Winter's Bone, for some reason.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 14 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Cheech and Chong movies
Die Hard movies
Fifth Element
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Monday, 14 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
The China Syndrome, in addition to others I've mentioned here. Proof that the content of a comfort movie is kind of irrelevant.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 September 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― 这是我的显示名称 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 September 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
The FugitiveNot sure how/why it survives so many rewatchings at my house but it's always like checking in on an old friend.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
This Is Spinal TapRoad Warriorany of the War Stars flicks
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
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
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
Most of the classic comfort movies are already covered. Will add:
McCabe & Mrs. MillerYoung Guns I/IIGrisham movies, in particular The Firm, Pelican Brief and The Rainmaker
― Mule, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
La BambaKarate Kid High SocietyPhiladelphia Story
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Good TimeUncut Gems
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
lol uncut gems def the opposite for me, what with all the crazy shouting
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
Logan Lucky is a good pick. It almost seems like a conscious attempt to create a comfort movie
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
my list:
pretty much every horror movie that's sort of boring
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
I can't believe I overlooked one of my favorites:
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Oh good one
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
hunt for red octobersilverado
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
M&C a bit bloody/noisy for comfort, but also on the proto-Darwin 19th century tip: Angels & Insects.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Coming to America
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
hunt for red october otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
inherent vice
― despacito ergo sum (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
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
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
Think I find TV shows inherently more comforting than movies, though. Something about the continuity & reassurance that I can just keep watching.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Exactly where I've been the past few months (pre-dating the pandemic). My comfort go-to is rewatching a series I love.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
inherent vice otm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
Seems too obvious but Casablanca.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Everybody Wants Some!!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
the sting
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Hard Target, which I am watching right now
― Mule, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
oh man i should watch hard target
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
It’s comforting
― Mule, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
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??
― Alba, Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
heist and/or scam movies seem to be another big trend here
― na (NA), Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Also shitty (aka amazing) '80s/'90s coke-fueled action flicks (Cobra and Stone Cold make a swell double bill, I find).
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
momentarily got tango & cash confused with turner & hooch there
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
tango & hooch sounds like a decent beveridge.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
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.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Watched Ocean’s 13 last night and it hit the spot.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
How could I forget «Diner»?
― Mule, Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
"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.
― nickn, Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
A Serious Man is my Coens comfort movie
― get a mop and a bucket for this Well Argued Prose (Simon H.), Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
especially now that I have a back porch that looks over a parking lot
oh yes thats a good one
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link