Movies you catch on TV and won't leave the room or turn the channel

[3_Octave_Fart]

Let's hear them, members and moderators.

-Goodfellas
-Jaws
-Braveheart
-Catch Me If You Can
-Silence of the Lambs

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Most of the Clint Eastwood "spaghetti westerns" -- "Hang 'Em High," "High Plains Drifter," "Pale Rider," "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

"The Karate Kid" -- original.

"Roadhouse" -- always.

Most of the "Rocky" movies.

"A League of Their Own" -- my favorite sports movie of all time.

"Major League" -- at least the first time it's been on in a while.

"Friday" and often, "Next Friday," even if it wasn't as good as the original.

"Baby Boy" and "Boyz N the Hood," -- probably my two favorite inner-city flicks.

 

[JR]

Why do people watch movies on TV with endless commercials and bleeping out the ****ing "****".?

I prefer to watch movies on my Beta VCR

Oh, maybe The Godfather 1 when I have nothing to do for four hours.

 

[old_tony]

****, I fear this could be a rather lengthy post ...

As mentioned above ...
Catch Me If You Can
A League of Their Own

Then, add ...
Sideways
The Professional (sometimes referred to as Leon: The Professional)
Boogie Nights
The Verdict
Fools Rush In
The Fugitive
Stand By Me
Back to the Future (only the first one, though)
The Notebook
Dear John
Caddyshack
Animal House
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Apollo 13
That Thing You Do!
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Forrest Gump
Castaway
Stranger Than Fiction
Rock Star
Four Friends

And I'm sure there are numerous others I can't think of right now. Finding "Four Friends" on any of the movie channels now is next to impossible, but I did find it on YouTube. I'm guessing many of you have neither seen nor heard of it. It came out in 1982. But now that this thread has me thinking of it, I have to watch it on YouTube.


EDIT: Also add two early Robin Williams movies
The World According to Garp
Moscow on the Hudson

 

[Wenders]

Mentioned above:
Catch Me if You Can
A League of Their Own
Apollo 13

Legally Blonde
The Breakfast Club
Remember the Titans
You've Got Mail
The Harry Potter movies

I know there's more but I can't think of them right now.

 

[Riptide]

48 HRS.
Godfather I and II.
Casablanca.
Lethal Weapon I and II.
Die Hard I and III.

Pulp Fiction.
Silverado.
The Abyss.
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Animal House / Caddyshack / Blues Brothers.

Cool Hand Luke.
The Sting.

Platoon.
Full Metal Jacket.
M*A*S*H.

Mystic River.
The Departed.
Silence of the Lambs.

Men in Black.
Mars Attacks!
Spaceballs.

And all that Star Wars and Star Trek stuff.

 

[imjustagirl]

Gone With The Wind
Major League
The Notebook
Bull Durham (on cable)
You've Got Mail

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

-Boogie Nights
-Driving Miss Daisy (and I always cry at the end, which my wife has mocked me mercilessly for)

 

[HanSenSE]

Slap Shot (even though I have it on DVD)
The Shawshank Redemption

 

[GoochMan]

Bloodsport

 

[old_tony]

48 HRS.
Godfather I and II.
Casablanca.
Lethal Weapon I and II.
Die Hard I and III.

Pulp Fiction.
Silverado.
The Abyss.
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Animal House / Caddyshack / Blues Brothers.

Cool Hand Luke.
The Sting.

Platoon.
Full Metal Jacket.
M*A*S*H.

Mystic River.
The Departed.
Silence of the Lambs.

Men in Black.
Mars Attacks!
Spaceballs.

And all that Star Wars and Star Trek stuff.

Add the bold ones to my list. (fixed)

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

I didn't think Catch Me If You Can got a lot of love from critics when it came out, but it's one of my favorite movies.

And with everyone else, Goodfellas, Spaceballs, Silence of the Lambs.

I'll add Hot Shots, any 007 and Pretty Woman (for the missus).

 

[KJIM]

I think I started a thread like this a long time ago.

There is no movie I like enough to watch multiple times that I do not own. I'd go for the disc version every time.

I will, however, watch Seinfeld in reruns, even though I have the entire set.

 

[Here me roar]

Can't believe it took that many posts to get to Shawshank.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

First three that come to mind:


Shawshank
Apollo 13
Dumb and Dumber

 

[Steak Snabler]

Most of mine have been mentioned except "Hoosiers."

 

[Cosmo]

Point Break.

 

[MCbamr]

A Few Good Men
Silence of the Lamb
Field of Dreams
The Burbs

I have the first three on DVD, but I still stop to watch.

 

[Starman]

Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
All 3 Godfathers
Star Wars Eps. 3-6 (#2, I flip a coin. I won't watch more than 10 mins. of #1 at a sitting).
Star Trek -- all except #1 and I get coin-flippy on #5, 9 and 10.
Shawshank
Hoosiers
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Eight Men Out
Jerry Maguire
Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Ferris Bueller
WarGames (1985)
Batman Begins, The Dark Knight. TDKR I usually channel-flip in and out.
Spider-Man 2 (#1 and #4 are passable; #3 is a shutoff).
Any Rocky except #5
Ali
The Hurricane
The Hunt for Red October (however, that's the ONLY Jack Ryan film I like at all)
Finding Forrester
Miracle (the USA Hockey movie)
That Thing You Do!
Contact
Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2. BHC3 is an instant-shutoff.
Lethal Weapon 2 & 4. For some reason I don't like 1&3 very much.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Only The Lonely
Coming to America
Almost Famous
Dazed and Confused
Armageddon
Independence Day
Master and Commander
Tin Cup
A Beautiful Mind
The Grapes of Wrath
On The Beach (1959)
Children of Men
The Paper
My Cousin Vinny
Ocean's 11 (2001) or 12; not the Sinatra original or O13.
October Sky
Clerks 1 & 2, but pretty much nothing else Kevin Smith has ever stuck his thumbs into.

Gas Pump Girls. A 1979 magnum opus featuring Huntz Hall of the Bowery Boys as a befuddled gas station owner. The movie concerns a bunch of guys working at a failing gas station in the late 1970s and a bunch of awesomely stacked babes joining the crew and working in halter tops (or less) and performing various duties around the 'lube rack' and the station becoming a booming success. By strange coincidence I worked in gas stations in the late 1970s.

Special Mention for very very brief scenes: Lost In Translation and Unfaithful. (LIT I will usually sit and watch the rest of the flick; once the 2-3 world-class minutes of Unfaithful are over, it's click time.)

 

[Boom_70]

Why do people watch movies on TV with endless commercials and bleeping out the ****ing "****".?

I prefer to watch movies on my Beta VCR

Oh, maybe The Godfather 1 when I have nothing to do for four hours.

jr jr the tv movie czar.

Personally even though I'm to likely have the movie or can watch on Netflix, I enjoy
the serendipitous moment of finding a movie on tv. So much so that I'm willing to
deal with the commercials.

As a broad categories always stop for the b/w WW II movies, Marx Brothers,
Clint westerns and Bond.