has a Movie or Book Ever Colored Your Mood for Days? - Page 2

I just saw this. If the description alone fucked you up, don't see it.

College Ambush VII

My cock was raw for a week. But for that 90 minutes? Bliss...

I saw Saving Private Ryan when I was a senior in high school. I thought about what that would be like every day for about three months. That movie really scared the shit out of me.

Since I got a kid five years ago, I've been tearing up at almost everything. Even movie trailers. Okay, especially movie trailers.

I was pretty damn angry when Percy didn't wet the sponge in Green Mile.

After The Green Mile is the only time I EVER saw my dad cry.

Didn't catch the initial broadcast of it in 1984 (was 11) but finally watched THREADS about 18 months ago. I had sleepless nights for about a week after - the complete helplessness of being in that situation scares the shit out of me. No matter where you are house, basement, shelter, traffic jam - basscally, you're fucked.

I think about it when I'm sitting in a traffic jam to/from work - if the bomb goes off now - nothing I can do.

Shit!

I think everybody over a certain age should watch it and realise just how much we would loose if we ended up in a nuclear war.

No time for anything. No goodbyes, no thanks - nothing. Severly depressing - watch it.

I'm from the south. When I was a kid, the documentary series "Eyes On The Prize" changed my life. Shaken to the core and yet inspired. I used to watch every year when (Black History month?) PBS showed it. So powerful.

In the same vein as Threads, The Day After put me in a funk for about a week. Now, every time the power goes out, I immediately check my phone and all mobile devices to ensure that they're still working. One day, I'm going to find all of them off and shit my pants.

In particular, both Noe's I Stand Alone and Cerda's Aftermath made me feel a little sick for a while.

I've read on a couple of forums that people who've seen The Day After and then go on to watch Threads say The Day After is a picnic compared to Threads - not seen The Day After myself.

Man, there's a few.

Stallone really gets a lot of shit for Rambo, but "First Blood" fucked up my dad bad. When I watched several years later, and especially after being in the service, I understood why. My dad lived that shit for two years. Seeing his buddies shot up, shit blowing up in the jungles/rivers, incredible. Apocalypse Now is right there as well.

As for me, heh. I get cheesy sometime. Sure, call me gay, but the ending between Willis/Tyler/Affleck in Armageddon made me bawl like a newborn. I got all wrapped up in seeing Will Patton and gang coming off the shuttle, kid holding the fucking radio, flags swaying side to side like big mama at a church revival. Holy shit.

Poltergeist. Everybody talks about "They're Here" and little Carol Anne and all that good shit, but the clown.. Man, the fucking clown. Between that and Pennywise, shit. Clowns get the finger every time, for all time.

SneakyPete, I'm with you on Gump. To see a *ahem* tard accomplish so much, only to be denied the one thing he ever wanted, man, that gets me.

Being a minority, Daniel Quinn's "After Dachau" really got to me. It's not a terribly long book, but a lot of it made me think of how different my life would have been had the Nazi's won WWII (of course, arguing that I would even exist).

300 made me want to burn down the entire state of South Carolina for about an hour after I watched it. Fortunately, the Awful Waffle took care of that for me.

I could go on and on, to be honest. Thank God for the written word, as well as film.

Reading The Road emotionally drained me unlike anything I have ever seen or read. It's never been emotionally difficult for me to finish reading something like that.

After watching The Fountain I sat in the theater until the credits had almost finished rolling simply because I was such a mess of emotions. I then sat in my car in the parking lot for another ten just thinking about it before I tried calling a friend to talk about it and proceeded to be unable to even halfway articulate my thoughts about what I had just seen. That continued for a couple days.

Have never even heard of Threads until this thread (ba dum dum), but now I have to check it out.

Thanks, CHUD!

Many good calls here.

To spare the seconded-crap I´ll dive right in:
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. I picked this book up by coincidence for a nice beach holiday weekend. I ended up tearing through this book and neglecting the big Island party because this book just radiates basic human truth. The last chapters are still breaking my dam when I think about it. This book truly says a lot what defines us as humans and how we relate to our fellow beings. Truly a marvelous book.

There's a moment with a knife in Private Ryan that essentially burnt a fear of knives into me. Does that count?

I know *exactly* the moment you're talking about, and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I watched it. That was just a masterful sequence.

I thought of another movie. 8mm manages to piss me off and depress me for a minimum of three days after I subject myself to it. Which, anymore, is very very little. It's not a horrible flick in some ways, but the payoff from watching it makes me feel completely masochistic for doing so. Which is sort of what the intent of the movie was, I think.

There's almost too many to list. A lot of movies affect me in one way or another just due to my overactive imagination. But the ones that stand out...

Videodrome - I first saw it when I was exhausted, alone, and at three in the morning. I was fucked up for a good while afterwards, just trying to rationalize everything.

The Deer Hunter - First time I remember crying during a movie. I saw it right after my grandmother died.

Recently I've read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which is one of the greatest fantasy novels I've ever read. It definatly inspired my creative side.