Films that make you cry

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

watership down very disturbing film and you CRYED.

do I detect a little softcockedness there a.m.a.s

those were manly tears that needed an outlet as we had won the week before .... better out than in

 

[Trufflehound]

The Jungle Book - the bit when you think Baloo's dead, even when you've already seen it 50 times and know he isn't really...

And anyone who claims they didn't well-up at the end of Finding Neverland is lying.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Cried watching ET the other night.

Other flicks I've been tearful over recently:

Il Postino
The Straight Story

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

ET ( aged 43 )

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Somewhere in Time - call me a big girls blouse but this film is quite simply breathtakingly beautiful with the greatest ever soundtrack from the brilliant John Barry - FACT

 

[Trufflehound]

The Straight Story

 

[Les Biehn]

Jesus, at what point did all your cocks turn into vaginas? You bunch of mincers, stop your blubbing and go and drink some beer or shag a bird.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Les Biehn

Is your film collection by any chance

Commando
Rambo - parts 1-3
Rocky - part 1-5
Terminator - parts 1-3

 

[JJ McClure]

Les Biehn

Is your film collection by any chance

Commando
Rambo - parts 1-3
Rocky - part 1-5
Terminator - parts 1-3

Careful US, Terminator 2 is a bit of a weepy. The scene at there end where Arnie terminates himself for the good of mankind is a real tear-jerker

 

[Les Biehn]

Amazingly I don't own any of these films. I was only being tongue in cheek with the full on macho bit, I just don't get that easily emotionally manipulated by films. The only film I've ever got very slightly choked at was the ending of Memento. And that wasn't until the third time of watching it. I was writing an essay on it and looking so indepthly at it I realise how futile the main characters life was and the lengths he went to to hide it from himself.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Going back to the Schindler's List debate, I felt that on the whole this was a pretty honourable attempt by a mainstream Hollywood director - and I say that as someone who doesn't normally care for Spielberg's films and their sentimentality. However, I felt that Polanski's The Pianist was a more powerful film, although it had its flaws too. Some of the scenes were almost unwatchable in their brutality, but somehow I got a more palpable sense of what it must have been like to live through that hell.

Wienergull, I totally, totally agree. The Pianist is, for me, the definitive holocaust film along with Shoah - I found Schindler's List far too Hollywood for a topic of that magnitude. And having read W³adys³aw Szpilman's autobiography and hearing Polanski's own experiences, it was sourced horribly accurately.

On a lighter note, anyone seen the film "Etre Et Avoir"? A documentary about a French junior school sounds unpromising (and I've never, ever blubbed at a film) but the bit when the kids say goodbye to the teacher at the end is about as near as I've ever got. It's a magical, unforgettable film.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I thought Schindler's List was ten times more powerful than the Pianist. The Pianists first half was very good but then it just became a man on the run for the second half. It was a good film don't get me wrong but better than Schindler's List I think not.

Spielberg was in a no winner, he sat on the film rights for over 10 years which were offered to him after he made ET in 1982 but he only felt able as a film maker to tackle such a subject in 1993. He said that he could have made it more graphic such as he nearly made one scene where SS officers threw babies out of the windows of the ghetto's on the 5th floor for SS officers to try and shoot them as they fell down ( this happened ) but decided against it.

I think he went as far as he could and their were some horrific scenes, watch the film again.

I think its another case of Spielberg bashing. The guy will only really be acknowledged as the greatest film maker of all time after he has died and then people will realise the astonishing back catelogue of films he made.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I thought Schindler's List was ten times more powerful than the Pianist. The Pianists first half was very good but then it just became a man on the run for the second half.

But Gareth, that's what actually happened. What should he have added to spice it up? Had a tap dancing sequence?

Besides, the point of that film is that there was ambiguity in real life - there were very bad Jews (like the ones who helped the Nazis to put other Jews on the trains to the concentration camps), and there were good, almost saintly Germans (like Wim Hosenfeld, who single-handedly and secretly kept Szpilman alive). These are ambiguities which more simple-minded "lay on the emotion with a trowel and a string-sodden soundtrack" directors can't handle. Just my HO, as ever.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

If a director makes a superb film with a superb soundtrack that makes people remember the obscenity of the holocaust which has been shown in schools as part of the curriculum and has founded a museum and memorial on the back of it with Spielberg donating proceeds to the charity I think maybe just maybe he should be applauded for it not accused of the usual " hollywood director must be shit "

 

[Barnet Seagull]

On a lighter note, anyone seen the film "Etre Et Avoir"? A documentary about a French junior school sounds unpromising (and I've never, ever blubbed at a film) but the bit when the kids say goodbye to the teacher at the end is about as near as I've ever got. It's a magical, unforgettable film.

Excellent film.

Talking french films - I remember some discussion (probably about 5 years ago) about a weird french film with people in phone boxes. What was it called? Need to find it.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The Pianist is, for me, the definitive holocaust film along with Shoah

Shoah is a documentary not a 'feature film' and so cannot really be compared with The Pianist or Schindler's Pissed (OS died an alcoholic).

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Excellent film.

a weird french film with people in phone boxes. What was it called? Need to find it.

La Cabina, 1970s Spanish horror film about a bloke who gets stuck in a phone box. Brilliant brilliant film, only about half an hour long, I think.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

La Cabina, 1970s Spanish horror film about a bloke who gets stuck in a phone box. Brilliant brilliant film, only about half an hour long, I think.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065513/

 

[Barnet Seagull]

That's the puppy. Nice work.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

That's the puppy. Nice work.

Crikey, it even won an Emmy