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What are your "comfort films"?

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  • 08-10-2020 7:19pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭


    The flicks you put on that never fail to bring that feeling of magic.

    I guess it varies over time - I used to watch films about nomadism - dudes who just travelled anywhere, anytime, bedded down some hotties along the way, had some fun - took it as it came.

    I left that phase behind at about pffff, 23.

    ATM top flicks are,

    - Pain and Gain.

    Never gets old, no matter how many times I watch; about pumping iron, living in Miami (which looks amazing on film but is apparently a horrible place to live), the beach, the tan, the chicks etc.

    Looks so glamorous - always brings me a sense of comfort.

    - Casino

    Sharon Stone, DeNiro - again, looks magical on film, but Las Vegas is apparently a suburban nightmare in the desert.

    Nonetheless, the hollywood incarnation never fails to capture my imagination.
    Neon lights, fast women, fast living, "Welcome to wonderful Las Vegas".

    - 8 mm

    Nicholas Cage - it's about porno really. Actually made in Hollywood, but doesn't look glamourous. Still though, exhibition of genuine human nature (pervs) somehow reliably brings me a sense of well being.


    So,

    Wat u got for me??


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  • Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭Jim Root


    dumb and dumber


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭bo0li5eumx12kp


    Jim Root wrote: »
    dumb and dumber

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Akabusi


    For me the films that brings that feeling of magic is The Prestige followed by Now you see me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Casino - Just to see Joe Pesci's character getting his nead bashed in with a baseball bat.

    That's a real mickey stiffener.


  • Registered Users Posts: 31,852 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Jurassic park

    Always


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Superbad
    Call Me By Your Name
    Zodiac
    Taxi Driver
    Sideways
    Annie Hall
    The Social Network
    Goodfellas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Smacruairi


    Gladiator, star wars, strictly ballroom, dodgeball


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Not "magic" per se but if I come across any of these films when flicking through the tv, I wont change channel until they are over.

    The Goonies.
    Die Hard 1 or 3.
    The day after tomorrow.
    Gladiator.
    Saving Private Ryan.
    Twister.
    Platoon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    The Godfather.

    It used to any of the first three Indiana Jones films but they make me depressed now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭JaimeLannister




  • Registered Users Posts: 18,914 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Jaws.

    Watch it at least twice a year.


  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All of the Back to the Futures, one after the other.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,578 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Back to the Future, A New Hope or Jurassic Park


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Toy Story 1

    Rambone XXX


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,726 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    Jaws.
    Platoon.
    Good fellas.
    Due Date.
    Step Brothers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Goodfellas

    Dumb and Dumber

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Most of the Bond movies.

    The Dirty Dozen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,914 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Casino

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    Just to see Joe Pesci's character getting his nead bashed in with a baseball bat. That's a real mickey stiffener.

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    In Bruges

    The film is perfect and looks and sounds perfect and is executed so well and I can watch it closely or just have it on in the background while I read


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    The Matrix
    Goodfellas
    Gladiator
    Braveheart
    Guardians of the Galaxy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I watched Casino this year for the first time and was a bit disappointed. I'd heard so many good things. It gets a bit too bogged down in the domestic drama in the last third of the film.


  • Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    The catholic boys and rambo. Probably just for nostalgic reasons


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,215 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


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    The scene of Robert De Niro in drag, never fails to make me laugh


    Also,

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    Just love everything about it.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,440 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    The Holiday

    Under the Tuscan Sun

    While You Were Sleeping

    Love Actually

    Sabrina


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Flight of the Navigator.

    Instantly takes me back to my childhood.

    Complying.....................


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,682 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    The Holiday

    Under the Tuscan Sun

    While You Were Sleeping

    Love Actually

    Sabrina

    I watched While You Were Sleeping yesterday - oh its so good!!!

    “We’ll look at it this way, he’ll have more room in his jockey shorts now!”


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭tc20


    The Blues Brothers
    Casablanca
    Catch me if you can
    The world's fastest Indian
    A bridge too far
    Forest Gump


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Jurassic Park 1-3


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Last of the Mohicans
    The wolf of wall street
    The Bourne trilogy (esp. Ultimatum,)
    Three men and a little lady :D
    Groundhog Day
    Planes, trains & automobiles
    Smokey & the bandit


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