Something you may not know about me.
June 13th, 2007
If the following movies are on cable, I must watch them: Everything is Illuminated and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I have seen them both countless times.
Sad but true.
If the following movies are on cable, I must watch them: Everything is Illuminated and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I have seen them both countless times.
Sad but true.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I am so broken when it comes to “RENT, “Winn Dixie” and “Stand By ME”
Over and over and over again!
June 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Hmm. I’ve never seen either of those.
However, i get sucked right into “Where The Heart Is”, “Hope Floats”, “The Firm” or “The Pelican Brief” any time i stumble over them.
This week, one morning, i got sucked into THE BEST one of all though…”An Affair To Remember”. Swoon! Such a good movie!
June 13th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
“When Harry Met Sally”, “Sleepless In Seattle”, “Rock Star”, “Almost Famous” and “the Horse Whisperer”. Those are my “can’t help but watch” movies, despite having them memorized.
June 14th, 2007 at 12:01 am
That’s not sad. Sad is watching Desperately Seeking Susan every time you come across it. Not that I would do that but, uh, if someone did it would be sad.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:04 am
so not sad. Have you ever seen “teen witch”? I have. More times than I care to confess. That is sad.
June 14th, 2007 at 5:51 am
For me, it’s a always “A Few Good Men.”
June 14th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Hey, I #*&%ing OWN Desperately Seeking Susan, so back off!
For me it’s “40 Yr. Old Virgin” which seems to be on permanent HBO rotation, “13 Going on 30″ because I find Jennifer Garner completely irresistable in that movie plus hello, Mark Ruffalo! But for embarrassing? Any “Will Smith saves the world” movie: “Independence Day,” “Men in Black,” “I, Robot”…I can’t help it. They totally suck me in.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:45 am
I watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith everytime it is on too. I just watched it again on Tuesday. I should just buy the DVD.
June 14th, 2007 at 7:29 am
For me it is Dazed and Confused. I swear I’ve caught it on tv eleventy million times… and no matter where it is in the movie, I’m sucked in until the end!
June 14th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Everything is Illuminated is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen… I adore it. I have seen it a number of times too. Brilliant, and quotable
June 14th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Ha! My must-watch movies are waaaaay more shameful:
“Clash of the Titans”, “Beastmaster” and “Willow”.
Yup – men with swords and horses battling with gods and wizards. Good times. When I lived with my parents, these three were always played back to back on TBS. We don’t have cable now, so my husband bought Willow for me this year. Now I just need to find copies of the other two.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Oh, my list of movies that fall into this category is long and shameful. I’m totally with Michelle when it comes to Will Smith movies, especially Independence Day and Men in Black. Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, anything John Hughes, the ‘new’ Parent Trap (Dennis Quaid…mmmm), Twister…the list goes on!
June 14th, 2007 at 9:16 am
my suck in movies are of another generation … but then again, so am i. but it doesn’t matter how many times i’ve seen them.
animal house (yes, animal house)
when harry met sally
a few good men (demi moore and tom cruise’s best performances ever)
fame — it’s never one but if it were, i’d be a sucker for it.
oh and one last one — excalibur
June 14th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I’m like that with The Italian Job (hubba hubba Mark Walhberg), Sound of Music and anything with Audrey Hepburn.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:11 am
- Dirty Dancing!! If this happens to be on when I’m channel surfing I always stop. “Nobody puts Baby in the corner!”
- Urban Cowboy – this was on Showtime when I was a kid (back when they only had a few movies they would play a gazillion times.) My mom had the soundtrack and I still know all the words to the “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” I love it when it pops up on CMT or TBS!
Anything John Hughes, John Cusak, Robert Downey Jr. or 80′s “brat pack”.
This one I don’t consider embarrassing – I’ve seen Beautiful Girls at least a couple a dozen times. I pop in the old VHS at least once a year to get my long-haired Timothy Hutton fix.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:54 am
“A League of Their Own.” And I cry every time at the end when they go to the reunion. Every time.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:57 am
While I have yet to see “Everything is Illuminated,” it’s definitely on my list. As for “Mr & Mrs Smith,” I cannot and will not get tired of watching that movie. It’s hot…smoking hot. It makes me want to do big girl things to Mr Wonderful. And Brad Pitt. Another movie I can watch over and over again is “Mean Girls.” LiLo back in a time when she was still cute and kinda innocent.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Mine are
Wedding Singer
Casablanca
Steel Magnolias
Pelican Brief
Clear and Present Danger
How’s that for all over the map?
June 14th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Oh, the shame? Jess, I loved Everything Is Illuminated so much I ran out and bought both of Jonathan Safran Foer’s books. And his wife’s. They were excellent! (and as a side note, since I seem to not have your email, I got my Ravelry invite and wow! it’s amazing! goooo you two!)
June 15th, 2007 at 10:25 am
i could watch Mr&Mrs every single night and never get bored. Who’s your daddy now?!?!?!
June 15th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
” JessZ Says:
June 14th, 2007 at 12:01 am
That’s not sad. Sad is watching Desperately Seeking Susan every time you come across it. Not that I would do that but, uh, if someone did it would be sad.”
ooh balls color me sad because i will actually cancel plans if i stumble across Desperately Seeking Susan on cable.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
I love Willow (Val, call me!). Also, Arsenic and Old Lace. Cracks me up every single time. Cary Grant in his youth, yummy!
June 16th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
love em both. my favorite in the first is the ‘seeing eye bitch’ shirt on the dog. such a touching movie in the end.
June 17th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Mine are Jaws, Jaws2 and Steel Magnolias. I wonder what is behind the “must watch every time” phenomenon?
June 18th, 2007 at 8:32 am
wendee! beautiful girls is my most favoritest movie of all time. yesterday they were playing it at the gym and i almost, ALMOST, stayed on the elliptical for longer than my requisite 5 seconds. but you know, even timothy hutton can’t make me ellipticalize for more than 3 miles.
mine are: beautiful girls, stepmom (the shame! the crying!), sound of music, breakfast at tiffany’s, my father the hero, and…one fine day. yes, it’s true.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:55 am
I still have yet to see Everything is Illuminated. I think it’s on our Netflix List though. Someone up there had almost the exact same list as mine though…Rockstar, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle…although I’d have to add You’ve Got Mail.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
STAYIN’ ALIVE – It’s like a train wreck…Must Look.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:59 am
I LOVE “Everything is Illuminated”! It’s so quirky and so interesting to watch. I will also always think of it with warm and fuzzy knitting memories — I was watching it the first time I ever tried two-color/stranded knitting!
June 26th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Ahh, yes… Sammy Davis Junior Junior. The seeing-eye bitch. Premium!
My guilty pleasure must-watch is Pretty Woman. More recently, though it has been 40-Year Old Virgin, Grandma’s Boy, and You Me & Dupree.
It’s definitely okay to have such guilty pleasures. No harm, no foul! Watch on, girl!
July 13th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Have you read the book of Everything is Illuminated? Truly amazing. The movie does it justice, but has a completely different feel.