comfort movies

bill and teds, zoolander, bring it on, rushmore

Lebowski
Election
Ed Wood
LOTR
The Third Man

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 Business
Robin Hood (Disney - roger miller ftw)
Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory
An American Tail
Goonies
Steel Magnolias (but only if I am in the mood to cry, talk about waterworks)
Breakfast Club

Any Pixar, Cars excepted. The Iron Giant.

Pixar movies tend to get me all amped up! They are like calculated to tweak my emotions.

Lawrence of Arabia

Movies I can watch any time:

Quiz Show
The Lady Eve
Husbands and Wives
Naked Lunch
The Player
Reversal of Fortune
Touch of Evil
Notorious

the apartment (wilder)

Yeah, that's a good'un!

A few of mine:

Cool Hand Luke
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
Woodstock
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The Player
The Right Stuff

Little Shop of Horrors

Groundhog Day
Nine to Five
The Women
Female on the Beach
Rebecca
The Magnificent Ambersons
Xanadu
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
The Color of Pomegranates
Women of the Night (2000)
The Apple (1980)

Gregory's Girl
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Princess Bride
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
any Hugh Grant/Richard Curtis thing

I'm thinking Groundhog Day would be a good addition as well.

bottle rocket

Cherry 2000
Black Mask
Spinal Tap
Dawn of the Dead
Dude Where's My Car
Idiocracy
Episodes of Metalocalypse or the IT Crowd

ADVENTURELAND

Strictly Ballroom

episodes of MST3K have basically become my comfort movies

The Mother and the Whore
The Last Days of Disco
"The Thin Man" films, or just about anything 30s/40s with Myrna Loy
Wonder Boys
The Paper Chase
Amelie
Walking and Talking
The Dreamlife of Angels

episodes of MST3K have basically become my comfort movies

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:41 (32 minutes ago)

lately my brother & i have been getting high & watching bbc's planet earth

His Girl Friday
The Monolith Monsters
Rodan
Real Genius
Buckaroo Banzai
The Thing
Tron
The Fabulous Baker Boys
O Lucky Man
most Bond movies, but especially From Russia With Love and You Only Live Twice
Where Eagles Dare
For A Few Dollars More
Dirty Harry

I've been watching Planet Earth, too (got for x-mas), and it will definitely be comfort viewing.

i can see Up In The Air fitting the bill in years to come.

Tootsie! What is it with me and New York movies i wonder.

Tron
Wargames
Dawn of the Dead
Raiders lost ark
star wars trilogy (has to be all three)
back to future trilogy (again all three, yes even #3)
Real Genius
Romancing the stone

E.T.

blade runner.

Silver Streak

http://www.rvgfanatic.com/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_687915/Tremors.JPG

wonder boys

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?

Beautiful Girls

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.

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Showgirls-movie-04.jpg

rebecca

laura

wild reeds

warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)

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.

Big Trouble in Little China

"warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)"

and some of the best stuff he did

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Rushmore's the king of this isn't it really

What About Bob?
Mulholland Dr.
Manhattan Murder Mystery--Woody and Diane Keaton re-united...surprised how little love this little jewel gets!

Ed Wood
Fellowship of the Ring
Big Lebowski

Truth About Cats And Dogs
Beetlejuice
Flashdance

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.

I don't do this.

Pauline Kael has rained on our Andrew Sarris parade.

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.

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.

can totally relate to Zodiac.