. It don't belong!

[yellowdogintexas]

26. In the Heat of the Night, which I do not own

we own a lot of the movies we love,

I do watch GroundHog Day repeatedly, and 4 Weddings and A Funeral
Godfather Saga when I catch it (I usually find out it is on when it is half over or something)
The Sting which I own
The Mummy (both of them)

[MorningGlow]

31. There's another one

Guess my list should be longer--I always watch Four Weddings and a Funeral too. And I always cringe at Andie McDowell's wooden delivery of the key line in the rain. :eyes: But it's good otherwise.

[seemunkee]

28. Any Sean Connery Bond film

Shawshank Redemption
Apocolypse Now
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Great Escape

[quiet.american]

32. 9 to 5. n/t

[NoPasaran]

34. The Maltese Falcon

Doctor Strangelove

[Throd]

35. "Point Break" my favorite bad movie

[GCP]

90. Oh - me too!

Johnnie Utah FBI - :rofl:
The movie's got everything - Keanu, Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey - even Anthony Kiedis for cripes sake

[Ghost in the Machine]

36. Fast Times At Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Young Guns

Tombstone & a couple others I can't think of right now.

[book_worm]

37. "Grease"

[zabet]

38. Sordid Lives,

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Boondock Saints
Kill Bill 1 and 2
Pulp Fiction
Lone Star State of Mind
Blazing Saddles

[bumblebee1]

39. I gotta watch these

National Lampoon's Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation
Major League
Coming to America

[krispos42]

41. Die Hard

either of them, but usually they only show 1 and 3

Jaws
The Blues Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Caddyshack
Spaceballs
Happy Gilmore
The Matrix
Tommy Boy
The Mummy
National Lampoon's Vacation
Natioanl Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Airplane!
Better Off Dead
U-571
The Hunt for Red October
Back to the Future
Clear and Present Danger

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. Adventures of Robin Hood

West Side Story
The Quiet Man
Milo and Otis
To Kill a Mockingbird
How Green Was My Valley
Never Cry Wolf
Shane

[yellowdogintexas]

53. the Errol Flynn one, right? I forgot that one! and Never Cry Wolf..I

have not seen that in YEARS. Classic Stanwyck movie

[GoddessOfGuinness]

78. I didn't realize there was a Stanwyck movie by that title...

I'll look out for it, as she's one of my favorite actresses.

I was thinking of the movie version of the Farley Mowatt classic. It stars Charles Martin Smith. Here's a link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086005/

Errol Flynn was such a fabulous swashbuckler. It's a shame he made so many poor choices in his life.

[yellowdogintexas]

98. actually I was wrong..the Stanwyck movie was "Cry Wolf" and it

is from 1947. It is a good movie too

[NMDemDist2]

43. The American President, Apollo 13, the Birdcage are the ones that spring to mind

also the original MASH movie and Rocky Horror Picture Show

[soleft]

66. American Pres - and it's on all the time, like Shawshank

[Omphaloskepsis]

44. The Shawshank Redemption..

[Shell Beau]

67. I've seen it hundreds of times, but if it is on tv, I get pulled in every time.

[Mad_Dem_X]

79. Yep.

No matter where in the movie it is when I turn it on, I have to watch it.

[Maccagirl]

45. Here's mine

A Few Good Men
An Officer and a Gentleman
Coal Miner's Daughter
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
A Hard Day's Night (used to be on cable a lot more-hardly at all in the last few years).

[RebelOne]

46. Pitch Black. I love Vin Diesel.

[flvegan]

47. Tombstone

It gets me every damn time.

[HeeBGBz]

120. I'm your huckleberry

I forgot about that one. Great cast!

[SoCalDem]

48. "A Summer Place".."The 25th Hour" (the OLD one)

"The Cutting Edge" for me too :)
"Rear Window"
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
"Baby, the Rain Must Fall"
"Laura"
"My Favorite Wife"
"Days of Wine & Roses"
"Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House"
"The Bad Seed"
"Home From the Hill"
"Battle Cry"
"Lifeboat"
"The Long Hot Summer"
"Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation"
"Sunset Boulevard"
"Twelve O'Clock High"
"Gidget"
"I Was a Male War Bride"
"Gentlemen's Agreement"
"The Old Man and the Sea"
"Z"
"The Americanization of Emily"
"The Sound of Music"
"The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen version)
"Love With a Proper Stranger"

and others I forgot

[Fox Mulder]

49. These movies (seems like they're on at least once a week):

- Rush Hour 1 and 2
- Office Space
- Independence Day
- Anything with James Bond
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Happy Gilmore
- Billy Madison
- Forrest Gump

And many others...

[Rambis]

50. A few good men, Jaws,spinal tap,princess bride

Young Frankenstein,Dazed and confused- we own all of them so I don't know why :shrug:

[MissMillie]

51. Steel Magnolias, Airplane (more)

The Green Mile
Casablanca
Jaws
any of the first 3 Rocky movies

[Haole Girl]

52. I very rarely watch a movie twice

Except "Gone with the Wind" and "Out of Africa".

Recently, thought, I went through a "Castaway" phase. Every time I saw that movie on cable I got something new out of it. Which was odd, since the first time I watched it I remembered thinking to myself, "That's it?".

[RetroLounge]

54. 5th Element

RL

[edbermac]

57. Anything by Hitchcock or Kubrick I'll watch over and over.

[BlooInBloo]

58. Godfather I&II, Goodfellas. I can't help it.

[BlooInBloo]

60. And Red October too. Somebody help me. lol!

[terrya]

61. "The Lion in Winter" "Defending Your Life" "Network"

[yellowdogintexas]

100. yep, how could I forget "Lion in Winter" best dialogue ever

Hepburn's delivery is spot on, every single line.

[haf216]

62. My list .....

Cruel Intentions- I know so bad but gets my every time.
Doctor Dolittle -It's the talking to animals thing that sucks me in.
The Truth about Cats & Dogs
Sleepless in Seattle and You've got mail- and I don't even like these two very much

And any true crime movie that LMN or Lifetime.

[lost-in-nj]

63. Armageddon

Independence Day
Day after Tomorrow
Hook
any Godzilla movie even the one with Matthew Broderick
Lake Placid
Steel Magnolias
Dirty Dancing
The Mummy
The Mummy returns
Legally blonde - the first one
how could I forget!!!!
JAWS-all of them



I'm sure there are more
just can't think right now....

lost

[stuntcat]

64. Jaws

Jaws plays almost every week on some channel

[HeeBGBz]

121. That's my #1

I cannot turn it off if I stumble across it.

[RubyDuby in GA]

65. 9 to 5; French Kiss; Coal Miner's Daughter; National Treasure

Sometimes the cheese just rules in my house.

[B Calm]

68. Back To The Future

[texas1928]

69. All the Star Wars movies, Road House, Any of the Star Trek movies...

and lots of others. But one I saw Wednesday night...

Dwayne T. Robinson: I got a hundred people down here, and they're all covered in glass.
John McClane: Glass? Who gives a shit about glass? Who the fuck is this?
Dwayne T. Robinson: This is Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson, and I am in charge here.
John McClane: Oh you're in charge? Well, I got news for you *Dwayne*, from up here it doesn't look like you're in charge of jack shit.
Dwayne T. Robinson: You listen to me, you little asshole...
John McClane: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, *Dwayne*. Now you listen to me jerk-off, if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the fucking problem and put the other guy back on!


That last part is the best line ever in a movie.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

70. Office Space, The Big Lebowski

Although The Big Lebowski edited for basic cable isn't as fun...

[lizziegrace]

71. Airplane, Spinal Tap, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail...

While You Were Sleeping, Apollo 13, and on and on...

[HERVEPA]

72. Airplane, All the President's Men, McCabe and Mrs. Miller (nt)

[BlueIris]

73. Ditto on "The Cutting Edge." I have a sick love for that little film.

"Those are figure skates, pal."

[BlueIris]

74. I've also discovered a bizarre weakness in myself for "The Exorcist,"

even though I've seen it five times now, the Rob Lowe version of "'Salem's Lot," (many people hated that remake, but I actually think it was better and creepier than the original) and...

"Top Gun."

I'm so ashamed.

[volstork]

75. Animal House

9 to 5
Grease (just saw it a couple of nights ago)

[pokerfan]

77. Mine

Some previously mentioned:
Apollo 13
Casino
Meet the Parents
Any craptacular Dune adaptation
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Rudy
That Thing You Do!
The Sting
The Great Escape
The American President
A Few Good Men
Forrest Gump
Anything with James Bond


My additions:
MASH
Bull Durham
The Guns of Navarone
Remember the Titans
Dances With Wolves

[Initech]

80. Wow, no one has mentioned My Cousin Vinnie yet?

:wow:

[grasswire]

81. my favorite scene from O Brother Where Art Thou

Particularly the scene in the town hall where the Soggy Bottom Boys are revealed and Charles Durning dances his way up to the stage. Gawd, I love that whole scene. The way George Clooney dances around, too. Hahahahahahaaaaa!

[grasswire]

82. Victor Victoria, too

It's my favorite movie.

[yellowdogintexas]

99. soulmate! I so love that movie. We own it and watch it often

never fails to crack me up.

maybe the most perfect movie ever.

[grasswire]

104. yes, the most perfect movie ever

So many twists, so many fabulous scenes! RIP Robert Preston.

The second time I saw that movie in a theater I was with the director of a comedy troupe. He laughed his head off at the scene where Lesley Ann Warren is walking inside the train and Alex is walking outside the train. She's mouthing off all the way. He thought that particularly brilliant.

[AllegroRondo]

83. Blues Brothers, and Escape From New York.

[1gobluedem]

84. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Fried Green Tomatoes
Steel Magnolias
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman

Yep, I like chick flicks

[Seashell Eyes]

86. Office Space.

"The ratio of people to cake is too big."

[dolo amber]

88. WarGames, Caddyshack, Overboard, Grease

[bigwillq]

89. Shawshank

Perfect Storm, Goodfellas, Godfather (all parts), Pretty Woman...so many

[cynatnite]

91. War Games, X Project and anything with Michael Ironside...

One of my favorite bad boys.

[alphafemale]

92. I Love "Crazy In Alabama" and I have no idea why.

[wain]

93. The Train

Burt Lancaster

[otisjf24]

94. Flash Gordon (1980) and 2001: A Space Odessey

I even own both of them on DVD. I will still sit through them. I can't help myself. (I can quit anytime... I can quit anytime...)
And any of the Naked Gun movies... Any Leslie Neilson movie for that matter
And, you all have hit so many already. I am surprised I go to work. I would sit through at least 90% of the movies listed.

[otisjf24]

95. And Steel Magnolias.

I know it is a total chick flick, but Olivia Dukakis and Shirley McClane put my on my ass laughing every time I see it.

[GenDem]

96. Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, It's a Wonderful Life

How are you neighbor?

I see we have a great candidate to run against Reynolds.
http://www.powersforcongress.com/
This guy sounds awesome.

[MorningGlow]

112. Howdy, neighbor!

Was just thinking about you a couple of weeks ago--do you own a dark blue minivan? I saw one driving in my nabe with a DU bumpersticker. Hee. Tried to catch up to it to give a :thumbsup: but didn't make it.

Thanks for the link to the Powers site. Day-um, ANYbody but Reynolds. I've had enough of that man for several lifetimes!

[GenDem]

122. That's me or Mr Gen!!!! Tee Hee.

We just had dinner last night at the Cozy.

We'll have to hook up, sometime. :hi:

[MorningGlow]

130. That's good!...and bad

I mean, great it was you guys, but does that mean we're (shudder) the only DUers out here?

Hee.

Anyway, I agree--we should hook up! Especially if we ARE the only DUers out here!

:scared:

[SPKrazy]

97. Hunt For Red October...

among others


let's see

The Seige

Enemy of the State

Armageddon

Speed

Full Metal Jacket


geez

i watch things over and over

all the lethal weapons

:rofl:

[judaspriestess]

101. Tombstone

Naked Gun
American Psycho
Grease
Blade movies(i love wesley snipes in those movies)
Any Star Trek movie

[Bennyboy]

102. Paint Your Wagon, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the

Sundance kid, The naked Gun. Pretty Woman, Big Trouble In Little China, Papillon

[ironflange]

105. Same here, The Sting

I know nearly every damn line from that flick now, but it doesn't matter. I wonder how long Paul had to practice to get that card trick sequence right.

Also on my list:

Butch & Sundance
Grease
Airplane!
High Noon
Any Bond movie, even "A View to a Kill"
Flesh Gordon :evilgrin:

[Orsino]

106. Kelly's Heroes, Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross n/t

[Blue Gardener]

107. The Last Starfighter

Grease
Office Space
Coal Miner's Daughter
Independence Day
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[Scout]

109. Jaws, Godfather I & II, Swing Kids, Newsies...

Empire of the Sun, The Man from Snowy River...

i'll have to read the thread for reminders and come back!

[judaspriestess]

110. I forgot to add Big Trouble in Little China

its in the top five of my all time favorite movies. I think its HI-larious

[WTF cubed]

111. No one's brought up...

Blazing Saddles

Night of the Hunter (with Mitchum)

Airplane

Wizard of Oz

Encounters of the Third Kind

ET

AI

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Soylent Green

Billy Jack (to see how badly it's acted)

EASY RIDER

The Original Frankenstein

Bram Stoker's Dracula

[MorningGlow]

113. Eeek, forgot one!

The Wedding Singer. Yeah, yeah, I know. But it's got '80s music. Cheesy '80s fashion. And the cute old lady. Heck, it's just so darn cute all the way around. I can't resist. (And I own it on DVD, of course.)

On edit: Forgot three. Also L.A. Story and Honeysuckle Rose.

[bridgit]

114. The Thin Man, Dark Passage, Forbidden Planet, Lost in Space (new)...

Jurassic Park, Crouching Tiger, Groundhog Day, Sin City, The Little Rascals (new), i'm sure there's more

[ekelly]

115. Murphy's Romance...........

National Treasure, The Fugitive, almost anything with Tom Hanks in it, and any really bad horror movie I can find at 2am.


Edited to add: E.T. and all the old Clint Eastwood movies.

[WTF cubed]

116. Silverado!

[Recovered Repug]

117. Ferris Beuhler (sp?) is the only one I can think to add

[HeeBGBz]

118. Mine are mostly disaster flicks

Volcano
Deep Impact
Armageddon
Twister
Outbreak
Poseidon


Other types:

Jaws
Star Wars
The Godfather
Close Encounters
Grease
Die Hards
Dances With Wolves
Somewhere in Time
Men in Black
The Fugitive
The Big Chill

[hellbound-liberal]

123. The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Willy Wonka (the original)

All classics IMO

[nadine_mn]

124. To Kill A mockingbird -

even though I own, if its on...

also Princess Bride
anything with Audrey Hepburn
Office Space
Blues Brothers

and god help me: Legend

[Ewellian]

125. Tremors

Action, comedy, romance, giant sand worms. What's not to love?

[Kajsa]

126. Twister.

I'm a weather nut so I never tire of this movie.

Seems I have company. The KABC 7 meteorologist,
Dallas Raines ( head honcho of the weather crew there)
said it's his favorite movie, too.

:hi:

[Bullwinkle925]

127. I became addicted to . . .

"The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" over 30 yrs. ago. Used to be re-run a lot when I first moved to California and was staying with my grandmother. I became hooked on it and watched it every time I came across it. Haven't seen it listed on any channel for years and years. I keep looking for it on DVD.

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1960 film with Dorothy McGuire, Robert Preston, Shirley Knight, Eve Arden, Lee Kinsolving, and Angela Lansbury. It was adapted from a 1957 play by William Inge.

After losing his job as a salesman, Reuben Flood (Robert Preston) finds himself pulled in several directions at once--trying to deal with a wife who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess (Dorothy McGuire) a shy daughter (Shirley Knight) who is trying to prepare for her first dance, a pre-teen son who runs to his mama instead of dealing with bullies--as well as trying to find a a job. He tries to comfort himself with a childhood friend whom the town rumor mill believes is a loose woman. (Angela Lansbury). In addition to the themes of modernization (i.e., not enough demand for horse harness, and the impending arrival of the oil industry), Inge's characters all face one set of demons or another on their way to the film's conclusion.


Trivia

[Jeanette in FL]

128. An American President and Steel Magnolias

I just love both those movies.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

129. Sad to say....

Legally Blond. Its a total guilty pleasure. :blush: