This happened to me just last night.
My wife and I had just finished watching Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (it
holds up really well, btw, 22 years after its release), I flipped a couple of
channels and found Casablanca playing on PBS. Talk about a change of pace!
It was about 15 minutes into the movie. We thought, oh, we'll just watch a few
minutes of this and ended up sticking with it, through great scenes and
immortal catchphrases, right through to "Louis, I think this is the beginning
of a beautiful friendship."
This always happens to me, too, with Cool Hand Luke, Rebel Without a Cause, The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sunset Blvd, The Sweet Smell of Success and a
number of others. I can, and do, watch them over and over again.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Hershenson
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: [MOPO] What are movies where EVERY time you see one flipping
channels, you end up watching some or all?
I was e-mailing with Freeman Fisher and he mentioned he had seen Hud at least
a dozen times (and I know I have as well, because it is simply a wonderful
movie). I have found that there are a select group of movies where EVERY time I
see one of them while flipping channels, I say "I'll just watch a few minutes
of this" (even if it is in the middle or near the end) but then I realize a
great scene is coming up soon, and I think, "well, I have to watch that" and
then there is another great scene coming up and then quite often I end up
watching it all (and marveling just how great a movie I think it is)! A good
example of this for me is "The Princess Bride" or "Cool Hand Luke", but there
are lots of others.
I was wondering, is this just true of me, or do many of you also have movies
that you find "irresistible" to not start watching when you see they are
playing on TV (even though you have seen them one or many times before)? And if
so, what movies are they?
Bruce
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