What’s your go to comfort movie?

kyojim · 22-04-2022 10:58am #1

Mine is hands down Raiders of the Lost Ark. I’ve been a diehard Indiana Jones fan since I was four or five years old. I’m 18 now. Ignoring plot, dialogue, character arcs, cinematography, music, acting, etc. (all of which and more it beyond excels at) and just ranking it based solely on my own personal enjoyment, it might be my favorite movie of all time. If not, it’s definitely up there.

HeidiHeidi · 22-04-2022 11:01am

The Blues Brothers

No contest. The music, the dancing, the absolute daftness of the whole thing. And that car chase!

thefallingman · 22-04-2022 11:04am

schindler's list

ILikeBoats · 22-04-2022 11:15am

Point Break (1991)

Squeeonline · 22-04-2022 11:22am

The Social Network.

I love the pacing and the soundtrack.

put_the_kettle_on · 22-04-2022 11:28am

Some Like It Hot.

Jack Lemmon was so funny and Marilyn was incandescent.

JimmyVik · 22-04-2022 1:02pm

Stand by me.

Stephen_Maturin · 22-04-2022 1:03pm

Jurassic Park, War of the Buttons

Strumms · 22-04-2022 1:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118960172#Comment_118960172

Mine too, it’s genius.

Be right back · 22-04-2022 1:14pm

From here to eternity! A bit of Montgomery Clift, can't go wrong.

CPTM · 22-04-2022 1:16pm

Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. If I had to pick just one of them... The Dark Knight.

CPTM · 22-04-2022 1:16pm

I also think Independence Day was incredibly well made. I'd always happily sit down and watch that.

Mav11 · 22-04-2022 1:25pm

For me, it would have to be Master and Commander The far side of the World with Russel Crowe. I never get tired of watching it.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-04-2022 1:38pm

Armageddon, purely thinking outside the box solutions that might just resolve a disaster 😂

howamidifferent · 22-04-2022 1:43pm

Love Actually

ollkiller · 22-04-2022 1:46pm

Back to the Future 1. Just a perfect film.

BorneTobyWilde · 22-04-2022 1:47pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apduYg2VqTI

I like this movie, but many more also

But this is a feel good movie

gmisk · 22-04-2022 1:54pm

Jurassic park

Stephen_Maturin · 22-04-2022 3:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118960705#Comment_118960705

Have you read the books? They’re brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

markw7 · 22-04-2022 3:33pm

Garden State gets my vote, real easy to watch and quite funny in parts. Natalie Portman warms my cold, dead heart in this every time!

Ginger83 · 22-04-2022 3:34pm

Hotel Erotica

Burt Renaults · 22-04-2022 6:24pm

Groundhog Day. I watched it 365 times last year.

black & white · 22-04-2022 6:32pm

The Commitments or The Snapper

Mad_maxx · 22-04-2022 9:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118960050#Comment_118960050

me too , watched it on ITV4 last night , a movie with such heart , never mind great music and plenty of laughs

" I hate Illinois nazis "

Hangdogroad · 23-04-2022 7:05am

Kelly's Heroes, it was one of the first movies I can remember seeing on the telly as a nipper.

delboy85 · 24-04-2022 12:40am

"Apollo 13". Perfect for a snoozy Sunday afternoon. Great film.

French Toast · 24-04-2022 1:00am

The Longest Yard (2005 version with Adam Sandler). Great bit of nonsensical, feel-good comedy.

The Big Lebowski is another one.

poppysee · 10-05-2022 8:51pm

Ratatouille is my go to comfort movie something about it that just makes my day better.

walshb · 10-05-2022 8:54pm

Back to the Future. An absolute timeless gem

callaway92 · 10-05-2022 8:54pm

Some really good shouts here including The Social Network, Jurassic Park and the Nolan Batman movies

Weird one here but I think The Social Network is actually kind of underrated

My own choice would be the usual stereotypes of Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, The Green Mile. Perfect ‘pick up and play’ movies

Recently I find that Get Out is becoming a go-to movie for me too

gladvimpaker · 10-05-2022 8:58pm

Sleepy Hollow, The Shining, Christmas Carol or Jaws

walshb · 10-05-2022 9:01pm

Another one I watch an awful lot is Fatal Attraction. It’s got everything, and not a single minute is uninteresting.

Nothing surprises me now · 10-05-2022 9:10pm

Cinema Paradiso is great film. Also really like Stand By Me and the Colour Purple.

Tom Mann Centuria · 10-05-2022 9:21pm

A couple I watch, The Frighteners or Amelie. Neither are too taxing.

JanusRock5 · 11-05-2022 12:48am

Theres Something About Mary.

appledrop · 11-05-2022 2:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118960796#Comment_118960796

Absolutely my favourite comfort movie.

Also tradition that we watch it every Christmas Eve.

appledrop · 11-05-2022 2:51am

Schilndlers List and Shawshank Redempton are up there as my all time favourite films along with The Pianist, but I wouldn't class them as comfort movies but each to there own!

c.p.w.g.w · 11-05-2022 3:10am

Back to the Future, Raiders, Last Crusade

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 11-05-2022 3:35am

Lost in translation.

Always end up in a chilled/happy mood.

11-05-2022 3:40am

I'd always watch Forest Gump if it was on

Quazzie · 11-05-2022 3:42am

Big Daddy or The Greatest Showman

2smiggy · 11-05-2022 10:32am

other than Back to the Future and Groundhog Day, I have probably watched The Big Short more than anything

Talisman · 12-05-2022 10:47pm

I don't have a comfort movie, but I do have a bunch of movies that I like to fall back to whenever I'm not in the mood to watch something else.

The Blues Brothers

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Grosse Point Blank

Little Miss Sunshine

Memento

Miller's Crossing

Napolean Dynamite

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Princess Bride

Rogue One

Starship Troopers

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

The Way of the Gun

What’s your go to comfort movie?

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