I can see A Few Good Men as comfort food. As serious as the subject matter is, watching Cruise and Nicholson go after each other at the trial is just fun.
But as well made as Mystic River was, and as not much of a Sean Penn fan I was surprisingly engrossed by it, I found it slow, dark and...
The ultimate comfort food movie for me is the Blues Brothers. The music is so energetic and infecting, the comedy always makes me smile. Then theres all of the gleeful destruction. And of course John Candy enthusiastically declaring, "we're in a truck." I cant tell you how many times my kids...