Movies To Watch When You Feel Like Shit, Part 1
Our extensive experience has taught us that one of the best antidotes to hoisting yourself out of a shallow hole of depression is watching one of the following cinematic masterpieces.
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Do you fucking hate life right now? Are you having the suckiest day ever? Do you feel like dog shit in a blender, emotionally? We get it. We’ve been there and back a thousand times. Our extensive experience has taught us that one of the best antidotes to hoisting yourself out of a shallow hole of depression is cracking a beer, sparking a joint (or both), and watching one of the following feel-good cinematic masterpieces.
Here are five movies that we are pretty sure will boost your mood when you feel like shit.
The Birdcage
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane sparkle as Armand and Albert, a couple running the hottest gay club in South Beach. Williams plays Armand, the butch behind the business, and Lane is Albert, the club’s top performer in his drag alter ego, Starina. Their cutie pie son is engaged to the daughter of a Republican senator, who, along with his wife, has an enormous stick up his ass. The future in-laws are meeting for the first time, and Armand and Albert are tasked with pretending to be a straight couple so as not to ruin their engagement. But, little do they know, the Senator has a secret of his own.
Chaos ensues, tensions rise, and Nathan Lane does the best John Wayne impression ever. And with that, we leave you with: “Madonna! Madonna! Madonna!”
Go do your duty and watch it.
Waking Ned Devine
In the bucolic Irish village of Tullymore, cute old Irishman Ned Devine wins the lottery and promptly dies. Meanwhile, news breaks that the winning ticket was sold in Tullymore, prompting fellow villagers and best friends, Jackie O’Shea and Michael O’Sullivan, to hunt for the winner. When they finally track down the ticket, still clutched in Ned Devine’s cold, dead hands, they plot to convince the whole village to pretend that he is still alive so they can split the winnings amongst themselves.
Our favorite elements of this movie include: a naked motorcycle ride through the Irish countryside, a romance thwarted by the stench of pigs, and a fake funeral.
It’s so Irish. It’s so delightful. It’s a testament to a 90-minute run time. If it doesn’t lift your mood, then there is nothing else we can do for you, and you can see yourself the fuck out.
The Full Monty
Gary “Gaz” Schofield and his buddies are former steelworkers living in the once-thriving town of Sheffield. In an effort to catch up on child support payments, Gaz is inspired by the fanaticism surrounding Chippendales to form his own striptease group. He and his best friend, Dave, recruit other men who were made redundant when the steel mills shut down and are grappling with the fallout of unemployment. Gaz promotes the group as being even better than Chippendales, because they show “the full monty.”
That’s all you need to know. Now, go watch it, please and thank you.
Saving Grace
After Grace Trevethyn’s rat bastard husband dies, she’s buried under a mountain of debts he left behind — and the creditors don’t even wait till the body is cold. Facing losing her home, Grace and her gardener, Matthew, hatch a plan to grow a shit load of weed on her property and sell it to drug dealers in London.
This movie has it all: a dead husband’s mistress named Honey; a massive cannabis bonfire; and Craig Ferguson.
Go get yourself a joint and watch it.
What We Do in the Shadows
There are no such things as mockumentaries; there is only What We Do in the Shadows. Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr are roommates living in a New Zealand suburb, where they navigate the mundanity of modern life with the appetite of vampires from much more dramatic times: they argue about chores, try to get into clubs and awkwardly prowl the town to feed. Everything changes when their familiar is tasked with procuring virgins, and she does what any self-respecting woman would do: she invites her elementary school bully and ex-boyfriend, Nick, to their apartment.
You know what to do.
these are great recommendations! I’d add The Holdovers to this list!