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Movies you simply cant turn off...

posted 6 years ago by ShogunofYonkers (71689)
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When youre flipping through the channels what movies make you stop and watch when you find them?
Happens to me pretty often...
Ill give three and feel free to share!

Goodfellas: i dont know if its the acting or the music or the retro big cars/lady hair/all around style thing i cant get enough of...i just cant turn this off when it pops up on TV

Jaws: this one ruined all water for me as a kid lol...i think it made me switch from bathtime to shower earlier than most:) The simple story, a fisherman's yarn really, plus the wonderful characters and chilling score...
A personal favorite

Blackhawk Down: this one amazes me...a fairly factual retelling of a horrific and screwed up US op in Somalia...the battle scenes scare the hell out of me and the acting (with the exception of Sizemore who was seemingly high the whole time) was spot on
This might be the scariest depiction of a battle ive ever seen!

What about you folks?

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[–] TexasJack (12515) 6 years ago

Definitely Goodfellas. Also Casino, Godfather I and II, Fearless and Hero (Jet Li), Galaxy Quest, Step Brothers, Dodgeball, Old School, any Hobbit/LOTR, most Star Trek movies. Probably a bunch more too. I’m a chronic re-watcher.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Casino hell yes!
Forget that one a lot until it pops up
Then im all in
Those old battleship sized cars, big sexy lady hairdos, scary dudes in cool leather jackets...total 70s immersion!
Saw it in the theatre with a date...forgot she was there lol

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

Fight Club, Limitless, Killer Joe, Dredd, Prometheus, Empire Strikes Back... Probably some more but I know I've had that experience with all of these.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Some real greats there...as for Dredd all i can say is wow!!
That one was a white knuckle maniac show...seen it tons of times!!
Love it
Check out The Raid if you missed it
Its quite similar and just as brutal a ballet of bullets and bones:0

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

Yeah I saw Dredd twice on its opening weekend, Saturday and Sunday. Great 3D too.

I did see Raid, but haven't yet watched the sequel.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Thats great!
Good weekend i bet
Raid Redemption was great stuff too
I need to find more like these
Suggestions are welcome

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Any movie by Andy Sidaris. The man was a brilliant director, producer and screenwriter.

Any movie by Russ Meyer, a man very similar to Sidaris, but working with slightly bigger budgets. Just budgets, not bigger anything else.

Any movie starring Shannon Tweed.

Almost any movie with the word "anal" in the title.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Guadalc'anal' Diaries (1943) was a wonderful war drama, i agree, and with Anthony Quinn!!
Who the heck doesnt love that guy right?

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[–] croft_alice (12180) 6 years ago

Any world war documentary,science or about universe.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

You have mentioned your science interests before and i agree...im hooked on that too
Ever read Cosmos by Carl Sagan?
Its an oldie now but it blew my mind way back in the early 90s!
And hell yeah on the WW doc's...im simply amazed that such horrible things happened...the siege of Stalingrad is a particularly chilling event...awful stuff!
I think we share many of the same interests

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[–] croft_alice (12180) 6 years ago

I've read so many books,but no i didn't read Cosmos.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Oh i can tell you are a reader good fellow
Youre smart...one of the few traits i really admire:)
Cosmos was wonderful
In it Sagan posits that it is nearly impossible (by simple math and pretty basic chemistry) that we are alone in the universe!
He writes about how whales are dying off because they cant call each other anymore as our shipping and Navies are screwing them up
Sagan boiled everyone elses research down into a decent bite for average folks (like me lol)
Stuff like that blows my mind man
Good read if you get the chance

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[–] croft_alice (12180) 6 years ago

Looks interesting.I'll check on the public library,thank you.

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[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Once Upon A Time In America:

The sheer misogyny that pervaded the second half of this epic 3 1/2 hour Jewish gangster flick by Italian master Sergio Leone left me speechless my first time through. But its gritty coming of age story of prohibition era hoodlums in Brooklyn had me hooked from start to finish, I couldn't tear myself away regardless of how horrific some of it got. Robert DeNiro and James Wood in one of their finest performances, my major regret is that Leone's death soon after before the days of DVD extended releases means we'll never get to see the original 4 hour and 34 minute version (or the 6 hour version) he intended for theatrical release before getting overruled by the suits. There was obviously some essential backstory left on the cutting room floor that remained frustratingly unexplained.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Interesting post and thx for reply
That rape was really out of left field and the treatment of women overall was brutish and far too simplistic to be real in any era...id prefer they cut all that out and splice back in some of the gangster stuff because thats what i was there for
Overall an unsatisfying and somewhat uncomfortable movie for me
But fabulous performances and locations...glad i saw it but not sure ill watch it again
Thx eYe!

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[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Which rape? Remember, there were two brutal rape scenes where Leone kept the cameras rolling from start to finish, the masked robbery and later in the back of the car.

No doubt it was uncomfortable viewing, I have no illusions of those scenes ever surviving the chopping block if made today for modern audiences. The brutality is what sucked me in on a level not approached by anything else I can think of off hand.

Overall I agree, it's not the kind of film that you really look forward to re-watching, but if I'm flipping through channels and see it I will inevitably get sucked in.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

The robbery scene rape really threw me off
I was all in on the gangster movie stuff and then that:/
Wow...awful stuff

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Agree with you on Jaws. Also Planet of the Apes/High Noon/The Searchers.

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[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

I'm not a channel flipper at all.
I usually always record everything.
Anytime those stupid, mindless, juvenile movies come on I record them.

Old School
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I Love You Man
Anything with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
This Is the End

Any of these type of movies I will watch over and over again.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Loved Old School and i thought I Love You Man was good fun
Never saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall...ill look it up
Those 3 Pegg/Frost movies were great ones for me (id happily rewatch any one of them now)
Shaun is my favorite but man the other two were damn good

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Groundhog Day

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

A favorite of mine as well...
I really admire a person that admires fine things
This movie is a heart warmer
Good choice man!

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

It was sort of heart warming. Bill Murry is awesome in this movie. It is a fine thing. Watch it every year in my classic christmas line up although not technically a christmas movie it has merrit.

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[–] Stratego (29246) 6 years ago

Quite a few movies, even ones I own on dvd, like Speed or The Mummy. Totally ageee with you on Goodfellas. It's quite a sit, but there's just something about the performances and the iconic scenes that draws me in every time. Just thought of another one, Domestic Disturbance. That movie really sucks, but that's probably the reason I keep watching every time it's on!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

I 'hate watch' certain films too haha:)
I hate Giallo so much and Brodie's chainsmoking, cringy over mannered performance makes me sit through it every damn time!

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[–] Stratego (29246) 6 years ago

I actually haven't seen that movie yet, but I'll definitely give it a try if it's ever on tv. It's Dario Argento, which means it must really suck!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 6 years ago

Early Argento was fantastic stuff to the horror fanboys (proudly one of them)
Later years...sadly yes, you are spot on...our dear old master has lost a step
I will continue to see anything he does in the future
Im not the quitting type

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