Sick-day movies are those movies you need to watch when you’re curled up under a blanket, drinking chicken soup, and going through Kleenex like it’s going out of style. The movies you’ve seen so many times that it’s ok if you doze off a little bit. The movies that make you the happiest. Everyone has their sick-day movie. My Mom’s sick-day movie is Cry-Baby (or anything with Johnny Depp, really). Mike‘s is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Mine happens to be A League of Their Own.
I thought it’d be appropriate to write about the best sick-day movies ever since two of the MovieSnobs were in a minor car accident this week, and my Mom has a vicious cold. Other than A League of Their Own, here are the best sick-day movies ever, and why:
There are only 2 words which matter when talking about sick days: Disney Marathon. And I’m not talking Pirates of the Caribbean or anything like that: Bambi, Dumbo, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella. Anything with bad animation that will make me cry.
And it may be an English thing, but whenever I was ill as a kid, mum used to put on a film called “Snoopy Come Home”, part of the Peanuts cartoon series. Always makes me cry, even now!!
On my sick days I want something I don’t have to think about. Obviously The Princess Bride is the cream of the crop for sick days….but how could you NOT mention Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
Other non brain drain flicks are Space Balls, Liar Liar, Office Space and Blazing Saddles. (Or pretty much any Mel Brooks flick.)
But for MY money, you can’t beat Big Trouble in Little China or Flash Gordon (the crappy 80s version)…no thought and lots of camp to make you smile.
Once Jerry Orbach left (and then he passed), I simply could not watch the new episodes.They just weren’t the same. I agree with you about the marathons! The marathons (of all three shows) are the best!!!
Dirty Dancing…good one. My sick-day TV shows are TNT all day long – two hours of ER, two hours of Judging Amy, and two hours of Law & Order (with Jerry Orbach, of course).
Dirty Dancing. I’ve seen that way too many times. Mind you, I was only 10 when the movie came out, so by those standards, it was pretty risque at the time. Nevertheless, it’s got it all! Bumping and grinding. “I carried a watermelon.” Patrick Swayze telling the king, himself, Jerry Orbach, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Classic!
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04/26/2019
Sick-day movies are those movies you need to watch when you’re curled up under a blanket, drinking chicken soup, and going through Kleenex like it’s going out of style. The movies you’ve seen so many times that it’s ok if you doze off a little bit. The movies that make you the happiest. Everyone has their sick-day movie. My Mom’s sick-day movie is 
Kai said "Siafu is the Swahili word for Dorylus, you fool..."
My sick day movie would have to be 28 days or 12 monkeys!
There are only 2 words which matter when talking about sick days: Disney Marathon. And I’m not talking Pirates of the Caribbean or anything like that: Bambi, Dumbo, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella. Anything with bad animation that will make me cry.
And it may be an English thing, but whenever I was ill as a kid, mum used to put on a film called “Snoopy Come Home”, part of the Peanuts cartoon series. Always makes me cry, even now!!
DOGMA???? Seriously?
On my sick days I want something I don’t have to think about. Obviously The Princess Bride is the cream of the crop for sick days….but how could you NOT mention Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
Other non brain drain flicks are Space Balls, Liar Liar, Office Space and Blazing Saddles. (Or pretty much any Mel Brooks flick.)
But for MY money, you can’t beat Big Trouble in Little China or Flash Gordon (the crappy 80s version)…no thought and lots of camp to make you smile.
Once Jerry Orbach left (and then he passed), I simply could not watch the new episodes.They just weren’t the same. I agree with you about the marathons! The marathons (of all three shows) are the best!!!
Dirty Dancing…good one. My sick-day TV shows are TNT all day long – two hours of ER, two hours of Judging Amy, and two hours of Law & Order (with Jerry Orbach, of course).
Plus, I’m an oddball in the fact that I mostly watch talk shows when I’m home sick. Maury Povich, Jerry Springer. I get a huge kick out of it.
Dirty Dancing. I’ve seen that way too many times. Mind you, I was only 10 when the movie came out, so by those standards, it was pretty risque at the time. Nevertheless, it’s got it all! Bumping and grinding. “I carried a watermelon.” Patrick Swayze telling the king, himself, Jerry Orbach, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Classic!