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  • #1

    Must watch films.

    I happened to notice tonight that Turner and Hooch was on......yet again. It's one of those films I cannot not watch (regardless of how many times I have seen it). Others are : Ghost, Overboard, ET, Close encounters and National Lampoons ChristmasVacation. Probably a few others I can't think of tight now.

    I don't know what it is about them that makes me watch them again and again..........and again.

    What are your " Must watch films".
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    Thelma and Louise.
    Sliding Doors.
    Shirley Valentine.
    Dirty Dancing.
    Billy Elliot.
    I am sure there are lots more but these are just a few that come to mind.

    And when your back stops aching,
    And your hands begin to harden.
    You will find yourself a partner,
    In the glory of the garden.

    Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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    • #3
      Shawshank Redemption, Perfect Spy, Tinker Taylor Soildier Spy (but only the BBC version), Smilies People,The Sandbaggers and Shooting the Past among several others.
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      • #4
        Some Like It Hot
        Monty Python's Life Of Brian
        Ice Age
        The Railway Children
        Goodbye, Mr Chips
        The Sound of Music (if it's on at Christmas)
        You've Got Mail
        Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
        Endless wonder.

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        • #5
          Leningrad cowboys go america
          Platoon
          Hot shots (and part deux)
          Grand Hotel Budapest
          Top Secret
          I love the original tinker tailor, but is it a film? On the box-set list, Spaced and Jeeves and Wooster

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          • #6
            The green mile
            All the fast & furious films
            Riddick
            Transporter
            Muppets Christmas carol
            All the ice age films
            All the shrek films
            Avatar

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            • #7
              Chicken Run

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              • #8
                When They See Us (split into 4 parts on Netflix)
                Children of Men
                Half of a Yellow Sun
                Avatar
                The Polar Express
                Titanic
                Last edited by chillithyme; 04-08-2019, 11:09 PM.

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                • #9
                  Terminator 2: Judgement Day (greatest sci-fi and action movie ever made imo)
                  Pulp Fiction
                  Top Gun
                  Fifth Element
                  Shawshank Redemption
                  Groundhog Day
                  National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

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                  • #10
                    Thelma & Louise
                    Grosse Pointe Blank
                    In Bruges
                    The Jungle Book (1967 Disney cartoon)
                    Priscilla, Queen of the desert
                    Back to the future trilogy
                    Location ... Nottingham

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                    • #11
                      12 Angry Men
                      Groundhog Day
                      ET
                      Full Metal Jacket
                      Cheers

                      Danny

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                      • #12
                        SP is My Tribe.

                        We watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation every Christmas Eve, without fail. Last year we inducted the 8 year old into it.

                        Fifth Element is one of my favourite movies of all time.

                        I love watching the Pixar movies with the boys.

                        Galaxy Quest
                        The first of the Star Trek movies with Chris Pine.
                        Avengers Assemble
                        Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2
                        The Mouse Hunt - the pinnacle of modern slapstick
                        The King and I
                        The Sound of Music (set aside all the cliche about it being on every year and this is a stunning, achingly romantic movie)
                        300
                        Transformers movies (sorry, I like big booms. And I have an unhealthy fascination with Optimus Prime)
                        The Transporter

                        Oh, there's lots more. I'd rather watch a movie than a series any day.

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                        • #13
                          Anybody asks me if I want to watch a film, I'm liable to reply "Yes, anything with guns and lasers" (that'll give away my real identity to anyone who knows me in the real world who happens to come on this forum!). Don't like knives, though. Too much suspense in a knife.

                          So, any of the Terminator and Robocop films.
                          Just about any superhero film.
                          Pulp Fiction
                          First Matrix film
                          Avatar (lots of guns and laser-type things in that)
                          Exiled (Johnnie Too - brilliant gunfight choreography)

                          You get the gist...

                          (Just in case you all get the wrong impression, films I will never watch again are Southern Comfort, Deliverance and Cape Fear, and I've never managed more than five minutes of Reservoir Dogs.)
                          Last edited by Snoop Puss; 05-08-2019, 11:34 AM.

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                          • #14
                            I saw a marvellously bonkers film on the way to NZ earlier this year:
                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines_(film)
                            "An American–New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and prey on one another."
                            Utterly Bonkers...

                            Another film recco is Bubba Hotep.
                            If you watch one move about reincarnated body-snatcher phaoros v aged Elvis film set in a deep south retirement home, make it this one.
                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Ho-Tep
                            Has a black JFK in it too...

                            I have to say, neither contain much gardening...

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                            • #15
                              Well, that's interesting. I thought Mortal Engines was a hoot. So I'm likely to enjoy the other film you recommend... Thanks.

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