comfort movies

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.

miller's crossing

-- omar little, Monday, July 7, 2008 2:29 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yesss

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!

it is b/c you are special

Solaris

ohwhoa i can't believe i forgot to say, and no one else has said:

Bladerunner

Stand By Me

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

hannah & her sisters

the great escape

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.

Zorro (1975)

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).

Behind Enemy Lines

basically any of the bond movies except OHMSS and CR

most of the dirty harries

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.

Spielberg (CE3K, Raiders). And the first Star Wars (1977).

tommy boy

Fame
Quiz Show
Together

the station agent

DIE HARD

and Wonder Boys

― milo z, Monday, July 7, 2008 1:13 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ and out of sight

Empire Records
Withnail & I
Grosse 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.

Igby Goes Down
Any film of Jane Austen novel
Chariots of Fire

Depends what I want... uplifting, romantic happy ending, or just to have a bloody good bawl.

Local Hero
The Princess Bride
The Maltese Falcon

Almost Famous, Mean Girls, Clueless

mean girls OTm i might put it on now

I think a comfort movie has to be a movie that you don't get bored of in the middle so....

An American Tale
A 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.

!!!

Now I really want to watch Brave Little Toaster. It's been years...

Truth About Cats And Dogs
Miracle
Withnail and I
Pretty In Pink
The Notebook

wow: Toaster and Cats and Dogs right on

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.

The Philadelphia Story
In The Mood For Love
Dazed and Confused

Manhattan
Double Indemnity
High Fidelity
The Searchers
Reservoir Dogs
Live Free or Die Hard
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Annie Hall
Tommy Boy
Almost Famous

When Harry Met Sally
Groundhog 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.

Oh, I meant to say Annie Hall too.

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.

Can't Stop the Music

Gotta be Tenebre, Deep Red, Videodrome and Assault on Precinct 13.

Brick.

lots of laurel & hardy
midnight run
picnic at hanging rock

any of Verhoeven's sci-fi flicks: Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers.

Predator

starship troopers OTM

laurel and hardy rules!

when harry met sally
beverly hills cop (can't believe other people said this one!)
together
roxanne
the royal tenenbaums
manhattan
hannah and her sisters
big

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.

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.