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Feel good movies
Covid finally caught up with me and I'm going to be living like a hermit for the next 2 weeks. It's been a stressful month here so I'm looking to melt my brain (or at least the bits covid hasn't already melted). I'd love to check out your easy watching, good time having, feel good suggestions!
My Man Godfrey (1936) Feel good comedy set in the era of the Great Depression.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) The ultimate feel good comedy staring Jimmy Stewart.
Harvey (1950) Screwball comedy staring Jimmy Stewart again (how can you not feel good watching Jimmy Stewart.)
The Breakfast Club (1985) Part angsty 80's teen, part feel good movie.
The Princess Bride (1987) A feel good comedy/ fantasy movie? Inconceivable!
The Iron Giant (1999) Feel good animated sci fi.
Secondhand Lions (2003) Little bit sad but mostly feel good coming of age comedy.
The World's Fastest Indian (2005) Feel good movie about motorcycles. Yup. You read that right.
Wall-E (2008), Up (2009) Little bit sad but mostly feel good Pixar movies.
If you want something that truly does not deal with anything stressful And Now For Something Completely Different from Monty Python is a great movie. It’s basically a best of compilation from their show, but re-done at a higher budget. Really funny.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Silver Linings Playbook, which I consider to be a feel good movie. It’s a prestigious romantic comedy.
The Paddington movies have become really popular online because of how feel good and sincere they are. They’re also incredibly well made, well written films, so I highly recommend watching those.
Depending on how you feel about watching Woody Allen movies, I love Midnight in Paris, Sleeper, Bananas, and most recently A Rainy Day in New York.
Nora Ephron made a lot of feel good movies. She wrote When Harry Met Sally, and directed You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and Julie and Julia. In a similar vein Nancy Meyers. The Holiday, It’s Complicated, The Intern are great.
COVID got two of us where I live, good luck and hoard all the tylenol.
O Brother Where Art Thou is one of those that always makes me happy. I don't even seek it out, but I'lll stick around and watch it if it comes on.
Cool Hand Luke is pretty great, too. It's not all happy, but it's mostly pretty feel-good, and a good character-driven movie.
Recently showing on bhrgunatha & daughter: the movie club
If you like Airplane, I highly recommend Top Secret. It’s basically an Elvis movie meets a Cold War spy movie. And it might even be funnier than Airplane.
I watched Top Secret for the first time last month and it's nowhere near in the same league as Airplane or Naked Gun - or even the fairly terrible Hot Shots. Val Kilmer is no Leslie Nielsen, by some distance.
The played-backwards scene in the bookshop is superb but that's about it.
If you haven’t seen them, I would suggest checking out some of Hayao Miyazaki‘s movies. Many of his movies don’t really have an antagonist. It’s just a slice of life kind of thing. The two that jump out at me are My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Maybe it doesn't look like it from a glance, but High Fidelity made me incredibly hopeful about relationships and our ability to overcome whatever separate us from true love.
RRR. As Patrick H Willems put it, it's not just the best action movie of 2022, it's the best romantic comedy and musical as well. If this movie doesn't leave you with a smile on your face, your face might be broken. Watch it in Telugu with subtitles if you can.