On those cold wet days when I'm feeling a little low or got a case of the blues, these movies are the ones that I often watch to pull me out of that funk. For me it's those old B/W monster movies like Them or Kronos or The Thing from Another World that always does the trick. Along with some fresh hot donuts and coffee to change my brain chemistry I can handle anything.

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Monte Python and the Holy Grail.
any George Carlin standup movie.
any Jay and Silent bob movie.
Transformers: The Movie
or, if i want to truly escape reality for a while, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force vol 2 DVD

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ditto on standup, though it's Eddie Izzard for me.

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Do you have a flag?

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Blade Runner is the one movie that I can watch over and over without ever getting bored of it. (Notice the sig...lol)

For warming me up, I like movies where the underdog overcomes the obstacles and saves the day.

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No? Well, then you don't have a real country. Conquering the world through the cunning use of flags. (My cat's name is El Diablo. He had a brother, since vanished, named Don Miguel; we used to entreat Don Miguel to tell us of El Diablo. Very inquisitive of us.)

When I am homesick (a rare occurence, but it happens), I watch LA Story. It's one of a handful of movies I've upgraded to DVD; my original copy was VHS, bought previously viewed when the movie itself was still priced-to-rent. When I miss my mother, I watch Operation Petticoat or The Quiet Man or even Support Your Local Sheriff. When I'm just depressed, I listen to Anne Murray Sings for the Sesame Street Generation; my copy of the tape is actually older than I am.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I enjoy anything with Adam Sandler. He just makes me laugh so hard. I have a collection of his flicks (even cameo).

During my first days with UA, I would bring in the movies and play them during the Thanksgiving and Christmas for all the Reservation agents stuck working.

If you were calling to check your flight, you may have heard, "I hear that Asteroids machine calling my name from the gameroom, so Peace!" Adam Sandler (Happy Gilmore) in Happy Gilmore.

"i hearby declare this uninihabited island in the name of..
what the hell..
where did all these people come from?"

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I would consider that cruel and unusual.

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My list of stuff I can (and do) watch over and over:

Heavy Metal (the original one, not FAKK), think I watch this as much for the soundtrack as I do for the stories.

Princess Bride (need this one on DVD as I don't have cable anymore), always a laugh even if I do have the movie practically committed to memory.

Just about any Mel Brooks movie up to Spaceballs (I feel his stuff went pretty downhill after that). The Producers and Blazing Saddles are my favorites.

Big Trouble in Little China, oddest action movie ever

Prince of Darkness, highly underrated horror movie

The Thing (John Carpenter's of course)

The Kentucky Fried Movie

Any Monty Python movie

Serenity would be a new addition since it's now available and highly entertaining (though for now I only have it on UMD)

And that's about all I can think of off the top of my head.

It was for most, at first.

Some of my comfort favorites are:

My Cousin Vinny

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Midway

Star Wars eps 4,5,6

Most 1950's scifi.

Galaxyquest

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Definitely Princess Bride!
(INCONCEIVABLE!)

Add to that...
All Things by Mel Brooks.
All Things by Kevin Smith, with the exception of Jersey Girl (unless I'm feeling a little emotional)
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
Tommy Boy
Men in Black (the first one)

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Yeah, I gotta put Blues Brothers and ANimal House on my list, and we have watched My Cousin Vinny so many times we can pretty much recite the script. "What's a 'ute?'" Also a big fan of Airplane et al, including the lesser known Top Secret starring a young fellow named Val Kilmer.

And there is a soft spot in my heart for Amazon Women on the Moon.

Big Trouble in Little China is a fun film. "Oh, now what is THAT thing?"

Gillian you continue to amaze. Operation Petticoat was a favorite of mine a long time ago. "We sank a truck!" and Seaman Hornsby. And LA Story is another great one. It has one of my all time favorite movie throw away gags. When Martin and Parker go to the resort, its name is "El Pollo del Mar" - which mean "chicken of the sea." I find that hilarious, moreso than the restaurant L'idiot.

Excellent movies all. (Though I've always spelled in "yout'," myself.)

Well, fiddle-dee-dee! As I've mentioned before, one of my favorite Christmas memories is waking up very, very early on Christmas morning to my mom watching Operation Petticoat and wrapping Christmas presents. My boyfriend, of course, persists in referring to it as "the pink submarine movie." Sigh.

Yes, I've loved the name of El Pollo Del Mar for years as well. Also L'Idiot. And I have to admit, I've done the "is this earthquake severe enough for me to get under the table" thing before. Also judging the Richter scale rating; I'm pretty good at it. (And I know where several of the houses in the "cultural tour of LA" are; one is across the street from the private school where I took advanced math back in high school.)

I have the great good fortune of having a movie buff for a mother. This means, among other things, that I have a much greater awareness of movies made before I was born than most people my age. (I know people who won't watch b&w movies, and I want so to slap them. Think of it--they're missing Some Like It Hot and the entire Thin Man series!) This also means that I'm a bit of a walking IMDB, as well as truly excellent at the Kevin Bacon game.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

You're probably right about yout', but almost every day, the crossword in the local paper has "Ute" somewhere in it, so I have that spelling on my mind.

I dunno...

I have a crush on a B5 episode "The Long Twilight Struggle".

Makes me all gooey inside.

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seating is just disomfortable for long movies like 3 hrs, 4 hrs, i prefer the movie for a period of atleast one hour and not more than that, other wise for the stories in the movie if prolongs then the whole day is fell least one.

How marvellous to hear people talking about LA Story. It is an underrated masterpiece! I love it when Steve Martin is trying to book into the restaurant, and Patrick Stewart plays a marvellously nasty role- 'He can have the chicken'!!!

I like Blade Runner for a rainy day as well as the old TV show 'Northern Exposure'. Yes I know it isn't a film, but its on a par with anything I've ever watched!!

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Right after LA Story came out, my wife and I visited some friends in LA. I remember mentioning to them how funny we thought the movie was and how well it made fun of things that went on in LA. They are usually pretty fun friends, but they got all serious with "we didn't think it was funny at all".

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Speaking as someone from there, I recognized huge amounts of it, and I maintain that certain jokes are only funny if you've spent substantial amounts of time there. ("Seventy-two. Sunny. And that's the weather." And, yes, you can see where I used to live on the satellite map Steve Martin uses.)

I have a possibly perverse fondness for old, live-action Disney movies--nothing more recent than Jodie Foster's days at Disney. I am the proud possessor of Candleshoe, which has not only Jodie Foster but David Niven and Helen Hayes. In fact, I love the really obscure ones, such as The North Avenue Irregulars, starring Edward Hermann, the head vampire from The Lost Boys--another favorite.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Oh, The Lost Boys - love that soundtrack, too.

I enjoy black and white movies. I watch TCM & AMC a lot. AMC seems to have changed, though.

there was my friend who starts his sleep when there were the tital song and first titles of the movie, he awakes when there was a title on the screen of that movie "the end", along with some other validictory names of the directors and so on, i ask him you have not enjoy the movie, he told me that : i have seen the movie in the dream !

The Back to the Future trilogy--a favorite of mine and my father's.

Auntie Mame, with Rosalind Russel. Such a fun movie!

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Alright what about movies that cause that little bitty tear to form. And you know what I am talking about, admit it! I will go first and be the "sensitive" guy and admit that one scene in The Abyss sometimes does that to me. Its the one where Ed Harris sinking into the abyss and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio realizes he can't make it back. What can I say?

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It would depend on what I feel like watching as well:

noir type: Maltese Falcon, Big Sleep, Chinatown, LA Confidential, Mystic River or Ronin.

racing films: Grand Prix and LeMans

Other times I'll be content watching Doris Day movies, be it musicals or romantic comedies.

Animated Disney films, Lady and the Tramp is my favourite.

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How about those Kurt Russell films like the Computer Wore Tennis Shoes?

Actually, that's one of my boyfriend's Christmas presents. (His presents are to be obtained in trade for my having made Sith robes for some friends, one of whom promptly lost his job before he paid me. He's got a new job now, but it means my boyfriend's Christmas presents are a bit late, especially given that the friends are roommates, and the one who didn't lose his job had to help pick up the financial burden of the household in order to keep a roof over his head.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"