21 grams. Definitely not one of the feel-good movies of the year. Non-linear chronology may throw viewers off but Naomi Watts and Benecio Del Toro truly convey the helplessness of their character's tragic fates.
Saddest movies or moments? For my first, "Dumbo". I ALWAYS cry when he goes to see his mother when she's locked away in the trailer. I just bought it on DVD & still broke up during that scene while watching it with my wife. The end of "Saving Private Ryan", 'Earn this.' "The Sixth Sense" when the boy opens up with his mother & tells her that her mother was proud of her 'Everyday.' "The Color Purple", pretty much every 10-15 minutes was a tear jerking moment. "King Kong"(2005) the end hits a special nerve with me & my family, except for my brother. What a jerk!
"I can't live the buttoned down life like all of you! I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odor - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about what's to be done with this Monkey_Boy?!"
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I'm glad it's not just me that cries like a big girly-boy during films, but I have to be careful who I watch films with.
For example, when I was home for Xmas, my folks were watching While You Were Sleeping, with Bullock in it. I had to leave the room at the end because I was so happy for her! Didn't want my folks to think they'd raised a bubbler! It wasn't even a great film.
I agree with whoever said In America. That really got to me. The film that really devastated me though, was Ikiru. Jesus, I wept like a baby for half an hour. I then started to walk in to town, only to start crying again 10 metres from my front door. I had to come back in.
What a gimp!
"I know that human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully"
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Anyone who said either 'Grave of the Fireflies' or 'Requiem for a Dream' is definitely right. I am sorry to say that i cried like a baby during My Girl when Thomas J dies. I also shed tears during Monster's Inc. and countless others. And I cried during the film adaptation of Flowers for Algernon I feel so lame right now.
if you have a chanse, leave some flowers on algernon's grave in the bak yard.
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Epic Movie, thats an hour and a half of my life that i spent crying, but not out of sadness, out of sheer curiousity why i rented the movie, even on dollar monday
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
I actually cried two times this week, during Away From Her and War Photographer.
Other reliable tear-jerkers are Grave of the Fireflies and United 93. The most reliable tear-jerker for me, however, is the scene in Children of Men in which the protagonist carries the infant through the wartorn building and the violent conflict comes to an abrupt end only to start once the child's been removed. I don't think any other scene has touched me to the extent that one has.
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Posts: 85 | Location: CoMO | Registered: 01 February 2006
COnsider that the Indians had little notion of the genocide that was coming shortly. They knew we were out there but they had no idea how many of us there were. The end of a culture, a rich and diverser culture - man, that ripped my heart out. It was beyond sad.
A few of whats been mentioned are on my list as well. Grave of the Fireflies. Titanic got me a few times. Requiem & Irreversible belong on a different board. They are two of the most devastating I've seen; but don't belong on any saddest lists. United 93 definitely belongs here. Forest Gump. Has anyone ever mentioned Gump & 93 in concurrent sentences? No. 'A Family'...from Korea is another tear jerker. If you got The Fountain like I did, you cried for sure. The saddest though? It would have to be a tie between United 93 and a different Korean film called "A Moment to Remember"...hunt it down and watch it..
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I found it gut wrenching. But then, I have children, so I have real trouble watching children in jeopardy.
--------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman
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Jeany Slacker Posted 21 September 2007 11:52 AM Hide Post Armaggedon and Titanic...Though these are not considered as drama movies, certain parts of it were really heartbreaking...
While I don't share your opinion as two either of these movies being the saddes movies, particularly ARMAGGEDON (there are many such movies that share the same flavor of sadness where heroic figures eventually die), TITANIC is a fascinating movie and in terms of sad, it does have one of the best tear jerker arches (themes) that pervade throughout the entire movie, quite an accomplishment. I am not surpised of TITANIC as a movie to be selected as saddest and I share your emotional turmoil just reflecting on the movie right now. I don't think I've decided on my saddest movie because for one thing, it's too sad to contemplate. But stick to your choice of TITANIC and you can be assured that it is an easily defendable and credible choice on your part. There's lot to talk about when it comes to sadness and TITANIC, that is one of its greatest strengths as a movie and one of the explanations of its record-breaking box-office success.
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TITANIC is a fascinating movie and in terms of sad, it does have one of the best tear jerker arches (themes) that pervade throughout the entire movie, quite an accomplishment.
Which theme are you talking about, tab? The theme of true love lost, or of the actual disaster and the innocents that are lost? If it's the former, I agree it could be a tearjerker, but I never cared enough about the characters for it to realize itself. I agree the upstairs/downstairs lovestory is a classic theme, but I think it misses the mark in Titanic.
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I think Cameron did a better job with Aliens. And that movie is also sad. But only because you now have to deal the whole way through with the knowledge that Everyone is going to just die in the first ten seconds of Aliens 3 anyway.
Maybe you can fight off acid spewing aliens, but after the credits roll the Corporation (Hollywood) is just going to kill you anyway.
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I have never cryed in a movie. This is part to the fact that it was made by a compant yo make money. But i was defiantly moved by passion of the christ.
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While I don't share your opinion as two either of these movies being the saddes movies, particularly ARMAGGEDON (there are many such movies that share the same flavor of sadness where heroic figures eventually die), TITANIC is a fascinating movie and in terms of sad, it does have one of the best tear jerker arches (themes) that pervade throughout the entire movie, quite an accomplishment. I am not surpised of TITANIC as a movie to be selected as saddest and I share your emotional turmoil just reflecting on the movie right now. I don't think I've decided on my saddest movie because for one thing, it's too sad to contemplate. But stick to your choice of TITANIC and you can be assured that it is an easily defendable and credible choice on your part. There's lot to talk about when it comes to sadness and TITANIC, that is one of its greatest strengths as a movie and one of the explanations of its record-breaking box-office success.
I'm just sharing my thoughts about the movies that i mentioned earlier in this thread and we all have different opinions and choices..and i respect your opinion..
Jeany Slacker Posted 17 October 2007 12:06 PM Hide Post quote: Originally posted by tabuno:
While I don't share your opinion as two either of these movies being the saddes movies, particularly ARMAGGEDON (there are many such movies that share the same flavor of sadness where heroic figures eventually die), TITANIC is a fascinating movie and in terms of sad, it does have one of the best tear jerker arches (themes) that pervade throughout the entire movie, quite an accomplishment. I am not surpised of TITANIC as a movie to be selected as saddest and I share your emotional turmoil just reflecting on the movie right now. I don't think I've decided on my saddest movie because for one thing, it's too sad to contemplate. But stick to your choice of TITANIC and you can be assured that it is an easily defendable and credible choice on your part. There's lot to talk about when it comes to sadness and TITANIC, that is one of its greatest strengths as a movie and one of the explanations of its record-breaking box-office success.
I'm just sharing my thoughts about the movies that i mentioned earlier in this thread and we all have different opinions and choices..and i respect your opinion..
Without responses like yours, I'd hate to ever make comments on these websites. With your attitude, you'll make a fine critic.
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