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I'm at home convalescing at the moment, and went to borrow some films to watch. Of the 5, 3 have made me cry - with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly leaving me feeling loads worse than when I started.
I'm going to get some more today so, please, recommend me a film that's actually going to make me feel better. No horror, no rom com.
Thank you 🙂
Blind side
Sophie's Choice
this one was the first to pop into my head
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Finding Nemo 😀
Little Miss Sunshine!
It's superb!
Email me your address and I'll stick it in the post to you. 🙂
How about So I Married an Axe Murderer? Mike Myres' finest film and my all time favourite.
EDIT -
Sorry, how rude of me. Get well soon!! 🙂 (What's up anyway?)
oh brother where art thou
big lebowski
taxi(french one)
fargo
On a serious note, Stardust.
Excellent feelgood film.
fargo
Yip. The bit where he's feeding the guy into the woodchipper really was the top feelgood moment of the whole film 😆
boardinbob: [i]Stingo is led up to Sophie and Nathan's room where he finds they have committed suicide.[/i]
everyone else, thanks so far. PP I'll rent LMS if I can, and mail you if I can't.
Bolt is good
zombieland... really it's not a horror, yes it makes you jump occasionally but overall it's funny and feel good (other than the premise the world gone to sh!te), and just watching woody harrelson killing zombies is througly worthwhile.
Otherwise UP & as above Taxi (the french one - olde but ace)
"Turtles are surprisingly fast swimmers" if this doesn't make you smile then you are passed help!
Hot Rod
Little Miss Sunshine
Spirited Away
Happy Gilmore....
Local Hero
Another shout for gilmore.
Also zoolander, stepbrothers, kingpin.
Actually I'm feeling guilty. When I said 3/5 had made me cry, I meant 5/5. Looking forward to some tear free film watching!
"A life less ordinary" is a great film and always makes me smile.
Oh and thanks PP. Hope you're feeling better. Like you I'm desperate to be well for the w/e!
The Straight Story
Slumdog Millionaire (not a traditional feelgood film but still a great film)
Oceans 11 (Light, frothy but quite watchable and thoroughly entertaining)
Ghost town (Rather funny)
Robots (Clever ideas and funny)
The Holiday (Was "forced" to watch it recently and surprisingly found it quite amusing and entertaining)
The Bourne Trilogy
Pretty much any Bond film
Shrek
Shawshank Redemption
..... and loads more
Oh and thanks PP. Hope you're feeling better. Like you I'm desperate to be well for the w/e!
I now have lots of drugs. Head still full of green gloop but improving slowly. 😐
boardinbob: Stingo is led up to Sophie and Nathan's room where he finds they have committed suicide.
😆
Good Bye Lenin
Dogma
School Of Rock
From films recently watched:
The Hangover was a lot better than it looked, as was Superbad.. both looked like stupid idiot movies but weren't.
Also, Stardust was cool :), and Up was too.
Big fish
Ice Cold In Alex
Gregory's Girl
Singing In The Rain
Kelly's Heroes, Force 10 from Navarone.
Oh, and Blazing Saddles.
Watership Down; it's got bunnies in it! 😀
Erm...
Rita, Sue and Bob Too.
Watership Down will just have the poor chap crying again!
I'd second what Nick said, "Straight story" is a belting film, it's just a feel good human spirit film.
Zombieland is a good no brainer film.
American flyers, Breaking away, and my all time favourit pick me up film........
The Princess Bride!!
blazin saddles +1
I now pronounce you chuck and larry
Son of Rambo
Grosse pointe blank
The incredibles
Sullivans Travels.
Second The Straight Story, The Hangover, Little Miss Sunshine, Zombieland and Stardust. Big, Back To The Future, Into The Wild are winners too. Get well soon.
princess bride
amelie
the life aquatic of charles zissou
hot fuzz
monsters vs aliens
the incredibles
Dodgeball (funny - plus it's got Lance in it)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure + Bogus Journey
Top Gun
Transformers (both of them)
Death at a funeral
very funny british flim..I laughed so hard bits were falling off me
Harvey, an oldie but a goodie, for those who havent seen it, I guarantee you will be smiling all the way through.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/
+2 for oh brother where art thou & the big lebowski...
I liked stardust and recently watched ghost town which was quite good too.
Already been mentioned, but [b]UP[/b] is really good.
European Vacation
He's not gonna pork her Russ!
Zomnieland - Shaun of the Dead - Hot Fuzz - The Princes Bride - Mystery Men - Juno - Swingers - Kung Fu Hustle - Shaolin Soccer
Karinofnine - Member
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure + Bogus Journey
I'd forgotten. These are [b][i]excellent[/i][/b]!
[b]field of dreams[/b] nice feel good film
Shame Kevin Costener is in it
stardust is one of my favourite films. Just perfect.
yes man
I'll need to be ill for a VERY long time to watch all these! Thanks all for suggestions. I will be watching Stardust tomorrow. Also now have a nice long films to watch list.
The village scenes in [i]Stardust[/i] were shot in Castle Combe, where Dr Dolittle was also filmed. Neil Gaiman described the village as being close to Bath and the road to Bristol and London, which is where Castle Combe is situated.
Someone mentioned [i]Spirited Away[/i], to which I can add [i]My Neighbour Totoro[/i], [i]Kiki's Delivery Service[/i] and [i]Porko Rosso[/i], all Myazaki films, and just wonderful to watch. ...[i]Totoro[/i] is one of my all time favourites, and highly recommended.
[i]Amelie[/i] and [i]Up[/i] are also fabulous, although the first fifteen minutes of [i]Up[/i] will have you weeping into your hankie, real lump-in-the-throat stuff. Then it gets very funny.
+1 for the hangover, if you dont finish watching that with a smile on your face, then you are wrong.