Must watch films.

[greenishfing]

I happened to notice tonight that Turner and Hooch was on......yet again. It's one of those films I cannot not watch (regardless of how many times I have seen it). Others are : Ghost, Overboard, ET, Close encounters and National Lampoons ChristmasVacation. Probably a few others I can't think of tight now.

I don't know what it is about them that makes me watch them again and again..........and again.

What are your " Must watch films".

[bramble]

Thelma and Louise.
Sliding Doors.
Shirley Valentine.
Dirty Dancing.
Billy Elliot.
I am sure there are lots more but these are just a few that come to mind.

[roitelet]

Shawshank Redemption, Perfect Spy, Tinker Taylor Soildier Spy (but only the BBC version), Smilies People,The Sandbaggers and Shooting the Past among several others.

[mothhawk]

Some Like It Hot
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Ice Age
The Railway Children
Goodbye, Mr Chips
The Sound of Music (if it's on at Christmas)
You've Got Mail

[bikermike]

Leningrad cowboys go america
Platoon
Hot shots (and part deux)
Grand Hotel Budapest
Top Secret
I love the original tinker tailor, but is it a film? On the box-set list, Spaced and Jeeves and Wooster

[Small pumpkin]

The green mile
All the fast & furious films
Riddick
Transporter
Muppets Christmas carol
All the ice age films
All the shrek films
Avatar

[veggiechicken]

Chicken Run

[chillithyme]

When They See Us (split into 4 parts on Netflix)
Children of Men
Half of a Yellow Sun
Avatar
The Polar Express
Titanic

[Philthy]

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (greatest sci-fi and action movie ever made imo)
Pulp Fiction
Top Gun
Fifth Element
Shawshank Redemption
Groundhog Day
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

[Mr Bones]

Thelma & Louise
Grosse Pointe Blank
In Bruges
The Jungle Book (1967 Disney cartoon)
Priscilla, Queen of the desert
Back to the future trilogy

[broadway]

12 Angry Men
Groundhog Day
ET
Full Metal Jacket

[1Bee]

SP is My Tribe.

We watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation every Christmas Eve, without fail. Last year we inducted the 8 year old into it.

Fifth Element is one of my favourite movies of all time.

I love watching the Pixar movies with the boys.

Galaxy Quest
The first of the Star Trek movies with Chris Pine.
Avengers Assemble
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2
The Mouse Hunt - the pinnacle of modern slapstick
The King and I
The Sound of Music (set aside all the cliche about it being on every year and this is a stunning, achingly romantic movie)
300
Transformers movies (sorry, I like big booms. And I have an unhealthy fascination with Optimus Prime)
The Transporter

Oh, there's lots more. I'd rather watch a movie than a series any day.

[Snoop Puss]

Anybody asks me if I want to watch a film, I'm liable to reply "Yes, anything with guns and lasers" (that'll give away my real identity to anyone who knows me in the real world who happens to come on this forum!). Don't like knives, though. Too much suspense in a knife.

So, any of the Terminator and Robocop films.
Just about any superhero film.
Pulp Fiction
First Matrix film
Avatar (lots of guns and laser-type things in that)
Exiled (Johnnie Too - brilliant gunfight choreography)

You get the gist...

(Just in case you all get the wrong impression, films I will never watch again are Southern Comfort, Deliverance and Cape Fear, and I've never managed more than five minutes of Reservoir Dogs.)

[bikermike]

I saw a marvellously bonkers film on the way to NZ earlier this year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines_(film)
"An American–New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and prey on one another."
Utterly Bonkers...

Another film recco is Bubba Hotep.
If you watch one move about reincarnated body-snatcher phaoros v aged Elvis film set in a deep south retirement home, make it this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Ho-Tep
Has a black JFK in it too...

I have to say, neither contain much gardening...

[Snoop Puss]

Well, that's interesting. I thought Mortal Engines was a hoot. So I'm likely to enjoy the other film you recommend... Thanks.