Let's narrow the focus a bit.

[Infidel137]

How about a poll of favorite feel good movies, the kind of flicks that leave you smiling when the closing credits roll. ....

"Spy Game"

 

[soFlaNative]

The Fifth Element.
Mom on the phone at the end was good.

 

[bill2000]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6f1MKpLGM[/ame]

 

[jtcarm]

"Feel Good" movies sound like Chick Flicks to me.

Comedies are my go-to for feeling good.

Someone already mentioned "Blazing Saddles"
"Airplane"
"Escanaba in Da Moonlight" ("its like Christmas with guns")
"Smokey and The Bandit" ("I'm gonna barbecue your ***!!")
"Tremors" (my fav)
I guess my only real "feel-good" flick is "A Christmas Story".

I don't go to the movies to think.

 

[jtcarm]

It has to be that movie that was on at the drive-in that I didn't see a minute of.

Uh-huh, and you missed it, why?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Ferris screws off?
A fun movie!
But did not like it when they messed up that Ferrari!

 

[Watchdog]

My only choice for a John Wayne feel good flick would be "The Quiet Man".

I try hard to like The Quiet Man. I really do. Because it's ranked as a classic, supposedly director John Ford's greatest film. But it's so oversaturated with Ford's idealized fairy tale view of Ireland, and his take on Irish morals of the time, that it's all I can do to sit through it from start to finish. I almost expect to see leprechauns peering out from behind the bushes in some scenes.

Wayne, Ford's Chief Drinking Buddy, bumbles his way through the film, accompanied by Ford's cast of usual suspects and his other drinking buddies...Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, and Arthur Shields.

Far as I'm concerned, the film's only redeeming feature is Maureen O'Hara.

And except for The Shootist, and possibly The Cowboys, John Wayne films make me ill.

But that's just my opinion. It's worth exactly what you paid for it.

 

[snuffy51]

Probably not top tier, but my favorite is "Christmas Mountain", staring Slim Pickens as the angel, Mark Miller as the down on his luck cowboy, and Barbara Stanger as the widowed mother living in a shack up on the mountain. Saw it on TV years ago and loved it. Got a VCR of it and wore it out. Got a digitally mastered DVD of it now and watch it several times a year, especially Thanksgiving thru Christmas.. Always makes me feel good. Even my wife likes it, in spite of the western theme. Great movie.

 

[shouldazagged]

Can't be a "chick flick", it has Jim Garner in it: "Murphy's Romance".

And he was also in "Victor Victoria", which would be worth seeing just for Alex Karras.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Can't be a "chick flick", it has Jim Garner in it: "Murphy's Romance".

I also like Murphy's Romance.
Love James Garner!
It's also got Sally, Horses, shot in AZ.

 

[dben002]

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. Magnificent 7 (original)
3. Casablanca

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Down Periscope".

 

[dben002]

"Down Periscope".

And Hunt for Red October.

 

[Kurusu]

"A Day at the Races" followed by a "A Night at the Opera"

that will always make me feel good.

 

[UncleEd]

Down Periscope sounds like
it should be the sequel to
Up Periscope.

 

[doublesharp]

Second Hand Lions

Honeysuckle Rose

I like most all the baseball flicks, especially Bull Durham. For Love of the the Game was another good one and so is The Natural.

 

[31FordA]

"The Blues Brothers" and "The Naked Gun" are two of my favorite comedies. "It's a Mad, Mad, World" is also a classic. I also really enjoy the "The Thin Man" and it's sequals.

 

[6518John]

I would be proud and honored to be British.

This scene brings tears to my eyes each time I see it.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQoUyznaXc[/ame]

 

[rwsmith]

And here I thought.....

The Fifth Element.
Mom on the phone at the end was good.

I thought I was the only one that liked that movie!

"They big. They ugly. And they stink."

"You green?" "Yeah, I'm green."

"Big Bada Boom"

"Multi-pass"

Milla Janvovich That's pretty feel good right there.

 

[rwsmith]

I don't go to the movies to think.....

"Feel Good" movies sound like Chick Flicks to me.

Comedies are my go-to for feeling good.

Someone already mentioned "Blazing Saddles"
"Airplane"
"Escanaba in Da Moonlight" ("its like Christmas with guns")
"Smokey and The Bandit" ("I'm gonna barbecue your ***!!")
"Tremors" (my fav)
I guess my only real "feel-good" flick is "A Christmas Story".

I don't go to the movies to think.

...but to feel. Good.

My idea of a 'feel good' movie for a guy is a violent western or war movie. When people die, but it's for a good cause. And gallantly. And sacrifice a love that could be, but won't.