OT: Movies when on and you are looking for something to watch (aka channel surfing)

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

You automatically feel compelled to stop and watch, even if it is just 5 minutes.....

Me?
Dazed and Confused
Point Break
Road House
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Boogie Nights
Blow

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

You automatically feel compelled to stop and watch, even if it is just 5 minutes.....

Me?
Dazed and Confused
Point Break
Road House
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Boogie Nights
Blow

teen wolf
road house
overboard
shawshank redemption (literally try not to watch it but end up watching it)

 

[h2p_5150]

I always keep Godfather Part 1 and 2 on for a bit, but wind up changing the channel after about 25-30 mins when I remember that watching those movies with commercial breaks takes about 5 hours and 45 minutes.

Training Day though? I can't turn that movie off.

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

I always keep Godfather Part 1 and 2 on for a bit, but wind up changing the channel after about 25-30 mins when I remember that watching those movies with commercial breaks takes about 5 hours and 45 minutes.

Training Day though? I can't turn that movie off.

Godfather 2 is great up until they get into cuba and hyman roth. love the deniro flashbacks though and him at Vito and how he gets into power.

 

[pittmeister]

Goodfellas
Casino
Road House
Godfather 1 & 2
Basic Instinct
Point Break (original)
Devils Advocate
Heat

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

Goodfellas
Casino
Road House
Godfather 1 & 2
Basic Instinct
Point Break (original)
Devils Advocate
Heat

point break is a good one, impossible to see this and not watch.

 

[Seneca_Valley]

You automatically feel compelled to stop and watch, even if it is just 5 minutes.....

Me?
Dazed and Confused
Point Break
Road House
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Boogie Nights
Blow

I'll start with your list but exclude Point break and Blow.

Add
Casino
Alien(s) both
Black Hawk Down.

These come to mind quickly...........

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I'll start with your list but exclude Point break and Blow.

Add
Casino
Alien(s) both
Black Hawk Down.

These come to mind quickly...........

Like those, especially Aliens and BlackHawk.

Is there any single better character ever than Bill Paxton in Aliens? Game over man, game over.

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

The other night I was flipping between Shawshank and A Few Good Men in between commercials. Happened to be channel surfing and both were on. It didn't matter what I missed on each since I've seen them so many times.

I take this topic as a - what movie can you jump into anywhere and enjoy watching it. A lot good ones in this thread. I'll add:
Bloodsport
Caddyshack
Trading Places
Forrest Gump
Patton
Platoon
The Bridge on the River Kwai - had to add this, just so good.

 

[Las Panteras]

Sixteen Candles

C'mon......admit it......

This movie is funny

 

[Chescat]

A lot of these favorites
indicate the age of the
respondents. I being older
go with these:
Dr. Strangelove
On the Beach
Dr. Zhivago
Cool Hand Luke
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
A League of Their Own
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

 

[doubleAA's]

Office Space
Dumb and Dumber
Goodfellas
Life is Beautiful
Breaking Away
Field of Dreams
Hoosiers

I do love The Godfather movies (all 3 really) but another poster hit the nail on the head with the time invested. I will also say I probably have not had cable in like 5 years so I only steam now

 

[BPKY]

A lot of these favorites
indicate the age of the
respondents. I being older
go with these:
Dr. Strangelove
On the Beach
Dr. Zhivago
Cool Hand Luke
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
A League of Their Own
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

Half of those you won't ever come across while channel surfing. Maybe would run across them while surfing your DVD collection.... Good list tho.

 

[wbrpanther]

You automatically feel compelled to stop and watch, even if it is just 5 minutes.....

Me?
Dazed and Confused
Point Break
Road House
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Boogie Nights
Blow

Godfather 1 and 2
Forrest Gump
My Cousin Vinny
Pulp fiction
The good, the bad and the ugly.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

[Chescat]

Can't believe I left off
Blazing Saddles.

Where are the white women
at?

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Mind you I also considered movies that are in high rotation on the various cable platforms.

 

[Dan1911]

Reservoir Dogs
Dirty Dozen
Magnificent Seven
Good,Bad, Ugly
High Plains Drifter
Eiger Sanction
Where Eagles Dare
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Anything with Gary Oldman.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Dirty Dozen
Magnificent Seven
Good,Bad, Ugly
High Plains Drifter
Eiger Sanction
Where Eagles Dare
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Anything with Gary Oldman.

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Saturday was the 40th birthday of that film debuting and the best.

Gary Oldman is fantastic. Criminal Law. True Romance.

 

[CaptainMurphy]

Any of the pre-Brosnan Bond movies.

 

[Millerton24]

Step brothers
Cool hand Luke
Braveheart
Shawshank

 

[HailtoPitt]

You automatically feel compelled to stop and watch, even if it is just 5 minutes.....

Me?
Dazed and Confused
Point Break
Road House
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Boogie Nights
Blow

It's been a LONG time since I've actually flipped through channels and got sucked into something that was on, but before streaming I couldn't resist watching The Dirty Dozen and Kelly's Heroes when surfing onto to them. I think they are the same movie just mashed together in my head.

My streaming guilty pleasure is The Da Vinci Code when I come across it on whatever service has it.

 

[NCanton Panther]

I don’t know why, but for me when channel- surfing, it was always one of the Matt Damon Bourne movies that I’d stop and watch even though I ‘d seen it multiple times already.

 

[anon_d97v9o3a8b6xr]

Planes Trains and Automobiles
Anything with Pryor and Wilder together
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Good Will Hunting
John Wick

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

Step brothers
Cool hand Luke
Braveheart
Shawshank

"Yeah well, sometimes nothin can be a real cool hand." Great movie

 

[pittguy81]

Arsenic and Old Lace
Young Frankenstein
Pulp Fiction

 

[Chescat]

"Yeah well, sometimes nothin can be a real cool hand." Great movie

What we've got here, is failure to communicate

 

[Dan1911]

Any of the pre-Brosnan Bond movies.

Interesting. I think Daniel Craig is the best Bond and it isn’t even close. I love the realness and grittiness of those films.