My usual taste in movies runs to the serious and depressing, but when I am down to my very last nerve of sanity after a full day of twins, or a full week in the ICU with a pneumonic baby, I need something light and escapist.
However, I hate, hate, hate crappy movies, so I have compiled a list of movies that are perfect for forgetting that, say, your daughter has a mysterious genetic syndrome if only for 90 minutes or so, without rotting your brain.
Keep these in mind for your next personal crisis:
The Odd Couple - I actually watched this in the ICU at Cornell and it is perfect, literally the perfect comedy
Kung Fu Hustle - Crouching Tiger meets Wyle E. Coyote
Withnail and I - Very, very British cult classic with a hilariously drunk Richard E. Grant
Little Miss Sunshine - Alan Arkin as a hysterically inappropriate Grandpa
Sleeper - Woody Allen's absurd futuristic comedy where he runs around with a giant stalk of celery
SOB - Blake Edwards orgy filled ode to 1980's Hollywood excesses
The Big Lebowski - Coen brothers, bowling, and The Dude
Dirth Rotten Scoundrels - Plot is a bit cheesy but it's worth seeing just for Ruprecht
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - She is really something
The Producers (not the musical) - Zero Mostel and his little old ladies
Best in Show - Dog shows are so far removed from my real life (our dog is lucky if she gets a walk)
Movies to Avoid
Terms of Endearment
Lorenzo's Oil
The Sweet Hereafter
Anything where anyone gets sick or dies
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