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Thread started 02/14/13 8:45pm

Nothinbutjoy

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What's your "go-to" movie?

What's the movie you watch when nothing else on? You've worn out the "tape" of this movie. You play it for comfort, to help you relax or even take a nap.

I have TONS of them. If I like a movie I watch it repeatedly. They are on rotation.

Sense & Sensibility
Moonstruck
Open Range
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv series NOT the movie)
Pride & Prejudice
All the Harry Potter movies


This week it's Sense & Sensibility.
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Reply #1 posted 02/14/13 8:52pm

Rococo

Tyler Perry films as bad as they are really good escapistic films. there always on tv too.

Beauty Shop

Beauty amd the beast by Jean Cocteau

anything fantasy really.

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Reply #2 posted 02/14/13 8:55pm

Nothinbutjoy

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I like Beauty Shop biggrin
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Reply #3 posted 02/14/13 9:08pm

ZombieKitten

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The Fall
I put it on if I am gonna cry anyway lol
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Reply #4 posted 02/14/13 9:27pm

Nothinbutjoy

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I use to not mind watching a movie and having a good cry with it, but now, I'd rather not.

I've never seen The Fall.
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Reply #5 posted 02/14/13 10:03pm

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10 Things I Hate About You

She's All That

Thomas Crowne Affair

American President

So many more.

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Reply #6 posted 02/14/13 10:17pm

TD3

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Valley of The Dolls

Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice

Rear Window

Love Jones

Hav' Plenty

Nightmare On Elm Street II

9 1/2 Weeks

Clementine

G'

It Happened One Night

San Francisco

Collection of Mystery (PBS)

Jewel In The Crown

Brideshead Revisited

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Reply #7 posted 02/14/13 10:37pm

veronikka

Only movies I can watch over n over are Disney movies. Love all the toy story movies
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Reply #8 posted 02/14/13 10:40pm

imago

omg

purse

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Reply #9 posted 02/14/13 10:51pm

ZombieKitten

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Nothinbutjoy said:

I use to not mind watching a movie and having a good cry with it, but now, I'd rather not.

I've never seen The Fall.


It's not really a sad movie, but the opening sequence use my favorite Beethoven piece which sets me off (was also used in The kings speech) even without a movie
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Reply #10 posted 02/14/13 10:52pm

ZombieKitten

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Oh and all the Ghibli movies
[Edited 2/14/13 22:53pm]
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Reply #11 posted 02/14/13 11:01pm

Caroke

The movie I've probably watched the most in recent years: As Good As It Gets. Number 2: A Scanner Darkly.

other good ones when nothing's on: The Matrix or something with Fred Astaire (nowadays that's very often Daddy Long Legs, Funny Face or You Were Never Lovelier) .

and to a lesser extent: The Philadelphia Story.

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Reply #12 posted 02/14/13 11:09pm

Pokeno4Money

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Just Married

Groundhog Day

Something About Mary

Terminator 2

Anger Management

Click

Charlies Angels

Wedding Singer

50 First Dates

Fever Pitch

Meet The Parents

Meet The Fockers

Back To The Future

Back To The Future II

Logan's Run

Step Brothers

Bruce Almighty

Not Another Teen Movie

Anchorman: Ron Burgundy

Independence Day

Basic Instinct

Fatal Attraction

The Matrix

Lethal Weapon

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Reply #13 posted 02/15/13 3:46am

missfee

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"You've Got Mail" or "Two Weeks Notice"

[Edited 2/15/13 3:46am]

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Reply #14 posted 02/15/13 4:21am

damosuzuki

Buffalo ‘66

Evil Dead (1 + 2)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Happiness

Flash Gordon

The Cement Garden

Fargo

Welcome to the Dollhouse

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Reply #15 posted 02/15/13 5:16am

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If I'm drinking, Desperado...just to look at the perfection of Antonio.

Lately I've found myself falling to sleep every night to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It comes on about the same time every night on Starz. I've seen it so many times that it comforts me as I fall asleep. Perfect movie with perfect music.

If I want to cry, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Seen it so many times I've memorized it.

"Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack
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Reply #16 posted 02/15/13 7:09am

Tokyo89

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The Godfather .. I love this movie! But I don't put it on to watch, I put it on to help me fall asleep

Goodfellas

Blade 2 or 3

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Reply #17 posted 02/15/13 7:10am

Tokyo89

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missfee said:

"You've Got Mail" or "Two Weeks Notice"

I love 2 weeks notice!

She Don't Speak..But She Remembers
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Reply #18 posted 02/15/13 7:28am

jillybean

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Pokeno4Money said:

Just Married

Groundhog Day

Something About Mary

Terminator 2

Anger Management

Click

Charlies Angels

Wedding Singer

50 First Dates

Fever Pitch

Meet The Parents

Meet The Fockers

Back To The Future

Back To The Future II

Logan's Run

Step Brothers

Bruce Almighty

Not Another Teen Movie

Anchorman: Ron Burgundy

Independence Day

Basic Instinct

Fatal Attraction

The Matrix

Lethal Weapon

Love these choices!!

Mine are:

What About Bob?

The Princess Bride

Groundhog Day

Parenthood

Lilo & Stitch

Up

Mighty Aphrodite

Talhotblond

The Royal Tannenbaums

Napoleon Dynamite

Caddyshack

"She made me glad to be a man"
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Reply #19 posted 02/15/13 7:45am

Graycap23

A Bruce Lee or Donnie Yen flick.

Gladitors

Malcom X

Shooter

Deja Vu

American Gangster

Rocky (1-4)

Alien

New Jack City

Purple Rain

Menace 2 Society

A Wesley Snipes flick

A Bruce Willis flick

A Will Smith flick

A Sam Jackson Flick

A Martin Lawarence Flick

A Jamie Foxx Flick

A Tom Cruise Flick

A Ridley Scott produced flick

A Brad Pitt Flick

A Al Pacino Flick

A Robert De Niro Flick

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Reply #20 posted 02/15/13 7:58am

Ottensen

Graycap23 said:

A Bruce Lee or Donnie Yen flick.

Gladitors

Malcom X

Shooter

Deja Vu

American Gangster

Rocky (1-4)

Alien

New Jack City

Purple Rain

Menace 2 Society

A Wesley Snipes flick

A Bruce Willis flick

A Will Smith flick

A Sam Jackson Flick

A Martin Lawarence Flick

A Jamie Foxx Flick

A Tom Cruise Flick

A Ridley Scott produced flick

A Brad Pitt Flick

A Al Pacino Flick

A Robert De Niro Flick

Good grief. Do you wanna come over and watch tv with my husband? With the exception of Bruce and the gangster flicks, you just nailed his entire library minus the everything Russell Crowe has ever made + the Bourne Trilogy dead

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Reply #21 posted 02/15/13 8:09am

Ottensen

A Star Is Born (all 3 versions)

Me & My Shadows

Grace of My Heart

Isn't She Great

Hanging Up

Something's Gotta Give

First Wives Club

Jumping the Broom

Two Week's Notice

Just Wright

Valley of The Dolls

Blondie! (The 1940's film series)

Dangerous Beauty

Jane Eyre

Sene & Sensibility

The Last Seduction

Amelie

Henry & June

Nodame Cantabile: FIN

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Reply #22 posted 02/15/13 8:10am

SynthiaRose

Any Tom Cruise movies. That guy is so intense, he always hypnotizes me.

Rain Main in particular can still make me cry.

The Firm -- love the heroic struggle to fight for principles.

Collateral -- oh boy, love it. My fav line: "All it ever took was a Lincoln and some business cards. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab!" (yep, did that from memory). I can probably recite whole movie.

All the Right Moves -- this is where I first noticed T.C. as a kid in the 80s. I stayed after credits to see who played Stefan because he was so mesmerizng -- not talking looks, but his essence, his acting. Have no idea why people laud Risky Business, this movie should have gotten the praise for lauching his career. I like it much better.

And you gotta love Top Gun just for kicks (I know all these lines too)

Next up, anything provocative and taboo by Bernardo Bertolucci, particularly The Dreamers.

Dirty Dancing

Working Girl

SECRETARY!!!! luv luv luv. spank

My Best Friend's Wedding.

Mystic River - Damn. So well crafted. In awe.

Boomerang -- The eddie/robin relationship reminds me of the dynamic I had with an ex. So fun!

300 -- Gerard Butler...omg. ripped abs. muscles. Alpha males. Aggression.

[Edited 2/15/13 8:16am]

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Reply #23 posted 02/15/13 8:17am

Genesia

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Mostly, whatever movie is on TCM at the moment is my "go to" movie. lol

But there are some I never get tired of watching. Depending on my mood, I might pull out any of these...

Now, Voyager

Brief Encounter

Gone With The Wind (usually if I'm facing a long afternoon or evening with nothing to do)

Top Hat

The Good-bye Girl

It Happened One Night

Dark Victory

A Room With A View

Private Benjamin

The Lion In Winter

Any Hitchcock movie except The Birds, Psycho and Marnie

Roman Holiday

An American in Paris

Victor Victoria

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Reply #24 posted 02/15/13 8:20am

Graycap23

Ottensen said:

Graycap23 said:

A Bruce Lee or Donnie Yen flick.

Gladitors

Malcom X

Shooter

Deja Vu

American Gangster

Rocky (1-4)

Alien

New Jack City

Purple Rain

Menace 2 Society

A Wesley Snipes flick

A Bruce Willis flick

A Will Smith flick

A Sam Jackson Flick

A Martin Lawarence Flick

A Jamie Foxx Flick

A Tom Cruise Flick

A Ridley Scott produced flick

A Brad Pitt Flick

A Al Pacino Flick

A Robert De Niro Flick

Good grief. Do you wanna come over and watch tv with my husband? With the exception of Bruce and the gangster flicks, you just nailed his entire library minus the everything Russell Crowe has ever made + the Bourne Trilogy dead

How did I 4get "a Matt Damon Flick"?

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Reply #25 posted 02/15/13 8:24am

RodeoSchro

First of all, I like to thank the posters so far for not inundating this thread with huge movie posters jpgs. Thanks!

Second, I'd like to implore all future posters to refrain from inundating this thread with huge movie poster jpgs. Thanks in advance!

Third, my go-to movie is "Animal House".

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Reply #26 posted 02/15/13 8:39am

Nothinbutjoy

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I love the variety!

Some of you have posted more of my go-to movies.

I love Disney movies, but burned out on them when my kids were young, so I don't watch them anymore...okay...as much, just once in a blue moon.

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Reply #27 posted 02/15/13 11:26am

namepeace

I have go-to movies for each "season." but I have several "background noise movies," including

GoodFellas

Casino

The Departed

The Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King

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Reply #28 posted 02/15/13 12:24pm

Nothinbutjoy

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namepeace said:

I have go-to movies for each "season." but I have several "background noise movies," including

GoodFellas

Casino

The Departed

The Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King

There is definitely a distinction nod

The Addams Family movies around Halloween, for example. (For me)

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Reply #29 posted 02/15/13 1:16pm

TD3

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Genesia said:

Mostly, whatever movie is on TCM at the moment is my "go to" movie. lol

But there are some I never get tired of watching. Depending on my mood, I might pull out any of these...

Now, Voyager

Brief Encounter

Gone With The Wind (usually if I'm facing a long afternoon or evening with nothing to do)

Top Hat

The Good-bye Girl

It Happened One Night

Dark Victory

A Room With A View

Private Benjamin

The Lion In Winter

Any Hitchcock movie except The Birds, Psycho and Marnie

Roman Holiday

An American in Paris

Victor Victoria

I know why you don't like The Birds but what is it that you don't like about Psycho and Marnie.

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