comfort movies

Winter's Bone, for some reason.

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.

Cheech and Chong movies

Die Hard movies

Fifth Element

The China Syndrome, in addition to others I've mentioned here. Proof that the content of a comfort movie is kind of irrelevant.

Not a movie, but The Beiderbecke Affair, though I haven't watched it for a few years now I've probably been through the trilogy maybe 10 times.

The Fugitive
Not sure how/why it survives so many rewatchings at my house but it's always like checking in on an old friend.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but Michael Clayton is right up there for me. I think Logan Lucky might be creeping up the ranks.

This Is Spinal Tap
Road Warrior
any of the War Stars flicks

Logan Lucky held up well on second viewing and my folks loved it.

If I were available I’d definitely try to get a date with Hilary Swank’s hardass FBI agent that appears at the end. pvmic

Most of the classic comfort movies are already covered. Will add:

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Young Guns I/II
Grisham movies, in particular The Firm, Pelican Brief and The Rainmaker

La Bamba
Karate Kid
High Society
Philadelphia Story

Good Time
Uncut Gems

lol uncut gems def the opposite for me, what with all the crazy shouting

Lol yeah, my gf finds this position insane but I didn't even notice it was 90% shouting when I first saw it. For me the chaos and noisiness of these movies is so overwhelming that it just becomes a soothing din, kinda like how some noise records can tip into ambient territory. Also the protagonists' continual fuck ups make my own problems seem manageable and negligible.

Logan Lucky is a good pick. It almost seems like a conscious attempt to create a comfort movie

my list:

pretty much every horror movie that's sort of boring

Michael Clayton is right up there for me

Not on my own list, but very much the kind of comfort movie I gravitate towards: big, somber procedurals (Zodiac and All the President's Men the two most obvious examples, but there are others) you can lose yourself in.

I can't believe I overlooked one of my favorites:

Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World

Oh good one

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silverado

M&C a bit bloody/noisy for comfort, but also on the proto-Darwin 19th century tip: Angels & Insects.

Coming to America

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inherent vice

Almost any Bruce Willis movie, good or bad. (Exceptions being The Sixth Sense and those talking baby movies.)

The Philadelphia Story, mentioned upthread

Witness

While You Were Sleeping

Think I find TV shows inherently more comforting than movies, though. Something about the continuity & reassurance that I can just keep watching.

Exactly where I've been the past few months (pre-dating the pandemic). My comfort go-to is rewatching a series I love.

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Seems too obvious but Casablanca.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Everybody Wants Some!!

the sting

Hard Target, which I am watching right now

oh man i should watch hard target

It’s comforting

The Fugitive, already mentioned, is my classic die this. North by Northwest, too. Why do I find wrong man on the run films so comforting??

heist and/or scam movies seem to be another big trend here

I generally will space out rewatches over at least a couple years, but it's not unusual for me to watch The Fugitive several times in any given year (I think I've watched it at least twice in 2020).

I'm scrambling harder than ever for comfort movies as my resting panic rate continues to rise. Depression-era fare is really hitting the spot of late (designed, as it so often was, as a balm for the panic-stricken). The Berkeley and Astaire/Rogers musicals have been cinematic Xanax.

Also shitty (aka amazing) '80s/'90s coke-fueled action flicks (Cobra and Stone Cold make a swell double bill, I find).

Also, Tango & Cash was way more entertaining than I would've expected from a movie I enjoyed as a dumb kid! Never realized back then how badly those two wanted to make sex with each other.

momentarily got tango & cash confused with turner & hooch there

tango & hooch sounds like a decent beveridge.

Never realized back then how badly those two wanted to make sex with each other.

Now go back and re-watch Point Break and Road House. (The latter contains the line "I used to fuck guys like you in prison," and I'm only half convinced it's meant as a threat in context.)

Watched Ocean’s 13 last night and it hit the spot.

Okay, not a movie but old episodes of the Kung Fu series with David Carradine are incredibly soothing... the flute music, just drifting around the west... I used to watch reruns after school, before my parents got home and started fighting.

How could I forget «Diner»?

"American Graffiti"

My sister and her husband will watch "Fargo" whenever they come across it on the cable system, but I don't like it like that.

A Serious Man is my Coens comfort movie

especially now that I have a back porch that looks over a parking lot

oh yes thats a good one