List five movies that made you feel something...

[Taverner]

Feel good? Bad? Hopeless? Despondent? Joyous?

Me?

1 - A.I. - This movie definitely hit me. Some people didn't like it, but for me this is probably Spielberg's best.

2 - Devils Rejects - This movie made me feel as if all of humanity is lost. Great flick

3 - Children of Men - Remorse. Total fucking remorse. Brilliant.

4 - Field of Dreams - OK I ADMIT IT I GOTS DADDY ISSUES!!!

5 - Requiem for a Dream - OK, this one made me feel like committing suicide.

[MrCoffee]

1. 2 of yours are on my list

Which probably makes my list a cop-out

Requiem for a Dream

Children of Men

Where the Day Takes You

Life is Beautiful

Hackers is my feel-good movie

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Mine:

1) The Bicycle Thief - sadness

2) Raging Bull - drained

3) Psycho - creeped out

4) Paths of Glory - despair

5) The Shawshank Redemption - hope

[TZ]

3. Mine

1)Schindler's List..sadness yet..hope

2)The Green Mile...sad,sad, sad

3) Dreamgirls..the amazing love lost song--"I'm not going" so powerful and moving...

4) ET..now who wasn't moved by this movie?

5) Terms of Endearment..mother/daughter relationships are very touching to me...

[PeaceNikki]

4. Big Fish

The Green Mile

Lake of Fire

Fahrenheit 9/11

American Drug War: The Last White Hope

[GOPisEvil]

5. My 5

Fog of War - seething rage

Shawshank Redemption - hope and the feeling that persistence pays off

Saving Private Ryan - dammit some things ARE worth the fight

Office Space - My God, I AM just a big cog in the wheel

Glengarry Glen Ross - Coffee is for closers! Actually, this movie, combined with Office Space, is pretty much my job. :scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Taverner!

OK! Five movies that I had an emotional reaction to...

1. Schindler's List...I was amazed at how much good was done by this man, who was a member of the Nazi Party...

2. The Shawshank Redemption...the power of the truth, and the power of love...

3. The Original Indiana Jones...the sheer excitement of it, and the great story!

4. The Godfather movies, esp. the first one...An American tragedy, beautifully told...

5. Henry V, by Kenneth Branagh...the St. Crispin's Day speech to rally the troops all by itself makes this a movie to see...I wanted to sign up to fight with those "lucky few" myself!

And of course there are more...

But these five are the first ones to come to my mind...

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

7. I can't limit it to five...

I'm one of those people who will cry at an emotional cartoon, let alone an actual movie. :P

[lost-in-nj]

9. heh, I hear you

I cry at commercials....


:hi:


lost

[DarkTirade]

11. I strongly deny ever crying at a commercial.

I have also never told a lie. :P

[jobycom]

12. I'd like to teach the world to sing...

You didn't cry when Mean Joe Green tossed his jersey to the kid? :cry:

[DarkTirade]

13. I didn't watch TV much when I was a kid.

Never saw it until years later when I'd already seen it spoofed a dozen times. :P

[jobycom]

17. Alright, here's a test. Watch this video (it's not RICK!) and see if you cry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4Sia94Cu8&feature=related
BTW, Snopes confirms the details.

[DarkTirade]

22. Yeah, I've seen that one before.

's cute. :P

[QueenOfCalifornia]

28. cried like an idiot

moran, baby.....

Waaaaaaaa!

That is very touching.

Thank you for not putting a Rickroll up there.

-

Gilligan

[jobycom]

34. .

I've always hated that Rick Astley song, so I hate the Rick Roll'd stuff even more!

I saw that Christian clip last night. Did amazing things to me.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

64. Okay....

I just watched Vern Yip on his show on HGTV - Deserving Design.

He gave a woman with 4th stage cancer a new kitchen and bedroom - 5 years ago, she was given 3 months to live. I cried like a freakin' idiot. The kitchen he did for her was so nice and he also made her bedroom beautiful.

I admit - I am a big baby but this show made me cry the good kind of crying. I felt inspired to be a nicer human.

As for the lion video.... Waaaaaaa!

It was so touching.

Thanks for posting it.

------

Gilligan

[jobycom]

65. Yeah

that kind of thing gets to me, too.

:)

[begin_within]

37. That reminds me very much of "Born Free" (1966) a great film based on a true story.

[jobycom]

40. Interesting that you bring that up.

Supposedly the two lion adopters decided to give the lion up for release after two actors from Born Free visited their shop and saw the lion, and suggested how they could release him.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp

[begin_within]

48. Cool... it also reminds me of this recent one:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mPBOA2pGPFI

[lost-in-nj]

8. ok

Powder

Second Hand Lions

Hook


Finding Neverland


I know its only 4 and
I know there are more

but I chose one theme

Love

these are all about a different form of love
enduring
brotherly
secret
family
unselfish
and they all had a meaning to me


:hi:

lost

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Finding neverland is probably the closest a movie has ever come to making me cry.

I'm really not sure why, I never cry during movies,even if they are really sad, but that one got to me.

[jobycom]

26. Maybe it was the average writing, the dull acting, the weak directing...

No, wait, that movie had the opposite of those... Maybe that was it?

Freddie Highmore is the greatest child/teen actor I've ever seen. (Annasophia Robb is very close, though).

[lost-in-nj]

27. yup

it did that to a few people I know



:hi:


lost

[jobycom]

10. LOTR--boredom and bitter anger at the director. Ratatouillie--Inspiration, hope.

A Dream of Passion (no, you've probably never seen it)--that every situation is so much more complex than any brief summary can capture, that every story has a passionate angle that we are programmed by societal expectations to misunderstand, that all concepts of right and wrong are overly simplistic, and that all of our views of history, whether our own or much grander, are confined to a narrow viewpoint that ignores most of the relevance of the events we are analyzing.

Because of Winn Dixie--Love and respect for every life.

The Princess Bride--Sappy, unsophisticated love.

[fizzgig]

14. boredome and bitter anger...that sums up some of how i felt about those movies

i fell asleep during the two towers (it was during one of the scenes that didn't actually happen) and nearly walked out of the theater in a sheer rage during rotk

[jobycom]

24. I almost left during ROTK. I've never walked out of a movie, but I would have walked out

of that one if the people I was with would have gone, too.

That scene where Frodo is rescued from the lava, and the camera finally fades to black, I was so relieved I almost wept. Then, for no reason I will ever understand, the film fades back in to even more shots of Frodo dangling above the lava from the eagle's talons, looking relieved and resigned and constipated... I said, much louder than I intended, out of sheer frustration "Oh, come on!" Half the people around me laughed in agreement.

[NewEnglandGirl]

18. I love love loved

Winn Dixie too.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Hmmm...

Pump Up The Volume made me wish I could be a pirate radio DJ in the early '90s inciting revolution in the halls of my high school.

Any zombie movie makes me feel like getting ready for the impending zombie apocalypse.

The Big Lebowski made me want to go bowling.

Armageddon made me want to kill my 8th grade language arts teacher for making us watch it in class.

The Number 23 made me want to kill anyone who claimed, after seeing it, that they started finding the number 23 everywhere and that it was "soooo crazy!"

[NewEnglandGirl]

16. So Many but......

Beyond Rangoon - finding purpose in life (inspiration)

Radio - friendship

The Green Mile - sadness

The Color Purple - too many emotions to list

A Beautiful Mind - understanding

[jobycom]

29. A Beautiful Mind

I wanted to buy Ron Howard a bouquet for that one. My brother is schizophrenic, and though I've always been able to intellectually get it, I don't think I ever felt it until that movie.

[NewEnglandGirl]

31. I know exactly what you mean

It was incredible and I felt like that film was a tremendous gift in creating empathy regarding the victims of this disease.

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Watch David Cronenberg's "Spider."

[jobycom]

41. I don't think so.

I read your post. If that's what you feel during movies... :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

42. It's a brilliant film about schizophrenia.

Cronenberg can direct circles around Howard.

[jobycom]

43. What about zombies?

Is there anything about zombies?

[ghostsofgiants]

45. Sadly, no.

All movies need more zombies, in my opinion.

[jobycom]

46. I'll put it on my list.

I read the synopsis on IMDB. Makes it sound like the wrong type of schizophrenia movie, like the Hollywood style. But I don't trust IMDB's synopses too much. Thanks for the recommendation.

[ghostsofgiants]

47. It's very much not Hollywood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_%28film%29

[Tikki]

20. I'm kinda out there, but these:

1. Stranger Than Paradise (intrigued)

2. Logan's Run (grateful)

3. The Man Who Fell To Earth (alone)

4. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe (devastated)

5. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) (amazed)



Tikki

[BeachBaby]

21. Mine.

1. Schindler's List - it think it speaks for itself.

2. To Kill A Mockingbird - anger at the ignorance that is racism.

3. Bridges of Madison County - heart-breaking because she gives up true love and stays in her marriage out of obligation.

4. It Could Happen To You - cop wins lottery, gives half of it to waitress, they fall in love, and use their winnings to help the less fortunate. How could you NOT feel good after seeing that movie?

5. The Deer Hunter - my wake-up call to just HOW bad Vietnam was.

[fizzgig]

23. mine

the station agent: the human-ness of that movie is amazing

amelie: i just saw it and it filled me with so much hope and joy

office space: it depressed the hell out of me but cracks me up nonetheless...it's more of a documentary, really

sicko: rage, pure and simple

brokeback mountain: do i need to explain this?

[jobycom]

30. The Station Agent and Amelie... good calls.

The Station Agent is one of my favorites, and you nailed exactly why.

Given your comments above, I've got to watch Office Space now. We may have a similarity in taste going here.

[fizzgig]

44. have you seen the shipping news?

fantastic movie and a killer cast...it's another very human movie

[lost-in-nj]

58. station agent

wow


PLUS I had been to most of the places it was filmed at

I "knew" the film....

but yes

its a WOW
:hi:

lost

[Zavulon]

25. 1.) Requiem for a Dream made me feel like consulting a lawyer

to see how I could sue for the time I lost watching it. Just awful in every aspect; I couldn't even bring myself to give a rat's ass about any of the characters.

2.) Master of Disguise, the Dana Carvey version, made me feel like shutting it off well before the movie was done. I did just that and have no doubt I did the right thing. Unequivocally the worst movie I've ever seen.

3.) The Bourne Supremacy - seeing Marie die like that really pissed me off, so much so that I was screaming bloody murder when Bourne passed on a chance to erase her killer.

4.) The Hunt for Red October made me feel pissed off at Tom Clancy. Any time a movie is better than the book, the author has some explaining to do. The book was twice as long as it needed to be.

5.) Any of the recent superhero movies makes me want to scream. It's beyond belief how bad they are.

[jobycom]

32. The Bourne Supremacy violated my number one taboo in films

I despise directors who kill off the female character (or children) just to justify the violence that the formerly-peacable hero must then commit, when the violence is the entire purpose of the film. That's usually a breaker for me.

Despite that, I liked the film, and thought the third one almost gave proper penance for the cliched sexist killing in the second.

[crimsonblue]

72. it was in the book

if im not mistaken....

[ghostsofgiants]

49. Requiem was awful in every aspect? Really?

Even if you didn't like the direction, characters or the story (which I did), the cinematography and score were spectacular.

[Zavulon]

55. I thought so.

The only thing I liked about the movie was the rolling of the credits.

[Tektonik]

62. I agree with you totally on Requiem

Boring, boring shit.

[Zavulon]

63. You said it.

I'd rather stand in line to renew my license than watch it again, and standing in line would take at least as long.

[crimsonblue]

71. THFRO movie is a travesty

IMO, there hasn't been a decent movie adaptation of one of his novels yet. i'm still waiting for hollywood to do one about his second novel cuz it's friggin loooooooooooooong ( i can't remember the title off the top of my head and don't want to take the 10 seconds to google it)

[begin_within]

33. OK...

Tokyo Story - permanently changed how I feel about my parents
The Bicycle Thief - made me sad about society, but happy about family love
Au hasard Balthazar - made me very depressed, but strangely uplifted later
Salt of the Earth - made me feel enormous empathy for workers
2001: A Space Odyssey - made me afraid of dying and seeing what's beyond

[clovis29]

36. Hmmm

Fareinheit 9/11 - anger

Free Willy - hope

The Golden Compass - enthralled

All The President's Men -- vindicated

Love Story - romance and sadness

[DesertFlower]

68. yes. all the president's men.

[LanternWaste]

38. sloppy, sentimentality that gets me every time

1. The Boy Who COuld Fly (sloppy, sentimentality that gets me every time)

2. Watership Down (yeah, I've read the book, no comparison-- but the movie is still sweet, sappy and a tear-jerker)

3. Schindler's List (illustrates both the best and the worst of mankind)

4. The Thin Red Line-- the scene where the Americans overrun the Japanese base camp and the reactions of all the players is as engrossing as it is difficult to watch)

5. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House-- I laugh my ass off every damn time I watch it.






Pretty predictable list I've got there, but so what, right?

[Faygo Kid]

60. Love #5. "The second-floor lintels between the lally columns, should we rabbet them?"

Cary Grant at his most droll and comic, Myrna Loy as the perfect patient imperfect wife, Melvyn Douglas as narrator and best friend. Anybody who dies without seeing that movie dies a sorry death.

Thanks for the reminder. One of the classics.

[Genevieve]

39. Schindler's List, Monster, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Braveheart

nt

[CBHagman]

50. Over a period of years...

Romero

Raul Julia played Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. The story is heart-wrenching enough, but the knowledge that what was depicted on screen was only a small fraction of what the people of El Salvador were going through made the film devastating.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

It was the political content more than the love story that made this movie such an intense experience.

Cinema Paradiso

Perhaps the most moving ending of any movie I've ever seen, except for...

Life Is Beautiful


And on a different note...

Enchanted April

I fairly floated out of the theater. What a wonderful experience.

[lightningandsnow]

51. Here are mine:

1. The Laramie Project: This movie makes me bawl my eyes out. Every single time.
2. Toy Story: Okay, I'm a sap! This movie gives me warm fuzzy feelings, and yes, I do tear up a bit at some parts
3. Lilo and Stich: Ditto.
4. Where the Heart is: More warm fuzziness! Laughter and tears.
5. Better than Chocolate: Joy and happiness.

[Faygo Kid]

52. Gettysburg, Path to War, The Apartment, Miracle on 54th Street, Body Heat

The last one was lust, one of the finer sins.

[Xipe Totec]

53. 1,3,4 - the others I have not seen

add:

1.- Stealing Home

2.- Shakespeare in Love

3.- Donny Darko

4.- Memento

5.- Like Water for Chocolate

[MissMillie]

54. Requiem for a Dream.... my god how utterly dark and full of pain

not a functional soul in the lot.

[NashVegas]

56. No 'Wings of Desire'? I Feel So Dated

That movie blissed me out and just about everyone in my circle and beyond when it came out.




Almost anything from Lasse Halstrom makes me cry.

My Life As a Dog



What's Eating Gilbert Grape



even Something to Talk About made me cry.

And ...

Sansho the Bailiff which is not a Halstrom film.

[fizzgig]

59. what's eating gilbert grape is a fantastic movie

[nytemare]

57. OK....

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bittersweet, the moment when Chief said "thanks" to Randall after he gave him a piece of gum was priceless, not to mention Chief running away from the asylum.

About Schmidt - Made me see that small things are what makes life worth living.

Sophie Scholl - Showed that humanity can be right, and courageous, despite overwhelming odds.

Joy Luck Club - Seems like most of my favorite movies have a bittersweet quality to them.

Crash - People are capable of great evil, or great good, that you wouldn't expect from them.

Amelie has already been mentioned, and besides Cuckoo's Nest, is my favorite film. I am blown away by it every time I watch it. The bit characters crack me up, but Amelie's impish good-nature was the best part of the film to me.

Edit: I must add "The Great Dictator" to make it 7. Chaplin was marvelous, the speech brought me to tears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvPIWzQcUY

[DesertFlower]

69. i loved Joy Luck Club. nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

61. Here are five, filled with sex, zombies, gunshots and drive-in burgers.

1). Tombstone (friendship, honor, doing what you're called on to do even if you'd rather be chasing Dana Delaney)

2). Night Of The Living Dead (In interviews, GeorgeRomero had a "back story" about this being an allegory for the Vietnam war, but I see it this way. The zombies are hungry. To them, you are food, They eat you without asking permission. I live in Silicon Valley. That's what life is like here EVERY DAY. Oh, yeah...there's sunshine too. But a lot of people just walking up and taking a big fucking bite out of you seven days a week without asking permission).

3). Magnum Force (Because sometimes all you have to do to get what you want is knock on the door)

4). Casino (The higher they climb, the harder they fall)

5). The Hollywood Knights (Because Newbomb Turk has more talent in his little pinky than you have in your whole...pinky)...(yes, it's a Fran Drescher line from the movie, and it's one of my all-time favorites. "Lawrence...Lawrence of Arabia...He's an English guy...Who came to fight the Turkish...").

:toast:

[astral]

66. Bambi - absolutely broke my lil' four-year-old heart

--Name of the Rose w/ Sean Connery -- haunting movie, only one I'd ever wanted to watch more than once and I think I saw it 3 times.
--Sopphie's Choice -- sure it made me cry
--The Inlaws -- gave me a bellyache from laughing so hard ---serpentine! he goes back and walks serpentine. killed me.
--March of the Penguins -- made me cry too! Love is the glue that holds them together.

Maybe not all my best movies but the first ones that came to mind. I don't see movies too often.

[DesertFlower]

67. i agree about Requiem for a Dream.

what a weird movie.

i just saw Che tonight. this is probably the 3rd movie i've seen about him.

[crimsonblue]

70. hmmm

1. Equilibrium -- strong desire to eradicate emotions

2. Hard Candy -- holy fucking shit!

3. The Band's Visit -- how futile is the nature of friendship

4. Citizen Kane -- my rosebud haunts me...

5. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo -- man, I wish I still smoked pot....

[Burma Jones]

73. Five Movies, Five Emotions

Brazil - Numb Depression

Babe - Joy

Monster's Ball - Pity

Saving Private Ryan - Admiration, intense gratitude

Field of Dreams - The whole personal reconciliation/redemption and longing for a better America thing.........

[Phillycat]

74. I'm such a soft touch. Love, Actually makes me cry from the very first scene

Of people greeting each other in the arrivals terminal of the airport. :cry: :loveya:

[LanternWaste]

81. Oddly enough, to me the most heartwarming scene...

Oddly enough, to me the most heartwarming scene in the film was between the has-been rock star and his manager spending Christmas eve together...

"Enough of that! Let's get pissed and watch some porn." :)

[SacredCow]

75. Mine...

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind- Saw it in the midst of a bitter divorce, and helped me see that I could take the good with the bad and move on.

2. American Beauty- See #1. Those 2 really got my perspective back in place during a bad spell and got me off of my ass to make the changes that I wanted to make in my life.

3. Sordid Lives- Spray your drink out of your nose funny!!! But also touching in spots- Especially for someone wrestling with coming out to your less than enlightened family.

4. Leaving Las Vegas- Kind of the opposite of 1 and 2, though watching the main character attempt to drink himself to death was stirring in a positive way for me.

5. Heathers- Just an unbelievable film.

[Forkboy]

76. Requiem was so over the top it lost it's impact for me.

The worst possible thing happened to each person, tailor made for their own hell. It was so predictable and cliched. I did love the storyline with Ellen Burston though. And even my adoration of Jennifer Connelly didn't help. Overall it was a major letdown for me after the excellence of the movie Pi.

Here's five from me...

1 - Planet Terror - Made me actually yell "Yeah, baby!" out loud when a zombie got run down by a truck and exploded in a bloody mess. Old school gore movie, and pure fun. I had a huge smile on my face from scene 1 onwards.

2 - Syrianna - Made me feel both pissed,and happy I wasn't the one getting my fingernails pulled off.

3 - Momento- Made me feel fucking confused, and eager to watch it again to figure things outs. After three viewings I'm still confused. Great movie.

4 - No Country For Old Men - Made me feel glad I wasn't in Javier Bardem's way. "What do I stand to gain?" "Everything."

5 - Grave of the Fireflies - Made me feel like dying. Ten times more depressing than Requiem, mostly for the storyline, but also because of the contrast between the horrific story and the beautiful animation. The only movie to make me flat out cry, not just tear up.

[YankeyMCC]

77. Forbidden Planet - Sense of wonder and hope

Pan's Labyrinth - Horror but also...I can't put my finger on it but something like hope for if not humanity as a whole the good in individuals even individuals that have to make choices that don't adhere to the traditional notations of 'good'

The Great Escape - Just some real fun

Hotel Rwanda - Sadness and inspiration (due to the hotel manager's actions)

Apollo 13 - Tension and Elation, adventure

[mochajava666]

78. These are mostly on the dark side

Requiem for a Dream - Haunting. Creepy. Hopelessness. Angst.

Platoon - Fear. Shock. Anger.

Shawshank Redemption - Hope. Fear. Schadenfreude at the end for the Warden.

Cool Hand Luke - Rebelliousness. Anger. Compassion.

Clean and Sober - Scared me because I had substance problems at the time and saw how difficult recovery is. Compassion. Sadness.

[algol]

79. Mine

Apocalypse Now -- horrified
Koyaanisqatsi -- insignificant
Akira -- confused
Hidden Fortress -- loyalty
The Hours -- unsettled

[jus_the_facts]

80. My 5...

Enemy of the State ~ pissed me off and it was prophetic in hindsight.

Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas ~ Hilarious and I love HST and Depp.

The Notebook ~ Sad but beautiful love story

The Mountain Men ~ Hilarious and sad...my Dad and I watched it together for the first time after I'd taped it for him while he and my Mom went out to eat...not long after we first got cable and a VCR in the early 80's...since he died I can't watch it without squallin' my eyes out at the end.

School of Rock ~ Love Jack Black and METAL..the kids in this movie are amazing and hilarious on the movie commentary extras.