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Films that you have to watch when they are on TV
montyburns56
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What I mean is when you see this film is on TV you have to watch it, even though you've seen it umpteen times before and there's probably something new on another channel or you've even got it on DVD/Blu-Ray.
For me it's...
Alien
Aliens
Shawshank Redemption
Superman
Most of the TOS Star Trek films (not 5!)
The Thing
Amelie
The original Star Wars films
Galaxy Quest
Pitch Black
Braveheart
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Terminator 2
For me it's...
Alien
Aliens
Shawshank Redemption
Superman
Most of the TOS Star Trek films (not 5!)
The Thing
Amelie
The original Star Wars films
Galaxy Quest
Pitch Black
Braveheart
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Terminator 2
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any caper/heist film
any Joseph Cotten film
Infernal Affairs
The Thing
The Fifth Element
The Mummy
Blade
The Last Picture Show
any Ray Harryhausen film between the 1950s (first: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) and the 1980s (last: Clash of the Titans).
The Godfather 1 & 2
Dead of Night
Strictly Ballroom
Edited: Pitch Black! How could I forget this?
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
War of the Worlds (2005)
Toy Story
You've Got Mail
The Mummy
Batman Begins (only one of the list I own on Blu-ray yet whenever ITV show it, it's almost impossible to turn away)
There's something about watching them at the same time as everybody else.
Tremors
Final Destination (any of the five)
The Godfather
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Hot Fuzz
Any Bond film
The Thing (1982)
Tremors
No matter how far into the film I have managed to catch them I will always watch them. Even though The Thing and Tremors are staples of ITV2,3,4.
I've never been a big fan of Hugh Grant at all, but I love this film.
The Great Escape
A Bridge to Far
Dr Strangelove
Some Like It Hot
Cage aux Folles
Unforgiven
I watch them when they're broadcast but I have them all on DVD.....
Though my default setting seems to be old-fashioned wartime thick-ear:
Where Eagles Dare
Kelly's Heroes
Von Ryan's Express
The Heroes of Telemark
The Eagle Has Landed
(I'll even give Escape to Athena a spin even though it's absolute tosh).
Also some B/W faves:
The Lavender Hill Mob
I Know Where I'm Going
Great Expectations ("What larks!")
Quatermass 2
Psycho
The Invisible Man
desperado
batman begins
shawshank redemption
from dusk til dawn
Alien
Aliens
Die Hard
Titanic
Forrest Gump
Dumb and Dumber
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Notting Hill
The Butterfly Effect
A League of Their Own
Big
About A Boy
Apollo 13
Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
A Few Good Men
A Time To Kill
I even get annoyed if they aren't on BBC and I have to endure the adverts, but yet I also cannot be arsed to put the DVD on !
I've got a strange compulsion to watch ***the thing*** (everytime it hits the airwaves) aswell! ... Must have seen it dozens of times during my lifetime!
Nowt wrong with Tom Hanks! 👍
Dirty dozen
Great escape
Armageddon (even though I cannot stand liv Tyler in it, nor Ben affleck )
Escape to Victory
Ben Hur
Any Die Hard movie
Transporter
Goodfellas
Heat
The Fifth Element
Shawshank Redemption
First Blood
The Abyss
Star Trek (2009 reboot)
Iron man
Transformers
The Day after Tomorrow
Gladiator
Amazing Burt Womdersone
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Django Unchained
Back to the Future 3
Skyfall
Ghostbusters
Despicable Me 2
Star Trek into Darkness
Star Wars (any of them) or the Bourne films...always on ITV and whenever I flick on, I'm hooked until the credits roll
That said, I'm a sucker for most films regardless of how many times I've seen them especially scifi or feature length cartoons as I have kids and we're all like gold fish when they appear!
Ghostbusters
Blade Runner
The Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Alien/s
The Thing
Big
The Butterfly Effect
The Third Man