My kids do! My daughter is absolutely mental for Christmas. I've been getting the "only x days to Christmas" for about two months now and herself and my youngest watched it about two weeks ago.
I do. The first film is perfect, or nearly so. It's charming, full of details, funny, and obviously hugely influential. But I find it also perfectly captures that upbeat 80s vibe. It's endlessly quotable.
The sequels are not necessary but well executed, about as good as sequels can get. I probably liked Part 2 more as a kid, but I still enjoy them both. I find the self-referential time-loop history-repeating-itself stuff both appropriate and limiting. But they're fun. I'm still disappointed we never got those hover-boards.
Chef is the bestest answer to this question. All day. A film with no major conflict where things only improve for the characters until the credits roll.
Chef is a 2014 road comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Jon Favreau, who also stars in the film as a celebrity chef who quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant following a public altercation with a food critic and begins to operate a food truck with his friends and his young son. It co-stars Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Amy Sedaris, Emjay Anthony, and Dustin Hoffman, along with Robert Downey Jr.
The Untouchables has always been a favorite. The scene where they're riding to confront the mobsters on horses at the Canadian border lifts my mood every time. Yeah, I know it's unhistorical garbage, but that theme, man. As the music swells, my heart soars.
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Elf
Do you ever watch it outside of Xmas?
My kids do! My daughter is absolutely mental for Christmas. I've been getting the "only x days to Christmas" for about two months now and herself and my youngest watched it about two weeks ago.
Princess Bride
Lotr extended editions
Underworld
High fantasy can be such a balm, cool worlds with cheesy love stories to motivate your unlikely heros:
Jupiter Rising John Carter: Man From Mars
Amelié
Good choice! It's so happy
Back to the Future
It's a classic! Do you like the sequels?
I do. The first film is perfect, or nearly so. It's charming, full of details, funny, and obviously hugely influential. But I find it also perfectly captures that upbeat 80s vibe. It's endlessly quotable.
The sequels are not necessary but well executed, about as good as sequels can get. I probably liked Part 2 more as a kid, but I still enjoy them both. I find the self-referential time-loop history-repeating-itself stuff both appropriate and limiting. But they're fun. I'm still disappointed we never got those hover-boards.
That's my thinking too! I think the second one is great fun, it gets a bad wrap but it's just good fun.
Big Trouble in Little China
Such a fun film.
Chef is the bestest answer to this question. All day. A film with no major conflict where things only improve for the characters until the credits roll.
Which Chef? There are quite a few!
My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service
A Knight’s Tale!
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
My dad and I don't see eye to eye on much but this film is something we both adore.
Lost in Translation
Lip them? Lip them??! What???
Wall-e
Good choice!
A Christmas Story
But it's my favorite movie in general
Intouchables
Grease and Mary Poppins
Babe
Does it have to just be a film?
Any of the Monty Python skits or films.
Princess Bride
Wallace and Gromit
5th Element
Shawshank Redemption
Being There
It's definitely a tie between a few different animated films I saw growing up. In no particular order:
It's hard for me to pick which one of those are my favorite feel-good* film.
*Feel-good as in makes me feel good watching them.
Gattaca
I’d be surprised if anyone here had seen it
I've seen it! It's a reallg good film, kinda surprised it's someone's feel good though?
Watched it at the right time
I get that
captain ron
I like UHF.
The Untouchables has always been a favorite. The scene where they're riding to confront the mobsters on horses at the Canadian border lifts my mood every time. Yeah, I know it's unhistorical garbage, but that theme, man. As the music swells, my heart soars.