Movies that stop your channel surfing dead in its tracks...
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Could be to watch the whole thing or rest of it.
Could be to catch a a favorite scene if you're not too late... (I hate it when that happens.)
In my case it's more the latter than the former these days... but late, last nite Dr. Strangelove was on and...
In the latter...
- Contact... the scene where Jodi is reclining on the hood of her Chevy, headphones on and the signal first reaches Earth...
- The Magnificent Seven... either the opening burial scene or the recruiting scenes
- Ben-Hur... the chariot race of course...
Bunch more, but I'm not channel-surfing ATM...
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They have to be nostalgic for me....
1. Goonies
2. Lost Boys
3. Close Encounters
In that order, in case they're all on at once.
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Some of the usual suspects:
Shawshank Redemption
Ferris Buehler
Tremors
The Sting
Casablanca
Just about anything Tarantino
and about 100 or more others.
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To be honest I never do that. Sometimes if channel surfing and one of my beloved movies comes on I just make a mental note of watching it on Amazon or DVD or something. Especially something that's going to piss me off if there's commercials and censorship.
WSS
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To be honest I never do that. Sometimes if channel surfing and one of my beloved movies comes on I just make a mental note of watching it on Amazon or DVD or something. Especially something that's going to piss me off if there's commercials and censorship.
WSS
if there's commercials...
... and/or not to my scene yet, then I fire up the DVR and check in later.
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Any of the Godfather series, or the Goodfellas stops me... Roadhouse too
Bad News Bears
Shit, if Ringling Redskins football (8-10 yr olds) is on tv as I pass thru I hit the skids and sit down to watch
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Watched "Coach Carter" - an EXCELLENT MOVIE. About a basketball coach in a poor inner city neighborhood, lots of crime, upset because his team wasn't getting passing grades. So he cancels the next game.
and a lot of hell breaks loose, and the rest of the movie - the acting was so excellent you forget it's a movie. Based on a very true story. I think it was 2005 released. In real life- the real Coach Carter was an amazing man and deserved a movie made about him.
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if there's commercials...
... and/or not to my scene yet, then I fire up the DVR and check in later.
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Any of the Godfather series, or the Goodfellas stops me... Roadhouse too
Bad News Bears
Shit, if Ringling Redskins football (8-10 yr olds) is on tv as I pass thru I hit the skids and sit down to watch
As an old friend and HR Manager used to say, "Sounds like a personal problem."
Such is HR humor...
... Roadhouse too
Yes!
The last bar fight with Dalton and Jimmie and Wade is the must see scene... and the lil dance that precedes it ain't bad either if you're into stacked, bleached blondes...
The movie turned me into a Jeff Healey Band fan for a couple LPs. Decent electric blues, but no real staying power.
Last nite I was surfing one last look before I turn in... and I got Starship Troopered. It was early in the flick with Johnny and Carmen arriving at the depot to go their separate, military ways.
Not proud of it, but it is what it is...
Cast included a couple of those supporting character actors whose names you have to want to learn to retain (ala their patron saint, Strother "Failure to 'municate" Martin).
- Michael Ironside was the easy one in ST ... always liked his work.
- The other was Clancy Brown... ST's DI better known for his turn as Captain of the guards in Shawshank... who I remember all the way back to the early Sean Penn, reform school flic, Bad Boys.
And then there was Diz...
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- Predator
- Hunt for Red October
- Tombstone
- Batman Begins
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- Predator
- Hunt for Red October
- Tombstone
- Batman Begins
Yes....though I think that the followup Batman movie, with Heath Ledger as The Joker is the most compelling of that Christian Bale Trilogy.
Of course, an interesting thing is that two different actors won Oscars playing the same role....that of a real psychopathic villain.
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- Tombstone
One scene only... it starts with...
"I'm your huckleberry... Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
... and ends with...
"My hypocrisy only goes so far."
With gem after gem in between...
I always wanted to take the best of the Tombstone cast and merge it with the best of Wyatt Earp's...
- Wyatt - Costner.... WE 1 Tmb 0
- Doc - Val.... WE 1 Tmb 7... yeah, Kilmer was that much better than D. Quaid
- Josie... Joanna Going... WE 5 Tmb 7
- Curley Joe - Powers Booth... WE 5 Tmb 10
Et cetera...
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
- Tombstone
One scene only... it starts with...
"I'm your huckleberry... Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
... and ends with...
"My hypocrisy only goes so far."
With gem after gem in between...
I always wanted to take the best of the Tombstone cast and merge it with the best of Wyatt Earp's...
- Wyatt - Costner.... WE 1 Tmb 0
- Doc - Val.... WE 1 Tmb 7... yeah, Kilmer was that much better than D. Quaid
- Josie... Joanna Going... WE 5 Tmb 7
- Curley Joe - Powers Booth... WE 5 Tmb 10
Et cetera...
One scene only... it starts with...
"I'm your huckleberry... Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
... and ends with...
"My hypocrisy only goes so far."
With gem after gem in between...
I always wanted to take the best of the Tombstone cast and merge it with the best of Wyatt Earp's...
- Wyatt - Costner.... WE 1 Tmb 0
You have bumped your god damn head, sir.
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One scene only... it starts with...
"I'm your huckleberry... Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
... and ends with...
"My hypocrisy only goes so far."
With gem after gem in between...
I always wanted to take the best of the Tombstone cast and merge it with the best of Wyatt Earp's...
- Wyatt - Costner.... WE 1 Tmb 0
You have bumped your god damn head, sir.
You have bumped your god damn head, sir.
Didn't like Kurt's delivery of "You cur..."
Never felt he got into the cartoonish bent of Tombstone... which is odd since he had no such issue getting into Jack Burton...
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
Open Range is on a little later tonite... the final gun fight is a surf-stopper...
And while we are on Westerns...
- The Unforgiven... final gunfight...
- Silverado... the opening sequence in the cabin...
Open Range is on a little later tonite... the final gun fight is a surf-stopper...
And while we are on Westerns...
- The Unforgiven... final gunfight...
- Silverado... the opening sequence in the cabin...
"I've heard that your a low down Yankee Liar"
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Not much beats an old western late at night ?
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