Happy movies

21 March 2020, 09:11 PM

Steve Miller

Happy movies

We’re compiling a list of happy movies and putting them in a basket. Netflix and Amazin Prime, pick one every night. Goofy but it seems to help. I’ve read enough virus porn to last a lifetime.

Suggestions?

21 March 2020, 09:37 PM

wtg

My list of "light" faves.

While You Were Sleeping (Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman)

Two Weeks Notice (Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant)

Holiday (Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn)

To Catch a Thief (Cary Grant/Grace Kelly)

Bell, Book, and Candle (Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs)

Hopscotch (Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston))

Topkapi (Maximilian Schell, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov)

The Benny Goodman Story (Steve Allen, Donna Reed)

As Time Goes By (British comedy series - Judi Dench)

Silk Stockings (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse)

A&E Nero Wolfe series (Maury Chaykin as Wolfe, Timothy Hutton as Archie)

The Pink Panther (Peter Sellers, David Niven)

The Producers (either one, though I'm a Zero Mostel/Gene Wilder fan myself)

Not sure how many are available on Netflix. Most not free on Amazon, except To Catch a Thief.

edit: I looked up Hopscotch, and it seems to be available via a 7 day trial of Shout! Factory TV. If you've never seen it, it's a *great* flick. Shout also has an Ernie Kovacs collection.

As Time Goes By is available on BritBox through Amazon, another free trial thing.

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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb

Bazootiehead-in-training

21 March 2020, 10:05 PM

Nina

Three idiots
Like Stars on Earth (edit" on Netflix as Taare Zameen Par with subtitles)

(both Aamir Khan movies, trust me on them, you will LOVE them)

The rest are Australian, I think - I got stuck going down memory lane.

Strictly Ballroom
Danny Deckchair
The Gods Must Be Crazy (not Australian)
The Coca-Cola Kid
The Dish
The Castle
The Sapphires

Now I want to go find them myself!

21 March 2020, 10:10 PM

jodi

this isn’t a movie, but it’s a Netflix show - Ghost town Gold
Kind of like American pickers, only in old mining camps, and towns all around the west, many places near where we’ve lived. Plus they go hunting in old attics and basements and barns and they find really *cool* stuff.

22 March 2020, 12:27 AM

Steve Miller

Well that went south quickly. I just sat through “Book Club.”

Back to Covid-19 stats.

22 March 2020, 08:43 AM

jodi

It only got 2 1/2 stars on Rotten Tomatoes.

I am astounded at how many terrible movies there are. I have a really hard time finding things to like on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

22 March 2020, 09:57 AM

BeeLady

Hector and the Search for Happiness - Loved this movie..Looks like it is on Amazon Prime to rent.

The Repair Shop - a Brit TV Show on Netflix..very feel good, and the treasures brought in to be fixed are fascinating.

Grand Design - Netlflix and some older episodes can be found on Youtube. Folks are followed building custom homes that are like no other, some finish, some do not.

Bread and Tulips - an Italian romantic comedy that is so charming. I just love this movie.

Moonrise Kingdom -

22 March 2020, 09:59 AM

wtg

Second BL's recommendation of Bread and Tulips.

22 March 2020, 10:16 AM

QuirtEvans

I can generate tons of examples of shows and movies that suit my taste, I just don't know whether they'd suit everyone else's. Not all of them would be happy, though. And I have the ability to rewatch favorites.

But start with The Princess Bride. Always start with The Princess Bride.

Wait a minute, is this a kissing movie?

22 March 2020, 10:40 AM

jodi

Quirt -

22 March 2020, 12:37 PM

piqué

We started watching "sex education" last night on Netflix. I had very low expectations. It's hilarious and really well done.

22 March 2020, 12:41 PM

I don't have Netflix, but do watch Amazon prime stuff.

The latest series move it liked...

Patrick MELROSE

I have also tried several comedians. Most I don't like

But an older speaker who I enjoyed is Jeanne Robertson. Positive and for the most part enjoyable and often funny.

22 March 2020, 03:15 PM

Amanda

Thank you!

I just (finally) finished Game of THrones - begun some time ago.

But now I'm at a loss as how to get through my stairstepping and other times requiring distraction.

(As an aside, I could NOT believe the detailed, drawn-out scene of slit throats and more. WHO are such movies made for? I just shut my eyes until the gurgling stopped and hoped I hadb't missed anything vital.)

22 March 2020, 03:18 PM

Amanda

quote:
Originally posted by piqué:
We started watching "sex education" last night on Netflix. I had very low expectations. It's hilarious and really well done.

Wow! Here we DO diverge, pique.

I was genuinely depressed by the portrayal of today's HS kids as THAT informed about/active in sex.

I mean, there's sex and there's sex. How real is that degree of casualness at that age?