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Post by birukitty on Aug 30, 2014 22:44:56 GMT
Oh, I want to add "Crash" to the above list. I just watched that again last night and it's such a wonderful film.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 30, 2014 22:46:35 GMT
I am still pissed at the ending of Somersby. Richard Gere was a good man.
I have still never seen The Wizard of Oz completely. Those damn flying monkeys scared the pee out me. I did see Wicked in NYC this summer and now realize that the Wicked Witch was only trying to help. I think I could go back and watch it now.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Aug 30, 2014 22:51:21 GMT
I am still pissed at the ending of Somersby. Richard Gere was a good man.I have still never seen The Wizard of Oz completely. Those damn flying monkeys scared the pee out me. I did see Wicked in NYC this summer and now realize that the Wicked Witch was only trying to help. I think I could go back and watch it now. |
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 30, 2014 22:54:09 GMT
I am still pissed at the ending of Somersby. Richard Gere was a good man.I have still never seen The Wizard of Oz completely. Those damn flying monkeys scared the pee out me. I did see Wicked in NYC this summer and now realize that the Wicked Witch was only trying to help. I think I could go back and watch it now. Thank you! My hubby thinks my reaction is funny. I really don't watch movies unless they are funny or romantic. I had to find out if the older sister in Frozen died before I would watch it. Seriously, I have enough hard stuff in my life; entertain me with something funny or a happy ending. |
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Post by valincal on Aug 30, 2014 23:05:24 GMT
"We Need To Talk About Kevin" was profoundly disturbing and had a great emotional effect on me.
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Post by pynke on Aug 31, 2014 1:46:17 GMT
My Name Is Khan
As a mother of young men with autism this movie scared me. As a person who looks for the good in the world the racial/religious profiling was very disturbing.
Schindler's List and The Pianist
I could only watch these movies once. They are a reminder of what my parents went through as children in Holland. In particular my mother whose father was executed by the Nazis.
The Help and The Butler
The racial inequality really bothers me. The Butler had me researching the African slave trade and how it also should be considered a holocaust.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 2:04:48 GMT
"Unbroken" and "Precious"
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Post by chaosisapony on Aug 31, 2014 2:10:40 GMT
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I've never been someone really emotionally affected by anything September 11th related. And this movie was no different in that respect. But the boy going through everything trying to find his dad just got me. I lost my dad at around the same age and I remember having these vivid fantasies of finding him alive, that he was in the witness protection program, etc. I couldn't finish watching the movie, I think I turned it off about 20 minutes from the end. It was just too much.
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Post by Woobster on Aug 31, 2014 2:22:40 GMT
We Were Soldiers.
My dad was a helicopter door gunner in Vietnam and I never really "got it" until I saw that movie. It shook me.
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Post by conchita on Aug 31, 2014 3:14:47 GMT
Thanks for starting this thread. I have seen many of the movies mentioned but there were a few I have steered clear of. There are even more that I haven't seen and now have in my movie que to watch later.
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Post by lindywholoveskids on Aug 31, 2014 3:31:37 GMT
Recently, Boyhood was moving and extremely well done.
Schindlers List affected me, as well as most Holocaust films
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Post by PaperAngel on Aug 31, 2014 4:18:54 GMT
The animated movie, Bambi, prompted many tears & fears for me as a young child.
Another Disney film from childhood, Watcher in the Woods (1980), still gives me occasional nightmares.
I cried throughout the more recent film, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 31, 2014 4:58:30 GMT
I think I was 8 or so when it was on TV. I am pretty sure I was mid teens before I could get up in the middle of the night and get a drink of water without being afraid I would see a bomb going off out our kitchen window.
I asked her about what was she thinking recently and she told me she didn't think I was really paying attention and had no idea it would affect me.
I would not watch that movie if someone paid me today. I am fearful it would cause the same reaction even though it is probably very fake looking.
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 31, 2014 5:27:46 GMT
I cannot fathom anyone NOT being haunted by that movie. I thought I was more affected by it because I had no idea what it was about when I went to sit and watch it. I was just going along with what my dd wanted me to watch. She saw it in school. I bawled my eyes out for 15 minutes. Then I read AFIOS because she recommended it. No more! I found that I could easily stomach tragedy and be disassociated from it before I had children. I took plenty of college history classes that dealt with the Holocaust, war, massacres... but after I had my first son, I had a class in Irish history and the famine just about did me in. I think after you have kids you think, what if this happened to them? Us? Could I protect them? It changes the perspective, I believe. |
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 31, 2014 5:34:30 GMT
We Were Soldiers. My dad was a helicopter door gunner in Vietnam and I never really "got it" until I saw that movie. It shook me. Mine too. |
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 31, 2014 5:40:12 GMT
Two that really affected me that I don't think have been mentioned are:
Ghosts of Mississippi and Mississippi Burning being born and raised in Colorado, I had an idea about racial tension and we studied a little on Civil Rights, but when we were shown one of these movies in class (or maybe I saw them both at school), I was dumbfounded and still today can't understand what made people think that shit was okay.
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Post by jengels999 on Aug 31, 2014 5:42:40 GMT
Boys on the Side
I watched it when I was pregnant and my DH was out of town. I could not stop sobbing at the end. I have watched it a few times since then, and I still cry like a baby.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 5:44:16 GMT
I listed "Unbroken" in my previous post but the movie isn't out yet, but the book profoundly affected me....for some reason my eyeballs read "book"...."Precious" was a movie I avoided when it first came out but I finally watched it and I was haunted by it for some time.
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Post by angie w on Aug 31, 2014 6:02:03 GMT
Se7en was one that stayed with me for a long time.
I got up and walked out of the theater partway through the movie Angel Heart. Robert deNiro was Louis cypher (Lucifer) and it had Lisa bonet and mickey Rourke. Add in voodoo and I was freaked out.
The one that really affected me was God on Trial. It is set in a concentration camp and the prisoners conduct a trial and accuse God of deserting them. Really intense.
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Post by camanddanismom on Aug 31, 2014 10:07:02 GMT
Jaws, as others have said kept me out if the ocean (or VERY close to shore) for years!
Awakenings
Ring of Bright Water & Born Free
The Day After, really got to me. Still make me a little queasy when I think of it and I have never Re-watched it
Pay it Forward
Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
Beaches
Fried Green Tomatoes
Band of Brothers
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Post by genny on Aug 31, 2014 13:46:57 GMT
DS watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas at school. He came home and told me he cried watching it (NOT like him at all) just because he kept thinking about how badly it would hurt ME. He made me pinky promise to never watch it or read the book. So I haven't.
I watched Poltergeist in the 2nd grade sleeping over at a friends house (her big brother let us watch it). I have a ridiculous fear of clowns to this day that didn't exist before then. I watched IT as a teenager (I couldnt get enough of King in those years) and I was a wreck. I still shudder and get the creeps if I even think about Pennywise.
I know this is crazy, but the last Harry Potter pretty much ruined me for awhile. Nothing about the movie really, just that it represented the close of an era for us I guess. My kids grew up watching and reading HP - it was a huge part of our lives. That was the year DD started her period and DS started high school. Just the previews of the movie before it came out reduced me to tears. Both my kids held my hand at the movie theater because they knew what a basket case I was about it. Ugh.
Steel Magnolias
Terms of Endearment
My Sister's Keeper
Seven Pounds
Passion of Christ
The Impossible
I think there might be a couple more that I'm not remembering right now.
Genny
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Post by I-95 on Aug 31, 2014 14:27:58 GMT
Clockwork Orange!
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Post by redayh on Aug 31, 2014 15:38:42 GMT
Seven Pounds- I cried like a baby. I never have to see that one again.
Bastard out of Carolina. Horrible.
Train spotting - the dead baby scenes
Taking Chance - really poignant
I can't finish Boy in the Striped pajamas because I know what's coming
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Post by putabuttononit on Aug 31, 2014 18:59:06 GMT
The Passion of the Christ is at the top of my list, meant to include it. My 85 year old grandma went with me. She hadn't been to a theater in probably 20 years. I knew she wouldn't be prepared for the graphic scenes and I asked her if she really wanted to go. She drew herself up to her full 4'10" height and said with spunk, "If he could go through it for me, I can certainly watch a movie about it!" She held my hand through it and we cried together through most of it.
What a movie. I'd never seen a theater empty out so eerily silent. Not a word was spoken. Everyone was sniffling and even all the way out to their cars nobody spoke. I've never seen anything like it.
My dear angel grandma is gone now, and that movie makes me weep. I can't watch it without getting crazy emotional.
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Post by metaldancer on Aug 31, 2014 19:15:34 GMT
Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. To have a love like that...
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Aug 31, 2014 19:29:27 GMT
Red Dawn. They were my age and it made me think about whether I could be that strong. That might have been the first movie that I remember where there were casualties and not everything was tied up in a nice neat bow. Wolverines!
A Little Princess-the Shirley Temple version. Way before my time but I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett's books. When she searches the hospitals for her dad, oh my heck.
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Post by FurryP on Aug 31, 2014 19:31:01 GMT
Oh my gosh, YES. That poor guy could not get a break! |
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Aug 31, 2014 19:37:43 GMT
Shawshank Redemption
Life is Beautiful
Schindler's List
The Butler
The Help
Saving Private Ryan
The Green Mile
Philadelphia
The Joy Luck Club
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Post by putabuttononit on Aug 31, 2014 19:40:45 GMT
Red Dawn. They were my age and it made me think about whether I could be that strong. That might have been the first movie that I remember where there were casualties and not everything was tied up in a nice neat bow. Wolverines! A Little Princess-the Shirley Temple version. Way before my time but I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett's books. When she searches the hospitals for her dad, oh my heck. Yes! The hospital scene made me bawl! |
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Post by FurryP on Aug 31, 2014 19:41:55 GMT
I thought of one:
John Q....the with Denzel Washington about his son not being able to get surgery because of lack of insurance. That broke my heart.
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