Movies I Must Watch If They’re On TV

January 27th, 2006

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Movies I Must Watch If They’re On TV

There’s this meme going around where you answer a bunch of questions about yourself (here’s an example). One question asks about “movies I would watch over and over again”. Some years ago, another friend asked me what movies I must watch if I’m channel-surfing and see them in progress.

In the spirit of partial meme participation, here’s my top five:

The Great Escape
The Princess Bride
Unforgiven
Spartan
The Truman Show

The number six movie is slightly embarassing, in that it’s Back to the Future. In fact, I spotted it on TV and watched a good half-hour. That’s what started this whole line of thinking, actually.

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Chris Garrett
January 30th, 2006
9:58 am

Back to the future (1, 2 or 3) are amongst my guilty pleasures. Top though is groundhog day, which I watch every year (guess which day)

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Chris
January 30th, 2006
11:02 am

Back to the Future 3 is a bit much for me, as there’s very little time travelling and a whole lot of “look, it’s your favourite characters as cowboys!” BttF 2, however, is a great film that plays with all sorts of time travelling consequences.

I saw Gattaca on TV th other day and watched it - not a bad flick. I’m embarrassed that it took me so long to realize that the title contains letters from the genetic code.

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