What's your ultimate escapist movie??

9 years ago

Tombstone
Payback (original. not the director's cut, ick, dreadful)
Caddyshack
Animal House
Shawshank Redemption

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Every recent Superhero movie.
Every good science fiction movie.

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Every movie that Riffle finds too complex, ie, no cowboys in it.

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ThomM 9 years ago

House of 1,000 Corpses
Devils Rejects
Men in Black
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WalkingCarpet

Banned 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Every recent Superhero movie.
Every good science fiction movie.

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Every movie that Riffle finds too complex, ie, no cowboys in it.

You and I are so alike Joe- we truly must be long lost twins similar to Arnold and Danny deVito eh?

All the good stuff came to me while the crap DNA went to you.

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet

You and I are so alike Joe- we truly must be long lost twins similar to Arnold and Danny deVito eh?

All the good stuff came to me while the crap DNA went to you.

I warned him about eating that sub-standard Indian Elephant Dung, but did he listen, Noooo!

There is only one movie that really did it for me, the first Matrix movie.

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Dan Riffle

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Every recent Superhero movie.
Every good science fiction movie.

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Every movie that Riffle finds too complex, ie, no cowboys in it.

Come on, Claude, you're better than this. Only one movie I mentioned had cowboys.

I should add The Avengers to my list. Just a great popcorn movie. I still laugh every time I think about the Hulk side-punching Thor.

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Come on, Claude, you're better than this. Only one movie I mentioned had cowboys.

I should add The Avengers to my list. Just a great popcorn movie. I still laugh every time I think about the Hulk side-punching Thor.

First; I agree with The Avengers. That, and Guardians Of The Galaxy, are the best of the litter, in my opinion.

Second; I loved when the Hulk flipped Loki back and forth, like in a cartoon...then walked away as he said "Puny god".

Third; I said Cowboy movies, because that sounded the most subtly gay to me.

And when you say "Claude, you are better than this", you are always wrong...because....

I am the Underminer! I am always beneath you..but nothing is beneath me!

(The Incredibles, another of my favorite movies.)

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MikeAmbrosio

9 years ago

Meatballs. Bill Murray is my hero.

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WalkingCarpet

Banned 9 years ago

Raiders of the Lost Ark- another of my fav escapist flicks.

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Kurt

9 years ago

Claude Does Wooster...In a world filled with creepy old white vacuum salesmen, you'll laugh, you'll cry. But mostly cry.

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Dan Riffle 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Claude Does Wooster...In a world filled with creepy old white vacuum salesmen, you'll laugh, you'll cry. But mostly cry.

Kurt, I think you made up this movie. The word "does" implies movement or action of some kind. Claude doesn't do that.
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- MissTerraK 9 years ago
  
  Dirty Dancing
  Sweet Home Alabama
  The Help
  Shutter Island
  DeJaVu
  Troy
  Apocalypto
  Hitch
  Body Guard
  Titanic
  Green Mile
  Save The Last Dance
  Twister
  
  I guess which type of movie I watch, depends on what I'd like to temporarily escape from.
  
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Kurt

9 years ago

How about favorite escape movies...

Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Papillion

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MissTerraK 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

How about favorite escape movies...

Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Papillion

Off the top of my head, uhhh, Escape From Witch Mountain? LOL!

How about...

Out Of Sight
Public Enemies
Con Air

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Claude Whitacre 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Claude Does Wooster...In a world filled with creepy old white vacuum salesmen, you'll laugh, you'll cry. But mostly cry.

I think your just a mean person.

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Kurt, I think you made up this movie. The word "does" implies movement or action of some kind. Claude doesn't do that.

You're better than that. Wait....maybe not....definitely not.

Originally Posted by Kurt

How about favorite escape movies...

Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Papillion

I hate you....again.....still.......
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- Dan Riffle 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  I think your just a mean person.
  
  You're better than that. Wait....maybe not....definitely not.
  
  I hate you....again.....still.......
  
  How do you get it right and wrong in the span of two sentences?
  
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  MissTerraK 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  How do you get it right and wrong in the span of two sentences?
  
  You do realize that this is the Claude Whitacre from Wooster, right?
  
  Terra
  
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  Claude Whitacre 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  How do you get it right and wrong in the span of two sentences?
  
  I'm pacing myself. I don't want to overwhelm you.
  
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mgreenhaus

9 years ago

Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet

Movie you can escape totally into for a coupla hours, get soaked in, immersed mind body and soul and emerge reluctantly into the mess that we call real life?

Mines Star Wars.

Spartacus
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alistair

9 years ago

Carry On Camping
The Early Bird
Stand By Me
Point Break
Escape To Victory

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positivenegative 9 years ago

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Coincidentally, also accurately representative of a cross section of OTF users.
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whateverpedia

9 years ago

On one level for me to "escape" the movie has to be totally absorbing with lots of plot twists and turns and it keeps you guessing right up until the end.

Examples of this are:

Shutter Island
Inception
Sleuth (the original version with Olivier and Caine).
12 Angry Men

On another level, "escapism" means shutting down all critical facilities and just going along for the ride. Examples of this are:

Die Hard (the first and definitely the best of the franchise)
The Bourne Trilogy
Most of the Bond films

Of course there are many other examples in both categories, the ones I listed are just the ones that came immediately to mind.

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TheWriteOne

9 years ago

Drumline
Coach Carter
Remember the Titans

Movies about sports and being a team.

I also liked 3 Idiots, if anyone knows that movie.

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butters

9 years ago

Just a few off the top of my head...

Sniper
Men of honour
Gladiator
Patriot
Star Wars
Pursuit of happiness (every now and again for inspiration :p)
Lord of the rings + hobbit movies
RED 1-2
Die hards

I could list a lot

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tagiscom 9 years ago

Mainly old sci fi, l particularly like "Capricorn One" and Shawshank Redemption, (well the end, most of it is pretty depressing).

The man in the white suit, is another good one, which is never played on tv anymore, can't upsett the sociopaths!
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