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Posted by dweck (My Page) on Wed, Jan 11, 06 at 12:58
| You're channel-flipping and come across MOVIE X. AND despite the fact that you've seen it 293 before, despite the fact that it's loaded w/commercials and content cuts, despite the fact that you can easily pop in your own DVD of the very same movie and watch from the beginning... you're sucked in.
Happened to me last night, when TCM ran "Sunset Blvd."
Othe vacuum movies for me:
Jaws
To Kill a Mockingbird
North by Northwest |
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| Right now "Sunday in New York" |
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| lol,, A League of the Own, Back to the Future, That Thing You Do (when the younglings are around) , these are ALWAYS on. |
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Practically anything of Hitchcock's, but especially "Rear Window"
Most anything with Humphrey Bogart -- I can never tear myself away from "To Have and Have Not" or "Sabrina."
Noir: "Panic in the Streets," "I Wake Up Screaming," "The Leopard Man," and Ida Lupino's "The Hitch-Hiker," etc., etc.
"Stage Door" with Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Eve Arden, Adolphe Menjou |
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| Ah how funny! The same thing happened to me last night with Sunset Blvd too! Oh gosh, anything from my teens like all the John Hughes films and Back to the Future. I also have a core group of fave films like Avalon and When Harry Met Sally. Neil Simon and Woody Allen do it for me too, any of their films which I've seen so many times I know all the lines. It also happens with pretty much just about any musical, whether it be Fred & Ginger, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, An American in Paris, Kiss Me Kate, anything with Judy... goodness! the whole genre does it for me. Old movies too, Hitchcock, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Bogey, Bacall, Marilyn, Audrey and Kate Hepburn. Generally I find it easier to get sucked into a "lighter" film than it is a heavier one. Um, it's not so easy to get pulled into Schindler's List or 21 Grams. |
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| I get vacuumed in by cheesy movies - if I channel-flick into a good one, I will turn it off rather than watch it half-way through, but with an old b-movie or a 70s horror flick you can start anywhere you like... things like 'Invaders from Mars', 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (any of the many versions!) or any Stephen King horror (I seem to be unable to watch a whole one). |
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| Well, while I don't own "Sleepless in Seattle" on DVD, I have seen it a few times before and yet I still watched it last weekend. Other than that, I'd say the classic Bogart movies suck me in mercilessly. Oh, and other movies that do me in are classic movies such as Buster Keaton's "The General" and some of the Chaplin movies. (Yes. I have to admit it. "Back to the Future" does it for me as well some of the John Hughes classics.) |
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| I think Moongirl and I would get along really well. Just about any John Hughes film will stop me (class of 86). A musical, especially if it is Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, or Doris Day. You've Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. Bell Book and Candle. Just about any Christmas Classic. Cenderella Liberty. Butterflies are Free, and just about any Goldie Hawn movie from the seventies. I'm sure there are more, I'm pretty sentimental about some films. |
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| I remember one more, although I am embarrased to admit it.... Ice Castles. I hear ya, moooaaaaannnn. Let's just say that movie came out at the perfect, impressionable age for me. Right when I wanted to be a figure skater more than anything. To this day I carry the fantasy of skating on a frozen pond in the middle of nowhere, or better yet out behind my house. I can't believe I admitted that.... |
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| You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, and Home Alone -- I will watch these movies at every opportunity. |
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| "Doctor Zhivago" (even though I know practically every line by heart). |
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| Oh I LOVE Ice Castles! Robbie Benson, yum! I haven't seen it in a long time tho and rarely see it on cable. No doubt if I caught it I would watch it. There are some movies I can watch over and over and never get tired of them, they just get better and better with every viewing. When Harry Met Sally is one of those. I must have seen it 100 times, no exaggeration. I can recite all the dialogue with the actors. I own it! And yet I still watch it when it comes on. |
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| Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Every single freakin' time! I have the DVD, VHS, seen it a zillion times. TV version adds an hour...I still sit there and watch it all the way to the end. |
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| That's so funny, it happened with me with "Sunset Blvd." too. I tuned in mainly to hear Mario Cantone's introducation and ended up staying for the whole movie. I own it on dvd and I've seen it many, many times. Other films that do that for me is "All About Eve," "Psycho," "Jaws," "Some Like It Hot" and many others. |
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| How could I have forgotten?! "A Christmas Story"! I ALWAYS watch that whenever I can! Ralphie and the Christmas Red Ryder BB gun ...... what a classic. |
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| What a fun question! I have to agree with you, moongirl, that it's easier to get sucked in by lighter fare. "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" does it to me every time. Just this past Christmas, I was downstairs, alone, and happened to catch it on TBS about 1/2 hour into it. After the credits rolled (and I dried my eyes!) I went upstairs and my husband was just tuning in to the opening credits of, you guessed it, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"! TBS was airing it all day or some such thing, and I sat down and watched it all over again. And I had just got sucked in by it at Thanksgiving! It's just a beautiful, heartfelt, but not-too-sappy comedy that I think is pitch-perfect. God bless the lovely and departed John Candy. |
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| Wifey, I forgot about Planes, Trains and Automobiles! I watch it whenever I can, too, although I don't own it. And I agree about John Candy. I will watch most of his movies when given the chance. |
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| Oh that is sooo funny, Wifey! To watch it back to back like that. Yes lighter fare is much easier to get sucked into. Silly, good fun. When I catch The Pianist on I would love to watch it (and I saw it twice in theaters) but that is a movie you have to psych yourself up for. Altho I do find that I get sucked into Sophie's Choice every time it's on. Yes a Christmas Story is another one you can never tire of. Oh another one is Pleasantville, that's such a good movie, it's light enough to roll with it, but it has such great messages, it gets better every time I watch it. |
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| Planes - Trains... I'll watch it on network TV and hate myself in the morning. The edits just drive me wild. UNedited, the scene w/Edie McClurg at the rental car window is a gem -- if there were an Oscar catagory for Best Actress for a Performance Consisting of Fewer than 10 Lines of Dialog, she'd win hands down. And so I spend the time watching the movie lamenting what ISN'T there. I'll second "A Christmas Story." Too many laughlines to catch on only one viewing ("Where's Flick? Has anyone seen Flick?"). Like a good cheese, Jean Shepherd ripens with age!!!! |
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Ditto Close Encounters of the Third Kind, about a gazillion times.
Also Poltergeist, Alien, Amelie, Planes, T and A, Uncle Buck, Shawshank Redemption, The Color Purple, Elephant Man, the Matrix series, the LOTR series, Harry Potter series, Being There and of course some old favorites What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, The Birds, Miracle on 34th Street(w/ Natalie Wood), Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape and the Magnificient Seven!
and Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments, anyone lol? |
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| Far too many movie vacuums for me. And it doesn't have to be a movie either. I found myself watching, on a station that comes in very grainy. an episode of Farscape that I had on DVD on a shelf under the TV. I once sat down and watched one of the Harry Potter films on TV less than 24 hours after I'd watched it on DVD with my nephews! Pulp Fiction always sucks me in. The Usual Suspects, Buckaroo Bonzai, and many of those you've all mentioned. |
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| Buckaroo Banzai and his Adventures in the Fifth Dimension? WOW! I haven't thought of that movie in a DECADE! Great flick though. I don't think I've ever seen it on network TV though ...... It's hard to think that Jeff Goldblum did that movie. |
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OT a little: The Sunday Dallas TV section had a photo of
"Ralphie" Peter Billingsley in its Q&A section. He is now 34,works mostly behind the cameras and now as a producer."His latest films are Zathura and the upcoming romantic comedy The Break Up, costarring his pal Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston." |
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| Dynomutt, Buckaroo Bonzai and His Adventures in the Fifth Dimension was on broadcast tv here in December - which is why I thought of it. I'd not long before watched it on DVD but sat down to watch anyway. |
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