#Feel good movies

[benoits-neckerchieves]

I love Hugh Grant the absolute weirdo

[hologramcowboy]

Speaking of Christmas, do you have favorite Xmas movies so far? Please do share the title or a gif by reblogging or commenting. I’ve been ultra busy but I finally got around to watching Our Little Secret and it was cute. I’m going to make a list next because I want to watch as many feel good movies as I can during this holiday season.

[luvinaeverdene]

Bridget Jones's Diary (2002)

Directed by Sharon Maguire

[justforbooks]

“Feelgood” movies are often thought of as big-hearted romantic comedies, comforting classics, or childhood favourites that still hold up decades later. Guardian writers reflect on their go-to flick, and explain why their pick is endlessly rewatchable.

✔ Defending Your Life Starring: Meryl Streep and Albert Brooks

Directed by: Albert Brooks

Why our writer loves it: “Life-affirming” is perhaps an overused adjective, but few movies have successfully illuminated the human condition as well as this one. Fear is commonplace in our daily lives, but Albert Brooks’s film might hold the key to ridding the worries of anxiety-ridden people such as myself. As the new year often brings about feelings of regret and unease, Defending Your Life is the warmest hug you can receive.” (Oliver Macnaughton)

✔ Notting Hill Starring: Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant

Directed by: Roger Michell

Why our writer loves it: “What is so wonderful about the film is how effortless it all seems. The story isn’t complex; there are no gunfights or CGI raccoons; the greatest jeopardy in the film involves Grant having to catch Roberts before she goes back to America – a problem that reads as plausibly insurmountable in 1999 but today would be remedied with a few WhatsApps. But, despite the illusion of effortlessness, getting everything right in this way is deceptively tricky. Has a single romcom ever managed to marry all of the necessary elements – cast, script, timing, an intangible magic – so perfectly? (No. The answer is no.)” (Ralph Jones)

✔ Married to the Mob Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine

Directed by: Jonathan Demme

Why our writer loves it: The movie is a long list of quirky pleasures, including a “starter kit of premium 80s college rock (New Order, Pixies, the Feelies), well-placed family dog reaction shots, and an FBI agent who dresses himself like Wallace in the Wallace & Gromit shorts. Few of the laughs in the film feel like punchlines or payoffs to some heavily orchestrated joke. Demme’s approach is more low-key and breezy, cruising confidently on the assumption that his DayGlo gangland will be fun enough without him having to push too hard. He catches a rhythm and does the mambo Italiano. It feels like your feet never touch the floor.” (Scott Tobias)

✔ Rush Hour Starring: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Why our writer loves it: “Rush Hour taps into something that stirred my heart then and now: an ease settles into the two actors, Chan and Tucker’s joviality feeling so genuine that the east-meets-west tropes evolve into characters who have something real at stake, and who are also having fun.” (Tammy Tarng)

✔ Father of the Bride Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton and Martin Short

Directed by: Charles Shyer

Why our writer loves it: “Why do I come back to this film again and again? As a girl and younger woman I was emphatically against marriage (though I’ve since softened) and watched it more as a comedy horror than anything aspirational. The only aspect of the Bankses’ life I’d want is the kitchen. And yet watching Franck and the family put on their ridiculous show makes me want to be part of it. I love ritual, and ceremony, and Steve Martin, and Martin Short, and Diane Keaton.” (Laura Snapes)

✔ Diggstown AKA Midnight Sting Starring: James Woods and Louis Gossett Jr

Directed by: Michael Ritchie

Why our writer loves it: “Diggstown is the perfect feelgood movie – a breezy but exciting genre mashup with enough of a hangout vibe that you can have it on in the background, but also enough stakes that you will inevitably end up giving it your full attention.” (Zach Vasquez)

✔ Head of State Starring: Chris Rock and Bernie Mac

Directed by: Chris Rock

Why our writer loves it: “I’ve come back to this film so many times after the election for laughs, only to wind up seeing the whole picture as a clearer allegory for Kamala Harris’s defeat than Obama’s victory. Like Harris, [Chris Rock starring as Mays Gilliam, a small-time politician turned presidential hopeful] was a party sacrifice, offered up to make a certain loss look less bad on the cards, thrown into the fray at the 11th hour, plugged into a humming campaign apparatus, and touted as a history maker. It really makes you think about how close comedy is to horror.” (Andrew Lawrence)

✔ A Knight’s Tale Starring: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon and Paul Bettany

Directed by: Brian Helgeland

Why our writer loves it: “To me, watching a feelgood film is an intensely nostalgic exercise. That’s because whenever a film is special or timely enough to take up lodging in your heart, rewatching it is also an act of remembering an old version of yourself. A Knight’s Tale is shaded by the genuine sadness of Ledger’s death only seven years after its release, but when I watch it I also remember the way it used to make me feel, as a girl who loved the jousting because her older brother did, all the while secretly cherishing an action film for being so brazenly sentimental.” (Francesca Carington)

✔ Alita: Battle Angel Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz and Jennifer Connelly

Directed by: Robert Rodriguez

Why our writer loves it: “My feelgood movie for when humanity lets me down is Alita: Battle Angel, a movie where much of humanity hangs out in a city-sized junkpile. And though I don’t press play with this aspect particularly in mind, it’s nice to imagine a future where things have gone terribly wrong (that just seems realistic at this point) yet unforeseen triumphs still emerge from the tech-nightmare garbage heap. There are plenty of more time-honored films that take a more direct path to temporary bliss, including sci-fi movies better-equipped to restore faith in humanity.” (Jesse Hassenger)

✔ I Know Where I’m Going! Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown

Directed by: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Why our writer loves it: ”I Know Where I’m Going! offers up such portentous moments of mystical and romantic significance lightly, alongside comical asides and colourful eccentricity. It’s a disarming strategy, which tends to leave the audience every bit as bewitched as (the film’s main character) Joan. In this corner of the universe, anything might be possible, even an ancient curse.” (Pamela Hutchinson)

What are your ultimate feel good movies❓ I'd love to hear what your favourites are❗

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[justshahrukhkhan]

Chak De! India, 2007

This is such a fun movie, and a sadly accurate portrait of how women's sports are treated pretty much everywhere.

I can't get over Shahrukh in this one - he completely disappears into the role. I imagine he enjoyed playing a regular guy for once, instead of learning a bunch of choreography and standing on mountaintops wearing crazy outfits.

[w1ng3dw01f]

so, like, these two films:

Are pretty solid films and I don’t think they get appreciated enough.

Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson is essentially about a rogue speeding train that has to be taken care of before it derails in a populated area. Set in the modern era.

The Finest Hours, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck, is mostly about the rescue operation of the surviving crew of a T-2 Tanker that split in half at sea in a storm.

I love both of them. I think they’re great.

No, I am not just saying that because Chris Pine is in them, even though he’s a pretty good actor in both. He just happens to be the glue that is tying these two movies to this post.

Now, are they perfect movies? No, but they introduce and handle high stakes fairly well and the scripts are pretty good. Also, who doesn’t love a good-bad movie, or a feel-good rescue/disaster movie?

I have rewatched Unstoppable about three times and Finest Hours about five. I will probably watch them again sometime in the future.

(To me, they are almost on the same lovability as The Day After Tomorrow with Dennis Quad, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, and Emmy Rossum, about a man traveling to save his son in a sudden new ice age, but that movie can be talked about in an entirely different post).

These movies just have a special place in my heart and they will never leave. In fact, they take up a corner of my brain rent free. I’m keeping them there.

[c-schroed]

Gosh I Need Movies Like "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves"!

Frankly, I'm still a bit surprised by how much I love "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves". I mean, I was very much looking forward to the movie because everything about it just felt right, and I even noticed some fear of disappointment when finally entering the cinema. But it did not disappoint. Gosh, how it did not disappoint.

There's so much for me to love about this movie. To name just three things, it has

a marvelously told story (the exposition was quite nice, but the escape from Revel's End prison really set the stage for that hell of a ride which followed),

a very inspired cast playing absolutely dashing characters (I now have a crush on at least two of the main characters! 😅), and

visual effects and set designs with creativity and attention to detail that I have not seen in what feels like an eternity (the very first shot of Neverwinter already made me want to see this city in all its lovely details).

So yes, I left the cinema as overwhelmed and enthusiastic as I had hoped to be. And much to my personal joy you guys here at Tumblr opened up just another level on which this lovely little movie could excel: I have never played "Dungeons and Dragons" (I know a lot about the mechanics and lore thanks to "Munchkin", though 😅), so reading about how much the movie feels like a true DnD session was very insightful, and it even made me see some of its flaws in a new light.

And then it struck me: "Honor Among Thieves" is that very rare type of movie that I really, really need from time to time. A true feel-good movie whose production process brought people together to tell a special story that usually has already been around in some form before. A fantastic, entertaining tale that can be enjoyed - and I cannot stress enough how important that is - utterly unironically and unapologetically.

The first movie of this type that I remember watching is "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" from 2004, and it has been one of my absolute favorites for a long, long, time. So much energy, and so much fun! But there are more. I'm talking about movies like "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" (2005), "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (2009), "Tron: Legacy" (2010), "Real Steel" (2011), "John Carter" (2012), and "Booksmart" (2019). Yeah, that kinda was an advertisement for films I still have a crush on. Sorry not sorry.

The downside of this type of movie, because of course there's a downside: They only seldom make a profit. And "Honor Among Thieves" is not an exception to this rule, having grossed about 125 Million USD worldwide at the box office so far, while costing roughly 150 Million. But you know what? That's fine. Big Hollywood studios regularly make a fortune with mainstream blockbuster stuff that I don't even care to remember after I skipped the advertisement promoting it, so it's only fair for them to make a monetarily stupid decision from time to time that will make me oh so happy.

So, long story short: As long as studios like Paramount Pictures keep making marvellous darlings of a potential (or actual) flop like "Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves", I will not even begin to begrudge the obscene amounts of money they get from too-big-to-fail box office hits like "Top Gun: Maverick".

[highonfilms]

25 Feel-Good Movies and Where to Watch Them

[theomenmedia]

Experience resilience and hope with Anuja. The Oscar-nominated short film drops on Netflix Feb 5!

Experience resilience and hope with Anuja. The Oscar-nominated short film drops on Netflix Feb 5.

Check it out right here: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/anuja-trailer-unveiled-by-netflix-a-poignant-tale-of-sisterhood-and-resilience-from-india

[tomwambsgays]

unadulterated loathing

[afabstract]

Reply Short Film Review: Forgotten Tapes & Unspoken Feelings

In the short film Reply, old video recordings bring to light forgotten memories, leading to a deeper understanding of family bonds and unspoken feelings.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) Oh what a sweet little film! But it needed a few more minutes, or maybe a sequel would be great. Written and directed by Elle Mills, the 2022 short film “Reply” is about teenager Sam (Anthony Rosenthal) finding a whole new side to his mom Casey when he stumbles upon a video-tape made by her when she was a teen (Ciara Riley Wilson…

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Finally watched Wonka today and can confirm that Hughmpa Loompa is as delightful as you expect him to be

[luvinaeverdene]

It Happened One Night (1934) Directed by Frank Capra

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[w1ng3dw01f]

My Top 20 Most Rewatched Movies and Franchises in no Particular Order

The Day After Tomorrow

Into the Storm

The Finest Hours

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Dolphin Tale (1 & 2)

Hoot

Pacific Rim

Real Steel

Jurassic Park/World franchise

Star Wars franchise

Fast Five

Race to Witch Mountain

Super 8

The Holiday

Little Women (1995)

Sense & Sensibility

Pride & Prejudice

Moonstruck

The Pelican Brief

Speed

Out of curiosity, what are yours?