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What Are The Movies You Watch...
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Psycho - I have seen this one numerous times
Other Hitch flicks I've seen multiple times are The Birds, Rear Window, Strangers On A Train & North By Northwest (Cary Grant rock climbing in dress shoes
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Psycho - I have seen this one numerous times
Other Hitch flicks I've seen multiple times are The Birds, Rear Window, Strangers On A Train & North By Northwest (Cary Grant rock climbing in dress shoes
)
There are movies I can just flat watch anywhere, anytime, where if I'm browsing through the channels and see it, I can stop and watch it, period.
Another group is movies on our shelf that we can just pick up at any time and watch when one says, "You want to watch...?" "Sure!"
It's a long list.
Franchises:
Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. We still go back to 1977 and how we were blown away by an experience that had never been seen by moviegoers before. We saw it four times in that first month. I am not kidding.
Indiana Jones. But that's Nos. 1 and 3. 2 and 4, no.
Harry Potter. Any of them anytime. My personal favorite is The Prisoner of Azakbhan (sp?).
The Bourne whatever, 1 through 3. I start anywhere there, and I'm immersed. And they stitched 2 and 3 together so well.
Avengers stuff.
All burned into the family culture (along with a few previously mentioned):
The Princess Bride.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Aliens.
Murder by Death.
Clue.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Star Trek: First Contact. Mini-controversies fly among Trekkers, but this was our fave ST movie, yes, even ahead of Wrath of Khan. But I can also plug in The Voyage Home anytime.
Comedies:
Some of the National Lampoon stuff. Animal House, Vacation, Caddyshack. (I don't know that Caddyshack was National Lampoon, but it sure seemed like it.)
Gracious Host Stuff:
The Green Mile.
The Shawshank Redemption.
Sci-fi done right:
Jurassic Park.
Terminator 1 and 2.
Off the beaten path:
The Usual Suspects. Brilliant, and Kevin Spacey at his best.
LA Confidential. One of my favorite movies of all time. I'm in awe of it, direction, acting, production values, story, the gamut.
The Fugitive. A TV show done right, by gum. Finally! Great story.
Bull Durham. Every scene filled with great lines, chemistry, and often relatability.
Field of Dreams. Sure, call me a sentimentalist. "Do you want a catch?" *sniff*
The Shadow. Alec Baldwin, never better.
Classics:
Casablanca.
To Have and Have Not.
The Maltese Falcon. (So we like some of the Bogart stuff. Sue us.)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (if you dispute that this is a classic, I'm ready to fight)
That's all off the top of my head, without doing any checking. I'm sure there's more, lots more. Like I said, it's a long list.
Another group is movies on our shelf that we can just pick up at any time and watch when one says, "You want to watch...?" "Sure!"
It's a long list.
Franchises:
Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. We still go back to 1977 and how we were blown away by an experience that had never been seen by moviegoers before. We saw it four times in that first month. I am not kidding.
Indiana Jones. But that's Nos. 1 and 3. 2 and 4, no.
Harry Potter. Any of them anytime. My personal favorite is The Prisoner of Azakbhan (sp?).
The Bourne whatever, 1 through 3. I start anywhere there, and I'm immersed. And they stitched 2 and 3 together so well.
Avengers stuff.
All burned into the family culture (along with a few previously mentioned):
The Princess Bride.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Aliens.
Murder by Death.
Clue.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Star Trek: First Contact. Mini-controversies fly among Trekkers, but this was our fave ST movie, yes, even ahead of Wrath of Khan. But I can also plug in The Voyage Home anytime.
Comedies:
Some of the National Lampoon stuff. Animal House, Vacation, Caddyshack. (I don't know that Caddyshack was National Lampoon, but it sure seemed like it.)
Gracious Host Stuff:
The Green Mile.
The Shawshank Redemption.
Sci-fi done right:
Jurassic Park.
Terminator 1 and 2.
Off the beaten path:
The Usual Suspects. Brilliant, and Kevin Spacey at his best.
LA Confidential. One of my favorite movies of all time. I'm in awe of it, direction, acting, production values, story, the gamut.
The Fugitive. A TV show done right, by gum. Finally! Great story.
Bull Durham. Every scene filled with great lines, chemistry, and often relatability.
Field of Dreams. Sure, call me a sentimentalist. "Do you want a catch?" *sniff*
The Shadow. Alec Baldwin, never better.
Classics:
Casablanca.
To Have and Have Not.
The Maltese Falcon. (So we like some of the Bogart stuff. Sue us.)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (if you dispute that this is a classic, I'm ready to fight)
That's all off the top of my head, without doing any checking. I'm sure there's more, lots more. Like I said, it's a long list.
I'll see your four and raise you 96. Maybe more. I made friends with the theater manager (which was right next door to where I worked) and would go after work almost every day. Still love to watch them, too.
One I haven't seen mentioned and, coming off the July 4th holiday is very apropos, is 1776. We love it and sing along as well as recite much of the dialogue.
I must note that in that month, we were in California, with me preparing to ship over to Okinawa after a three-week leave, where we visited family in Illinois. We saw it in Carlsbad, CA, saw it again, drove to Bloomington, Illinois, took other people to see it another couple times, and then I shipped out to Okinawa.
We were that blown away.
oh.. great thread!!! I do love movies.
There are too many to list that I can never grow tired of watching.. but will name a few.
Exorcist
House of 1000 corpses and Devil's Rejects
all of John Wayne's westerns.. especially True Grit & The Cowboys
all of the Star Treks
Tombstone
The Waterboy
The Postman
The Gladiator
The Patriot
Identity
City of Angels
Cast Away
Young Guns
Stand By Me
The Green Mile
Obsessed
etc etc
There are too many to list that I can never grow tired of watching.. but will name a few.
Exorcist
House of 1000 corpses and Devil's Rejects
all of John Wayne's westerns.. especially True Grit & The Cowboys
all of the Star Treks
Tombstone
The Waterboy
The Postman
The Gladiator
The Patriot
Identity
City of Angels
Cast Away
Young Guns
Stand By Me
The Green Mile
Obsessed
etc etc
Man, I get it! B and I drove down to L.A. to see Empire because it opened there 2 weeks before Vegas. Those movies tap into our collective subconscious and punch those buttons! Still and always
Can't believe I forgot to list O, Brother where are thou? 
"We thought you was a toad!"
"We thought you was a toad!"
I missed a genre.
Westerns
Silverado. Probably our favorite Western. Just all the cliches (except for Indians, which is good) done right.
Open Range. Again, cliches done right, but with grit.
Tombstone. Just a fun watch, great cast, Val Kilmer steals it as Doc.
Add to the Off the Beaten Path
The Big Lebowski. We're even quoting it quite a bit nowadays, but that's for another section of the forum.
Christmas Vacation
Tombstone
Shawshank Redemption
Fried Green Tomatoes
Trading Places
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
Shawshank Redemption
Fried Green Tomatoes
Trading Places
The Outlaw Josey Wales
One that I don't think was mentioned is PREDATOR. The 1st one. I can recite that whole movie. The score is also A1. Just have to say one.
Remember bro, number 10 tonight. Same kinda moon, same kinda jungle. Whole platoon 32 men chopped to meat we walk out just u and me, not a scratch, not a f#@$%^ scratch. Whatever got u gonna come back and when it does I'm gonna cut ur name in two, gonna cut your name in two.
Of course the text doesn't do it justice. The way Bill duke delivers it is what makes it awesome.
Remember bro, number 10 tonight. Same kinda moon, same kinda jungle. Whole platoon 32 men chopped to meat we walk out just u and me, not a scratch, not a f#@$%^ scratch. Whatever got u gonna come back and when it does I'm gonna cut ur name in two, gonna cut your name in two.
Of course the text doesn't do it justice. The way Bill duke delivers it is what makes it awesome.
Dammitall hossenpepper, your super-cool thread made me watch Seven Pounds (again) tonight and now my eyes are burning after yet another bawl-fest.
Someone listed Memento up there. That's a really cool movie.
My question is do you memorize that one forwards, or backwards?
The first time I rented it, I ended up watching it 3 times in 2 days. I loved it that much. Somebody walked off with my dvd copy, but at least Netflix has it. Memento holds a permanent place in my queue. At least until they lose the rights to it.
Him's so nervous, him's sh!ttin' bricks.
Honey, you really shouldn't say that word.
Sorry... sh!ttin' rocks.
Why Johnny Ringo, I did not see you there. You may go now.
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'..
Face it girls... I'm older and I have more insurance!
Yeah, he already said the phone in his limo is busted.. .What is ya? Ignernt?
Karate men bruise on the INSIDE!
Buzzards gotta eat too...
Have to Add
Terminator 2
Battlestar Galactica
Predator
Storm of the Century
Bandit (i guess it it is Smokey and the Iceman)
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
Blade Runner
Abyss
Terminator 2
Battlestar Galactica
Predator
Storm of the Century
Bandit (i guess it it is Smokey and the Iceman)
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
Blade Runner
Abyss
Shawshank Redemption and Fried Green Tomatoes ...!!! Yep..
Hubby added a few. ...
Lord of the Rings movies
Any Predator and /or Aliens movies
Beerfest
Lord of the Rings movies
Any Predator and /or Aliens movies
Beerfest
Oh, and how could I forget. ..
Strange Brew! It's how I first learned to speak Canadian.
You're from Germany correct? Is this what the title in German translates to? Interesting.
The original English title is "Smokey and the Bandit".