9 May 2004

[poogie]

Sorry it's so late, dealing with rl atm (or sorta rl).

What movies really get your emotions going? Either make you really happy, really sad, really angry, etc...
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[Yavathol]

Good ones!

Seriously though, does this mean I have to out myself as someone who *gasp* cries at movies?

Whoops, too late.

Any decent movie about the holocaust is guarunteed to have pretty strong effects on me.  Life Is Beautiful (La Vita E Bella) is one that will always make tears well up for me.

There have been a lot of dramas that have moved me (I believe I listed the so-called "chick-flicks" under guilty pleasures, didn't I?)

As for happy, that would include the really good Comedies (Mel Brooks, Adam Sandler, etc...) and I watch more comedies than anything I think.

Very few movies make me Angry per se - unless it's angry that I wasted money on them, which happens way too often as of late may I point out.  I try to go to movies to keep from becoming angry.  I will tell you that Cry Freedom did get my ire up that such atrocities are still being ignored in this day and age.  

There have been other movies that have moved me greatly, but not to tears, happiness or anger - Saving Private Ryan was one of those... That one had me thinking about it for at least 24 hours.

[ladychris]

I am such an emotional person that if it catches me in the right (wrong?) mood every tear-drawing, sentimental scene can make me cry   but i usually forget it 10 minutes later.
Hey I'm sure I must have cried even by watching Faramir's desperate ride towards Osgiliath if I think about that scene now, however, I see no reason for tears.
Anyway, one of the movies that really caught me emotionally was "The Bridges of Madison County", and another one I really enjoyed and made me feel much better was "A walk in the clouds". Gosh I'm afraid I'm hopeless romantic.

[Ahriah]

Wow what great responses....I am such a movie buff, and actuallly seek out movies that touch my heart....a few of my all time favorite movies that have brought desperate tears to my eyes.....

Braveheart - *gulp* Need I say more???
Pearl Harbour
Saving Private Ryan
The professional
Hilary and Jackie
Shindlers List
Jakob the Liar
Black Hawk Down
Quills
Bounce
Riding in Cars with Boys
Wind Talkers
Full Metal Jacket

anyone notice a trend??? I tend to really love good well written war movies. I could list a thousand more and bore you all to tears, and rack my mind for hours since I cant remember titles of at least hundred more LOL

[Kherec]

State of Grace has always had an effect on me.

And after becoming a father, I can't watch any kind of movie where a parent loses their child, without having to wipe a few tears off of my chin, even though I never used to cry before

[Carrion]

Just about every sad scene with one main character dying and taking farewell of her/his life companion is too much for me to handle... Being a _man_ I of course manages to hide those tears

I must admit that the classical Bladerunner scene with Rutger Hauer and the dove really fills my heart... Just great!

One movie that makes me sad at first, but VERY happy in the end is 'It's a wonderful life' with Jimmy Stewart, an actor I really love.

One of the strongest moments in any movie, for me, is when Montgomery Clift (now THAT'S one of my FAVOURITE actors) plays the trumpet in 'From here to eternity'.

Ouch, I could go on and on... Have to be enough fore tonight though...

[Carrion]

State of Grace has always had an effect on me.

And after becoming a father, I can't watch any kind of movie where a parent loses their child, without having to wipe a few tears off of my chin, even though I never used to cry before

This is sooooo true, even when it's in some detective series it's impossible to handle children getting hurt

[Ahriah]

State of Grace has always had an effect on me.

And after becoming a father, I can't watch any kind of movie where a parent loses their child, without having to wipe a few tears off of my chin, even though I never used to cry before

This is sooooo true, even when it's in some detective series it's impossible to handle children getting hurt

reminds me of pay it Forward when Haley Joel Osment Dies at the end *SOBS* mmmm hope i didnt ruin it for those who havent seen it

[poogie]

reminds me of pay it Forward when Haley Joel Osment Dies at the end *SOBS* mmmm hope i didnt ruin it for those who havent seen it

I HATE that movie. I hate it because they killed him off just to get people's emotions going. It wasn't good plotwise, it was stupid and I'm sorry for those of you who like this movie but I'm not sorry for those of you who haven't seen it because I gave it a recommendation of "Do NOT ever see" a lot time ago.

Another movie I will never watch again is Blackhawk Down. When that first soldier, the sergeant, was shot I started sobbing and I didn't stop...even after I ran out of the theatre. (That was at the part after the 2nd Blackhawk goes down.) That movie got my emotions going but not in a good way. I had nightmares for quite awhile after it. (And I know it's what happened irl and I would surely have had nightmares had I been there to witness it for myself.)

Father of the Bride, with Steve Martin, made me laugh so hard that I cried. The scene in the grocery store still cracks me up.

Rudy. I hate American football but that movie always makes me cry at the end.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wow, I cried a lot through that one too.

A Few Good Men gets me emotionally but it's a whole rollercoaster.

Saving Private Ryan got me too but I've only seen that once.

Project X had me bawling.

I cried at Dumbo too.

I know there are more but I can't think of them right now. I'll come back and probably have 100 more movies.

/P[/b]

[Dissectica]

Ok, this is quite hard...I might not get all the movies that touches me in some way or another in this list but I give it an honest try. These movies are not all my favourtite movies..it's just that they either made me think, made me cry, made me angry or made me feel something else that I think matter.

Battle Royale (don't know what feeling I get, but a feeling there is.)

Pianisten (not a distinct feeling here either, but it gets to me somehow.)

Armageddon (ok, I admit that some american tricks with this bombastic sad music and lots of hero-feelings DO get my tears running.)

Lord of the rings triology (same as above.)

Titanic (same as above, although this one I'm slightly more ashamed of.)

Terminator 2 (I always cry when Arnold die!!)

The last of the mohican (bombastic music, lots of hero-actions and the most wonderful love story = I cry a lot.)

Tiggers movie (I cry.)

A beautiful mind (it gets to me in that way that I can't stop thinking about it, it's sad, it's beautiful and it's a true story...it simply gets to me.)

Lilja forever (made me think a lot and got me quite angry.)

American History X (made me think.)

Nosferatu (make me feel are warm and cozy inside   )

Les Miserables (also the cry feeling and the bombastic music.)

Shadow of the vampire (I don't know what it is about this movie, I watch it over and over and over again..can't simply be cause it's good? I think I get a feeling of "beauty" within it..perhaps.)

Something like that...

[Allyene]

The Killing Fields - Deals with Pol Pot's "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign in Cambodia between 1975 - 1979.

Battle Royale - Can you kill your best friend?

Platoon - In my opinion the best movie on the Vietnam war. Superb acting.

Apocalypse now - another movie on the Vietnam war. Dark and surreal.

Threads - A documentary movie on a nuclear holocaust and its effects on a city in England, and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.

Trainspotting - Who need reasons when you got heroin?

Lilja Forever

Das boot

American History X

The lord of the Rings trilogy - Yeah, Of course I get moved by heroic deeds, epic battles and grand music.

I also find movies who deals with the life of "famous" serial-killers, like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer etc, quite intriguing. I'd say the deeds of some of those easily fits in the most horrific of movies... and it happened for real. Indeed I prefer documentaries over ordinary movies on this subject, but I suppose those movies gets to me as well, being based on true events.

[ladychris]

Oh, I forgot "Captain's Corelli Mandoline" it made me smile, made me laugh, made me cry, made me think... beautiful movie  

[Jose]

  Gladiator
   Braveheart
   Snatch
   American Beauty
  Alien series
 there are more but i cant remember

[Qwer]

I usually don't remember movies, or at least names.
Bot, remembered a few as I saw the titles in others' list.
Lord of the Rings is a classic, I could say.
American History X, yes, that gave me some thoughs; however, I don't think it is a very good movie because presenting everything so black and white, as you would say it's for dumbs tu understand.
Lost in Translation touched me also. Many say it's a lame movie, it might be, I am couldn't know about its artistical valour; but I might be the lamest male around to cry when watching so many movies; I just can't do about it. Movies do get me and I just forget about RL usually when watching them.
City of Angels got me also; what can I say, I love Meg Ryan.
Yesterday watched Taking Lives, Angelina Jolie is gorgeus as usual. (yes, I liked Tomb Raider too ). I really liked the movie and of course the few standard tears were there too at the end.
Watched What a Girl Wants too lately, not much of a movie but I gave a few tears to the lame standard american happy-end.
Hell, I even cried a bit watching Ice Age.
Some of the movies make me think for like a few hours, a day, or several days; but thats the max.
When being with someone else of course I try not to weep as I would be ashamed. :p

[eris]

Nilram says there isn't a movie I've seen in which I didn't cry.  Hmm...I can't think of a counter example, so he may be right.  Two I think of that really got the tears flowing were _An Affair to Remember_ and _Love Story_.  Classics.

/Eris