Winstonm Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 I have to admit that while channel surfing there are some movies I stop at and watch again and again and again and.....well, you get the idea. The two I seem to be most stuck on are: The Karate KidA Few Good Men Anyone else got some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 My all time favorite movie "The Graduate" btw the older I grow the more I love Mrs. Robinson and less Benjamin. Almost anything with Katherine Hepburn from 1931-1949 and many Myrna Loy pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 When I was a student the guys in our house watched The Breakfast Club 13 times in a row. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 When I was a student the guys in our house watched The Breakfast Club 13 times in a row. nickfsydney Ya....even non college guys watched that one over and over....ya.... But I only watched it twice in 2009 :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicklont Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 The Big Lebowski. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 the usual suspects... reservoir dogs... the big country Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 Harry and Sally Star Wars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 I have followed the Danish TV series Matador three times (it's about life in a small town during the 1930's and WW2) and would not object to following it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was on TCM the other night so I watched it for the umpteenth time. Exuberant is the word that comes to mind but I also see it as marking some changes. Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe were marketed very differently, and this movie was toward the end of Russell's era and near the beginning of Monroe's. And of course there is the change in social expectations, then and now . At the end of the movie, both girls get their man and thus happiness reigns. "We're just two little girls, from Little Rock..." I saw this when it came out in 1953 but there is something I can't recall. Early on there is this dance number with Russell and a large number of guys dressed in brief and almost transparent swimming trunks. Seeing it now, this looks to me to be an exuberant homosexual number much as Monroe's later Diamonds number is exuberantly heterosexual. I have no remembrance of how this was thought of in 1953. As a fourteen year old, it didn't occur to me but it's hard to believe that it didn't occur to adults. Or perhaps I am just imagining things. In fact I enjoy many of the old MM movies. River of No Return with Monroe and Mitchum, How to Marry a Millionaire with Monroe, Bette Grable and Lauren Bacall, Bacall definitely being the draw in that one. Of course like more or less everyone I have seen Casablanca many times. I can repeatedly watch The Third Man. Harry Lime stepping out of the shadows is a great scene. Not exactly "on thread" but there are some old movies I keep hoping to see somewhere again. The World of Apu trilogy, and Sundays and Cybelle are a couple of examples. I saw both more than once when they came out. We saw 8 1/2 the other night. I saw this when it came out in the early sixties and had no idea what was going on. I liked it much more this time around. My wife is younger, and was not in on the early Fellini craze. Now she has seen La Strada and 8 1/2 and liked them both. I recorded Juliet of the Spirits so we try that soon. "Back then" it was the Fellini movie that I like most, but I recall little of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babalu1997 Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 funny most posters are males. i have never indulged in repeated film watching, but have done so vicariously. i have watched Escape from new york by osmosis many times, but have never managed to escape. Cant escape from ford fairlane and planes trains and automobiles either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 As good as it getsMe, myself and Irene To name 2 I remember always stopping to watch on cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichMor Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 On our anniversary, my wife and I watch 'The War of the Roses'. Around Christmas we watch the George C. Scott version of 'A Christmas Carol'. One of our friends watches 'The Philidelphia Story' frequently. RichM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 Unforgiven and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (especially the dubbed PG version - I love hearing them say "Fuzzy nerd", cracks me up every time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 The last two posts bring the following to mind: There are movies that I regard as very good, The Unforgiven is one, but which I don't particularly want to see again, and other movies that I regard as very good, The Philadelphia Story is one, which I happily watch repeatedly. I am not sure I can put my finger on the difference, but in some cases I very much appreciate a movie but prefer to simply let the experience be. Sort of a one night stand, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 3 favorite random movies to catch on TV that I always stop to watch:SuperbadOffice SpaceMy Cousin Vinny (yoots!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 There are many I could list here...I pick one..."Local Hero", for the very special charming of this movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 Fast Times at Ridgemont High... heh - I forgot about that one. I think we had a few marathon sessions of it too. It's right up there in my favourite all time movies. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted February 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 3 favorite random movies to catch on TV that I always stop to watch:SuperbadOffice SpaceMy Cousin Vinny (yoots!) I just watched My Cousin Vinny again last night. "Sure I heard of grits. I've just never seen a grit." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliebol Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Brazil and practically any Monty Python movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 3 favorite random movies to catch on TV that I always stop to watch:SuperbadOffice SpaceMy Cousin Vinny (yoots!) I just watched My Cousin Vinny again last night. "Sure I heard of grits. I've just never seen a grit." "What that guy just said is bullshit. Thank you." Best closing argument ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 me and buddies watch Kelly's Heroes every 17th novemeber since 2006 The movie I have watched the most is shawshank redemption though. I like watching any bud spencer & terence hill movie when I can pick one on the tv As Kenberg, I don't really understand why there are movies where I'd want to see repeatedly and others that I don't even though I like them. Easy example would be seeing sixth sense, the village, memento or the fighting club, very much about the movie is the impressive end, so watching it mroe than once or twice has not much sense for me. For a film to be worth watching many times (aside from comedies) I guess it has to end up good, cos if it ends up good it makes you feel good. FE I haven't watched braveheart more than twice while I watched lord of the rings many ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 I just watched My Cousin Vinny again last night. Despite having seen this one at least a dozen times, the dvd was by far my wifes favorite Christmas present this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted February 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 How could I forget this classic: Fargo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 I hear great great things about the red riding movies..... Can anyone from the UK comment on them.....the rest of the world has not seen them....but ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted February 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Tremors - viewing number 972 coming up. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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