Mr Smaggle and I have a long standing argument at our joint. I’ll get all set up on the couch for an evening of crocheting and I’ll put on a movie I’ve seen 100 times. Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Ghost… the usual suspects. It drives him batty because he pretty much only wants to watch stuff he’s never seen before and has no concept of why I would want to watch Julia Roberts singing to Prince in a bathtub for 400th time in my life. Repeat offender movies are like your long time best friends. I love the familiarity of old movies, of knowing what’s about to happen and not having to use my brain too much. Just like catching up with my best mate from primary school. I have few definitive favourite feel good movies that keep popping up regularly…
Zach Braff and Natalie Portman are perhaps the world’s cutest couple in this weirdo movie. There’s also a sneaky Sheldon cameo and one of my favourite scenes ever where they’re standing in the rain and they scream into the gorge. Brilliant.
To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
If you can make it through this cinematic masterpiece without crying into your popcorn over the early demise of the too-beautiful-for-this-world-Patrick-Swayze, this movie is freaking adorable. In fact I’ve got it read to watch tonight. For real.
Honest to blog, this movie always tickles my salami. Ellen Page is beyond excellent and any movie with an Allison Janney cameo is totally fine by me.
‘I don’t feel I need to explain my art to you Warren.’ – Watching this movie makes everyone feel like less of a freak.
‘I’m just a (ridiculously tall, incredibly attractive and wildly famous) girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.’ There are few problems in life that can’t be fixed with a bit of Hugh Grant bumbling.
This is a sneaky one that often gets forgotten but it’s such a lovely movie. Although there’s a scene at the end where Winona Ryder runs outside wrapped in this divine quilt that her grandmother’s quilting group made for her, in search of her fiance and drags the damn thing through the dirt. My Type A tendencies hate that bit… but I love the rest of it.
Adam Sandler in his hey day combined with Drew Barrymore’s sparkly little face, this one is guaranteed to punch you in your happy gland.
What’s your favourite feel good movie you’ve watched again and again? Are you a serial movie watcher?
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