It’s that time again. Time to challenge yourself with a little truth or a little dare.
Truth: What’s your favorite comfort movie? You know, the one you watch when the day has been le suck and you can’t handle anything too trying. I love a good Lord of the Rings marathon after a rough week.
Dare: See if you can get everyone at work to take a longer-than-usual lunch. Bonus points if you can get your boss to pay for it.
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Seems I’m doing the dare without even trying — the supercomputer I use is being supersketchy and not running my jobs, so long lunch for this lady while I cross my fingers for it to work! Â And I’m the only one in my research group who’s not on holidays this week, so mission accomplished. Â (Though I really wish it’d get sorted out — it’s been going on all week and I have work to do :( )
Truth: Hitchhiker’s Guide. Â The purist in me has Feelings about it, but sometimes it’s nice to see Martin Freeman be Martin Freeman for two hours.
Apparently complaining to the internet works, because my jobs are running. Â Hurray!
So, while I didn’t get the boss to pay for lunch, I did get free lunch! Hooray for orientation! (Not mine, I just sneaked in with some friends at the end, before they threw all the leftovers away, and got food.) :)
I go for Buffy marathons or anything on Hulu that I can half-watch, like SVU or terrible horror movies (I check those on imdb first; if they’re in the 4-6-star range, they’re usually hilarious. It’s the 1-3-stars you have to watch out for, because they’re usually just bad). When I have cable I’ll put on HGTV, unless it’s Candice (she’s a bit too cutesy and obviously “creative” for my taste) and I can’t deal with most of the real-estate shows (House Hunters is a trip, Property Virgins can be cute, but no to the shows that are focused on the real estate part).
If I could find it online, I’d watch the hell out of The Golden Girls.
Truth: Pride and Predjudice (2005). I know purists hate the movie, but I think it’s a lovely film with beautiful scenery and calming music. It really relaxes me.
Dare: Lunch is over, but I’m leaving on time today for sure, so… Compromise! Â :-)
That’s my comfort movie too. I watched it 67675645 times.
Never gotten around to watching the BBC series. Â But Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy= WIN.
Truth:Â Whip It or In The Loop (the British accents are soothing!)
Dare: Aww, I already had lunch! But I made it a long one, b/c it’s goregous outside and I wanted to read “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” more than I wanted to do work.
Truth: Tangled. Mulan. Up. Princess and the Frog. I like animated kid’s movies, ok? :P Happy endings make me feel better.
Dare: I don’t think we have a usual time limit for lunch. Especially since it’s summer, and all of us are either writing or analyzing data. Our adviser doesn’t buy food unless it’s a special occasion…or we all have to be in at 6:30 am and he brings donuts and bagels in.
A-Team, or The Fifth Element. I love fun action movies when I need comfort watching.
Appropriately enough, I just bought Mamma Mia.Â
I’d also go for LOTR and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the version with naked Christian Bale and Dominic West).
Anything funny with Robin Williams in it. Especially Good Morning Vietnam. Also Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, any Harry Potter movie…it’s a long list.
I work for myself, I can take an all day lunch if I want.
I’ve loved Robin Williams since his Mork & Mindy days. We’ve watched ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ twice in the past month.
The Princess Bride is my comfort movie. I’ll turn to Buffy if I want something shorter. And if I really just want to turn my brain off, I put on HGTV and zone out.
Every Thursday my company provides pizza while someone gives a presentation about a project they’re working on. Does that count?
Truth: Singing in the Rain or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Those movies make me happy.
They need to do one of those fake trailers for Seven Brides – as a horror/suspense film. The kidnapping, the avalanche…
PS: I love it too! And Victor/Victoria.
Oh god… I could do that. I should do that. Well… There goes my weekend.
OMG that second .gif is mesmerizing!
Truth: Overboard. I love that movie. I get so teary at the end. And Buffy episodes. Or random cat videos on Youtube (Wake-up Kitty, Otto, Oskar…)
Dare: Nope, sorry.  I’M the boss and that ain’t happenin’. (But I did bring in cake today.)
My comfort movie is Legend. Vapidly gorgeous, young Tom Cruise; Tim Curry gnawing up every bit of scenery he can reach; unicorns with horns that bobble as they run; and glitter poured liberally over every available surface. Suddenly, everything’s all better.
I’m working from home today, so my only “co-worker” is my cat. (This is neither as awesome nor as pathetic as it might sound.) Since Isis’ job is to sit on my lap and put her paw out to hit random keys, my only hope of convincing her to take an extra-long lunch break is to step away from the computer. Perhaps we’ll go into the kitchen and play with her catnip shark!
Ponyo. Or any Miyazaki, really. The characters are just so pure and sweet, and all his films feel like they take place in another world (as in, a world different than the crappy one I’m trying to escape!) It’s definitely great escapist material!
I knew I liked you!
My Miyazaki of choice is Nausicaa. Though I also love Howl’s Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky. Or Spirited Away. Or Who Am I Kidding, I Love Them All!
Nausicaa is actually one of the few Miyazaki films I haven’t seen! I imagine it being similar to Princess Mononoke or Castle in the Sky. I wish I could pick an absolute favorite movie out of his oeuvre, but I just can’t, they all have their own special qualities :)
I’m a big Porco Rosso fan myself. It’s like watching a Humphrey Bogart film if Boggy was a pig. But I got my degree in 2-D animation, I’m pretty much obliged to love all things Ghibli.
Jumping on the Ghibli bandwagon! Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Nausicäa… any of them, really. Just watched Arrietty, that was sweet too, if not as masterful as some of the older ones.
My absolute hands-down favorite movie for a bad mood is Help! Never mind that I can recite all the dialogue word for word, and have been able to since age 6. It is THE BEST.
ed: ARGH I can’t get the video to embed, but it’s the scene with George’s grass carpet and John’s sunken bed. I wanted that bed SO MUCH as a child. My father would not let me rip up the floor of my bedroom. I was upset.
Also, the sky here is amazing and also possibly lethal. Seriously, it looks almost like nighttime. Thunder is ON THE MENU.Â
Truth: Drop Dead Gorgeous. Allison Janney is a motherf*cking  treasure. “How bout I shove a nice cool mint up your ASSSS?!” Also, in no particular order, Buffy (the show), Arrested Development, Empire Records and The Dark Crystal.
Dare: Boss ain’t gonna pay for lunch, but since she took up yoga, she has been rewarding us by being gone for at least an hour and 15 min almost every day. Time for non-work reading and eating my leftovers!
I knew I couldn’t be the only person on the planet who loves that movie.
I’m always floored when no one has heard of it. It’s one of the funniest teen movies ever made!!!
I really need to watch “Drop Dead Gorgeous”. I mean, the whole thing (I’ve seen bits and pieces, and it’s one of those movies I will watch if it’s on tv).
Contact. Or an SVU marathon. Or a Bridezillas marathon. Or Chopped.
No late lunch today, but tomorrow we’re having the June birthday lunch, and I think the boss will pay for it. Or rather the company will. Close enough?
My list of things to watch when life is sucking:
Firefly, Louis CK standup, Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill, (and my guilty pleasure) Greys Anatomy reruns.
Truth: The Sandlot. That movie can brighten my mood whenever, wherever. I watched it so much I wore out the VHS and my mom had to buy another.
Dare: My bosses are already having a lunch meeting so I was planning on taking a slightly longer than average lunch. No way to get bosses to pay though :-/
I live in England now and every so often I will drop a “You’re killin’ me, Smalls!” or other Sandlot-ism into conversation. Then I have to explain for twenty minutes.
Nobody around here ever gets “You’re killin’ me, Smalls” either. I need to make my kids watch The Sandlot. Also, ‘Better Off Dead’ so they won’t give me weird looks when I tell them I want my $2.
“She only speaks French, Roy, she doesn’t speak imbecile.”
For me it’s The Muppet Movie or Daria on DVD, alllll day.
I work at a company of over 6,000 so I doubt I’ll be able to get everyone to take a late lunch. I’ll likely be able to convince my fiance, though.