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What are your "comfort films"?

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    #152
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    The Horse Whisperer. Kristin Scott Thomas, absolutely beautiful!


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    #153
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,783 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    How could I forget Fargo? :eek:

    “Just kinda funny-lookin’” is in my everyday vocabulary.

    “I’m cooperatin’ here” is one of mine.


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    #154
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    The holiday
    The Great Escape
    Sideways
    Trading Places
    Die Hard
    Lethal Weapon series
    The Firm
    The Departed
    Little Miss Sunshine
    The Guard

    Should also add Black Hawk Down to this list.


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    #155
    Gervais08
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    Loving all the John Hughes memories here!!

    Being a ginger kid in the mid 80s and getting bullied it was sound see a fellow ging like Molly Ringwald as a leading lady!!!


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    #156
    MadDog76
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    Working Girl, don't know why but I just like that movie.


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    #157
    Gervais08
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    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Working Girl, don't know why but I just like that movie.

    And that too !!!


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    #158
    swampgas
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    The Dish.
    Arsenic and old lace.
    It happened one night.
    Strictly Ballroom.


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    #159
    Alejandro68
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    Shanghai Express, Some Like It Hot, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, are some of mine.


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    #160
    Vittu
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    Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile


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    #161
    1990sman
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭1990sman


    Alien


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    #162
    Harry Palmr
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    I can't treat films like music, it's a different sensation. You can wear a film out pretty quickly regardless of it's quality.


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    #163
    Porklife
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    Alejandro68 wrote: »
    Shanghai Express, Some Like It Hot, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, are some of mine.

    The Rocky Horror used to scare the **** out of me as a kid but I love it now! I remember a friend of mine taking me to see a showing of it in a small arthouse cinema years ago. I didn't know anything about it. The ticket guy said...no throwing things and try remain seated. I was like..huh? But then we went in and I understood. There were people dancing around with feather boas and ripped fishnets throwing toilet paper all over the gaf. It was brilliant!


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    #164
    BorneTobyWilde
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    I like this movie too, could watch it again and again.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8U_I6Dap4o


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    #165
    JupiterKid
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    Withnail and I
    Pulp Fiction
    Rocky Horror Picture Show
    National Lampoon’s Holiday Vacation
    Beautiful Thing
    The LEGO Movie
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    There’s Something About Mary
    Forrest Gump
    The Breakfast Club
    Terminator 2
    Vertigo
    Casablanca
    Airplane
    A Good Year


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    #166
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    There's a few:

    Raiders of The Lost Ark
    The Matrix
    Aliens
    Die Hard
    Goodfellas
    Fargo

    I know these films inside and out, but would have no problem watching them again. Raiders, in particular, is as damn near to perfect filmmaking as it gets.

    One thing Die Hard doesn't get half as much praise for is the perfect leaness of its script. There's not a single wasted piece of information: every single little last detail we get pays off in some way


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    #167
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Withnail and I
    Pulp Fiction
    Rocky Horror Picture Show
    National Lampoon’s Holiday Vacation
    Beautiful Thing
    The LEGO Movie
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    There’s Something About Mary
    Forrest Gump
    The Breakfast Club
    Terminator 2
    Vertigo
    Casablanca
    Airplane
    A Good Year
    Love this list. The only two I haven't seen are Beautiful Thing and Vertigo so that's my evening sorted:)

    Stand by me
    The Odd Couple (reminds me of my dad who used to cry laughing at it)


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    #168
    bmorrissey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭bmorrissey


    Mainly comedies that require little to no brain capacity to watch and enjoy:

    Dumb and Dumber
    Hot Rod
    Napoleon Dynamite
    Hot Shots / Hot Shots Part Deux
    Joe Dirt


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    #169
    victor8600
    Registered Users Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭victor8600


    Amélie
    Back to the Future (all)
    The Guard
    The Usual Suspects
    Forrest Gump
    The Shawshank Redemption

    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    The Big Lebowski


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    #170
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 25,407 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Some like it hot

    The Big Lebowski

    No Country For Old Men

    Rear Window

    Once Upon A Time In The West

    12 Angry Men

    The Departed

    Heat

    The Grand Budapest Hotel


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    #171
    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    Life of Brian
    Green Mile
    The Terminal
    Oceans 11/12/13


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    #172
    BorneTobyWilde
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    I like this movie too



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6upoz9I7eg


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    #173
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    My Cousin Vinny would also be on my list. Endless rewatchability.


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    #174
    .anon.
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    Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    Groundhog Day
    Misery
    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    Blazing Saddles
    Rain Man
    Airplane!
    Santa Claus: The Movie
    Falling Down
    The Green Mile
    Big
    As Good as it Gets


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    #175
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,766 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Arghus wrote: »
    My Cousin Vinny would also be on my list. Endless rewatchability.

    Fred Gwynne as the Judge is brilliant in that! "Whatchoo warin'?"


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    #176
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,245 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    175 posts and nobody's mentioned Arnie or Stallone?

    Rambo I or II & Predator ... classics!


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    #177
    DaDoRonRonRon
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭DaDoRonRonRon


    Raising Arizona
    Lake Placid
    Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
    Little Miss Sunshine


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    #178
    bo0li5eumx12kp
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    Kevin and Perry Go Large.

    ....

    Shame on ya'll for no one mentioning this yet.


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    #179
    spuddy90
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭spuddy90


    Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2

    Die hard 1 and 2

    Romancing the stone


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    #180
    ongarite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,249 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Apollo 13
    BTTF 1
    Groundhog Day
    The Truman Show


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    #181
    santana75
    Registered Users Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭santana75


    Beautiful Girls
    Groundhog Day
    Gremlins
    The Natural
    Close encounters of the Third kind
    Interstellar
    Its a Wonderful life
    Cloud Atlas
    V for Vendetta


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