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
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.
-- 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
Clueless Groundhog Day Beverly Hills Cop Any Harry Potter film
-- 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
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
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.
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