# Which movie should I watch - need answers fast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 24, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034 "2022-12-24T13:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/1 "2022-12-24T13:18:39Z")
It’s A Wonderful Life, Planes, Trains and Automobiles or North By Northwest. All starting soon. Which to watch now and which to record for later? ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/2 "2022-12-24T13:29:34Z")
North by Northeast is one of my favorite films. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/3 "2022-12-24T13:32:06Z")
Have you seen them all? Choose one you have not seen. I love P,T, and A, but it’s more of a Thanksgiving movie. I’m also fond of North by Northwest, but I would choose Wonderful Life just cuz 'tis the season. Let us know which you’ve chosen. mmm ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/4 "2022-12-24T13:41:58Z")
Watching PTA, recoding N by NW, passing on Wonderful because reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/5 "2022-12-24T13:47:56Z")
Another vote for **North by Northwest**. It’s got one of my favorite Cary Grant movie lines ever. \> How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/6 "2022-12-24T14:01:29Z")
Hard pass on NbNW. I would watch PTA, just because I think I’ve hit my lifetime’s fill of IaWL. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/7 "2022-12-24T14:04:18Z")
> [@QMatic](#): > > Watching PTA, recoding N by NW, passing on Wonderful because reasons. Good choice. NbNW is the best movie of the three, but holidays call for PTA (even if it’s more a Thanksgiving movie). ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/8 "2022-12-24T14:38:17Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > but holidays call for PTA (even if it’s more a Thanksgiving movie). I’m in the UK where we don’t have thanksgiving. PTA _feels_ like a Xmas movie to us. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/9 "2022-12-24T17:08:25Z")
> [@QMatic](#): > > …passing on Wonderful because reasons. I hope one of those reasons is because it is a treacle-y movie that pretends to have an unremitting happy ending even though the main character is so desperately unhappy with his life that he is about to end it and leave his half dozen kids with a father or any financial support, and while the neighbors coming together to throw cash in a basket is a nice gesture, apparently none of these people have previously acknowledged how much of his hopes and dreams George Bailey has given up to run that shitty S&L to build cheap houses for the wage slaves that Mr. Potter still uses as replaceable fodder for his mills. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/10 "2022-12-24T17:18:04Z")
I’m always going with Hitchcock. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/11 "2022-12-25T04:16:42Z")
Merry Christmas! (NBNW). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/12 "2022-12-25T05:01:40Z")
The answer is always _Bad Santa_. Uncensored, or fornicate it. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/13 "2022-12-25T06:14:06Z")
> [@QMatic](#): > > Watching PTA, recoding N by NW, passing on Wonderful because reasons. Excellent choice all around. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/14 "2022-12-25T10:20:53Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > North by Northeast is one of my favorite films. You must get lost in the supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/15 "2022-12-25T13:40:08Z")
Practically every line between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint is a gem. Her seduction of him on the train is breathtaking. My favorite line of his is: > Tell me. What do you do besides lure men to their doom on the 20th Century Limited? But look here for a million brilliant quotes from the film. Thank you, [Ernest Lehman.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499626/?ref_=tt_ov_wr) > **[North by Northwest (1959) - Quotes - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/quotes/?ref_=tt_ql_sm)** > > North by Northwest: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and... (Oddly, my favorite line isn’t there. I’ll have to fix that.) ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/16 "2022-12-25T13:54:03Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > But look here for a million brilliant quotes from the film. Thank you, [Ernest Lehman.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499626/?ref_=tt_ov_wr) They left out my favorite: “He looked at me as if I had dandruff.” ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/17 "2022-12-25T13:56:09Z")
My favorite is “You gentlemen aren’t REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?” ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-should-i-watch-need-answers-fast/977034/18 "2022-12-25T16:37:31Z")
err… I mean North by Northwest. I live in the Northwest so I really have no excuse for screwing that up.