Movies You Can't Walk by Without Sitting Down and Watching

The Gipper

Shawshank for sure and its "companion" The Green Mile(both Stephen King). Ferris Beuhler. Casablanca. Jaws...just to name a few.

I put this phenomena as "movies you must watch for a while while channel surfing".

For Howard Hughes that movie was Ice Station Zebra.

Westside Steve

rocky, Caddyshack, stripes, The Godfather, a Clockwork Orange, Animal House, defending your life, Blazing Saddles, rollerball, my bodyguard, Glengarry Glen Ross,..

WSS

The Cysko Kid

I just impetuously watched jaws for like the fortieth time the other day. It was still one of my favorites of all time

The Cysko Kid

Stand by me is a better Stephen King movie than the green mile in my opinion.

htownbrown

The good, the bad, the ugly

The Goonies

Fight Club

Seven

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
Stand by me is a better Stephen King movie than the green mile in my opinion.

no

The Cysko Kid

That's your opinion.

miktoxic

anything kubrik.

Westside Steve

@miktoxic said:
anything kubrik.

the king. Only one I didn't like was eyes wide shut. Maybe I need to try it again.

WSS

The Gipper

@westside-steve said:

the king. Only one I didn't like was eyes wide shut. Maybe I need to try it again.

WSS

Barry Lyndon also seemed a bit draggy. Again, maybe both of those movies warrant a second look. It took a couple or three viewings of 2001 A Space Odyssey to kinda get it.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
That's your opinion.

Wesley Crusher....vs....Tom Hanks. Hmmm?

I like my opinion (not that Stand By Me was bad....just not as good as Green Mile)

The Cysko Kid

I plain out don't like kubrick movies at all.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
I plain out don't like kubrick movies at all.

Naturally

Canton Mike

Almost any John Wayne movie (especially Big Jake & Quiet Man), Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Rudy, Cat Ballou, and Support Your Local Sheriff. There are others, but I ALWAYS watch the aforementioned. Yeah, I know....I have no culture or class, but I don't care!

Mike

The Cysko Kid

@the-gipper said:
Naturally

I prefer my movies less nihilistic boring and slow paced

slowburn

Saving Pvt Ryan

Platoon

Moneyball

there Will Be Blood

No Country For Old Men

Dr Strangelove

Donnie Brasco

Inglorious Basterds

The Deer Hunter

Das Boot

The Aviator

MLD Woody

@canton-mike said:

Almost any John Wayne movie (especially Big Jake & Quiet Man), Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Rudy, Cat Ballou, and Support Your Local Sheriff. There are others, but I ALWAYS watch the aforementioned. Yeah, I know....I have no culture or class, but I don't care!

Mike

Rudy was offsides

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
I prefer my movies less nihilistic boring and slow paced

OK, sure, it does take some patience at times to get through some Kubrick. But. surely you don't think any of that applies to Dr. Strangelove or A Clockwork Orange.

The Cysko Kid

I think a clockwork orange was just hard to watch. There were a couple of good scenes and some decent ones but it was still overall nihilistic and slow paced. And that's easily one of his better ones. 2001 had some touches I liked such as the brand names on all the stuff in space but for my money give me Ridley Scott and Alien over 2001 any day and twice on sunday.

For war movies I'll take apocalypse now and platoon and saving private Ryan over full metal jacket. I didn't like of hate the shining but I was disappointed it strayed so far from the source material. Yeah I just don't love kubrick.

Westside Steve

Heh.

it's all subjective. I hated the entire Aliens series.

WSS