Premium Member Alessandro Machi Posted April 27, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 Over the years I've noticed there are certain films I'll watch whenever I come across them while I'm channel surfing, no matter how many times I've already seen them. My list takes into account that the films have to be broadcast periodically for them to reach my Channel Surfing Hall of Fame. You may have other films that you revere but the test is that they periodically make it to TV and you happen to stumble across them, and watch. The magic of a true Channel Surfing Movie is that no matter what part of the movie you happen to surf into, you are immediately drawn in and watch. My Channel Surfing Movie Hall of Fame includes... Breaking Away GroundHogs Day Ghost The Fugitive The GodFather The Big Picture After Hours It's a Wonderful Life Die Hard Lethal Weapon I think I have a few more that have escaped me at the moment but the above list equals ten. What's your favorite Channel Surfing movie or movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasarsenault Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 If any of the Eastwood westerns are on , Ill watch them. Especially..Unforgiven, Pale Rider, and Jose Wales. Also, I have a tendency to always watch Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome when it is on, even though its my least favorite in the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Lamar King IMPOSTOR Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Cool that you put Breaking Away on there. I love that film and it has great work by Matthew Leonetti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted April 27, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 I'll always watch a few minutes of: Die Hard Plaines, Trains and Automobiles Better Off Dead A Fish Called Wanda Ferris Bueller's Day Off National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and of course E! News Daily! The DVD's I'll pop in for fun are: Vision Quest Risky Business The Kids are Alright Casablanca Michel Gondry Amelie and so on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted April 27, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) Hi, I don't watch much TV, but there's generally a pile of "currently being watched" DVDs. Having said that, there isn't one at the moment because I tidied up yesterday... but we did have a Lindsay Lohan night on Monday. Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Yes, I will watch absolutely anything. The former two were really slick-looking, as well. Okay, I have refused the idea of a Mary-Kate and Ashley night, perhaps I won't watch absolutely anything. Phil Edited April 27, 2005 by Phil Rhodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel J. Ashley-Smith Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Die Hard (Perferably no. 3) Terminator 1,2 or 3 Robocop 1,2 or 3 Commando All the classic shoot-em ups basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member drew_town Posted April 27, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 Mission Impossible Dirty Harry Patriot Games The Terminator Happy Gilmore Misery Dirty Work Death Wish Conan the Barbarian Braveheart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Brad Grimmett Posted April 27, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 Searching for Bobby Fisher Good Will Hunting American Beauty Rounders Fight Club Happy Gilmore Billy Madison National Lampoon's Vacation Boogie Nights Seven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Brad Grimmett Posted April 27, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 I almost forgot! The Jerk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel J. Ashley-Smith Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Patriot Games Arr da-n yeh I liked that one too, along with many other Harrison Ford films mind you. The Fugitive Clear and Present Danger And don't forget Indiana Jones! From looking at these posts all these good films are coming back to me... Funny though, from looking at most of them, there not exactly praised for their cinematography or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Alessandro Machi Posted April 27, 2005 Author Premium Member Share Posted April 27, 2005 Not praised for their cinematography simply may mean that they are well rounded films in which many elements worked well together as a whole. I'd rather have a credit on a film that was known as a good film or one that can be watched over and over, than a film that was simply known for it's cinematography. At least another 8 could have made my list from the list of others up above. Terminator Christmas Vacation Misery Ferris Bueller's Day off Risky Business Amelie (although I never see that it is on if it were it I could see it drawing me in everytime) Dirty Harry Death Wish -------------------- Plus, The Stuntman, if it were ever broadcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Andino Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Aliens Tombstone Point Break Die Hard The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Unforgiven Half Baked Ali G Indahouse Pulp Fiction The Big Lebowski Fight Club Thelma & Louise The Rock Do the Right Thing He Got Game Black Hawk Down I'm sure there are more but I can't remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Andino Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Funny though, from looking at most of them, there not exactly praised for their cinematography or anything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't go there! Don't you turn this thread into another one of those mad mad madness... You know what happened (and still is happening) last time you did that. So let's squash this right now! .....please.....? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel J. Ashley-Smith Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Don't go there! Don't you turn this thread into another one of those mad mad madness... You know what happened (and still is happening) last time you did that. So let's squash this right now! .....please.....? :( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeh I can see where this is going actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Lamar King IMPOSTOR Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 In no particular order: Fiddler on the Roof Jesus Christ Superstar Annie (John Huston version) Schindlers List Saving Private Ryan Three Kings Breaking Away Combat! (TV series) Jules et Jim The 400 Blows The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jean de Florette Manon of the Spring Winged Migration Hair Ran Yojimbo Sanjuro Seven Samurai Dreams Hidden Fortress Being There The Natural Black Beauty The Right Stuff Snow Falling on Cedars U2 videos (shot by Declan Quinn, Robert Brinkman, Anton Corbjin) Midnight Oil videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Elhanan Matos Posted April 28, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 28, 2005 The Goonies!!! The Sandlot Predator The Shawshank Redemption Fightclub and pretty much any Stanley Kubrik movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted April 28, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 28, 2005 There are a lot of classic movies that I can just start watching whenever I flip to them on TV, like "Yankee Doodle Dandy" or "Casablanca" (both Michael Curtiz films). Or "Singing in the Rain". "Gone with the Wind" is another. It's amazing for such a long movie how fast-paced the plot can be. I flipped to it the other day, just after the Civil War scenes were over, and within a few scenes I saw: Scarlett gets the news that she owes taxes on Tara. Her old overseer comes by with his white trash wife and offers to buy Tara from them. Scarlett's father chases them on his horse and dies after a fall. Scarlett visits Rhett Butler in her green dress made from a curtain. Rhetts fails to help her; she runs into Frank Kennedy, seduces him, marries him, makes a fortune in the lumber business, Frank gets killed in the raid on the shantytown, Scarlett gets married to Rhett... I'd swear that all of this happened in half an hour! (I know it was more than that, but jeez, talk about some Dickensian swings of fortune.) I'm also fond of some dialogue-rich movies like "Man for All Seasons" or "The Lion in Winter" which I can just LISTEN to over and over again. I also seem to never get tired of watching parts of "A Bridge Too Far", just waiting for some fog-filtered lens flare to occur just where I remembered it. I also seem to get sucked into episodes of "Law and Order" no matter at which point I catch it in the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Bass Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 (edited) I will stop for an epic movie. . .one so grand, that to speak its name will drain one of his strength for many months afterward. A movie so glorious, it brings tears to one's eyes, and the golden light of heaven to his/her heart. I am, of course, talking about Ghostbusters. Oh, and I stop when I see Purple Rain, just 'cause it's so fu**ing weird, and I can't believe it's a real movie. But there it is. Edited April 28, 2005 by Josh Bass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted April 28, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 28, 2005 There are some comedies that I don't mind seeing multiple times on TV, like "Groundhog Day", "Office Space", or "Whitnail and I". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Spear Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 I need to be pretty...well... Half Baked ( ;) ) The Big Lebowski Dumb and Dumber Fightclub The Adventures of Fritz the Cat and anything Adam Sandler related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Brad Grimmett Posted April 28, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 28, 2005 There are some comedies that I don't mind seeing multiple times on TV, like "Groundhog Day", "Office Space", or "Whitnail and I". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Office Space! Of course! I can't believe I forgot that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fstop Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 but we did have a Lindsay Lohan night on Monday. Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Yes, I will watch absolutely anything. The former two were really slick-looking, as well. Phil <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Given that Stephen Burum shot Confessions, HOW could it not have looked as pretty as the former two Lohan masterpieces (shot by Daryn Okada and Oliver Wood respectively)? Bill T- couldn't help but spot both VisionQuest AND Risky Business back to back in your list, both scored (rather fabulously) by Tangerine Dream. I'll let Wendell Greene explain the one soul reason to watch VisionQuest ;) (aside from Owen Roizman's quality lensing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasarsenault Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 (edited) Speaking of Gone with the wind and Stephen Burum, one I caught the other day once again...The Outsiders. Edited April 28, 2005 by jasarsenault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted April 28, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted April 28, 2005 Hi, On the subject of Oliver Wood and his sparkling career, who could have predicted that sunny, attractive imagery could possibly have come from a native of this, er, fair isle? I suppose the fact that he left says it all But seriously: I thought Confessions looked rotten in comparison, although I suppose I could credit it as an attempt at greater realism or artistry than is usually applied to such fare. However, I'm sure the poor ginger kid doesn't really look thirty... Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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