Movies that you think about a lot

[Draymond]

It's always difficult start new threads here because there are always systemic trolls like Muck Ficon who ruin them but I am going to take a chance here. It's one of the flaws of this site in not having moderators to euthanize these trolling posters.

Crowe Diddly had an interesting take on the new Mission Impossible thread, in that while the action was great, the movie lacked any interesting themes or emotional attachments. I agree, as much as I liked the movie I basically forgot about it the next day.

So that got me thinking about the movies I remember many years after I saw them. The movies that stuck with me even though I have not seen them for over 10 and in some cases nearly 20 years. In other words, when I am driving in my car the movie just pops in my head. I am not using clips below, it makes the thread too long.

1) The Godfather: I don't know why, but when the Turk meets Vito Corleone (Brando) for the first time and they sit down, Vito pours a wine for the Turk and a little wine drips on his pant leg and Vito brushes it off. Great scene

2) The Sixth Sense: The ending. I remember seeing this in the theater and I was absolutely blown away. I have not seen it since, what 20 years? Still resonates all these years later

3) Saving Private Ryan: The opening scene, just too much to process, unreal

4) Apocalypse Now: The scene where the CIA agent says to Martin Sheen : 'Terminate with Extreme Prejudice'

5) End of Red Dawn where Patrick Swayze is carrying his dead brother (Charlie Sheen)

I think about these movie scenes all the time. Add to the list as you see fit.

[Sloppy Joe]

Good list; the two 'old' ones that I think about often (specific scenes and overall) are No Country for Old Men and 2001. Specific scenes from Godfathers as well.

Interesting you mentioned that scene with Sollozzo; I always viewed it as Corleone flexing a bit by having the stones to 'neaten up' this fellow gangster by brushing off some lint/dust that he came in with before rejecting his proposal.

[Tellafriend]

Good list; the two 'old' ones that I think about often (specific scenes and overall) are No Country for Old Men and 2001.

I often think of various scenes from No Country for Old Men. Fantastic movie.

[hongkonger]

Good list; the two 'old' ones that I think about often (specific scenes and overall) are No Country for Old Men and 2001.

I often think of various scenes from No Country for Old Men. Fantastic movie.

I don't have some way to put it. That's the way it is.

[hongkonger]

LA Confidential
Boogie Nights
Back to the Future
American Beauty
Nixon
The Hangover
The Graduate
Sneakers
Pulp Fiction
Risky Business
Killing Zoe

[Gookieheimowitz]

Just for you Draymond

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0079727/

[Gookieheimowitz]

Or maybe this movie I think it's called 1.4 million


https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/

[big dick]

LA Confidential
Boogie Nights
Back to the Future
American Beauty
Nixon
The Hangover
The Graduate
Sneakers
Pulp Fiction
Risky Business
Killing Zoe

Never seen a few of those gonna check em out

[Draymond]

Boogie Nights is one I should have included. Every time I hear that Night Ranger song I think of that Chinese guy throwing fire crackers in the living room.

[sonatine]

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[JohnCommode]

Just three of the finest film noir movies:

Body Heat with a young and slender Kathleen Turner.

Chinatown with Nicholson and Dunaway.

The Usual Suspects with Spacey.

[PLOL]

Air Bud: How the hell did the other teams just go along with playing basketball with a dog?

[hutmaster]

Shawshank Redemption saw it when it came out only because we went to see Forrest Gump but it was sold out.

The original Brian’s Song made for TV starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams. Watched it with my dad and since then probably 100 times. This movie will make the toughest of Men cry.

[Draymond]

People don't realize that Shawshank Redemption only grossed like $20M in the theaters, it was in and out. It success primarily came from IMDB reviews and future rentals where it is like #2 or #3 all time.

Make no doubt about it, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are the King Makers now in the movie industry. They can make a movie or destroy it over a weekend.

[MumblesBadly]

Defending Your Life. Very funny, but at its core, a movie that can challenge a person to examine how they have lived their life. And how they want to live it going forward for whatever time they have left.

[BCR]

Many of mine have been covered here. Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Shawshank have all made it into my lexicon. It kind of has to be a really famous movie in order to drop it on someone. I mean, like you can call a buddy Fredo and he knows you’re fucking with him. I was talking to an old girlfriend like a month ago that I dated right after I got well and I told her that she was like that sewer pipe that Andy Dufresne had to crawl through after 20+ years in hell. She didn’t appreciate the analogy, but she got it.

You see those movies so much though you don’t really stop to ponder them. Shit like Network, or Minority Report that were almost prophetic or cutting edge are more the type that I sit and think about. Also something like Magnolia, which is just incredible. But those aren’t the quotable movies.

[Draymond]

Many of mine have been covered here. Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Shawshank have all made it into my lexicon. It kind of has to be a really famous movie in order to drop it on someone. I mean, like you can call a buddy Fredo and he knows you’re fucking with him. I was talking to an old girlfriend like a month ago that I dated right after I got well and I told her that she was like that sewer pipe that Andy Dufresne had to crawl through after 20+ years in hell. She didn’t appreciate the analogy, but she got it.

You see those movies so much though you don’t really stop to ponder them. Shit like Network, or Minority Report that were almost prophetic or cutting edge are more the type that I sit and think about. Also something like Magnolia, which is just incredible. But those aren’t the quotable movies.

The movie Network jogged my memory on another movie that pops in my mind. It was the one where Meryl Streep was a whistleblower on a Nuclear site. The company put her on a plane to testify and when the meal came she asked how much it cost. Obviously if was included in the fare. When I fly and can work an upgrade to first class, when they bring me food I ask how much it costs. Sometimes I get a laugh other times a blank stare, but its because of that Meryl Streep movie scene I ask this.

[Tellafriend]

Casino is another such movie as is Lonesome Dove.

[Wiganer]

The original 1988 Vanishing (Spoorloos)

[limitles]

Barton Fink but not that much. Really you think about a few films you've seen a lot?
Shaky premise I must say
Occasionally one will pop into my mind like Limitless but that's a whole other story.