One of the problems with having, what, 300 channels is when you flip through them all and think it might be a good evening to read. But, then you come across that movie that you would watch again and again. You know, the movie that if it's on TNT one night and Spike the next, you watch it both nights.

My wife groans, unsure of what defective DNA is responsible for this behavior and I only shrug and settle down to my recessive gene's obsession.

So, I have planning to come up with a list, but it never seems to end. When I think I have the complete list, I think of another or one comes up on the Fuse. So, here's the first attempt to boild down the favorites starting with the one that spared me from a night of reading:

• P.C.U.


• Animal House


• Field of Dreams


• Empire Records


• Top Gun


• Independence Day


• Dazed and Confused


• The Rookie


• A Fish Called Wanda


• Caddyshack


• The Transporter


• The Italian Job


• The Big Hit


• Ocean's Eleven


• Men In Black


• Almost Famous


• Swordfish


• X-Men


• Lord of the Rings Trilogy


• Fast and Furious


• Predator


• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

There's more...always more...and I know I'm forgetting the most important ones, but it's a start. Got any faves?