Your go-to movies

[MrsEddieBetts]

Tell me what your go-to movies are...you know, the one you watch when you need a cheer up, the one you watch when you wanna have a good cry, a movie to get you pumped etc etc. Not something you've watched once and enjoyed, but the ole faithfuls.

Some of mine off the top of my head are Wayne's World and Forgetting Sarah Marshall for a cheer up. Moulin Rouge for a guaranteed sob sesh. The Labyrinth for some childhood nostalgia (and also because David Bowie )

Tell me yours at once!

 

[Gralin]

Labyrinth and Dark Crystal

Ratatouille

Pump up the Volume

10 things I hate about you

50 first dates

the breakfast club

eternal sunshine of a spotless mind

 

[Jatz]

Titanic (but from the iceberg on)
The Other Guys
Any of the James Bond's

 

[edgie]

Highly effective but disposable entertainment - movies that I enjoy a lot but wouldn't make a best of the best favourites list, and unlike my favourites I don't worry about moderating their viewing out of fear of diminishing returns

Kingsman
Independence Day
Atomic Blonde
The Replacements
Equalizer
Any James Bond
Top Gun 1 (not Maverick - that's a best of the best)
Rock of Ages
American Pie (main films only!)
Rockstar

 

[phantom13]

Rockstar

My wife ******* loves this movie, its pretty fun to be fair.

 

[edgie]

My wife ******* loves this movie, its pretty fun to be fair.

It's good fun, as much as I morally detest it. The ending where he leaves to play shitty coffee shop soft alt-grunge... yuck. It would have been better if he just started doing his rock/metal music and more in the spirit of the character.

 

[phantom13]

It's good fun, as much as I morally detest it. The ending where he leaves to play shitty coffee shop soft alt-grunge... yuck. It would have been better if he just started doing his rock/metal music and more in the spirit of the character.

I think that song he sings in the coffee shop is by the verve pipe from memory.

The music in movies about bands has to be good otherwise the whole thing fails, this one is pretty good overall.

 

[phantom13]

On topic i rewatch the trashy 80's and 90's action film genre FAAAAR too much

Rocky IV gets the montage action for me
Warrior if i need a good cry (and cause its just really ******* good)
The Incredibles for an animation/pick me up
Matilda for some childhood nostalgia
Wolf of Wall Street or Catch Me If You Can get a run a fair bit in our house too
and the Usual Suspects is on often as its just my fave movie of all time.

 

[edgie]

I was gonna mention Catch Me If You Can too, a good watch and one of Leo's lighter movies.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

You’ve gotta give the category too you guys

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

On topic i rewatch the trashy 80's and 90's action film genre FAAAAR too much

Rocky IV gets the montage action for me
Warrior if i need a good cry (and cause its just really ******* good)
The Incredibles for an animation/pick me up
Matilda for some childhood nostalgia
Wolf of Wall Street or Catch Me If You Can get a run a fair bit in our house too
and the Usual Suspects is on often as its just my fave movie of all time.

Ohhh Matilda I loved her so much as a little book nerd child. Will have to show my eldest this one.

 

[phantom13]

Ohhh Matilda I loved her so much as a little book nerd child. Will have to show my eldest this one.

If you havent seen the Minchin musical and get a chance to i cant recommend it highly enough.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Nice topic!

Predator or Aliens - When I'm Nostalgic
Step Brothers - for the chuckles
Notebook - for the tears
Danced with Wolves directors cut - long rainy day introspection
Rattatoulie - when I need cheering up

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Oh yeh and dazed and confused or Almost Famous, not sure which category but they both fit it!

 

[HirdyLannister]

Starship Troopers
The fifth element
The Martian
Interstellar
Nolan Batman Films
Back to the future
Indian Jones
The Departed.

Recently I couldn't sleep, I threw on Batman Begins and lied down and slept.

 

[edgie]

I think that song he sings in the coffee shop is by the verve pipe from memory.

The music in movies about bands has to be good otherwise the whole thing fails, this one is pretty good overall.

Yeah, other than the obviously different vocalist between songs (Marky Mark can apparently sing both high range soaring power metal vocals and low gravelly rock style and everything in between, making him pretty much the best singer ever) the original songs made for that movie are excellent. They feature in many of my playlists.

 

[weekend at bernies]

For some reason whenever I'm sick Armageddon always make me feel better.

 

[HirdyLannister]

For some reason whenever I'm sick Armageddon always make me feel better.

Absolute tear jerker the goodbye scene

 

[TheEscapeClub]

A Night to Remember - early Titanic movie with Kenneth Moore.
12 Angry Men - the original with Henry Fonda
Mr Roberts - Henry Fonda again with William Powell and Jack Lemon in his movie debut (won and Oscar for it) and Jimmy Cagney
Spartan - Val Kilmer, a stripped back, bare action / suspense movie
Shooter - Marky Mark
The Martian
Sunshine
Europa Report
Charlton Heston - Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Soylent Green
Alien / S
The Terminator

4 tvs in the house all with hard drives plugged into them and all of them above on each hard drive (plus heaps of other stuff)

Oops, almost forgot, if I need a laugh it's Flying High, Top Secret, A Fish Called Wanda, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Life of Brian and The Holy Grail.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

For some reason whenever I'm sick Armageddon always make me feel better.

If you're sick when you're watching it
Wouldn't you want to close your eyes?
Wouldn't you want to fall asleep?
'Cause you'd miss it baby
And it sounds like you don't want to miss a thing

 

[SnakeMan86]

My absolute number 1 when i need a cheer up. Not a masterpiece, but i love the characters, the music,just always makes me smile at the end

 

[SnakeMan86]

It's good fun, as much as I morally detest it. The ending where he leaves to play shitty coffee shop soft alt-grunge... yuck. It would have been better if he just started doing his rock/metal music and more in the spirit of the character.

Gives us a young Myles Kennedy cameo though

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

If you havent seen the Minchin musical and get a chance to i cant recommend it highly enough.

I haven't seen it - I don't know why I didn't go when it had a run in Melbourne! Have you seen the movie of the Tim Minchin version and if so is it worth watching? Or wait til I can see it at the theatre?

 

[phantom13]

I haven't seen it - I don't know why I didn't go when it had a run in Melbourne! Have you seen the movie of the Tim Minchin version and if so is it worth watching? Or wait til I can see it at the theatre?

I have not seen the musical movie version. Probably should get around to that.

Saw the musical musical on Broadway, it was fantastic

 

[Frank Bunn]

These are my feel good movies in no particular order.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dead Poets Society
Pay It Forward
American Beauty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Fifth Element
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Good Will Hunting
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blues Brothers
The Truman Show
K-Pax
O Brother Where Art Thou
Team America
Love Honour and Obey
Begin Again
Game Night