# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/41 "2013-01-17T23:59:06Z")
Independence Day I _know_… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/42 "2013-01-18T00:17:08Z")
Elizabeth Mrs. Brown Shakespeare in Love Neverending Story Bring it On Moulin Rouge! any episode of Firefly And, not just “can’t not watch”, but “can’t stop watching the hacked up edited version if I stumble on it on television, even though I own the DVD”: Stand by Me Top Gun Dirty Dancing And “ditto” to: Ladyhawke Princess Bride Sense and Sensibility Fiddler on the Roof ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/43 "2013-01-18T00:20:50Z")
_The Lost Weekend Bridge on the River Kwai It’s a Mad, etc. World Sabrina Aliens The Little Foxes Forbidden Planet Yojimbo Triplets of Belleville_ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/44 "2013-01-18T00:27:17Z")
Anything with Humphrey Bogart or Jean Harlow. (Key Largo, Red Dust) Any movie musical, old or new. (The Band Wagon or Phantom of the Opera (2004). Any sci-fi, old or new (War of the Worlds new or old, 20 Million Miles to Earth)/ Any costume drama (Ivanhoe, A Man For All Seasons, Camelot). It’s a wonder I ever get any sleep at ALL. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@Dusty\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty_Rose)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/45 "2013-01-18T00:42:49Z")
I like a lot of the movies listed above, but the ones that I can not pass up: Shawshank Redemption The Color Purple (and I cry at the end. Every. Time.) And, Og help me… Forrest Gump ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/46 "2013-01-18T01:06:57Z")
_Tombstone_ always seems to get me _Sullivan’s Travels_ **and** _O Brother Where Art Thou_ _A Room with a View_ _Delicatessen_ _Cool Hand Luke_ _Mujers al Borde del Ataque Nervioso_ ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/47 "2013-01-18T01:15:51Z")
_Titanic_ _Murder on the Orient Express_ _Mommie Dearest_ ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/48 "2013-01-18T01:46:42Z")
_The Hunt For Red October_. I literally cannot count the number of times I’ve watched this film because I stumbled across it while channel surfing. Even with all these viewings, it wound up in my Netfix Instant Watch queue. I resist the urge to watch it because there’s so much stuff I _haven’t_ seen, but I can’t bring myself to delete it from the queue. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/49 "2013-01-18T01:54:27Z")
Tremors Zombieland The Commitments ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/50 "2013-01-18T02:17:43Z")
Another one for Independence Day. Also Tombstone, The Natural, Bull Durham ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/51 "2013-01-18T02:49:28Z")
Gladiator Naked Gun (all) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels Diamonds and Pigs Galaxy Quest Groundhawk Day Henry V (Brannagh) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/52 "2013-01-18T03:06:49Z")
The Man Who Wasn’t There. The Big Lebowski. Bad Santa. Fargo. ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/53 "2013-01-18T03:29:16Z")
I’m in good company with several of these movies… I think. Princess Bride Serenity LotR Trilogy Gladiator The Last Samurai Iron Man and Iron Man 2 Once Upon a Time in the West Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/54 "2013-01-18T03:42:34Z")
Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz have both been on recently, and I couldn’t look away from either of them. The most shameful movie that I can’t not watch is Knight and Day. There, I said it. It was on a loop for a long time last year and I was powerless, I must have watched it every day for two months during that run. ---
**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 18, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/55 "2013-01-18T03:57:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Do let me know if you like it. 🙂 Oh man, haunted house by the sea. Family secrets. Cool 30s era dresses and cars. Icy secondary characters. Scary portraits. Cold rooms. Danger. Romance. A terrier! This movie has my name all over it! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/56 "2013-01-18T04:00:07Z")
Reservoir Dogs Apollo 13 After Hours Short Cuts Platoon Already mentioned: Shaun of the Dead, The Princess Bride, Die Hard, a few others. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/57 "2013-01-18T04:02:47Z")
Kelly’s Heroes Close Encounters of the Third Kind (It is an ‘Event Sociological’) The Driver (The Ryan O’Neal one, not the Ryan Gosling one) The Road Warrior Raiders of the Lost Ark Miller’s Crossing My Cousin Vinnie The Matrix The Incredibles Swordfish (and I have no idea why) ---
**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 18, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/58 "2013-01-18T04:05:12Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Swordfish (and I have no idea why) A terrific opening sequence, plus Halle Berry’s boobs. And the rest of the movie is fun too. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/59 "2013-01-18T04:59:31Z")
Mine are actually ones I in some sense despise but am fascinated by and can’t look away: Where the Heart Is The American President How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517/60 "2013-01-18T05:15:28Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Miller’s Crossing > [@kayaker](#): > > The Big Lebowski. > Bad Santa. I’d like to add these to mine, as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cant-not-watch/647517.md?page=4)