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I'm depressed, recommend a film to cheer me up

  • 17-02-2019 1:36pm
    #1
    Sad Professor
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    I'm having a really bad month. What do you watch when you're feeling crap? It doesn't have to be cloyingly happy or optimistic, just something that gives you comfort and lifts your mood.


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  • #2
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,738 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Stardust


    Big Fish

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #3
    Doodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭Doodoo


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    I'm having a really bad month. What do you watch when you're feeling crap? It doesn't have to cloyingly happy or optimistic, just something that gives you comfort and lifts your mood.

    We're the Millers


  • #4
    ForestFire
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    Nutty professor


  • #5
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,265 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Harold and Maude.


  • #6
    brevity
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    When I’m miserable I tend to re-watch movies. I love movies where the characters are at their best, at the top of their game.

    Margin Call or Zodiac are two that spring to mind. Michael Clayton too.

    For something a bit different I might want Constantine or The Incredibles.


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  • #7
    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    Anything with James Stewart in it or know as Jimmy Stewart.

    He's really upbeat and even since I was a kid I loved his movies.


  • #8
    Pa8301
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Pa8301


    Don't watch Requiem for a Dream anyway.


  • #9
    briany
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    A Prairie Home Companion. A great comfort film, especially if you like American folk music.

    Alone in the Wilderness. In the 60s, outdoorsman Dick Prenneke took a super-8 camera with him to Alaska and documented the process of building a homestead.

    Prince Avalanche. Two guys working way out in the countryside, marking a stretch of road in the aftermath of a California wildfire.

    The Station Agent. A man (played by Peter Dinklage) is bequeathed a disused train station shed in rural New Jersey. He goes to live there and becomes involved in the lives of the locals.

    These are all quite slow, gentle films.


  • #10
    Thomhic312
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭Thomhic312


    Shawshank redemption is a good one, if you've not seen it before.


  • #11
    johnny_ultimate
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    Jacques Tati’s Playtime. The way it gradually, carefully builds from a grey, deadpan critique of modernisation to a glorious explosion of technicolour anarchy never fails to put a smile on my face. Its joyous final hour is perfection.

    Also: Buster Keaton. Just in general :)


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  • #12
    Lisha
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    School of rock


  • #13
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Jaws


  • #14
    Flashdan
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Flashdan


    Hangover Part 1

    Liar Liar.


  • #15
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,156 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    spurious wrote:
    Harold and Maude.


    Brilliant soundtrack to this movie


  • #16
    Kristopherus
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    Try a "Carry on..." film. They're old but a lot of them are stiil funny.


  • #17
    angel eyes 2012
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    Happy Gilmore

    Coming to America

    Office Space


  • #18
    dartboardio
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    This is 40

    Hacksaw ridge simply because of how generous and kind the main character is and how even though they are fighting a war against the japanese he still stops and helps their men live.


  • #19
    smurf492
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Barfly
    Girl interrupted
    Clean and sober
    The bridge


  • #20
    blade1
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    Apocalypto.
    It has it all really.


  • #21
    BorneTobyWilde
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gkyVpVuBo4



    This is a cute film, really good.


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  • #22
    Eire392
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭Eire392


    Seven pounds


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Saw it for the first time recently, loved it for all it's funny little moments as well as it's big funny moments.


  • #24
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Fool's gold.
    Very light hearted and lots of sunshine :)


  • #25
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,436 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    blade1 wrote: »
    Apocalypto.
    It has it all really.


    How is this a feel good movie, so much death and torture right to the end.


  • #26
    whomitconcerns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    Ferris buellers day off or blazing saddles


  • #27
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Weekend at Bernie's......

    I laugh so hard it hurts.


  • #28
    Lefty Bicek
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    Cannery Row


  • #29
    blade1
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    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    How is this a feel good movie, so much death and torture right to the end.

    Makes me feel good anyway!!:D


  • #30
    Mam of 4
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    Little Miss Sunshine !


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  • #31
    cmac2009
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    Green book


  • #32
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,075 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Amelie.

    Most Pixar films.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #33
    aligator_am
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    Watch some Laurel & Hardy / Marx Brothers / Three Stooges.

    They still absolutely crack me up and I've been watching them since I'm a kid.

    They're good silly fun :)


  • #34
    MAJJ
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    The Princess Bride


  • #35
    Mehaffey1
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    The History Boys was a good quiet movie with some great humour.


  • #36
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Brigsby Bear
    Fantastic Mr Fox!
    I don't belong in this world any more
    What We do in the Shadows


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  • #37
    Sunrise_Sunset
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭Sunrise_Sunset


    I tend to re-watch 80s movies. It's nostalgic and reminds me of simpler times in my life.
    Jim Carrey movies in general will usually cheer me up too.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    The first three Indiana Jones movies or the BTTF movies.


  • #39
    kazamo
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    clerks 2


  • #40
    WhiteMemento9
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    I am generally not one for the blockbuster type films but whenever I am trying to forget about things for a while and just get absorbed into another world I always end up watching . . . . Jurassic Park.

    Makes me feel like a kid again. Watching as the helicopter flies towards the island with the iconic music playing in the background never fails to bring a smile.


  • #41
    THH
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    briany wrote: »

    Alone in the Wilderness. In the 60s, outdoorsman Dick Prenneke took a super-8 camera with him to Alaska and documented the process of building a homestead.

    Really a great film


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  • #42
    BorneTobyWilde
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    blade1 wrote: »
    Makes me feel good anyway!!:D


    I do love the film though.


  • #43
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    How about The Birdcage op? Its so funny. I love that film. :)


  • #44
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,436 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Feel good movie I liked.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LQa_ibYe8


  • #45
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    I do love the film though.

    It's not a feel good film but it definitely makes you feel something. I remember saying to my oh after watching it that I felt strange and different after. It's not a light film!


  • #46
    eagle eye
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    Thinking of just for somebody in bad form.

    Into the Wild
    The Big Lebowski
    Pulp Fiction
    Forrest Gump


  • #47
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,443 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    The Big Lebowski, it's on Netflix at the mo


  • #48
    Red Lightning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭Red Lightning


    If you're depressed, a movie won't help. Have you went to the doctor?


  • #49
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Drink


  • #50
    ewc78
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 480 ✭✭ewc78


    Rocky III


  • #51
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    Withnail and I


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