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Recommendations needed: Favorite “comfort” movies
Hi Everyone,
I am looking for recommendations of your favorite “comfort” movies. Movies, I don’t have to take too seriously and can be watched over and over and can fall asleep to.
As an example a few of mine would be:
MoneyBall
Jesse Stone movies
Dave
Avengers Infinity War and Endgame
Star Trek Generations
Major League
Clear and Present Danger
Ghostbusters Afterlife
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Grinch animated movie
Indiana jones dial of destiny
Rocky balboa
Moonfall
Goldeneye
X-men 1 & 2, Days of Futures Past
Rainmaker
Runaway Jury
In no particular order other than how they came to mind as I thought of these
A Knight's Tale (personal favorite, I use quotes from that movie all the time[1])
Breakfast Club
Superbad
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
In Bruges
Zombieland
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Galaxy Quest
Edit: How could I forget some of the older classics like Men in Tights and MP & The Holy Grail
[1] my recent favorite is "This is my word, and as such is beyond contestation" - I use it on my kids when they ask 'why' :P
Oooh, seconding A Knight's Tale. All time best comfort movie!
Just answering as a stream of consciousness thing, my personal answer would be:
My Neighbor Totoro
Jurassic Park
The Mask
Liar, Liar
Clerks
Galaxy Quest
Mission Impossible
Everything Star Trek
My going to sleep movies (there's sure to be some overlap with others):
Aladdin
The Big Lebowski
Constantine
The Goonies
Groundhog Day
Hook
Howl's Moving Castle
Jackie Brown
The Jungle Book
A Knight's Tale
The Mummy
My Cousin Vinny
Ratatouille
Robin Hood
Shrek
Spaceballs
Stardust
V for Vendetta
Young Frankenstein
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but I've found that nature documentaries are perfect for this. Typically they're like an hour long per episode and you either stay awake and learn some cool shit, or you fall asleep which is nice too. Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Frozen Planet are some of my favorites, but there's a ton out there. Anything BBC or David Attenborough and you can't go wrong.
Bonus points if you wake up the next morning and are like 'wait was I dreaming about iguanas?' and then realize nope, at some point in the episode there was an iguana running away from danger and your brain interpreted that as a weird dream you had.
Ratatouille: I think this movie deserves to be taken seriously, but it can definitely be a chill movie on a second watch.
Everything, Everywhere, all at once: I don’t think it would be good for falling asleep to, but if you relax and enjoy the absurdity, I think it can be a good example.
Doctor Strange: This is my go to relax movie. It’s just all around good. Good fight scenes, the characters have some depth, etc.
I think many movies would be fine for this use on a second watch through.
Moneyball, which I agree as a comfort watch, is interesting cause it’s like a prestige drama.
My comfort watches:
Some I haven't seen mentioned:
My comfort movies are usually just my old nostalgic favorites or some wackier movies that I find really amusing that don't seem to get old for me (especially after a few beers).
Here are my comfort watches in no particular order:
I'm more of a comfort TV kinda person, but a few movies: