Both awesome, awesome picks. I'd actually throw the end of Waking Ned Devine-you know, the telephone booth scene-into that favorite scenes thread. That and the scene where Jackie's trying to get to the house to act like he's the guy that one the money. Hell, even that first scene where Michael tricks his wife into bringing him some dessert. If you haven't seen Waking Ned Devine, go rent it pronto. That's a droxford-esque command.
The only movie that made me really sad and come close was LIFE AS A HOUSE http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264796/
i personally do not like movies like this. i avoid them b/c i don't see the point of putting myself through an emotional rollercoaster for 2 hours. crying and crying...just too much for an emotional person. i'd rather watch Goonies or Office Space type stuff over and over again.
i honestly thought the end was a joke, I was getting up when he crashes into the ocean only to be brought back for 20 more minutes of Fu#$@$@ aliens. What the F was that all aboot? I thought it was some sick joke of spielberg/kubrick. "2000 years later." what a terrible beginning to an end. I scoff at that
They weren't aliens. They were the evolved robotic life that survived long after humans died out. I actually like that movie.
kills me that and the scene with the doctor...who gets to live out the fantasy of being the young kid playing against the big leaguers...and then has to step back off the field and into the reality he's a doctor to save costner's little girl.
Million dollar baby. This hit a little too close to home in the hospital scene. It was the only movie I remember making me upset like that.
the thing that was always funny about moonlight graham is that since he hit a sacrifice fly in his plate appearance, he still never technically got an at-bat. i bet it hit him when he got back to the corn and he started kicking himself for saving the daugher. and thinking about gladiator again, i have to ask, was anyone ever born to play a role more than Joaquin Phoenix was born to play Emperor Commodus? seriously, he was so perfect for that role and nailed it so perfectly it was as if he was born to do it. arnold schwarzenegger as the terminator is about the only other person i can think of possibly more meant for a role than joaquin as commodus, and even then i'm not sure. man i love that movie.
No kidding. Destroying the happy tranquility of my youth just so they could roll out a new generation of toys. I guess I'm just more sensitive then I thought. Either that or a sucker (sucker would be my guess). I tear up at the most obvious "tear jerker" moments, although sports movies seem to get me more than most. Brian's Song, Bang the Drum Slowly, the closing voice montage in Hoosiers (emotional, not really teary), Field of Dreams, Friday Night Lights. I guess sports has just played such a big part of my growing up that I feel what the characters are going through, or something. I'm going to throw in Equilibrium or Fight Club now to go cleanse myself of these "feelings".
