What movie will you always watch when you catch it on?

[NightWatcher]

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]

1. The Matrix... Always sucks me in.

[GReedDiamond]

2. Robocop...Dr Strangelove...A Clockwork Orange...

...They Live, Enemy of the State, Brazil, Assault on Precinct 13 (the original version), The Big Lebowski...

Etc.

[geardaddy]

73. The first three you listed are definites for me.

[irisblue]

3. Casablanca

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.

[trof]

47. yep

[1monster]

62. Me too. That and The American President... Love those presidential speeches that are ALWAYS

better than the real thing (except for maybe Bill Clinton whose speeches can rival anything Hollywood puts out there.)

[TheMightyFavog]

4. The Great Escape.

great movie.

[Initech]

5. The Fifth Element, Men In Black, My Cousin Vinnie

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. The Sting...Groundhog Day...Jaws...not all great, but just...comfortably familiar!

[flying rabbit]

7. The Shining , Matrix, Blazing Saddles and any Bogart movie.

[pinboy3niner]

8. The Usual Suspects, Primal Fear. nt

[Cadfael]

9. The Goodbye Girl

I've just always loved that movie.

[Paulie]

10. Great movie. So cry on the horsey!

[Rowdyboy]

11. Stripes, National Lampoon Vacation, The Lion in Winter, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof....

What can I say-I have eclectic tastes....

[IrishAyes]

12. I've probably seen The Great Escape 40/50 times, not always at home.

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]

30. What, no Chariots of Fire?

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]

13. Forest Gump

[bluedigger]

14. The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Chief Dan George cracks me up.

[Rambis]

24. It's not for eatin, its just for lookin through"

[bluedigger]

27. "I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender.

They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet."

[Rambis]

28. "Endeavor to persevere."

And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.

[1monster]

63. The best thing Clint Eastwood ever did.

Great movie.

[Blue_In_AK]

85. I love that movie.

[Munificence]

15. Oh Oh Oh Me Mr Kotter....

Pulp Fiction & The Big Lebowski

[IcyPeas]

16. Quadrophenia

Mods and Rockers

we are the mods
we are the mods
we are the mods
we are the mods

[Brother Buzz]

17. Little Big Man

and it's like watching eight or ten vignettes all glued together seamlessly.

[MrScorpio]

18. Someone's always cutting onions in my house during the Death of Sunshine scene.

One of these days I'm going to catch who's doing that.

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. Big Fish -- Princess Bride -- Some Like It Hot -- The 7 Year Itch

[B Calm]

67. Big Fish was an awesome movie!

[MissMillie]

20. Groundhog Day

Love that movie

[libodem]

21. If

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]

22. Godfather and Godfather 2

the Lord of the Rings movies, and the first two Star Wars movies.

[PassingFair]

23. Love Actually and Zoolander

I'm always seeing stuff I don't remember seeing.....

[benld74]

25. Jeremiah Johnson, Rounders, Jason Bourne, Grosse Point Blank,

[NightWatcher]

44. I've seen Grosse Point and High Fidelty a ton

I can mute GPB and supply all the dialogue myself.

[Populist_Prole]

26. Dial M for Murder

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]

29. Pitch Black with Vin Diesel.

I also have the DVD, but if I see it on TV, I will watch it because I love, love, love Vin Diesel.

[CTyankee]

31. Judgment at Nuremberg continually amazes me in how enduring its impact is.

Spencer Tracy is just superb. The whole cast is superb. It's just a terrific and important movie...

[irisblue]

48. Montgomery Clift as Rudolph Petersen

still makes me tear up. Excellent movie

[CTyankee]

51. and Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster...etc...

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]

71. Really, anything with Montgomery Clift except for Raintree County. nt

[mucifer]

32. "The Fugitive" and "Notorious"

[lame54]

74. The fugitive is outstanding

[applegrove]

83. I like the fugitive too. But it doesn't take much for me to get sick of movies.

I don't watch when I come across them on the tv.

[graywarrior]

33. Honeysuckle Rose

or any Nick & Nora flick.

[MerryBlooms]

38. Nick and Nora! We have boxed set!

[graywarrior]

41. Those movies never get old.

[MerryBlooms]

45. Exactly, they're timeless.

[graywarrior]

49. And hilarious!

[mnhtnbb]

34. Shawshank Redemption

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]

35. Chinatown, The Fugitive, The Maltese Falcon, Swing Time...

...among many, many others... ...

[bigwillq]

36. Shawshank Redemption!!

It's always. And I watch it every time!

[Incitatus]

53. +1!

Same here. That is the only movie I will stay on the channel and watch every time I come across it.

[NewJeffCT]

69. finally saw it for the first time this year

very good movie.

[MerryBlooms]

37. Cool Hand Luke and Rear Window.

[ailsagirl]

39. Rear Window, Rope, Notorious, Frenzy

Also Vertigo

I know Hitch was weird, but he made fantastic films

Also, All About Eve

[WinkyDink]

66. I'll add North By Northwest!

[kwassa]

40. Groundhog Day

[IrishAyes]

42. Should've said yesterday, all Tyler Perry's work

[NightWatcher]

43. so you're the one?

kidding

[IrishAyes]

46. He's a genius. I relate to Medea.

[Paladin]

50. Bridge On The River Kwai,......

....The Great Escape, An American In Paris, Bullitt, L.A. Confidential, Twelve O'clock High.....and a number of others.....

[valerief]

52. Auntie Mame. nt

[csziggy]

76. With Rosalind Russell and Forest Tucker!

I love that one, too. "Mame" with Lucille Ball was fun, but the earlier one was better.

[valerief]

79. Agree. Ball, brilliant as she was, didn't do Mame justice.

Russell, OTOH, was made for the role. Or she made the role. Whatever!

[Codeine]

54. The Shining, Rear Window, Full Metal Jacket, and Local Hero

all come to mind. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly as well.

[femmocrat]

55. The Birds and Psycho

Anything Hitchcock.

[mokawanis]

56. Dumb and Dumber, To Kill a Mockingbird n/t

[ashling]

57. The Grapes of Wrath (1941)

"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]

58. Jaws, LA Confidential, Casablanca, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Animal House, The Kings Speech

[TeamPooka]

59. Sweet Smell of Success, Kelly's Heroes, The Thin Man.

[B Calm]

60. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest / Jack Nicholson

[1monster]

61. A Christmas Story. That one NEVER gets old. I love it every time I see it... even

the third time in a row on when they do A CHRISTMAS STORY marathon.

[pinboy3niner]

64. + a brazilion

I triple-dog dare ya not to watch it this year!

[WinkyDink]

65. Hoosiers; G. I and II; Jaws; Day of the Jackal; Shall We Dance? (Gere); Fr. Connection; Zorro (Ty).

[Carolina]

68. Jaws

We're gonna need a bigger boat ...

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]

70. Princess Bride, My Favorite Year, Groundhog Day, Somewhere in Time, Young Frankenstein, Foul Play

and Blazing Saddles

[geardaddy]

72. Agreed on The Great Escape.

[yellowdogintexas]

75. In The Heat of the Night.

I still go "huh" when Mr Tibbs tells the Sheriff ("I have a motive which is money and a body which is DEAD!&quot how he figured out the murder.

[Va Lefty]

78. The Outlaw Josey Wales

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]

80. Galaxy Quest...

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]

81. Anything with Barbara Stanwyck.....anything! nt

[ailsagirl]

91. Then I bet you love "Double Indemnity"-- GREAT film

[magical thyme]

82. watching the Odd Couple right now...

anything with Jack Lemon in it.

[IrishAyes]

84. I'm freshly reminded of another favorite, "Blues Brothers"

That's a feel good movie par excellence.

[Captain Stern]

86. Caddyshack, The Breakfast Club...

...and strangely enough, any of the old Godzilla movies. (not the CGI one, but the ones with a guy in a rubber suit)

[sammytko]

87. When Harry Met Sally n/t

[mithnanthy]

88. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid....

It's an oldie but a goody...I fell in love with this movie as a young child.

[eShirl]

89. Excalibur, M Python & the H Grail, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Pt 1,

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]

90. Pulp Fiction.

[chungking34]

92. Any of the Die Hard films

I'm a big action movie buff, and Die Hard is an old favorite.