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HDFan

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Galaxy Quest

One of my all time favorites.

Despicable me

On a "animated for adults" list.

 

organerito

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Anything by Clint Eastwood as a director
Forrest Gump
La Vita e Bella
Most of the films of Adam Sandler
 

satcomer

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Feb 19, 2008
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it simple for, my first big block bluster the original Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back! I tell kid the word of mouth that created the ordinal back in '77 and every kid, magazines and even Playboy wrote who they liked the movie! Even the new paper snobs seem to like it too!
 
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skottichan

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Movies from my youth/childhood;

Buckaroo Banzai
Smokey & the Bandit
Batman '89
Willow
Alien
Airplane
Any Godzilla movie

Modern Movies;
John Wick franchise
Dredd
Thelma
Shin Gojira/Ultraman/Kamen Rider
Rebuild of Evangelion series
 
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rhett7660

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Jan 9, 2008
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Mad Max.
Harry Potter.
Monty Python (and offshoots like Time Bandits)
Deadpool
Bladerunner
Blade movies
Tolkien
Star Wars
Star Trek
Princess Bride
Despicable me (I guess Pixar...)
Galaxy Quest

Yup... pretty much all of those too! Time Bandits! That is one I have not seen in a very long time! What a great little movie. The ending still gets me, how morbid it is, but I still laugh. Good stuff!

This is the scene in question... I still laugh. "... Don't touch it.." and they touch it. And then everyone is like... eh... And leaves. Link - Time Bandits Ending

 

TechRunner

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Lots of great movies already listed. I‘ll try to keep my list short:

The Great Escape
Jaws
Night of the Living Dead
Jurassic Park
The Natural
Schindler’s List
 

TheIntruder

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Jul 2, 2008
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I concur with a lot of the franchise choices (Star Wars, Trek, Bond, Bourne, Die Hard, Alien, Mad Max), as well as some of the individual selections like Michael Clayton.

I'll add:

Dirty Harry (dunno if these films would or could be made today)

In the Line of Fire (RIP Wolfgang Petersen)

Total Recall (gotta have one Verhoeven flick)

Jackie Brown (has aged better than Tarantino's other films)

A Few Good Men (guilty pleasure of scene chewing and Sorkin's dialogue)

Midnight Run (DeNiro/Grodin/Ashton/Kotto/Farina in a comedic road trip movie? Yes, sir)

Goodfellas (Epic. Caught a late showing and will always recall leaving the theater past midnight, belng blown away and not tired one bit)

Cop Land

Ronin

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Fugitive

Ferris Bueller (surprised this one hasn't been mentioned; my choice for a John Hughes flick)

In Bruges (though this one doesn't replay or stream commonly; am looking forward to the director's new film with the same two leads)

*Also with a disclaimer that a lot of them serve mainly as background noise, not subjects of rapt attention, and as a list biased by opportunity, given how frequently a lot of these movies are rerun on TV.
 
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icanhazmac

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Goodfellas
Casino
The Godfather 1 or 2
John Wick (any)
Full Metal Jacket
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Gremlins 2
 

Feyl

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I can watch all Spider-Man movies from the original Sam Raimi trilogy every week and don't ever get tired of it.
 
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myscrnnm

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As I'm watching the newly released Prey, I'm reminded that Predator 2 should also be on my list of movies I can watch over and over. I think this film is very polarizing for audiences, who either think it's nearly as good as Predator 1, or that it's really cheesy. But I think it gets the formula right in that it does everything that made Predator 1 great, but isn't afraid to also change everything else entirely. The City Hunter predator is also my favorite predator design of all time.
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