Favourite "Feel Good" Films

[Keef]

YES!!!!!!!

"Cool Runnings" and "Coming to America"!

2 films that me and one of my best mates ca pretty much quote word for word!

All the Shreks, and Finding Nemo.

BN5, brave man saying Dirty Dancing, but it is classic, and the soundtrack is brill (with the odd exception).

[citizenED]

Hey guys, I think we're getting a little outside the remit with some of these selections. Although I like "Shawshank" its probably only a feel-good when you watch it a second or third time when you know he gets out. "Schindler's" na, only watched it once but way too serious. Out and out screwball comedies surely can't make the list. There are too many victims. Laughing at the misfortune of others might be funny but it doesn't make you smile warmly.

I didn't want to include kiddies films in the list but "Ratatouille" and "Kung Fu Panda" make me smile throughout.

[bignumber5]

this is shaping up to be the girliest boys night ever - me, keef, a crate of beater, a drew barrymore marathon and then dirty dancing!

[DaveR]

Cool Runnings

"Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time!"

[mockney piers]

I hate to detract from all the wondeful positivity, but am I alone in Love Actually making me want to stab random passers by with salad tongs? Hate that film, hate it hate it hate it.

Office space is a good'un.

[????]

Feel good is too subjective to be a clear genre surely? I'd add The best Ealings - Passport to Pimlico, The Big Job, Ladykilers & Kind Hearts & Coronets and early Carry Ons and the Pink Panthers - anyone?

[LordshipLovely]

Juno

Once

Love Actually/Bridget/Dirty Dancing/Harry & Sally/Sleepless in Seattle/Notting Hill

Shawshank

Jack & Sarah

Enchanted (if you haven't seen it, do, it's lovely)

The Wedding Singer

Cool Runnings!

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

50 First Dates (it's the sea lion)

The Goonies!

[fiskaroo]

the goonies - bring on the chunk shuffle

[LordshipLovely]

MP - love Love Actually APART FROM the awful kid storyline. I have to FF through that. The rest is nice, especially at Christmas.

[Jeremy]

Love Actually/Notting Hill/About a Boy/Bridget Jones all make me fucking furious.

[jaybee82]

Uncle Buck

[????]

Cousin Vinny

[mockney piers]

Good call quids. Planes train, weirdly groundhog day and ghostbusters to go on a theme.

Any hong kong Kung Fu.

[????]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Love Actually/Notting Hill/About a Boy/Bridget

> Jones all make me @#$%& furious.

So you like Four Weddings and a Funeral then?

[DaveR]

"Feel good is too subjective to be a clear genre surely?"

I'd say "feel good" can be a genre or a purely personal thing

I like "The Commitments" which I guess is a "feel good" genre film

"Where Eagles Dare" isn't, but it's a feel good film for me because of the nostalgia factor - before the arrival of DVDs, Sky movie channel etc., a classic 60s war film on TV on a Saturday afternoon was a treat - and because the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood combo is an absolute winner.

[Jeremy]

???? Wrote:

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> So you like Four Weddings and a Funeral then?

Yeah, you wanna borrow the DVD?

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Any hong kong Kung Fu.

I don't think I could quite go along with any HK kung fu film... but there are certain ones I can watch again and again.

[Jah Lush]

Uncle Buck, Cool Runnings and just about anything with Jack Nicholson in it.

[????]

The Shining?

[bignumber5]

i'm not sure i'd put "the shining" down as feel-good, jah ;-)

(edit - great minds, quids?!)

[Keef]

DaveR Wrote:

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> Cool Runnings

>

> "Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's

> bobsled time!"

DaveR, look in this mirror and tell me what you see!

[Moos]

I see Pride!

[Jah Lush]

bignumber5 Wrote:

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> i'm not sure i'd put "the shining" down as

> feel-good, jah ;-)

>

>

> (edit - great minds, quids?!)

I said just about anything with Jack Nicholson in it. So forget The Shinking. OK!

[Keef]

Moos Wrote:

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> I see Pride!

I see power!

[DaveR]

I see a bad ass motherf*cker who don't take no sh!t from nobody!

[Keef]

JUNIOR!