It’s a beautiful Wednesday in June, I have the day off from my day job, and of course I’m laid up with a nasty cold. But before I slip back out of consciousness, today’s LTP is sick-day related. What is your favorite sick-in-bed movie? Preferably one that’s on Netflix Instant… not that I’m doing this LTP for myself or anything. Just, you know, for our readers who might want to watch something.
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Lunchtime Poll – 6/15
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“A Place in the Sun” starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters.
Such a wonderful movie. And the dress! Oh, the dress Taylor wears. So gorgeous.
I wish we could have a movie night together, Kitty.
Disney’s Robin Hood (with the fox). Inside I am still a 5 year old child.
OMG, I saw a video (I think on youtube?) recently showing how half the scenes from that movie (which I adored as a kid) are actually just re-paints of scenes from other Disney movies, like Jungle Book and Cinderella. It affected me more than it rightfully should have.
Oh! I saw that too and was sad for a little bit. But in the end I DON’T CARE. It will continue to be one of my favorite movies ever.
I used to love that movie. I’ve seen it a ridiculous number of times because it used to be the only video I had at my grandma’s house. And because I was a small child, it never occurred to me to bring some different ones.
When I was a little kid my favorite sick-time movie was on Beta tape and it was He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword. I have it on DVD now and still occasionally watch it when I’m sick. Somewhere out there someone needs me…
Nowadays I’d also say that I like watching TV shows on DVD marathons when sick, or any Leonardo Dicaprio movie. My last big sick day I watched Romeo+Juliet, Body of Lies, and The Departed. I also second the America’s Next Top Model marathons, they rule.
My mom once rented me A Chorus Line when I was sick as a kid. She was a working mom so she basically plopped me down on the couch, made sure I had a glass of juice, and went off to work. I probably watch CL a dozen times that week and I still associate it with long days on the couch.
I like heartwarming movies, like Fever Pitch and 50 First Dates. Apparently I am also comforted by Drew Barrymore.
I think I’m the only person in the world that thought 50 First Dates wasn’t heartwarming. At the end, where she’s on the boat? All I could think about was how frightening it would have been to have woken up thinking you were some 20 year old single woman and discovering you were inexplicably 9 months pregnant. I mean, that’s horror movie shit right there.
I’m big on chick flicks that aren’t too schmaltzy like: Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Practical Magic and How to Make an American Quilt.
Well, it’s not on Instant so it doesn’t help you, but whenever I’m feeling sick or just blue, I pull out Dirty Dancing. It’s just so fabulous.
I like to power through a bunch of episodes in a row of TV shows I know I enjoy when I’m home sick. My current favorites on Netflix Instant are Eureka, Sports Night, Futurama, Torchwood, Mythbusters, Columbo, The Game. I’ve finished IT Crowd and Doctor Who, but they’re always good fallbacks. Oh, and I know Greek and Ugly Betty are on there, but I haven’t gotten to them yet.
Musicals! My preferred sick-day musicals are Xanadu and Singin’ in the Rain.
I watched The Sound of Music SO many times the year I kept getting this awful stomach virus.
While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock. Love that.
I second Vee’s suggestion of Muriel’s Wedding.
Disney movies all the way, particularly The Little Mermaid. Last I checked, Princess and the Frog was on Netflix Instant, and would be an awesome sick-time-movie.
I have to second this suggestion. It sounds awesome.
My sick-day ritual, since junior high, includes Muriel’s Wedding, The Full Monty and Billy Elliot. (What? You’ll probably be in bed all day, right? Right.)
Thick accents cure what ails ya.
Oh no! Can I not edit comments?
I have failed the punctuation gods. /sobs quietly into hands
I don’t know it it’s on Netflix, but I love ANTM marathons when I’m sick.
I love watching My Cousin Vinny when I’m sick in bed, or episodes of Arrested Development.
Feel better!
When I’m sick, I want to watch something that isn’t too emotional, isn’t TOO funny (sometimes laughing hurts) and can still be engaging and feel good.
So, when I was last sick in bed, I watched (on Netflix Instant, from my laptop, in bed, surrounded by juice and kleenex) The Star Trek Movies. I think I got through #2-4 before trying to get up and move around.
I recommend them. You know, assuming you like Star Trek. :)