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Thread Starter 
Hey Guys,

I love to watch a good movie but there are some that I have that I have watched over and over again..and still watch them.....Some of them are guilty pleasures...LOL Well here is my list.

Evil Under the Sun - I love Peter Ustinov and I love him playing Hercule Poirot.
Death on the Nile - Love Peter in this as well and Angela Landsbury
Murder on the Orient Express - Love the whole package
Kiss me Goodbye- I think Dusty Springfield singing the title song gets me in this.
You've got Mail
The Goodbye Girl - The Marsha Mason one. Actually I like all the Neil Simon Movies
Only When I laugh
Chapter Two
California Suite
Plaza Suite......And all the rest of them....
Thomas Crown Affair
Goldfinger
Clue
Tortilla Soup
Airplane
Perfect Storm
Terms of Endearment
The Guardian
Castaway
Devil Wears Prada
The Usual Suspects

So do you have any films on your watch over list?

Best,


Otto
post #2 of 113
Too many to count! Here are just a few which come to mind:

Lord of Illusions
Schindler's List
The Curse of the Golden Lotus
The World According to Garp
Star Trek: First Contact
Reds (Warren Beatty in this flick - - YUM!)
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Diva
Mildred Pierce
Monsoon Wedding
The Trip to Bountiful (My very favorite Geraldine Page film.)
The Wild Bunch
Stand by Me
American Psycho
Serial Mom
The Object of My Affection (Bittersweet, funny, all too true to life.)
My Beautiful Laundrette
Fargo
Eat Drink Man Woman (Thus far, this has been my fave Ang Lee flick.)
The Seventh Seal (The Bergman flick, not the Demi Moore one!)
As Good as It Gets
Places in the Heart (Ed Harris is sexy as hell in this one, btw.)
Chocolat
Funny Girl
Best in Show
Die Mommie, Die! (Oh, but ah loves me mah Charles Busch!)
Shane (Easily my favorite Western.)
Pulp Fiction
American Beauty
Like Water for Chocolate
The Women (Razor-sharp repartee at its Thirties Era best.)
Bonnie and Clyde
A Crying Shame (Any John Waters comedy about cunnilingus? AND with Tracy Ullman? A must see.)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Well, I AM gay -- this one's required for good gay citizenship.)
Steel Magnolias (Ditto.)
Jeffrey
Annie Hall (My all time favorite film -- period.)
Cabaret (Translated beautifully to film, IMHO.)
Dr. Strangelove
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper's original OR the re-make.)
Hello, Dolly!
Reservoir Dogs (I can never hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" in the same way again, though.)
Victor/Victoria
Kill Bill Vol. I
Kill Bill Vol. II
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (So bad it's good. And an Oklahoma gal, Patti Page, sang the song.)
Chuck and Buck (A very odd bird, granted, but a good one all the same.)
The Princess Bride
Waiting for Guffman
Gods and Monsters
Mame (Both the much dissed Lucy version AND the Rosalind Russell version)
Polyester
Fellini's Satyricon
Gladiator (Hackneyed, perhaps, but still a damn good show.)
The Color Purple
Opposite of Sex (Although this one DOES always get me depressed.)
Love and Death
Querelle (Weird shit, but I love it.)
All This and Heaven Too (my favorite corny Bette Davis melodrama)
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Loved One (I laugh 'til I cry every time I watch this one!)
Lust in the Dust (")
Radio Days (Allen's most maudlin? Maybe, but also one of my personal favorites.)
Hairspray (the 1988 version, please)
Sordid Lives (I swear to God that half my dysfunctional Southern family is in this movie.)
Stella (Yes, the Bette Midler re-make. Widely panned, yes, but I really don't give a rat's ass.)
Chinatown
Home for the Holidays (More dysfunctional family stuff I can so easily relate to.)
The Music Man
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Trouble With Angels (It's a childhood thing for me -- shut up.)
The Sound of Music (")
The Little Foxes (Another fave Bette Davis film.)
Babette's Feast (Delish.)
Oklahoma!
From Dusk 'Til Dawn (Easily the most widely panned of all Tarantino's flicks. And I don't care.)
Fahrenheit 451 (It's just so hilariously dated.)
Female Trouble
Gone With the Wind
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (It's a college connection.)
Ravenous (Wonderful dark comedy about cannibalism in the 1840s in California)
A Passage to India
Fanny and Alexander
Dracula (Yes, the Coppola re-make. Hell, it's worth re-watching just to make fun of Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves pathetically attempting British accents.)
Little Big Man
The Ten Commandments (Simply put, no Easter here is complete without a campy Ten Commandments party in which everyone drunkenly recites all the cornball lines in unison!)
The Wizard of Oz (Again, it's a childhood thang.)
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Updated....
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Be here to love me - Documetary about Townes van Zandt.
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As Good As It Gets is one I reach for from time to time; it gives me this good feeling...
Chocolat (Juliette Binoche & Johnny Depp), because I went to school together with one of the actors in this movie, and it´s so fun too see her again.
Bridget Jones´s Diary 1.
Fight Club (!)
The Cider House Rules (sad, but in a good way)
Titanic
Forrest Gump
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Still Breathing
GATTACA
Joe Versus the Volcano
Wind
Bladerunner
Tampopo
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Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels
Donnie Darko
Wayne's World I
Vegas/Christmas Vacation
Fight Club
Gladiator
Predator
post #8 of 113
Accidentally posted twice.
post #9 of 113
Lots. And alot of them have been mentioned already, so I'll just post my #1 choice:

Bossanova, a romantic comedy with Amy Irving and Brazilian actor Antonio Fagundes.

It's my feel good movie. Pulls me out of "the blues" every time. It's like therapy.
post #10 of 113
Just a few...

Always
Amélie
Big
Chicago
Chocolat
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
The Fugitive
Immortal Beloved
Indiana Jones
(any)
Ladyhawke (even though the background music is jarringly 80's)
The Mexican
Mission: Impossible
(before Cruise cracked)
Moulin Rouge
The Natural
Pirates of the Caribbean
trilogy
The Princess Bride
Shrek, Hoodwinked, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc., Toy Story, etc.
Sneakers
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Truman Show


Oh, too many to list!
post #11 of 113
1. DIVA - I must have seen this every week for a year and a half when it was playing at the Nickelodeon Theatre in Boston in the 80s. I still need to watch it at least once a month.
2. A Midwinter's Tale (or, In the Bleak Midwinter) - why is this not available on DVD? My VHS tape is starting to fail me.
post #12 of 113
Can't remember them all, but these twenty came first to mind:

The Adventures of Priscilla - Queen of the Desert
All about Eve
Amarcord
Andrei Rublev
Being John Malkovich
Betty Blue
Casablanca
Le Cercle Rouge
Citizen Kane
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Killing
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Maltese Falcon
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Muriel's Wedding
Naked Gun -trilogy
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Some Like It Hot
Vertigo


OK, had to add these...

Blade Runner
The Crying Game
The Lord of the Rings -trilogy
The Matrix
Querelle
A Room with a View
The Science of Sleep
Sideways
Singing in the Rain
West Side Story
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Being There
Happiness
Fight Club
Young Frankenstein
Love, Actually
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather ...all of them
M*A*S*H
Repo Man
Harold and Maude
Sideways
Reversal of Fortune
Amadeus
Almost Famous
The Grifters
Tootsie
American Graffiti
Chinatown
Cool Hand Luke
High Fidelity
Grosse Pointe Blank
Carnal Knowledge
Boogie Nights
Fargo
Run Lola Run
There's Something About Mary
Oceans 11, 12 and 13
Little Miss Sunshine
Moonstruck
The Big Lebowski
Reservoir Dogs
Trainspotting
Blue Velvet
post #14 of 113
I would rename this list
"The movies that I start watching at 11PM even though I know I have to be up at 5AM and I keep telling myself I'll only watch until that scene is over and I don't stop watching until the final credits are rolling"

On THAT list are:
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith
Any Indiana Jones
Lord of the Rings (lord help me if its an extended edition that's starting at 11)
Any Tarantino (I can't get enough of his dialogue)
Gladiator
Midnight Run
Lost In Translation
Godfather any or all of it
Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns
Once Upon a Time in America the uncut version
Bogart movies especially the classic ones
Victor/Victoria
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
The World According to Garp
Fast Times at Ridgemont high
Can't Buy Me Love
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (Curse You Monkey Boy!!!)
and others that I can't remember but that are lurking out there just the other side of 10:55.
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Jules and Jim
To Catch a Thief
Morgan
Hard Day's Night
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They Might be Giants (my favourite film ever)
Dr Strangelove
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Cabaret
A Hard Day's Night
The Wizard of Oz
The Philadelphia Story
High Society
The Great Escape
The Italian Job (the original one)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Star Trek IV
What's Up Doc?
The Longest Day
Goodbye Lenin

I forgot:
Dogma
Funny Girl
Taxi (original)
post #17 of 113
In whatever order comes to my befuddled mind right now,

The Lion in Winter
Casablanca
Lolita ( Kubrick version)
Some Like it Hot
His Girl Friday
To Be or Not to Be (original version)
The Ladykillers (ditto)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dr. Strangelove
The Ninth Configuration
The Producers
The Philadelphia Story
Unfaithfully Yours (and most of Preston Sturges)
Irma la Douce
The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
The Yakuza
Lady from Shanghai
Limelight
The Seventh Seal
The Fountainhead
The Last Temptation of Christ
Fitzcarraldo
The Apartment
Zorba the Grreek
Lawrence of Arabia
Strangers on a Train ( and most of Hitch.)
Kill Bill 1 & 2.
The Haunting (original version, Robert Wise director)
All That Jazz
A Man for All Seasons
Becket


Cheers,

Mario
post #18 of 113
Sister Act
A Beautiful Thing
The Titanic
Love Actually
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Sunshine ( greatest movie ever )
Me and You and everyone we know
All star trek
Dracula the francis ford coppola one
daywatch
nightwatch
station agent
ultraviolet ( Millas so beautiful)
the time machine with guy pearce
brokedown palace
return to paradise
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Groundhog Day
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Mildred Pierce
post #22 of 113
I absolutely have to second both Diva and Mildred Pierce.
(I've added both to my list, in fact.)
post #23 of 113
I think most of my faves have been mentioned, but I haven't seen some of my ultimate best ~

Big Fish

Dumb and Dumber

Amelie!

Empire of the Sun

African Queen

Little Miss Sunshine

Best in Show

The Birdcage
post #24 of 113
How could I have forgotten "The Pink Panther?" (1964 version. With my eyes raised toward heaven, I ask you to forgive me, Peter Sellers.) Also, "A Shot in the Dark." Anything with Peter Sellers is worth multiple viewings.

I watched "The Pink Panther" at least 3 1/2 times this week alone. Sad, really, isn't it?
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Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
UHF
To Kill a Mockingbird
Glory
Swiss Family Robinson- When I was a kid.
Crash
Saviour
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I have yet to see Little Miss Sunshine, but I've seen it on several lists thus far.
(I'm going to HAVE to rent this one!)
post #27 of 113
The Bridges of Madison County

OMG, and I cry each and every time I see it.
post #28 of 113
Since I take the majority of my vacations at Christmas time, it's the only time I have for serious watching... and during that time, I really enjoy watching the full Tolkien Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

Another couple movies I love to watch:
French Kiss - Kevin and Meg at their best!
Green Card - Gerard and Andie at their best!
Après vous - a French film, but just a great one to watch. If you haven't seen it, find it and see it! Daniel Auteuil is awesome in this film!
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Frequency (I've probably seen this over a hundred times, & I cry every time)
Fried Green Tomatoes (probably my favorite movie ever...& the novel is even better)
The Day After Tomorrow
But I'm a Cheerleader (gotta love campy gay flicks)
In & Out (see above)
Bound (yet again)
All the Harry Potter flicks

Then there's my weak spot for 80s movies:

Back to the Future (entire trilogy...ok maybe these are my favorite movies ever)
The Goonies
Adventures in Babysitting
Space Camp
Howard the Duck (let's see...BTTF, Space Camp, Howard the Duck...yeah I might have a thing for Lea Thompson)
post #30 of 113
On my birthday without fail since 1987, Wim Wender's Wings of Desire.
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Underworld 1 & 2
Top Gun, The Color of Money, Cocktail, Rain Man
Gladiator
Enter The Dragon
The Lost Boys
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Star Wars (Episodes 2,4,5,6)
Clockwork Orange
Psycho
The Exorcist, that Satan dude just cracks me up!!!
Braveheart
Enter the Dragon
Austin Powers
A Shot in the Dark
Goldrush
Dr. Strangelove
Modern Times
Great Dictator
Notorious
Rear Window
Rope
Wages of Fear
Diabolique (Clouzot's)
Le Corbeau
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dolce Vita
THX 1138
Pulp Fiction
Turtles Can Fly
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Goldfinger
Jacob's Ladder
Memento
If . . .

Cheers,
Al
post #33 of 113
Quote:
Originally Posted by noirwest View Post

On my birthday without fail since 1987, Wim Wender's Wings of Desire.

Good God! How could I have forgotten that one?

I saw it when it first came out and I've rented it at least ten times.

But then I also forgot

Withnail and I

Cheers,

Mario
post #34 of 113
My most watched faves that I can think of just now:
The Pope Of Greenwich Village
Practical Magic
The Temptations (TV Movie on dvd)
The Five Heartbeats
Big Wednesday
Something Wild
The Band Wagon
The Women
Stand By Me
Some Kind Of Wonderful
The Breakfast Club
Diner
Almost Famous
The Old Maid
Female On The Beach
Some Like It Hot
Jeremiah Johnson
Les Ripoux/Le Cop
Les Visiteurs Du Soir, sadly I don't have this one anymore and I don't think it is available on dvd or video.
post #35 of 113
The Last of the Mohican's
Amelie
La Vie en Rouge
Enter the Dragon
The Shawshank Redemption
O Brother Where Art Thou?
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Endless Summer
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Unforgiven
post #36 of 113
Wow, there are some real greats on this thread.

I believe the video and DVD culture has made movies into comfort products like comfort food.

I've got to praise Bakerloo Line and Tvlampboy for sharing my love of repeatly watching Diva. I can't get tired of that movie.

Besides Diva my other comfort moves are:
The Big Lebowski
Ronin
and Blow-Up

--Chris
post #37 of 113
Thread Starter 
The Usual Suspects...Forgot about this one.

Best,

Otto
post #38 of 113
Having seen even more films from others' lists,
I must add two more flicks to my already huge list:
O Brother Where Art Thou? and Stand by Me.
post #39 of 113
Oklahoma
South Pacific
On the Waterfront
Magnificent Seven
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Longest Day
Last Train from Gun Hill
High Noon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dr. No
From Russia with Love
The Paper Chase
Kagemusha
The Deer Hunter
Dog Day Afternoon
E.T.
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Arthur
Das Boot
The Last Samurai
House of Flying Daggers
Psycho
Gunfight at OK Corral
...and Woody Woodpecker....that's all folks!
post #40 of 113
The Matt Helm movies on dvd. I enjoy that kind of kitschy Bond spoof. Works great to knock me out on nights I can't sleep.

(Maybe I should post this on the "Creep You Out" thread, but it's a little weird the way all those 20-something women throw themselves at a clearly middle-aged (and weathered) Dean Martin.)
post #41 of 113
Quote:
Originally Posted by bossanova_boy View Post

(Maybe I should post this on the "Creep You Out" thread, but it's a little weird the way all those 20-something women throw themselves at a clearly middle-aged [and weathered] Dean Martin.)

Weird? Nah -- they probably just wanted his martini.
post #42 of 113
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Don't know how I missed that one first time around. I've loved this movie since I was little.
post #43 of 113
Thread Starter 
Ok..these are more:

Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
Citizen Kane
Jaws
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Somethings Gotta Give
The Producers - With Gene Wilder
Silence of the Lambs
12 Angry Men

Best,

Otto
post #44 of 113
All About Eve. Am I the only guy who finds Bette Davis incredibly sexy in that movie? In that scene in the theatre when her boyfriend throws her down on the prop bed and tells her she is a beautiful and talented actress and she needs to be more self assured...I just want to...kiss her...and tell her everything will be alright. (And that gorgeous hair. Bet it smells of perfume...)

Is that too much information? Do I need therapy? Hey, at least I didn't feel that way about her in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. (Maybe there's hope for me...)
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Shawshank Redemption
Mommy Dearest
The Outsiders
Gladiator
Braveheart
Stand By Me
Super Troopers
Equilibrium
Batman Begins
American Pyscho
Greek Wedding
An American Werewolf in London
Starship Troopers
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill, both volumes
Last of the Mohicans
Forrest Gump

oh yes....and my favorite of all times.....SIDEWAYS!!!!!!!!
post #46 of 113
Damn -- having seen others' lists thus far, I have to add eight more films to already massive list of movies I love to watch over and over again:

Sling Blade
An American Werewolf in London
Rashomon
Marat/Sade
Five Easy Pieces
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Too Afraid to Ask
Sleeper
post #47 of 113
How could I forget O Brother, Where Art Thou
Braveheart
Hoosiers
Young Frankenstein
Its a Wonderful Life
Lady and the Tramp. I know, I'm a sucker.
South Central
post #48 of 113
Thread Starter 
This list is endless..
Father of the Bride
Animal House
Beaches
Life of Brian
Guess Who's coming to Dinner
Clueless
Driving Miss Daisey
Twister
The Parent Trap
Officer and a Gentleman
Apollo 13
Young Frankenstein
Death Trap
post #49 of 113
Just a few of my favorite, some have been mentioned multiple times:

The Usual Suspects
Amelie
Chocolat
Dr. Zhivago
The Sound of Music
Manon of the Spring and Jean De Florette
the funny English movie about the town that wins the lottery
Back to the Future movies
Time and Again
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
A Farewell to Arms
Lady and the Tramp
The Little Mermaid
post #50 of 113
It's A Wonderful Life
Apollo 13
Under the Tuscan Sun
Moonstruck
Anne of Avonlea
Pieces of April
American Beauty
French Kiss
Remember the Titans
post #51 of 113
Absolutely anything writen or directed by Quentin Tarantino. Esp Reservior Dogs and True Romance.
The Matrix
The Bourne Trilogy
Life is Beautiful
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Way of the Gun
Dr Zhivago
Gangs of New York
In the Name of the Father
The Boxer
Fight Club
Trainspotting, I can recite "choose life" from memory
The Godfather and 2
Dangerous Liasons
Hackers
Patton
Mel Brooks films, Madeline Kahn totally rocked my world
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
To Kill a Mockingbird
North by Northwest
Legends of the Fall
A Nightmare before Christmas
Hamlet with Mel Gibson, Helena Bonham Carter and Glenn Close
post #52 of 113
I remember another:

Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. I love that show. It's painful the way they always have to die at the end but I don't think I'll ever tire of seeing it.

I'm glad to see someone mentioned Apocalypse Now. I forgot to include that on my list too.
post #53 of 113
Many that have already been mentioned and
Down by Law
Paris, Texas
Rumble Fish
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Pretty much anything by Woody Allen though, for me, Annie Hall and Sweet and Lowdown are standouts
post #54 of 113
I rarely watch a movie more than once or twice and my movie collection is quite limited, but here are the ones I don't mind watching again and again:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Harry Potter movies
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hero
Shrek movies
Most of the Disney animated movies, but Sleeping Beauty is my personal favorite
Monsters Inc.
The Incredibles
Amelie
Gladiator
Big
Pink Panther movies
James Bond movies
Anything with Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder
Most anything with Steve Martin or Robin Williams
post #55 of 113
More flicks I can watch over and over:

Tea With Mussolini

Never Again (w/Jill Clayburgh -- hilarious romantic comedy)
The Women (The Thirties original.)
post #56 of 113
Otto- glad to see you enjoy the Poirot series
Tvlampboy...thats not a few i nyour list...damn!!

Mine would be (would have missed out on lot others)

SinCity
Babel
Traffic
The Bourne series
Matrix
Die Hard II
Predator
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park
The Ring
What Lies Beneath
Schindlers List
Dumb and Dumber
almost any movie by Adam Sandler
Mr. Hollands Opus
Dark Knight
Platoon
Pulp Fiction
The Fast and the Furious (aww common who doesnt like cars)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Any Given Sunday
Heat
The Godfather
The Incredibles
American Beauty
Seven
Snatch
post #57 of 113
Anything by Emir Kusturica, AND:

Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
White Chicks
300
Life is Beautiful
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Producers (2006 remake)
The Seventh Sign
The Dark Crystal
Constantine
Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2
Ice Age 2
Under the Tuscan Sun
Star Wars (the whole series)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
post #58 of 113
American Psycho - "Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhead Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do. He also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut"

The Burbs - "I want to kill ev-ery-one. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - "When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin 4"

Halloween III, Season of the Witch - "I saw something that night... I don't know, your father came into the hospital. He- I thought he was crazy, out of his mind. He's hanging onto a Halloween mask, he wouldn't let it go... And what he said was, "They're gonna kill us all"... And in a little while he was dead! ...AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!"

Ghostbusters - "Listen... Do you smell something?"
post #59 of 113
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
post #60 of 113
Oooooh:

Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Downfall
Revolver
All 3 Lord of the Rings extended edition
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
The Matrix
Star Wars
Harry Potter
Gladiator
Any John Wayne flick
Withnail and I
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