What Film Makes You Tear Up?

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SphinxnihpS

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Originally posted by: Pocatello
Blade Runner. Roy Batty's last words, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die." The replicants showed more traits of humanity than the humans who created them.

Deckard was a skinjob.
 

foghorn67

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Gladiator
Shawshank Redeption
The Fox and the Hound
BoB, at least 4 of the episodes -spoilers below-



-Laundry lady in England naming off the list KIA.
-Lt. Compton trying to yell for a medic during Bastogne.
-Liberation of the concetration camp.
-The last episode.
 

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grave of fireflies

schindler's list

just these 2. somehow shaving private turned boring, (har har, vin diesel died!), and titanic just turned hilarious in the re-runs.
 

OdiN

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Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
nothing really

Old man at end of SPR doesn't make you misty?

have you no soul?

Nope. Good scene, but it's just a movie.

There are a lot of things wrong with that statement. First off, SPR Ryan is inspired by a true story; and specific details aside, we all know that WWII was real, veterans are real, many events depicted really happend. Second, boiling it down to "it's just a movie"...well, anything can be boiled down to its simplest form and seem irrelevant. The Constitution's just some words on a piece of paper. Beethoven's 9th Symphony is just a series of pitches. Not comparing SPR to either of these things, but just demonstrating my point.

So....what is your point? I think in your babbling you forgot to make it.
 

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Grave of fireflys? good movie?

Schindlers list for sure, Band of Brothers was pretty impressive.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
nothing really

Old man at end of SPR doesn't make you misty?

have you no soul?

Nope. Good scene, but it's just a movie.

There are a lot of things wrong with that statement. First off, SPR Ryan is inspired by a true story; and specific details aside, we all know that WWII was real, veterans are real, many events depicted really happend. Second, boiling it down to "it's just a movie"...well, anything can be boiled down to its simplest form and seem irrelevant. The Constitution's just some words on a piece of paper. Beethoven's 9th Symphony is just a series of pitches. Not comparing SPR to either of these things, but just demonstrating my point.

Yes, but more importantly: no one is immune to Spielburg and his wily ways. NO ONE.
Unless that "some one" is a soulless robot.
 

SphinxnihpS

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SPR was a horrid film.

Perfect camera work, great acting (seriously though, someone never hire Tom Sizemore again), the best effects sound ever in a film, superb costumes, makeup, lighting, sets, everything EXCEPT THE WRITING. The plot of SPR was so utterly unbelievable that it made the fact that the rest was great, a torrential waste of film. You can write all the nifty dialogue you want into a screenplay, but if the plot is stupid, everything else falls flat on its face.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Dangerer
NPH dieing in Guantanamo Bay had me going bawls to the walls.

Liam Neeson receiving a ring from the Jews in Schindler's list was a very moving scene for me as well.

Spielburg strikes again! I think the scene with the elderly survivors placing stones on Schindler's grave is even tougher.


Another: Old man in Act I of Amelie, after discovering his trinket box. Sitting next to Amelie with drink, wondering about his life...
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Danwar
oh my... quite a few

Forrest Gump
Glory
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
Last episode of Band of Brothers.
Cinema Paradiso

Hell

Fucking

Yeah

Now adult kid watching the spliced real and "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?"
:( x infinity
 

SphinxnihpS

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The only movie I have ever cried tears of sadness in was the Sugarland Express. Interestingly, this is Spielberg's first and best film and the one nobody has ever heard of.
 

OdiN

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
nothing really

Old man at end of SPR doesn't make you misty?

have you no soul?

Nope. Good scene, but it's just a movie.

So you have no soul.

got it.

stop feeding the troll

Oh sorry. Well religion wasn't in this thread, so I don't think he's trolling here.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
nothing really

Old man at end of SPR doesn't make you misty?

have you no soul?

Nope. Good scene, but it's just a movie.

So you have no soul.

got it.

If the only way you can have a soul is to bawl at some movie, then I guess you're right.

yeah, I don't think anyone is trolling here. JohnJohn explained it well, though it seems you glanced over it. It isn't "just a movie" when you take into consideration the reality of these events. Try to stomach what the kids who served in this war did--the things they went through, obstacles overcome, etc.

That aside, the ending scene drives home the point throughout the entire movie: Does one man really matter? is the sacrifice of this platoon worth the effort to save one man's life? Here you have older Private Ryan, his wife, children and grandchildren. All of that is possible only b/c of the sacrifice that Hank's character makes. He gave his life so that Ryan could live his. His men gave their lives to follow this order.

Ryan is certainly grateful, but I think his expression conveys that he will never be able to show enough gratitude for the sacrifices that so many made for only him.

Ask a veteran who served with men like this and have similar stories if they can watch a film like SPR and say "it's just a movie."
 

thegimp03

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Originally posted by: glenn beck
I forgot Life Is Beautiful is very hard to keep a dry eye

Agreed...I was trying to think of the name of that movie, but I could only remember it was spoken in Italian with English subtitles.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
The only movie I have ever cried tears of sadness in was the Sugarland Express. Interestingly, this is Spielberg's first and best film and the one nobody has ever heard of.

what? Plenty of people know of Sugarland Express. wtf are you talking about?

It's a pretty well-documented part of FILM HISTORY and while it may have been made before you were born, thus leading you to think it has the "aura of obscurity," there was an entire world of people in those days, you know.

 

OdiN

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Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
nothing really

Old man at end of SPR doesn't make you misty?

have you no soul?

Nope. Good scene, but it's just a movie.

So you have no soul.

got it.

If the only way you can have a soul is to bawl at some movie, then I guess you're right.

yeah, I don't think anyone is trolling here. JohnJohn explained it well, though it seems you glanced over it. It isn't "just a movie" when you take into consideration the reality of these events. Try to stomach what the kids who served in this war did--the things they went through, obstacles overcome, etc.

That aside, the ending scene drives home the point throughout the entire movie: Does one man really matter? is the sacrifice of this platoon worth the effort to save one man's life? Here you have older Private Ryan, his wife, children and grandchildren. All of that is possible only b/c of the sacrifice that Hank's character makes. He gave his life so that Ryan could live his. His men gave their lives to follow this order.

Ryan is certainly grateful, but I think his expression conveys that he will never be able to show enough gratitude for the sacrifices that so many made for only him.

Ask a veteran who served with men like this and have similar stories if they can watch a film like SPR and say "it's just a movie."

It's not that I don't have a great respect for those who served (my grandfather served in WWII and I still have his field manual) - and yes this movie is about real events, but it is still just a movie. While real events happened, the movie itself is not real. This is perhaps why I have never seen a "scary" or horror movie which I thought was actually scary.
 

Arkaign

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Legends of the Fall and Pan's Labyrinth were both unexpectedly depressing.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: OdiN
nothing really

Old man at end of SPR doesn't make you misty?

have you no soul?

Nope. Good scene, but it's just a movie.

So you have no soul.

got it.

If the only way you can have a soul is to bawl at some movie, then I guess you're right.

yeah, I don't think anyone is trolling here. JohnJohn explained it well, though it seems you glanced over it. It isn't "just a movie" when you take into consideration the reality of these events. Try to stomach what the kids who served in this war did--the things they went through, obstacles overcome, etc.

That aside, the ending scene drives home the point throughout the entire movie: Does one man really matter? is the sacrifice of this platoon worth the effort to save one man's life? Here you have older Private Ryan, his wife, children and grandchildren. All of that is possible only b/c of the sacrifice that Hank's character makes. He gave his life so that Ryan could live his. His men gave their lives to follow this order.

Ryan is certainly grateful, but I think his expression conveys that he will never be able to show enough gratitude for the sacrifices that so many made for only him.

Ask a veteran who served with men like this and have similar stories if they can watch a film like SPR and say "it's just a movie."

It's not that I don't have a great respect for those who served (my grandfather served in WWII and I still have his field manual) - and yes this movie is about real events, but it is still just a movie. While real events happened, the movie itself is not real. This is perhaps why I have never seen a "scary" or horror movie which I thought was actually scary.

Well to be honest, there are very few modern horror/terror films that are legitimately frightening. They replaced the mental aspects of fear with shock/gore/idiocy.

I'd say more legitimate examples of that genre would be Rosemary's Baby, Jacob's Ladder. Mind-fuck would be a better description. In the end, though, I guess you have to be the type with the capacity for emotional investment in story and character. If you go into everything with the "it's just a movie" notion in your head, then I guess that isn't going to happen?