top 10 'comfort' movies
POSTED BY: GrayFury
UPDATED: Thursday, January 10, 2008 09:32
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I want your 10 favorite "comfort" movies... I'm not talking about your favorite movies, I'm talking about those few movies that you ALWAYS stop to watch when flipping the channel, even if its in low def, on a channel with commercials, with the swear words edited out, in Spanish... Heres mine in alphabetical order.
1) The 40 Year Old Virgin - This movie is just funny from begining to end, limitless awesome lines.
2) The Big Lebowski - This Coen brothers classic is just as deep and inciteful as it is fall down funny. every viewing brings something new. I am an Achiever.
3) The Boondock Saints - Anyone who's seen it knows what I'm talking about.
4) The Fifth Element - I don't know what it is about this campy Sci-Fi schlock, but I can't turn away. A real guilty pleasure.
5) Good Will Hunting - Even if Afleck is a poon now, he helped write this well done line-fest... he can do all of the pearl harbors he wants and still be in my cool book.
6) Grandmas Boy - I'm not sure why this has such a tractor beam on me...but I can't get enough.
7) Hidalgo - I don't know what it is about a horse movie, I'm a sucker.
8) Out Of Sight - This is one of the few Elmore Leonard novels transfered to screen correctly... awesome quirky noir-light.
9) Serenity - "It won the oscar for greatest movie ever!" which brings us to...
10) Talladega Nights - Please read what I wrote for 40 Year Old Virgin... it applies here as well.
Now lets hear yours...
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There are a few movies I heavily favor when I'm doing doing paperwork, cleaning guns, etc.
I guess these are my comfort movies. (In no particular order):
The Fifth Element and Serenity as already mentioned.
Blade Runner
Aliens
10 requires too much thought, so I'll stop at 4.
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Coming from an entirely different direction:
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Bridget Jones Diary (even though I have it on disc)
3. My Fair Lady
4. Bite the Bullet (gritty western about a long distance race)
5. Around the World in 80 Days (so light it floats)
6. The Odd Couple (talk about a line fest)
7. The Mummy
8. Aliens (always terrifying)
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still (I love me some Michael Rennie)
and of course
10. Serenity (even though I have Widescreen and CE discs)
If I took more time, I might change some answers but this is pretty good.
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I know one "comfort" movie I like to watch whenever it's on tv is DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE. I know it's not considered to be the best of the Die Hards, but I love seeing Bruce and Sam bicker with each other. They should do another movie together. They're always great when they share the screen.
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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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"Comfort" movies is an interesting way to phrase it...Mine are :
1) The Godfather
2) Scarface
3) Forrest Gump
4) 12 Angry Men
5) Betelgeuse
6) Pulp Fiction
7) When Harry Met Sally
8) Wall Street
9) Gone With The Wind
10) On The Waterfront
As you said, they're not my favorite movies, but I'll sit there & watch them if they're being shown on TV.
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1. "Creator", with Peter O'Toole, Virginia Madsen, Vincent Spano, and Mariel Hemingway. Wonderful movie, one of the best movies that no one's ever seen. Unfortunately, it's also rarely on TV - so I put in my old VHS tape!
2. Serenity, or course.
3. Blade Runner.
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey.
5. A Man For All Seasons. This is a big-screen, big-budget historical epic on par with Lawrence of Arabia. It won a fistful of Oscars, if memory serves. It deals with Sir Thomas More, King Henry VIII, and the split between England and The Church. Wonderful verbal parrying between Sir Thomas and his foes.
6. Forrest Gump.
7. Caddyshack.
8. Napoleon Dynamite.
9. The Breakfast Club.
10. Superbad.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
"Creator", with Peter O'Toole, Virginia Madsen, Vincent Spano, and Mariel Hemingway. Wonderful movie, one of the best movies that no one's ever seen. Unfortunately, it's also rarely on TV - so I put in my old VHS tape!
I remember that movie...what I actually remember is Virginia in the shower flaunting her bodacious ta tas.
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from my collection
aliens
the big lebowski
enternal sunshine of the spotless mind
the life aquatic
serenity
night of the living dead
dawn of the dead
day of the dead
evil dead
evil dead 2
army of darkness
say anything
joe vs the volcano
american beauty
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thanks to msb for remindin' me of my love of zombies
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OK but this just demonstrates how weird I am
1- Starship Troopers
2- Resident Evil
3-Resident Evil 2
4- Resident Evil 3
( look I find zombies and carnivorous mutants soothing ok)
5- Evil Dead 2
6-Army of Darkness
7- Predator 1&2
8- Serenity
9- Jason X
10- Deep Blue Sea
There you have it...
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