Hey, All!
After spending 5 full days in bed where all I could do was sleep and watch movies or shows when my congestion pressure headaches and fatigue allowed, I'm dying to know what everyone's feel-good watches are!
When I don't feel well, I have a few go-to staples. I like to watch movies like The Princess Bride, A League of Their Own, and Forest Gump because I have happy childhood memories of watching them whenever I was sick as a kid. I love watching cartoons like Batman the Animated Series and my #1 comfort watch- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (especially season 3). For my husband, it's always Disney movies or a marathon lineup like Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Aliens. The other night he chose Night at the Museum and on Friday I made him binge the entire season of Daisy Jones and The Six with me on Amazon because he hadn't watched it yet, and I wanted to sing off-key to the music until I coughed. True story. No regrets.
What movies or shows are a part of your comfort lineup when you're ill or having a bad day?
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Some of my favorite feel-good watches are TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze, Good Burger, The Truman Show, Short Circuit, the Beverly Hills Cop movies, Blankman, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, S.W.A.T. (the 2017 series), Doug, and Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ashley Renee Smith.
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When I am sick and medicated, I like to put on the LOTR trilogy and just doze in and out of the movies. It is a solid day of content that I know well enough that I can jump in at any time that I wake up.
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My feel good watches includes documentaries. Also like seeing fellow creatives fight back and be on their feet again, Great your back feeling well Ashley Renee Smith!
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In the winter time, when I get the winter blues when it's snowing and cold outside, I bingewatch a lot of my fave tv shows. Some older shows like Andy Griffith Show, I Dream Of Jeannie, Family Ties, Happy Days. I also love Disney movies like The Lion King and comedies like The Mask, pretty much any Jim Carrey movie. I'm also a fan of the classic movies of the '40s, '50s and '60s and love to watch Turner Classic Movies channel. I love the comedies, dramas, action movies and film noir.
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I'll watch Key Largo or Casablanca—both great screen stories, I also enjoy Inherit the Wind and to Kill a mockingbird both are great movies, the kind you can't remove one scene without diminishing the story. How many movies can you say that about? Princess Bride, maybe.
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When I had Covid I did Forest Gump, St. Vincent, and Extraordinary Attorney Woo. Totally made me better.
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I hope you're feeling better Ashley Renee Smith. I love to watch "oldies but goodies" like American Graffiti, Strictly Ballroom, and for something completely different, Shaun of the Dead. They are all good fun and will cheer you up!
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Ashley Renee Smith I’m a sucker for “It’s a Wonderful Life”. My wife and daughter love “10 Things I Hate About You”.
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I put on a disaster film (Twister or 2012) or a series like White Collar or Leverage. Something easy to follow but always a mood lifter. Hope you're feeling better :)
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The ultimate feel good (alway on rotation) right now is the "Sunflowers" episode of Ted Lasso. Always on the list: Notting Hill.
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I love that your choices are as eclectic as mine, Maurice Vaughan!
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Those are go-to's for my husband as well, Tom Lapke! Great picks!!!
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Thank you, Eon C. Rambally! My husband and I watched the new documentary, Brats (about the Brat Pack in the 80s) on Hulu last week! It was a fun one.
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Great choices, Haley Mary!
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I would definitely put Princess Bride on that list, Jessica Horsting.
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Linwood Bell, you and me are like peas and carrots. =)
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Hahaha! I love that you mix it up, Ingrid Wren!
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Your daughter has wonderful taste, Geoff Hall!! Thats a favorite of mine as well.
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Alex Winstanley, my mom LOVED to watch disaster movies when she didn't feel well. In addition to Twister, she always loved The Day After Tomorrow and Armageddon. =)
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That's a phenomenal episode, Matthew Kelcourse!
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Ashley Renee Smith yes, Twister is probably our favourite disaster movie. The feel good factor comes when we think ‘thank goodness we don’t live in that part of the world!’
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I hope you´re feeling better, Ashley. I love the Princess Bride! Buffy was fun too.
Anything that makes me laugh. My favorites are Amelie, Clueless, and Seinfeld, and more recently, Triangle of Sadness and the TV series Braindead and The Bite.
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I love Clueless, Gisele Orellana! I almost bought a Clueless shirt that I saw at the mall a few weeks ago and I regret not getting it.
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:)
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What movies made fall asleep?
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What about Guilty Pleasure movies. folks? I admit I've watched Anaconda with Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Jon Voight more than once and The Hills Have Eyes (1977.) Ashley and Gisele, you're both invited to my next Awful Film Festival.
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Lord of the rings! Always!! also love any cheesy 90s movie like 10 things I hate about you or the breakfast club
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"Field of Dreams," "Elizabethtown," "Lars and the Real Girl."
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Matthew Kelcourse I also love Notting Hill! I would also add Hitch with Will Smith to my go to feel-good movie list.
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Anything that is funny and makes me laugh.
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I have several ones I like but depending on your spanish or subtitle reading speed Pan's Labyrinth is by far one of my most favorite movies. It inspires me still as a screenwriter.
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Not sure why but I always gravitate towards one of the Star Trek movies - doesn't matter which Ashley Renee Smith. And of course, any of the DC animated movies are a must. Glad to see you're on the mend.
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I'm so in, Jessica Horsting! =)
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When I'm down for the count, it's the Clint/Sergio Leone spaghetti western trilogy for me - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, A Fist Full Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More. Add chicken soup and naps and I'm ready to saunter up main street for real in no time.
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The Buffy Musical, The Thin Man series, Galaxy Quest, Jeeves & Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, the first Mamma Mia, Tank Girl. And to be impressed by the filmmaking: Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, and just about anything by Bertolucci. Some of the films y'all have listed are familiar, but you've now made me want to go watch some of those I've not seen. Thanks for asking this question, Ashley, and for everyone's answers.
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Ashley, glad you're feeling better. Stay cool out there and may you soon be back in perfect health.
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LOL Pamela Jaye Smith - The "Once more with feeling" episode? Love it!
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Ashley — you are now on the Board of Directors For the Awful Film Festival.and its adjunct, The FBI (Funny, Bizarre and Ironic) Horror Fest! Must sees are: PontyPool, tv Dark Spot (Zone Blanche in France and Belgium) What We Do in the Shadows (and its tv spinoff Wellington Paranormal) and Norway's 2010 Troll Hunter. Nominees anyone?
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Hi Ashley, I watched kill your darlings, not bad, awesome writers. Watching Lost in space, tv series now
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ilove the Thin Man series too. Wish they had made more!
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Buffy the Musical is a go-to for me as well, Pamela Jaye Smith!
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LOVE IT, Jessica Horsting! For the FBI Horror Fest, I'd like to add Cabin in the Woods, Freaky, and Lisa Frankenstein.
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I really enjoyed the Lost in Space series, Billy Kwack! Its a fun watch and I adore Parker Posey in anything.
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I remembered another one this weekend. Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. That movie makes me happy.
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Oh -- and the original Time Bandits with Sean Connery. Sweet and a bit mind-bending, as it should be.
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Pamela Jaye Smith - Time Bandits rocks!! John Cleese does a great turn. Such a fun movie!
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More for the FBI Film festival— the minimum watchlist. 100% agree Cabin in the Woods, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Evil Dead (one and two) Cabin Fever, and Ginger Snaps!