quote:Originally posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion: I just saw Grave of the Fireflies and I thought it was good but I expected more from it. It was really sad and I cried but because of all the hype I'd heard about it, I was really hoping for one of those movies that hits you from the very beginning but that was not the case. In other words, I felt like it lagged a little...
Well, it is a slow movie. I didn't cry until the very end of it the first time I watched it. I tried to watch it a second time a few weeks later, and cried throughout the whole thing. I don't even try to watch it anymore.
It's a bit worse when you know the story is based on real life, and the original story was written as an apology to the main character's little sister.
Both of my parents worked, and I had to take care of my little sister a lot growing up, especially after my parents got divorced, and this movie hits me hard. She really looked up to me and I had no idea. She feels like I'm the one who raised her, and I can't say I did a competent job, since I was pretty young myself and had no idea what sort of responsibility I had.
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quote:Originally posted by steven: "The Elephant Man, every time.
I can't even watch it anymore because the ending tears me apart.
I have yet to cry in another movie."
Oh, my God. I seriously thought I was the only one.
For me I think it's the fact that it was a true story.
Its a true story, but its been embellished somewhat in the movie version.
Spoilers*
Ending Details! He did die from sleeping on his side, and its quite possible he did so intentionally.
/spoilers
I am glad Mel Brooks produced it but tried to play down his part so that people would take the movie seriously.
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In Casablanca when everybody starts singing La Marseillaise over the German national anthem.
In Mean Creek when they go to the dead boy's parents to tell what has happened.
The final episode of the anime series Fruits Basket (the beginning of it, not the silly stuff with Akito).
Also some of the Ishbal flashbacks in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, even though all of that stuff was handled much better (and sadder) in the manga version.
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So many of the previously mentioned ones, of course.
I HATE it when sad movies make me cry. I do not like tearjerkers like My Girl and Love Story and the Nicholas Sparks oevre. Steel Magnolias is an exception to this because there's so much more to the story.
And I'm with docmagik about "taking a stand." Throw in loyalty, and it'll get me every time. That's why the part that makes me cry in Titanic is when Ida and Isadore Strauss are together in their bed and the water is rising. Almost anything Sam ever does or says in LotR makes me cry. The middle of Fellowship, when he says he'll go to Mordor...the end, when he follows Frodo into the river even though he can't swim...and on and on.
*Most* of RotK makes me cry. I spent most of the last 45 minutes or so not just with a few tears running down my face, but really crying. I love when Eowyn takes a stand, the hopeless last stand and Mordor when Merry and Pippin run out, the "end of all things" line from Frodo, and on and on.
The most recent movie I cried at was Freedom Writers.
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