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Trample the Elderly 05-01-2009 05:24 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
"I am Legend" made me choke up when he strangled his dog.

CRedskinsRule 05-01-2009 05:30 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
I hate movies that include harm to dogs. Those always get to me.

Superman13732 05-01-2009 05:50 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan chocked me up, watching the sports center special after Sean Taylor died, that got me good.

DoggDayAfternoon 05-01-2009 06:21 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
Labamba when i was a kid..

The Goat 05-01-2009 07:26 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
The end of the English Patient the only time I watched it.

Life is Beautiful...only sociopaths don't cry watching this movie.

70Chip 05-01-2009 07:38 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
Many posters have mentioned Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". My only beef with this otherwise terrific film is as follows: Why didn't they just blow up the bridge and skeedattle? What did they gain by sacrificing all those Warriors (especially the sniper Jackson who was worth a dozen Ryans). And Ryan would have still survived. I read that John Milius was approached about doctoring the script but refused because Spielberg insisted on this ending. Oliver Stone told Milius that if the Hanks character had been in Vietnam he would have been fragged.

70Chip 05-01-2009 07:39 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
[quote=The Goat;554080]The end of the English Patient the only time I watched it.

Life is Beautiful...only sociopaths don't cry watching this movie.[/quote]

Life is Beautiful definitely. "Ah Principesa!"

4mrusmc 05-01-2009 07:52 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;553820]That's also pretty funny only for 2 reasons:

1. The entire time the girl cowboy has a crazy smile on her face.
2. They just left it like that. Who abandons a doll? Or did they donate it?[/quote]

I think the doll was donated.

Yeah her smile starts to desolve when she realizes that the girl just left her and isn't coming back.

dmek25 05-01-2009 08:22 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
and awakenings( sp?) with Robin Williams. great flick

Schneed10 05-01-2009 10:11 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
[quote=70Chip;554083]Many posters have mentioned Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". My only beef with this otherwise terrific film is as follows: Why didn't they just blow up the bridge and skeedattle? What did they gain by sacrificing all those Warriors (especially the sniper Jackson who was worth a dozen Ryans). And Ryan would have still survived. I read that John Milius was approached about doctoring the script but refused because Spielberg insisted on this ending. Oliver Stone told Milius that if the Hanks character had been in Vietnam he would have been fragged.[/quote]

I've seen the movie about 1000 times, and can cite the answer (virtually verbatim) to that very question provided by Captain Miller (Hanks):

[quote]We can't push on to Paris without a deep water port, Rommel knows that so he's going to try to get his armor across the river. Then he can hit us in the flank when we turn to Cherbourg. That makes any village with a bridge solid gold real-estate.[/quote]

Essentially the bridge (any bridge) was critical to positioning one's forces in a strategic manner. For the Germans it was critical in order to position heavy ordinance in the path of the advancing allies. For the Americans it was critical to shore up multiple access points to generate multiple fronts in their push towards Germany.

That movie's great for so many reasons, not the least of which being the historical accuracy.

EARTHQUAKE2689 05-01-2009 10:36 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
[quote=4mrusmc;554088]I think the doll was donated.

Yeah her smile starts to desolve when she realizes that the girl just left her and isn't coming back.[/quote]


tell me it isnt funny though

70Chip 05-02-2009 12:09 AM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
[quote=Schneed10;554126]I've seen the movie about 1000 times, and can cite the answer (virtually verbatim) to that very question provided by Captain Miller (Hanks):



Essentially the bridge (any bridge) was critical to positioning one's forces in a strategic manner. For the Germans it was critical in order to position heavy ordinance in the path of the advancing allies. For the Americans it was critical to shore up multiple access points to generate multiple fronts in their push towards Germany.

That movie's great for so many reasons, not the least of which being the historical accuracy.[/quote]

I see. So they are preserving the bridge for the allies. I would have blown it up and saved my fighters.

MTK 05-05-2009 03:29 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
Caught the end of this one the other night: Hoosiers

SmootSmack 05-05-2009 03:37 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
Into the Wild, when he realizes he made a mistake and there's no turning back

MTK 05-05-2009 03:44 PM

Re: Movies that make you cry?
 
[quote=SmootSmack;555014]Into the Wild, when he realizes he made a mistake and there's no turning back[/quote]

great flick


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