I may have done this in the past, who cares. No one plays along with this stupid Friday Theme anyway.
There are certain movies you are drawn to. They may be classics, or old favorites. What movies do you have stop channel surfing to watch every time you run across them on the TV, no matter how far along the movie is?
For me;
1. Cool Hand Luke
2. Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Hoosiers
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's (I know)
5. Pale Rider
And lately, Saturday Night Fever. I don't know why, I hate disco, and did not care much for the movie when it came out. Nostalgia? Surely not, who has nostalgia for the late 1970's?
How about you? What movies are you compelled to watch?
13 comments:
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Fight Club
3. Grease
4. Fifth Element
5. Father Goose
Mystic Pizza.
Don't ask me why. Maybe it's sorta the same thing as your Saturday Night Fever thing. Nostalgia for the point in time I saw it.
(By the way, I hope you'll forgive my recent outbursts. Hope I didn't cost you anything too important to you.)
1. The Fifth Element
2 Pretty Woman
3 any Clint Eastwood film
4 Commando
5 any John Wayne western
1. The Dirty Dozen
2. Sand Pebbles
3. John Wayne westerns, like Ralphd00d
4. Any random old 40's or 50's drama or detective movie. Just to see the way people interacted and dressed, and hear how they talked, once upon a time, and regret how far we've fallen since then.
5. Any of those John Hughes Brat Pack films, or schmaltzy 80's flick. I call nostalgia there.
Saturday Night Fever is a very good coming of age movie, which never got its due with its story line. Just watching him slowly grow through the movie and evolve to decide to live a bigger life than be a tiny part of the tiny old neighborhood, seeing his friends stuck when he's advancing, seeing how the co-workers at the hardware store died in place once they started working there, and seeing how the old clique cheated a better dance couple from a trophy he felt they rightly earned. Too bad it became a symbol of disco, for take that movie and put it in any other genre and it would still be great.
Hell, I don't care what's on cause I never watch anything.
Indiana Jones, any of them.
Behind the green door.
Debbie does Dallas
Unforgiven
James Old Guy
Fifth Element
The Longest Day
Taken
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Princess Bride
Star Wars (IV. A New Hope) the original
Midway
How The West Was Won (1962)
Hearts In Atlantis
Somewhere In Time
I agree with two of yours:
Saturday Night Fever (don't know why either) and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Then there's:
Forrest Gump (I know, right?)
City of Angels (Oh boo hoo)
and more than any, The Princess Bride (woohoo Ed!)
any J Wayne movie
Breakfast Club
Cool Hand Luke.
2 Mules for Sister Sarah.
Dirty Dozen, The
Not as many as there used to be, since this is how I pick what DVD's I purchase. If it's a movie I watch every time I run across it, I want to own it.
I actually get pissed when I find myself watching a movie on commercial TV when I already own the DVD. But, most times it's the best thing on.
In no particular order (and by FAR not all encompassing)
1.Top Gun
2.Any Clint Eastwood western or Dirty Harry movie.
3.Full Metal Jacket
4.Son In-Law (I know, I know)
5.Down Periscope
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Trains, Planes, & Automobiles
3. The Godfather
4. Hoosiers
5. Raging Bull
1) Shawshank Redemption
2) Green Mile
3) The Notebook
4) American President (even tho I hate the liberal bent of the movie)
5) When Harry Met Sally
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