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What are your "comfort films"?

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    #62
    Deja Boo
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122039799#Comment_122039799

    The less irritating the actors and action, the better.



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    #63
    Dan Steely
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭Dan Steely


    Sideways and most of Alexander Payne's other stuff.



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    #64
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Romeros Trilogy of the Dead - infinitely rewatchable with each being better than the predecessors.

    The Big Short - I watch it at least twice a year, an ensemble cast and an utterly jaw dropping true story.

    Desperado - utterly cool.

    Rambo 4 - the onscreen carnage has rarely been bettered.

    Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee in a yellow jumpsuit. Nuff said.

    Halloween (78) - the GOAT

    The Thing - one of the best creature features

    Zombie Flesh Eaters - the best Italian zombie movie

    Fulcis Gates of Hell Trilogy - The Beyond in particular



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    #65
    Patser
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    The Martian

    The Big Short

    Master and Commander: Far side of the World - all those 3 are kinda slow, detailed, great in background movie

    Also any of those 60s, 70s WW2 movies like - Bridge Too Far, Battle of Britain, Longest Day - Sunday afternoon perfection



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    #66
    Penn
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    Many of the old classics like Back to the Future etc, but other more recent ones (well, within the last 20 years or so):

    Avengers Endgame, Glass Onion, Spider-Man Into The SpiderVerse, Hot Fuzz, Inception & Kill Bill 1&2.



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    #67
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122052135#Comment_122052135

    Have you ever watched Kill Bill The Whole Bloody affair?

    It's a fan edit, upscaled fully uncut versions of the two movies, spliced together into one 4 hour movie. Best way to watch it.



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    #68
    mikep
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    For me with Cinema Paradiso the cinematography, soundtrack and story are just beautiful…

    I never tire of it.



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    #69
    flazio
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    The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.



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    #70
    buried
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    I've only got two and they basically involve the tragic yellow p!ss stained beauty of killing yourself down the pub

    Wake In Fright

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

    Withnail & I

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

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #71
    Kingp35
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    Fatal Deviation. A stone cold Irish classic. I stick it on every now and again when I need a good laugh.



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    #72
    RickBlaine
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭RickBlaine


    Harrison Ford thrillers from the late 80s to early 2000s:

    Frantic

    Presumed Innocent

    Patriot Games

    The Fugitive

    Clear and Present Danger

    Air Force One

    What Lies Beneath

    I'd include Executive Decision on that list too. It stars Kurt Russell instead of Ford but is very much in the same vein as his Jack Ryan films and Air Force One. It actually shares a ton of similarities with Air Force One.



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    #73
    Sugar_Rush
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    Coming back to the concept of "luck".

    Any thoughts on that?

    Does such a thing exist?

    And how does one improve it? (as that's the concept of the flicks I mentioned)

    In physics we trust....... (as insanely difficult to decipher as it may be)



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    #74
    Brief_Lives
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    Fight Club

    The Crow

    X-Men Days of future past

    Deadpool

    Shawshank Redemption

    Con Air

    All the Lord of the ring trilogy



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    #75
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122059238#Comment_122059238

    Rounders starring Ed Norton and Matt Damon. About underground poker, really good movie, especially if you have an understanding of texas hold-em.



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    #76
    Penn
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054688#Comment_122054688

    Yeah, it's brilliant. Love the House of Blue Leaves fight being in colour in particular. I normally just go for the split movies though due to length; watch one on a Saturday & one on Sunday. They show up on Dave as the weekend movies occasionally too.



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    #77
    silliussoddius
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122059238#Comment_122059238

    There is a Spanish film from 2001 called Intacto (stars Max von Sydow), that is about luck. Have you seen it?



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    #78
    KaneToad
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    Goodfellas

    Godfather 1 & 2

    The Mission

    Deer hunter

    Raging Bull

    The Florida Project

    The Royal Tennenbaums

    In Brugge

    I've seen each of the above at least a dozen times each.



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    #79
    Dial Hard
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    The Goonies

    Terminator 2

    Labyrinth

    Thor: Ragnarok

    The Cutting Edge (Tooooooooe Piiiiiiiiccckk!)

    Star Wars original trilogy and also Rogue One

    Intermission

    Shaun of the Dead

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    #80
    Tony EH
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    Jaws

    Star Wars

    Day of the Dead

    The Thing

    The Mrs. has a bet that there's a good chance I'll be watching one of those when she walks in the door from a night out.

    She's already won a few quid.



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    #81
    Tony EH
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049974#Comment_122049974

    Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee in a yellow jumpsuit. Nuff said.

    That was 'Game of Death'. 😁



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    #82
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122062891#Comment_122062891

    You are right, got confused with the boys in the yellow kimonos in ETD.



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    #83
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122062891#Comment_122062891

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    #84
    Sugar_Rush
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122062742#Comment_122062742

    Sounds like it revolves around the concept of supernatural "luck"?

    I'm thinking its theme wouldn't really fall in line with "Casino/Hard-8" style of theme?

    But it's a solid flick?

    In physics we trust....... (as insanely difficult to decipher as it may be)



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    #85
    Tony EH
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122063063#Comment_122063063

    Honestly, I've probably made the same mistake about a thousand times myself.



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    #86
    gym_imposter
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    Die Hard

    Predator

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Any James Bond

    The Blues Brothers



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    #87
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    In the age of DVDs, I had a few I'd watch in regular rotation:

    The Wicker Man

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Downfall

    Unforgiven

    Clerks

    The French Connection

    Get Carter



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    #88
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Dogma and Clerks 2 are movies that consistently make me laugh despite having seen both multiple times.



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    #89
    Penn
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122085427#Comment_122085427

    It's weird, but for a while the documentary on the DVD of Clerks 2 (Back to the well) was something I'd watch more than Clerks 2 itself. I was a big Kevin Smith fan back then so the whole story behind getting the film made was just an interesting watch.



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    #90
    Dibble
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    One of mine is Moonstruck



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    #91
    Sugar_Rush
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122073366#Comment_122073366

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    What is the attraction behind this flick?

    Apparently there was some kind of representation of the Vietnam war? (opening sequence).

    But it just came across like two dudes getting wasted.

    I honestly never saw the appeal.

    In physics we trust....... (as insanely difficult to decipher as it may be)



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