OK, this is just an idea I had for a thread, feel free to participate if you think it's worthwhile:
Crying during a movie. It's happened to all of us at one point or another, I'd reckon. If not, you're one stoic Chewer. For me at least, crying can be a emotional release, and it can happen for a variety of reasons unrelated to sadness. Sometimes it has more to do with the specific circumstances of the day than it does with the content of the film. Under the right conditions, even the most melodramatic tripe can strike at a weak spot and leave us vulnerable to heightened emotions (I'll put my hand up and admit to sobbing during a TV movie edition of the FLIGHT 93 story). What I am more curious about though are the films that continue to move us on their own terms, long after the memory of the initial viewing experience has grown stale. Do you have any special films that still provide that visceral release even though you've seen them 2, 10, 20 times?
I bring this up for two reasons: I'm about to rewatch CARNIVALE and I just saw THE CRUCIBLE a few weeks ago on NETFLIX INSTANT
In the case of CARNIVALE (SPOILERS for CARNIVALE to the end of this paragraph), no matter how many times I see it (10 times now, total?), the sequence where Ben fixes Jonesy's knee/skin continues to leave me bleary eyed and tear stained. Perhaps it's because we'd gotten to know those characters over the course of the 22 odd episodes that preceded Hawkin's 'laying hands' on his crippled chum, or maybe it's just that the moment comes in the wake of the horrific taring and feathering scene. I don't know. Whatever it is, I've found that episode moves me like few things I've ever seen
When I started to watch THE CRUCIBLE the other day, I was wondering if it would have the same impact now that I'd already seen the climactic turn where DDL's Proctor decides to hang rather than further dirty his already unclean name with a lie. I was doubtful it would, even though I'd not seen the movie in about two years. Then of course by the time DDL shouts out "Because it is my name! Because I'll never have another in my life!" I was right there with him, tears running down my face all over again
OK, so that is the basic concept of this thread. I love the movies (and to a lesser extent, the TV), and continue to marvel at the power they have to make us think and feel
Before I open this up to other people, I figured I'd embarrass myself further (so that no one else need fear to speak up) by saying that I cry every time Clive and Zee bust out the CGI baby in CHILDREN OF MEN, and the first movie I ever specifically remember crying during was ARMAGEDDON, when Willis decides to stay to blow up the asteroid and has the flash backs of raising his daughter
EDIT: Although now that I say that I think it's possible I cried when Sean Connery gets revived in IJATLC
Crying during a movie. It's happened to all of us at one point or another, I'd reckon. If not, you're one stoic Chewer. For me at least, crying can be a emotional release, and it can happen for a variety of reasons unrelated to sadness. Sometimes it has more to do with the specific circumstances of the day than it does with the content of the film. Under the right conditions, even the most melodramatic tripe can strike at a weak spot and leave us vulnerable to heightened emotions (I'll put my hand up and admit to sobbing during a TV movie edition of the FLIGHT 93 story). What I am more curious about though are the films that continue to move us on their own terms, long after the memory of the initial viewing experience has grown stale. Do you have any special films that still provide that visceral release even though you've seen them 2, 10, 20 times?
I bring this up for two reasons: I'm about to rewatch CARNIVALE and I just saw THE CRUCIBLE a few weeks ago on NETFLIX INSTANT
In the case of CARNIVALE (SPOILERS for CARNIVALE to the end of this paragraph), no matter how many times I see it (10 times now, total?), the sequence where Ben fixes Jonesy's knee/skin continues to leave me bleary eyed and tear stained. Perhaps it's because we'd gotten to know those characters over the course of the 22 odd episodes that preceded Hawkin's 'laying hands' on his crippled chum, or maybe it's just that the moment comes in the wake of the horrific taring and feathering scene. I don't know. Whatever it is, I've found that episode moves me like few things I've ever seen
When I started to watch THE CRUCIBLE the other day, I was wondering if it would have the same impact now that I'd already seen the climactic turn where DDL's Proctor decides to hang rather than further dirty his already unclean name with a lie. I was doubtful it would, even though I'd not seen the movie in about two years. Then of course by the time DDL shouts out "Because it is my name! Because I'll never have another in my life!" I was right there with him, tears running down my face all over again
OK, so that is the basic concept of this thread. I love the movies (and to a lesser extent, the TV), and continue to marvel at the power they have to make us think and feel
Before I open this up to other people, I figured I'd embarrass myself further (so that no one else need fear to speak up) by saying that I cry every time Clive and Zee bust out the CGI baby in CHILDREN OF MEN, and the first movie I ever specifically remember crying during was ARMAGEDDON, when Willis decides to stay to blow up the asteroid and has the flash backs of raising his daughter
EDIT: Although now that I say that I think it's possible I cried when Sean Connery gets revived in IJATLC
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