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A Knights Tale

I have no good reason for this...

The Replacements with Keanu Reeves.

Oh god. I think I've said too much.

Also, Fried Green Tomatoes but that is legit. I think that may be everyone's "can't look away" movie.

Anything with Myrna Loy and William Powell in it, or Cary Grant (drooooool).

Princess Bride - I've easily seen it 100 times by now.

I always always sit through Ghostbusters, Coyote Ugly (DON'T JUDGE), Fried Green Tomatoes, and either of the first two Aliens.

There Will Be Blood. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, everything stops.

That and Showgirls.

Casino has the same effect on me, Daniel. For some reason, I never catch it from the beginning.

Monsters, Inc. (including the end credits)
The Hangover

Back to the Future.
Any of them, but especially the first one.

Galaxy Quest.
By Grabthar's Hammer, it gets better every time I watch it.

A Few Good Men

Raiders of the Lost Ark (specially if the big chase is about to happen)

Auntie Mame
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap (clearly)
Uncle Buck
The Princess Bride
The Birds
Ferris Bueller

Sandlot, Heat, and Aliens.

Casinoone of them for me. It was always on TV somehow--every weekend I knew there was a 90% chance that it'd be playing somewhere. I know that movie like the back of my hand.

The other great one is Sense and Sensibility.

But here's the embarrassing confession: I will watch any disaster movie to the very end. Any. Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day (my favorite), Dante's Peak or whatever, I will watch that bitch all the way through. I can't explain it, but the worse the better. Sometimes I'll even sit through Armageddon, for crying out loud. I can't wait for the tv stations to get 2012. All-day marathon on FX!

Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back (Return of the Jedi and the ewoks can go f*ck themselves). The Spike channel shows them on holidays, so I've watched these 2 movies like 20 times now (not counting theaters and DVD).

Thank You For Smoking and Stranger Than Fiction.

25th Hour
The Princess Bride
Any Jane Austen Movie (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Manfield Park)
Parenthood
A Christmas Story. Which means I'm home all day Christmas Eve.

Serenity
Knight's Tale
Aliens 4 (I know, I know--I have a weakness for Ron Perlman)
Princess Bride
And episode of Band of Brothers (it's like a movie)

Goodfellas

Casablanca

Army of Darkness

Most any 3 stooges flick.

The Fugative, or as we call it..The Huge-a-tive

There are many such movies. Many.

Though the one that seems to come up the most is Gone In 60 Seconds. The Nic Cage one. It's a horrible movie, but I can't stop watching it. Ever. A lot of that probably has to do with a wild, sexy blonde-dreaded Angelina.

Another one that's been popular of late is The Road Warrior. There is no shame there. That movie is awesome.

I hate watching movies on TV with the commercial interruptions and all the good parts edited out. Why on Earth would anyone watch a movie that they really like in this format?

If a movie fits the criteria of 'no matter how many times you see it, you can’t help but watch again.' then I would probably buy the DVD. And if I have the DVD, then why on Earth would I feel compelled to watch it on TV?

... and yet my wife and her family will do this all the time. I can't even count how many times I've found them zoned out in front of a movie we own only to be jarred (by the absence of a favorite line or the intrusion of some godaweful pet food commercial) into realizing that they are watching it on TBS, or even worse, ABC Family. Why?!? You won't commit to walking over to the DVD shelf and putting the real movie on and yet you've spent the last 45 minutes watching this edited abomination?

So if I get sucked into watching something on TV it is probably because it was so bad that it wasn't worth renting and yet my channel-surfing curiosity gets the best of me and I decide to check it out (Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer or Resident Evil or some other such mindless popcorn flick that the aforementioned wife has vetoed from the Netflix queue). If it's a movie I like then I am going to want to watch the actual movie.

Oh, and Jurassic Park and Ever After.

Blue Crush. Damn, I love that movie.
Armageddon
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Unfaithful...but mostly just for the hot Frenchman.

I wish I could say it was one of those great, critically acclaimed movies that's beloved by everyone, if not always on the forefront of their mine...But no. I have to watch Enchanted every time it's on.

Yeah I'm going to have to add Jurassic Park and Predator to my list. I just love them.

An American In Paris. Not my favourite Gene Kelly movie, but damnit once I see it on the telly, that's me for however long it's on.

Of the ones mentioned:
Jurassic Park
Predator
Princess Bride

Not mentioned (so far):
Jaws
Mystery Men (unless it's on SyFy, because they butcher the hell out of it)

The Crow
Man on Fire
Aliens
Heat
Empire Records

The Crow and Man on Fire - because I love a great revenge movie (or avenging someone).

Aliens and Heat - because apparently I'm a teenage boy trapped in a woman's body. I love it when there is shooting and shit is blowing up.

Empire Records - I have no explanation for this one. Maybe it's the music. Or mabye it was that Renee Zellweger was tolerable in this movie.

Good point, admin, I suppose the circumstances change if you are talking about premium channels without commercials.

Armageddon.
I can't help myself. I feel like i've anally raped myself everytime, but I can't stop.

I'm gonna go eat cookies in the shower and cry now.

Movies?

None.

This dude cannot abide.

I work at a broadcast television station, in Master Control, and as such, I am exposed for the entirety of my 12-hour shifts to the evils of commercialism.
I DON'T want to deal with that shit when I get home.

Oh... I will watch an episode or three, once I get home, of episodic TV (Bones, ST:TNG, as limited examples), but movies? NO FUCKIN' WAY!
DVD/BD or NOT!

I'm sure there are many where one of us says, "I just need to hear ____ say ____." These elements are noted in parentheses .

Sophie's Choice (Sorcha, your intelligence is pulp. Pulp.)
Good Fellas
Galaxy Quest (Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe? )
Waiting for Guffman (Corky's private dance session)
Hobson's Choice (the slap)

And then we are pretty much glued to the couch until it is over.

When I first met Mr. Julien, we were getting ready to go somewhere and The Odd Couple came on TCM. We didn't say a word, we both just sat down on the couch. It's moments like this that let you know he's the one. And moments like another visit when we woke up and I said, "there's banana cake in the kitchen" and we both sprang from the bed to run and eat some. Movies and gluttony. It's a match made in heaven.

Easily Shawshank Redemption. Every time TBS or TNT plays that damn movie the rest of my Saturday is ruined because I have to watch that movie until Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins embrace on the sand.

Also, another Morgan Freeman movie, Seven, is one that I always feel compelled to finish. It's such a good, strong ending.

In my family, we call it Video Quicksand.

Jaws is the #1 example.

Showgirls. Oooh yeah. Even if I catch it at 2am.

U-Turn! With Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez (pre-J.Lo time).

The Gift. With Cate Banchet, my dear Keanu and Katie Holmes.

200 cigarettes. That quirky movie with a virgin Kate Hudson, Christina Richie, and everyone showing up too late for the Silvester party.

To Wong Foo! Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo as drag queens touring through America stranding in a stuck up small town? Oh yeah. Could watch it every other day.

Moonstruck

Working Girl

Overboard

I'm not proud of any of that.

Hmmm... I'd have to say, lately, The Hangover. Otherwise it's always The Fifth Element, Billy Madison, or Road Trip. I just can't stop watching.

I hate to be a copycat but Back to the Future and Clueless, oh and possibly the Matrix. That said, I find that I don't really watch television much anymore, what with it all being online and so my movies may be a bit out of date as far as all of this goes.

Skitz old boy, that shit's just fucking bananas. Bah. Nah. Nahs.

I'm a longtime lurker and only occasional commenter, but I had to chime in on this one.

Remember the Titans

I can't explain it, but whenever I stumble across it on TBS or one of the other cable channels, I can't help but watch it all. It's addicting.

I know it hasn't made it to basic cable yet (I don't think,) but The Dark Knight is already one of those movies for me. Tons of my friends own it and I've watched it, or portions of it, with all of them. I can never say no to that movie. I think I've seen it 7 times or something already. All the way through. That's not counting "stumbled into the room mid movie and didn't leave" viewings, of which there are many.

When I've grown old and tired and annoy my grand kids with how much I think I know, I hope this movie comes on TBS every afternoon at 4 so I can watch it while I eat my dinner. If I start to go senile, even better. I'll watch it every day and get that face kicking endorphin dump all actions flicks promise and few deliver. When he speeds off into the night and the credits roll I'll be so overcome with joy that I simply void my bowels in jubilant ecstasy. Hopefully we've invented something better than adult diapers by then. I don't wanna have to stew in it. I'll do it, but it won't be enjoyable for me personally, more like a final act of spite. A few more "fuck you's" before I fade.

300, Boondock Saints, Zombieland is probably the worst because I practically have to watch that one if I think about it or see the case. It's been a long time but I have to agree about Ghosts of Mars.

Goodfellas
The Fifth Element
Office Space (I'm kinda over saturated on this one, though)

Nine to Five

Working Girl

Seven

First Wives Club

Zodiac

The Women (not the one with Meg Ryan, the original one)

Somewhere in there are some commonalities.

Independence Day and Shaun of the Dead.

Lake Placid. The lure of the Platt is just to strong to ignore.

I didn't realize it until this weekend, but Ace Ventura, Pet Detective is one of those movies for me. So's Tommy Boy. Shit. Are you guys going to revoke my membership card?

Dirty Dancing and pretty much any 90s-early 00s era teen movie like Can't Hardly Wait, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Jawbreaker, Suger & Spice etc,etc just so long as it doesn't star Freddie Prinze Jr.

The Blues Brothers, any Star Wars movie, and Airplane! are just a few off the top of my head.

Lake Placid. The lure of the Platt is just to strong to ignore.

That's just fuckin' bananas.
There is SO much nuance lost from that movie when viewed on commercial TV.

I regard it as my manly duty to watch The Road Warrior to the end any time I run across it on TV. And I think I may have seen the very beginning of The Blues Brothers perhaps once, but I know I've seen the ending dozens of times. It's probably no coincidence that both films end with legendary vehicular chase sequences.

Serenity. Shut up, haters.
Remember the Titans. At this and Serenity I cry EVERY SINGLE TIME. Even though I've seen each of them like 90349p83 times.
The Princess Bride. Duhhhhhh.
Pride and Prejudice. But only the BBC version. Because I have both it and the novel practically memorized and because it's the best book-to-movie adaptation out there.

Well, mine have already been listed, but here they are, or at least the ones I could think of

Showgirls (dude, it's even more hilarious with painted bikinis)
The Craft
10 Things I Hate About You
Bring It On
Starship Troopers

And YES, I have them all on DVD, and watch them pretty regularly. There's just something old-school comforting about watching them with the editing and commercials, like all is right with the world. It's still turning on its axis, you know?

A Few Good Men
Jurassic Park
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
LOTR - all of them
Back to the Future Parts 1 and 2
Godfather, Godfather Part 2
L.A. Confidential
Saving Private Ryan

Honestly I could list 20 more, but I'll spare you.

It's funny, but until someone mentioned Empire Records I wouldn't have though of it, but then I realized I really do watch until the end every single time I catch it.

Also: Say Anything, The History Boys, and Pride and Prejudice (at least up until the part where Mr. Darcy helplessly stutters, "I lo.., I lo..., I LOVE you." mmmm.)

Skipping the Video Quicksands already mentioned, and there are MANY:

Osmosis Jones. No, I cannot explain this, and my shame is great.
Serendipity, see above.
The Abyss, more explicably, because Ed Harris is the shizz.

@Dill the Devil, I cannot say WORD loud enough to echo your enthusiasm for Brian Blessed and your plan to install him at Dover; and in his honor:

"Scorn...and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king." --Exeter, Henry V.

Greetings, No country for old men does it for me. Some movies are like eating junk food. No country.... is like eating a good authentic Italian meal. All of the ingredients are in perfect ballance and it leaves me satisfied. The scene in the gas station with the old man is worth the price of addmission!

king: check, check and check.
Mrs. Smith: the original "The Women" is da bomb.

For me (and I don't know why): Father of the Bride.

The Big Lebowski

Do you see what happens, Larry? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS when you FIND a STRANGER in the ALPS?

Patton
master and commander
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Uncle Buck

Yup Uncle Buck. When he punches the drunk clown I laugh every time.

Dont judge me.

One movie. Plain and simple.

A Few Good Men.

Don't know how many times I've seen it and don't want to.

I also own it. That should be another comment diversion: what movie are you compelled to watch to the end on tv DESPITE the fact that you own it?

The Fifth Element
Clue
Goodfellas
Aliens
Princess Bride (quoting all the dialogue, much to the annoyance of anyone else in the house)
Slither
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Back to the Future (ANY)
Love Actually
50 First Dates
Billy Madison
The Waterboy (Yes, shut up, three sandler films...)
Spiderman
Clueless
Mean Girls

Yep....

The ones that go without saying:

Shawshank Redemption,
Rudy,
Slapshot

My personal faves:

Trainspotting,
It's all gone Pete Tong,
Snatch,
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

(Yes, I watch alot of IFC)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles -- if it's on, I'm watching it. And everytime it makes me laugh and it makes me cry. I miss John Candy.

Training Day...

You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home??

Fifth Element

Armageddon

Face Off

Con Air

The Rock

... yea, basically cheesy and in some instances shitty action movies.

My apparently unshared shames:

- Patriot Games,
- The Patriot,
- My Cousin Vinny,
- Rising Sun

Previously mentioned:

- Starship Troopers,
- Roadhouse,
- Tombstone

They have a power over me better movies and movies I like better do not. The house could be on fire, and I'm stuck in the comfy-chair until Sean Connery explains to Wesly Snipes how Jack Ryan suckered the British regulars with Marisa Tomei's help. Then, Johnny Rico, shirtless, rips out Johnny Ringo's throat & rides off with Dana Delany and at last I'm free.

God, I hope none of these are on right now.

Bring It On and its dire sequel Bring It On: All or Nothing.

I am helpless. I have to watch all the way to the big cheerleading showdown. I'm glad to see that others here share my affliction.

It's very rare to run across it, but Heathers is my other must-watch.

oh, and The Shining
and The Birds

Blue Crush.

The Wedding Date. (so help me I do NOT understand why but I park it anytime I catch it while channel surfing)

Point Break.

Dirty Dancing.

Princess Bride used to be high on the lsit but I guess I reached burnout.

I got a few--

The Dark Knight

Black Hawk Down

Die Hard

Army of Darkness

Any John Carpenter movies

hm, understand:)