Movies you have to watch?

[tinksmom02]

I'm just curious if anyone out there is like me...occasionally I'll be flipping through the channels and a movie will come on that I've seen a million times before, and OWN on DVD, but I have to sit there and watch the whole thing, commercials and all.

Goodfellas was on Lifetime last night, which is what prompted this thread. My two other "much-watch" movies are Mommy Dearest and Jaws.

Do you guys have any "must-watch" movies, or am I just odd? :blush:

[Boojum]

My DH gets extreeeeemly exasperated with me because I do this. I'll be watching a movie on TV, and he'll start fussing at me: "We have this on DVD! You could put it in and not waste time with commercials!"

My "must watch" movies are:

Steel Magnolias

Any of the Star Wars movies

Secondhand Lions

Pleasantville

I'm sure there are a couple more than aren't popping to mind right now.

Trust me...you're not odd! :)

[Melanie]

I do this a lot with mainly chick flicks like Ever After, You've Got Mail, The Wedding Planner, Never Been Kissed, Bridget Jones, etc.

[PirateLover]

I do it with weird movies.... some that come to mind are Peggy Sue Got Married, Major League, That Thing You Do, Stand By Me, Now and Then and Shawshank Redemption. Steel Magnolias I watch a lot , but not every time. Yeah I know, what an odd mix.

[KineGirl]

This was an easy one for me


Goodfellas
Godfather 1,2 & 3
Scarface
The Wizard of Oz
Sid & Nancy
Galaxy Quest (LOL!!)
Casa Blanca
Fight Club
Session 9
Something About Mary
42cnd Street (Ginger Rogers :cloud9:)

[Sunshine1010]

I must be a total dork:

- Urban Cowboy
- Four Seasons
- Sixteen Candles
- Weird Science
- Breakfast Club
- all the Christmas clay shows
- Shoot The Moon
- Halloween (part 1)
- Nightmare on Elm Street (part 1)
- Aliens (part 2)
- The Day After
- Valley Girl
- She's The Man
- Just One of The Guys
- Jaws (part 1)
- Grease (part 1)
- Legend
- On Golden Pond
- Desperado
- The Ten Commandments
- Titanic
- Top Gun
- In God's Hands
- Endless Summer (part 1)
- Good Fellas

That's all I can think of right now. There are more!

[ChipnDaleGal]

I just had this happen this past weekend with Young Frankenstein! :thumbsup:

I have a lot of movies that will stop me in my channel surfing tracks. Some would be...

Elf
Anchorman
Steel Magnolias
all three Lord of the Rings movies
Troy
She's Having a Baby
The Big Chill
Overboard
The Mummy Returns

[SBETigg]

The Bridget Jones movies are the only ones I can think of now. My DH would choose The Rookie and The Replacements, plus any cheesy 80s movie, but especially Better Off Dead with John Cusack.

[Mickey'sGirl]

I watched Goodfellas last night too!

It stops me, as does That Thing You Do, every time it is on.

Any old Frank Sinatra or Doris Day movie will stop me as well.......

[elmjimmlm]

First Wives Club is a favorite for me...
Also Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally
Thats all that I can think of right now...

[alphamommy]

Mine are old...

The Music Man
Hello Dolly!
The Sound of Music
12 Angry Men
Dial "M" for Murder (I don't own this one yet)
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind

Even if I don't have time to watch the whole movie, I'll still stop on these if they're on for as long as I have to watch. If they've already started, I'll still watch what's left.

[disneydrmr]

I have a few...
Princess Diaries one and two!
Parent Trap
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman

Dh knows if he's channel surfing and comes across any of these he'd better immediately stop and resign himself to watching it!

[KineGirl]

I forgot to add
Fried Green Tomatos
To Kill a Mockingbird

[Jeff G]

Goodfellas, Casino and The Godfather 1 or 2 catch me everytime along with a few others including:

Gladiator
Forrest Gump
It's a Wonderful Life(I miss the days before NBC took it over)
& almost anything 80's(Weird Science, Back to School, Ghost Busters, Beverly Hills Cop, Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Better Off Dead, St. Elmo's Fire, Top Gun... you get the picture)

[Jeff G]

The Bridget Jones movies are the only ones I can think of now. My DH would choose The Rookie and The Replacements, plus any cheesy 80s movie, but especially Better Off Dead with John Cusack.


I just read this after posting my reply with Better Off Dead included, your husband has good taste:D. I want my two dollars!

[Disneyatic]

& almost anything 80's(Weird Science, Back to School, Ghost Busters, Beverly Hills Cop, Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Better Off Dead, St. Elmo's Fire, Top Gun... you get the picture)

I am the same way, almost any of the 80's movies will catch my attention.
Weird Science may be my favorite movie of ALL time! "He don't even have a license, LISA" :secret:

The Rundown (with The Rock and Sean William Scott) I have seen this a million times and still laugh my head off at it!

[tinkwest]

Die Hard - always stop to watch Die Hard. 5 minutes in to the movie, 5 minutes left in the movie . . it doesn't matter. Must stop and watch. BUT, not if it is the "language friendly" version. Takes away many of the most memorable/funny lines. (I guess some of the powers that be think it is ok to air a movie with people getting killed and buildings destroyed - but - watch your language!!?? :confused: )

Other usually stop to watch movies -
Ever After
Back to the Future
Caddyshack
Rush Hour
That Thing You Do
Elf
Pollyanna
The Three Lives of Thomasina (rare to see being aired)

[Figment78]

OMG - I do this all the time too! For me it's:

Pirates of the Caribbean (the first one)
National Treasure (the first one)
and the Briget Jones movies

I owe all of these but actually prefer to "find" them on TV! I think I've seen Pirates and National Treasure like 10 times each this year alone! (since they are always on!)

[Sunshine1010]

Disneyatic ---- that line is HILARIOUS in the movie. So is the bar scene.

Ahhhhh....the memories of watching the movie. I love it!!!!

[Nut4DW]

I do this too - no matter how much time is left in these movies - I will stop and watch - drives my DH crazy - though I think he does it too only with different types of movies. Mine would have to be:

Sweet Home Alabama - just love that line "Why do you want to marry me anyway?" "So I can kiss you any time I want to" awwwww

Diary of a Mad Black Woman - love the message and the music

National Treasure

Parent Trap

Grease

Second Hand Lions

[WDWFREAK101]

The Indianna Jones trilogy (NOT THE NEW ONE)

CaddyShack

Finding Nemo

Pirates Of The Caribbean :The Curse Of The Black Pearl

Saving Private Ryan

E.T.

The Godfather

The Naked Gun

The Karate Kid

Life Is Beautiful

Mrs. Doubtfire

Ferris Buller

It's A Wonderful Life

Die Hard

Back To The Future 1, 2, and 3

Beverly Hills Cop

The Shawshack Redemption

The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters

I know there are more but I'll put some more when I think of them

[MickeyandTink]

Matrix and Matrix Reloaded (Not a big fan of the third one, though)

National Lampoon's Vacation (Always gets me in the mood for our next trip to Wallyworld, uh I mean Disneyworld :mickey: )

Caddyshack
Animal House

[The Reservoir Dog]

The Green Mile

JFK

The Shawshank Redemption

Dances With Wolves

Gladiator

To name but a few.

[tinksmom02]

My DH gets extreeeeemly exasperated with me because I do this. I'll be watching a movie on TV, and he'll start fussing at me: "We have this on DVD! You could put it in and not waste time with commercials!"

My "must watch" movies are:

Steel Magnolias
:)

Ahhh...when I'm in the mood for a good cry, I can't click past Steel Magnolias, Beaches, or Terms of Endearment (the 3 movies guaranteed to make DH cry, too!)

[PiratesLifeForMe3]

Almost Famous
American Beauty


and I've never seen Requiem For A Dream on TV, but I could watch this everyday if it was instead of wearing out my copy on DVD ha

[diz_girl]

Real Genius - I LOVE that movie. Val Kilmer needs to do more comedy. He's great at it.

Others are:
Biodome
Clerks & Clerks II
Let's Go To Prison
Idiocracy
Elf
Stripes - or pretty much any Bill Murray film
Stars Wars trilogy (the first and ONLY one - none of that Jar Jar Binks garbage)
Serenity & the Firefly series
Pirates & sequels
National Treasure & sequels
Lake Placid
Finding Nemo
Cars
The Matrix (and maybe the second, but not the last one)
Pride & Prejudice
You've Got Mail
While You Were Sleeping

Soon to be - once they come on TV -
Iron Man
Kung Fu Panda

That's all that I could think of at the moment. The funny thing is that if you look at the first few movies on my list, you'd think that I was a guy, except for the fact that I left off the Godfather or any stereotypical "guy" movie. But the last few films make you think that I'm a girl, except for the fact that I left off your typical chick flicks. But just try getting me near Beaches or Steel Magnolias.

[BlueDorrie]

I've done this plenty of times. Considering the fact that I have a pretty extensive dvd collection and do own these movies, I still find myself watching them on tv when it comes on:

Dirty Dancing
Grease
Galaxy Quest
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Dracula 2000 (Gerard Butler is a very, very, very sexy Dracula)
A Few Good Men
Strictly Ballroom
The Full Monty

[IloveDisney71]

I do it with weird movies.... some that come to mind are Peggy Sue Got Married, Major League, That Thing You Do, Stand By Me, Now and Then and Shawshank Redemption. Steel Magnolias I watch a lot , but not every time. Yeah I know, what an odd mix.

The first one that popped into my head was Shawshank Redemption and I couldn't believe someone else posted this movie. Most of my friends have never even heard of it. It is one of my top 10 favorite movies! I own it, but if I come across it, I always end up watching it!
Others that I just have to watch:
Steel Magnolias
Pretty Woman
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Breakfast Club
Dirty Dancing (I just watched it about a week ago!)

[Davyjones]

For me:

Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Finding Nemo

And for some odd, unknown reason:

Volcano

I don't know why...:confused:

[MissMaryPoppins]

Whenever I see "Working Girl" is coming on, I have to watch it. Even though I've seen it a million times and I knew it would be heavily edited I watched "Casino" on USA the other night. I don't even know why I watch it on TV. I'm too busy laughing at the horrible re-dubbing job to really watch it.

Joy

[citizensnoopy]

This happened to me last night with Freaky Friday (the remake). It was on the Disney Channel :mickey:

Others include:
E.T.
A League of Their Own
Toy Story
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Polar Express
Lifetime movies (:blush:)

[DisneyDog]

American President and You've got mail. I think I can quote every line in both of them. And we own both. That thing you do is definitely another one for me too. I'll often watch Forrest Gump, but can only watch it up until the wedding because then I become an emotional mess. Circle of Friends is definitely another "must watch" movie (and I've worn out my personal copy).

I do love Better off Dead ("Go that way really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.")

My DH also loves the Rookie and the Replacements. I can watch them over and over as well.

[diz_girl]

Galaxy Quest
Strictly Ballroom


I LOOOOVE Galaxy Quest. Never miss it when it comes on. It should have been on my list too.

For those of you who love Dirty Dancing, you might like Strictly Ballroom too.

[Jared]

I'll just list a few:


GoodFellas
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Pulp Fiction
Psycho

[mickeys_princess_mom]

Steel Magnolias...and I cry every time. Also Mary Poppins and any of the Pirates. Neat to see how many of you also love Steel Magnolias.

[Davyjones]

I do like Better Off Dead. Not one I have to watch when it comes on, but definitely a great film! :thumbsup:

And since we're quoting it, how about this one:

"Ah, come on, dude! It's Christmas Eve! I could be home right now, drinking this monster eggnog my brother makes with lighter fluid."

-Charles De Mar

[coloradowendyl]

Split decisions in our house...hubby will watch any of the old James Bonds, Clint Eastwood movies until his eyeballs will fall out and I pretty much stick to chick flicks!

My list:
Affair to Remember (original)
Going My Way
Bells of St. Mary
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
High Society
Philadelphia Story
Sabrina (original one)
First Wives Club
Pretty Woman
Bed of Rose
A Walk in the Clouds
When Harry Met Sally
You got Mail
Nottingham Hill

Wendy

[AdventurerKim]

There are so many movies I own on DVD and will watch if they're on TV that it's disgusting!

1. Pride and Prejudice (BBC & Kiera Knightly)
2. Pretty In Pink
3. Sixteen Candles
4. The Holiday
5. Dutch
6. Legend of Bagger Vance
7. Parent Trap (Hayley Mills original)
8. An Affair To Remember (Kerr original)
9. Roxanne
10. Shopgirl

[ncscgirl2005]

Great Thread!

The Color Purple

Coming to America

Meet the Parents

Ms. Congeniality (sp?)

The Golden Child

The Wizard of Oz

GoodFellas

The Wedding Planner

The Constant Gardner (don't know what it is about Ralph Fiennes but I love that guy)

Sometimes in April (makes me cry every time)

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (this doesn't come on TV but when DD puts her DVD in I stop what I am doing and I have to watch it every single time)

[TikiGoddess]

I don't own a lot of movies, but there is one that I've owned for a while now and ALWAYS watch if I catch it on tv.

Pretty Woman.

TikiG

[tinksmom02]

My DH also loves the Rookie and the Replacements. I can watch them over and over as well.

I like the Replacements, too, but I don't think I've ever admitted that out loud before. LOL

[tinkerbellybutton]

Oooh I like this thread.

Steel Magnolias (one of my faves, notice the line in my signature?)

Ok, don't laugh, Grease :blush:

And of course, An Affair to Remember

[princessjojo]

Off the top of my head...

Armageddon
Godfather 1,2,3
Cheaper By the Dozen (b&w version)
Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend
Adam Sandler movies
The Dirty Dozen
Oceans 11 (the original)

I can't think of any others, but there are tons.

[kelly.garrett]

Some of mine are:

Death Proof
Pulp Fiction
Grease
The Holiday
Airheads
High Fidelity
Pirates of the Caribbean (Any of them, but mostly 1 or 2)
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead


Ones I don't own but watch if they're on:

Ratatouille
The Devil Wears Prada
Mrs. Doubtfire
Clerks
Troop Beverly Hills :blush:

[diz_girl]

I almost forgot about...

The Fifth Element

[disneycutie165]

Star Wars
Grease
Secondhand Lions
Indiana Jones
Terminator
Pirates of the Caribbean
King Kong

-some of my faves that are usually on TV!:clappy:

[alphamommy]

I was cruising through our preview guide this afternoon, and found the last 5 minutes of "Dial 'M' for Murder".

I watched it.

I had to.