I love mbfgw!! Its so good. Another one for me is Grease!

i don't know any except one and that's My Big Fat Greek Wedding. makes me feel good and cry a little bit (in a good way). i can also watch it a lot and not get bored with it. and when i was a little kid these family friends were obsessed with it and watched it constantly and so it reminds me of that too. good movie.

BonFire wrote: "In no particular order:

1) An American Werewolf in London
2) The Lost Boys
3) Beauty and the Beast
4) Ladyhawke
5) Jurassic Park
6) Halloween
7) 10 Things I Hate About You
8) A Knight's Tale
9) Ho..."

Funny...I never watched Ladyhawke because growing up it was my mom's fave. so just to protest I refused to watch it...Watched it recently and it is definitely one of my top ten comfort films!!

☺Caleb☻ wrote: "1. My Fair Lady
2. Princess Bride
3. Sound of Music
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Cleopatra
6. The Ten Commandments
7. Into the Woods
8. Hello Dolly
9. Cats
10. Gone With the Wind"

Gone With the Wind is such a long film! I've only gotten through about half and then I always seem to have to do something else, so I have to stop. But so far, it's a great film that captures the essence of the characters nicely.

I tried very hard to whittle the list down to 10, but apparently 11 was the magic number:

40-Year-Old Virgin
Amelie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Incredibles
The Iron Giant
Office Space
Old School
Run Lola Run
The Shawshank Redemption
Starship Troopers
Tremors

hey jim,

i haven't seen the version you're talking about. the one i saw was made in russia in the late '60's or early '70's. it was the pacing that was off, imo.

i am a bit sceptical of a filmic version...it is such a major novel with so much insight and minute details that i'm not sure i'm willing to sacrifice. if it wasn't one of my very favorite books, i wouldn't sweat it, but it's such a monument of a novel, it gets my vote for greatest novel of the 19th century.

normally i'm able to say, books and films are different mediums and not sweat it. but i don't think i can overcome what are my own shortcomings in this case.

hey phillip,

I can't believe that you haven't seen or didn't like the 1958 Richard Brooks version of Brothers Karamazov. It's not exact to the book, of course, it couldn't be, that was steamy stuff and a bit more violence than the film, but it was a great version for 1950's America. My fave Richard Brooks films are Lord Jim to Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Kerouac spent a couple of pages talking about Yul Brynner's performance in the film, if that means anything. Also great performances by Richard Baseheart, Claire Boom, and even William Shatner I believe as the Priest Brother.

hey jim,

nice list of films, tell me more about that production of brothers karamazov. who directed it? i know of a russian production, but it wasn't well done.

the magic christian and putney swope sure made an impression when i was a youngster. i haven't seen them in decades.

BonFire wrote: "I love Eurotrip. "This isn't where I parked my car.""


Me too Bonfire! There are so many hilarious moments in that movie! Mi Scusi, Mi scusi... on the train! And Club Vandersexxx...

Interesting running film list quite a few above that I like, especially the Wes Anderson Films.

Add to that:
Brothers Karamazov
The Royal Tennenbaums
Start The Revolution Without Me
Putney Swope
Street Fight
The Magic Christain
Hey Good Lookin'
Doctor Zhivago
Leo The Last

I love Eurotrip. "This isn't where I parked my car."

How can you just name 10??? Here are 10 (or so) that come to mind right off the bat. I could watch over and over again and get excited when I see one coming on EVEN though I have them in my own collection!!

Return to Me
The Ringer
Daredevil
Malibu's Most Wanted
Eurotrip
While You Were Sleeping
There's Something About Mary
13 Going on 30
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Caddy Shack
The Patriot
Bandits
Can't Buy Me Love
Mr. Deeds
The Holiday

In no particular order:

1) An American Werewolf in London
2) The Lost Boys
3) Beauty and the Beast
4) Ladyhawke
5) Jurassic Park
6) Halloween
7) 10 Things I Hate About You
8) A Knight's Tale
9) Howl's Moving Castle
10) The Cottage

I watched The Ten Commandments only once when I was very young and it made a big impression, I wonder if I will like it now post all the epics and trilogies I have seen on the big screen since then including LOTR, Terminator, etc...

1. My Fair Lady
2. Princess Bride
3. Sound of Music
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Cleopatra
6. The Ten Commandments
7. Into the Woods
8. Hello Dolly
9. Cats
10. Gone With the Wind

1. Love On A Diet
2. Sweeney Todd
3. Rocky Horror Picture Show
4. Beast And Beauty
5. Mortal Kombat (It's tradition between a friend and I to watch it when it comes on TV, it's actually a horrible movie)

I thin I can only go to 5...I don't re-watch movies very often.

Off the top of my head, these are 10 films I'll pop in anytime I'm feeling down/unsettled.

1) Gone With the Wind
2) Little Women (1994 version)
3) The Dark Knight (I know that sounds really bizarre, but I become so absorbed by this film I forget all my problems)
4) Clue
5) North by Northwest
6) The Sound of Music
7) Practical Magic
8) How to Make an American Quilt (Great film from 1995 with Winona Ryder and Ellen Burstyn)
9) All About Eve
10) Now and Then

How could I forget Young Frankenstein - it is brilliant. And the Original Producers as well

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. His Girl Friday
3. Young Frankstein
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Volver
6. The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Braveheart
9. Arsenic and Old Lace
10. The Garden of Allah

The Princess Bride
Ruthless People
Clue
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Parent Trap - original
Star Wars: A New Hope
Scrooged
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Some Like it Hot

Post! Post!

Wow, a lot of dramas and evil are being counted as comfort films.

For me, comfort films equate to a happy ending or a really witty comedy.

I'll post my picks for 10 comfort films soon.

Gidget!!!???!!!

Goodness, it's been awhile since I've heard that name....

No order
The First Wives Club
The Long,Long Trailer
Gidget
Emma
Sweet Home Alabama
Bringing DOwn THe House
Momma Mia
Bridget Jone's
Sex And The City
RV

Hi,
My list would be something like this, in no particular order:


Little Women
Pride and Prejudice and/or any Austen(Any version)
The Mummy
Clueless
Sister Act
Only You
The Parent Trap
Jurassic Park
LOTR 2(can't help it if the movie came out now, pity I didn't get to see it when I was younger)
Ruthless People


and maybe more...

My list:

Harold and Maude
Tank Girl
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Bubba Ho-tep
Farewell My Concubine
Dead Man
City of Lost Children

Collette plays the wife of Jonathon Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine. And Terri you are absolutely right about the film paying homage to Bowie. The soundtrack is one of my favorites too.

I haven't gotten to watch The United States of Tara. I wanted to see it but kept forgetting to set the dvr. At some point when the first season dvd comes out I will rent it and catch up.

Have you watched her on the HBO show The United States of Tara? She was fantastic.

As for Velvet Goldmine - SUCH a ode to Bowie...

haven't seen velvet goldmine...is collette in it?

she's great in whatever she does, even if it's a little tiny part like she had in shaft. i liked her in little miss sunshine as well.

I adore Wes Anderson's films! They make me think and laugh, laugh, laugh! They are so witty.

Muriel's Wedding did indeed have Toni Collette in the starring role. I've followed her ever since. Have you seen Velvet Goldmine? That should be on my Guilty Pleasures list as I've watched it a couple of dozen times and think Collette does a great job with her part.

bottle rocket, and rushmore....nice to see wes anderson getting some praise here from someone besides me. i submitted some music to the music supervisor for office space, but my pieces were rejected...oh well. that didn't keep me from enjoying it!

also nice to see muriel's wedding on your list...there's an aussie film i should add in sam's thread on "films from down under". i think that is the first film i saw toni collette in. i've since become a fan of her work. (she was in it, right? please tell me i'm not losing what's left of my mind...)

My list- in no particular order:
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Little Women (do we see a theme?!)
Muriel's Wedding
Boogie Nights
Sideways
Office Space
Planet of the Apes
Goodfellas
Bottle Rocket

Also Rushmore, Grease and Saturday Night Fever. I'm eclectic!

stanwyck is just fantastic in ball of fire! usually i am not such a big fan of gary cooper, but he delivers the right stuff as well. and those goofy and sweet old professors...they're just golden.

I absolutely love Ball of Fire!

good times, to be sure.

Wow Phillip I must say I now consider you one of the luckiest men on earth!!!!!

i saw the original stage version of the rocky horror show at the roxie in los angeles back in the early 70's (1972? 1973?...can't remember). it was amazing to have tim curry dancing and singing to you while standing on your table in platforms....

Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of mine for sure...Tim Curry is soooo great!!! We have a great place here in town called Darcel's, its female impersonators (think the movie The Birdcage) and they due an absolutely outrageous Rocky Horror musical dance number!!!!

lol... yes, it is about a horrible, terrible, heartless boss in a superficial world of fashion BUT, it's more so about the girl who works for her and how she finds her own way in life. I'd tell more, but I don't want to ruin anything for anyone who hasn't seen it.

Sherry wrote: "Pretty Woman is a good one. Right now the "comfort" movie I can't seem to get bored of is The Devil Wears Prada. I also like all of the Miss Congenialities "

Devil Wears Prada? What's comforting about it? Isn't it about a horrible, terrible, heartless boss in a superficial world of fashion? Haven't seen it, so it's a genuine question.

Pretty Woman is a good one. Right now the "comfort" movie I can't seem to get bored of is The Devil Wears Prada. I also like all of the Miss Congenialities

no particular order:

1. The Princess Bride
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Grease
4. American Werewolf in London
5. LA Story
6. Pretty Woman
7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
8. Rocky Horror Picture Show
9. Night of the Living Dead
10. Some Like it Hot

I kind of like both versions but for different reasons but all the re-touching didn't really make that much of difference to the story. I know they wanted to make Bacall's part bigger wanted her to have a bigger starring role.

oh, i see....yes, i knew that the studio made another (slightly different) version of The Big Sleep in hopes of "clearing up" the storyline (typical hollywood - the one thing that makes the film different than any other film out there and they want to change it). the dvd i have has both versions, but the re-edited version useless. there's no reason to touch the original....none at all.

like you, i couldn't watch the mitchum version. again - why "remake" something as brilliant as this film???

Phillip, I've only seen the original but there's two verisons that are slightly different there's a 1945 pre-release version and 1946 theatrical release with some reshoot scenes, more between Bogart and Bacall. I know they did a version with Robert Mitchum and I really like Robert Mitchum as an actor and all but I couldn't bring myself to watch it, the Bogart version was so good, could enough that I started reading Raymond Chandler books, those are good too.

eugenia,

i've only seen the original. i'd rather not see any sequels or remakes of the big sleep.

Debbie wrote: "I LOVE Johnny Depp!!! "

There ain't nothing wrong with Johnny Depp, he's a really excellent actor.

Phillip wrote: "hey eugenia,

great list! i love the big sleep. that first scene where bogart meets bacall has the funniest dialogue ever. i also wish i could call upon such wit...."

Oh, I love that movie my favorite line from it is "You did sell a book once, didn't you?" Have you seen both versions? They are both really good, it's hard to figure out which one I like more.

I LOVE Johnny Depp!!!

Phillip wrote: "i forgot there was a remake....wasn't ice cube in it? somehow i missed it. "

remembers zombies ... remembers the big dude outa Mission Impossible ... remembers havin' a little crush on the dude outa Medium ... doesn't remember Ice Cube ;o)

Eugenia wrote: "Fools Rush In, which I find funny
40 Year Old Virgin, which is funny, funny, funny, bawdy, gross and sweet at same time..."

Eugina - you, my ladygirl, have picked some cool flicks for comfort there ... here's to oglin' Johnny Depp and fond memories of beginnings ;o)