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12-01-2019, 08:51 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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What movie have you spent the most time watching?
Not necessarily the movie you have seen the most front to back, but the one you have spent the most hours watching. Maybe you had it in in the background, or it was on TBS and you put it on halfway through.
Kids movies don't count unless you actually like it. Cars would be pretty high up on my list if they did. I think the top one for me is likely the original Star Wars. Close by would also be Christmas Vacation. I seem to binge watch that a lot around the holidays. Hocus Pocus would also be up there because I always throw it on in the background the month of October. |
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12-01-2019, 09:00 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Flash Gordon is one. The original Dune. Also, Highlander.
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12-01-2019, 09:06 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: La Mirada, CA
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Whenever a Harry Potter weekend shows up on SyFy or some other channel we leave it on for background noise.
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12-01-2019, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Don't have cable now but when I did, yeah I think Harry Potter movies in the background. If its not "movies", I'd say one of the HGTV fix-flip-where to live house series. |
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12-01-2019, 09:52 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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Easy, Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan. After that, probably The Empire Strikes Back, or Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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12-01-2019, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2013
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If not Star Wars then probably some Rifftrax movie as I constantly have those on in the background.
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12-01-2019, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere More Familiar
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Probably some crummy cartoon / Disney movie from the bringing up my little sister days - she's 10 years younger than me, there were a LOT of movies on repeat when I babysat her.
For movies I've intended to watch? Probably The Princess Bride or Love Actually. |
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12-01-2019, 12:08 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Probably Goonies or the Karate Kid. Or something else I had on a loop as background noise as a kid in the 80s. I don't watch TV like that anymore.
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12-01-2019, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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That is why I put in the "kids movies don't count" part; I am sure a lot of us have seen more hours of Frozen than anything else |
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12-01-2019, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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When I was in high school, I had Wayne's World and White Men Can't Jump on the same tape, and for a solid year when I came home from school I would pop that in and 'watch' (background noise) at least one of them. So most likely those two, with The Naked Gun up there as well.
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12-01-2019, 01:51 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
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Princess Bride or Groundhog Day, if I see either on TV I'll likely watch
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12-01-2019, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Newbury, England
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Star Wars without a shadow of doubt
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12-01-2019, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Goodfellas I think.
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12-01-2019, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Barnegat, NJ
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Not sure about the most but Die Hard and Back to the Future have to be far up there.
Last edited by Ironhead : 12-01-2019 at 03:24 PM. |
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12-01-2019, 04:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Groundhog's Day is probably the winner for me with how often it's on TV. I'll watch it any time I'm aware it's on.
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12-01-2019, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo
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Shawshank
honorable mention : Conan the Barbarian, Big Trouble in Little China
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12-01-2019, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Empire Strikes Back. I used to watch it every day when I was 6-7 years old.
Today I would say Infinity War. I've watched it probably 50 times.
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12-01-2019, 05:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: High and outside
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If it doesn't have to be a movie, then it's probably the World War II in Color series on The Military Channel. It's my go-to background noise choice.
If it has to be a movie, then probably Shawshank. Maybe Fifth Element. Last edited by Bobble : 12-01-2019 at 05:35 PM. |
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12-01-2019, 06:44 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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That's on Netflix too (if it's the same one) and I use that background noise about once a week. Netflix also just came out with their own WWII series that now takes turns with WWII In Color for me. |
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12-01-2019, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Herndon, VA
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Well known movie would be The Wizard of Oz. Love that movie.
Top of all movies would be Gregory's Girl. 1980's Scottish movie, it was filmed in my hometown with the school scenes shot at my school. It was my regular drunk/homesick movie when I first moved away from home, must've seen it hundreds of times. It reminds me of two places I'd like to be. At home and the 1980s. |
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12-01-2019, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Airplane
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12-01-2019, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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I am not really a big rewatcher, nor do I tend to put on films in the background, so not a lot would qualify. Shawshank is probably the answer here. It certainly is in terms of my dedicated rewatches.
Others that come to mind are Ocean’s Eleven, which is what I tend to put on in the background whenever I do get in the rare mood for just something mindless back there. Also, I roomed with a guy for a couple of years, and he loved Boogie Nights, and he would pretty much just have that movie running constantly, so that might actually be the answer in terms of sheer hours. |
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12-01-2019, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Dang, that's a tougher question for me than I would have figured.
I can't definitively pick one, best I could narrow would be likely candidates. Midway, The Longest Day, Die Hard, and El Dorado (the basically remake of Rio Bravo)
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12-01-2019, 09:24 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Thread hijack - what's the movie you saw most in the theaters?
I've only seen a handful of movies more than once in the theaters. I saw Austin Powers, Gladiator, and Avatar twice. I saw The Last Jedi 6 times - thanks to moviepass, and I wanted to see it in every format. |
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12-01-2019, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Patton easily for most watched film, in whole or in part.
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12-01-2019, 09:36 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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Field of Dreams or Brian's Song. Also in the top 5 Step Brothers, Happy Gilmore and Heartbreak Ridge
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12-01-2019, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY
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This and the probably equal time of "The American President" |
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12-01-2019, 10:59 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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I've only seen 1 movie more than once - saw Avatar three times. First time I loved, 2nd time I really liked, 3rd time was in 3D and it probably killed the movie for me.
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12-02-2019, 12:03 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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I saw Avatar in 3D in Vegas and it was amazing. Saw it back home in Boise again in 3D and it wasn't the same movie. I haven't bothered with my local theater's 3D screenings since. I'm not sure I'd I was in a particularly high-end Vegas theater or if my home theater was particularly shitty, but it was night and day. Last edited by molson : 12-02-2019 at 10:14 AM. |
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12-02-2019, 12:51 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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I should clarify that the 3D itself was great (saw it at the huge imax cinema we used to have in Sydney at the time), but for whatever reason the movie just didn't grab me the 3rd time around. I tried watching it on TV again maybe a year or two ago and didn't make it more than 45 mins through, the magic just didn't last for me like it does with a lot of other sci fi movies.
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12-02-2019, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Zoolander.
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12-02-2019, 06:55 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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I saw Infinity War 4 times in the theater. Seeing The Last Jedi twice in the theater was 2 times too many for me. 
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12-02-2019, 07:24 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Mrs. A points out that the answer for me is probably something in the Star Wars original trilogy, just because I would have had such a headstart in watching it and having it on on cable in the background pretty much from birth on. A lot of my other answers did not come out until I was already an adult and had lots of Star Wars hours already logged.
And then you add in the times I watched it in high school and college. And then you add in the times it has been on while my kids have watched it . . . Good question (Also shout out to Jon for the Die Hard answer. That's one that I'll watch whenever it is on and give a dedicated watch every Christmas). Last edited by albionmoonlight : 12-02-2019 at 07:25 AM. |
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12-02-2019, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, VA
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Until I had kids, the answer was Spaceballs. Over the last several years, the answer became Frozen, which, I am not ashamed to say, is a genuinely good movie.
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12-02-2019, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Parañaque, Philippines
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The Back To The Future trilogy, definitely. Can't not watch it whenever it's on.
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12-02-2019, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Probably either A Knight's Tale or Big Trouble In Little China.
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12-02-2019, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Shawshank because I think TNT would play that every weekend it seemed in the past. Also Field of Dreams any time it's on.
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12-02-2019, 03:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Spaceballs would be up there for me, too. Haven't seen it in a few years but pretty sure if I put it on right now I could still basically recite the script word-for-word in real time.
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12-02-2019, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Either goodfellas or back to the future, both would get aired on TV from time to time (goodfells edits to make it ok for TBS are hilarious) and I would always stop changing channels any time i see them
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12-02-2019, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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Has to be A New Hope. When I was a kid, we got our first VCR around 1980-81, and one of our first cassettes was Star Wars. In the summer of 80 and 81, I was 8 or 9, and my brothet a year younger. We both loved Star Wars and were right in that old enough to be obsessed and young enough not to feel guilty about being unproductive stage of our childhoods. So we basically watched Star Wars at least once every day of those summers. Must have watched it a hundred times.
And of course seen it a few times since on TV, and in the theater again when Lucas rejiggered it and added the digital animals.
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12-03-2019, 08:38 AM
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Location: Arlington, VA
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Funny you would say that. I put it on while I was on the treadmill a couple of months ago after not having seen it in at least 20 years. All the lines were still there in my brain. |
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12-03-2019, 10:24 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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A New Hope or Empire Strikes Back for me. Heck I even sat a cassette recorder in front of our tv, recorded A New Hope so I could listen to it while I fell asleep.
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12-03-2019, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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A small group of friends joined me in re-watching The Doors for a whole summer anywhere within a reasonable drive of our campus, back when $2 second-run theaters were a thing. Likely saw it 6-10 times... or at least that's how I remember it. That's definitely my answer for "in theater," and I can't come up with anything else that beats it otherwise.
I recall watching Presumed Innocent at least 3-4 times, but that total seemed pretty unimpressive in contrast to some of y'all. |
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12-03-2019, 10:39 AM
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Wait... seeing these comments, the answer is actually probably Clueless. During that lost year in Minnesota, I'd watch it literally every single day and imagined a life like that.
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12-03-2019, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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I watched this because you made me. It was really enojoyable, although I struggled a bit with the accents. The plot twist at the end was dizzying, although I had been drinking a bit ...
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12-03-2019, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Caught the end of Flash Gordon on TV this afternoon.
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12-03-2019, 08:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY
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I have this on vinyl, Offers considered. |
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12-04-2019, 09:21 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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Oh nice! I never actually listened to it on vinyl.
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12-04-2019, 10:23 AM
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Herndon, VA
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Yeah, it's a pretty good movie. Not all-time great or groundbreaking, but "nice" and fairly amusing. There's a followup too, I have the dvd somewhere although I've never actually watched it, reviews were not good. p.s. I'm assuming you're talking about Gregory's Girl and not the Wizard of Oz with the plot twist that he's not really a wizard. |
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