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Viv
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| Andreth wrote: | | Yes! I just bought a bootleg copy of the extended version of this movie (with Harrison Ford narrating which I think is criminal for them to have cut out of the theatrical version) and that part always gets me. |
Bladerunner is one of my top-5 favorite movies of all time (even though it doesn't necessarily make me cry, so here I am going off-topic). The voice-over version actually was the theatrical version, it just was never released on DVD. When Ridley Scott finally got his Director's Cut (the version sans the voice-over and with a new, crappy ending) out there, he literally bought up distribution rights for the theatrical version and every copy he could lay his grubby little paws on. It's hard to find the original nowadays, but I think it's much better. |
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Andreth
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I never saw the original in the theater. First watched it on laserdisc (and I was very young when I first saw it, just for the record! Say laserdisc these days and kids look at you like you're talking about model T's). So the Harrison Ford voice over was in the theatrical version, but when they put it out on video they took it out? That sucks. I always liked the movie, but this extended version we bought a few months ago, I love. The narration did make a big difference.
It's like the opposite of Dune. The original version was something like three hours long, had a long introduction by Frank Herbert and some narration. But obviously people complained about the movie being too confusing (guess it was too hard to read the freaking book) and so they went back and cut quite a few scenes out and then added more narration to it. The original version of Dune is another one of my recent bootleg copies and all book fans of Dune should see the original version. The Dino de Laurentis version just blew, IMO. (Patrick Stewart was pretty cute in that movie too, even all dusted up with worm poop.  ) |
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| Texasgirl wrote: | i know Viv wrote about saving private ryan... i couldn't agreee more. also, during ...what was it called?...was it the gladiator? anyway, it was the movie when spartucus is up on the cross, and his lover comes and shows him his son and says something along the lines of "your son, spartacus...he's free...free..."
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Are you talking about Spartacus? The one with Tony Curtis? It's been a long time since I've seen that one and I don't remember it well enough to be sure. |
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i'm feeling like an idiot cuz i can't remember the name, andreth. talk to me in a few years and i'm sure i'll have it figured out by then.
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| Andreth wrote: | | Texasgirl wrote: | i know Viv wrote about saving private ryan... i couldn't agreee more. also, during ...what was it called?...was it the gladiator? anyway, it was the movie when spartucus is up on the cross, and his lover comes and shows him his son and says something along the lines of "your son, spartacus...he's free...free..."
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Are you talking about Spartacus? The one with Tony Curtis? It's been a long time since I've seen that one and I don't remember it well enough to be sure. |
I thought Spartacus was with Kirk Douglas ... although I must confess I have quite a mental mess of old movies dealing with ancient civilizations. My mom would take us to the cinema to watch classics like "Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur" (I still remember the Holy Week we watched both ... one after the other  ).
I'm pretty sure the scene Texasgirl is describing is from Spartacus ... be it Tony or Kirk.
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Whoever mentioned Gladiator is right. I wept like a girl after that. I have no idea why, either, it's quite embarrassing.
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| Hathor wrote: | | Whoever mentioned Gladiator is right. I wept like a girl after that. I have no idea why, either, it's quite embarrassing. |
I think I cried at Gladiator as well. I cry at everything.
Actually I have just remembered. The one film I caught by accident once on Scottish TV and have never been able to watch since because I cried so much was an Angela Lansbury (sp?) thing. I think it was called Mrs Harris goes to Paris or something like that. Never even saw the whole film, just this one scene.
'Proof' with Hugo Weaving got me going as well.
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A lot of movies have made me cry..but one that stands out is Legends of the Fall. The scene where Samuel is trying to get to Tristan but gets stuck in the barbed wire and blinded by mustard gas just kills me. I cried my eyes out the first time I saw that. Also, the movie Radio Flyer made me cry. The whole movie just made me emotional.
Oh, and the scene in ROTK when Aragorn and Arwen are reunited and he starts crying... That gets me going because it reminds me of how I felt when my fiance finally came home from Iraq. But yeah, I'm a big baby when it comes to movies. |
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Dumbo. When he goes to visit his mother in the mad elephant car. She hangs her trunk through the bars and cradles him while "Baby Mine" is playing. I'm a goner when he wraps his trunk around hers and cries while she rocks him.
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Yep, the old Disney movies are murder on the tear ducts
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It's not just movies that have me reaching for a tissue, I've even been known to cry at dog food commercials. 
| Havetoist wrote: | Dumbo. When he goes to visit his mother in the mad elephant car. She hangs her trunk through the bars and cradles him while "Baby Mine" is playing. I'm a goner when he wraps his trunk around hers and cries while she rocks him.
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Dumbo has to be my all time sob-fest! Can't watch it with my boys anymore, they get too upset seeing me cry. Running a close 2nd is Hope Floats. After Ramona's funeral, when Bill (Birdee's scum-sucking, good-fer-nuthin', livestock-molesting bastard of an ex-husband  ) is going back to his whore, um I mean new girlfriend, and Bernice is crying hysterically wanting to go with him... Simply heart breaking. (Hubby won't let me watch that anymore.)
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Whale Rider
Romeo and Juliet - the Zeffirelli version (the tomb scene and THAT music!)
The English Patient
Casey's Shadow - When Casey's pony gets poisoned. The last race. The slow motion as all the horses are running and the close up of Casey....and THAT music!
The Day of the Dolphin - Fa saying goodbye to Ma and Pa.
Signs - the 'last dinner' scene. |
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I don't often cry during movies, but special points in LoTR (Boromir's death, the end of RoTK,) just had be bawling. My worst moment, though, would have had to be the middle of TTT where Elrond gives his monolgue about Arwen's choice to be counted with mortals and how much it will suck. I was a total mess. 
| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | 'Proof' with Hugo Weaving got me going as well. |
That one didn't make me cry, it just depressed the Helcaraxë out of me. Great, great movie, though.
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Maram68
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| Viv wrote: | | "Schindler's List" … Oh, and "Life is Beautiful." Can't watch that one, either. |
| Havetoist wrote: | | Dumbo. When he goes to visit his mother in the mad elephant car. She hangs her trunk through the bars and cradles him while "Baby Mine" is playing. I'm a goner when he wraps his trunk around hers and cries while she rocks him. |
Oh yes, I cried at those and Ladyhawke and Braveheart and Gladiator. And E.T. 
Everytime I go to a movie I expect to either cry or laugh … I need that to release tension and stress and enjoy very much if the movie gets me so very much immersed into the plot that I react like that.
Really embarrassing was as my husband looked at me during ROTK, when Faramir rides out to recover Osgiliath and Pippin is singing (tears were gathering but I was silent) and then he was truly satisfied when the Rohirrim arrived at Pelennor and I started sobbing …
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