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I'm depressed, recommend a film to cheer me up

  • 17-02-2019 12:36pm
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    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,667 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I'm having a really bad month. What do you watch when you're feeling crap? It doesn't have to be cloyingly happy or optimistic, just something that gives you comfort and lifts your mood.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Stardust


    Big Fish

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Doodoo


    I'm having a really bad month. What do you watch when you're feeling crap? It doesn't have to cloyingly happy or optimistic, just something that gives you comfort and lifts your mood.

    We're the Millers


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭ForestFire


    Nutty professor


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,088 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Harold and Maude.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,440 ✭✭✭brevity


    When I’m miserable I tend to re-watch movies. I love movies where the characters are at their best, at the top of their game.

    Margin Call or Zodiac are two that spring to mind. Michael Clayton too.

    For something a bit different I might want Constantine or The Incredibles.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    Anything with James Stewart in it or know as Jimmy Stewart.

    He's really upbeat and even since I was a kid I loved his movies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Pa8301


    Don't watch Requiem for a Dream anyway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,439 ✭✭✭✭briany


    A Prairie Home Companion. A great comfort film, especially if you like American folk music.

    Alone in the Wilderness. In the 60s, outdoorsman Dick Prenneke took a super-8 camera with him to Alaska and documented the process of building a homestead.

    Prince Avalanche. Two guys working way out in the countryside, marking a stretch of road in the aftermath of a California wildfire.

    The Station Agent. A man (played by Peter Dinklage) is bequeathed a disused train station shed in rural New Jersey. He goes to live there and becomes involved in the lives of the locals.

    These are all quite slow, gentle films.


  • Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭Thomhic312


    Shawshank redemption is a good one, if you've not seen it before.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,031 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Jacques Tati’s Playtime. The way it gradually, carefully builds from a grey, deadpan critique of modernisation to a glorious explosion of technicolour anarchy never fails to put a smile on my face. Its joyous final hour is perfection.

    Also: Buster Keaton. Just in general :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭Lisha


    School of rock


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Jaws


  • Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭Flashdan


    Hangover Part 1

    Liar Liar.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,820 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    spurious wrote:
    Harold and Maude.


    Brilliant soundtrack to this movie


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Try a "Carry on..." film. They're old but a lot of them are stiil funny.


  • Registered Users Posts: 894 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    Happy Gilmore

    Coming to America

    Office Space


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    This is 40

    Hacksaw ridge simply because of how generous and kind the main character is and how even though they are fighting a war against the japanese he still stops and helps their men live.


  • Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Barfly
    Girl interrupted
    Clean and sober
    The bridge


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,038 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Apocalypto.
    It has it all really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,348 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde





    This is a cute film, really good.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭Eire392


    Seven pounds


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Saw it for the first time recently, loved it for all it's funny little moments as well as it's big funny moments.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Fool's gold.
    Very light hearted and lots of sunshine :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,348 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    blade1 wrote: »
    Apocalypto.
    It has it all really.


    How is this a feel good movie, so much death and torture right to the end.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    Ferris buellers day off or blazing saddles


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Weekend at Bernie's......

    I laugh so hard it hurts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    Cannery Row


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,038 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    How is this a feel good movie, so much death and torture right to the end.

    Makes me feel good anyway!!:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,779 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Little Miss Sunshine !


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭cmac2009


    Green book


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