comfort movies

The most recent addition to my comfort canon: Giant Little Ones. I watched the last fifteen minutes again over lunch yesterday.

First Wives Club, My Best Friends Wedding and The Hours

― Surmounter, Monday, July 7, 2008 10:00 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

is the second post in this thread intentionally horrible

The Hours lulls you comfortably to sleep.

First Wives Club > Star Trek: The Motion Picture

White Sun of the Desert
The 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

Rogue One.

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.

Pretty much any Studio Ghibli apart from Grave of the Fireflies

Shane

Beautiful Girls

― 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.

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.

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.

Portman, Thurman and Hutton are all fantastic.

Kiki's Delivery Service
Happy Go Lucky

Metropolitan

In Bruges

xp Good call!

doom (2005), dir: andrzej bartkowiak

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.

I've only seen it once, but I bet Céline and Julie Go Boating would make a good comfort movie

any of the first eight friday the 13th movies
sleepy hollow (idk why)

Clue
Throw Mama from the Train
Amicus horror anthology movies
The Car
Dead of Night (1945)

Also some Universal and Hammer horror

Clue!!!

We should poll the endings of Clue one of these days.

no day like today

brad otm re sleepy hollow

i should rig it up so that the odd couple is just constantly playing in the background if im not actively watching something maybe

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.

All About Eve
JFK
Tootsie
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Yeah Metropolitan for sure, it has that 'staying up all night' thing going on.

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.

Repo Man
Chinatown
episodes of The Wire

repo man is a great choice

Ronin

The Long Goodbye

Also will 3rd or 4th Metropolitan.

Repo Man thirded
This Is Spinal Tap
probably Tetsuo: The Iron Man tbh

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)

Chef

― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 06:40 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

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.

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.

20th Century Women has emerged as a big one for me.

I need to give that one another shot.

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.

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).

one that hasn't been mentioned yet:

bridesmaids

Confirmed last night: Cluny Brown.

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

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.

ryan otm w what makes a comfort movie.

mine is slacker, a movie i wish went on forever