The Movie You Always Stop & Watch

[ssavarimuthu]

Any James Bond film, The Princess Bride, The Bih Lebowski.

 

[derfatdutchman]

A few off the top of my head
Patton

In Harms Way

Bullet

Any Marx Brothers Movie

Night Passage

North by Northwest

Rear Window

Vertigo

Pale Rider

Unforgiven

 

[rigmedic1]

Perhaps it is something leftover from when I was a kid, but I enjoy a film that I like much more if I happen to catch it playing on television rather than just popping in a DVD. There is a certain thrill, I guess.
Big Trouble in Little China.

A Christmas Carol (or Scrooge), just about any edition, but particularly the musical with Albert Finney.

The Quiet Man, of course.

The Music Man, with Robert Preston

Major League

Roxanne
This list could go on and on, but those are some of my favorites.

 

[aristokles]

Doctor Zhivago

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Sahara

Hidalgo

All Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes

 

[markus]

Just to name a few:

The Searchers

The Quiet Man

Sands Of Iwo Jima

Outlaw Josey Wales

Any Dirty Harry movie

Gran Torino

Alien(S) 1 & 2

Lonesome Dove

Open Range

Gladiator

Kingdom Of Heaven

Last Of The Mohicans

Psycho

Star Wars

Godfather

Young Frankenstein

 

[johnbarleycorn]

Forgot to include Trainspotting on my list and don't think I have seen it on anyone else's either.
Also not that it would ever be on tv but Pink Floyd live at Pompeii would definitely make me stop channel surfing.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Oh yeh, any George Houston movies from the 30's and 40's, Captain Calamity and a ton of others on TCM. There's always lots of pipe smokers, and he set the bar for the rest of the Hollywood men's men. IMO.

 

[demetrakopoulos]

The Shining, Prince of Darkness, Death Proof, Shaun of the Dead, Goodfellas, Casino, The Big Lebowski, Wet Hot American Summer and Turbo Kid. Although Turbo Kid is pretty new, it will become one of them.

 

[cigrmaster]

The Wild Bunch

Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid

Apocalypse Now

Laurence of Arabia

The Professionals

The Great Escape

Battle of The Bulge

 

[deleon]

The God Father I & II

Braveheart

Seven

Jaws

Jeremiah Johnson

Smokey & the Bandit

Predator

The Professional

The Departed

GoodWill Hunting

The Town

Animal House

The Replacements

John Wick

Lethal Weapon I,II & III

and more..

 

[kanaia]

Godfather I & 2

Josey Wales

Quiet Man

Those Bing Crosby priest movies.

Wizard of Oz

Braveheart

The Bridge Over The River Kwai

Casa Blanca

Dances With The Wolves

A Man Called Horse

Rocky

 

[warren]

I fixed the hole in DVD collection. I can now watch To Hell and Back whenever I am so moved.

 

[ericthered]

I don't have a specific list, I will stop for almost any film, the lower the budget/production value the better. I have an affinity for bad movies- I like to marvel at the flaws and try to discern the thought processes behind how and why the film was made. The most recent was Berserk, this gem from 1967:

 

[4noggins]

Beetlejuice and My Cousin Vinny

 

[lifesizehobbit]

I have an affinity for bad movies...

You might get a kick out of Larry Blamire films; he spoofs old 50's B movies. The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra is a good example.

 

[sablebrush52]

Add a few more to my list:
Little Big Man

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 - Warner Bros)

A Man For All Seasons

Guardians Of The Galaxy

Galaxy Quest

Modern Times

The Great Dictator

The Grand Illusion

I Married A Witch

Nothing Sacred

Cinema Paradiso - both versions

Throne Of Blood

Ran

First Men In The Moon

Any Charlie Chan or Mr Moto - yeah, I like fun crap too

Topper

Blythe Spirit

The Trouble With Harry

Strangers On A Train

Where's Poppa?

Harvey

Once Upon A Time In The West

The Ghost and Mrs Muir

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame -(1939 - Laughton)

The Blue Angel

Any of the Von Sternberg - Dietrich collaborations

The Red Shoes

The Red Balloon

1900

The Lavender Hill Mob

Mary Poppins

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang

Double Indemnity

Rebel Without A Cause

The Raven

The 7 Faces Of Dr Lao

Robin Hood - (1938 Errol Flynn)
just to add a couple more...

 

[deathmetal]

Galaxy Quest is one of the better movies made. Not as good as Repo Man but still glorious...

 

[iamn8]

++1 on Galaxy Quest! HILAREOUS movie!!! Tony Shaloub is so awesome!!!

 

[mayfair70]

Repo Man and Harvey. Two very different movies and styles, yet both endearing and enduring in their own ways.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Quiet Man gets listed by 3 out of 4 comments, but NO one else listed Waking Ned Divine? Is it just that no one else has seen it. If you liked one, how can you not like the other? It's classic Irish humor, and beautiful filmography. I have to stop on it every time I see it's on cable.