# What is your standby "alone time" movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249 "2007-04-09T01:46:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/21 "2007-04-09T10:52:41Z")
My secret weakness is the young Roger Moore in the black and white episodes of The Saint. I also have the colour episodes but he’s headed toward bad-pancake hell and not quite as pretty in those. Either way, if I’m at a loss for something pleasant to curl up with, that’s where I head. Hooray for DVD box sets. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/22 "2007-04-09T11:01:19Z")
I’m a teacher, so ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ is perfect for me. 🆒 Especially the parade scenes… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/23 "2007-04-09T11:45:49Z")
A few: - \*\*Primer \*\* - I love watching the twists and turns of this movie and it is very short, so easy to take in - \*\*The 40-Year-Old Virgin \*\* - I still end up crying with laughter at some scenes - \*\*Risky Business \*\* - it captures the both how I felt and how I wanted to feel when I was that age. Perfect fantasy/nostalgia - \*\*Buckaroo Bonsai \*\* - Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy. - \*\*Blade Runner \*\* - my wife is sick of watching it with me ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/24 "2007-04-09T12:42:12Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] _Cum-covered Gangbang Sluts 9_. Sorry, just being honest. [/QUOTE] If you hadn’t admitted to it, I would have. But since you already have I’ll say the Lord of the Rings trilogy. All three in order. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/25 "2007-04-09T12:44:45Z")
**Last of the Mohicans** (“I’m lookin’ at you, miss”) **Little Women** (the one with Christian Bale) **Pride and Prejudice** (the 80’s one with David Rintoul) **Mystic Pizza** (love Lili Taylor) Of course I _can_ watch these with other people, but in my household it’s not likely. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/26 "2007-04-09T13:02:12Z")
[QUOTE=Caprese] **Pride and Prejudice** (the 80’s one with David Rintoul) [/QUOTE] :smack: Duh - the BBC Firth/Ehle version is the cold-weather standby in our house. Along with **The Philadelphia Story** , our two favorite movies to watch together… ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/27 "2007-04-09T13:13:48Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] Lately, anything from the later _Due South_ oeuvre. I like to watch television more than movies when I’m alone, actually – twenty-minute sitcom episodes are great for a brief little pick-me-up, and the breaks every forty minutes when watching DVDs of “hour-long” action/comedy/misc. are nice. I can go make a pot of tea, reheat some food or find my comfy slippers without breaking the rhythm of a narrative by pausing. [/QUOTE] So by the later Due South oeuvre, do you mean the RayK episodes instead of the RayV ones? I’m at a bit of a crossroads here. I like the style of the RayV Due South episodes better, for their more serious and less-slapstick style, but I like RayK so much more than RayV. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/28 "2007-04-09T13:20:11Z")
anything with humphrey bogart in it, but i usually start with ‘casablanca,’ shift to, ‘to have and have not,’ and end with ‘the big sleep.’ damn that’s some terrific movie-watching. i just bought the trio of ‘blackbird movies,’ thanks to another thread in here about them. can’t wait to start watching them tomorrow night. hopefully ncis will be a repeat… ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/29 "2007-04-09T13:50:16Z")
There are two movies I love to watch. The first is _Call Me Madam_ starring Ethel Merman, George Saunders (who knew he could sing?), Donald O’Connor and Vera-Ellen. The cast are all wonderful as they sing, dance and clown to a superb Irving Berlin score. The other is _Donovan’s Reef_, John Ford’s lighthearted buddy flick set on a Polynesian island. Both movies brighten my day and make me feel happy. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/30 "2007-04-09T14:09:37Z")
_American Beauty Se7en Point Break Moonstruck_ I know I am an outlier… ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/31 "2007-04-09T14:32:36Z")
Not a movie per se, but my DVD collection of **Sports Night**. Out of all the series I really love, this is the only one that, for whatever reason, I can’t seem to get my friends to watch. ☹ ---
**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:** [April 9, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/32 "2007-04-09T15:01:09Z")
Jane Austen. The Firth/Ehle version of P&P or Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett in Sense and Sensibility. This weekend they were showing Pay It Forward on cable. it’s not even that great a movie, but I _always_ cry at the end. Not just sniffles, either. StG ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/33 "2007-04-09T15:15:51Z")
_Master and Commander_. I won’t watch it unless I can turn up the home theater - the battle scenes are infinitely better that way. And I can’t turn up the home theater unless the kids are elsewhere. So in fact it’s not only my default home alone movie, it’s a movie I won’t watch unless I’m home alone. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/34 "2007-04-09T15:41:50Z")
The Color Purple Steel Magnolias (I boo-hoo _every single time_ at those two.) Dirty Dancing (I only tear up when Jerry Orbach says “You looked wonderful up there.”) There’s probably more, but I can’t think of them right now. ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/35 "2007-04-09T16:04:07Z")
_Tenchi Muyo! in Love 2_, aka _Tenchi Forever!_ Just a very low-key, warm, comfortable movie for me. One of my favorites, but I don’t pull it out very often because I’m the only person I know who likes it, even among other anime fans. _Lord of the Rings_ series or the _Alien Quadrilogy_. When I’ve got a whole day to kill and I want to watch a whole series, these go in. Disaster spectacles! _The Poseiden Adventure_, _The Towering Inferno_, etc. I can never get my fill of these kinds of movies; the cheesier the better. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/36 "2007-04-09T16:33:46Z")
**A Man for All Seasons** **The Lion in Winter** **Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead** All dialogue based movies that most people I know either don’t want to watch or at least don’t want to watch nearly as often as I do. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/37 "2007-04-09T16:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] Steel Magnolias (I boo-hoo _every single time_ at those two.) [/QUOTE] The part when she says “I could walk to Texas but my daughter is dead” (paraphrase) always gets me. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/38 "2007-04-09T17:12:04Z")
Any James Bond movie. Hunt for Red October In the Line of Fire Independance Day Men In Black. Terminator 2 ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/39 "2007-04-09T17:20:05Z")
**The Great Escape** always is the first in the DVD player when the wife is out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249/40 "2007-04-09T17:22:48Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] The part when she says “I could walk to Texas but my daughter is dead” (paraphrase) always gets me. [/QUOTE] Totally!!! “I’m fine! I’m fine! I could walk to Texas but my daughter is _dead_!” Wah!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standby-alone-time-movie/399249.md?page=3)