Anybody Have a 4th July Movie Tradition?
 

I usually just watch Jaws. Don't really know of too many 4th of July movies.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
1776 (1972)
Independence Day (1996)

Jaws and Return of the Living Dead (watched that one today though. It starts on July 3rd).

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Jaws for me as well.

For me, the fourth is all about Julie James' boobs trying to declare their independence from her top.

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Keeping my dog calm during all these damn fireworks.

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Two of the guys in my neighborhood apologized to me today for July 4th. We had a good laugh & it was an amusing moment in a stressful day. :D

Uh, Independence Day?

For me it has always been Yankee Doodle Dandy, though I feel significantly less patriotic this year than usual so I will probably give it a pass.

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No 4th of July movie tradition for me. I never even thought of having one before. But I will watch a movie and the old TV series The Love Boat...now that's festive:)

LOL!

Don't know why, but I always remember Jeff Goldblum's walk from this scene of the movie.
Sometimes when I'm out for my evening walk I even try to imitate it! ;) (Without the cigar, of course).

It’s all in the hips

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DIE HARD



And you thought it was a Christmas movie.

I'm onto Avatar 2 on this one. The moment it airs, I'm on the run.

avatar 2 hasnt been out yet

I got confused for a while and thought it was Will Smith doing the gangly-armed swagger so I stopped doing it... but nope, it's Jeff! (So now I'm doing the walk again!)

I just realized... wouldn't Jeff Goldblum have made a great Scarecrow (Jonathan Crane) for a Batman movie? ;)

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My tradition was watching the Twilight Zone marathon on TV every 4th of July. None of the networks aired the show this year. Very disappointing. Other than that my movie tradition is watching Frogs and Jaws. Camp & Classic. Both movies took place on Independence day.

These days I am in bands, which means I am working and have neither the time nor the energy to watch anything on July Fourth. This was the crowd we played to on Sunday. Monday's was almost as big...




We had a gig on Saturday, too, so I am still exhausted.

While I lived in Portland, Oregon (2004-2011) my tradition was to watch Bill Forsyth's overlooked gem Breaking In (1989). With a script by John Sayles and starring Burt Reynolds and Casey Siemaszko it is set in Portland following two burglars, one the old expert the other an eager novice. The final heist is set at an amusement park during the Fourth of July, with the burglars using the fireworks display to mask the sound of their explosive charges opening a large safe. For the final five years I was in Portland I lived in the Sellwood neighborhood, above a store, with access to the roof which served as a quasi-porch. The amusement park in the movie is the Oaks Amusement Park, which opened in 1905. It is also in the Sellwood neighborhood, below the ridge from my apartment. I would watch Breaking In and time it to finish around dark, then take a lawn chair on the roof and watch those same fireworks over Oaks Park.

I watched it the first year or so after I moved back to Maryland, but it had fallen away as a tradition now that I no longer live there. Wonderful movie. Terribly underrated. For my money the best Burt Reynolds performance from the last third of his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLpBkQ67JPU

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Not really, I think a couple years in a row we made hot dogs and hash browns and binged a show (Stranger Things season was set in the summer so that worked well) or something, but no such thing this year.

I used to catch snippets of Independence Day on whatever channel it happened to be playing on. I guess that's the closest thing I have to a tradition for this day. (I'm not an American.)


This year I did a double feature of Public Affairs and a.k.a. Cassius Clay, which seemed fitting enough. I also did a David Cronenberg double feature for Canada Day (Crimes of the Future and Scanners), so I covered my bases north and south of the border.

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Born on the Fourth of July would be a good movie to watch. One of Cruise’s best IMO.

I forgot all about the marathon... which is often the case, but I usually find it while channel surfing... needless to say, I didn't see it on.

P.S. I always thought the Zone marathon would be more suited to Halloween than to 4th of July.

The Twilight Zone marathon was on a channel called Decades. I'm not sure if that channel is on cable, but I get it from my antenna.

How many things can you find wrong here?


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Thanks for mentioning the Decades Channel. I used to watch the Twilight Zone marathon on the Decades channel years ago. The channel has since been removed by my cable service provider. The marathon was called Rod, White and Blue in honor of Rod Serling.