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Posted by Mathew Molloy (Member # 666) on 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.
Posted by Sean M. Grimes (Member # 445) on 07-31-2002, 03:44 AM:
and in such a werid way for myself - Leaving Las Vegas. 
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 07-31-2002, 06:27 AM:
Any 1930's B&W movie. They are all great to watch.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 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. 
Posted by Geoffrey Weiss (Member # 882) on 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?
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 07-31-2002, 10:22 PM:
Any cheezy 80's movie
Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 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.
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 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.
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 08-01-2002, 01:03 AM:
Out of Sight
Boogie Nights
The Empire Strikes Back
Mallrats
The Replacement Killers
The Big Lebowski
Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-01-2002, 01:30 AM:
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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.
Posted by John Daily (Member # 1362) on 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.)
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 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.
Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 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.
Posted by Andy Muirhead (Member # 712) on 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!