and don't forget, Chris Farley is from Wisconsin for real.. born in Madison and graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee

The American President, while being a good movie, was the first instance I noticed of the Hollywood leftist slant.. the good guy president was a democrat, and the evil scheming senator was the republican.. I enjoy the movie, but I see too much of the bias to really enjoy it

agreed on the bais of the american president, though it'd call it more of a full out leftist 90 degree angle than a "slant."

for instance (paraphrasing) "you fault her for being a member of the ACLU - the question is, why arent YOU? here is an organization that stands up for people's liberties...."

sad, that people actually think that the aclu has anything at all to do preserving liberty or freedom

I wouldn't get all bent out of shape over the bias in The American President. After all, it's a work of fiction and the writers of it have every right to their point of view. It's not like we're talking about the nightly news here.

Sure, Andrew Shepherd is a raging liberal, but it works, mostly because, as we all know, liberal policies are just perfect for the fictional world ;-)

Excellent topic... jealous I didn't think of it first.

Office Space and Major League are definite winners in this category. Throw in Shawshank and The Good, the bad and the Ugly, as well as Die Hard (the latter two being top five all-time "guy" movies).

You know, I've never seen any of the Die Hard movies. Somehow I've avoided it for years now. But, good call on The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. I just saw it for the first time over Thanksgiving. Just excellent, almost too high quality for this list.

one of my favorite 'surfing stoppers' is The Game with Michael Douglas.. even having seen it at least a half dozen times, plus owning it on dvd, I am compelled to stop and watch it yet again whenever I see it somewhere

I'd probably feel the same way about the musical Chicago.. except I've never seen it being broadcast

I agree with Shawshank and would like to add the Princess Bride and High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood). At Christmas time I stop for most any version of A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out" and "I Double Dog Dare You")

I always preferred "Major Leauge" to "Bull Durham" as the better baseball comedy, and that was before I found out about Tim Robbins/Susan Sarrandon's politics. How could you forget Uecker's 'Just a bit outside!" and Charlie' Sheen's Wild Thing? I laugh every time I see it, even though I'm a White Sox fan.

"The Brady Bunch Movie." Great satire, Gary Cole is dead-on as the cliche-spouting Mike Brady. The scene where the Brady kids go to Sears and start singing on the escalators to the annoyance of the other shoppers, Davy Jones at the school dance, and all the teachers are drooling. So many funny scenes.

Oooh, The Brady Bunch Movie is a good one! I'd also probably add Prefontaine to the list, although it's rarely on TV.

dumb and dummer is too classic. Rushmore's been on sometimes too lately.

Ditto on Office Space and Die Hard. BTW, A Very Brady Sequel is even funnier than the first Brady movie, although I haven't seen it rerun on TV too much. I would add Baby Boom and Godfather I (odd pairing, I know). Now someone needs to explain to my better half my compulsion to watch a movie that we already own on DVD just because it's being run on TV.

Mine has always been "Peggy Sue Got Married." I've watched parts of that movie at least 20 times. I never pass up The Princess Bride or The Wizard of Oz, either. After Thanksgiving weekend, I suspect Galaxy Quest will have to be added to the list.