comfort movies

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.

It's the best.

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.

Mike Leigh's Another Year

All Peter Hyams’ films, but especially Running Scared (1986) w/ Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal

School of Rock. First time I saw it was on a flight to Australia. I watched it four times.

otm love that one, good feels!

yeah School of Rock holds up so well, it's my kid's fave too

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.

This is kind of an alien concept for me, maybe because most of my favourite films are more entertaining to think about than to watch.

My ideal for "comfort viewing" is a TV show that ran every night in the late 80s, chronicling a real-time drive into downtown Toronto, to the tune of laidback jazz; but anything like unedited aquarium or outdoor camera footage conveys the same pleasant atmosphere (I don't like watching fireplace footage though).

Lol I love the yuke log channel. We had a fireplace in the den and I'd still put that on TV growing up.

I think now I have comfort TV shows rather than movies and the biggest of those is, without question, The Golden Girls.

xpost Along those same lines, I have been known to watch (at least parts of) those ridiculously long real-time YT videos of train trips through foreign locales. Super soothing and satisfying (but also intersting to see all the off the beaten path scenery).

Oh, yes, train videos. I can watch them for hours, particularly if it's a video of a really long trip. There is one about the train that goes between north and south Australia that is like video therapy.