comfort movies

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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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.

inherent vice otm

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

Coming to Blu Ray for the first time next month, an ILX comfort movies classic..

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i’m a little worried, james.

I don't do this.

― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:22 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol <3

ooh
The 'Burbs

The Vast of Night

resident evil

Dogfight

aw

Somewhere; the Sofia Coppola film.

A Sominex kind of comfort, sure

The Holdovers is going to be one of these for a lot of folks I feel.

Seems built to be mostly, if not only, just that

Weirdly, when I was in college, The Big Chill was a comfort movie for me.

I don't think I've watched it for more than 30 years.