Repetitive Movie

[Tabascocat]

I know that we have a thread on movies, but I was wondering what that one movie is that yall can watch whenever it comes on. For instance, you are channel surfing and it is there and you immediately start watching whatever point the show is in.

For me, it is "Something About Mary". Have seen it too many times but I can never pass it up

 

[joseephuss]

Jaws, Shawshank Redemption, The Fugitive.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Groundhog Day.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Godfather and Godfather II
Prometheus
Rocky = all

Just about any Michael Keaton movie

Alien movies

Star Wars
Star Trek... Some, not all

Long list.....

 

[BigStar]

Jurassic Park, Goodfellas, Shawshank, and Office Space hit that note with me too.

 

[jimmy40]

Blazing Saddles. The Sting, Spaceballs, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Signs

 

[ologan]

Patton, Animal House, The Sting, Caddyshack, Kill Bill (both volumns), The Dam Busters, The Green Berets, FMJ, Platoon.

 

[DallasEast]

Great thread!

This really got me to thinking which movies do I spontaneously watch over and over again and do not interrupt unless something very important comes up. To get a comprehensive list of movies, I went to boxofficemojo.com and scanned the top 2000 all-time grossing movies. The some of the movies I picked kind of surprised me because I do not consider them the best movies I have seen but they are films that meet this thread's OP. For example, I consider Alien as a superior film to Aliens but I will sometimes skip the former in the channel guide if I see it. Funny thing. After going through the top 2000 movies, I realized I watch one movie, Beautiful Creatures, repeatedly but its gross was WAY outside the top 2000--number 3074 actually, lol!

[Sorted in alphabetical order and not overall preference]

Aliens (1986)
Avatar (2009)
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Despicable Me (2010)
Die Hard (1988)
Epic (2013)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Frozen (2013)
Independence Day (1996)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Kung ** Panda (2008)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Man of Steel (2013)
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Monsters Vs. Aliens (2009)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Mulan (1998)
Patton (1970)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Skyfall (2012)
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Tangled (2010)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Matrix (1999)
The Nativity Story (2006)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Wolverine (2013)
Twister (1996)
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Underworld (2003)
WarGames (1983)
X-Men: First Class (2011)

HA! The language filter bleeped the Panda movie!

 

[joseephuss]

Great thread!

This really got me to thinking which movies do I spontaneously watch over and over again and do not interrupt unless something very important comes up. To get a comprehensive list of movies, I went to boxofficemojo.com and scanned the top 2000 all-time grossing movies. The some of the movies I picked kind of surprised me because I do not consider them the best movies I have seen but they are films that meet this thread's OP. For example, I consider Alien as a superior film to Aliens but I will sometimes skip the former in the channel guide if I see it. Funny thing. After going through the top 2000 movies, I realized I watch one movie, Beautiful Creatures, repeatedly but its gross was WAY outside the top 2000--number 3074 actually, lol!

[Sorted in alphabetical order and not overall preference]

Aliens (1986)
Avatar (2009)
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Despicable Me (2010)
Die Hard (1988)
Epic (2013)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Frozen (2013)
Independence Day (1996)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Kung ** Panda (2008)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Man of Steel (2013)
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Monsters Vs. Aliens (2009)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Mulan (1998)
Patton (1970)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Skyfall (2012)
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Tangled (2010)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Matrix (1999)
The Nativity Story (2006)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Wolverine (2013)
Twister (1996)
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Underworld (2003)
WarGames (1983)
X-Men: First Class (2011)

HA! The language filter bleeped the Panda movie!

When do you sleep? One or more of those movies is on at any given moment.

 

[DallasEast]

When do you sleep? One or more of those movies is on at any given moment.

lol! I love television but not that much. I trap myself only when I channel surf. Usually I lend towards switching to or recording preselected shows. But there are definitely times when the remote gets me into uninterrupted late night movie watching.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Jaws, Shawshank Redemption, The Fugitive.

Brilliant answer.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Some horror flicks that I'll watch & watch & watch...

"The Shining"
"Silence of the Lambs"
"Halloween" (1978)
"Day of the Dead"
"Resident Evil" (first one)

 

[punchnjudy]

Jaws, No Country for Old Men, Jaws, Collateral, Training Day, Aliens, We Were Soldiers, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Pulp Fiction, The Hustler, Jaws, 16 candles, Terminator 2, Snatch, Fight Club, White Men Can't Jump, Goodfellas

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Jaws, No Country for Old Men, Jaws, Collateral, Training Day, Aliens, We Were Soldiers, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Pulp Fiction, The Hustler, Jaws, 16 candles, Terminator 2, Snatch, Fight Club, White Men Can't Jump, Goodfellas

Yeah, "Jaws" is on tonight I see LOL!

I caught about 10 minutes before I forced myself to put in the DVD I wanted to watch.

I don't know what it is about that movie that makes it so addictive for most folks.

For me it was a combination of it being the perfect "horror/shock" movie combined with seeing it at the theater in the summer of '75, when I was 12, which as most people know is a pretty magical time in a person's life. Many of the movies that I'll watch over and over again, like "Willie Wonka" and "Legend of Boggy Creek" were seen at the movie theater when I was young.

 

[jimmy40]

The Warriors,can't believe I forgot that one.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The Warriors,can't believe I forgot that one.

If it were on regular TV more often, I'd certainly watch it, but it's rarely on regular TV.

Someone posted the "Dawn of the Dead" remake. And I re-watch quite often, especially the first half of the movie (I thought the last half was a drop-off, but whatever). If the original "Dawn of the Dead" were ever on regular TV, I'd re-watch it more so than the remake, but I don't think the original has ever been on regular TV.

 

[jimmy40]

not sure what regular tv is to everybody, I have Dish, caught it channel surfing a couple weeks ago

 

[Jammer]

Groundhog Day
A Few Good Men
A Scent of a Woman
Stand By Me
Silence of the Lamb
Fargo
Walk the Line
Shawsank Redemption

There are a lot more. These are from top of my head. Usually I will start watching the movie until the first or second commercial break and I will just put in the DVD and start from the beginning of the movie.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

There are several, but I will actually set aside things if I catch Stepbrothers or Billy Madison on. Yes I am aware I have a really low bar on what I find entertaining. ;-)