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Perfect Saturday afternoon film?

gmisk

So what is your perfect Saturday/Sunday afternoon movie to watch when chilling at home?
It's gotta be Jurassic Park....what a cracker of a film it has aged insanely well

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JupiterKid

Planning to watch Whale Rider on DVD at the weekend.

An absolutely superb film!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuBMJpPBBo

Tabnabs

Curtains closed and room darkened, ready for the epic 'The Green Mile'. Emerge three hours later to a steak dinner and beer.

billyhead

Back to the future trilogy.

blue note

I like those "nice" films are what I look for. Examples being The Dish, Eddie free Eagle, the fastest little Indian. Basically good stories well told, I'm not looking for deep thinkers.

Ger Roe

Try 'The Blue Max'.

Epic WW1 air drama, filmed in Ireland in 1965, starring James Mason, George Peppard and Ursula Andress.

It features real action flying of replica WW1 aircraft and was one of four 'flying films' made in Ireland between 1965 and 1970, where the Irish Army Air Corps provided pilots and technical support. All done without CGI, including the much acclaimed flight scene where civilian film pilot Derek Piggott flew under the narrow span of a railway viaduct bridge in Fermoy, with just four feet of clearance on each wing side.

The era of the Irish Flying Flims came to a tragic end following some fatal accidents including in August 1970 when five people were killed in a mid air crash over Wicklow Harbour when a filming helicopter and a replica WWI aircraft collided while undertaking a sequence for the film 'Zeppelin' - 50 years ago,next month.

https://wicklownews.net/2020/05/cllr-paul-obrien-is-looking-for-your-help/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n809LrgLldM
http://www.cowshedmedia.ie/the-flying-films

cml387

It seemed a legal requirement to put on 633 Squadron on a Saturday afternoon a few years ago.

Thelonious Monk

Laurence of Arabia. Although I've never actually seen the whole thing. I'm going to watch all of it some day soon, or maybe split it in two.

mewso

Anything with Doug McClure.

Cherry Blossom

War horse, Avatar or Men in Black

byronbay2

If you mean a family show, it's got to be Willy Wonka, the Gene Wilder version. Great story, great tunes, great gags.
If you're talking about an older audience (but no profanity/blood/gun fights), my favourites would be: A Few Good Men, The Fugitive or In The Line Of Fire. Great plot, great script, great acting.

Bullitt

Forest Gump

Labyrinth

Cool runnings

Mosquito Squadron, Battle of Britain

Zaph

Has to be a classic war movie - Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Great Escape or The Dambusters.

Kylta

Any of the shreks

JupiterKid

Who can forget Lisolette's fall to her death in 1974's The Towering Inferno?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybhlecO0_I

JupiterKid

One of those early/mid 1970s disaster flicks that were big in vogue at the time - like Towering Inferno, Earthquake or The Posiedon Adventure.

Jaws (the 1975 original) on a Sunday evening. Or Escape To Victory, The Getaway, Coma, The Andromeda Strain, one of the Pink Panther films...

Sonics2k

Fellowship of the Ring for sure.

It's aged so incredibly well, the effects area great and the acting is superb. Can happily just pop it on and enjoy it.

dreamers75

The Longest Day

I would like Hanks and Speilberg to remake that shot for shot.

Thelonious Monk

Zulu

Rodney Bathgate

Ice Station Zebra

loyatemu

any Connery or Moore Bond movie.

Tony EH

Where Eagles Dare.

Wombatman

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Black Oil

With sport off weekend afternoons seem to be taken up by epics. Alas, I've not actually sat down and stayed glued to any, though I should.

A few weeks ago I missed Empire of the Sun and wasn't aware it features a young Christian Bale.

El Gato De Negocios

A Back to the Future / Goonies double header. Cannot bloody wait til my kids are old enough to watch them.

Jimbob1977

The Great Escape

Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

Dr. Zhivago

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The Bridge on the River Kwai. In fact, any of Lean's epics could qualify.