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03-06-2006, 12:24 AM
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Movies that weren't successes yet you can watch over and over...
Does anyone have a movie that they can watch over and over? They may not have been popular or even my favorite film. But, if I see them on tv. I can still watch them again & again.
For me:
-Van Wilder
-The Replacements
-Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caviezel ver.)
Yes, I know Academy Award winners all.
Special nod to the scene in Gladiator when Maximus reveals himself to Commodus in the arena....
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Commodus: How dare you show your back to me! Slave, you will remove your helmet and tell me your name.
Maximus: [removes helmet and turns around to face Commodus] My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
[Commodus trembles in disbelief]
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Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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03-06-2006, 12:27 AM
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Does anyone have a movie that they can watch over and over? They may not have been popular or even my favorite film.
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Put me down as a Replacements repeat viewer.
Some other films in this category:
Batman Begins
Ghost and the Darkness
Airplane
The Peacemaker
Out of Sight
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
\"You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.\"
--Paul \"Bono\" Hewson
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03-06-2006, 12:30 AM
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Off the top of my head: Lake Placid and Dark Blue
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03-06-2006, 12:33 AM
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Corey, I'm with you. Sometimes I just get bit by the B-monster movie bug. The flicks that help me with it are:
Lake Placid
Mimic
The Relic
(aforementioned) Ghost and the Darkness
Deep Blue Sea
\"You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.\"
--Paul \"Bono\" Hewson
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03-06-2006, 12:40 AM
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Office Space (will stop most times) died in the box office. Big hit on TV.
Shawshank Redemption may be the ultimate example.
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03-06-2006, 01:00 AM
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For movies that weren't successful but I can watch over and over ...
Transformers: The Movie
I loved it as a kid, even though it was decried by the critics for being too violent and dark. I've seen it many, many times.
As for movies that I can watch over and over again just in general
Back to the Future
A League of Their Own
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Matrix
The Empire Strikes Back
Shawshank Redemption
Dances With Wolves
Braveheart
Wayne's World
There's many more, they're just not coming to me.
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03-06-2006, 01:10 AM
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Out of Sight was an excellent movie, I certainly don't feel it belongs anywhere in this thread. IMDB is on my side on this one, and whatever you may think of thier rating, that 7.3 means that the movie in question is quite well regarded.
The Man in the Iron Mask is an absolute favorite that was not very well received to say the least. I cannot consider this a guilty pleasure (as opposed to say, the Jean Claude Van-Damme movies I like), because I sincerly believe it's seriously underrated. I am however willing to conceide that one might have had to grow up with Alexandre Dumas' epic Three Musketeers (one of THE biggest tales of my childhood), and be familiar with 17th century french history in order to fully appreciate it.
How can you not be moved by the reunion of this most illustrious of quartets, 20 some years later. Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan have never looked better. And the blending of these legend of litterature with the "actual legend" of the title character was genius.
"Un pour tous, tous pour un".
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03-06-2006, 01:12 AM
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Holo...I was going to say the same thing about Man In the Iron Mask! I really do like the handling of the musketeer story here.
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03-06-2006, 06:31 AM
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| Does anyone have a movie that they can watch over and over? |
Yes, at last count, 1,228 of them.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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03-06-2006, 09:14 AM
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Only one movie can rule this category: FLASH GORDON (1980)
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03-06-2006, 10:02 AM
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While out of sight may have been well-reviewed, as were films like Shawshank, I think it easily fits. Because neither was a "box office success"
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