What are the movies that you have on tape, and still watch a lot? You know the ones…once you pop it in the VCR, you can speak along with the actors. Mine =
[ul]Cool Hand Luke
A Few Good Men
Harvey
It’s a Wonderful Life
Big (a college roomie loved it, so we watched it a lot)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Star Wars
Exorcist III[/ul]
Dr. Strangelove–a classic.
Jaws–don’t have it on tape, but it’s on one of the Turner networks at least once a week.
[list][]Every Monty Python movie, from Holy Grail to The Meaning of Life[]The Blues BrothersThe Princess Bride
Rounders
Fight Club
and of course … Titanic
Robin Hood (the animated Disney one)
Most Mel Brooks movies
and Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“With nasty big pointy teeth!”
Billy Madison
Wayne’s World
The Music Man
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
I obviously don’t know the words to this but I can play most of the songs on my violin and I know most of the dances on Lord of the Dance.
Strange Brew
Godfather I and II
Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Trading Places
Beverly Hills Cop
All the Kevin Smith movies.
Goodfellas
Godfather I and II
Rocky Horror Picture Show
I have kids. Pick a Disney movie, any Disney movie and a few kids movies that aren’t Disney.
Ghostbusters
The Mask of Zorro
The Thirteenth Warrior
Tombstone
Bull Durham
Independance Day
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Earth Girls Are Easy
Princess Bride
Labyrinth
Arthur
Any Star Trek Movie
Star Wars 4, 5, 6
Matrix
Wild, Wild West
Men in Black
Boys on the Side
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Victor/Victoria
Zorro: The Gay Blade
Sheesh. I have no life.
[Edited by Eutychus55 on 04-07-2001 at 09:15 AM]
Bah. The coding gods have cursed me again.
It’s okay. I forgot to add The Usual Suspects.
The Princess Bride
Empire Records (It’s Rex Manning Day!)
Dr. Strangelove
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Shorts Vol. 1&2 (Not quite movies, but definitely about movies.)
Friday
Am I really the only person who knows every line of The Breakfast Club? Including the cheesy edits for network TV?
The Sound of Music
The Lion King
and
A Bug’s Life
**Tommy Boy
Me, Myself, and Irene
Road Trip**
American Beauty
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Alll of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movies
So, I Married an Axe-Murderer
Gross Pointe Blank
The Breakfast Club
Needful Things
The Shining
There are probably more, and they are probably comedy or horror.
The king of these movies is Fargo - My best friend and I actually made a pilgrimage to Fargo in the dead of winter. After seeing it twenty odd times we set out from Massachusetts to Fargo, Minneapolis and of course Brainerd. Saw Babe the Blue Ox. Unfortunately we didn’t find some of the other landmarks. It was as much as twenty below zero at the time so most all the time was spent in the car. I can still recite the movie almost word for word.
Also in that category but not nearly as extreme are:
Once Were Warriors
Usual Suspects
Cool Hand Luke
Bridge on the River Kwai
All the other Coen Brothers movies
The Lion in Winter
The Goodbye Girl
LadyHawke
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Jungle Book (animated)
Desk Set
Harvey
Bull Durham
Summertime
Philadelphia Story
Robin and Marian
Of the more current movies, I’d watch ** American Beauty, The Usual Suspects** and ** L.A. Confidential** enough to learn them by heart. Gee, I wonder what they all have in common?
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Say Anything
Pleasantville
The Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mystery Men
Airplane
The Wizard of Oz
Becket
There’s a story to that last one. This movie came out when I was in my teens and I saw it a number of times. Eventually, when it made it to TV, I recorded the audio on reel-to-reel tape (this was WAY before VCRs) and listened to it many, many times.
Excalibur
Blade Runner