#Comfort films

[travelinglikethelight]

asterix & obelix: mission cleopatra (2002) - a salute to women

[guzmasenbyboyfriend]

It's June 8th you know what that means

It's Ghostbusters Day!!!!

The 40th anniversary of my all time favorite 80s movie!

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

Film stills from the 2009 German rom-com, Lila, Lila.

[cuntyko]

me walking to the smoke shop on a friday night feeling like jessica alba in honey saying hi to all the bouncers at clubs and bars i don’t go to

[deadly-destructions]

angus tully // the holdovers (2023)

[survivingoffpoetry]

When you living your life and then remember all the book characters and film couples who were ripped away from their partners because the world is horrible and why can’t everyone be happy and in love and just fucking alive

[cinemoments]

10 things I hate about you, dir. Gil Junger, 1999

[u-friend-or-ufo]

Watching The Magic Roundabout. Why? Cause it's now a comfort film of mine. Now this version is the British dub, not the American dub. Doogal as it's called over there...

I do want to see the Doogal version, but! Only if I can watch it with one of my American friends so I can rant about it to them!

[arrow-jsy]

At the end of our last watch of lotr my family had a short conversation about how no one in the main cast dies, to which someone commented about how that probably annoyed me (because i love good tragic suffering in my fiction and get so annoyed when writers/directors are afraid to kill off characters) but i kept thinking about that one post that runs through all the times and places one of the main fellowship (mainly hobbits) could have died and its ends with 'but tolkein decided that this once everyone would make it, there had been too much lost' because lotr is based on tolkeins experience with war... and with everything going on in the world right now, i understand why lotr is such a comfort to me.

Because yes i enjoy tragedy in my fiction. Yes i enjoy a good well done killing of a beloved characters. Yes more creators shouldnt be afraid of kill beloved characters. But for once, with so much darkness all around us, for everyone to make it, for everyone to get their happy ending is important.

[alwaysdaydreamingggg]

When I'm having really bad anxiety I like to watch my comfort films:)

The comfort films:

[bengiyo]

Comfort Films Tag

Rules: List 7 of your comfort movies, then tag 7 people.

Tagged by @callipigio

1 - Shelter (2007)

I often joke around here about how I’ve been watching queer cinema for over half of my life at this point, and it’s easy to recommend this film. This is a coming of age film about a guy who gave up art school to become the primary breadwinner and caregiver for his family. However, when the older brother of his best friend returns to their town to collect himself, our artist and he reconnect and find something special between them. Great use of a young actor in this shores up the caregiving aspects.

I’m probably going to rewatch it now. Because it was produced by Here! TV, you can only legally watch it via a subscription to their platform. I own it on DVD because I fell in love with it and knew I needed to keep it forever.

2 - Big Eden (2000)

Big Eden. Oh, Big Eden. This is the film equivalent of a warm blanket and a tight hug. It’s about an artist named Henry Hart, who is preparing for a big exhibition in New York when he’s called back home to Montana because his uncle has had a stroke. We are greatest with the most queer-friendly town to ever exist as Henry manages his old angst about his straight best friend as the local general store owner also secretly pursues him. It’s absolutely lovely.

3 - The Blues Brothers (1980)

Luna has great taste, because this is one of the best films ever made. What was originally just an SNL bit turns into a fun road film about getting the band back together so that two brothers can raise enough money to pay the back taxes owed by the orphanage they grew up in. We also run over Illinois nazis in this movie and demolish dozens of cop cars. Cab Calloway, James Brown, Carrie Fisher, Chaka Khan, Paul Reubens, and Aretha Franklin are in it. John Candy orders orange whips. This is the kind of film I would watch with my dad any time it was on.

4 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

This is one of the most man movies ever made. I don’t know any woman who wants to sit down and watch this film, but me and boys will spend an entire afternoon on this film in a heartbeat. The sexual tension between Russell Crowe’s and Paul Bettany’s characters goes unremarked on this website in a way that lets you know for sure this hellsite is dominated by femmes, because those two have definitely fucked. At least twice. It’s 1805 and oceans have become battlefields!

5 - Clue (1985)

A movie based on the board game of the same name should not have been this good, but it instead goes on to become a camp masterpiece. Many people will end up remembering Tim Curry for Rocky Horror or even Muppet Treasure Island, but this is still one of his favorite performances for me. This film is batshit and I love it. 

6 - Camp (2003)

Speaking of camp films, let’s talk about one of the best of all time. I know we often talk about the bad singing in Thai BL, but I unironically love all of the musical theater in this film. I regularly listen to this soundtrack, and have been for over 15 years. It’s a film about a bunch of weird theater kids who get to escape the bullying and hellishness of their lives for a few weeks during the summer, where they get to put on a bunch of classic plays. It’s so camp. I love this film because it was difficult for me to find queer films that had happy components with them, and this little movie has a wide array of queer kids in it.

7 - Make The Yuletide Gay (2009)

This was the first queer film I ever watched that had a happy ending that was also a comedy. Prior to this, I think I had watched Beautiful Thing (1996), Edge of Seventeen (1998), Get Real (1998), and Bent (1997). Most of those films ended resolved or sad. Yuletide is a silly little gay film of almost nonstop innuendo about a guy who goes back into the closet when he returns home for Christmas, but hijinks ensue when his boyfriend shows up unexpectedly. It’s an annual watch for me around the holidays, and I usually host people for it. 

Also, Adamo Ruggiero is in it! He played Marco on Degrassi: The Next Generation.

This was fun! I think most folks have been tagged that I know, but I’ll tag @warningtothecurious​. If anyone else does this, please tag me back if you do this! I want to know what films you all return to.

[kermit-the-hag]

Top 7 comfort films

I was tagged by the lovely @machtaholic to list my top 7 comfort films, which was so hard to narrow down, so in no particular order:

the list makes as much sense as i do, i have no reasonable or sane explanation

tagging (but no pressure): @hellion-child @highkingpenny @impmunson @iwouldn-tdothatifiwereyou @bettiebloodshed @taylorscarbonfootprint @destroya2005 @justsheerfilth1 @sunflowerharrington @thisapplepielife @munsinner @corrodedcoughin @steddiejudas

tagging (only pressure): @rhaenyyras

[homerically]

it’s 2003. you’ve managed to get tickets to the international music awards ceremony and it’s in the ACTUAL roman colosseum, I mean this is a once and a lifetime event. you settle down for a great night. two well known Italian singers Paolo and Isabella are performing as the show openers, you’ve seen the billboards, you get the hype. it starts well but this paolo guy absolutely flops. then suddenly out of fucking nowhere, there’s two isabellas and one is actually an American fourteen year old who everyone just decides to let open the show in a seemingly entirely improvised routine. no awards are given that night

[sga-owns-my-soul]

thanks @spurious and @colonelshepparrrrd for the tag!

List 7 comfort films and tag 7 people:

1. Iron Giant

2. Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

3. Hunger Games

4. Easy A

5. Mean Girls

6. uhhhhhhhhhh idk i don't watch movies 😅

7. not a movie but Stargate Atlantis bc it's my Ultimate Comfort Media

uhhh idk who has been tagged so sorry if you've already been tagged @frostysfrenzy @the-mushroom-faerie @lightthewaybackhome @books-space-things @stinalotte and anyone else who wants to do it!!!

[dontcallpanic]

Thanks SO Much @violetfairydust @seaweed-water and @fuji09 - you are all amazing (like your films!) This was fun but also weirdly hard! I don't get to watch many films these days so I went for my comfort watches instead!

Rules: Without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite films, then tag 10 people to do the same!

No pressure whatsoever tags to: @cantchangemypast @oldefashioned @greyhavenisback @patolemus @gege-wondering-around

@hellameyers @tisthefairy11-blog @demonicfaerie @novemberhush @novasillies

ive lost track of who's been tagged when so sorry if I'm doubling up!

[thislilmindofmine]

It's officially autumn! So, in celebration, I thought I'd share some of the films I like to watch around this time of year. And you can tell me about your favourites too 🎃