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What are your "comfort films"?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland




  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I always find A Matter of Life and Death uplifting.

    Or anything with Terry-Thomas, the scoundrel.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    The Dollar Trilogy, especially A Fistful of Dollars.

    2001, A Space Odyssey. It's just so ambitious, cinematic, and strangely soothing for large parts of it while always having the menacing backdrop running through it.

    I'll openly admit to having a soft spot for Clueless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,285 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I always find A Matter of Life and Death uplifting.

    Or anything with Terry-Thomas, the scoundrel.

    He’s great in ‘School for Scoundrels’.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He’s great in ‘School for Scoundrels’.

    A conniving rotter, lock up your women.


  • Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh, The Field.

    I know it all - God made the world, but seaweed made that field boy.
    And every line gets better. And everyone thinks its crap till they see it. And its class. And Sean Bean dies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    21 jump street.


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


    The Dollar Trilogy, especially A Fistful of Dollars.

    2001, A Space Odyssey. It's just so ambitious, cinematic, and strangely soothing for large parts of it while always having the menacing backdrop running through it.

    I'll openly admit to having a soft spot for Clueless.

    Clueless is a great film and rightfully highly regarded. Not a guilty pleasure at all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    Anything from Studio Ghibli or Laika Studios


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Or anything with Terry-Thomas, the scoundrel.
    Have you see Danger: Diabolik ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Aliens


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,676 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Real steel

    Mostly because it’s the best movie ever made


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    My ex made me watch Stardust and I must say it was quite enjoyable.
    Princess Bride
    Ladyhawke
    Willow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,173 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭LAZYIRISH


    The crow,
    and every movie Clint Eastwood is in.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Chariots of Fire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭mobby


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Flash Gordon


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Ladykillers
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    Another Shore


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    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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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    The Wedding Crashers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,704 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Groundhog Day.

    Its great fun.


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


    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:



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭dzsfah2xoynme9


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


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


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭O'Neill


    Stranger Than Fiction
    Station Agent
    American Splendour
    Groundhog Day
    Grand Budapest Hotel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Midnight Express


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    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!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


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

    Million Dollar Baby also sends me into floods.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Empire of the Sun.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,734 ✭✭✭Feisar


    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...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    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!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    LA Confidential
    The Untouchables.

    Flawless.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Bob Gray


    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:
    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?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭randd1


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    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.

    +1.

    Any time it's on, I can't help but bust my hole laughing at it, a genuine "I don't give a fu*k what you think we're having fun with this film anyway" type of film. My other comfort films;

    The Other Guys (lots of subtle jokes)
    Starship Troopers (pure piss take and OTT violence)
    Pacific Rim (pure turn off your brain, has huge monsters and robots)
    Goodfellas (GFOAT)
    Casino (magnificent, greatest cast put together)
    Jurassic Park (still stands to scrutiny to this day,)
    Schindlers List (not comfortable, just can't take my eyes off it)
    Wolf of Wall Street (just plain nuts)
    LA Confidential (always good to pass the time)
    The Negotiator (brilliant film, good tension throughout)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Such a classic

    Cool-Hand-Luke-Wallpaper-1024x576.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Rawr


    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.

    Especially the Wrath of Khan for me. Particularly good if I'm feeling down.
    Start up with the awesome orchestral flurry from James Horner, ramp up to exciting space battle, and finish it all off with Kirk coming to terms with growing old.

    Bones: You ok Jim? How do you feel?
    Kirk: I feel.....young

    Finish with more awesome James Horner. Always in a great mood after.


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


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Such a classic

    Cool-Hand-Luke-Wallpaper-1024x576.jpg

    This one I could never quite understand.

    Paul Newman, did chicks really think he was the 2nd coming of Casanova or what?

    The film is okay, but there was so much bluster around Newman from the chick demographic I could never quite fully understand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    Naked gun what a classic.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,535 ✭✭✭valoren


    The Austin Powers movies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    Amelie
    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Castaway
    Into the Wild
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Almost Famous
    Good Will Hunting
    High Fidelity - the only movie I can tolerate Jack Black in. In fact, he makes the movie for me!
    Rocket man is super feel good


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    LAZYIRISH wrote: »
    The crow,
    and every movie Clint Eastwood is in.


    Paint Your Wagon and Every Which Way But Loose are 2 movies that suck the sweat off a dead man's balls.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    If I'm feeling a bit down or vacant I'll make a mountain of fresh ham and mustard sandwiches and cover them in clingfilm (they're for later).


    Then make sure I have plenty of beer in the fridge, crack open a cold one, turn the lights off and fire up The Hunt For Red October.


    "A great day, comrades. We sail into history."


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