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What are your "comfort films"?

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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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Aliens

Akrasia

Real steel

Mostly because it’s the best movie ever made

Capt'n Midnight

Deleted User wrote: »

My ex made me watch Stardust and I must say it was quite enjoyable.

Princess Bride
Ladyhawke
Willow

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 .

LAZYIRISH

The crow,
and every movie Clint Eastwood is in.

IAMAMORON

Chariots of Fire.

mobby

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

IAMAMORON

Flash Gordon

Capt'n Midnight

The Ladykillers
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Another Shore

Aongus Von Bismarck

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.

IAMAMORON

The Wedding Crashers

fonecrusher1

Groundhog Day.

Its great fun.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

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

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.

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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.

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.

[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.

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.

O'Neill

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

Purgative

Midnight Express

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!

IAMAMORON

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

Million Dollar Baby also sends me into floods.

IAMAMORON

Empire of the Sun.

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.

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

(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

Feisar

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

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!

[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.

keano_afc

LA Confidential
The Untouchables.

Flawless.

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:

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?"