I revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind every few years when I wanna get my guts all twisted into knots.

I think when Kaufman is left on his own he’s too much of a bummer and Gondry on his own is just too far out. But somehow they come together in a perfect balance with Jim Carey in perhaps his best serious role, IMHO. The soundtrack really takes it the extra mile.

I appreciate it because Joel and Clementine come off as just two kinda fucked up people having a kinda fucked up relationship; very relatable. Neither is perfect or completely at fault and the film very much leaves it up to your interpretation if they can or should work together. I don’t think it has a happy ending, do you? Compare that to something like 500 Days of Summer where you’re really supposed to sympathize with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character but mostly I end up wanting to push him into the mud. Hard.

The subplot between the doctor and his secretary is maybe a little unnecessary? But Kirsten Dunst is amazing so whatever.

I wish I had stayed.

• Holy grail
• The only two terminator movies that have been made
• Akira
• Black cat white cat
• Underground
• Casablanca
• Cabaret
• Lotr
• Wall-e
• Totoro (and a bunch of other ghibli movies)
• Pulp fiction
• Life aquatic (because I always forget the story and whether I like it or not)
• Napoleon Dynamite (will never not recommend this to anyone, regardless of cultural snobery)

Probably a bunch more

Tropic Thunder The Nightmare Before Christmas Hocus Pocus Dr. Doolittle Does Titanic count if I watched it for Leonardo DiCaprio reasons? 😂

I watch TNBC every year, usually for Halloween and Christmas. Used to watch Hocus Pocus for the same reason.

My go to comfort movies are:
Sneakers
Hackers
The Italian Job (2003)
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)\

Note: I didn’t say “Best” or “Favorite” but these are infinitely rewatchable for me with any level of attention paid to them.

• The Goonies
• Romancing the Stone
• Star Wars
• Bloodsport
• Idiocracy
• Moving
• The Money Pit
• Forest Gump

In steam of consciousness order:

• Young Frankenstein
• Princess Bride
• Double Indemnity
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Breakfast Club
• The Fifth Element
• 12 Monkeys
• The Terminator
• Star Wars (first trilogy)
• Harvey
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Men In Black
• The Incredibles
• Inception
• E.T.
• The Sting
• Grease
• Ghostbusters
• West Side Story

Probably a number of others

Lucky Number Slevin is likely my most watched movie.

Idiocracy, numerous times.

As time passes, it gets worse (aka reality does. The movie is perfect)

I’m old, so tons of them… mainly SF, fantasy, etc. all the LOTR (extended), Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, BTTF, etc. Dances With Wolves (the extended version)

a good trilogy too: Once upon a time in the West, Duck, You Sucker!, Once upon a time in America.

Seriously tons of movies from 2000 and less. Also dozens and dozens of French movies (native language) I have watched multiple times.

I never watched a MCU movie for instance. Since LOTR trilogy I basically stopped watching new movies, nothing beats them.

Just cause these haven’t been called out by the top comments-

True Lies

The Hunt for Red October

A night at the Roxbury

The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I know it’s popular to hate on them and point out flaws, but most of them are perfect “junk food” comfort food. And some of them are really good!

Terminator, for the nostalgia.

Being There (1979)

True Stories (1986)

Waking Life (2001)