recommendations for movies to watch to forget about my life

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Silver lining playbook

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Comedies that don't require a lot of thought but are hilarious:
Spy
The Heat
Two Weeks Notice
Bowfinger

And some great artistic movies:
Children of Men
Monster
Selma

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Anonymous wrote:About Time, out of Africa,

About Time is soooo good. But a tear jerker.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch (or rewatch) Downton Abbey. So good.

I was gonna say watch any series that you can really sink into. You forget your own life and the characters become your friends and family. At least for a while. Although when it ends you mourn the loss. Or at least I do.

Downtown Abbey
Call the midwife
Mad men
Six feet under
Ted lasso
Somebody Somewhere
Friday night lights

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Anonymous wrote: The substance, Demi Moore just won a golden globe for it.

It is dementedly brilliant and strangely the most empowering movie I have watched in a while. Just don’t eat during it. Its a wild ride which is so escapist that you will continue to think about it long after it’s finished.

I hated this. Except for the gut wrenching scene where she gets ready for her date which was an Oscar winning performance! But the movie was so dark and the end so twisted. And I usually like dark twisted movies. This was too much!!

[Anonymous]

Knives Out and Glass Onion

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Anonymous wrote:Bridget Jones
Four weddings and a funeral
Harry met sally

These.

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Anonymous wrote:I have Netflix and got into K-dramas (specifically rom coms), a genre I didn't know previously. I recommend Crash Landing on You.

Kdramas are so great if you watch the right ones. I think they're actually amazing for lower mental health times. I find reading the subtitles helps me even more to "forget my life." A few excellent ones on Netflix:
- Rain or Shine (this has a justice element to it, if you enjoy that)
- Crash Landing on You (careful that this one doesn't ruin all others for you, ha)
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo (about an autistic attorney, really lovely and endearing)
- Start Up (a bit more escapist)
- Castaway Diva (a bit more escapist)
- It's Okay Not to Be Okay (a bit more escapist)
- My Mister (sad but hopeful)
- Our Blues (lots of overlapping stories of enduring and overcoming sadness in life)

[Anonymous]

In Her Shoes
Knight and Day
San Andreas
Armageddon

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have Netflix and got into K-dramas (specifically rom coms), a genre I didn't know previously. I recommend Crash Landing on You.

Kdramas are so great if you watch the right ones. I think they're actually amazing for lower mental health times. I find reading the subtitles helps me even more to "forget my life." A few excellent ones on Netflix:
- Rain or Shine (this has a justice element to it, if you enjoy that)
- Crash Landing on You (careful that this one doesn't ruin all others for you, ha)
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo (about an autistic attorney, really lovely and endearing)
- Start Up (a bit more escapist)
- Castaway Diva (a bit more escapist)
- It's Okay Not to Be Okay (a bit more escapist)
- My Mister (sad but hopeful)
- Our Blues (lots of overlapping stories of enduring and overcoming sadness in life)

truer words never spoken

[Anonymous]

A beautiful mind

[Anonymous]

Maybe you need some therapy, OP. Watching movies to forget about your life sounds so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you need some therapy, OP. Watching movies to forget about your life sounds so sad.

Therapist recommend ways to distract while doing therapy.

[Anonymous]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Weird movies that stick in your brain:

The Lobster
What We Do In the Shadows (movie and show)
The Painted Veil (romantic but a bit sad)
Anything by Pedro Almodovar or Lars Von Trier

Stupid funny:
I Love You, Man
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Borat (always makes me laugh)
21 and 22 Jump Street
Spinal Tap

Older great movies:
The Jerk
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Cabaret
The Apartment
Glengarry Glen Ross
Working Girl
The Graduate
Harold and Maude