comfort movies

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.

Just the other day I was wishing a streaming service had a “movies to take a nap to” category

Respectable genre imo

At the worst of my drinking, I slept through Inglorious Basterds and Hot Tub Time Machine . . . in the theater. I suppose that doesn't count as napping.

Clue took this spot for me this year. A perfect cozy movie to fall asleep to or put on in the background while I do chores, but I can still watch it any time and feel joy.

Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2 U have also been making their way into my regular rotation.

Roadhouse is a big one for me

The Shop Around the Corner is one I go back to like a wooly blanket every sad drunken Christmas

i've been trying to hold off watching Sion Sono's Love and Peace until it's actually December but this might be the evening i crack

last posted to this thread 13 years ago, jesus

Since then, Rogue One and Zodiac. also Someone Great, a Netflix not-quite-rom-com I love but no one else seems to have watched.

Ohhhh, you know what completely out of left field thing I watched somewhat recently and kind of loved and that will never get a mention anywhere else? The 1989 Jackée Harry television movie The Reluctant Agent (aka Double Your Pleasure, which sounds like something that has like 400% more anal than this movie). Prime cinematic alpha waves.

Better off Dead
Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club
Say Anything
Steel Magnolias
Kicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach one, not the Will Ferell one)
Fletch
Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation
RHPS
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Big Lebowski

― ENBB, Monday, July 7, 2008 1:33 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflagl

I haven't watched any of these in years but I will say that I've been fuming all week because I really want to watch Better Off Dead and it's not available streaming.

Scenes from a Marriage

the third man and picnic at hanging rock. both of them lull me into a nice place

The Big Lebowski is both my favorite comfort movie and my favorite movie, period.