Favorite Comfort Movies & Movies to watch...

[Vanyel]

What are your favorite "comfort" movies? Movies you watch just to make yourself feel better; and what are movies you watch over and over just because you like them? Movies you pass while flipping through channels and just have to stop and watch.

Mine are, and there are some that fit both categories:

Comfort Movies:

1. Steele Magnolias
2. Grease
3. A League of Their Own
4. The Princess Bride
5. A Fish Called Wanda
6. The Naked Gun
7. Airplane!
8. Sister Act
9. Hot Shots
10. The Sound of Music
11. Mary Poppins
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
14. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
15. Saturday the 14th
16. Hysterical
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Movies I like and watch because I like them:

1. Gone With the Wind
2. Terminator 2
3. Aliens
4. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
5. Star Trek: First Contact
6. The Godfather
7. The Usual Suspects
8. Forrest Gump
9. The Client
10. The Fugitive
11. The Sound of Music
12. Marry Poppins
13. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
14. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
15. Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith
16. Star Wars: A New Hope
17. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
18. Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi
19. Raiders of the Lost Ark
20. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
21. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
23. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
24. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
25. High Noon
26. 12 Angry Men
27. To Kill a Mocking Bird

There are many more, but those are the ones that best fit my question.

Funny thing, I have all of those movies except Sister Act on DVD and can watch them at anytime but I just stop to watch them on TV.

So tell me what are yours? And what do you think of my list. Please be kind.

 

[WillsBabe]

The American President is my current favourite comfort movie.

 

[TrekNut87]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home always puts a smile on my face.

 

[Kirby]

I was thinking about doing a thread about movies that you will always watch whenever they are on. For me that's essentially comfort movies, so here are mine:

The Hunt for Red October
Fletch
National Lampoon's Vacation
Dave
Groundhog Day
City Slickers
When Harry Met Sally
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Major League
Tin Cup
National Treasure

 

[Twilight]

Once Upon a Time in Mexico I can watch anytime, anywhere, and I always enjoy myself.

Sometimes when I'm bored on a weekend night I'll pop open a beer and watch ALIEN for the 30 billionth time in my life, and that too never gets old.

And every frame of SF&F classics like (original) Star Wars, Indy, and LOTR are pure joy.

 

[WillsBabe]

Just thought of another: Good Fellas. Not really much "comfort" there, actually, now I come to think about it...

 

[Smiley]

I've got a lot, but The Lion King is the first one that popped into my head.

 

[Barbados Slim]

My movies I watch when I'm sick or feeling blue and need to couch it:

The Harry Potter movies because they're warm and cozy and long and I can fall asleep to them because I've read the books and seen the films a bajillion times.

Casablanca captures a mood for me that makes me feel better. It's the combination of smoke and booze and brooding. The mixture of loneliness and companionship.

The Hunt for Red October because it's a such an adventure and reminds me of my Navy days on a sub.

 

[highlander]

For me my comfort movies are:

Reality Bites
Singles
Indian Summer

They remind me of my close friends in college and for me that was the best time of my life. They help me to reminisce and remember the good times.

Movies I always watch when channel surfing are:

Braveheart
Glory
A few Good Men

I bet I've seen them a 100 times.

 

[kalysto]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home always puts a smile on my face.

I second Voyage Home. Also, the Val Kilmer version of The Saint. Not the greatest movies ever made, but I love them and I'm always feeling better by the end.

 

[Mistral]

Pretty Woman
The Replacements(God knows why)
A Knight's Tale
A League of Their Own

for some reason I watch these whenever they are on and I'm flipping channels-And I'm usually a touch snobbish about what I watch, quality wise.

 

[anais]

A mix:

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Dr. Strangelove
All the Harry Potter films
Love Actually
Casablanca
La Vita è bella

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Right now, the movie that I keep watching & rewatching & rewatching is Batman Begins. (It's the closest I can get right now to seeing The Dark Knight. Damn, I can't wait for it to be July.)

Often, when I'm feeling bummed out, it's a real pick-me-up to revisit my favorite Enterprise crews in Star Trek VI & Star Trek: First Contact.

And for some reason, I find the bleak existentialism of Daredevil very comforting.

 

[mostlyharmless]

Peggy Sue got Married, and a soft boiled egg with toast.

 

[ladyheather69]

National Treasure is on right now on the USA network.

I don't watch movies for "comfort" per se, but I do watch them over and over(very strange list I admit....and eclectic)

Jaws
Aliens
Terminator 2 & 3
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Tremors
Sixteen Candles
A Fish Called Wanda
Fletch
Christmas Vacation(but usually closer to the holidays)
Star Wars: A New Hope
Singin' in the Rain
Jurassic Park
The Incredibles

This is just a partial list without having to go through my discs themselves.....

 

[DanTheGrey]

Star Wars movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Airplane!
Top Secret!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Mystery Men
Iron Giant

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

Planet of the Apes
Escape From the Planet of the Apes
Clerks II
Jersey Girl
Any of the 007 films
Rocky Balboa
X2
Psycho
Psycho II
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Wolf Man
Runnin On Empty
Dazed & Confused
Beer League
Purple Rain

 

[Orac Zen]

Not so much comfort movies, but movies I watch often and never get tired of include:

The Remains of the Day
When Harry Met Sally...
The Best Years of Our Lives
All About Eve
Howards End
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
My Favourite Wife
Libelled Lady

...among others.

 

[TGTheodore]

Comfort movies? Usually a good romantic comedy or a Disney movie from my (remote) childhood.
The Goodbye Girl (original version)
Continental Divide
The Sword in the Stone
Mary Poppins
Without a Clue
The Hallelujah Trail
Fiddler on the Roof
Midnight Run
The Mask of Zorro
Music and Lyrics
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Movies I'll Almost Always Watch When They're On:

American Graffiti
That Thing You Do!
It's a Wonderful Life
Dave
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

--Ted

 

[Holdfast]

Movies I watch if I stumble on them when channel-hopping:

Die Hard
A Knight's Tale
Road Trip
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
Conan the Barbarian
Predator
Top Gun
Most of the Bond movies
Weekend at Bernie's

There are more, but that's what springs to mind right now.