Last week, my co-worker John and had I one of those random conversations best suited for an afternoon with a foot of snow on the ground.

We listed the movies that, whenever they're on TV, we keep watching. John brought up the over-the-top "Independence Day." Both of us have seen this movie way too many times. They're not necessarily our favorite films -- though sometimes they are. But they're always the movies that whether cheesy, dramatic, hilarious or ridiculously bad, we just can't turn them off.

Tonight, I stumbled upon "The Truman Show" on Showtime. Not one of my favorites, though I did indeed like it at the time. But for some reason, I keep watching it every single time.

Here are a few of the other movies I'll watch over and over again (and remember Talkbackers, I'm not passing judgment on why these are on my list or even if I really like them). This list is surely incomplete, as it's just what comes to mind plus a few selections from what the cable channel guide tells me is on this week. In alphabetical order:

• "Airplane!"
• "Billy Madison"
• "Blazing Saddles"
• "Boogie Nights"
• "The Breakfast Club"
• "Caddyshack"
• "Castaway"
• "Deep Impact"
• "Fletch"
• "Go"
• "Idiocracy"
• "Jackass" and "Jackass Number Two"
• "Major League"
• "Munich"
• "Napoleon Dynamite"
• "No Way Out"
• "Office Space"
• "Old School"
• "Planet of the Apes"
• "Pulp Fiction"
• "Rushmore"
• "Sixteen Candles"
• "Spies Likes Us"
• "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny"
• "The Big Lebowksi"
• "The Blues Brothers"
• "The Jerk"
• "The Shawshank Redemption"
• "The Tao of Steve"
• "Three Kings"
• "Vacation" and "European Vacation"
• "Weird Science"
• Any "Star Trek" movie