PLAY What is/are your favorite “light” films?

[Terrwyn]

There are 3 movies I have watched over and over. Dances with Wolves, Calamity Jane with Jane Alexander and Frederick Forest, Buffalo Girls with Angelica Houston and Melanie Griffith.

 

[Dennis Olson]

My Cousin Vinny is hysterical!

 

[FREEBIRD]

The Princess Bride.

 

[Dobbin]

Its a Wonderful Life.

Seasonal, topical, and AMERICAN.

Dobbin

 

[Dux]

Ghostbusters

 

[1911user]

Congo

Ghostbusters Afterlife

Now You See Me

Star Wars - Rogue One

 

[fi103r]

Year of the Comet

Stargate: Continumim

Six Days, Seven Nights Anne Hech/Harrison Ford doing Bogie/Bacall proud

edit to add Fifth Element

 

[Cardinal]

Gonna watch Die Hard later this evening.

 

[Yogizorch]

Any old Busby Berkeley musical
Top Hat
Any Dirty Harry
International House with W.C. Fields

 

[Yogizorch]

Bell, Book, and Candle
The Magic of Belle Isle
Dr. Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
(Anything Mel Brooks for that matter)
Second Hand Lions
Airplane (both)
Demolition Man
Joe Kid
High Plains Drifter

Bell, Book, and Candle definitely. I still think they were witches and warlocks.

 

[SW357]

Hands down...A Knight's Tale (directors extended version is a must). My all-time favorite.

I've waited my whole life for Sir Ector to shite himself to death!

Have a beer or five, let your inner idiot come out to play and forget life for a while.

 

[Rucus Sunday]

Alien





kidding

 

[Mrsmonty]

The Holiday with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law always lifts my spirits!

 

[Dm19cm]

While You Were Sleeping
Phantom Of The Opera...the Andrew Lloyd Webber version
The Greatest Showman
Princess Bride
Miracle On 34th Street

 

[SurvivalRing]

Movies that I can watch over & over again, that make me feel good/better.

that make me feel nostalgic
for the 70's:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws & Jaws 2
The China Syndromw

nostalgic for the
80's
Running on Empty
White Nights
Witness (1985)
The Legend of Billie Jean
Romancing the Stone
The Jewel of the Nile
Overboard

just for laughs:
Clue
The Goonies
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Spaceballs
Galaxy Quest
Hook
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Back to School
Big Business
Haunted Honeymoon
Young Frankenstein
The Princess Bride
Austin Powers (all 3)
Wayne's World 1 & 2

Sci-Fi:
Star Trek: Wrath of Khan all the way through to Nemesis
Terminator 1 - 3
Alien & Aliens
Battleship

Action:
First Blood & Rambo: First Blood 2
Die Hard 1-3
Red Dawn (1984)
Cutthroat Island
Twister

Drama:
The Year of Living Dangerously
Scandal (1989)
Jack & Sarah
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Autumn Leaves (1956)

Suspense:
Psycho
The Birds
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Scream & Scream 3

You’re a man of my own heart…

 

[SurvivalRing]

My Cousin Vinny is hysterical!

Just watched this again yesterday…”two yutes”

 

[mudlogger]

Jaws

Jurassic Park 1

 

[Dennis Olson]

Just watched this again yesterday…”two yutes”

Herman Munster is the judge. And if Marisa Tomei had been my girl, her “biological clock” would’ve been satisfied long ago.

 

[SurvivalRing]

We literally have thousands of movies in our library, including close to 500 movies on Vudu.

I agree with most of the above…except no one mentioned the best THANKSGIVING movie of all…

Dutch…with Ed O’Neil

View: https://youtu.be/aUFzngANOUQ?si=iB6aUtb8RdpTU-7a

rt 2:03

 

[Dennis Olson]

That’s a lot of Vudu flicks. I have 70.

 

[llknp]

"The Birdcage" - Robin Williams and Nathan Lane

"Chef"

 

[briches]

The Princess Bride.

The quotes from this movie are great!

 

[Raffy]

Gonna watch Die Hard later this evening.

I don’t care what they say. Die Hard is a classic Christmas movie!

 

[Dennis Olson]

I love Planes,Trains and Automobiles, but I can’t watch it these days. John Candy’s character “Del” is too much like me. I’ll just sit there in deep depression if I tried to watch it.

 

[Broccoli]

Hidalgo
Strictly Ballroom Dancing
Garfield
The Girl in the Cafe
Shaun of the Dead

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 I can listen for back ground sound anytime. amen

 

[Dennis Olson]

I only watch MST3K eppies hosted by Joel.

 

[SuElPo]

"Daisies in December"

 

[lisa]

I love anything sci-fi,fantasy or mystery.
Not a fan of dramas or horror.
However, for a laugh I love Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.

 

[Ragnarok]

Oooh... Also, "Sisu"!

 

[SmithJ]

Bad Santa

 

[SSTemplar]

This year
Open Range
Silverado
2 Guns

 

[Cardinal]

Back to the future

 

[Kathy in FL]

Day of the Triffids
The old HG Wells technicolor movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth
History documentaries
I watch various versions of A Christmas Carol all year long when in a certain mood

 

[Henry Bowman]

Babe.

" that will do pig, that will do"

 

[momma_soapmaker]

Thought of a few more to add to my original list.

Tombstone
Fifth Element
Second Hand Lions
Reign of Fire

The Ghost and the Darkness (based on the true story about man eating lions of Tsavo, Africa. I don't know why it didn't get more recognition when it came out. Starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.)

 

[spinner]

Places in the Heart
The Corn is Green

 

[thompson]

Babe.

" that will do pig, that will do"

Yes!
Swiss Family Robinson
Second Hand Lions
My Cousin Vinny

 

[Farmgal]

A Knight's Tale
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile

I generally dislike sci-fi but absolutely loved Enemy Mine. It's 1980's with Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr.

 

[TheSearcher]

So I’m curious. If you’re in a down mood (or just feeling “I can’t put my finger on it, but I’m not feeling good/calm/happy”, what is/are your go-to films? Not necessarily to cheer you up (even though the thread title leads one to think that’s the condition I’m looking for), but to, generally speaking, make you feel better when you’re “off” emotionally? I have a few.

The Ten Commandments (usually just a part of the film rather than the whole thing)

Close Encounters

Original Star Wars trilogy

First 4 Harry Potter films

Under Siege

The Fifth Element

Any of the Pirates of the Caribbean films

Demolition Man

Murder on the Orient Express (Albert Finney version)

Forbidden Planet



Now, some of these qualify as favorites as well, but some not. But all are good for when I need to “forget my cares”.


Okay, your turn.

The Original "The Thing". I love the Carpenter version from 1982, but there's something calming to me about the black and white presentation. The banter between the characters is fun, too.

 

[Magdalen]

Oh my gosh! There are so many wonderful examples on this thread, many of which I watch again and again. Thank you, All, for reminding me of some I need to dust off and watch yet again. Here's another -

Raising Arizona