Everyone has music they turn to when feeling sad or anxious. What about movies?
I just recently realized that whenever I feel really down I feel like watching "The Thin Red Line" oddly enough. Not for the plot but the general sound, look, and ambience of it.
I think my only other comfort movie is Back to the Future!
― ryan, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
First Wives Club, My Best Friends Wedding and The Hours
― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
mystery science theater: the movie
― and what, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
valley girl
― lauren, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually one more for me: cast away.
That's two zemeckis movies!
― ryan, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
It changes, a few years ago it was certain Carry On movies, especially Camping and Up The Khyber. Woody Allen's Sleeper was a favourite, along with Diamonds Are Forever - bizarrely the only "proper" Bond in this list - and also the David Niven version of Casino Royale. At the moment it's Withnail & I, especially when it's cold and raining, and also the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
― snoball, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Dazed & Confused, Jackass
― milo z, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
and Wonder Boys
― milo z, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Dazed & Confused, Trading Places, nearly any b&w
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i love having comfort movies. they kinda tend to be a bit on the super escapist side for me tho. first ones that come to mind and have held up for many years:
empire strikes back indiana jones & the raiders of the lost ark die hard aliens bourne identity
used to watch 'purple rose of cairo' and 'annie hall' as comfort movies in my early 20s but when i attempted to watch again a few years ago they did not comfort :/ there are a few go-to jane austen adaptations that i shamelessly go for when needing that kind of comfort. ah and 'shadowlands'
― rrrobyn, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
and for some reason, this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kPSSviWMg34
― rrrobyn, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Clueless Groundhog Day Beverly Hills Cop Any Harry Potter film
― musically, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
unnecessary rudeness from milo upthread
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
spinal tap gremlins alien/aliens of course
― latebloomer, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
ELF
― jel --, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
my neighbour totoro
― jel --, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
goonies better off dead
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Except for Bourne Identity (which is great, but I haven't seen enough) this is pretty much my exact list.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Pulp Fiction Heathers
anything by Almodovar with Carmen Maura
― warmsherry, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
virgin suicides for the yellow color throughout - sunshining through blonde hair etc
― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Big Lebowski, Temple of Doom, Empire Strikes Back, Spinal Tap, Life of Brian, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant.
― chap, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Better off Dead Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club Say Anything Steel Magnolias Kicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach one, not the Will Ferell one) Fletch Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation RHPS So I Married an Axe Murderer Big Lebowski
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
oh totally word on this, could watch x 5mil
― rrrobyn, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Also:
Buckaroo Banzai Big Trouble in Little China
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Any Miyazaki from Castle In the Sky on will do for me.
― chap, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
rushmore, starship troopers, tons of HK action shit, film noir stuff, totoro
― omar little, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't do this anymore
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
how come?
― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Dazed & Confused, Rushmore, A Woman Is A Woman
― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't Hardly Wait Dazed and Confused Fast Times at Ridgemont High Sixteen Candles Empire Records
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
OK I have to add Can't Hardly Wair, Rushmore, and Empire Records now too.
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
SHALLOW HAL
― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Too long a list. I tend to put them on as background.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Sliding Doors
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
A lot of Altman stuff (esp. California Split and The Long Goodbye), The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, Head, Rock N' Roll High School, Eraserhead (strangely enough), Running on Empty.
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The Big Lebowski Anchorman The 40 Year Old Virgin Trainspotting
― Finefinemusic, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, and High Fidelity!
ENBB, yes to Empire Records!!
trainspotting is a big one too
― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
repo man
― omar little, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
god of cookery, shaolin soccer, kung fu hustle
I haven't seen it in so long! I should rectify that.
I was at a club once in LA and realized that the guy DJing was the long haired musician guy from ER and I was drunk enough that I totally went up to him and asked if it was him. It was and he gave me a CD. /boring story.
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Mishima, M, Kikujiro, Spartacus, Zéro de conduite, lots and lots of others. Movies in general are comforting I think.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post Also I love Ethan Embry in that movie. Sadly he has not aged well.
Kung Fu Hustle - yes!
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Kicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach one, not the Will Ferell one)
yes!
also: metropolitan, some kind of wonderful, kitty foyle, withnail and i, sixteen candles, parenthood, the secret life of walter mitty, la jetee
― lauren, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
casino royale (2007)
― omar little, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
miller's crossing
bullitt
ENBB did you know that in some countries Empire Records was called "Rock and Fun"?
― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
AH - how could I have forgotten some kind of wonderful? I should count withnail too I think.
It turns out that I have a lot of comfort movies.
Sunny I did not know that but from now on that's what I'm going to call it. That's great - ha!
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
well i think movies are just kind of comforting. i mean unless you're watching like The Piano Teacher or something.
― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
The Great Escape, even though it's shown every Christmas anyway. I suppose that it's a comfort because the plot is so familiar, also so many great lines ("I can see... really I can!" trips over James Garner). And while on a Pleasence tip, Fantastic Voyage, and also You Only Live Twice (OK then, that's two - and a half - Bond movies in my list).
― snoball, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok - I can't believe I didn't think of this until now but Waiting for Guffman.
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The Italian Job (original version), which I'd forgotten about despite it being here on the shelf next to me. And it may not exactly be a movie, more of a documentary, but I used to watch ABBA: The Movie over and over.
― snoball, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
-- ryan, Monday, July 7, 2008 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
malick in general make sense - theres something v calming abt the contemplative qualities of his movies
i dont have any comfort movies that ill go so far as to put on but def if i stumble across them on tv i can get into it. awsome 80s comedies back to the future ferris bueller fletch and all sorts of spy/thriller type shit. i have a feeling in a few years time i will have seen the bourne movies 1mx
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
North By Northwest
― DavidM, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Joy Luck Club, Muriel's Wedding, Ryan's Daughter - weepy shit like dat
― yungblut, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Usually, this is what I use DVDs of TV shows for... Simpsons, Joy of Painting, et al.
But Wet Hot American Summer is one I can always put in and half watch.
― Eric H., Monday, 7 July 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
It'll always be a new film. I really dislike rewatching films - when there is so much potential greatness (or rubbish) out there. I was in a bit of a funk a few weeks ago, went to see Mongol, and it cheered me up more than any rewatching of Zoolander would.
― Pete, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Cool Hand Luke
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
less than zero
― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude, Where's My Car?. I got it as a birthday present when I was 21 or 22, and I've watched it at least 10 times ever since. That movie has whole microcosm in it.
As for older movies, I guess this kind of a cliche, but It's a Wonderful World. They show it on Finnish telly every Christmas, and I've tried to watch it every year since I was 15, though I have missed a few times. I still cry every time I see it. This is basically the most Christmassy thing I do every year, because I don't have family Christmas or anything.
Oh, and Totoro, yes, absolutely! One of the most calm and soothing movies ever, it's bound to put you in a more peaceful state of mind.
― Tuomas, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
you mean Its a Wonderful Life, right?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that one, sorry about the typo.
― Tuomas, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
this has been an interesting thread for me, how readily I can scan thru these lists and quickly identify those movies that tend to have a pleasant narcotic effect, and others that I disqualify because for one reason or another they induce/recall some sort of anxiety for me. Not sure why for many of them, though.
but
-- musically, Monday, 7 July 2008 17:21 (1 hour ago) Link
OTM
oh yeah, Less Than Zero, too!
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Less than zero is so bad it's good but is actually so bad that I really kind of wish they would remake it and I don't say that about many movies. Sorry if that didn't make any sense. Too much caffeine. Argh.
― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
-- omar little, Monday, July 7, 2008 2:29 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
yesss
― and what, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, nobody else's are even in the same genre, or same half of the last century, as mine. The only films I find endlessly rewatchable and comforting are musicals: Fred and Ginger, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in "Summer Stock," and all the Busby Berkeley stuff, esp. "The Gang's All Here." Chorines waving bananas = comfort!
― Dan Peterson, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it is b/c you are special
― rrrobyn, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Solaris
― robertwolf8080, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ohwhoa i can't believe i forgot to say, and no one else has said:
Bladerunner
― rrrobyn, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Stand By Me
― snoball, Monday, 7 July 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
if i didn't, i should have said When Harry Met Sally (all time)
and still my best friend's wedding. it's like a vacation every time
― Surmounter, Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hannah & her sisters
― s1ocki, Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
the great escape
― s1ocki, Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
any classic "up all night" movie like dazed & confused (noticed a lot of ppl chose that one)
definitely empire strikes back. beneath the planet of the apes.i think 28 days later is becoming this kind of movie for me.
― ian, Saturday, 20 September 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Zorro (1975)
― ian, Saturday, 20 September 2008 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
okay you know what, i don't think it was zorro 1975. i think it was the 1940 movie.the one that was on the disney channel "late" (that is, later than my normal bedtime as a 3-5 year old).
― ian, Saturday, 20 September 2008 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Behind Enemy Lines
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 September 2008 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
basically any of the bond movies except OHMSS and CR
most of the dirty harries
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 September 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm more of a tv show person when i feel like this. Arrested Development, sometimes Chappelle.
movies: Bourne, Casino Royale (2007), Oldboy, Big Lebowski, Do the Right Thing ('til near the end if i'm too bummed), Fellowship of the Ring (up 'til they leave Rivendell), Bladerunner, 40 Year Old Virgin can be good, but sometimes strike the wrong chord.
― My dumb name is still (rockapads), Saturday, 20 September 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Spielberg (CE3K, Raiders). And the first Star Wars (1977).
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 20 September 2008 06:34 (fifteen years ago) link
tommy boy
― lil yawne (harbl), Saturday, 20 September 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
FameQuiz ShowTogether
― jed_, Saturday, 20 September 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
the station agent
― akm, Saturday, 20 September 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
DIE HARD
― the valves of houston (gbx), Saturday, 20 September 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― milo z, Monday, July 7, 2008 1:13 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^ and out of sight
― Mohammed Butt (max), Saturday, 20 September 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Empire RecordsWithnail & IGrosse Pointe Blank
... I'm more a TV show person to though, so I'll more readily get out the Simpsons or Goodies box set or something.
― Trayce, Saturday, 20 September 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Igby Goes DownAny film of Jane Austen novelChariots of Fire
Depends what I want... uplifting, romantic happy ending, or just to have a bloody good bawl.
― The Accountant Of Taste (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Local HeroThe Princess BrideThe Maltese Falcon
― Aimless, Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Almost Famous, Mean Girls, Clueless
― Tape Store, Saturday, 20 September 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
mean girls OTm i might put it on now
― Surmounter, Saturday, 20 September 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I think a comfort movie has to be a movie that you don't get bored of in the middle so....
An American TaleA Brave Little Toaster
I wanted to say The Big Blue (le grand bleu) but I've only seen it once and I probably would get bored in the middle.I'm gonna watch Life Aquatic for a second time this weekend and hopefully it wont put me to sleep, because at one time it was my favorite movie (even then I watched it in halves).
and my little sister watches Empire Records over and over with different friends. I blame myself for suggesting it to her.
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 20 September 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
!!!
Now I really want to watch Brave Little Toaster. It's been years...
― Abbott, Saturday, 20 September 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Truth About Cats And DogsMiracleWithnail and IPretty In PinkThe Notebook
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 20 September 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
wow: Toaster and Cats and Dogs right on
― Surmounter, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
get bored in the middle
This is probably my biggest problem with comfort movies, finding one that doesn't flag in the middle. There are plenty of movies that I can watch the first half of over and over, and very few that I'll watch all the way through, but somehow it seems "wrong" not to watch a movie until the end.
Also, not a movie, but the "Moog" documentary.
― snoball, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The Philadelphia StoryIn The Mood For LoveDazed and Confused
― I know, right?, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
ManhattanDouble IndemnityHigh FidelityThe SearchersReservoir DogsLive Free or Die HardThe Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceAnnie HallTommy BoyAlmost Famous
― HOOS em out to your friends and shit (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
When Harry Met SallyGroundhog Day
Both films I've seen an inordinate number of times.I rather imagine The Apartment and Gilda are films I could do this with as well.
― Øystein, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I meant to say Annie Hall too.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Maid in Manhattan. Admitting this has produced catharsis of such power you could use it to blow up the moon. Also, in an attempt to retrieve the little scraps of shame and pride on the floor - The Man Who Would Be King and Dead of Night.
― GamalielRatsey, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't Stop the Music
― Nicole, Saturday, 20 September 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Gotta be Tenebre, Deep Red, Videodrome and Assault on Precinct 13.
― Michael Servetus, Saturday, 20 September 2008 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Brick.
― Simon H., Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
lots of laurel & hardymidnight runpicnic at hanging rock
― or something, Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
any of Verhoeven's sci-fi flicks: Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers.
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Predator
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
starship troopers OTM
― the valves of houston (gbx), Sunday, 21 September 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
laurel and hardy rules!
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 21 September 2008 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link
when harry met sally beverly hills cop (can't believe other people said this one!)togetherroxannethe royal tenenbaumsmanhattanhannah and her sistersbig
― piscesx, Thursday, 14 January 2010 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club
Yes yes yes. I also have Point Break on my list. Such a great movie. And Fast Times @ RH.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 14 January 2010 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, up to a point I could enjoy The Proposal but god damn Reynolds has such a putty (?) face. And of course the plot. God damn.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 14 January 2010 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
kung fu hustlea mighty windsuper troopersglengarry glen rossmaltese falcon
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oh and rio bravo
more buffy dvds than movies at this point, but cold comfort farm and hedwig and the angry inch
― Maria, Thursday, 14 January 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Clueless Mean GirlsEdward Scissorhands
― Roz, Thursday, 14 January 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
October SkyPleasantvilleKinsey
I guess I like movies where people in the '50s fight intellectual repression.
― sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
The Big LebowskiLord of the Rings trilogyFireworksMichael ClaytonBlade RunnerRatatouille2046Anchorman
― richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
In The Mood For Love and X files
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
bill and teds, zoolander, bring it on, rushmore
― Lamp, Thursday, 14 January 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
LebowskiElectionEd WoodLOTRThe Third Man
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Thursday, 14 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
there's some movies my sister recorded on vhs off the tv as kids that we watched OVER AND OVER AND OVEr that I still think of as comfort movies, though I haven't seen them in a while..
Big BusinessRobin Hood (Disney - roger miller ftw)Willy Wonka's Chocolate FactoryAn American TailGooniesSteel Magnolias (but only if I am in the mood to cry, talk about waterworks)Breakfast Club
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 14 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Any Pixar, Cars excepted. The Iron Giant.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Thursday, 14 January 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Pixar movies tend to get me all amped up! They are like calculated to tweak my emotions.
― sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Thursday, 14 January 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Lawrence of Arabia
― wanna be shartin' somethin' (WmC), Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Movies I can watch any time:
Quiz ShowThe Lady EveHusbands and WivesNaked LunchThe PlayerReversal of FortuneTouch of EvilNotorious
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
the apartment (wilder)
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's a good'un!
A few of mine:
Cool Hand LukeMiller's CrossingThe Big LebowskiWoodstockPlan 9 From Outer SpaceThe PlayerThe Right Stuff
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Little Shop of Horrors
― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 16 January 2010 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Groundhog DayNine to FiveThe WomenFemale on the BeachRebeccaThe Magnificent AmbersonsXanaduRomy and Michele's High School ReunionThe Color of PomegranatesWomen of the Night (2000)The Apple (1980)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Gregory's GirlFerris Bueller's Day OffThe Princess BrideChicagoMoulin Rougeany Hugh Grant/Richard Curtis thing
I'm thinking Groundhog Day would be a good addition as well.
― ailsa, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
bottle rocket
― I can't turn my face into a shart (dyao), Saturday, 16 January 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Cherry 2000Black MaskSpinal TapDawn of the DeadDude Where's My CarIdiocracyEpisodes of Metalocalypse or the IT Crowd
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 16 January 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ADVENTURELAND
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Strictly Ballroom
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
episodes of MST3K have basically become my comfort movies
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The Mother and the WhoreThe Last Days of Disco"The Thin Man" films, or just about anything 30s/40s with Myrna LoyWonder BoysThe Paper ChaseAmelieWalking and TalkingThe Dreamlife of Angels
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 17 January 2010 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:41 (32 minutes ago)
― this corpse is reatardo montalban (latebloomer), Sunday, 17 January 2010 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lately my brother & i have been getting high & watching bbc's planet earth
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Sunday, 17 January 2010 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
His Girl FridayThe Monolith MonstersRodanReal GeniusBuckaroo BanzaiThe ThingTronThe Fabulous Baker BoysO Lucky Manmost Bond movies, but especially From Russia With Love and You Only Live TwiceWhere Eagles DareFor A Few Dollars MoreDirty Harry
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been watching Planet Earth, too (got for x-mas), and it will definitely be comfort viewing.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 17 January 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i can see Up In The Air fitting the bill in years to come.
― piscesx, Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Tootsie! What is it with me and New York movies i wonder.
― piscesx, Friday, 18 June 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
TronWargamesDawn of the DeadRaiders lost arkstar wars trilogy (has to be all three)back to future trilogy (again all three, yes even #3)Real GeniusRomancing the stone
― go O and O (Ste), Friday, 18 June 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
E.T.
― circa1916, Friday, 18 June 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
blade runner.
― piscesx, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Silver Streak
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rvgfanatic.com/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_687915/Tremors.JPG
― mark s, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
wonder boys
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Monday, 12 September 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Wonder Boys proving very popular on this thread as the years have rolled by. wonder if it's just 'an ILX thing' or if this is evidence of a worldwide cult?
― piscesx, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful Girls
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
i pull out my Zodiac blu ray quite a lot.
also the commentary track on the Criterion L'avventura, for some reason i can't figure out.
― ryan, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Showgirls-movie-04.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
rebecca
laura
wild reeds
warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)
― the tune is space, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
My wife went through a phase in early summer where she put on The Men Who Stare At Goats every night to go to sleep.
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Big Trouble in Little China
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
"warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)"
and some of the best stuff he did
― nostormo, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
The Fabulous Baker Boys
― piscesx, Sunday, 7 July 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
Rushmore's the king of this isn't it really
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 7 July 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
What About Bob?Mulholland Dr.Manhattan Murder Mystery--Woody and Diane Keaton re-united...surprised how little love this little jewel gets!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Ed WoodFellowship of the RingBig Lebowski
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Truth About Cats And DogsBeetlejuiceFlashdance
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
LOTR trilogy def comfort movies
I've had so many over the years--I tend to comfort-watch them right off the list every couple of years. Right now, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Nixon, Fargo.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
I don't do this.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Pauline Kael has rained on our Andrew Sarris parade.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
The Paper Chase
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:02 AM (3 years ago)
A few from earlier in the thread that I would have once listed; this one's the most surprising/gratifying.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Zodiac is a great one. i think i once watched it four times over two days when stuck at home with the flu.
i think a lot of these for me tend to overlap with movies that TNT or Comedy Central tend to show over and over--but just the ones i like.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
can totally relate to Zodiac.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
yep good call on Zodiac, totally agree
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Any woody allen movie, even the awful ones, and the royal tenenbaums
― Treeship, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Zodiac really does impart a sense of a lot of time passing in a way that's accomplished by more than just sheer length. there's something really satisfying about that.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
also it's a movie that's content to meet you at just about any level of engagement you want.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Yes--there's something about the way it unfolds that make it fit the definition perfectly. For a movie so dense with procedural stuff, there's also something very contemplative about it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Zodiac has the best opening (the original 70s logos, the fireworks, the car, the Three Dog Night song.. ) i can remember from recent years.not to derail the thread but AV Club did a good piece in their New Cult Canon section http://www.avclub.com/articles/zodiac,59576/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
i also love the atmosphere of unique intimacy between men working together for long periods of time.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
secret heartbreak of the film is when anthony edwards retires
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
That's such a good scene. The parts of the film where Zodiac ceases to be a story for anyone except Graysmith (overtly; obviously he remains at the forefront of Toschi's thoughts too, even though he won't admit as much to Graysmith) are beautifully done; like with the Edwards scene ("I haven't left you holding the bag on anything, have I?"), everything's unspoken.
(Same--don't mean to derail the thread...)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
i only just started rewatching stuff, absentmindedly while i scan photographs, but i used to watch basquiat a lot. i am dying to rewatch 35 rhums.
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
these movies kind of fall under 'comfort' for me:
light sleeper (i think the rhythms and mood are good for late night viewing)beau travaila christmas carol (1951 version)sonatine
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
blade runnerthree colors whitelate springsans soleilakira
re: woody allen i was watching vicky cristina barcelona earlier today and thinking that it wasn't very good but it was very comforting to watch, weird that this thread got bumped
― clouds, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Pretty much any Miyazaki
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
can think of a bunch of allen movies that fit the bill (& kinda with the caveat that they don't have to just be the best); deconstructing harry & bullets over broadway would be really enjoyable to dip back into.
thought i was being p high brow throwing a denis flick into the mix but i am outclassed & undone by a pleasure viewing of beau trevail
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/12600000/Milla-in-Dazed-and-Confused-milla-jovovich-12603300-853-480.jpg
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
ilx comfort special:
http://ruthlessculture.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mrx.jpg
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
for hangovers:
http://www.furiouscinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rio-bravo.jpg
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
talking to Alfred:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eyISCTG5Y
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
The Wicker Man is my go-to hangover film
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
(like a thousand people already said dazed because it's the perfect this, but none of them posted milla pics so i fixed the thread)
xxp lol. more like part 2 of 4000.
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
p hilar how this thread started as YAY MARTY MCFLY and now is about kieslowski
― bando brothers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link
I've been thinking about how to answer this one. I've known smart people who claim that like watching dumb movies (or television) because they've worked hard all day and by the time they get home they don't want to think. I get it, but I just can't function that way. If I'm watching something dumb, I'm going to be constantly thinking about how dumb it is, and that's just not relaxing. I guess I kind of agree with Roger Ebert: "no good movie is depressing, but all bad movies are depressing."
A comfort movie, for me, isn't one that doesn't demand thought, exactly, but rather something that is so purely entertaining that I'm not compelled to think about anything else while watching it. Things like Raiders of the Lost Ark, North by Northwest, Casablanca, Back to the Future and, yes, Die Hard with a Vengeance--these aren't necessarily unsophisticated films (though "sophistication" is not a word generally associated with the latter) rather ones that I've seen enough times to know that they're never getting old for me.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
Sigh of relief--I thought your first paragraph was setting up Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles or something. (Which I like fine!)
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
first three BournesDazed & ConfusedWonder Boys
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
xpost
Heh. Still never seen that one, though I have watched La Chambre, which I assume is something like Jeanne Dielman at like 1/20 the length. One day...
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Don't really have many of these, but La Dolce Vita is sort of endlessly warm and inviting. Seem to return to Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Chocolat (the Claire Denis one) and Kusturica's Underground a lot too.
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
denis's chocolat otm
― clouds, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
The Station Agent, because it was shot just down the street from my childhood home, which is a place that I am extremely attached to.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
that is a lovely movie, I like the Station Agent a lot
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
collateraldead manblade runnerl'avventuracasinorussian arkfear and loathing in las vegaseureka (aoyama)heatandrei rublevchinatown
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
i know where i'm going!
― clouds, Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Last night I needed a few beers and 90 minutes of comfort. Looked on my VHS shelf and discovered I had taped Coney Island (Betty Grable, 1943) off AMC years ago, even labelled it, and then never watched it. My night was made.
― Laws, yes! M-O-O-N spells (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
i think i do associate t.v. with comfort more. from when i was little and i would watch i love lucy every day for what seemed like years. so many shows like that. gilmore girls would be a more modern example. kinda perfect for me and i can re-watch anytime. and when me and the kids watched avatar all the way through cyrus became a little obsessed and would watch episodes over and over and i liked having them on. the kids were/are like that with futurama and now i kinda just like hearing it in the house. but obviously there were movies i watched over and over and never got tired of. they always made me feel okay. blade runner, over the edge (my fave movie ever), king of new york, housekeeping, ruby in paradise, safe (i know, but it soothed me), days of heaven. lots more. i've probably seen days of heaven 100 times. i've seen the movie BUG a hundred times! i was obsessed with that movie. i would watch it every day for a while back in the old days.
i don't watch them much anymore though. the ones i've seen so many times. i want to see too many other things that i haven't seen yet. i know those movies by heart. Five Corners! i've seen that movie so many times. neflix t.v. thing has kinda become my perfect outlet. gotta say. as far as comfort goes. its just too easy and addictive. can't wait for the new prison series! still probably should finish watching breaking bad. comforting in its itchy way.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I know ILX hates The Ice Storm but it's like a handful of Vicodin to me
― READY 4 CONFETTI (rip van wanko), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
snowy movies are TOTAL comfort for me. i just bought a kate beckinsale snow movie simply for the snow.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
forgot about the snow...
groundhog dayblack narcissus
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Stealing Beauty is an annual late spring viewing for me. Anything with Peter Falk is good for dulling creeping anxiety, especially The Brinks Job.
― viacom dios, Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Columbo is prime comfort viewing for me, yes.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
started watching Emergency! on netflix with Cyrus. really brings me back. i loved that show. again, probably seen every episode 5 times. i kinda want to watch all the episodes of all creatures great & small on netflix. feel like that would be comforting.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
Ice Storm for me too, especially a couple of years ago when I watched it a number of times.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
eureka would be cool to have playing in the kitchen while you slow-cooked a side of ham or something
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
wayne's worldmy neighbor totorowrath of khan
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
TootsieHusbands and WivesThe Lady EveThe Discreet Charm...
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
damn u Brits listing films that aren't on DVD here
i remember Andrew Sarris saying regretfully about Casablanca in an interview, "I've seen it too much." An outdated concept I guess.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
New Additions:
the Whit Stillman quartet (If I watch one, the others will soon follow)
I was in the hospital late last year, and upon my release, I weaned myself back into the habit of watching dvds by looking at music stuff like "The Old Grey Whistle Test" and Urgh! A Music War. If that's not comfort, I don't know what is.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Watched The Ice Storm tonight--very comforting.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 July 2013 03:25 (ten years ago) link
repo manexcaliburthe thin man (etc.)spirited awayprincess mononokegroundhog daykung-fu hustlered desertrosencrantz & guildenstern are deaddunehellboy 2lost highwaymy man godfrey9 to 5the philadelphia storyblade runnereyes wide shutthe thingduck soupzeligrushmorefinding nemochungking expressplaytimephenomenastrangers on a traino brother where art thoubarbarellastar warsnight of the hunterthree crowns of the sailorwhere the wild things arethe red shoescrouching tiger hidden dragon48 hoursharry potter 3raiders of the lost arkkey largo
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Friday, 12 July 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
fantastic planetscott pilgriman american werewolf in london
[sound of list-spieling maniac forcefully dragged offstage)
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Friday, 12 July 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
andrew sarris is dead, that concept is literally outdated xps
― what a wonderful url (Matt P), Friday, 12 July 2013 05:19 (ten years ago) link
you know who else is dead? pauline kael.
― what a wonderful url (Matt P), Friday, 12 July 2013 05:20 (ten years ago) link
just ctrl+f'd a league of their own and space balls and wtf
― Z S, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:22 (ten years ago) link
Star Trek 6, so much
― chinavision!, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link
rio bravo otm for hangovers, though as i've gotten older & hangovers more brutal i've moved onto stronger stuff, like donovan's reef
― discreet, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah rio bravo awesome
league of their own otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
Dirty Harry moviesManhattanBullittThe French connectionSerpicoHannah and her sistersLe rayon vertLawrence of Arabia
I like **locations**
― chinavision!, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah sunset boulevard and pulp fiction for LA
― chinavision!, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
Eh I'm thinking of so much more now: hitchcocks, John carpenter stuff, probably blade runner to some extent. This can't be interesting to anyone besides me to list though.
― chinavision!, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah i think the idea is it's a small, personal list of something you've watched over & over (& over & over) (when wistful or drunk etc)
not a list of like 30 movies you've seen a couple times each & remember fondly or whatever
― discreet, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:39 (ten years ago) link
sorry for comfort policing, carry on
― discreet, Friday, 12 July 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link
Forgot the ultimate for me:Tombstone
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 12 July 2013 06:04 (ten years ago) link
i used to watch "in the mood for love" specifically to put me to sleep when i was having trouble sleeping. what's up with that? i even like wong kar-wai. but for whatever reason that one just did it for me.
i think once i actually finished it, but i can hardly remember what happens in it. i guess i was pretty groggy.
― ace snood (fennel cartwright), Friday, 12 July 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
I will never tire of Dana Delany, Wyatt Earp fucking with chubby bearded Billy Bob Thornton and Val Kilmer's finest hour.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 12 July 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
tbh there are certain favorite movies i resist visiting too often, just because i'm afraid of getting sick of them and i enjoy having them feel fresh again when i do watch them. but there are plenty more that i can throw on any time -- i can't imagine burning out on 'his girl friday' unless i was watching it every week or something.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 12 July 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
fallen angels 4 me
― 乒乓, Friday, 12 July 2013 06:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah i think the idea is it's a small, personal list of something you've watched over & over ... not a list of like 30 movies you've seen a couple times each & remember fondly or whatever
― discreet, Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:39 PM (Yesterday)
i know, but it was midnight, i'd been working since 4am, more than a little loopy
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Friday, 12 July 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
back to metroplitan as we speak.ahh didn't list that above, but I watch it so much!!
― chinavision!, Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
fallen angels otm
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
french connectiontrading placesmidnight rundawn of the dead clockwisestan brakhage anthology vol 1 disc 2personathe broodits a mad mad mad worldceline and julie go boating
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 13 July 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
Whatever is good that is repeated endlessly on ITV2/4.
Unfortunately its not Andrei Rublev but I'll settle for Escape from New York. More than good enough.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 July 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
how can french connection be a comfort movie to anyone, it's so grim & noisy
― zvookster, Saturday, 13 July 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
It looks cool and beautiful and I like to watch it a lot when I have nothing better to do. comfort movies can be loud.
― chinavision!, Saturday, 13 July 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
jackie brown 4ever
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
def jackie brown. i've seen the third man like 25 times and would probably put it on immediately if something catastrophically bad happened to me today, so that.
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah i mean there's loads of these but really jackie brown is the pinnacle of comfort imo
maybe i'll have american psycho on the side though
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
joe vs the volcano
lone star
serpico as comfort film is srsly twisting my melon
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
i get stressed out just thinking about that shit
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
ebert on jackie brown is maybe relevant to comfort movies in general: I wanted these characters to live, talk, deceive and scheme for hours and hours.
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
the last boy scout
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
after seeing Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy I thought it had a good chance to become a comfort movie.
― ryan, Saturday, 13 July 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Film is so-so. The TV series is comfort-y material tho'.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 July 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
le samouraï
― clouds, Saturday, 13 July 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Moonstruck. not an ILX fave i'd imagine but there it is.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
oh definite comfort movie for me
League of their OwnLittle WomenReality BitesCluelessInside Llewyn DavisZodiac
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
Love SerenadeThe CastleMuriel's WeddingRomy & Michele's High School ReunionEmpire RecordsDazed & ConfusedTogetherManhattanAnnie HallStand By MeNeverending StoryETWillowKilling of a Chinese BookieReturn of the Secausus SevenTruly, Madly, DeeplyCareer GirlsWeekend at Bernie'sSister Act
― gaz hoos coombeing to dinner (qiqing), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
hausu
― clouds, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
bourne identity
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
first name: carmen, for some reason.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link
9 To 5GhostbustersDazed and ConfusedBeing ThereNashvilleBig LebowskiGroundhog DayThe JerkPee-Wee's Big AdventureSuperman 3any of the old Peanuts movies
There was a stretch of time when I was putting on Eraserhead every night when I went to bed because I found it really soothing. I think there might've been something wrong with my brain then because I don't think that would work now.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 03:30 (eight years ago) link
Love Serenade
This is quite possibly the *least* comfortable film I think Ive seen!
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 4 February 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
i fkn love that movie
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
For whatever reason, mine tend to be movies about childhood and summer--The Bad News Bears, Meatballs. I expect the recent The Way Way Back to join the list once I've seen it more than once.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:01 (eight years ago) link
Lol @ veg listing zodiac. I feel the same way, altho my wife doesnt understand why i find something w some real disturbing shit in it so comforting
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
I mean a lot of it has to do with personal + regional history, but that lake berryessa scene... yikes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. Maybe the Bourne Movies. If I'm off sick that's what I do.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Lol shakey re: Zodiac
There's jst something about the weird relaxed tone of the movie, it contradicts all those high-tension hunt the killer movies. It's scary as shit, but it's oddly calm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
Yes def. Also i find all the attention to historical detail really absorbing
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:56 (eight years ago) link
yep me too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2016 05:13 (eight years ago) link
Thirded, Zodiac is definitely in my comfort canon as well
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 4 February 2016 06:44 (eight years ago) link
Jumping Jack Flash Splash Silver StreakSweet Smell of Success Foreign AffairWonder BoysIndy & The Last CrusadeA New LeafShop Around the CornerStakeout The PaperHigh AnxietyStar Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Oh, duh, and Soapdish
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
Basically any movie I saw at the cinema or rented on VHS from 1984-92 is a comfort film, except maybe Santa Claus: The Movie (lame) and Regarding Henry (I thought it was an action movie)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
Definitely this one! Also:
Funky Forest: First ContactI’m a Cyborg, but That’s OKThe Life AquaticLOTR
― Cherish, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
I've watched High Fidelity and Superbad just about all the way through every time I see them on TV, so perhaps they now qualify for me.
May have already said this on the zodiac thread, but that movie is almost the platonic ideal of a comfort movie for me. Slow paced procedural, strong ensemble cast, a film which is long and is itself about the passing of time...once you're past the berryessa scene the movie just settles into an almost dream like rythym, in which details of the case are discovered, then forgotten, and then return again.
― ryan, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
Trayce ikwym about Love Serenade but it's weirdly comforting somehow
The Browning Version remake is another go to
― gaz hoos coombeing to dinner (qiqing), Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
every powell & pressburger film
― clouds, Friday, 5 February 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
re Zodiac; a whole bunch of us also picked that upthread!
― piscesx, Friday, 5 February 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Gremlins 2Threads
― emil.y, Friday, 5 February 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
The classic Leone westerns
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
she wore a yellow ribbondefending your lifewonder boysf for faketank girlvivre sa vie (all those long takes)california splitthe wrath of khandr strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
what a beautiful curve that list almost had. a lesson against parenthesis.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:42 (eight years ago) link
oh i see everyone including me already said wonder boys.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
― clemenza, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Basically the same three years later; would now add All the President's Men and Advise and Consent.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
the third manthe 39 steps (or most pre-hollywood hitchcock for that matter)
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 06:54 (eight years ago) link
wow, did not know about this: Crabbin was a single character in the novella. The screenplay's original draft replaced him with two characters, played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne.
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 07:01 (eight years ago) link
Raiders Of the Lost ArkThe Quiet ManThe Empire Strikes BackDo The Right Thing
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
90s jackie chan films
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
god yeah. i must have seen the HK import VHS of Drunken Master II about twenty times.
loads of HK stuff for me, tbh:
The MissionFull ContactGod of CookeryThe KillerHard Boiled
also:
Raiders of the Lost ArkThe Right StuffDie HardRushmoreBlack NarcissusRepo ManAlienAliensBlade Runner
may as well add Mad Max: Fury Road to this list at this point
― nomar, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
All the President's Men
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:45 (20 hours ago)
Just logged in to post the very same!
For me at least I think the comforting effect is mainly down to a combination of the truth-triumphs-over-power narrative with the 'procedural' aspects of watching people adsorbed in a skilled task.
― RA the Rugged Advisor (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
And now I want to go and watch it, of course.
― RA the Rugged Advisor (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
swingersthe wedding singer the Daniel Craig Bond moviesbarcelona
― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
Tootsie The Lady EveJFKTouch of EvilThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
Add Double Indemnity to my list--I watch that a couple of times a year.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
Two 80s movies that are soothing to me (I think its mostly due to the awful/amazing very-80s look of the films) - Working Girl and Wallstreet.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link
Key largo
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
^^^ Key Largo, Double Indemnity for sure. Pretty much anything they used to show in the afternoon on the TV when I was sleeping on my mother's sofa, any noir stuff or screwball. Any of the Falcon films, any of the Thin Man films. These aren't the films I have seen most in my life, just the ones I can watch when I cannot function to any extent beyond the remote control and the bottle.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
The Lost Weekend. Anything I know beat-for-beat really. Also any of the Scottish Ken Loach ones, cos they were no doubt cue'd up at my mothers. Gregory's Girl and Local Hero too. These days in my house I just watch absolute trash that I've never seen before for comfort, or less comfort than something in front of my eyes
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 02:59 (eight years ago) link
Just finished re-watching Sorcerer, which I think I've seen a dozen times since buying the Blu-Ray last year.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:00 (eight years ago) link
Sorcerer I could see working this way, just for the pacing and the framing. I suppose I don't have any Comfort Films (as opposed to comfort music), or Comfort Books, I just turn to whatever can occupy my mind without a lot of thought
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:04 (eight years ago) link
I remember watching Donnie Darko every day for a week, but that was not comfort, that was mental illness. I mean, I was fighting demons in the street with sticks that whole period. But yeah, as I understand this concept I'd go for fast-talking black and white stuff, that'd be closest to a warm place for me.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
The late 80s setting and overall vibe of Donnie Darko made it a big one for me in the couple of years after its release. No one else was really tapping into that at the time, and the lack of smirkiness re: the setting (see, The Wedding Singer, Wet Hot American Summer for counterexamples) made it ideal for wallowing in comfortable childhood nostalgia.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
Chef
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 06:40 (eight years ago) link
Carol.
― piscesx, Sunday, 27 November 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Watched Rounders again last night for something close to the tenth time. This can be added to my list. Found an old David Edelstein review--good paragraph on Malkovich.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/1998/09/place_your_bets.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
fast times / dazed + confused
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 1 December 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Shaolin vs. Lama these days.
― how's life, Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
I guess stuff that I've come to think of as "Thanksgiving movies" counts. The big epic movie series (LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars) that I don't have a huge amount of investment in but that are pleasant to have playing in the background while other shit is going on.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
Enter the Dragon
it showed up on tv the other day, makes me feel like a little kid whenever I see it
vivid memories of it being on Sat night tv, staying up late while my parents & their friends played cards in the kitchen
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 December 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
oh totally
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
I second 90s Jackie Chan films. That stuff is pure joy.
Nothing makes me happy faster than Buster Keaton.
― jmm, Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
not much Merchant Ivory (or that ilk) in this thread. the trailer for a 25th anniversary revival of Howards End reminded me of its comfort factor.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Bowfinger
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 22 July 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
Mistress America
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 20 November 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
My Bodyguard
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 20 November 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
My Bodyguard was the secret gay love story of my late teens.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 20 November 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah Mistress America is a great one. Baumbach in general too I guess.
― piscesx, Monday, 20 November 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
I vastly prefer it to most non-secret gay love stories.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 20 November 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
Coming To America
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 20 November 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
First Blood. Mainly because ITV show it once a week and I've thus become quite attached to it.
― Ste, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
Raising Arizona
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
was stressed out yesterday so I put on The Shining. Sounds counter-intuitive but it worked
― Evan R, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
Raiders of the Lost Ark
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
Quick Change, in between Groundhog Day rewatches
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
Michael Clayton
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
That Thing You Do
― banjoboy, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
Flying out for thanksgiving tomorrow AM, guess what I just put onYour deadline was 20 minutes ago
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 November 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, November 20, 2017 7:47 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes! i bought a VHS of it this year and watched it and loved every minute of it. it really is an incredible movie. the whole plot is amazing, the actors are amazing, the soundtrack is so iconic and dynamic (yay Indy theme but also the spooky ark temple theme). it has dumb yet clever screwball humor like Marion accidentally smacking Indy with the mirror as he looks over his previous injuries. that shot of the ark of the covenant burning a hole through the swastika deep in a nazi submarine base. holy shit. literally, holy shit. this movie is the near perfect action film with the ultimately villains. the movie ends with God literally blowing up nazis melting faces and shooting lightning to gloriously smite the third reich. this is a very comforting victory.
ending ofc the x-files style huge warehouse that was a giant matte painting that stayed up on the screen a long, long time and it never broke immersion cos everyone at that time was working at the peak of creativity and technical proficiency. <3 this movie forever. even though it may have contributed to me being afraid of snakes (again the OT implications) the snake pit, the snakes slithering through skeletons and out of mouths, the dark, dark fantasy of it all. it is a light cartoony family movie yet somehow it has this crazy heavy edge to it. the pacing, cinematography, stuntwork, set design, etc. everything is perfectly in harmony with every other element. it is a finely tuned film.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
Empire Strikes Back
this movie always reminds me of a certain day, i was a little kid, my mom was cooking soup and me and my brorther were in the kitchen waiting for lunch and the tv had Empire on and it was just the foggy kind of magical and warm and silly experience of hanging out with Yoda and R2-D2 playing around in the swamp. it is weird, kind of hard to explain the feeling, but it was sort of comforting and familiar, like R2 and Yoda were just hanging out while mom makes lunch and we draw monsters. it was very warm and comforting to be in that moment, it is a memory i will treasure forever.
later on i learned about the puppetry involved and Hamill's commitment to working on a set for weeks as the only actor working with two puppets and a bunch of real lizards, snakes, swamp animals, etc., Frank Oz was working on the floor underneath him, delivering line and acting Yoda, and the two communicated via earpiece. it must have been a strange, disorienting experience (love Hamill's story about one day acting out a Luke-Yoda scene and picking up the Rolling Stones on the radio), and i think there is some really strong acting both from Luke and Yoda in these scenes. learning about how this stuff was made doesn't really detract from the magic, it makes it even more magical imo.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
National Velvet
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
^^^^ DING DING DINGgod yeslove that one
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson)
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 23 November 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
been comfort binging on some oldies on YouTube lately.
Bear Island (great Maclean adventure with Donald Sutherland)Skyriders (James Coburn in a hostage type rescue adventure)Puppet on a Chain (classic, and amazing boat chase scene)Flashpoint (Kris Kristofferson in a compelling conspiracy type mystery)Sleuth (Caine and Olivier face off)Where have all the people gone (interesting end of the world stuff)Stone Cold (ridiculous biker movie starring some quarterback guy)
― Ste, Friday, 24 November 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
ridiculous QB = brian bosworthI’ve not seen the movie but havd heard tell of its ridiculousness
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 November 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Withnail & I works for me, oddly enough
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 24 November 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
xp yeah that's him.
Withnail & I is a great Sunday morning hangover cure movie, for me.
― Ste, Friday, 24 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
haha brian bosworth forces me to mention
most if not all "30 for 30s", if they count
― brimstead, Friday, 24 November 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
Slums of Beverly Hills
― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
Hobson's Choice
― MaresNest, Friday, 4 May 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
Bow finger
― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
Dude, Where's My Car?
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Conan: The Barbarian
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
Bad Santa
― piscesx, Thursday, 1 November 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
star trek the motion picture
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
The Shop Around the Corner
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
Films I've returned to for solace, chronological:
8½Time BanditsParis, TexasWings of DesireDelicatessenOrlandoSerial MomUndergroundRidiculeBlack Cat, White CatThe Girl on the BridgeHerod's LawTuvaluO Brother, Where Art Thou?AmélieLord of the Rings TrilogySpring, Summer, Fall, Winter... SpringMary and MaxHoly MotorsWrongHer
Only Jeunet & Kusturica have multiple entries, so far.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
are we talking solace comfort or like, flu comfort?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
terminator 2
― flopson, Monday, 3 December 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
xp flappy: I've put them on during lonely evenings, and they've cheered me.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 3 December 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Lost In Translation
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
otm
HeatRocky
― Famous Anus (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
There are certain movies which, if you stumble across them while channel surfing, you are powerless not to watch the rest of it.
One of mine is "All the President's Men," which would be su-u-u-uch a comfort movie right now.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
I think Bill Simmons nicked this idea for his "Rewatchables" podcast.
― ryan, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
2001
― WmC, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
The most recent addition to my comfort canon: Giant Little Ones. I watched the last fifteen minutes again over lunch yesterday.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
― Surmounter, Monday, July 7, 2008 10:00 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
is the second post in this thread intentionally horrible
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
The Hours lulls you comfortably to sleep.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
First Wives Club > Star Trek: The Motion Picture
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
White Sun of the DesertThe Emperor's New Groove
I haven't watched any of these in almost 20 years, but Evil Dead 2, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro used to be like this for me too
― Dan I., Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Rogue One.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
Ace Attorney movie (by Takashi Miike!) and Closer. Have watched both tons of times. Ace Attorney because of the sheer absurdity and a pretty gorgeous cast, Closer for how nostalgic it makes me and how much I like the structure and how horrible everyone is.
― gyac, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
Pretty much any Studio Ghibli apart from Grave of the Fireflies
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Shane
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, September 12, 2011 7:05 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Said this eight years ago and saw it at least once every year since then.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
Beautiful Girls is a good shout, might have to bring my DVD back from home next time I’m there. Haven’t seen it in years but still know tons of it by heart.
― gyac, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
1996 was one of the first years I was seriously invested in the Oscar race, and I remember looking at the cast of Beautiful Girls and thinking it had a best picture nomination in the bag.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Portman, Thurman and Hutton are all fantastic.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Kiki's Delivery ServiceHappy Go Lucky
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
Metropolitan
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
In Bruges
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
xp Good call!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
doom (2005), dir: andrzej bartkowiak
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
xps Metropolitan otm
the Bill Murray version of The Razor's Edge was at one time. For some reason watched over and over on vhs, but haven't seen it in years.
Dr. Zhivago, first movie I can remember seeing, at the drive-in in the back seat of our VW Bug. Brother and I played the soundtrack endlessly as kids.
Mentioned before, but any Powell and Pressburger, especially I Know Where I'm Going.
Jules and Jim
Any of Jørgen Leth's cycling films: A Sunday in Hell, Stars and Water Carriers and The Impossible Hour.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
I've only seen it once, but I bet Céline and Julie Go Boating would make a good comfort movie
― Dan I., Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
any of the first eight friday the 13th moviessleepy hollow (idk why)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
ClueThrow Mama from the TrainAmicus horror anthology moviesThe CarDead of Night (1945)
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Also some Universal and Hammer horror
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
Clue!!!
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
We should poll the endings of Clue one of these days.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
no day like today
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
brad otm re sleepy hollow
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
i should rig it up so that the odd couple is just constantly playing in the background if im not actively watching something maybe
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
I don't remember if I've seen the movies all the way through and I've never read the books, but I love putting on any of the LOTR trilogy when I'm falling asleep. They've got two of them on Netflix right now. I never know what's going on but it always seems like a comfortable place to be.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
All About EveJFKTootsieThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah Metropolitan for sure, it has that 'staying up all night' thing going on.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Tootise is another one, for sure.
I’ll put the Clue poll together on a day when I’m at home, unless someone else wants to go ahead with it.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Repo ManChinatownepisodes of The Wire
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
repo man is a great choice
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
Ronin
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
The Long Goodbye
Also will 3rd or 4th Metropolitan.
― nickn, Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Repo Man thirdedThis Is Spinal Tapprobably Tetsuo: The Iron Man tbh
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Train movies are great for this. I own:
Emperor Of The North (Lee Marvin vs. Ernest Borgnine)Unstoppable (Denzel Washington and Chris Pine)Runaway Train (Jon Voight and Eric Roberts)The Train (Burt Lancaster)The General (Buster Keaton)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Chef― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 06:40 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 06:40 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 October 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Couple weeks ago I was sick and bedridden and randomly put on Predator (which I never really enjoyed previously tbh) and found it was kind of perfect for this... Just a bunch of cartoonish looking guys busting each other’s chops, beautiful nature shots, and every once in a while someone’s head explodes.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 7 October 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Trees Lounge is my go-to for this.It's the closest film in feel (and cast, outside of Goodfellas) to The Sopranos, which is my comfort TV show.
― henry s, Monday, 7 October 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
20th Century Women has emerged as a big one for me.
― ryan, Friday, 18 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
I need to give that one another shot.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
it fits a lot of requirements of this genre for me: a uniform mood and pace, ensemble cast giving great performances across the board, a pleasing setting along with a strong sense of place and time (santa barbara 1979), melancholy.
― ryan, Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
I think that'll be one of mine eventually. I always watch my comfort movies over and over again until I kill them, so I'm keeping some distance from that one for now (two or three times so far).
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
one that hasn't been mentioned yet:
bridesmaids
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Confirmed last night: Cluny Brown.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
a uniform mood and pace, ensemble cast giving great performances across the board, a pleasing setting along with a strong sense of place and time
Yes I was coming to this thread to say, IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
Documentaries work great for me. They usually have that passage-of-time element some mentioned needing as a comfort movie staple. American Movie is one that immediately comes to mind.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 20 October 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
ryan otm w what makes a comfort movie.
mine is slacker, a movie i wish went on forever
― olly, Sunday, 20 October 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
I like this thread
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
showgirlsspeed racerthe crow
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
ok maybe not ALL of showgirls but most of it
probably Tetsuo: The Iron Man tbh
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Thursday, October 3, 2019 1:07 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
I was disturbed by that, it was not a comfort film for me
I like ryan's description of 20th Century Women
also:The most recent addition to my comfort canon: Giant Little Ones
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, October 1, 2019
enjoyed this film
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
second viewing of Martin Eden confirmed that it will live forever in the personal comfort movie pantheon
movies I could rewatch / put on anytime and get absorbed all over again: RobocopMiracle MileJacob's LadderKiss Kiss Bang BangNear DarkDays of HeavenShattered Glass
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Winter's Bone, for some reason.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 14 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Cheech and Chong movies
Die Hard movies
Fifth Element
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Monday, 14 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
The China Syndrome, in addition to others I've mentioned here. Proof that the content of a comfort movie is kind of irrelevant.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 September 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
Not a movie, but The Beiderbecke Affair, though I haven't watched it for a few years now I've probably been through the trilogy maybe 10 times.
― 这是我的显示名称 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 September 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
The FugitiveNot sure how/why it survives so many rewatchings at my house but it's always like checking in on an old friend.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but Michael Clayton is right up there for me. I think Logan Lucky might be creeping up the ranks.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
This Is Spinal TapRoad Warriorany of the War Stars flicks
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
Logan Lucky held up well on second viewing and my folks loved it.
If I were available I’d definitely try to get a date with Hilary Swank’s hardass FBI agent that appears at the end. pvmic
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
Most of the classic comfort movies are already covered. Will add:
McCabe & Mrs. MillerYoung Guns I/IIGrisham movies, in particular The Firm, Pelican Brief and The Rainmaker
― Mule, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
La BambaKarate Kid High SocietyPhiladelphia Story
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Good TimeUncut Gems
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
lol uncut gems def the opposite for me, what with all the crazy shouting
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
Lol yeah, my gf finds this position insane but I didn't even notice it was 90% shouting when I first saw it. For me the chaos and noisiness of these movies is so overwhelming that it just becomes a soothing din, kinda like how some noise records can tip into ambient territory. Also the protagonists' continual fuck ups make my own problems seem manageable and negligible.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
Logan Lucky is a good pick. It almost seems like a conscious attempt to create a comfort movie
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
my list:
pretty much every horror movie that's sort of boring
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Michael Clayton is right up there for me
Not on my own list, but very much the kind of comfort movie I gravitate towards: big, somber procedurals (Zodiac and All the President's Men the two most obvious examples, but there are others) you can lose yourself in.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
I can't believe I overlooked one of my favorites:
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Oh good one
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
hunt for red octobersilverado
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
M&C a bit bloody/noisy for comfort, but also on the proto-Darwin 19th century tip: Angels & Insects.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Coming to America
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
hunt for red october otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
inherent vice
― despacito ergo sum (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Almost any Bruce Willis movie, good or bad. (Exceptions being The Sixth Sense and those talking baby movies.)
The Philadelphia Story, mentioned upthread
Witness
While You Were Sleeping
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
Think I find TV shows inherently more comforting than movies, though. Something about the continuity & reassurance that I can just keep watching.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Exactly where I've been the past few months (pre-dating the pandemic). My comfort go-to is rewatching a series I love.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
inherent vice otm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
Seems too obvious but Casablanca.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Everybody Wants Some!!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
the sting
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Hard Target, which I am watching right now
― Mule, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
oh man i should watch hard target
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
It’s comforting
― Mule, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
The Fugitive, already mentioned, is my classic die this. North by Northwest, too. Why do I find wrong man on the run films so comforting??
― Alba, Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
heist and/or scam movies seem to be another big trend here
― na (NA), Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
I generally will space out rewatches over at least a couple years, but it's not unusual for me to watch The Fugitive several times in any given year (I think I've watched it at least twice in 2020).
I'm scrambling harder than ever for comfort movies as my resting panic rate continues to rise. Depression-era fare is really hitting the spot of late (designed, as it so often was, as a balm for the panic-stricken). The Berkeley and Astaire/Rogers musicals have been cinematic Xanax.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Also shitty (aka amazing) '80s/'90s coke-fueled action flicks (Cobra and Stone Cold make a swell double bill, I find).
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
Also, Tango & Cash was way more entertaining than I would've expected from a movie I enjoyed as a dumb kid! Never realized back then how badly those two wanted to make sex with each other.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
momentarily got tango & cash confused with turner & hooch there
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
tango & hooch sounds like a decent beveridge.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
Never realized back then how badly those two wanted to make sex with each other.
Now go back and re-watch Point Break and Road House. (The latter contains the line "I used to fuck guys like you in prison," and I'm only half convinced it's meant as a threat in context.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Watched Ocean’s 13 last night and it hit the spot.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Okay, not a movie but old episodes of the Kung Fu series with David Carradine are incredibly soothing... the flute music, just drifting around the west... I used to watch reruns after school, before my parents got home and started fighting.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
How could I forget «Diner»?
― Mule, Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
"American Graffiti"
My sister and her husband will watch "Fargo" whenever they come across it on the cable system, but I don't like it like that.
― nickn, Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
A Serious Man is my Coens comfort movie
― get a mop and a bucket for this Well Argued Prose (Simon H.), Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
especially now that I have a back porch that looks over a parking lot
oh yes thats a good one
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
Coming to Blu Ray for the first time next month, an ILX comfort movies classic..
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/714bL6CQEwL._SL1500_.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
i’m a little worried, james.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:22 AM bookmarkflaglink
lol <3
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
oohThe 'Burbs
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Saturday, 31 October 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
The Vast of Night
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Saturday, 13 March 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
resident evil
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 9 May 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
Dogfight
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 May 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
aw
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 May 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
Somewhere; the Sofia Coppola film.
― piscesx, Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
A Sominex kind of comfort, sure
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 May 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
The Holdovers is going to be one of these for a lot of folks I feel.
― piscesx, Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:57 (five months ago) link
Seems built to be mostly, if not only, just that
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:40 (five months ago) link
Weirdly, when I was in college, The Big Chill was a comfort movie for me.
I don't think I've watched it for more than 30 years.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:45 (five months ago) link
Just the other day I was wishing a streaming service had a “movies to take a nap to” category
― ryan, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:45 (five months ago) link
Respectable genre imo
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:03 (five months ago) link
At the worst of my drinking, I slept through Inglorious Basterds and Hot Tub Time Machine . . . in the theater. I suppose that doesn't count as napping.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
Clue took this spot for me this year. A perfect cozy movie to fall asleep to or put on in the background while I do chores, but I can still watch it any time and feel joy.
Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2 U have also been making their way into my regular rotation.
― peace, man, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:09 (five months ago) link
Roadhouse is a big one for me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:10 (five months ago) link
The Shop Around the Corner is one I go back to like a wooly blanket every sad drunken Christmas
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:14 (five months ago) link
i've been trying to hold off watching Sion Sono's Love and Peace until it's actually December but this might be the evening i crack
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:17 (five months ago) link
last posted to this thread 13 years ago, jesus
Since then, Rogue One and Zodiac. also Someone Great, a Netflix not-quite-rom-com I love but no one else seems to have watched.
― Roz, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:17 (five months ago) link
Ohhhh, you know what completely out of left field thing I watched somewhat recently and kind of loved and that will never get a mention anywhere else? The 1989 Jackée Harry television movie The Reluctant Agent (aka Double Your Pleasure, which sounds like something that has like 400% more anal than this movie). Prime cinematic alpha waves.
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:26 (five months ago) link
Better off DeadSixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast ClubSay AnythingSteel MagnoliasKicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach one, not the Will Ferell one)FletchVacation, European Vacation, Christmas VacationRHPSSo I Married an Axe MurdererBig Lebowski
― ENBB, Monday, July 7, 2008 1:33 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflagl
I haven't watched any of these in years but I will say that I've been fuming all week because I really want to watch Better Off Dead and it's not available streaming.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:11 (five months ago) link
Scenes from a Marriage
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:12 (five months ago) link
the third man and picnic at hanging rock. both of them lull me into a nice place
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:17 (five months ago) link
The Big Lebowski is both my favorite comfort movie and my favorite movie, period.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:20 (five months ago) link
It's the best.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
The best way I can describe my connection to this movie is by relating a story my daughter told me. She is a tow truck driver who does a lot of impound work. The police recovered this guy's car. He seemed really put out and asked them if they were going to dust it for prints.
We both laughed hysterically when she told me this story, without ever mentioning Lebowski.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:28 (five months ago) link
Mike Leigh's Another Year
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:46 (five months ago) link
All Peter Hyams’ films, but especially Running Scared (1986) w/ Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:40 (five months ago) link
School of Rock. First time I saw it was on a flight to Australia. I watched it four times.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:46 (five months ago) link
otm love that one, good feels!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2023 01:15 (five months ago) link
yeah School of Rock holds up so well, it's my kid's fave too
― Roz, Friday, 1 December 2023 01:41 (five months ago) link
Ancient show biz wisdom says never work with kids or dogs because they'll always upstage you, but Jack Black needed all of that kind of help he could get.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 December 2023 01:48 (five months ago) link
This is kind of an alien concept for me, maybe because most of my favourite films are more entertaining to think about than to watch.
My ideal for "comfort viewing" is a TV show that ran every night in the late 80s, chronicling a real-time drive into downtown Toronto, to the tune of laidback jazz; but anything like unedited aquarium or outdoor camera footage conveys the same pleasant atmosphere (I don't like watching fireplace footage though).
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 1 December 2023 18:49 (five months ago) link
Lol I love the yuke log channel. We had a fireplace in the den and I'd still put that on TV growing up.
I think now I have comfort TV shows rather than movies and the biggest of those is, without question, The Golden Girls.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:42 (five months ago) link
xpost Along those same lines, I have been known to watch (at least parts of) those ridiculously long real-time YT videos of train trips through foreign locales. Super soothing and satisfying (but also intersting to see all the off the beaten path scenery).
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:09 (five months ago) link
Oh, yes, train videos. I can watch them for hours, particularly if it's a video of a really long trip. There is one about the train that goes between north and south Australia that is like video therapy.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:10 (five months ago) link
My comfort show is MASH, probably because I used to watch it with my mother and brother.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:11 (five months ago) link
This is Spinal Tap!
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:12 (five months ago) link
The first Paw Patrol movie, I must've seen it a dozen times now with the small one, but it's pretty good! I look forward to watching it. Encanto too.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 1 December 2023 20:17 (five months ago) link
for fans of slow tv this is an all time classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dHETOyiE6U
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:45 (five months ago) link
OMG, yes. My first thought was 'please tell me they didn't tack music or dopey narration onto this work of beauty' and they thankfully listened to my unspoken prayers.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:57 (five months ago) link
Donald Sutherland scene in JFK
― orifex, Friday, 1 December 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
The Dave's Walks channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goFD-F8RrgA
No talking, no music, just an hour or so roaming the villages and countryside of England. He's got about 170 videos at this point.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 1 December 2023 23:00 (five months ago) link
Even better: he also asked if they were going to get DNA evidence, since apparently the kids who boosted it left it in the parking lot of a McDonald's.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:11 (five months ago) link
Bad News mfing Bearscould watch this damn movie a thousand times and never love it any less so great
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:20 (three months ago) link
Englebert
There's chocolate all over this ball
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 February 2024 03:07 (three months ago) link
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011). Fits all the hallmarks: consistent low key vibe, killer ensemble cast, a little bit melancholy, strong sense of time and place.
― ryan, Sunday, 4 February 2024 03:12 (three months ago) link
Started watching Dario Argento's Inferno but it was moving slower than a Robert Wilson opera, so I re-watched Abel Ferrara's King of New York instead.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 4 February 2024 04:41 (three months ago) link
The Martian, round our way
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 February 2024 15:46 (three months ago) link
Wonder Boys
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 4 February 2024 19:57 (three months ago) link
Frances Ha
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 5 February 2024 09:34 (three months ago) link
Everybody Wants Some
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:03 (three months ago) link
Hopscotch Let It Ride (Richard Dreyfuss horse movie)To Be or Not to Be
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 5 February 2024 13:16 (three months ago) link
hopscotch is so good
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:01 (three months ago) link
Moneyball
― na (NA), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:26 (three months ago) link
is every baseball movie a comfort movie? we just got bad news bears, everybody wants some! and moneyball
― na (NA), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:27 (three months ago) link
His Girl FridayThe Maltese FalconCluny BrownThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie TootsieManhattan Murder MysteryFrances Ha
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:27 (three months ago) link
xp baseball is definitely the "comfort movie" of sports
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:31 (three months ago) link