2 movies you can't stop watching

GWTW
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

There are others, too, of course.

Any and all godfathers- I can say the lines along with them . It doesn't matter.


I too love the whole genre of Nazi spy films . Escape, The stranger, confessions of a Nazi Spy, Man hunt. Love them all


It was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

this week (on the "Movies" channel) I saw films I had seen many times before, but could not turn off:
I call that the Channel Surf Stop Test: You stumble on a film you've seen before and you stop to watch it. Doesn't matter where in the film it is. You tell yourself you're just going to watch this one scene. You wind up watching it all the way to the end. Again.

Two recent candidates that come to mind are L.A. Confidential and M*A*S*H.

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Recently:
Swimfan
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Through the years:
Bye Bye Birdie
Stage Door

Lol. I remember watching swimfan. I'm a sucker for those low rent dial-a-psycho-thrillers.
I even watched that one twice.

Among those that pass that test for me are:

Double Indemnity
Sunset Blvd
Laura
Chinatown
Network

And like my DVDs and/or Blu-rays of the above, do any in your collection suffer from "Neglected Disc Syndrome?" I've probably seen each of those films on cable ten times for every one that I've put the discs in a player.

Human nature's funny. It's like having all your favorite meals available for dinner every night and instead of choosing, telling the chef, "Surprise me."


Poe! You are...avenged!

And like my DVDs and/or Blu-rays of the above, do any in your collection suffer from "Neglected Disc Syndrome?" I've probably seen each of those films on cable ten times for every one that I've put the discs in a player.
All of my discs suffer from that.

A few years ago, I took a couple of friends to see a revival of Goodfellas. They had never seen it before, and I had never seen it on the big screen. They weren't terribly impressed; it's one of my Desert Island Discs.

I'm not making this up: Two nights later, I'm on the couch channel-surfing. I stumble across Goodfellas just starting on a movie channel. Now, I've seen this flick a number of times before. I have the DVD. I just saw it two nights previously.

I sat and watched it again in its entirety.

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Weird, ain't it?

I have maybe a couple dozen discs that I've popped in the player to do only a quick QC for defects after receiving them, but haven't yet watched. This, after thinking "I must have that" when they became available.

It always brings to mind the sage words spoken by Spock in the ST episode, "Amok Time:" "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting."

You think, maybe, that a combination of the Channel Surf Stop Test and the Neglected Disc Syndrome represent some kind of not-so-latent holdover from the pre-home-video era when we had to wait for our favorites to show up on broadcast or at revival houses? It's as though the surprise makes it more special.


Poe! You are...avenged!