movies you always end up watching if you catch them on tv?

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Posted: 12/27/2005 8:24:39 PM EDT

There are movies I've seen countless times and maybe even own on DVD. But when I'm flipping through the channels, sometimes I'll see a movie and want to watch it until the end.

For me, it's the better clint eastwood westerns (for a few dollars more, a fistfull of dollars, and even pale rider and high plains drifter sometimes). And some older war movies, like The Longest Day.

Then there's other movies like The Ten Commandments which is on every easter. If I sit down and watch it for five minutes I'm pretty much there until it's over.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:25:36 PM EDT

[#1]

Some things that run on HBO and Cinemax. The Sphere. Any of the Matrix movies. Sometimes Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:25:43 PM EDT

[#2]

most john wayne movies

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:26:24 PM EDT

[#3]

Heat, although i have it on dvd i always watch it till the end, The outlaw jose wales, i have that on dvd too, shawshank redemption, green berets, american pie, theres a bunch really.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:27:16 PM EDT

[#4]

Falling Down, for some reason

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:28:26 PM EDT

[#5]

Tombstone.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:28:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Patton

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:28:32 PM EDT

[#7]

Red Dawn

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:29:47 PM EDT

[#8]

The Shining

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:29:50 PM EDT

[#9]

Tombstone, under siege 2.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:31:48 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Some things that run on HBO and Cinemax. The Sphere. Any of the Matrix movies. Sometimes Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman.

Watched Anchorman today at work

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:34:59 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Heat, although i have it on dvd i always watch it till the end, The outlaw jose wales, i have that on dvd too, shawshank redemption, green berets, american pie, theres a bunch really.

Same for josey wales and shawshank, even though I think tim burton is first rate asshat.

Josey wales I'd rather watch the DVD though...it's just too good to get cut up with commercials.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:36:48 PM EDT

[#12]

Tombstone, Love Actually, A Time to Kill.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:38:54 PM EDT

[#13]

Tombstone, Red Dawn, Dune, Shawshank Redemption, Caddyshack, Indiana Jones.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:46:24 PM EDT

[#14]

The
Blues
Brothers

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:46:27 PM EDT

[#15]

EuroTrip !

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:48:00 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Red Dawn

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:48:35 PM EDT

[#17]

Top Gun

The Last of the Mohicans

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:49:11 PM EDT

[#18]

AS good as it gets.

BTW,

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:51:33 PM EDT

[#19]

Smokey & The Bandit
Platoon

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:52:15 PM EDT

[#20]

Predator.
Tommy Boy.

Posted: 12/27/2005 8:52:37 PM EDT

[#21]

A Few Good Men - I never get tired of the courtroom scene and Nicholson's portrayal, cheesy as it is...

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:20:30 PM EDT

[#22]

How could I forget Full Metal Jacket?

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:25:00 PM EDT

[#23]

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Die Hard
Collateral
Vacation
Stripes
The Fifth Element

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:27:06 PM EDT

[#24]

Star Wars, Platoon, Shawshank Redemption, and just last night...Blow.

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:27:46 PM EDT

[#25]

BoB, but I end up dragging out my DVDs and I'll watch it all over again. love those Garands

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:30:00 PM EDT

[#26]

Jeremiah Johnson
Shawshank
Indiana Jones (any of the 3)
Matrix
Kelly's Hero's
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Die Hard (the first one only)
Blade Runner (HARDLY ever on TV though)
Saving Private Ryan

I'm sure there are others but these are the ones I know I would stop what I'm doing and watch.

ETA after reading a few replies I remembered:

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Fifth Element (Can you say Mila Jovovich(sp?)

Enemy at the Gate

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:36:17 PM EDT

[#27]

Steel Magnolias.

Every time I watch it I just start balling!!!

So sad.

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:40:57 PM EDT

[#28]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:43:57 PM EDT

[#29]

Anything on Lifetime with Erika Eleniak in it.

Posted: 12/27/2005 9:44:05 PM EDT

[#30]

Tombstone
Dune
Waterworld
Chronicals of riddick

Posted: 12/27/2005 11:33:28 PM EDT

[#31]

''Deep Threat''

Starring: Bill Clinton as himself

Big Monica as the cigar lady.

Posted: 12/28/2005 12:02:41 AM EDT

[#32]

Trading Places among others...

Posted: 12/28/2005 12:12:48 AM EDT

[#33]

"Its a Wonderful Life" and "Sound of Music"

Posted: 12/28/2005 12:38:46 AM EDT

[#34]

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:18:35 AM EDT

[#35]

WHAT !!!???!!! NO BLACK HAWK DOWN ????

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:29:09 AM EDT

[#36]

Proof of Life, and The Princess Bride

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:29:32 AM EDT

[#37]

what about "A Christmas Story"

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:31:14 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
shawshank, even though I think tim burton is first rate asshat.

Err, I think you mean Tim Robbins

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:52:47 AM EDT

[#39]

Trading places
Brewsters Millions
Any Arnold movie

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:58:11 AM EDT

[#40]

Red Dawn
Die Hard
Predator
Running Man (even thou it isn't that good)

Posted: 12/28/2005 3:58:45 AM EDT

[#41]

A Christmas Story (why the heck wasnt there a 24hr marathon of it this year?

)

Kharn

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:04:14 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
A Christmas Story (why the heck wasnt there a 24hr marathon of it this year? )

Kharn

TBS had one this year.

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:14:21 AM EDT

[#43]

Unforgiven
The Missing
High Noon
The Searchers
Revenge (Keven Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madelin Stowe)

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:15:50 AM EDT

[#44]

Any of the Alien movies,both of The Mummy movies. SPR,BHD,BoB,any of John Wayne cavalry flicks,Terminator. and the list goes on.......

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:17:35 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Quoted:
A Christmas Story (why the heck wasnt there a 24hr marathon of it this year? )
Kharn
TBS had one this year.

Damn, I channel surfed every chance I got looking for it without success.

Kharn

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:29:42 AM EDT

[#46]

Office Space

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:45:33 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Patton

but only the first 15 minutes (the speech)

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:46:53 AM EDT

[#48]

Pulp Fiction

Star Trek 2

Tremors

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:49:11 AM EDT

[#49]

I'd have to say Lethal Weapon 1 and 2. Those movies are hillarious when edited for language.

Like "Lets bury those Funsters". Funsters? Is that even a word?

Posted: 12/28/2005 4:50:04 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
WHAT !!!???!!! NO BLACK HAWK DOWN ????

Id rather watch my DVD version in surround sound.

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