comfort movies

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

joe vs the volcano

lone star

serpico as comfort film is srsly twisting my melon

i get stressed out just thinking about that shit

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.

the last boy scout

after seeing Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy I thought it had a good chance to become a comfort movie.

Film is so-so. The TV series is comfort-y material tho'.

le samouraï

Moonstruck. not an ILX fave i'd imagine but there it is.

oh definite comfort movie for me

League of their Own
Little Women
Reality Bites
Clueless
Inside Llewyn Davis
Zodiac

Love Serenade
The Castle
Muriel's Wedding
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Empire Records
Dazed & Confused
Together
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Stand By Me
Neverending Story
ET
Willow
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Return of the Secausus Seven
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Career Girls
Weekend at Bernie's
Sister Act

hausu

bourne identity

first name: carmen, for some reason.

9 To 5
Ghostbusters
Dazed and Confused
Being There
Nashville
Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
The Jerk
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Superman 3
any 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.

Love Serenade

This is quite possibly the *least* comfortable film I think Ive seen!

i fkn love that movie

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.

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

I mean a lot of it has to do with personal + regional history, but that lake berryessa scene... yikes

Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. Maybe the Bourne Movies. If I'm off sick that's what I do.

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

Yes def. Also i find all the attention to historical detail really absorbing

yep me too

Thirded, Zodiac is definitely in my comfort canon as well

Jumping Jack Flash
Splash
Silver Streak
Sweet Smell of Success
Foreign Affair
Wonder Boys
Indy & The Last Crusade
A New Leaf
Shop Around the Corner
Stakeout
The Paper
High Anxiety
Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country

Oh, duh, and Soapdish

Beautiful Girls

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)

Beautiful Girls

Definitely this one! Also:

Funky Forest: First Contact
I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK
The Life Aquatic
LOTR

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.

Trayce ikwym about Love Serenade but it's weirdly comforting somehow

The Browning Version remake is another go to

every powell & pressburger film

re Zodiac; a whole bunch of us also picked that upthread!

Gremlins 2
Threads

The classic Leone westerns

she wore a yellow ribbon
defending your life
wonder boys
f for fake
tank girl
vivre sa vie (all those long takes)
california split
the wrath of khan
dr strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

what a beautiful curve that list almost had. a lesson against parenthesis.

oh i see everyone including me already said wonder boys.

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, July 9, 2013

Basically the same three years later; would now add All the President's Men and Advise and Consent.

the third man
the 39 steps (or most pre-hollywood hitchcock for that matter)

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.

Raiders Of the Lost Ark
The Quiet Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Do The Right Thing

90s jackie chan films

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 Mission
Full Contact
God of Cookery
The Killer
Hard Boiled

also:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Right Stuff
Die Hard
Rushmore
Black Narcissus
Repo Man
Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner

may as well add Mad Max: Fury Road to this list at this point

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.

And now I want to go and watch it, of course.

swingers
the wedding singer
the Daniel Craig Bond movies
barcelona

Tootsie
The Lady Eve
JFK
Touch of Evil
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie