Film Thread

Top 5 saddest movies (that I've seen) (In order of sadness):

1. Grave of the Fireflies

2. Schindler's List

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. The Green Mile

5. Changling

I'd put Toy Story 3 but I cried tears of happiness for that movie, so it's void of the list.

I never did quite get over The Green Mile. I watched large chunks of it with my brother when I was 8 (He was about 11 or 12, so why he wanted to watch it was beyond me.) and he played some of the more memorable scenes, including Del's execution (I wasn't scared by that, although I didn't yet get just how painful that had to have been.) and jsut about everything including John Coffey.

I loved Coffey, and all of his scenes cemented just how much good he did for the world, particularly when he used that weird miracle power ("Took it back").
One scene that stuck out was when he healed the warden's sick wife, and how she tells him that she saw him in her dream, and that they were both lost in the dark, but found each other. At age 8, I couldn't help but think that everything was going to be alright, and that somehow, they'd clear John's name.



A man with the personality of a young child, and the abilities of an angel wanting to die.

I was practically catatonic for a little while.

Teachers will indeed butcher movies for you - this goes for any other media.
This is because they are not there to get you to like movies, books, poetry or whatever.
They are there to make an acceptable number of people pass their exams.
That is all.

Upcoming movies I'm looking forward too;

Puss in Boots
The Plot: Rumored plot: follow the events that lead up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.

Restless.
The Plot: The story of a terminally ill teenage girl (Wasikowska) who falls for a boy (Hopper) who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII (Kase).

Bellflower
The Plot: Woodrow (Glodell) and Aiden (Dawson) devote their time to building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction, part of their preparation for the global apocalypse. Their plans are derailed temporarily when Woodrow falls for Milly (Wiseman), but when their relationship sours, the two guys begin to live out an even darker, more violent fantasy.

Cowboys & Aliens
The Plot: In Silver City, Arizona, Apache Indians and Western settlers must lay their differences aside when an alien spaceship crash lands in their city.

Winnie the Pooh
The Plot: While out looking for some honey, Winnie the Pooh is pulled into a quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. Silly ol bear!

Super 8
The Plot: In a small Ohio town during the summer of 1979, a group of kids shooting a super 8 movie witness a train crash. Soon, they begin to suspect the crash was no accident, after disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town. As their local deputy searches for answers, a terrifying truth emerges.

Apollo 18
The Plot: Decades-old found footage from NASA's Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.

Contagion
The Plot: The Center for Disease Control dispatches an international team of doctors to stop an airborne virus from spreading around the world.

Real Steel
The Plot: A future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.

Footloose
The Plot: City kid Ren McCormack (Wormald) moves to a small town where rock 'n' roll and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

Happy Feet 2 in 3D
The Plot: Tap-dancing penguin Mumble (Wood) has a son, Erik, who is struggling to realize his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their world -- one that will take everyone working together to save them.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked
The Plot: Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore accidentally go overboard and wind up marooned in a tropical paradise -- and it's up to Dave to "save" them.

Underworld: Awakening
When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrioress Selene (Beckinsale) leads the battle against humankind.

The Vow
The Plot: A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) works to win her heart again.

Arrietty
The Plot: The Clock family are four-inch tall "little people" who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Plot: Young Abraham Lincoln (Walker) pledges deadly revenge against the vampire race after discovering they were responsible for the deaths of his mother and grandfather.

Resident Evil: Retribution
The Plot: In a prequel to Resident Evil, Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) finds herself in the midst of the major viral outbreak caused by the Umbrella Corporation.

Hotel Transylvania
The Plot: Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula, and the Werewolf are among a group of monsters hiding out in a hotel on the outskirts of Transylvania now that modern technology has made them seemingly irrelevant.



Some of these are just to awesome to be real movies.

I'm looking forward to

Hobo with a Shotgun

and

Friends With Benefits.

Both look fun! Too tired to go into detail, maybe another time

and Rare, after seeing your 'sad' list.

Watch Life is Beautiful, it'll get you, in a lovely way. One of my favourite films for sure.

Puss looks good, but the trailer goes a bit overboard though.

Hotel Transylvania sounds good. Is it a comedy or a drama or...

Also, Ziggy, Scar would totally win. He's a frigging lion!

Has anyone seen Prince of Egypt?

One of the best animated musicals of all time. This is just the opening.

Manly McLawyerface III wrote:Hotel Transylvania sounds good. Is it a comedy or a drama or...

It's an animated family comedy film, released by Sony Pictures Animation, the same company who produced Monster House and Cloud with a chance of Meatballs. The only worries I have is , you can usually tell what kind of movie it will be by the voice actors. Adam Sandler and David Spade are the two major stars listed ...

Here's more of the plot that was just released- Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter. 21 September 2012 (USA).

Dewmann wrote:Has anyone seen Prince of Egypt?

One of the best animated musicals of all time. This is just the opening.

I love that film. I miss good songs in animations.

In English class, we listened- in the dark- in complete silence- to the climactic speech in A Time to Kill. It was very moving. As soon as the actor delivered the final line- 'now imagine she's white'- I giggled. Loud. And everyone looked at me. No wonder my teacher didn't like me.
I laughed not because racism is funny, but because it's a total headshot moment. The same thing happened when we read The Lottery, that short story with the village and slips of paper. It's hard to understand irony in middle school.

Not that I want to destroy A Time to Kill, since I loved it, but it doesn't make sense.

The crime in the movie was that the father took a gun and shot people who raped his daughter. Sure, it was sad, and they probably deserved it, but the two guys were probably going to get arrested for their crime. The father didn't even wait for the verdict and shot the two guys in the middle of the courthouse. He even shot the leg of a deputy, and he needed to get it amputated.

The father's lawyer claims it was because of temporary insanity. He only uses it once, and doesn't prove it. The claim is nowhere in the closing statement. In fact, the closing statement is to make everyone look at this in the father's shoes, to see what you would've done if it had been their daughter.

Only thing is, court is for deciding if someone is guilty of a crime or not, and the jury decides that by the amount of evidence. It's not used for deciding if the motive for a crime was good or bad.

The father killed the two guys and shot the deputy. He openly admits it, and a courtroom full of witnesses can testify.

The end of the movie should've been that the father gets arrested for double homicide and attempted murder against a deputy.

Instead, he got off because everyone saw that the father's part of the story was really sad, and, as an excuse, they said he was temporarily insane, and everything is fine again.

The justice system doesn't work that way

Even going by the film's logic is stupid, because everyone seems to think that it's ok that the deputy got shot, as long as the rapists got killed.

Saw Tekken: Blood Vengeance at the theater yesterday...amazing movie...truly epic...instant classic...it was okay...coulda been better...why did Harada need to have a post-credits interview with the writer to try and validate the plot? Oh yeah...that's why...


...I loved it! []

A VIDEO GAME BASED MOVIE?

BASED FROM A POPULAR FIGHTING GAME?

THAT WAS GOOD?!

Yes. Unfortunately, it only played one show, one night...last night. The Blu-Ray/PS3 game combo disc comes out later this year. []

Captain America Ohemgeeee was so good!

Guess who watched the Princess and the Frog today! Loved it.

Grave of the Fireflies is a much better watch when ones older and able to grasp meaning and concept better. I'm shocked the movie was bundled with My Neighbor Totoro, two totally different themes and spectrum of emotions!

I need to watch Kiki's delivery service again, I've been meaning too for a while.

I need to watch Iron Giant again, it's been almost years, and that movie is pure genius.

@Rare, it's bundled with My Neighbor Totoro because you're meant to watch that one after Grave of the Fireflies. Otherwise you end up way too depressed the whole day without anything lighthearted to break it even.

Captain America = awesomeness...will see Cowboys & Aliens very soon. []

Anyone else hear of the movie 'Real Steal'? I believe it's about robot boxing. Awesome. ;3

It did look interesting. My first thought was "Rock'em Sock'em Robots?" []