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Mathew Molloy
Master Film Handler

Posts: 357
From: The Santa Cruz Mountains
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 07-31-2002 12:54 AM

Brad's "Guilty Pleasures" thread got me thinking about "Comfort Movies". Movies, be they good or bad, you'll watch when they're on t.v. or just let play in the background while working on something.

A Few Good Men has always been a good one to have going in the background...however Hunt For Red October has gained quite a bit of ground as one of my favorite comfort movies.

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Sean M. Grimes
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 247
From: Lunenburg, MA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 07-31-2002 03:44 AM

and in such a werid way for myself - Leaving Las Vegas.

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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

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From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 07-31-2002 06:27 AM

Any 1930's B&W movie. They are all great to watch.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 07-31-2002 07:14 AM

To me any movie I have seen over and over is a good "comfort movie". I.E. a movie that I can fully appreciate "watching" over again just by listening to it.

Bob, are you a Chaplin fan? "City Lights" (1931) is a masterpiece of filmmaking and my favorite Chaplin.

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Geoffrey Weiss
Film Handler

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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: May 2001

posted 07-31-2002 11:49 AM

I like watching Alan Rudolph's 1980 "Roadie," starring Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper & Art Carney. There's just something that clicks with that movie. And how can you hate a movie written by someone calling himself Big Boy Medlin?

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Sean McKinnon
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Peabody Massachusetts
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 07-31-2002 10:22 PM

Any cheezy 80's movie

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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 08-01-2002 12:33 AM

"Casablanca" played five times per day on the troopship that carried me to the Pacific during the Korean War, right on the other side of the bulkhead behind which I tried to sleep. The voyage took ten days,typhoon included. I could probably watch it on TV with the sound off, and mouth the dialog, as with the Rocky Horror Show.

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Mike Heenan
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-01-2002 12:38 AM

Again, Smokey and the Bandit fits for me in this category as well, ha ha. I also like the Naked Gun flicks too.

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Mike Schindler
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Oak Park, IL, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 08-01-2002 01:03 AM

Out of Sight
Boogie Nights
The Empire Strikes Back
Mallrats
The Replacement Killers
The Big Lebowski

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-01-2002 01:30 AM

quote:
I like watching Alan Rudolph's 1980 "Roadie," starring Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper & Art Carney

"Oh! Oh! Jerry Lee Lewis! Jerry Lee Lewis!"

Which reminds me that "American Hot Wax" would probably be in this category for me.

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John Daily
Film Handler

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From: Upstate, NY, USA
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 08-02-2002 10:21 AM

Wow, there are so many of these that would qualify...any Ang Lee film, any "Beat" Takeshi film, any film with the actress Li Gong (or Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, or Michelle Yeoh), Any Jackie Chan movie (I'm talking hong kong films here, none of his American crap except maybe Shaghai Noon and Rush Hour 2).

Some Like It Hot is probably the only American film I would watch if it were on (plus my 3 guilty pleasures (Conan The Barbarian, Pink Floyd - The Wall, John Carpenter's The Thing (please excuse all these parenthesis))).

My wife can't turn off Alive when she comes across it.

(Edit: Thought of another American film I wouldn't turn off - Goodfellas.)

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-02-2002 11:23 AM

"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." One of my favorite Walter Matthau movies, and Robert Shaw (pre-Jaws) is positively creepy as the lead bad-guy. Great ending, too.

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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 08-02-2002 02:03 PM

Although I tend to go for 'comfort music' before a 'comfort movie' ...
~the Empire Strikes Back
~the Labyrinth
~the Princess Bride
~the Nightmare Before Christmas
~the Goonies

...are all movies that (to me anyway) feel like old friends.

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Andy Muirhead
Master Film Handler

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From: Galashiels, Scotland
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 08-02-2002 06:35 PM

Two that spring to mind for me are;

Local Hero
Gregory's Girl

Total nostalgia, and very funny too!

Sean, for some reason Leaving Las Vegas always makes me feel like I want a drink, bizarrely enough!

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