This is definitely one for me, and Roadhouse too. I love that movie for some strange reason. Keanu Reeves in Point Break is hilariously wooden and bad. Johnny Utah? WTF kind of name is that? Sounds like a football player or something…
plus you get the Chili Peppers as drug-crazed fiends.
The Matrix is another one.
Something About Mary
Dumb And Dumber
The Waterboy
amongst many others
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Hotel Transylvania (1 and 2)
Fright Night (the 2011 version)
Jurassic Park
The Avengers
Iron Man
The Birdcage
Harry Potter movies (sometimes)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly .
“It’s no joke, it’s a rope Tuco”…
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Total Recall (the original version with Schwarzenegger). I don’t know why, because I have the damn thing on DVD.
This is unlikely to happen again, though, because I’m a cord-cutter. The only station I get with my rabbit-ears antenna is that channel that shows Criminal Minds reruns all day.
To Have and Have Not
War of the Worlds (1953)
To Catch a Thief
North by Northwest
Rio Bravo
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
The Train
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
In the Heat of the Night
Kelly’s Heroes
Chinatown
The Terminator
Miller’s Crossing
Pacific Rim
Inception
Conan the Barbarian. The original of course. No offense to Jason Momoa, but while Karl Drogo was great, he’s no Conan. Go contemplate that on the Tree of Woe.
Movies you cannot channel surf past…
And I’m doing it right now - The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Also The Lion In Winter, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, and just about anything with the Marx Brothers
Memento.
So many wonderful films mentioned so far (and an excellent thread for generating a playlist)
Two to add from me
Unforgiven
Any of the “Back to the Future” films
The Godfather I/II
Goodfellas
Casino
The Blues Brothers
Shawshank Redemption
Tombstone
Field of Dreams
Apollo 13
A League of Their Own
The original Independence Day. I liked it well enough when first released but over the years watching it in bits and pieces on TV I have come to the conclusion that it’s really good; it’s a completely synthetic formula film which just works scene by scene.
Remember the Titans
That Thing You Do
Aliens
Independence Day
The Long Kiss Goodnight
5th Element
I got an action addiction.
Final top picks of that remaining 7 trillion:
Being There/Harold and Maude
Five Easy Pieces
Wild Bunch/Straw Dogs
Rear Window
not Groundhog Day
Duel
Glengarry Glen Ross
Harry and Tonto
The Ring (2002)
Peeping Tom (rare, but still seen a couple times on late night tv - instantly and absolutely riveting, impossible to turn away from)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Can I add a TV documentary? Any time I come across one on the SR-71, I stop dead and watch.
Lordy, I love that plane.
That one usually gets me, too. And even more than that:
Frenzy
By far my favorite Hitchcock, and I never tire of the ghoulish humor of it.
If we are counting documentaries, then I’d have to add the British series The World at War. I just love the dry and understated style of the narrator. He says things like (not actual quotes), ‘Chamberlain thought he headed off another world war. He was wrong.’ Or ‘Montgomery devised yet another complex plan to take Berlin. It proved unsatisfactory.’ So deadpan. I’d watch a marathon of it if it ever came on all in a row.
P.S., is it me or did that documentary series make Montgomery look like a puffed up dick? Not what I’d expect from a British doc.
Off to check Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. . …
Yeah actually I guess my favourite too.
Actually - by a longshot - the more I think about it.
Funny you mention the ghoulish humour when only last week I posted in another thread one of the awesome scenes where the detective’s wife is serving him yet another one of her much :dubious:beloved:dubious: dishes.
IT WAS RUSK! I’M TELLING YOU!..RUSK! WHERE ARE YOU?..ONE OF THESE DAYS, YOU BASTARD!
That would be Sir Laurence Olivier, not a bad narrator to have.
Yeah, The World at War is magnificent. I have the complete set now, which makes me very happy.