Many people have a "comfort food", that either makes them feel as per the name, comfortable, or brings back some feeling or memory, unconscious or not, of happier times--Many of us have a food that comforts us when we need it.

However, do you have any other objects of comfort? Films, books, games, video games, etc?

For example, I love the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park. No matter how many times I watch it, it brings me great comfort and reminds me of when I was a kid, around age 6, 7, when I first watched it. I can look past it's flaws I guess due to nostalgia, or due to it being so great for me personally, and it just brings me back to those happier times when I feel down.

Another comfort movie, despite it's immense flaws and general hatred, for me, is Kazaam. It reminds me of the time in which it came out--1996. Lots of good memories of that era, and that movie brings them all back for me.

Similarly, the King's Quest series of computer games reminds me of even earlier time--1995, which is when I first played them--and no matter how many times I play them, I get that giddy feeling as I did when I was a kid, even though the games in many ways are outdated due to their age.

Movies...Dr Zhivago, A Taste Of Honey, The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner,

Movies-Singin in the Rain, Dirty Dancing, Sleeping Beauty.

Movies: The Last Starfighter.
Music: The entire Front By Front album, Front 242.
Books: The Illuminatus Trilogy.
Games: Fallout 1, 2, 3, and I'm sure New Vegas, once the bugs get worked out.

If my video gaming can't qualify me to hop onto a spaceship and fly away from the wasteland, at least it lets me revel in it :)

Most of the books I find comforting are children's books, ones that I had as a kid that I've gotten for my kids.

George and Martha
Christina Katerina and the Box
The House on East 88th Street
Gus was a Friendly Ghost


I find Christmas music by Perry Como, Andy Williams and Nat King Cole very comforting too.  Reminds me of my childhood. 

Rosamunde Pilcher, the author, is extremely comforting to me.  Reading her books makes me feel like I'm wrapped up in a big quilt.

For comfort, I like to listen to Crosby, Stills, and Nash, or Bob Marley.

My favorite comfort movies are "The Princess Bride," "Fried Green Tomatoes," and "Alice in Wonderland."

Movies: Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer, Cheech and Chong movies, One Crazy Summer and Troop Beverly Hills among others.
Music: Nirvana and Weird Al in general, lately I've also been listening to songs like the Mummers Dance too.
Books: Comics like Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County and Ranma 1/2
Games: Dragon Quest series

Remains of the Day

Captain January

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Anything Shirley Temple, really

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I read it for the photos.  :D

I read it for the photos.  :D


They're illustrations, Howard.  Updated in later editions so they wouldn't look like hairy hippies!
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Not cute and sweet but two movies that make think of good times are Men in Black and Independence Day.

Books - My Time-Life Civil War series, a book that was written by my uncle and anything by Judy Blume.
Music - Paul Davis, The Corries and Clannad
Movies - The Anne of Green Gables specials that were made for Canadian TV.  Anything with Fred Astaire in it.

Music: 70s Genesis and Pink Floyd.
Movies: Anything very funny
TV shows: Get Smart, Brady Bunch

Music: Too much to list here.
Movies: 1776, Casablanca, Trading Places
T.V. Shows: M*A*S*H, Dark Shadows
Books: Harry Potter

Many, many many moons ago, I would have said any book by Jude Deveraux but since I am living my own romance, I don't need to read about it.



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Movies - The Anne of Green Gables specials that were made for Canadian TV.  Anything with Fred Astaire in it.


Loved loved loved these as a child and still do! Also love the books.

Comfort books: P and P by Jane Austen, LOTR trilogy, and both Maia and Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Comfort movie: Birdcage or Rear Window (original version)

--The First Two Thin Man movies
--Anything Jimmy Stewart that's not a western
--Early Bette Davis (anything before All About Eve--and All About Eve)
--Gone with the Wind, when I have FIVE hours to waste.
--Anne of Green Gables movies.
--My MJ love songs play list.
--Baby Sitter's Club Books, Goosebumps Books, Sweet  Valley Twins books (I lived by these as a kid)
--And anything I've written, as I've penned over forty short stories.  ;D

Books: How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Yertle The Turtle (Luckily I've had children and grandchildren to read to.)

Movies: Strange Brew, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, History Of The World Pt.1.

Music: The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and  Barry Manilow  :-[ (I don't know if this forum is the right place for an explanation.)  ;D