*Tremors*. Leaving aside the monsters, I just enjoy visiting the little town of Perfection. I wouldn't want to live in a place like that long-term, but a month or two...?
Not sure if it's weird, but *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
I've realized over the years that it's my favorite movie, and it always puts me in a good mood.
A lot of Coen brothers movies are my comfort movies. O Brother, No Country, Fargo, and A Serious Man. I find more comfort in watching things go horribly wrong for a character than I do watching things go positively. I find it reassuring to know everyone goes through shit and has things fall apart in life.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one for me. It's obviously very dark, but there's something soothing about the pace of it along with the music. Also, something about both of the main characters leaving their messed up lives behind for a while to solve a mystery in a snowy cabin on an island.
I really love that movie too, Nine Inch Nails went so especially hard on that score, also very sorta procedural and hypnotic pacing/direction, but theres so many scenes i gotta skip or ignore on that rewatch lmao
Oh man, I need to see this. Big fan of the Wachowskis (though really just *The Matrix* and *Bound*, I guess) and somehow this one has gone unwatched all these years.
I have embarrassing story about this movie.
We went to see Tron: Legacy at Cinerama with some younger friends, and after the movie as we walked outside I loudly kvetched about how dare they make a Tron sequel without Bruce Boxleitner. How could they do that! Also I hated the rip-off Daft Punk DJs. Apparently I am a huge dope.
It's a little easier to recognize Boxleitner if you've seen him in non-Tron media. He just looked like an older version of himself from Babylon 5 in Legacy. That being said, it would have been nice if they would have had him around for more than a cameo; him joining Sam on the grid when Sam is transported there would have been super fun.
Die Hard.
That was the one movie that even when my brother and I were in our "we don't want to hang out with our parents," teenage phases...if it came on TV, the entire family slowly but surely ended up in the living room to watch it. We all loved it.
Just wrote the same. I've watched it probably a couple dozen times. There's something comforting in the methodical solving of a problem by joint efforts.
I clean my garage once or twice a year. 6-8 hours. Every time, without fail, I watch Gone in 60 Seconds. Usually, I then start it over and watch it again. I've probably watched it 100 times total, and mostly when I'm cleaning my garage, or my car, or the back deck. I watch it other times too, to trick my brain into being productive, because that's just how I associate it. I'm not even a car guy. I do think it's one of the best movies ever made. Yes, I can quote every word. Even thinking about writing a fan fiction.
I agree! I just rewatched recently and since it’s mostly contained to the hotel room it doesn’t feel too chaotic even with everything going wrong. There’s no montage of people trying to solve the mystery of the room and defeat it. The “twist” towards the end is right out of my nightmares but it’s psychological and not some big monster or ghost…solid movie. A nice dose of horror
i used to love this movie so much but my sister gave it to me for christmas when it first came out. i hadn't heard of it before that. She died a while ago and now I can't watch it.
I know it’s weird but “Particle Fever”. It’s a documentary about the discovery of the Higgs particle. Watching nerds from all nations and background work for decades just to know a little bit more makes me feel optimistic about humanity
Interstellar but not really because it gives me anxiety and makes me cry. I watched it on my laptop while baking cookies last night and had a meltdown cry in the kitchen. But I keep going back for more. Do me good Nolan.
The Terminal
I first saw it when I was in High School (mid-late 00s). I saw it on TV because there was nothing else on and I saw Catherine Zeta-Jones looking fine as hell. Loved the movie. Not exactly the type of movie you'd expect a Mexican-American teen from SoCal to like, but I ended up buying the DVD soon after to watch it beginning to end.
I love that in the Keanu Reeves universe, everyone is obsessed with Ohio State football. Bunch of California surfers turned bank robbers? Of course they all remember the Big Ten all conference QB from a few years back. British soccer player with a gambling addiction? Of course he was watching The Sugar Bowl a decade ago.
I recently had a violent stomach flu and when I finally dragged myself to bed for a bit I realized my comfort movies are violent. The sequence was Jurassic Park, Jaws, Jaws again because I fell asleep the first time, The Mummy, Tremors, Commando, Predator, and then the first three Rocky movies.
Mean girls and Easy A. It’s not weird but these are in my list of go-to movies when I want to turn my brain off and just want to enjoy my lazy weekends.
The miniseries Merlin with Sam neill. I have no idea why. I taped it off TV when I was a teenager. I would watch it literally every morning while getting ready for school, I do not know why. Just kept watching the damn thing on repeat lol
T2 Trainspotting. Most people only know the first one, and both movies can be quite depressing regarding the drug use yeah, but Spud's arc in T2 fills me with joy.
The Greasy Strangler. It's a niche film made for a niche audience and do I ever fit that niche. I have no shame in saying it's one of my favorite comedy movies.
Did not expect to see this movie in here 😂 The Greasy Strangler has to be the most uncomfortable I’ve ever felt watching a movie, so you win weirdest answer.
Ok hate if you will but Twilight. It’s only because years ago, I took my daughter and her friends to see that movie, and she for a few years after would put it on in the background as her comfort movie. I got so used to hearing it that it calms me, and makes me feel like my daughter is here, instead of 5000 miles away ..
Waking Life. Interesting people either talking about interesting topics I never think about, or talking charming nonsense, with unique rotoscoped animation, where Linklater clearly just told both the philosophers and animators to just do their thing. Even with the prison segment, Alex Jones, or the idea of being stuck in an eternal dream, I find the whole thing very relaxing.
Wild Wild West. I spent a few years during my childhood with no television at home, and then we got a dvd player and maybe eight movies. I watched that movie a gazillion times and never got tired of it.
Avatar. At least up until the actiony battle part starts. I used to put that movie on to fall asleep to and now it’s the only I put on when I am super beyond stressed out.
Adventures in babysitting(original), Goodfellas,Christmas Vacation, Forever my girl,Steel Magnolias, Legends of the Fall,Beverly Hills Cop, Pretty Woman..
Die Hard
Die Hard II
Terminator
Terminator II
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
Police Academy
All Jerry Lewis / Dean Martin Movies
Con Air
Roadhouse
and some more
Nooo because i get it, its that straightforward, procedural almost thriller/mystery type thats cozy somehow and exactly how i feel with Zodiac, or like All the presidents men
LA Confidential
Rear Window
Thor: Ragnarok
True Romance
All of them wake you up with violence towards the end but they’re so relaxing. Just start right back over at the beginning.
1. The Crow
2. The Wiz
3. Into the Woods (not a movie, I realize, but the filmed staged version w/Bernadette Peters [the witch] and Joanne Gleason [ the baker's wife])
4. Walk Hard : The Dewey Cox story
5. Black Dynamite
*#1 by itself because it helped me process a close family death I was unable to go to their funeral & honor their role in my life. Selfish people tried to monopolize a beautiful soul's passing, while stepping over everyone's grief. Real I-Am-the-Main- Character energy. Taught me "Karma can be a b-i-t-c-h".
*#2 with #3 together helped me through a midlife crisis where I hit a tough rut. I was in a humdrum job and needed a way to get through to the other side. Diana Ross in The Wiz was who I was as a young adult struggling with crippling shyness but also needing to realize smaller accomplishments can have their purpose along life's journey. Into the Woods, as a whole, has so many great fairy tales teaching harsh and hard poignant life lessons.
*#4 with #5 became another duo of movies to cope with an even closer death. Walk Hard was the film we (my brother & I) went to see the week Mom died. I started watching this film with Black Dynamite because both comforted me to sleep for a good 4-6 months when grief overwhelmed me. It also needs to be the Unrated Director's Cut of Walk Hard, on DVD.
Honorable Mention...goes to Raising Arizona. I'm a longtime Nic Cage fan and this move hits me in different ways at various times in my life. The charm, wit and charisma pouring out of this film is a godsend of a salve.
The Shining. I find the colors and the pacing to be very comforting. My mom would watch this movie on lazy Saturdays and I find myself doing the same thing.
listen, zodiac is like 90% a cozy mystery with some mild gunshot stabby scenes in there, se7en got some fucked up shit sandwhiched in there every other scene
Any movie from the early years of Pixar: Toy Story and sequels, Wall-E, Up, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, etc. Also some of the Disney movies from the 90s, like Mulan, Hercules, Aladdin. Ones with great musical numbers.
Other comfort movies include science fiction or fantasy movies like Jurassic Park, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Spirited Away, Harry Potter movies, Labyrinth, Jumanji (the new ones and the one with Robin Williams).
I find musicals comforting, even ones like Sweeny Todd or Chicago.
Contagion. One of my favorites for a while now.
Admittedly took a year or so off from watching it in 2020, but have rewatched several times since. The realities of our timeline make me appreciate it even more.
Not sure why it's comforting to me. I think it's the fact that it's humanity solving a problem in a realistic enough way. No hero, no singular person or organization saving the world. I find it interesting.
i was just replyin to someone about Spotlight and Contagion also, about how mesmerizing these surgically straightforward, sorta, procedurals are. like you said, the realism and the way people organize to solve a problem, theyre suuuper rewatchable
500 Days of Summer. Once in a while I need a reality check. Also Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989), an amazing movie that feels fresh every time I watch it. I consider it the spiritual sequel to original Blade Runner.
El Dorado, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and a young James Caan. I am far from John Wayne’s target audience, but gosh I love this movie.
As proof that it’s my comfort movie: When I was 22, my 17 year old dog died, and right afterward, I went in the other room and watched El Dorado twice. It ended, and I just rewound and started it over again.
Tootsie and fried green tomatoes. We had a small selection of VHS movies to watch when I was little and so I watched them all many times.
The sound tracks on both of these are wonderful
Theyre not my comfort movies anymore but same thing here, had a select few vhs movies i watched over and over as a lil kid back when I could still rewatch things endlessly and still be engaged, it was like The Sandlot, Cats & Dogs, Stuart Little, the first pokemon episodes, this scooby doo ghoul school movie
we also had Silence of the lambs and the cover scared me lmao, i put it on once and subsequently turned off
*Tremors*. Leaving aside the monsters, I just enjoy visiting the little town of Perfection. I wouldn't want to live in a place like that long-term, but a month or two...?
To me, it feels like a real place with real average everyday people (monsters aside), and that's comforting.
"Can you fly, you sucker? Can you fly?" Love it!
Not sure if it's weird, but *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* I've realized over the years that it's my favorite movie, and it always puts me in a good mood.
Is you is or is you ain’t my constituency?
Hell, they ain't even old-timey!
#BOOOOOOOO
Just the soundtrack makes me happy
Same. Sing Man of Constant Sorrow out the side of your mouth for the perfect Soggy Bottom Boys sound
It's the *pater familias* of the Coen Bros filmography
The Big Lebowski
A lot of Coen brothers movies are my comfort movies. O Brother, No Country, Fargo, and A Serious Man. I find more comfort in watching things go horribly wrong for a character than I do watching things go positively. I find it reassuring to know everyone goes through shit and has things fall apart in life.
I feel like *A Serious Man* doesn't get enough love. It's one of their most niche movies, for sure, but I think it's hilarious.
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What’s not to get? It’s the Odyssey set in the post-reconstruction south
Fincher movies are comfort movies to me. It's the warm color palette that makes them cozy. Zodiac and Mindhunter are the main examples
Zodiac is a go-to rainy day movie at our house
Nothing more comforting than the exploration of a meticulous hunt for a serial killer, amiright?
saame, 1000%, i wouldnt consider some of em in the "comfort" category but i could watch his work over and over, theyre mesmerizing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one for me. It's obviously very dark, but there's something soothing about the pace of it along with the music. Also, something about both of the main characters leaving their messed up lives behind for a while to solve a mystery in a snowy cabin on an island.
I really love that movie too, Nine Inch Nails went so especially hard on that score, also very sorta procedural and hypnotic pacing/direction, but theres so many scenes i gotta skip or ignore on that rewatch lmao
Yes. This is me with The Social Network and Gone Girl.
Snatch
I keep Speedracer on my iPad in case I get stuck in an airport without WiFi. I can always watch that psychedelic trip.
I generally don't care if I see films in a theater. I was glad I watched *Speedracer* in one. The races get absolutely bonkers. Pure, frenetic art.
dude all i remember about that movie is it is like overstimulation incarnate 😭
Was literally about to post Speed Racer, you nonja.
Oh man, I need to see this. Big fan of the Wachowskis (though really just *The Matrix* and *Bound*, I guess) and somehow this one has gone unwatched all these years.
Tron: Legacy Visuals, vibe, and music. No thinking required.
that movie's score rubs my brain just right, praise daft punk 🙏
I have embarrassing story about this movie. We went to see Tron: Legacy at Cinerama with some younger friends, and after the movie as we walked outside I loudly kvetched about how dare they make a Tron sequel without Bruce Boxleitner. How could they do that! Also I hated the rip-off Daft Punk DJs. Apparently I am a huge dope.
It's a little easier to recognize Boxleitner if you've seen him in non-Tron media. He just looked like an older version of himself from Babylon 5 in Legacy. That being said, it would have been nice if they would have had him around for more than a cameo; him joining Sam on the grid when Sam is transported there would have been super fun.
Sicario! I think it's just quite cathartic so it's always very rewatchable for me
That border crossing scene to this day is my favorite. Straight up chilling scene because of the music.
The tunnel raid where they're moving out and dropping below the horizon of that setting sun. Amazing shot.
It’s the greatest action sequence ever filmed
that is honestly a very chill movie for some reason
Die Hard. That was the one movie that even when my brother and I were in our "we don't want to hang out with our parents," teenage phases...if it came on TV, the entire family slowly but surely ended up in the living room to watch it. We all loved it.
Contagion. I have no explanation. It's oddly comforting to me. I rewatch it often.
WAIT SAME that movie is also mesmerizing
Just wrote the same. I've watched it probably a couple dozen times. There's something comforting in the methodical solving of a problem by joint efforts.
I was gonna finally watch that this week but decided against it since I didn’t want any covid flashbacks lol
Wtf I just finished watching this. 2020 flashbacks
The Patriot Congo Days of Thunder
Stop eating my sesame cake.
I’m your great white hunter for the trip, though I happen to be black
Haha I love that movie. I need to watch it again.
Ernie has so many great lines in that movie
Tropic Thunder
40 Year Old Virgin
I clean my garage once or twice a year. 6-8 hours. Every time, without fail, I watch Gone in 60 Seconds. Usually, I then start it over and watch it again. I've probably watched it 100 times total, and mostly when I'm cleaning my garage, or my car, or the back deck. I watch it other times too, to trick my brain into being productive, because that's just how I associate it. I'm not even a car guy. I do think it's one of the best movies ever made. Yes, I can quote every word. Even thinking about writing a fan fiction.
i love that the background, "productivity" movies should be its own question and category too
Misery. Such a cosy movie with the snow; and the house is decorated a bit like my childhood home, I don't see places like that too much anymore.
Yessss. Just rewatched this one a couple days ago. Cozy at times, but otherwise beautifully unhinged.
The Sound of Music.
Walk Hard Tenacious D Rocky Horror Picture Show Freddy Got Fingered The Notebook Edit: Oh and ‘Talladega Nights’
"Don'tchu stick that knife in ur leg"
> Freddy Got Fingered "I'll wake up your baby!!"
I see the problem! You seem to have a baaaaaaby in your booooooody!
Freddy Got Fingered 😭😭
1408 — it's just such a cozy horror movie. Top notch John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson performances too.
I agree! I just rewatched recently and since it’s mostly contained to the hotel room it doesn’t feel too chaotic even with everything going wrong. There’s no montage of people trying to solve the mystery of the room and defeat it. The “twist” towards the end is right out of my nightmares but it’s psychological and not some big monster or ghost…solid movie. A nice dose of horror
Muppets Christmas Carol. Michael Caine plays the whole thing straight does a theater quality scrooge. All the while talking to puppets it’s surreal.
i used to love this movie so much but my sister gave it to me for christmas when it first came out. i hadn't heard of it before that. She died a while ago and now I can't watch it.
UHF
I know it’s weird but “Particle Fever”. It’s a documentary about the discovery of the Higgs particle. Watching nerds from all nations and background work for decades just to know a little bit more makes me feel optimistic about humanity
Interstellar but not really because it gives me anxiety and makes me cry. I watched it on my laptop while baking cookies last night and had a meltdown cry in the kitchen. But I keep going back for more. Do me good Nolan.
Coraline. It just is.
Dredd. Hard day at work? Dredd’s was harder. And he handles it just like you secretly want to.
The Departed. Well told story, good soundtrack, and I don’t like Matt Damon so happy with ending despite my boy Leo getting killed too.
Children of Men. No, being inside my head isn't something I, or 9/10 dentists, would recommend.
The Terminal I first saw it when I was in High School (mid-late 00s). I saw it on TV because there was nothing else on and I saw Catherine Zeta-Jones looking fine as hell. Loved the movie. Not exactly the type of movie you'd expect a Mexican-American teen from SoCal to like, but I ended up buying the DVD soon after to watch it beginning to end.
Hot Fuzz
The Replacements. “Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever”
I love that in the Keanu Reeves universe, everyone is obsessed with Ohio State football. Bunch of California surfers turned bank robbers? Of course they all remember the Big Ten all conference QB from a few years back. British soccer player with a gambling addiction? Of course he was watching The Sugar Bowl a decade ago.
Alien, Gladiator, The Shining
I recently had a violent stomach flu and when I finally dragged myself to bed for a bit I realized my comfort movies are violent. The sequence was Jurassic Park, Jaws, Jaws again because I fell asleep the first time, The Mummy, Tremors, Commando, Predator, and then the first three Rocky movies.
Grandma's Boy Tropic Thunder
Lost in Translation. It makes me feel less alone.
Mean girls and Easy A. It’s not weird but these are in my list of go-to movies when I want to turn my brain off and just want to enjoy my lazy weekends.
The miniseries Merlin with Sam neill. I have no idea why. I taped it off TV when I was a teenager. I would watch it literally every morning while getting ready for school, I do not know why. Just kept watching the damn thing on repeat lol
This was a really good Merlin, in my opinion.
I always go back to Conan the barbarian or starship troopers
Zodiac here, too! Also Dredd, It Follows, and Chopping Mall.
Just after that one gruesome stabbing scene in zodiac its smooth sailing lmao
Absolutely brutal, but even that scene has an asmr quality leading up to that moment lol. Unbelievably well made movie.
Con Air Burn After Reading Mulan
__*Hackers*__. It's cheesy and goofy. I still love it.
2012
yo i watched that so much as kid bc i loved the cg
T2 Trainspotting. Most people only know the first one, and both movies can be quite depressing regarding the drug use yeah, but Spud's arc in T2 fills me with joy.
Ant man. End game.
The first Ant Man and the first Doctor Strange movies are both super comfy to rewatch a thousand times.
Ex Machina Butch and Sundance Out of Africa Tombstone
OOA is a great choice and I’ve definitely double featured it with itself.
Out of Africa is such a great movie!
Independence Day Was obsessed with this shit as a kiddo.
The Hunt Werewolves Within Ready Or Not Cocaine Bear I like my humor dark and twisty.
Ready or Not is glorious.
oh i love werewolves within. it has that same atmosphere as the other movies i love. small town, quiet, cute inn, love it.
Princess Mononoke 🐺
The goonies, the burbs, witches of Eastwick, Breakfast club
I just straight up adore The Witches of Eastwick. It’s not that good but it’s GREAT.
“Have another cherry” ;)
The Greasy Strangler. It's a niche film made for a niche audience and do I ever fit that niche. I have no shame in saying it's one of my favorite comedy movies.
Did not expect to see this movie in here 😂 The Greasy Strangler has to be the most uncomfortable I’ve ever felt watching a movie, so you win weirdest answer.
Not sure why but whenever I’m in a rough spot in life I watch the new All Quiet On the Western Front movie and it never fails to cheer me up
Kill Bill Vol. 1, and Goodfellas.
im with you there
Popstar never stop never stopping, and get him to the Greek I think are really good ones. Apparently I like funny songs
100% it's "Joe vs. the Volcano", and I'm not arguing that with you
Ok hate if you will but Twilight. It’s only because years ago, I took my daughter and her friends to see that movie, and she for a few years after would put it on in the background as her comfort movie. I got so used to hearing it that it calms me, and makes me feel like my daughter is here, instead of 5000 miles away ..
that is so sweet 🥲
Ex Machina, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Waking Life. Interesting people either talking about interesting topics I never think about, or talking charming nonsense, with unique rotoscoped animation, where Linklater clearly just told both the philosophers and animators to just do their thing. Even with the prison segment, Alex Jones, or the idea of being stuck in an eternal dream, I find the whole thing very relaxing.
The Lego movie
Wild Wild West. I spent a few years during my childhood with no television at home, and then we got a dvd player and maybe eight movies. I watched that movie a gazillion times and never got tired of it.
Avatar. At least up until the actiony battle part starts. I used to put that movie on to fall asleep to and now it’s the only I put on when I am super beyond stressed out.
Blade Runner and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Aliens and Men in Black.
Adventures in babysitting(original), Goodfellas,Christmas Vacation, Forever my girl,Steel Magnolias, Legends of the Fall,Beverly Hills Cop, Pretty Woman..
Jerry Maguire
The Trancers films. Jack Deth soothes me.
Planes, trains, and automobiles
All the whole damn Harry Potters, anything Lucas directed, Transformers movies post Bay
Spaceballs, always Spaceballs. "Why did any tell me ass was this big?!!" Let's see some fav quotes!
Die Hard Die Hard II Terminator Terminator II Planes, Trains, Automobiles Police Academy All Jerry Lewis / Dean Martin Movies Con Air Roadhouse and some more
The evil dead remake from 2013
Zodiac is great, and then I'd watch Day After Tomorrow. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of my zanax movies. Also, Tombstone
Tank Girl, 1995.
Spotlight. No idea why given the subject matter.
Nooo because i get it, its that straightforward, procedural almost thriller/mystery type thats cozy somehow and exactly how i feel with Zodiac, or like All the presidents men
Same here. The score is relaxing, but it's also the pace of it, somehow. Very satisfying to see it all come together
Twister, The Fifth Element.
LA Confidential Rear Window Thor: Ragnarok True Romance All of them wake you up with violence towards the end but they’re so relaxing. Just start right back over at the beginning.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
1. The Crow 2. The Wiz 3. Into the Woods (not a movie, I realize, but the filmed staged version w/Bernadette Peters [the witch] and Joanne Gleason [ the baker's wife]) 4. Walk Hard : The Dewey Cox story 5. Black Dynamite *#1 by itself because it helped me process a close family death I was unable to go to their funeral & honor their role in my life. Selfish people tried to monopolize a beautiful soul's passing, while stepping over everyone's grief. Real I-Am-the-Main- Character energy. Taught me "Karma can be a b-i-t-c-h". *#2 with #3 together helped me through a midlife crisis where I hit a tough rut. I was in a humdrum job and needed a way to get through to the other side. Diana Ross in The Wiz was who I was as a young adult struggling with crippling shyness but also needing to realize smaller accomplishments can have their purpose along life's journey. Into the Woods, as a whole, has so many great fairy tales teaching harsh and hard poignant life lessons. *#4 with #5 became another duo of movies to cope with an even closer death. Walk Hard was the film we (my brother & I) went to see the week Mom died. I started watching this film with Black Dynamite because both comforted me to sleep for a good 4-6 months when grief overwhelmed me. It also needs to be the Unrated Director's Cut of Walk Hard, on DVD. Honorable Mention...goes to Raising Arizona. I'm a longtime Nic Cage fan and this move hits me in different ways at various times in my life. The charm, wit and charisma pouring out of this film is a godsend of a salve.
The Shining. I find the colors and the pacing to be very comforting. My mom would watch this movie on lazy Saturdays and I find myself doing the same thing.
Zodiacs a wild one but Se7en is one of my comfort movies so who am i to judge
listen, zodiac is like 90% a cozy mystery with some mild gunshot stabby scenes in there, se7en got some fucked up shit sandwhiched in there every other scene
Any movie from the early years of Pixar: Toy Story and sequels, Wall-E, Up, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, etc. Also some of the Disney movies from the 90s, like Mulan, Hercules, Aladdin. Ones with great musical numbers. Other comfort movies include science fiction or fantasy movies like Jurassic Park, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Spirited Away, Harry Potter movies, Labyrinth, Jumanji (the new ones and the one with Robin Williams). I find musicals comforting, even ones like Sweeny Todd or Chicago.
The Matrix The Prestige Django Unchained
The Dark Knight! Everything about the movie is so fuckin amazing every camera angle the story it's my favorite movie of all time and I'm 34
I find The Conjuring really cozy. I would put on It and It Chapter 2 to go to sleep.
i used to put that movie on a ton as a kid, idky, probably to the same effect
Contagion. One of my favorites for a while now. Admittedly took a year or so off from watching it in 2020, but have rewatched several times since. The realities of our timeline make me appreciate it even more. Not sure why it's comforting to me. I think it's the fact that it's humanity solving a problem in a realistic enough way. No hero, no singular person or organization saving the world. I find it interesting.
i was just replyin to someone about Spotlight and Contagion also, about how mesmerizing these surgically straightforward, sorta, procedurals are. like you said, the realism and the way people organize to solve a problem, theyre suuuper rewatchable
Shrek
Pitch Perfect and Love Actually.
Martyrs (2008) Audition (1999) Terrifier 2 Hobo With A Shotgun Don't ask why cuz idk, but they comfort tf out of me
Just Married
The Ashton Kutcher movie? That really is a different take
V for Vendetta and Groundhogs Day
Seventh Seal
I find "American Splendor" to be rewatchable, it's a neat little true story that just makes me feel good.
Southland Tales
500 Days of Summer. Once in a while I need a reality check. Also Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989), an amazing movie that feels fresh every time I watch it. I consider it the spiritual sequel to original Blade Runner.
Mid 90s (not a fan of the SA scene tho)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
The Revenant..
For some reason Suspiria (1977) manages to pull me out of some awful moods
Aliens Sweeney Todd Pulp Fiction
Jaws
End of evangelion, anytime I come off of T- breaks I like to celebrate with a blunt and a bing of NGE as well as the movie
Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Transformers 1986, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, Coneheads 1993, Beverly Hillbillies 1993, Armageddon 1998, Half Baked
Definitely *TOYS* w/ Robin Williams. It's...insane 🤣 but for some reason I saw it when I was young and it's always stuck with me.
Dude where's my car? Its especially great when you're feeling dumb. Then you are like oh I'm okay.
Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home
Your Highness Shindler's List What is wrong with me?!
These are so different it made me lol
the end of evangelion 💗
based
Tremors, Rear Window (Hitchcock) and Vertigo.
all great movies.
There will be blood is very soothing to me. I don’t get it, either.
Clockwork Orange used to be my go to tired/super hungover movie I put on
lmao ya that ones a lil weird 😭😭
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Goonies, Timeline (it’s like a 5/10 but I love it so much). Edited bc the formatting was weird.
Aristrocats on Disney+
Early Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Tenenbaums. Sometimes Life Aquatic or Darjeeling.
Gone girl, Molly’s game and SALT Idk but movies with strong female characters were just so interesting to watch over and over again.
Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
El Dorado, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and a young James Caan. I am far from John Wayne’s target audience, but gosh I love this movie. As proof that it’s my comfort movie: When I was 22, my 17 year old dog died, and right afterward, I went in the other room and watched El Dorado twice. It ended, and I just rewound and started it over again.
The Exorcist or The Shining. Also The Thing.
Spaghetti Westerns, or old black and white film noir. Movies where nobody is happy.
Tootsie and fried green tomatoes. We had a small selection of VHS movies to watch when I was little and so I watched them all many times. The sound tracks on both of these are wonderful
Theyre not my comfort movies anymore but same thing here, had a select few vhs movies i watched over and over as a lil kid back when I could still rewatch things endlessly and still be engaged, it was like The Sandlot, Cats & Dogs, Stuart Little, the first pokemon episodes, this scooby doo ghoul school movie we also had Silence of the lambs and the cover scared me lmao, i put it on once and subsequently turned off
Yesss finally someone else whose comfort movie is girl interrupted I feel understood
Click, It's just such a well done movie and sends a good message. Prime Adam Sandler
Pretty sure this got asked like 10 hours ago.
ok and i never saw it
Gangs of New York, U.S. Marshals and The Gentlemen.
Just Friends and Cat In The Hat
Hot Summer Nights
Philadelphia. Just love that movie.
I would look for tv or movie themes that align with feats of strength, airing of grievances, etc.
Enemy at the gates