comfort movies

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.

My comfort show is MASH, probably because I used to watch it with my mother and brother.

This is Spinal Tap!

The first Paw Patrol movie, I must've seen it a dozen times now with the small one, but it's pretty good! I look forward to watching it. Encanto too.

for fans of slow tv this is an all time classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dHETOyiE6U

OMG, yes. My first thought was 'please tell me they didn't tack music or dopey narration onto this work of beauty' and they thankfully listened to my unspoken prayers.

Donald Sutherland scene in JFK

The Dave's Walks channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goFD-F8RrgA

No talking, no music, just an hour or so roaming the villages and countryside of England. He's got about 170 videos at this point.

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.

Even better: he also asked if they were going to get DNA evidence, since apparently the kids who boosted it left it in the parking lot of a McDonald's.

Bad News mfing Bears

could watch this damn movie a thousand times and never love it any less

so great

Englebert

There's chocolate all over this ball

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011). Fits all the hallmarks: consistent low key vibe, killer ensemble cast, a little bit melancholy, strong sense of time and place.

Started watching Dario Argento's Inferno but it was moving slower than a Robert Wilson opera, so I re-watched Abel Ferrara's King of New York instead.

The Martian, round our way