[Film] Films that make you BLUB

[Justice]

Con Air
That poor bunny

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

ET
CE3K
War Horse
Somewhere in Time
A Monster Calls
August Rush
Shadowlands
Starman

 

[Eric Potts]

Grave Of The Fireflies. Many people say they couldn't watch it more than once.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

ET
CE3K
War Horse
Somewhere in Time
A Monster Calls
August Rush
Shadowlands
Starman

Errrr...you’re forgetting our favourite AI there Uncs! Definitely a pass the tissues moment when she abandons him in the wood.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Good call. Also The Champ

 

[figgis]

Ring of bright water.
Scared me for life as a child

 

[TugWilson]

Ring of bright water.
Scared me for life as a child

The same here , i have never got rid of the feeling i had as a child leaving the cinema after that bloody film .

 

[robinsonsgrin]

most things .... menopausal time of life! shoot me now.

 

[jackanada]

I once phoned Rick Astley to ask if he could donate some of his vast DVD collection for a charity auction.

He said "I can give you Bambi, Finding Nemo and Minions, but I'm never going to give you Up!"

It's the Rick Astley paradox.

Imagine you ask Rick to lend you his Blu-ray of only of the second animation to ever win best picture at the Oscars.

He's never going to give you Up!

In doing so he's going to let you down.

 

[Questions]

Debbie does Dallas at Christmas

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Debbie does Dallas at Christmas

Never go for the obvious gag, Q. Your material has gone down the pan of late, are you employing a different team of writers?

 

[Skuller]

Already mentioned:
ET
West Side Story (but has to be the original film).

Not yet mentioned:
Empire Of The Sun

 

[Cheggers]

Manchester By The Sea
Tangled

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Life Is Beautiful

Pixote

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas


I also well up a bit at Only Fools And Horses - Time On Our Hands

 

[wokingone]

Lots of films especially the end of Bridge of Spies and The Killing fields bit with John Lennon's imagine playing in the background

 

[Guinness Boy]

Never go for the obvious gag, Q. Your material has gone down the pan of late, are you employing a different team of writers?

Too right. Anal Dwarves would have been a lot funnier. But then you can’t really say “dwarf” these days without setting them off.

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

Up!
I'm in bits after the opening montage. I've been through the wringer and there's a whole film left to watch. No thanks I'm done. I need some time alone with my thoughts and hard liquor.

it ruins me too. Very moving and tenderly done indeed

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

Silent Running

Boooom! What a film...
Saw it as a little boy back in the 70s then rented it on video in the 90s to watch with my then girlfriend.
Joan Baez's voice on the soundtrack just cut through me and made me somehow tap into my childhood self.
I went to absolute pieces and was inconsolable for the whole evening.
Very moving film, if a bit bleak. Very hippyish due to the time of making but relavent to now.

 

[jakarta]

Don't BLUB to it - it is more wistful than that, but The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp is about to start on BBC2 at 2PM.

A War Film going from the Boer War to WW2, but it is more of a reflection upon Youth, Age and Friendship. A brilliant performance from Roger Livesey.

Churchill hated the Film and was appalled that the German character was portrayed as moral and upright.

In retrospect Churchill probably saw a lot of himself in Blimp...

 

[ken tiler]

Cinema Paradiso; I just have to hear the music and I start. Also when I saw the remake of West Side Story at the cinema last year I had a very soggy face mask at the end.

Yes thats what I was thinking of too, maestro Ennio Morricone and his son co-wrote the score so evocative of childhood and lost love.