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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you ever watch it outside of Xmas?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • Princess Bride

  • Lotr extended editions

  • Underworld

[–] anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good choice! It's so happy

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a classic! Do you like the sequels?

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 points 2 weeks ago

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 points 2 weeks ago

A Knight’s Tale!

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which Chef? There are quite a few!

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Big Trouble in Little China

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Such a fun film.

[–] Jthyme@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

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 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zathras@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Good choice!

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Intouchables

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Grease and Mary Poppins

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

A Christmas Story

But it's my favorite movie in general

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 points 2 weeks ago

captain ron

[–] Preacher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Being There

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's definitely a tie between a few different animated films I saw growing up. In no particular order:

  1. Land Before Time ( specifically the first and the one where they cross the ocean to an island ).
  2. An American Tail ( and the sequel ).
  3. Secret of NIHM. We had to read the book in 4th grade and then we got to watch the movie. It was a blast.

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 points 2 weeks ago

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.