Movies: What makes and impact with you?

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:23 pm

Spirited Away: I own it and am watching it for what must be the 16th time. Yes - I like it that much.

Anywho, to me; the part of the entire movie that always holds the greatest impact is when Haku gives Chihiro magic bread after visiting her parents.

She's tired, wired, lacking sleep, distraught, bewildered....

"Eat this. I've put a spell on it. It will give you back your strength."

And it's after a few bites that she finally breaks down and starts crying for the first time in the movie. That part always just kills me.

That someone can be so emotionally wiped-out - that it takes getting back their strength just to be able to cry just kills me every time I watch it. I guess the soundtrack helps too.

But not just that. It can be any movie at any event. "What rocked your hole?" I wanted to call this, but such a title would not go over as well.

Another example: "The road warrior". When he rolls over to see the trailer from the semi just leaking sand out of it. That part in the movie when everything suddenly changed. When you, in the audience went "Ho sheets!" out loud. In that movie, that made the biggest impact on me. It was like a two-by-four to the back of the head.

Anywho. Anyone think of any other "brainfuck" moments in any movie? I'm really curious for what moves people.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:28 pm

Spaceballs. When they watched themselves in a movie while the movie was being filmed. Then fast forwarded to see where the heros were. That was like.... 'Woah.'

But seriously? Actually, as much flak as I'm going to get for it, I thought The 6th Sence was actually an amazing movie, and I really liked how it was done. I know there's been a lot of hype over it and it's been made into a big joke by now, but it was actually an amazing film.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:34 pm

You sure you want this list?

Lord of the Rings: I happen to consider all three one story, BTW. The part that gets to me the most is in Return of the King, at the very end, after Frodo and Sam have destroyed the ring and they're rescued. They've gone through hell with no hope of survival, they are laying exposed, ready to die...

And then Frodo (and Sam, of course) wakes up in a warm bed with clean sheets, and with a friend he thought dead looking down at him with a smile...

Master and Commander: The whole movie, though I'd have to say my favorite psycological scene is when the Captian is on the enemy ship. He's an amature violenist and he finds a smashed french horn in the cabin of his enemy...as if that Captain had said "see! We really are the same person! Just on the wrong sides of some issue neither of us have any say in."

A fast second would be the whole sequience where the ship's doctor is shot.

We Were Soldiers: All of it. It makes me cry.

A Walk To Remember: Christian movie made by a Secular studio. I doubt a lot of people like it, but it's nice to watch something where your values are enforced. Also...the romance was very nice.

CW

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:54 pm

KittyKatBlack wrote:But seriously? Actually, as much flak as I'm going to get for it, I thought The 6th Sence was actually an amazing movie, and I really liked how it was done. I know there's been a lot of hype over it and it's been made into a big joke by now, but it was actually an amazing film.

Here's what "got" me from that movie: The first time through... Toni Collett (the actess playing the mom) is talking while Willis is on the other couch. It was if she was addressing him.

Then to see it the second time, knowing what's up... Well that scene just hammered me the second time through. I would have to put that scene into the stars.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:10 am

I agree.

I loved that movie...I love all of M.Night Whatshisface (Cannot spell or pronounce his last name) work...it breaks your mind each time.

I guess, though, that my order of favorites would be

Signs: Not just because it's religious. It scared the PANTS off of me, not while I was watching it but afterwards, when I was trying to go to sleep...

Don't laugh! I had NIGHTMARES about the thing-in-the-window and the thing-in-the-corn. And the whole thing with the spaceships in the sky...

6th Sence: Kid sees the ghost. He IS the Ghost. That is all I needed.

Unbreakable: Like...how could you guess he's the bad guy? And then...like, with that many hints...how can you guess that he's NOT?

CW

ShineDog · Post by **ShineDog** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:06 am

hmm.

anything with tom hanks is likely destined to make me cry at the end. from turner and hootch to private ryan to philladelphia, im a right softie.

For sheer shooty bang bang fun, ive got a major soft spot for starship troopers

Amelie however, is one of my all time favourites..... its just LOVELY. really nice, touching and gentle. and funny as fluff.

and LOTR and SW 4,5,6, and the aliens series (barring resurection, ick) just to ensure im categorised as geek.

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:27 am

Punch Drunk Love: Emily Watson is laying in bed with Adam Sandler, and says, "I just want to scoop out your eyes with a spoon and eat them." He says he just wants to take her face and smash it. Its so romantic. In a freak way.

Secretary: Maggie Gyllenhaal pulling out her sharp things kit. Its just so painful and disturbing to watch someone hurt themself.

Amateur: A nun writing pornography, but she keeps getting rejected because "its not pornography, its poetry." Just a beautiful malfunction.

The Laramie Project: They are showing the parade in support for the man who was beaten(killed) for being gay, and there are only a couple people behind the banner of support, but by the time the parade gets around the block, there's a huge crowd. That makes me tear up and think mankind has some redeeming qualities.

Pervirella: "I look forward to defiling your corpse" - best villain line ever. How much more evil can you get while still retaining class?

The Bride Came C.O.D.: James Cagney reveals he's been lying about being married. Bette Davis says breathily, "you Cheap... Deceitful... Vulgar... Liar... and then kisses him. She tastes pickle in his mouth (he had also lied about them being trapped in the mineshaft collapse and going to starve to death). She starts yelling at him, "YOU CHEAP, DECEITFUL, VULGAR, LIAR!"

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison: A marine and a nun are tempted to abandon all their better judgment and fall in love while on a deserted island during WWII. They almost do, but unlike every other hollywood movie ever, they actually refrain! Where romance is like a recently sutured wound that itches terribly, but you know scratching it might kill you.

Cry 'Havoc': This is a rather bleak, yet extremely inspiring story about female nurses during a defeat at Bataan, WWII.

I watch lots of films. My B.A.'s in Film/Video.

DGC · Post by **DGC** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:27 am

Saving Private Ryan: The first thing that hit me really hard in this movie was the shot of the black army car that delivers death notices driving up a winding road. Then you notice that you aren't looking at the car, you're looking at it's reflection in Mrs. Ryan's window, then the curtain moves aside and you see her face and the car in one shot. Add the fact that you know three of her kids are dead, another MIA, and it just slams you. People can say what they will about Speilberg, but he was on his game for that movie and the cinematographer was on another level too.

Lost in Translation: The end. Don't know what else to say, except some movies don't know how they're supposed to end and it felt like this one did.

I agree that the M. Night Shyamalan is awesome. Now there's a director with style who isn't afraid to hold a shot for a long time and not fast-cut like a damn music video.

Fi13r · Post by **Fi13r** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:40 am

christwriter wrote:Signs: Not just because it's religious. It scared the PANTS off of me, not while I was watching it but afterwards, when I was trying to go to sleep...

Don't laugh! I had NIGHTMARES about the thing-in-the-window and the thing-in-the-corn. And the whole thing with the spaceships in the sky...

BadAstronomy.com's review of "Signs."

Everyone, read the "Spoiler" version of Bad Astronomy's review, even if you haven't seen the movie. Trust me, it'll make you a lot less mad than actually plodding through the whole movie, and you'll have the added bonus of avoiding having the filmmaker insult your intelligence about elementary science concepts (and I don't just mean "elementary" as in "simple," I mean "elementary" as in "you probably learned them in elementary school").

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:25 am

The Pianist - Scene where Szpilman plays for a German officer in what's left of Warszawa. A perfect use of music with an exceptional constrast, it builds and builds, you have to be tough not to cry through that bit.

I was thinking about that movie last night actually, odd how you remember the funny bits first, I could swear I was the only one in the cinema that could see the humour. It was chocked full of it and no one laughed except me...

And any movies/scenes/pictures of the national war graves always get me, always. I'm not entirely sure why since normal graves don't effect me... Possibly something to do with the horrific deaths but, eh, you get worse on a motorbike.

Not really a movie but...
Conker's Bad Fur Day on the N64 Ending - Girlfriend dies, Conker crowned king, nothing left, goes to get drunk. It really shouldn't effect anyone all that much but it got to me, still my favourite ending ever.

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:35 am

for intelligence's sake, i like a coehesive plot, etc.. Spirited Away is a good example of that..;

but i like action movies too..

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:02 am

christwriter wrote:You sure you want this list?

Lord of the Rings: I happen to consider all three one story, BTW. The part that gets to me the most is in Return of the King, at the very end, after Frodo and Sam have destroyed the ring and they're rescued. They've gone through hell with no hope of survival, they are laying exposed, ready to die...

And then Frodo (and Sam, of course) wakes up in a warm bed with clean sheets, and with a friend he thought dead looking down at him with a smile... [...]

CW

AURGH! I haven't seen the last one yet!!

There's two other movies I thought of too. One was Shindler's List. That was a pretty breathtaking movie to watch...

The other one creeped the holy crap out of me, and that was The Cell. If you're easily weirded out (I. E. You don't like horror movies.) this one is definately not for you. I didn't realize what it was when I watched it, but it was one of those movies you didn't wanna keep watching, but couldn't stop.

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:19 am

The Blair Witch Project: the movie in general was way overhyped by the time I saw it and not very good at all, but the final scene really spooked me out. And that does not happen often =) (unfortunately)

Requiem for a Dream: the entire movie roxxors my soxxors (if there is one single movie that has to survive when all movies on the planet suddenly disintegrate, it's this one) - a favorite moment is the scene with quick cuts between the four of them...near the end of the movie...

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: (the original version, not the crappy cash cow remake) - pigboy's first appearance.

The Crow: the scene with Eric & Gideon in the pawn shop.

Heffaloop · Post by **Heffaloop** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:32 am

Ummm... I'm a brick wall, and I don't get 'touched' by movies very often. Infact, I can't really think of anything recently that's made me go <b>OMG</b> recently, unless you include Azumi (of which I stopped watching after this part cause my friend didn't want to watch anymore) where the sensei of a group of kids training to be assassins gives a speech at how they grew up together and reminds them of all they've been through and then goes "okay now chose a partner" so they chose their best friends and then the teacher goes "now kill your partner" and they have to kill their partner to be true assassins -- able to put their emotions aside and be real killing machines.

OMG.

And since I mentioned assassins, I always liked The Professional ^_^
I'm sure there were moving moments in there.

And The Shawshank Redemption is my favourite movie. The bit near the end where he's talking about birds in relation to Andy is probably the most moving thing I can think of atm. Of course, I don't think much. Obviously.

Heffaloop · Post by **Heffaloop** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:34 am

Also, the lord of the rings, all three ARE the one story.

Hasn't ANYONE read the books???????????????????

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:36 am

heffaloop wrote:Also, the lord of the rings, all three ARE the one story.

Hasn't ANYONE read the books???????????????????

Books? They still MAKE those?

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:54 am

heffaloop wrote:Also, the lord of the rings, all three ARE the one story.

Hasn't ANYONE read the books???????????????????

I have. Nobody cares though.

Heffaloop · Post by **Heffaloop** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:57 am

I do I do I do I do!

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:15 am

heffaloop wrote:Also, the lord of the rings, all three ARE the one story.

Hasn't ANYONE read the books???????????????????

You mean they actually made BOOKS of LotR?! Jeez, talk about milking the cash cow.

(For the humor-impaired: yes, I was joking.)

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:17 am

SO I read it when I was 13 and it was the coolest thing ever. But I couldn't ever discuss it with people because whenever you try to talk about it nobody ever seemed interested in what it was about, all they ever did was comment about it's thickness.
"WOWZERS! that's a bloody big book!"

So I couldn't even recomend it to other people to read. A suggestion that they should read it resulted in laughter.

Anyway I didn't mind. LOTR was like this special thing only known to a select few who bothered to read it, but now everyone knows it.
But they still don't care wther you actually read the actual book or not. People now just chuckle and say,
"Dude why should I bother? - there's a movie on it!