# Movies you can't not watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517 "2013-01-17T15:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/21 "2013-01-17T17:59:54Z")
I’m going to add _From Noon till Three_, with Charles Bronson. Edited to add: [Hello and Goodbye.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gTIu7CCRbc) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/22 "2013-01-17T18:00:20Z")
Silly comedies that I enjoy over and over again: _Dodgeball Galaxy Quest Josie and the Pussycats Mystery Men No Strings Attached Not Another Teen Movie Summer School Zoolander_ ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/23 "2013-01-17T18:02:24Z")
_Roadhouse Stripes_ ---
**Author:** ![Werekoala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@Werekoala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Werekoala)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/24 "2013-01-17T18:04:23Z")
_Fifth Element Zoolander Galaxy Quest_ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/25 "2013-01-17T18:05:21Z")
Carrie Blade Runner Highlander ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/26 "2013-01-17T18:51:39Z")
_Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ _Jurassic Park_ _Iron Man_ (1 and 2) _The Mummy_ _The Green Mile_ _Sherlock Holmes_ (1 and 2) _Harry Potter_ (pretty much all of them, though I can usually drag myself away if necessary) I’ve never run across _Galaxy Quest_ on TV, but if I had, it would probably be on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/27 "2013-01-17T18:51:56Z")
_The Fifth Element Galaxy Quest Repo Man Primer Bunraku A Christmas Story_ Many, many more I could add to the list, but those [del]5[/del] 6 are a good representative sample. > [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > The only other one I can think of is _Nashville_, but I haven’t seen that on telly for ages. And I can’t get it on DVD dammit. [You can’t? Why not?](http://www.amazon.com/Nashville-Keith-Carradine/dp/6305918880/ref=sr_1_4?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1358448524&sr=1-4&keywords=nashville) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/28 "2013-01-17T18:57:43Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Rebecca… > The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Oooo-eee! These are two of my all-time faves! I’ll bet you’d also like _The Uninvited_ (the 1944 version with Ray Milland). I watch that one over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Rudiger\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rudiger\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rudiger_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/29 "2013-01-17T19:00:39Z")
Roadhouse Death Wish I, II, or 3 These are movies I _should_ hate, but I always watch them if they’re on TV and hate myself, instead. Also, Band of Brothers. I can’t turn on the TV before noon on Memorial Day, Independance Day, or Veterans Day because I know that will be on and I’ll end up sitting on the couch for the next 6+ hours. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/30 "2013-01-17T19:01:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oooo-eee! These are two of my all-time faves! I’ll bet you’d also like _The Uninvited_ (the 1944 version with Ray Milland). I watch that one over and over. Haven’t seen it. Will tonight! Thanks, **ThelmaLou**. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/31 "2013-01-17T19:43:42Z")
My current one is Bridesmaids. I love that movie and it’s one of the have to watch movies that I don’t own. When I’m flipping thru and I see it, I have to watch it! I keep going, “well, just a few minutes. Okay, I’ll turn it off when you see Jill Clayburgh and her character’s crazy paintings.” Then part passes and I’m still watching, and then its the section at the party where Wiig’s character and Helen battle over the microphone…and then I tell myself, “well, I’ve gone this far, I have to stay for the trying on the dresses!” And then that’s it, my brain has just settled down and made itself popcorn. It’s like the old Paula Poundstone poptarts thing– “Inside there are three pouches of two. This is what happens to me: I open the first pouch, and I eat one tart, and I enjoy it very much, as naturally I would. And then I feel, Well, I have to eat the second one or it will go stale. Well, now I’ve eaten two, and it’s no longer just a snack, it’s a meal. I figure I may as well eat two more. And then finally I’m just like, Well hell, I don’t just want two pop tarts hangin’ out in a box. I eat the last two just to tidy up, really.” Bridesmaids is like Poptarts to me. 🙂 Before that it was School of Rock. And Shaun of the Dead. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/32 "2013-01-17T19:52:28Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Haven’t seen it. Will tonight! Thanks, **ThelmaLou**. Do let me know if you like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/33 "2013-01-17T20:01:06Z")
I’m not even sure I think its that good of a movie, but: **The Big Year** , with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. It’s been playing on HBO lately, and any time I see it in the guide, for some reason I just can’t not watch it. Over the past couple months I’ve watched it, or had it on in the background, probably 5 or 6 times. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/34 "2013-01-17T20:08:58Z")
\*Snatch The Matrix Dumb and Dumber\* ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/35 "2013-01-17T20:25:29Z")
off-topic Hey Calwdio - did you hear a new Big Year record this year? ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/36 "2013-01-17T20:31:59Z")
Lots of the ones already mentioned above. In addition: [_The Name of the Rose_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091605/) Last night _Hart’s War_ sucked me in again. I’m waiting to add _Red Tails_ to the list as soon as it goes into heavy rotation. ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/37 "2013-01-17T20:32:26Z")
Coinkidently enough I was just thinking along this line as I spotted Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet at the library. A movie I can watch repeatedly. A bit differnt, most of the time when I spot such movies being broadcast, I don’t have to stay until the end - I mean I know the end. Princess Bride makes my list too, liked it from the first time and every other time. Others too that others list. I am only somewhat surprised that so many people cannot resist re-watching over and over again movies that I almost regret watching the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/38 "2013-01-17T20:37:39Z")
_Blazing Saddles Hot Fuzz_ ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/39 "2013-01-17T20:56:06Z")
[ul] [li]Sergeant York[/li][li]Shawshank Redemption[/li][li]Pride of the Yankees[/li][li]Pride and Prejudice (Firth & Ehle version)[/li][li]Pretty Woman[/li][li]Seven Brides for Seven Brothers[/li][li]Iron Man[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/40 "2013-01-17T21:12:23Z")
My Cousin Vinnie Coming to America Fiddler on the Roof Godfather (any of them, even 3) Shawshank Redemption The Blues Brothers [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517.md?page=3)