|   How about most "moving" movie fav and why | puffum
Apr 11, 2001 7:44 PM | | I figured since we're on list, let's do this one too. Two for me: The Deer Hunter - I think mainly because I was just at the age to begin appreciating good drama and really understanding what affects Vietnam were having back home "after the fact" My all time favorite movie. The other has to be Saving Private Ryan. The most moving part for me was once the movie ended seeing and hearing several war vets openly sobbing and weeping in the theatre. There are several others that have made me pause and contemplate, even make me cry, but these two stand out for me. |
| Terminator 2 | Jim
Apr 11, 2001 9:47 PM | | T-800 ending its mission by drowning in the Lava. and no one can forget that last thumbs-up he raises when it finaly goes in. Arnold was robbed for best actor that year...well almost. |
| Forrest Gump and Field of Dreams | Adam
Apr 11, 2001 11:36 PM | | I cry every time, YES I CRY, when Forrest is at Jenny's grave...and Field of Dreams I mean who desn't miss playing catch with there dad. |
| re: How about most "moving" movie fav and why | Keith from Canada
Apr 12, 2001 6:33 AM | | Shawshank Redemption -- the perfect revenge movie combined with some of the best character development that I've ever seen. The entire film is about the strength of the human spirit and the film describes that spirit perfectly. I've seen it a dozen times and it never fails to choke me up. |
| re: How about most "moving" movie fav and why | gle_helle
Apr 12, 2001 6:54 AM | | What Dreams May Come--I don't even like the movie that much, but it's so skillful at manipulating emotions, it gets me every time. I know I'm being manipulated, but it works. |
| Same here... | puffum
Apr 12, 2001 7:12 AM | | ...and to think I watched that one with my mother while she was dying of cancer.... |
| re: How about most "moving" movie fav and why | Daigoro
Apr 12, 2001 8:07 AM | | Good call on The Deer Hunter. Boy is that depressing.
Other stirring movies include:
Awakenings
Schindler's List
Less than Zero
The Sweet Hereafter
The Day After
Breaking the Waves
Dead Man Walking
King of the Hill |
| Cinema Paradiso | Troy
Apr 12, 2001 12:52 PM | | This movie always moves me deeply. It's a small Italian film from the mid 80's that won the oscar for best 4in film.
It's about a small Italian village and a young kid's friendship with the projectionist of the towns theater. The kid grows up obsessed with movies, practically living in the theater. The film covers the usual coming of age stuff as only the Italians can, with a healthy and humorous obsession with sex. The end of the film, when he goes back to the village after 20 years for the funeral of the projectionist ties the entire story up and is very sad, yet uplifting. I try not to watch it too often (I've seen it 4 times since the mid 80's) so that it doesn't become old and predictable for me. I never cry at movies, but I always do at this one . . .
Good stuff. |
| Cinema Paradiso: Amen Brother | Mike Mc
Apr 12, 2001 4:21 PM | | This is certainly the most moving movie I have ever seen. I rank Cinema Paradiso in the top three of my all time favorite movies. |
| re: How about most "moving" movie fav and why | EdwinGene
Apr 12, 2001 7:58 PM | | I would have to say "Field of Dreams". I love Baseball the way it was when I was young. When the game was played by Giants and Heroes. The way it was before I lost my innocence and the players were reduced to money-grubbing millionaires.
I remember playing catch with my dad in the front yard of our home. Now we can hardly talk to each other. I wish I had a second chance to go back and play catch, again, with my dad. |
| There are so many | Eyespy
Apr 13, 2001 6:18 AM | | Good examples are already mentioned. Some not yet mentioned IMO include "Alive" (not on DVD, unfortunately, as this is among the most moving films ever released), "Frequency", and some of the more contemplative scenes and narratives in "The Thin Red Line". John Caviezel is in the last two, and is an incredible actor with unsurpassed emotional conveyance. Just incredible, and exceptionally memorable performances. |
| Thin Red Line | Tyson
Apr 13, 2001 6:51 AM | | Good call - this is my favorite movie of ALL time. I also love Malick's other 2 films, Badlands and Days of Heaven. |
| My ususal, The Patriot....... | BK
Apr 13, 2001 10:32 AM | | my favorite movie, but just to see those battle scenes and knowing that that's how they used to fight, just makes me shudder! Great acting, gave you a sense of what it was like back in that period, although that may not have been exactly the way things happened, it was enough to give you an idea.
Love this movie!! |
| Schindler's List, without a doubt...nt | cableguy
Apr 13, 2001 7:02 PM | | nt |
| Ditto that... | puffum
Apr 16, 2001 7:22 AM | | |
| Before Sunrise | Snakebit
Apr 16, 2001 8:17 PM | | So well done you won't believe it. |
| Rudy, Rudy, Rudy...... | Monstrous Mike
Apr 17, 2001 1:08 PM | | Boy, if there was ever a sports movie where the entire buildup is towards a single play, this is it.
For those of you who saw the movie, you know what play I mean. Didn't you just jump out of your seat like it was the final kick of a Super Bowl game? I love those movies where everyone tells the main character he can't make it and proves them wrong through sheer determination. You just can't teach stuff like that.
I would also like to throw in Apocolyse Now for an emotional roller-coaster ride that left an impression on me for a very long time. |
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