Movies to get sappy with...

[InnerDarkness]

I remember a thread about songs for subs to cry to...or something of that nature.

Are there any movies anyone (sub and Dom/me alike) likes to get all sappy with? Sometimes when I am feeling down, or lonely, or just need a good cry (like today), there are movies I like to put on.

I just happened to luck out and catch Hope Floats right when it was starting on ABC Family, so I have been sniffling and lounging around for the last hour now...

anyone else ever do this? Have certain sappy movies they like?

 

[Scarlett_t2]

I get in those moods too...not depressed but just blue so out come my sappy movies and everyone else in the house runs. Some of my fav's
Fried Green Tomatoes
Beaches
Mask
Pay it Forward...box of Kleenex
Ghost
Steel Magnolias
Titanic
Stepmom
Where the Red Fern Grows
This isn't really a chick flick but its one of my favorite movies and it gets me everytime....Lonesome Dove

Scarlett

 

[redelicious]

Steel Magnolias and Terms of Enderment get me every time.

Then I get mad at myself for being such a wuss, lol.

 

[cellis]

Don't forget the classic Redford/Streisand...

The Way We Were

 

[yaspis]

I have loads of movies which I cry through (and even more that I sleep through), but my memory with names is horrid. Let's see...

Titanic
Shakespeare in love
Braveheart
The Gladiator
.. Gone with the wind, yeah.
The Pianist (La Pianiste, a French movie about a twisted piano teacher; it's so cruel and sad that I wind up crying. Funnily enough, we ended up fucking through it once...)
The Green Mile
Oh brother, where art thou?
The horse whisperer

 

[SierraMoon]

Pay It Forward is definitely a box of kleenex movie.

American History X is everything, in one movie.

Beaches

Armeggedon (i couldn't believe how hard i cried at this movie!!)

Simon Birch (Another box of Kleenex movie!!)

That's all i can think of for now... i'm sure i'll be back with more

 

[catalina_francisco]

Mmmmm, three come to mind at the moment for the sappy, loving feelings. First is Salmonberries with k. d. lang.....no matter how many times I watch it, I can't help imagining and hoping and praying for what might happen after the camera stops filming, wanting it to go on just once!! Second would be Dying Young...another one which creates thoughts of what happened after the last frame. Third is The Mirror Has Two Faces...just love the realism reflected in much of the story, the laughter and the tears, and most importantly, the evolvement and journey of two lives brought together....oh, and Barbra who I love watching and listening to always and forever.

Catalina

 

[Anna Sue]

One movie what I saw yesterday again and at the end tears start flowing again.


The Six Sense.

Anna Sue

 

[oo0_boo_0oo]

Meet Joe Black
Braveheart
City of Angels

All three made me sob like a baby. I could list others that make me cry but I would be here forever!

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Under Suspicion.

 

[InnerDarkness]

the 1959 film, Imitation of Life, broke my heart....

*sniff*

 

[InnerDarkness]

something is odd...I just posted about Imitation of Life and my post showed up BEFORE the last two posts that were here!!!

 

[entitled]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Untamed Heart yet.

 

[lark sparrow]

Love out of the box - and the politics that surround it - (Her Majesty) Mrs. Brown.

 

[dragonlace]

Powder, the color purple, flowers for algernon

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

The Color Purple
Steel Magnolia's
Boys on the Side (gods I cry)
Philadelphia (Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas)
Untamed Heart
City of Angels
Imitation of life (the scene at the end where the daughter is running down the street after her mother's hearse and Mahalia Jackson is singing...nonstop sniff fest)



there are more...but these always work...

 

[InnerDarkness]

Imitation of life (the scene at the end where the daughter is running down the street after her mother's hearse and Mahalia Jackson is singing...nonstop sniff fest)

EXACTLY! I was full out BAWLING on that scene the first time I watched it!!

 

[InnerDarkness]

The Color Purple!! Yes yes yes.

I also like "Of Mice and Men"...I saw the version where John Malkovich was Lenny and it tore me up.

I love John Malkovich (although I am probably spelling it wrong LOL) and Dangerous Liaisons is one of my favorite all time movies...the scene where he is leaving Michelle Pfiefer and keeps saying, "It's beyond my control" over and over.....ahhhhh hurts so good.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

EXACTLY! I was full out BAWLING on that scene the first time I watched it!!

hell I have seen it sooo much that I start crying a full 10 minutes before it ever gets to that point...

Dangerous Liasions...Gods how the hell could I forget that movie..it KILLED me...and I wanted to MURDER Glenn Close's character..(uppity skank!!!)

 

[ammre]

Anything with a theme of either great success (I cry when all the people bow for Mulan while she's standing ont he emperor's steps, but i also cry when the woman in the nike commercial crosses the finish line.) or anyhting with a dying parent theme... meet joe black and big fish really got to me...

otherthan that i'm a fairly no tears person.

 

[NemoAlia]

We saw "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" last night. It was definitely a tug on my heartstrings!

 

[Phaedraa]

I couldn't agree more with Steel Magnolias and Terms of Endearment- also the sequel The Evening Star which in general is not nearly as good, but it does have a cry inducing scene at the end. I'm embarassed to admit it, but I cried a tiny little bit at the end of My Dog Skip.

 

[evesdream]

Holy Smoke with Harvey Keitel and Kate Winslet. Kate Winslet always makes me tear up. Unexpected discovery, transformations, missed opportunities, powerful performances that don't miss a beat.

 

[Netzach]

I'm weird.

I had a huge cathartic cry in a movie theater last while watching Errol Morris' "The Fog Of War" and McNamara talks about the extent of the havoc wreaked on Japan *before* the atom bombs....each city is compared, statisitcally to an American city. 1/2 of New York. 2/3 of Baltimore. Burned, bombed, pffft.

Then I felt shitty that I was viewing the world through so racist a lens that I needed to translate the numbers into numbers of Americans in order to even think about it in a large sense...how fucked up is that?

These are the things that get me sobbing these days.

Gods and Monsters turns on the waterworks nicely too.

And Y Tu Mama Tambien had me pretty devastated at the end.

 

[DVS]

Powder, the color purple, flowers for algernon

No offense intended, but I would have to disagree with Flowers for Algernon. Charly (1968) was much better. Maybe because it came out first, as that always seems to be the case when someone tries to redo a movie. I still don't know why that is done, other than an effort to reap some of the class the original movies had.

OK, I know all of you book readers will say the book was even better than Charly. And, in nearly all cases, that will be true. That is not because the book is better, but more likely for these 2 reasons.

1) The book usually comes first, so that is difficult for any movie, to follow in the footsteps of a good book. Actor's children have difficult times following in their famous parent's footsteps, for the same reason. And, movie remakes have the same problem. It's just difficult to follow greatness. You can't just equal that greatness, you really have to surpass it, to be seen as an equal.

2) Also, a book relies on the reader's imagination for a lot of it's greatness. Sure, the writer has to paint the story so it is easy to visualize, but the reader's imagination still has a lot to do with how wonderful that story is.

No movie can match a reader's enjoyment of a book, because the movie has to show what the reader saw in their own mind. Although special effects are getting better and better, it's still next to impossible to do.

For that reason, a movie will almost always seem like a cheap attempt to follow a great book, to someone who's read the book first. It's not that the movie was poorly done, it's more likely the book had a writer who could bring out the the necessary feelings in the reader, by painting with words.

I never read Flowers for Algernon. Actually, I'm not much of a book reader. Charly was a wonderful movie. It was full of emotion. To me, it is one of my all time favorites.

Another was To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). No, I haven't read the book, but I thought this movie was wonderful, too. I couldn't watch when Atticus had to kill the rabid dog. I knew it has to be done, but I love all animals and just hated to see it happen.

The interaction of Scout and Jem with Boo Radley (Robert Duvall's first film roll) were wonderful, too. The presents left in the tree, and the Holloween pumpkin costume...here was the so called mean and scary missfit of the town, and how this image changed as seen from the eyes of children.
The racial overtones caught my breath, when I first saw that movie as a kid. I couldn't understand why people would act that way towards another.

I could go on, but if there is the possibility someone hasn't seen this movie (OK, or read the book) you are missing a wonderful time.

Both of these movies had sensational ups and downs that kept my attention on edge. I highly recommend them both to any couple wanting to fill their hearts and feel their emotions.

Sorry, I do tend to ramble at times.