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Subclass movies that still get you emotional

Started by Artemis, September 04, 2013, 12:32:19 AM

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Famous Mortimer

Something Borrowed
I was on a plane, and it was incredibly uncomfortable, but this film came on and bizarrely it took my mind off my aching legs and numb arse, and for that I will always love it.


small_world

Anything with emotional music.
I swear nothing on screen or in script would hit me, but a score... Straight to the heart.

Probably the best example, the arrival on island /helicopter scene in Jurassic Park.

De, du, dee, dudu. De, du, dee dudu.


Dusty Substance


Whilst not quite 'subclass' 1984's Starman is something like John Carpenter's ninth or tenth best film and one of his least typical too (The Thing didn't do that well at the box office due to another alien movie out at the time called E.T - Starman was Carpenter's family friendly alien film).

I don't think I've ever not cried at it. Just a snippet from Jack Nitzche's beautiful score can set me off (as featured in some of Adam Curtis' documentaries).

If you've not seen Starman (and you're not too cynical) then please do give it a go. Jeff Bridges is great as the epnoymous alien with support from Karen Allen and Charles Martin Smith. It's a lovely film.


Mini

Reading this thread was more fun when I accidentally thought it was the Sexy Films thread.

up_the_hampipe


Ghost when I was about five. Haven't seen it since.

I remember feeling emotional during the opening of Casino Royale. Don't laugh. I think I was just taken aback by how not-shit it was.



GeeWhiz

That Gary Sinise / John Malkovich version of Of Mice and Men is a perfectly serviceable adaptation. Nothing special. But the first time I saw it I was sobbing, pretty much from the point the old feller's dog gets put down.

Mister Six

Quote from: Ian Benson on September 04, 2013, 12:50:01 AM
Most recently, Real Steel, right at the end, when the kid stops watching the fight and watches his dad. I don't know if that film's subclass actually.

Yeah, Real Steel is a genuinely brilliant kids' film. It just got weirdly mismarketed as some kind of Hugh Jackman action vehicle.

EDIT: er, thread. Sorry, I don't get weepy at films at all, really, with the exception of Up, which makes me sob multiple times on every fucking screening. But that film's class, so doesn't belong here.

Hmmm... there must be something.

Lord Mandrake

K-pax was on telly one afternoon not so long ago and I fucking wept.

Cerys

As fat as I'm concerned Titanic is two separate films.  Before the iceberg, and after it.  And I'm usually in tears by the time we get to Vasquez telling her kids that story.

Quote from: small_world on September 26, 2013, 11:59:06 PM
Anything with emotional music.
I swear nothing on screen or in script would hit me, but a score... Straight to the heart.

Oh, and how.  I can be holding it all together with no problem a all - but the minute the music gets emotive, I'm gone.

neveragain


dr beat

Rocky 6 aka Rocky Balboa is a much better film than it should be - ok, so the stuff with the dog doesn't work too good, but otherwise it has a very developed sense of its own ridiculousness.  But the last couple of minutes (
Spoiler alert
Balboa slowly takes the plaudits, as the champion recognises a Pyrrhic victory
[close]
is the perfect finale.  Gets me every time.

mothman


Deanjam

As a kid in the 80s I grew up watching and loving films that could be best described as 'American bullshit'. Utterly corny nonsense with Arnie, Sly, Chuck etc. I think something has hung over from this, so anything that involves Real Americans being Real Americans does it for me. I don't cry of course, because that would make me a big girl, but I do get an emotional response that never appears when watching a more realistic drama.

The most recent example is in White House Down when
Spoiler alert
the Yank pilots refuse to drop their bombs on the little girl, BECAUSE IT'S WRONG!!!
[close]

Corny horseshit. But I do love it.

pigamus

Quote from: neveragain on October 14, 2013, 06:07:09 PM
I'm quite partial to Muriel's Wedding.

That's because it's great. There's nothing 'subclass' about Muriel's Wedding.

billtheburger

A made for tv semi horror  called The dark night of the scarecrow got to me last night.

Old Nehamkin

Quote from: dr beat on October 18, 2013, 01:04:50 AM
Rocky 6 aka Rocky Balboa is a much better film than it should be - ok, so the stuff with the dog doesn't work too good, but otherwise it has a very developed sense of its own ridiculousness.  But the last couple of minutes (
Spoiler alert
Balboa slowly takes the plaudits, as the champion recognises a Pyrrhic victory
[close]
is the perfect finale.  Gets me every time.

I think that if you reduce the Rocky series to I, II and VI it works as a pretty decent, satisfying trilogy. III and IV are basically big, fun cartoons and V is just pointless, but VI feels like a return to the (relatively) down-to-earth, bittersweet tone of the first couple of films. It's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's a nice little epilogue and it's one of the very few instances where resurrecting an aged film character has actually improved the status of the franchise.

dr beat

^Agree 100%.  I can totally see why they wanted to make it - its a proper, satisfying finish to Rocky's story.

neveragain

Quote from: pigamus on October 18, 2013, 05:40:48 PM
That's because it's great. There's nothing 'subclass' about Muriel's Wedding.

Damn straight, actually! Well, I think there's some weak acting in it (not from anyone too integral) and it always seems to drag slightly through her brief marriage to the Olympic swimmer but besides that it's a favourite of mine. There are certainly some moments that elicit strong emotions very easily.
Spoiler alert
'Goodbye Porpoise Spit!'
[close]

Oh, and I think Seven Psychopaths was rather unsatisfying (or at least in need of another draft) but Christopher Walken's performance is rather touching.

Kane Jones

Quote from: Old Nehamkin on October 19, 2013, 01:04:19 AM
I think that if you reduce the Rocky series to I, II and VI it works as a pretty decent, satisfying trilogy. III and IV are basically big, fun cartoons and V is just pointless, but VI feels like a return to the (relatively) down-to-earth, bittersweet tone of the first couple of films. It's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's a nice little epilogue and it's one of the very few instances where resurrecting an aged film character has actually improved the status of the franchise.

Can we still keep III and IV though, please? If only for the montages and that Robert Tepper song.  You can do what you want with V.


Dusty Substance

Quote from: mothman on October 18, 2013, 04:53:25 PM
The end of Mission To Mars always gets me.

Only seen MtM once but remember thinking how under-rated it was. The ending got me too. Going against the majority of reviews, Slant were very positive about it: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mission-to-mars

Benjaminos

Quote from: kngen on September 04, 2013, 09:31:26 AM
I had to turn UP! off after five minutes lest I flood the plane

To be fair, the first five minutes of Up (I assume you're talking about the Pixar one, not the Russ Meyer production) will knock the emotional stuffing out of you, regardless of where you happen to be.

For me, it's Batteries Not Included. That little still-born robot, its mother gently poking it, hoping it'll wake up.. blubsville here I come, every time.

Frazer

Silent Running when the
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damaged robot gets left behind by evil
[close]
hippy Bruce Dern.