What is your go to movie?

[Shinsei-J]

The movie I bring to any party I go to for the wind down hour is "Donnie Darko", because it's Donnie Flippin' Darko.
My feel good is the anime movie "The Girl Who Leaped Through Time"
and my comedy flick is the always great yet terrible "the Slammin' Salmon"

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Probably either Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead. I just love both of them, and I've seen them god knows how many times

I'll always turn to those movies if they are on TV. Also, Starship Troopers. How can you not love that movie? (Unless you are a book purist who disliked Director Paul Verhoeven turning the "criticism of American military" message of the book into "Criticism of American military movies" in the film)

You... you do realize that you misread the book, right? The book was pro-military and actually showed off a system that the actual military wants to replicate because in theory in the book it was a model of a society. Everyone has rights, but those who serve to protect those rights and live get a few slight extra rights because of their sacrifices. The movie, on the other hand, goes a completely different route, which I am okay with because I love the hell out of both the book and the movies (except the second movie).

As for the thread: Get Smart (2008), 21 Jump Street (2012), and the Star Wars movies are generally my go-to. Honorable mentions go to Starship Troopers movies, Star Trek movies and movies like The Hunt for Red October.

It was Heinlein's vision of an ideal military. He wrote the book as a response to his views of the American military at the time. So he was criticizing the American military by presenting his own view of what a strong army looks like.

 

[firelightning1]

Saving Private Ryan