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What are your "comfort films"?

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    #62
    RandomViewer
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    Aliens


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    #63
    Akrasia
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    Real steel

    Mostly because it’s the best movie ever made


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    #64
    Capt'n Midnight
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    My ex made me watch Stardust and I must say it was quite enjoyable.
    Princess Bride
    Ladyhawke
    Willow


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    #65
    Mam of 4
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    Last Of The Mohicans,
    Legends Of The Fall ,
    Goodfellas,
    Cool Runnings,
    All the Rocky films , and all the Harry Potter ones too .


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    #66
    LAZYIRISH
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    The crow,
    and every movie Clint Eastwood is in.


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    #67
    IAMAMORON
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    Chariots of Fire.


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    #68
    mobby
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    Hombre
    Remains of the Day
    Rio Bravo
    Jaws
    Oliver (at Christmas)


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    #69
    IAMAMORON
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    Flash Gordon


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    #70
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Ladykillers
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    Another Shore


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    #71
    Aongus Von Bismarck
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Clueless is a great film and rightfully highly regarded. Not a guilty pleasure at all.

    It isn't now for me, and I watch it at least once a year, but it wasn't exactly the sort of movie you'd head into a rural Irish secondary school as a straight man in the mid-90's and say you thought was a great movie. Unless it was prefaced with some remark about Britney Murphy's character being a complete minx.


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    #72
    IAMAMORON
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    The Wedding Crashers


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    #73
    fonecrusher1
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    Groundhog Day.

    Its great fun.


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    #74
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Groundhog Day.

    Its great fun.

    It is, and throws up some interesting philosophical questions but I actually think it’s a film I’ve watched too much and will probably never watch again for that reason.

    Bill Murray’s delivery is everything here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5gyHqc1FxU


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    KungPao
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    When the winter starts setting in, it is time for Fargo to go on. What a movie. As good as the TV programme is, the original is still best. Jerry Lundegaard is just a hilarious pathetic nutjob.

    Also like a bit of Runaway Train too in the winter. You can feel the icy cold weather in that through the telly.

    Others: Alien, The Terminator, National Lampoons Vacation, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Midnight Run.


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    #76
    dzsfah2xoynme9
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    Star Trek The Motion Picture
    Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
    Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country
    Star Trek 7 Generations
    Star Trek 8 First Contact

    The New Trek films aren't really proper trek in my eyes. And Into Darkness especially was a travesty.


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    #77
    pappyodaniel
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    Stand by Me is timeless and I can just watch it over and over again, it makes me laugh and it makes me cry.


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    Sullivan's Travels is another one I'm keen about. Same era as Casablanca (my favourite screenplay), crackling dialogue and a razor sharp ode to enlightenment dressed as satire. Coen brothers have ripped it off every which way, in particular O Brother Where Art Thou.


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    #79
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    KungPao wrote: »
    When the winter starts setting in, it is time for Fargo to go on. What a movie. As good as the TV programme is, the original is still best. Jerry Lundegaard is just a hilarious pathetic nutjob.

    Also like a bit of Runaway Train too in the winter. You can feel the icy cold weather in that through the telly.

    Others: Alien, The Terminator, National Lampoons Vacation, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Midnight Run.

    How could I forget Fargo? :eek:

    “Just kinda funny-lookin’” is in my everyday vocabulary.


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    #80
    O'Neill
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    Stranger Than Fiction
    Station Agent
    American Splendour
    Groundhog Day
    Grand Budapest Hotel


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    #81
    Purgative
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    Midnight Express


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    #82
    sbsquarepants
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    Any of the John Hughes / Bratpack movies.


    Lost in translation + Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - i've probably watched these more than any other films (i'm not a big re-watcher of anything but i'd say i've seen them both at least 10 times over the years)



    Pretty much anything with Robin Williams in it, funny or serious - i ****ing love that man, what a terrible loss to the world!


    Also he's very much fallen out of favour - but Woody Allen made some fantastic movies, particularly his earlier comedies - Sleeper, Play it again Sam, Bananas and Take the money and run being my favourites. I really hope the ****er didn't actually do the things he's accused of!


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    IAMAMORON
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    ET is Spielberg's greatest masterpiece. I cry everytime. It moves me.

    Million Dollar Baby also sends me into floods.


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    IAMAMORON
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    Empire of the Sun.


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    IAMAMORON
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    Team America. Phuck Yeh.

    The puking scene is one of cinemas funniest moments, I end up in knots on the floor everytime. The sex scene is also a masterpiece.


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    #86
    Aglomerado
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Empire of the Sun.

    That's a beauty. I watched that early on in the lockdown.
    And I love the puke scene in Team America :D (I was only talking about it at the weekend)
    Others I like to put on when I'm feeling crappy/ on a wet Sunday

    Some like it hot
    Goodbye Mr Chips
    Raising Arizona
    Animal House
    Planes Trains and Automobiles
    Blues Brothers
    A Fish Called Wanda
    Any Monty Python film
    Clockwise


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    #87
    Feisar
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    Casablanca
    Robin Hood - Walt Disney's
    Conan The Barbarian - Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky...

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #88
    sbsquarepants
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »

    The puking scene is one of cinemas funniest moments, I end up in knots on the floor everytime. The sex scene is also a masterpiece.


    2 of the funniest scenes ever committed to film in my opinion!


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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Good shout for Sideways. Probably the most hilarious film I ever saw that almost no one has heard about.

    I would put Swingers in the same category. Grown up comedy I would call it. Class films.


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    #90
    keano_afc
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    LA Confidential
    The Untouchables.

    Flawless.


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    #91
    Bob Gray
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    Great thread.

    The Big Lebowski, just start to finish top notch entertainment, it really ties a movie night together.

    Still Crazy, brilliant cast and soundtrack, Bill Nighy was a hoot as Ray.

    Hot Tub Time Machine 2, daft film with a rubbish plot but I love it for the the quotes. "If you don't want to be considered a sex offender, don't take a sh1t in a sandbox that happens to be in a playground. Cause guess what? You end up with two things, a record and a nickname." As I said, daft film but funny dialogue.

    Planes Trains and Automobiles, have always loved it, great blend of bittersweet and hilarious, easily my favourite John Candy film.

    And this bequoted gem here is easily top of the list:
    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    Stand by Me is timeless and I can just watch it over and over again, it makes me laugh and it makes me cry.

    "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?"


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