# What is the most entertaining movie you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 25, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897 "2021-05-25T17:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/101 "2021-05-27T16:57:25Z")
A lot of my picks have already been mentioned. I’ll add _Sky High_. A friend dragged me and our group to it. I was reluctant - a Disney Channel Original, but paying theater prices to see it? But, it was just _fun_. I honestly think it may be the best live action version of the school-for-super-heroes trope. It’s also, for my money (literally), one of the top 10 super hero movies overall. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/102 "2021-05-27T17:07:13Z")
I’ve seen Trainspotting more times than I’d care to admit. I think it is tied with Pulp Fiction for having the most impact on me. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/103 "2021-05-27T17:32:05Z")
_Ninotchka_, for comedy. _Raiders of the Lost Ark_, for mindless action. _Zulu_, for more serious action. _Casablanca_, for witty banter. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/104 "2021-05-27T18:11:10Z")
I get a huge kick out of Bridget Fonda’s character Melanie. Louisssss chicken shit 😆 But I never read the book, just downloaded The Switch from Hoopla it’s the 1st book in the Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara series. I’m looking forward to it! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/105 "2021-05-27T18:35:02Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Louisssss Yes!! Definitely read Rum Punch. I read it fifteenish years ago on my first trip to St Martin. I read it on the beach at Friar’s Bay. Since then it’s been my first beach read ever year until COVID-19 busted the yearly thing. I read it instead on the couch at home, though. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/106 "2021-05-27T20:06:51Z")
I saw “Hellzapoppin” (Olsen and Johnson) on TV when I was a kid 60 years ago. My mother saw it on Broadway. But I’m not sure I ever saw it from start to finish. A few years ago my wife gave me a VHS version (kind of pirated, it is not officially out) for Christmas. I banned everyone from the living room when I started to watch it because i couldn’t imagine it being as good as I remembered. It was better. I invited people in for the amazing first scene, where a cab delivers O & J to hell. (Finally a cabbie who went where I told him to go.) They all stayed to watch the whole thing. Close runner up is 2001, a movie I had read all about, and sweeter because I saw it for the first time in Cinerama on a school trip I had instigated. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/107 "2021-05-27T20:17:26Z")
The first time I saw A Clockwork Orange, I caught it somewhere in the middle.\* I was instantly hooked and watched until the end although I didn’t really know what was going on. I loved it even more the next time, when I started at the beginning. .\* And I caught it at a rather tame scene, when Alex is talking (in a relatively normal manner) to the chaplain in the prison. ---
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> [@epbrown](#): > > A early Speilberg film: 1941. Written by Robert Zemeckis, and you see a lot of similarities to things he directed like Used Cars and Back to the Future. I always thought that movie was underrated. I enjoyed it lots. I could never understand the snobbery toward it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/109 "2021-05-27T21:52:58Z")
One of my favorite films. I’ve see it many times - and I am always amazed at the acting, score, and cinematography. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/110 "2021-05-27T22:33:32Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I think that’s the one I sobbed uncontrollably at. But that had an upbeat ending. For a truly depressing ending remember “Old Yeller” > **[Old Yeller (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yeller_(film))** > > Old Yeller is a 1957 American Western drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney. It stars Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker, with Tommy Kirk, and Kevin Corcoran. It is about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. The film is based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Fred Gipson. Gipson also co-wrote the screenplay along with William Tunberg. > The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, and the success of it led to a 1... ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/111 "2021-05-27T22:45:10Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > I think that’s the one I sobbed uncontrollably at. > > But that had an upbeat ending For a truly depressing ending remember “Old Yeller” > > [Old Yeller (film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yeller_(film)) I was roughly 5 so literally all I remember is sobbing so hard I tried to run out of the theater. In retrospect maybe not the best thing to take a group of kids to! Old Yeller is a movie I never saw - which, yeah. Happy I didn’t. ---
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**The Right Stuff**. When the credits rolled, I thought to myself “Wait, I thought this was supposed to be a three hour movie?” Then I looked at my watch and sure enough, it was three and a half hours later. That movie had my complete and total attention. I had no idea how much time had passed. ---
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Another vote here for _The Princess Bride_. A friend took me to see it at some little art house theater where you had to sit on the steps. I didn’t have high expectations for the movie but after it was over I immediately wanted to see it again. Also _Miracle_. I’m a huge hockey fan and I knew how the movie was going to end but damn if I wasn’t torn between cheering and crying at the end. ---
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> [@blue\_infinity](#): > > > [@Happytree](#): > > > > Big Trouble In Little China. > > No horseshit, Jack “Indeed!” ---
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For flat-out joy, it has to be **Raiders of the Lost Ark**. I was 13 or so when it came out, and that movie was just MADE for 13-year-old boys. Wonderful series of adventure scenes. Nazis! Tomb idols! Chases! Egyptian secret chambers! Supernatural revenge! A close second for **Airplane!** About the same age. I had never seen _anything_ like that. At one point I was laughing so hard I fell out of my theater seat and couldn’t breathe. My dad was seriously worried for a few moments. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/116 "2021-05-28T02:43:52Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > But that had an upbeat ending For a truly depressing ending remember “Old Yeller” (Phoebe Buffay) What kind of a sick doggy snuff film is this!!! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/117 "2021-05-28T06:42:31Z")
A real oldie, ‘Dinner At Eight’ (1933) - rather dated, but most of the themes - social climbing, sex addiction, suicide, faded celebrity and downward spiraling celebrity - never get old. John Barrymore is amazing, as is Jean Harlow, and the dialogue is often side-splittingly hilarious. (“I know men, my dear…I should, it’s been my life’s work.”) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/118 "2021-05-28T08:42:12Z")
not the most entertaining movie but i remember laughing my ass off and rolling my eyes at the same time seeing revenge of the nerds of course i was 12 and seen animal house a dozen times … same with porkys … …these days that movie is all kinds of wrong … and I still say the greatest car chase I’ve ever seen is the entire blues brothers movie … lol, I saw pulp fiction 6 times 2 alone and the other 4 with friends and family for the shock value … > [@Sauron](#): > > If I sat and thought about it for a while, I could probably come up with several … but the first one to pop into my head was _The Princess Bride_ . I didn’t even see it in theatres; a friend rented it and said we should watch it, because it was good. I went into it prepared to make fun of it (and my friend) for the stupidity and plain overall silliness of the movie, because I’d never heard of it and anything called “The Princess Bride” just HAD to be dumb, right? > > One of the most fun times I’ve EVER had watching a movie. heh, I watched it on an airplane when I was 10 years old, the guy sitting next to us who didn’t say 10 words to me and my brother the whole flight paid 9.50 apiece for the earphones for the both of us … said we needed to do something fun … ---
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> [@nightshadea](#): > > said we needed to do something fun … _He_ needed to do something to keep you from bugging him the whole flight. 😄 ---
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> [@gdave](#): > > A lot of my picks have already been mentioned. I’ll add _Sky High_. A friend dragged me and our group to it. I was reluctant - a Disney Channel Original, but paying theater prices to see it? But, it was just _fun_. I honestly think it may be the best live action version of the school-for-super-heroes trope. It’s also, for my money (literally), one of the top 10 super hero movies overall. It’s my favorite superhero movie too! And entertaining AF! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897.md?page=7)