Movies that stop your channel surfing dead in its tracks...

[Westside Steve]

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

[Tour2ma]

@westside-steve said:

if there's commercials...

... and/or not to my scene yet, then I fire up the DVR and check in later.

[Axe]

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

[calfoxwc]

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.

[Westside Steve]

@tour2ma said:

... and/or not to my scene yet, then I fire up the DVR and check in later.

Also I have an aversion to watching a movie after I've missed any of the beginning. Even if I've seen it before. I won't walk into a movie theater late, I'll pick something else.

WSS

[Tour2ma]

As an old friend and HR Manager used to say, "Sounds like a personal problem."

Such is HR humor...

@axe said:

... 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...

[tiamat63]

- Predator

- Hunt for Red October

- Tombstone

- Batman Begins

[The Gipper]

@tiamat63 said:

- 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. 

[Tour2ma]

@tiamat63 said:

- 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...

[tiamat63]

@tour2ma said:

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.  

[Tour2ma]

@tiamat63 said:

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...

[TexasAg1969]

@tour2ma said:

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"

[Tour2ma]

My wife forbids the playing of Shane in this house. She can't stand the little whinny, little kid. She has a point...

Couple nights ago this was playing way too late... but watched it anyway.

[Axe]

Not much beats an old western late at night ?

[The Gipper]

@axe said:

Not much beats an old western late at night ?

Like HBO's Westworld? 

[Tour2ma]

Tripped over another while posting in the main section of this Board a while ago today...

... the Football one, not the Political wannabe...

Almost Famous - probably my favorite Rock-themed movie...

Although another just came to mind that would stop any surfing if it were still airing...

The Commitments... a great story of an Dublin soul band's fast rise and even faster fall...

... and no, not Dublin, Ohio...

Cool thing about this lil gem is that the actors actually did sing everything... and there wasn't a single Russell Crow in the lot of 'em... a reference I know Steve will get.

Play? Don't think so, but who cares. The singing on covers of Motown classics was more than good enough to warrant buying the CD.

EDIT: I was going to link to an old review I felt sure would be here, but noooooooooooooooooo...

Steve... buddy...

[Axe]

@the-gipper said:

Like HBO's Westworld? 

Sorry, I live a guarded life.. Not familiar.. good?

[Westside Steve]

@axe said:

Sorry, I live a guarded life.. Not familiar.. good?

I haven't been able to get through season 2. Season 1 was great.

WSS

[Tour2ma]

Never could get into West World...

Watched the new HBO movie that premiered last nite, Bad Education. Very entertaining "based on a true story" tale that takes place in a posh, Long Island school system.

EDIT: Had the trailer up, but it really gives away TMI IMO... so just take a flyer on it.

[Westside Steve]

Don't know if I mentioned this before but it was recently Rod steiger's birthday and it had been a good many years years since I'd seen the pawn broker. Powerful film ahead of its time. Actual nudity in the 60s. Not much but enough to surprise the shit out of me.

WSS