Best film to cheer you up

MakeEmLaugh

Can anyone recommend the best film to cheer you up when you are feeling down?

First thing that popped into my head was something like The Princess Bride, though really, what cheers us up can sometimes be something very esoteric and personal.

e_e

My Neighbor Totoro

Fight Club is great for when you're feeling down.

krudler

The Princess Bride, Jaws or The Goonies for me, my sick day movies heh.

Films to not cheer you up: The Road, Se7en, Irreversible.

keelanj69

I watch Love Actually once a year. Good film.

Mariasofia

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or Elf.

missingtime

Incredibles, Wall-e. I only recently watched Finding Nemo and Despicable Me and they were also very enjoyable.

I would say Up if it wasn't for the first 20 minutes or so which are heartbreaking.

The Big Lebowski is another good one for lifting the mood

mike65

Blazing Saddles.

Renegade Mechanic

If "See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil" doesnt elicit at least twenty laughs, you should seek medical advice.

Riddle101

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Dozen Wicked Words

Amelie is the ultimate feel good film with a bit more heart than some that Hollywood produce

funnights74

For laughs Dumb and Dumber. For complete and utter brilliance The Shawshank Redemption.

Reg'stoy

Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Dumb and Dumber.

eireannBEAR

any of the hangover movies.

frisbeeface

I find cheesy action movies work quite well. Comedy movies don't cheer me up at all for some reason.

nix

Kelly's heroes, gets me every time!

missingtime

Actually cheesy action movies are great at cheering me up.

Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, Demolition Man, Tango & Cash, Predator et al

Hematocyte

The Karate Kid.

Every time I put it on I fear that "this will be the time that I that I finally feel that it sucks" (this sucks, man!), but every time I still get a buzz out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBktYJsJq-E

PyeContinental

Groundhog Day

I am pie

Kingpin, groundhog day, ghostbusters.

Bill murray basically.

PyeContinental

Another Bill Murray one that I often forget to put near the top of the list (probably #2 in my list to Groundhog Day):

Quick Change

(Sorry for the image quality, this one was obviously ripped from a worn-out VHS tape)

downonthefarm

shindelers list

MJ23

Dumb and Dumber.
Groundhog Day.
White Men Can't Jump.
Me myself and Irene.
D' Telly, D' Video, D' Mother.

efb

Sister Act

ScrubsfanChris

The Shawshank Redemption

Username exists

E.T.

keelanj69

Just watched The Big Lebowski. Probably the worst thing I've ever seen

Sorry everyone

Shpongler

The fifth element

alway good to lift the spirits

king size mars bar

Any of the naked gun movies or airplane movies, blazing saddles, or top secret!

mojesius

Airplane
Groundhog day
Forrest Gump
Smokey and the Bandit
One flew over the cuckoo's nest

mojesius

Also...The man with two brains

PyeContinental

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

If "See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil" doesnt elicit at least twenty laughs, you should seek medical advice.

On that theme:

Silver Streak


Brewster's Millions


Trading Places


Spies Like Us

ukonline

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Dodgeball.

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uberalles

Deleted User wrote: »

Fight Club is great for when you're feeling down.

Its on now !

Pat Mustard

It's a Wonderful Life and Trading Places. They're a bit Christmassy but I like them.

80's Arnie's cheesy one-liners also work: "Stick Around!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDztrw_0N8M

uberalles

With Nail and I
Little Shop Of Horrors

PyeContinental

Some Chevy Chase ones:

National Lampoon's Vacation series


Fletch and Fletch Lives


Three Amigos


Memoirs of an Invisible Man

PyeContinental

downonthefarm wrote: »

shindelers list

Far too serious a film to be considered a cheer-me-up film in an easily-picked-up-and-instantly-enjoyed way I think.

MJ23 wrote: »

Dumb and Dumber.
Groundhog Day.
White Men Can't Jump.
Me myself and Irene.
D' Telly, D' Video, D' Mother.

It's a very long time since I've seen WMCJ but I don't remember it being an essentially cheer-me-up type film. Unfortunately I can't thank your post due the inclusion of D'unbelievables, despite agreeing enthusiastically with your other three choices.

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

The Shawshank Redemption

Too harrowing for the uplifting payoff at the end to be considered a cheer-me-up film, purely in the sense that it's such a substantial film rather than a fast-food type comedy which is usually what's needed as a pick-me-up.

Username exists wrote: »

E.T.

A wonderful film, but with too many sad themes in it to be considered overall a cheer-me-up film, even though I do agree overall that it's an uplifting film.

mojesius wrote: »

Airplane
Groundhog day
Forrest Gump
Smokey and the Bandit
One flew over the cuckoo's nest

OFOTCN is a masterpiece, but again there are themes of tragedy, cruelty, and despair, as well as friendship and loyalty which are uplifting. Too serious a film to be a cheer-me-up. Can't thank your post because of this, even though I 100% agree with Groundhog Day and Smokey and the Bandit, and to a large extent Forrest Gump, although it too contains some very sad themes.

CrinkElite

Naked Gun movies.

Evil Dead 2.

SparkySpitfire

- When Harry Met Sally - probably because it's my favourite

- Any Disney!!

- Dead Poet's Society

- Annie Get Your Gun

- Some Like it Hot

I'll probably think of more later, but for now that's all I got

Pat Mustard

Down By Law. No real plot, but so funny.

Royal Irish

Sharknado.

'Almost Famous' - That film never fails to cheer me up and warm my bones, especially the Tiny Dancer montage.

'Old School' - So many scenes and one-liners in this movie that can temporarily take the mind off gloom, notably the scene at Frank's wedding...

I fúcking need you more than ever!

- I almost had to be stretchered out of the cinema when I first heard that unusual take on a classic pop song, it cut me in half!

PyeContinental

The Mustard wrote: »

Down By Law. No real plot, but so funny.

I don't think I've heard of this but I will check it out if I get a chance. It sounds like it could be good.

IMDB wrote:

DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route

I am pie

PyeContinental wrote: »

On that theme:

Silver Streak


Brewster's Millions


Trading Places


Spies Like Us

Dude,how could forget Stir Crazy from that list!

Also,See no Evil Hear no Evil.

Pat Mustard

PyeContinental wrote: »

I don't think I've heard of this but I will check it out if I get a chance. It sounds like it could be good.

It's offbeat, not following many of the usual patterns of mainstream comedies. Tom Waits is in it.

Hope you like it.

sanjo

Has to be Birdcage with Robin williams, great film

PyeContinental

I am pie wrote: »

Dude,how could forget Stir Crazy from that list!

Also,See no Evil Hear no Evil.

Yes it was a glaring oversight! Stir Crazy is brilliant. Gene Wilder is brilliantly naive and manic in it.

I'll add Another You (Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder together again for the last time) The Woman In Red, The Producers, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Young Frankenstein, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, and Haunted Honeymoon for completeness.

See no Evil Hear No Evil was mentioned already.

PyeContinental

keelanj69 wrote: »

Just watched The Big Lebowski. Probably the worst thing I've ever seen

Sorry everyone

Unfortunately, this is just one of those situations where you've got the wrong opinion :pac:
At least you are sorry

PyeContinental

The Jerk

The new phonebook's here! The new phonebook's here!
- I wish I could get that excited about nothing.

"Johnson, Navin R." I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book every day!
This is the kind of spontaneous publicity that makes people! I'm in print!
Things are going to start happening to me now...

"Johnson, Navin R."
Sounds like a typical bastard.
Die, Navin R. Johnson.
Bastard!
Random son of a bitch, typical run-of-the-mill bastard.

PyeContinental

The Mustard wrote: »

It's a Wonderful Life and Trading Places. They're a bit Christmassy but I like them.

Last Christmas, for the "Winterval" Christmas festival, the Bowery Bar in Waterford opened up their nightclub area and converted it into a cinema lounge where they showed It's a Wonderful Life every evening, for free. You could sit in leather chairs and have a beer or a mulled wine during the showing.

I try to only watch it at most once a year, to keep from ever becoming jaded with it. When I discovered to my consternation that my girlfriend had never seen it ever in her whole life, I told her how lucky she was that she would get to see this for the first time, on the big screen, and at Christmas time.

As usual, I was choking up and doing my best to hold back the tears of happiness at the end. Looking about the place, I could see I was not the only man doing the same. Looking to my girlfriend for her reaction, I saw only indifference. Asking her whether she didn't love it now having seen it, she could only say that it was "alright" in an infuriatingly ambivalent and non-committal way.

To me, it's a film that anyone and everyone should love unquestioningly, and I would not be able to understand the kind of person who wouldn't feel uplifted by it. I found her luke-warm reaction to it even more difficult to understand. It's a serious black mark against her, and as mad as it may sound to some, I'm not joking when I say it's one of those little indications that makes me wonder whether we have a long-term future together.