Your "Go-To" Movie?

DrumSteve

What'd be your Go-to movie? A movie you can always watch without getting bored of no matter how much you watch it and if there is nothing else on you can safely rely on that it'll give you some entertainment for the evening.

Gotta be Independence Day for me. No matter how much I watch it I still love it. I know the dialogue is hammy and it's got some ropey effects here and there but overall it's just a very entertaining movie. Particularly Judd Hirsch is hilarious. Tied for second would have to be either Armageddon/Starship Troopers.

Dacelonid

If I had to pick just one, I would say The Big Lebowski.
Hard to quantify why, but it is just one of those movies that I never get sick of.

Frank Black

I always get sucked into watching Die Hard whenever it I come accross it.

Also Terminator 2.

westies4ever

jaws - at a guess i've seen it a hundred times. star wars and empire strikes back as well - watch them every few months and never get bored.

spank_inferno

For me its submarine movies

K-19, Crimson Tide, Hut for Red October.... all great tension filled dramas.

krudler

Jaws for me as well, Raiders of the Lost Ark a close second. have seen both of them 100's of times at this stage, used to watch them a few times a week as a kid.

My go to "need to sleep" movie is Lost In Translation, its a very quiet movie with a lot of background ambient noise so its nice to doze off to, although I always get jolted awake when a Japanese man starts singing "God Save The Queen" badly at top volume :pac:

-Trek-

Has to be the Matrix for me, never get tired of watching it.

If I'm feeling all 80's I'd watch Top Gun.

Edit: someone mentioned Good Will Hunting so I must give that a shout as well.

apoeiguq3094y

spank_inferno wrote: »

For me its submarine movies

K-19, Crimson Tide, Hut for Red October.... all great tension filled dramas.

great movies, I think the small setting of a submarine means that you have to have good acting and good script, nothing else to distract the viewer. There's no easy michael bay style ass & explosions type distractions.

My go to movies are usually used on a plane/train/bus etc, so they are usually easily followed. Usually a decent action movie from the last few years.

Apart from the obvious ones, The 13th Warrior has been on the laptop for a while.

The King of Moo

Goodfellas for me, I'll always watch it when it's on tv, no matter what point of the film it's at.
There are plenty of great films I love but mightn't bother watching on tv if I've seen it before. But Goodfellas just has this extra watchability factor.
+1 on Raiders, Terminator 1 and 2, and Jurassic Park as well.

Lillylilly

I've seen Back to the Future (the first one) a million times but if it's on the telly I'll still sit down and watch it.

Sad Professor

List threads are against charter, folks. Please explain your choice of film and/or discuss other people's choices. We don't expect you to write an essay, but this is a discussion forum. If you just post one liners or lists there's nothing much to discuss.

HavingCrack

Independance Day, wow that takes me back. I got a present of it on video when I was 9 or so and literally must have watched it 30 times. It's corny, gung ho and all but it's just a really good film and the fight sequences are pretty exciting. Even the acting isn't the worst by any means.

HavingCrack

Dacelonid wrote: »

If I had to pick just one, I would say The Big Lebowski.
Hard to quantify why, but it is just one of those movies that I never get sick of.

Really? I must be one of the few people who never 'got' the fuss about The Big Lebowski. It wasn't a particularly bad film but it wasn't particularly funny either, I think I laughed twice in the whole film. It's one film I don't think I would ever bother watching again.

Tipsy McSwagger

The Goonies - my favorite film of all time.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

A matter of life and death I just love david niven. some moments/quotes in it I just smile when they happen
"Ah, there's June. She walks in beauty, like the night... Only she's cycling and it's daytime. "
and when we see the american soldiers making it into heaven, and they're all shocked and in wonder at what they're seeing. They're walking through the .. metal detector type thing and one of them says "wow, home was never like this". Richard attennborough steps forward, next in line, with a really strange look on his face and says "mine was", and when the guy after him steps forward he has a kinda confused look on his face.
No idea what the hell that's supposed to mean but it's just so strange it's fantastic.

the beginning of the movie too, the very start.. when the voiceover is narrating over a moving image of the universe and says "oh!, a nova!". the whole movie is just so... innocent, the power of love trumping even death. David niven being his usual fantastic self " I love you june, you're life and I'm leaving you".

just a quality movie.

oh, i almost forgot to add.. Roger Livesey riding his motorcycle. just hilarious.

Burning Eclipse

Home Alone.

It doesn't have to be Christmas to enjoy this masterpiece. It doesn't matter what kind of film I'm in the mood for, if Home Alone is on, I'll watch it. I was about the same age as Kevin when I first watched it and was amazed by what he got up to. Now, about 20 years later (time to feel old people), I still get a chuckle from watching it.

qz

I always find myself returning to 500 Days of Summer. I find it quite funny and ultimately pretty uplifting. Plus the wicked soundtrack doesn't hurt. It's helped me through bad times and I doubt I'll tire of watching it and loving and hating Zooey Deschanel in equal measure. Great film.

hardCopy

Gladiator for me. Any time it's on I'll watch it until it finishes or I have to leave. Pretty much any random 10-15 minutes of it is watchable.

callaway92

Superbad
Juno
Borat

Leeg17

Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Independence Day
Armageddon
The Longest Yard

Zulu

The Big Lebowski is mine also.

From the opening scene: buying a pint of milk with a cheque to the tune of man in me, I'm transfixed in a happy place. It's one of the finest pieces of art I know.

I bask in awe watching it.

Plazaman

Any natural disaster movie is great and just eye candy, no complex plot to follow.

Dantes Peak, Volcano, The Core, Armegeddon, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 to name but a few. Ane very educational for honing your survival skills.

LittleBook

Hot Fuzz

The jokes never get old, the characters never get boring and the fun never stops. It's one of those films that's guaranteed to turn that frown upside-down from the very beginning.

Kashkai

My all time favourite, can't miss, will sit and watch no matter what, is John Carpenter's "The Thing" with Kurt Russell. First saw this when I was a kid and it scared the bejaysus out of me with special effects that were cutting edge at the time and still look good today in this CGI infested world. The general creepiness of being stuck in an Antartican outpost, cutoff from the outside world, not knowing who/what is an alien was incredibly breath taking for me. They are making a prequel to this movie now based on the experiences of the Norwegian expedition who first uncovered the Alien ship. You get a glimpse of the survivors of that expedition at the beginning of Carpenter's The Thing. Hope they don't fecking ruin my all time favourite movie by making a balls of the prequel.

War films in general are also high up on my sit down and watch......The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Bridge at Remagen, The Big Red One, Battle of the Bulge and I'd include Black Hawk Down as a modern war classic. Seen them all dozens of times on tv and I have them on DVD as well.

Also have a fetish for the disaster movies like 2012, Armageddon, Independence Day.

Also, also have to watch any of the Star Wars movies/Alien/Aliens when there on or some of the old "B" movies like Forbidden Planet, the original War of the Worlds, Them.

Put any of the above on tv, then I'm happy to sit and vegetate for a few hours with some doritos, can of Bulmers and some chocolate. Ok I'm sad but I don't care:D

grimm2005

my "go to" movie would always generally be a comedy. Early Farrelly brothers movies are always a safe bet I find (the likes of Kingpin and Dumb and Dumber). They're always only 90mins so you're not up too late watching it and it's not a slog to get through, and they're just light and funny so you don't have to think too much while watching em.

richymcdermott

Most recently has to be black swan , that movie was art , pure masterpiece.

Cianan2

For me, I can always watch The Departed. So many great quotes and one-liners, I just love it so much!

Honorable mention goes to Cool Hand Luke, as well!

shinny

If these are on the telly I'll nearly always watch it: Sleeping with the Enemy, Dirty Dancing (I know, I'm such a girl!!) Back to the Future I and II
Others:
The Life of Brian I have to stop quoting this!
The Princess Bride
Terminator 1 and 2

That's all I can think of for now!

DazMarz

Goodfellas: probably the most perfect gangster film going. I just love the story of the rise and fall of the Irish-Italian-American kid who grew up wanting to be a gangster. The brilliant supporting characters in the film (the psycho best friend, the put-upon and complicit accomplice wife, the older and wiser criminal partner...) and the fast-paced story-telling makes this one film I can always watch over and over.

Casino: kinda like an unofficial follow-up to the above, but with same/similar actors portraying different roles. Again, cinematic perfection with the rise and bloody fall of the mob in Las Vegas chronicled here in all it's gorey glory. The acting, the script, the set-pieces... all superb and making this compulsive watching.

bonerm

Ferris Buellers Day Off.

It's technically not a good movie and it's main protagonist is really a jerk (boarding on psychopath actually) but deep down the film is just downright fun with so many quotable lines and a good message generally.

Plus, everytime I see that scene with beautifully filmed Chicago skyscape with the 80's rock music as the ferrari drives into downtown I just feel better.

careca11

a list of films I never get bored watching hmmmm, lets see.

the last Samurai
Gladiator
Indiana jones and the last crusade
300
Casino
any of the star wars films
Step Brothers (imo the funniest film ever)
Day after tomorrow
Green Mile
Die Hard 4.0 (just leave your brain at the door and enjoy the action)
Terminator 2

Sad Professor

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