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
Coming to Blu Ray for the first time next month, an ILX comfort movies classic..
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― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
i’m a little worried, james.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
oohThe 'Burbs
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Saturday, 31 October 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
The Vast of Night
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Saturday, 13 March 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
resident evil
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 9 May 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
Dogfight
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 May 2021 01:44 (three years ago) link
aw
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 May 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
Somewhere; the Sofia Coppola film.
― piscesx, Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
A Sominex kind of comfort, sure
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 May 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
The Holdovers is going to be one of these for a lot of folks I feel.
― piscesx, Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:57 (five months ago) link
Seems built to be mostly, if not only, just that
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:40 (five months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:45 (five months ago) link
Just the other day I was wishing a streaming service had a “movies to take a nap to” category
― ryan, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:45 (five months ago) link
Respectable genre imo
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:03 (five months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
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.
― peace, man, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:09 (five months ago) link
Roadhouse is a big one for me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:10 (five months ago) link
The Shop Around the Corner is one I go back to like a wooly blanket every sad drunken Christmas
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:14 (five months ago) link
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
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:17 (five months ago) link
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.
― Roz, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:17 (five months ago) link
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.
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:26 (five months ago) link
Better off DeadSixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast ClubSay AnythingSteel MagnoliasKicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach one, not the Will Ferell one)FletchVacation, European Vacation, Christmas VacationRHPSSo I Married an Axe MurdererBig 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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:11 (five months ago) link
Scenes from a Marriage
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:12 (five months ago) link
the third man and picnic at hanging rock. both of them lull me into a nice place
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:17 (five months ago) link
The Big Lebowski is both my favorite comfort movie and my favorite movie, period.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:20 (five months ago) link
It's the best.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
The best way I can describe my connection to this movie is by relating a story my daughter told me. She is a tow truck driver who does a lot of impound work. The police recovered this guy's car. He seemed really put out and asked them if they were going to dust it for prints.
We both laughed hysterically when she told me this story, without ever mentioning Lebowski.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:28 (five months ago) link
Mike Leigh's Another Year
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:46 (five months ago) link
All Peter Hyams’ films, but especially Running Scared (1986) w/ Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:40 (five months ago) link
School of Rock. First time I saw it was on a flight to Australia. I watched it four times.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:46 (five months ago) link
otm love that one, good feels!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2023 01:15 (five months ago) link
yeah School of Rock holds up so well, it's my kid's fave too
― Roz, Friday, 1 December 2023 01:41 (five months ago) link
Ancient show biz wisdom says never work with kids or dogs because they'll always upstage you, but Jack Black needed all of that kind of help he could get.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 December 2023 01:48 (five months ago) link