What Movie Do You COMPULSIVELY Watch On The Tube Over and Over and Over Again?

Self | August 25, 2006 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

What movie do you COMPULSIVELY watch over and over again? I am asking that because for the past couple of months I have been compulsively watched Cinderella Man every time I can catch it on cable. So far I must have seen it about 30 times but who's keeping count? For some strange reason, I find myself drawn to this movie. I can't really explain it. My favorite scene is when James Braddock was fighting Corn Griffin but will watch the movie in its entirety or what ever part is left when I check the tube.

It's gotten so bad that I now have the Cinderella Man book which I am now reading. Also, I find myself watching boxing events on the tube which I rarely did before.

So what movie (if any) do YOU compulsively watch over and over and over again?

[mware]

Westward the Women!!!!!

LOL.

Pay the rent.

But I can't pay the rent.

Pay the rent.

But I can't pay the rent.

I'll pay the rent.

My hero.

[DocRock]

The Ten Commandments; Ben Hur; The Longest Day; To Hell and Back; Red Dawn and several others I can't recall right now...

[bannie]

WHOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

My sisters and I repeated that for years!! AND we'd only seen the movie once!


Jim Quackenbush!

[Finny]

I love Down Periscope! There are so many little hilarious things, like having a Number One (isn't it Marty Pasco?) who is, to put it lightly, just a touch HIGH STRUNG!! Just the kind of person you want on a submarine! That just kills me. And Bruce Dern is so convincing as a terminal asswipe! And the electrician who's been zapped one too many times and breaks into Frank Sinatra broadcasts -- one of many great characters. Then the film tops it all off by using the superb, the wonderful Rip Torn.

Speaking of whom -- one of the funniest scenes in any movie ever is in "Trial and Error" (Jeff Daniels, Michael Richards, the guy who plays Kramer in Seinfeld). Daniels is a high-powered New York lawyer who has to defend his boss's no-good brother-in-law (or some relative) who's gotten arrested for selling people an engraved copper portrait of Abraham Lincoln for $19.95, which is, of course, a penny.

Rip Torn plays the no-good relative, who ends up in court for fraud. He cops the "Twinkie" defense, claiming he does this horrible stuff because he's addicted to sugar. Rip Torn takes the witness stand in his own defense and delivers the most outrageous sob story about how he was a poor orphan eatin' candy and he saves a little girl who falls off a pier, it's Halloween, and he's in a lil' punkin suit ... dripping with self pity ... it is so hilarious, as only Rip Torn can do it. I was laughing so hard my husband thought I was going into convulsions.

[rikkir]

I thought so. Tons of smart and slapstick humor.
"Yeah...Stairway to Heaven,Led zepplin, 1971,...Hey guys we just won the Billy Joel Tickets, and the WROK T-shirts.
Nitro, can you get me the Admiral now?"
I loved Nitro. "That boy has absorbed a lot of voltage." LOL I still chuckle when I think about it.

[Tiny]

The Mummy and The Mummy Returns - Arnold Vosloo is a great bad guy

The Godfather I & II - Leave the Guns and Take the Canollis

Indiana Jones - Any of the three will keep my interest

That Thing You Do - I know I'm shallow but I like the music, great flick to watch with the kids

[mware]

BTW, TV Land is going to have a 48 hours of Daniel Boone on beginning tomorrow morning at 6 AM

LOL, remember Mingo on Johnny Carson>>>>

[rikkir]

See post 125. Mrs rikkir, and I looked for that movie on DVD for almost 2 years. Finally got it about 6 months ago.
Another one of my all time favorites is Airheads. I can watch that over and over. Joe Mantengna as the over the hill rock DJ "Warp speed Mr. Sulu! If it's too loud, you're too old!

[andysandmikesmom]

Well, your list and my list mesh together very well....I would add GWTW as a movie I watch over and over again...

I would also add the Maltese Falcon with Bogart...

[BipolarBob]

I can easily agree to those additions.

[DCPatriot]

Princess Bride
Tombstone
Confidence
I, Robot
True Romance

[rikkir]

"That Thing You Do - I know I'm shallow but I like the music, great flick to watch with the kids"

Love that movie. Fell in love with Liv Tyler as a result of that one. Kinda silly for a 42 year old, huh? 8)

[Tiny]

Kinda silly for a 42 year old, huh? 8)

Get in line buddy I have senority. LOL! She was a doll in that movie.

[andysandmikesmom]

I just love those three old movies with Bogart...

[mware]

Forbidden Planet, ya got to love Robbie the Robot and the Id monster.

A Wonderful Live, I'll never get tired of hearing George Bailey say hello to everyone on Main St. during the snow storm.

Casablanca, I can't help it, but when the sing the French National Athem.

The Long Gray Line,singing Christmas carols at Marty Mares house.

[mware]

Forgot Zulu

When the two opposing sides sing to prepare themselves for battle.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

tomahawk to the crotch

[be4everfree]

According to Newsbusters: "We welcome intelligent liberal debate"
As if any such thing existed :-)

Did you get a chance to read through the Stern thread ?

I know it's 13 pages long, but it's very insightful.

[NCC-1701]

Reptilicus. Without a doubt one of the finest flicks ever. /s

[grellis]

Ronin