Movies I revisit when I need to recharge.

WH1 · Apr 16, 2010

I have certain movies on disc which I tend to revisit when I need to recharge mentally. I am curious if any of my fellow Loungers have similar lists.

My personal list includes:

Seabiscuit
Road to Perdition
The Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man movies
The Jeeves and Wooster series (Frye and Laurie)
Oceans Eleven (Rat Pack version)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
It Takes A Thief
Get Shorty
Big Night

(Sorry if this has been done before.)

Silver Dollar · Apr 17, 2010

I definitely do. Here goes.

Twelve o'clock High.
Jam Session- Ann Miller
Orchestra Wives- Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller Story - go figure
Night of the Living Dead
The Fly- both editions
Porky's -- all 3 parts

and finally----

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

Widebrim · Apr 17, 2010

Murder, My Sweet
Sahara ('43)
Kansas City Confidential
The Adventures of Don Juan
The Mark of Zorro ('40)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
D.O.A. ('50)
The Black Raven ('43)
Any 3 Stooges short with Shemp...:eusa_doh:

Corto · Apr 17, 2010

The Big Red One
Master and Commander
The Last Detail
The Hunt for Red October
The French Connection
Operation Petticoat

"Skeet" McD · Apr 17, 2010

A Man for All Seasons
Room With a View
Our Town
The Gospel According to John
That Thing You Do
Groundhog Day

"Skeet"

KY Gentleman · Apr 17, 2010

Millers Crossing
American Graffiti
Key Largo
The Big Sleep

vintage68 · Apr 19, 2010

Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis

Road to Perdition

Shawshank Redemption

Appaloosa, and just about any of the other many westerns I own. The simplicity and black and white morality is very appealing for these chaotic times.

Lindabelle · Apr 19, 2010

Moon Over Miami
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Mr Blandings builds his dream home
Three Daughters
Arsenic and Old Lace
Saboteur
Tea For Two
Thin Man Series
Charlie Chan Series
Laura
Slightly Dangerous
Poirot Series
A Woman's Face
Shadow of a Doubt
Enchanted Cottage

A large list I know! and it doesn't include all my film noir favourites.

Atomic Age · Apr 19, 2010

12 Angry Men
Rear Window
Clue
Out of the Past
Spy Smasher
Chinatown
The Big Sleep (Bogart version)
The Thin Man
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Lifeboat
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Philadelphia Story
Blast from the Past
Rio Bravo

Panache · Apr 19, 2010

Here's mine

These movies recharge me and make me happy

The Adventures of Robin Hood (my all-time favorite movie)

El Dorado

The Big Sleep

The Thing from another World

Highlander

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Charade

North by Northwest

They make me smile just thinking about them

Cheers

Jamie

xwray · Apr 19, 2010

Interesting subject...I never really thought about a movie as a recharging vehicle. My idea of going to a movie was to "escape from reality" for a couple of hours. I suppose if I *had* to answer the question I'd have to cop out without providing a specific title but my idea of getting a recharge would be a "revenge" movie of some sort...you know, where the entire movie is leading up to the good guy getting the bad guy in the end, especially if the bad guy is connected with the government in some way <g>. I guess I'll have to think about that a bit....a lot of movies have that as at least part of the story line and I'm not including those...I'm only including those that begin with the good guy getting wrongly hosed in some way and the remainter of the movie concentrates on developing and successfully implementing the revenge.

Hmmm...maybe I need to seek professional help...

MisterCairo · Apr 19, 2010

Withnail & I (I'm up to 95 views)
Bleak House (2005 mini-series with Gillian Anderson)
Jeeves & Wooster (Fry and Laurie)
Big Night
Casablanca
North By Northwest
Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
Pride & Prejudice (1995 mini-series)

AmateisGal · Apr 20, 2010

State Fair (with Dana Andrews and Jeanne Craine)
Rio Bravo
Frenchman's Creek
Father Goose

Flat Foot Floey · Apr 20, 2010

I watch the funny movies more often than the serious ones. This doesn't mean theyre "better" but I can watch them over and over again. So my list of "favourite" movies would contain some other stuff...

But to "recharge":

-All Monty Python movies, plus Flying Circus Series, plus Fawlty Towers
-Helge Schneider movies (just a german thing....not translatable)

Funny horror movies too...just like
-Evil Dead 2+3
-Braindead (aka Dead Alive)

And classic horror
-Karloff movies
-Bela Lougosi movies
-Vincent Price movies

Most of the Tim Burton Stuff, the first Tarantinos and some early Coen Brothers Movies.

WH1 · Apr 20, 2010

AmateisGal said:
Father Goose

Great choice, I always watch for this one on AMC,TCM,and FMC one of my favorite Cary Grant performances (see my avatar) because he is so against type and seems to have a lot of fun with it.

just_me · Apr 20, 2010

There are so many.

Harvey
Casablanca
Arsenic and Old Lace
Thin Man Series
Charlie Chan Series
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Singin in the Rain
Clue
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
De-Lovely

and many more.

Wire9Vintage · Apr 20, 2010

When I want something sweet, with a nice little cleansing cry, I turn--over and over again--to Truly, Madly, Deeply. I have never met anyone who likes this movie, too. Of course, I've met very few people who have ever heard of it! At least on this side of the pond... Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson. What's not to love??

just_me · Apr 20, 2010

Wire9Vintage said:
When I want something sweet, with a nice little cleansing cry, I turn--over and over again--to Truly, Madly, Deeply. I have never met anyone who likes this movie, too. Of course, I've met very few people who have ever heard of it! At least on this side of the pond... Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson. What's not to love??

I like it a lot, but then I love Alan Rickman. Great actor.

Edward · Apr 21, 2010

Flat Foot Floey said:
I watch the funny movies more often than the serious ones. This doesn't mean theyre "better" but I can watch them over and over again. So my list of "favourite" movies would contain some other stuff...

But to "recharge":

-All Monty Python movies, plus Flying Circus Series, plus Fawlty Towers
-Helge Schneider movies (just a german thing....not translatable)

Funny horror movies too...just like
-Evil Dead 2+3
-Braindead (aka Dead Alive)

And classic horror
-Karloff movies
-Bela Lougosi movies
-Vincent Price movies

Most of the Tim Burton Stuff, the first Tarantinos and some early Coen Brothers Movies.

I salute your impeccable taste, sir!

Once upon a time, I guess I might have said The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but not so much since most of what I watch it for now is rehearsal. My relationship with that one is... complicated.

To add to FFF's list above, I would say also Casablanca (Rick Blaine is in large part what I would love to be - but as he starts out, not when he goes soft at the end). Another great one is Cry Baby. Anything Indiana Jones. And anything, absolutely anything featuring Bruce Campbell.

Harp · Apr 21, 2010

Mary Poppins, starring my adolescent crush, Julie Andrews.

fftopic:
Once upon a time, long ago and far away, and many moons past,
inside a darkened Quonset hut tucked behind the wire, mines, dangling beer cans, sandbags, M-60s and mortars, and filled almost by my whole damn entire detachment; everyone who wasn't pulling guard that nite, the best guys in the whole wide world whom I dearly loved, I switched on the projector--armed with the sure certain knowledge that my nineteen year old ass was about to get kicked. lol

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