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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khannie@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 340d
Elf
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 339d
Do you ever watch it outside of Xmas?
khannie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 339d
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.
anthropomorphized@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 340d
Princess Bride
Lotr extended editions
Underworld
anthropomorphized@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
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
Embargo@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 340d
Amelié
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 339d
Good choice! It's so happy
Wytch@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 339d
Back to the Future
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 339d
It's a classic! Do you like the sequels?
Wytch@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 339d
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.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 339d
That's my thinking too! I think the second one is great fun, it gets a bad wrap but it's just good fun.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev · 6 pts · 340d
A Knight’s Tale!
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 339d
Big Trouble in Little China
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
Such a fun film.
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 340d
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.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 339d
Which Chef? There are quite a few!
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 339d
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 339d
My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service
Jthyme@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 339d
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.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 340d
Lost in Translation
mateofeo85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 340d
Lip them? Lip them??! What???
Zathras@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 339d
Wall-e
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 339d
Good choice!
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
A Christmas Story
But it's my favorite movie in general
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d
Intouchables
moakley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
Babe
klemptor@startrek.website · 2 pts · 339d
Grease and Mary Poppins
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
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
mrtuttle@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 339d
captain ron
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 339d
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.
slingstone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 339d
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.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 270d
Gattaca
I’d be surprised if anyone here had seen it
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 270d
I've seen it! It's a reallg good film, kinda surprised it's someone's feel good though?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 270d
Watched it at the right time
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 269d
I get that
Preacher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 338d
Being There