Your pick-me-up movies?

What films do you find yourself watching with a bottle of vino after having a bad day? Which film is guaranteed to make you feel better regardless of what mood you're in? In short: the thread title!

Howl's Moving Castle, The Breakfast Club, Only the Strong, Warrior and various porn flicks.

Half-Baked and The Big Lebowski.

Pretty much any decent action movie.

Harry Potter. I put it on and it lifts me up.

Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke
Alice In Wonderland
Super Mario Bros (yep. The one with Bob Haskins & John Leguizamo & Dennis Hopper)
Legally Blond
Half Baked
The Sandlot
Little Rascals (that's kinda pushing it though)
Blow
Blood In, Blood Out


I'm sure there are others, I just can't think of them right now. I usually don't watch movies for a "pick me up" though. Especially if it's one I've seen a million times. I will watch them if I want to pass out really quick or to motivate me to get up and do something else since I have ADHD and can't sit still for very long. Drinking & cooking & my kid are my real "pick me ups" hahaha

Some Like it Hot is my ultimate movie for a rainy day, it's just timeless and will cheer me up no matter what mood I'm in.

Flight of Dragons, Balto, and any Studio Ghibli movie (most recently The Cat Returns. Such a good pick-me-up.)

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Howl's Moving Castle is a good one! As are the other Miyazaki films.

Arsenic and Old Lace
Benny and Joon
Big Fish
Bringing Up Baby
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Labyrinth
Lost in Translation
My Blue Heaven
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Addams Family
The Dark Crystal
The Neverending Story
When Harry Met Sally
Willow

ie, anything and everything from my childhood. We watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels sooo often as a kid; that would probably be my first go-to choice out of this list. I also love love love sitting down with old horror films after having a troutty day or during a rainy day (but I love the rain, so).

I think I am going to do just what Auly mentioned (wine?) and watch one of these tonight!

Princess Bride, yes.

Def Princess Bride.

I loved Lost in Translation too! And Big Fish, but it was for some reason really reminiscent of Secondhand Lions.

I love Studio Ghibli films, but Spirited Away makes me bawl my eyes out .. The theme song on the credits is so sad to me so it's hard to watch.

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Originally Posted by Scotty_ffgamer

Studio Ghibli movie (most recently The Cat Returns. Such a good pick-me-up.)

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The Cat Returns is epic indeed (glares to avatar :greenie:) . Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are awesome too.

Though not really a movie, watching Bob Ross paint always takes me to a happy place.

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Goodfellas. I always watch it when I'm sick and it comforts me.

Mean Girls
Clueless
Other cheesy chick flicks

I can't watch a movie as a 'pick me up' thing when I'm sad, it's just not what I prefer to do. I also really don't like rewatching movies often, so that makes this even less 'for me'. But! There is one movie I've seen about twenty or more times and it makes me laugh EVERY TIME, and that's The Emperor's New Groove and it is my favourite movie ever ever ever.

I need to buy Emperor's New Groove one of these days. It would be a pick-me-up movie if I owned it.

Adding the Truman Show to the list. Gets me so inspired to just pack my bags and go.

How To Train Your Dragon. My ultimate feelgood flick.

Miyazaki, Pixar, Wes Anderson(Life Aquatic), Bill Murray(Groundhog Day), or Korean(Going By the Book/200 Pounds of Beauty) movies. I highly recommend going on Netflix and checking out the ladder.

Peewee's Big Adventure always lifts my spirits. Though any movie I first saw between the ages of four and nine tend to comfort me because that was a really good carefree times so that's like a lot of 90s movies and some 80s The Goonies, Labyrinth, Forrest Gump, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Gremlins, Edward Scissorhands, Terminator 2 (yeah I know wtf), The Lion King and any 90s Jim Carrey movies come to mind.