Babel didn’t exactly make me cry but I felt kinda sad after watching it.
American Psycho
It just hits too close to home for me.
When Gekko gets busted. tear’d up.
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j/k
Nothing yet. I’m conscious I’m watching a movie and that the people playing the characterss are well off. I have to learn to detach myself.
Does that work for strippers too?
Saving Private Ryan, the end of Platoon. Thinking about the “ultimate sacrafice” made by servicemen in the prime of their lives gets to me. The shitty treatment of Nam-era vets until more recently makes me sick.
Sometimes the against-all-odds comeback like Rudy or Cinderella Man but thats different. Also dogs dying… they just dont live long enough.
This thread reminds me of what a hiring manager once told me. He used to ask his candidates during interviews if they ever cried after being dumped. If people answered yes, he would ding them. He said finance is for unemotional, stone cold people. He wanted machines, not human beings.
^ the exception may be very client focused roles.
for a pure investment banking role, that’s probably true
Patch Adams
what is this nonsense?
lord of the rings was pretty cool especially that last scene when they are surrounded and the whole “for frodo” dialogue.
catch me if you can- leo escapes and goes to his mom’s house during christmas only to realize she has a new family and he see’s his sister through the glass and then get’s arrested.
There were some tragicomic moments in O’ Brother Where Art Thou as well
I really didn’t think that the director built that part up well enough.
In Return of the Jedi, there comes a point when you think, “Oh my God–they’re all going to die.” And you get really sad. The same is true in “The Rock” when they’re in the shower room.
In Return of the King, I didn’t get the same “They’re all going to die” feeling. I know that’s what the director was trying to portray, but it didn’t have the same effect as in Jedi or The Rock. (Add Braveheart to the list of “they’re all going to die” movies.)
RotJ is the most over-rated Star Wars film.
I kinda thought the “For Frodo” moment in LOTR:ROTK was kinda sappy. There were lots of other really moving moments in the films, but I thought that that particular moment didn’t work all that well. I understood that they had to try, because it’s a crucial point of the narrative, but it didn’t feel real at the emotional level. Or maybe I just knew how it was going to work out.
Mike and Mike discussed this very subject this morning. They echoed Field of Dreams and Marley and Me. Greenie said that a movie that didn’t necessarily make him cry, but that was really tough to watch–Million Dollar Baby. They also mentioned Rocky 4, the scene where Apollo dies.
Even Golic said that he bawled like a baby at Marley and Me. BS and Palantir–think you’re tougher than Mike Golic?
Yes. Big baby.
I love Mike and Mike.
They mainly talked about Brian’s Song (at least for the 10 minutes or so that I was listening), which I think barely got a mention here.
I don’t think tough is the right word, maybe less emotional.
Armageddon…when bruce willis replaces ben affleck in being the last one to stay and detonate the bomb…and ben affleck is yelling “you cant do this…it’s my job!”…and then Bruce Willis says “You go take care of my little girl…that’s your job now”…and his final speech with his daughter. I’ll no homo this just in case.