Movies you can't help but watch when they come on TV

[Dolph Lundgren]

Tremors!  Another great pick.  Certainly can't argue with that.  Same with Coming to America.  

Glad to see Road House getting so much love around here.  My favorite line from that movie that had me in stitches:

"I used to f**k guys like you in prison."

To me, watching the TV edits are sometimes better than the uncut/uncensored movies.  Especially with Casino ("you Jewish moneylover!") Die Hard ("yippie ki-yay melon farmer!") and Major League ("Vaughn, I only have one thing to say to you ... strike this GUY out.").

[ulthar]

dean wrote:

>
>  The trouble
> is once they start, no matter how bad it is, I have to see the
> end.  It's as if I am hypnotized by the damn bastards who made
> the train wreck I am watching.
>

That's me, too.  I could be complaining about how dumb or horrible a movie is, but once I start, it's hard to stop.

My local FOX affiliate has, for the past several months, been showing some really, really bad "drama," sometimes with known actors, sometimes not, on Saturday (if no baseball) and Sunday (if no racing) afternoons.  I have to will myself not to even start one of these clinkers, cause I don't want to throw several hours into the toilet watching something I cannot stand anyway.

Part of it, I think, is that when I was younger, I thought there was no such thing as a 'bad' movie.  As I got older, I came to realize the error of this thinking in principle.  But, I think I keep watching with the belief that "this has GOT to get better; something interesting or engaging has GOT to happen."  Often, the suck-fest just ends, and I say to myself "yep, I was wrong oh those years ago."

[ulthar]

Dolph Lundgren wrote:

>
> To me, watching the TV edits are sometimes better than the
> uncut/uncensored movies.  

Two things I cannot stand in TV versions of movies:

(1) when they add scenes not in the theatrical release as time filler because they had to cut so much (for example, 48 Hours on TV; there was some lame scene with Jack and his girl having a serious talk about their relationship, and it totally undermined Jack's character).

(2) when they cut key scenes, important to the plot or character development, that did not need to be cut for language or other 'censorship' reasons.  (for example, I watched A Few Good Men on TV a couple of weeks ago, an they cut scenes from it that were rather important.

[raj]

Ghostbusters.  Indy Jones. Star Wars.   Blues Brothers -- always enjoyable to watch Illinois Nazis get chased into the river.

[dean]

Sometimes TV edits can be pretty funny though: I was watching one of the later Lethal Weapons, number four I think, and there is a discussion with Chris Rock and Joe Pesci which had pretty much every second word beeped out in the whole conversation.

Despite how stupid that was, I couldn't help having a bit of a laugh!

[Shadow]

The first Tomb Raider. There is some elusive X factor to it that compels me to watch.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Tremors,Robocop and certain National Lampoons I usually catch.

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[Yaddo 42]

Murphy's War - but it's better if you watch it after 10:30 at night or you are home sick in bed.
The Hot Rock
Three Days of the Condor
The Candidate - yeah,  I know some weird Redford/70s fixation I have on those three.
Tango & Cash
Hard Times
My Name is Nobody
Diggstown
Kiss of Death (either version)
Stalag 17
Head
M*A*S*H
Point Blank
Death Hunt
Flash Gordon - I think prefer the goofy TV edit now since they just chopped out a huge section in the middle to make it fit a two hour block with commercials. Hey Flash arrives on the Prince's turf/snip/Flash is now on the Hawkmen's floating city and about to fight on the spikey weeble-wobby platform. It just makes a funny corny movie even funnier.
And the first 45 minutes of "Alien 3" for some reason.

One of the weekend anchors on "Fox and Friends" is a devotee of "Roadhouse", this might still be amusing if he didn't feel the need to mention it every single chance he gets.

[Just Plain Horse]

Movies, in order of impulsivness to watch:

Bloodsport
Clockwork Orange (believe it or not, I have seen this on tv!)
Army of Darkness
Cape Fear (either version)
The Big Lebowski
The Graveyard Shift
The Thing (either version, but the Carpenter one is a must)
The Graduate
Aracniphobia

"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!" John Goodman (edited for tv) in The Big Lebowski

[AndyC]

Amazing how many movies have been mentioned that I can completely identify with. Some are just so entertaining, you can watch them over and over, and seize every opportunity to do so.

Which brings me to a related thought. Anybody notice that you feel more compelled to watch a movie when it's on TV? I mean, I own lots of my favourite movies, and haven't watched many of them in a while. But if one comes on TV, well, I just can't resist. I could pop the DVD in any time and see it uncut and uninterrupted, but there is something about it being on TV right now that compels me to watch. I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Maybe just that the movie is already playing, or that somebody has already done the work of choosing it. I don't know. Any thoughts?

[Dolph Lundgren]

I have the EXACT same problem, Andy.  I think, for me, it's a combination of laziness (sad, I know) and, like you said, the fact that someone's chosen it and it's already playing.  For whatever reason, whoever's doing the choosing seems to be able to choose the right movies at the right moments very well.