Train Wrecks

[AlohaDawg]

Or, in other words, movies that force you to watch them, regardless of what time it is or whatever else it is that you should be doing.

I'm interested in what movies make you stay up all night on a school/work night, forego cuddling with your SO, neglect your appetite - when your flipping through channels and you see a scene or hear a snippet of dialog and your hooked for at least an hour. As you can see from the list, sometimes it's because the movie is JUST THAT BAD...

Inserted Edit here: [edit]The movies that make you do this might be good movies or bad movies. In my case, quite often they are bad movies but that's just me. I'm wondering what movies make you watch them. [/edit]


Usually, these would be movies on free TV.  Generally on TBS, USA, TNN, or latenight local channels. With Commercials. Or in the case of latenight, commercials featuring models enticing you to call a fat woman with a mustache on a 1-900 number.

I can not walk away from:

Big Trouble in Little China
Conan the Barbarian
McQ (this one is a source of shame)
The Maltese Falcon
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Food of the Gods
Them                       (Note that any movie about bugs will probably work)
Empire of the Ants
Phase IV
13th Warrior (more shame)
Midway / The Longest Day
Dirty Dozen
Magnificent Seven
Walking Tall (Bo Svenson one, not Joe Don Baker one)
Any Dirty Harry Movie


I'm embarrassed now, but I'm wondering if any of you suffer from compulsive movie watching as well.  If not, I guess I can always try therapy. Or get TIVO and watch them over and over til I am desensitized.

[jough]

The Maltese Falcon is not a bad movie.

There are few movies that I can watch anytime even though they're really not all that good.  Well, some of them are.  But these are a few that I could watch over and over again anyway.

Any of the five Star Wars movies.
Any Die Hard movie.
The Matrix
Top Gun
Days of Thunder (Top Gun in stock cars)
Any James Bond movie
Ghostbusters
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Citizen Kane
UHF
The Dark Backward
Any Kevin Smith film
Fight Club
Any Tarantino film (written or directed)

Of course, I have most of these on DVD and would rather watch them in Original Aspect Ratio.

So sometimes if a movie's playing on late night basic cable I'll pop-in the DVD and watch it on my own.

[Choop]

Movies I didn't want to watch, but couldn't stop myself, regardless of quality:

Cube
Dude, Where's My Car
The Chase
Point of No Return
Lethal Weapon 2-4
The Punisher

There are more, but damn, why does my psyche torture me so?

[Mite]

Whenever Total Recal is on tv, I must watch it all the way through. I don't know why.

Shawshank and Silence of the Lambs are like this for me too, which is good 'cause they're excellent movies, but bad 'cause they used to be on all the time.

[AugustWest]

Hmmmm.... let's see:

Animal House
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Car Wash
Every Which Way but Loose
Groundhog Day
Tampopo
The Longest Day
Patton
The Cowboys
Little Big Man
Most James Bond movies
The Blues Brothers
Sling Blade
Deliverance

[wombat]

AugustWest, you think Tampopo is a bad movie?  I take back my threat to have an internet crush on you and your dachshund.

[AlohaDawg]

Well, in the original post I mentioned that sometimes, it because the moviie is just that bad. Occasionally, it's just that good, I guess

I forgot about Car Wash! That one gets me every time. It's something about Melanie Mayrons enormous boobs and that dude with the HUGE fro.

I should add to the list a few more I just thought of:

Clash of the Titans
The Wash (the recent Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre movie)
Excalibur

[AugustWest]

AugustWest, you think Tampopo is a bad movie?  I take back my threat to have an internet crush on you and your dachshund.

No! No! No!  A thousand times NO!  

I guess I missed the BAD movie part. Stupid short attention span... [/size]Pretty much everything on my list I consider a good movie.  I love Tampopo.  The first time I watched it on IFC I was transfixed.

May I consider our mutual internet crush renewed?

Also, here's an aesthetics question for the philosophy majors amongst us:  How can a movie be bad if we enjoy it?  Isn't the purpose of a movie (or at least one acceptable purpose of movies) to entertain?  So what if it entertains in a crude or silly fashion.  If it effectively diverts or amuses us, doesn't that make it a good movie?

Geez, how could you possibly think I thought some of the movies on my list are bad?  Patton?  Sling Blade?  If I ever called Blazing Saddles a Bad Movie, my tongue would leap from my head and run screaming down the street!

[wombat]

Geez, how could you possibly think I thought some of the movies on my list are bad?  

Um, well, possibly because I've only seen - let's see - two of them.  I am not a big movie fan.  Can't sit still for that long.  Please forgive me.

[jough]

Um, well, possibly because I've only seen - let's see - two of them.  I am not a big movie fan.  Can't sit still for that long.  Please forgive me.

There's medication you can take for that.

[wombat]

Um, well, possibly because I've only seen - let's see - two of them.  I am not a big movie fan.  Can't sit still for that long.  Please forgive me.

There's medication you can take for that.

Yeah, but instead I decided to try to get a career where it was an asset instead of a liability. Didn't help the movie-watching thing, though.

[V-Adore]

I find basically every filmed version of LotR transfixing this way, even the really horrible ones. The Fifth Element does it too, although that is a beautiful film in every way.

[CortJstr]

My Cousin Vinny

[pubdoggy]

End Of Days

hoo boy there is some bad bad bad good stuff in there

[Limmo]

Real Genius.

Office Space.

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock.

I'd add Dolemite II: The Human Tornado here, but I've never actually seen it on TV.