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The sappiest sap in all of sappiness (Films that make you cringe)

post #1 of 43
6/17/06 at 2:03am
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Films that are full of sugarcoated sap , it makes you want to vomit from the sight of it.

Of course I’ll start

“Here on Earth”: A typical “Love story”, like “Love Story”…just with more shit filling



Jesus
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post #2 of 43
6/17/06 at 2:42am
Crash. Yecch, what sentimental feelgood nonsense.
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post #3 of 43
6/17/06 at 2:55am
Always

Patch Adams
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post #4 of 43
6/17/06 at 9:07am
Hmm, I don't remember that movie very well anymore, bet Powder was a really sugary piece of shit.
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post #5 of 43
6/17/06 at 9:40am
Pay it Forward tried a bit too hard
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post #6 of 43
6/17/06 at 9:44am
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Originally Posted by Peter Venkman
Pay it Forward tried a bit too hard
Pay It Forward is an utterly horrid movie which for whatever reason has the ability to suckerpunch everyone who watches it into false emotion.
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post #7 of 43
6/17/06 at 11:07am
Actually, false emotion seems rather uncomplicated to manufacture in film. Pearl Harbor, for example.

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Originally Posted by Papa Quagmire
Hmm, I don't remember that movie very well anymore, bet Powder was a really sugary piece of shit.
I love powdered sugar. It's delicious.
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post #8 of 43
6/17/06 at 11:36am
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall
Pay It Forward is an utterly horrid movie which for whatever reason has the ability to suckerpunch everyone who watches it into false emotion.
Exactly! One of the reasons I really dislike this movie. The ending was telegraphed with the opening scene in the school, I knew it was coming, I felt the manipulation all throughout and swore to myself I wasn't going to cry.

But I did. And it's not even a good movie, which makes it doubly embarrassing.
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post #9 of 43
6/17/06 at 2:31pm
Simon Birch, Cinderella Man, Return of the King, Shadowlands, The Green Mile, Awakenings, Secondhand Lions, Return to Me, Wedding Crashers, Big Daddy, Deep Impact/Armageddon, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, etc etc etc

Most everything with Robin Williams, Spielberg, Zemeckis, Ron Howard, or Chris Columbus involved I suppose.

I hate the sap (though I don't hate all the films I listed)
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post #10 of 43
6/17/06 at 3:18pm
'Hope Floats' with Sandra Bullock. My wife begged me to take her to this movie. She apologized for weeks afterwards. This movie has become the gold standard on comparitive crap for us.
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post #11 of 43
6/17/06 at 5:24pm
Actually, Hope doesn't float if you tie a heavy enough weight around her neck.

Armageddon always makes the wife get weepy. I used to make fun of her (usually by launching into a histrionic rendition of "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing") but when she got mad and told me she kinda thinks of it as "our film" (it was one of our first dates, and since we only saw each other once a week for the first year, "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" summed up her feelings about the time we spent together) I backed off on the mockery.

I actually do think it's a good, entertaining film, but the emotional cords it tugs (or tries to, in my case) seem a little silly to me. But because I love my wife so much, I no longer tease her about it.

Thankfully she gets weepy over enough silly shows that I still have plenty to tease her about.
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post #12 of 43
6/17/06 at 6:31pm
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Originally Posted by Peter Venkman
Pay it Forward tried a bit too hard
http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=1319
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post #13 of 43
7/16/06 at 2:25am
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Originally Posted by ChunkyLover53
My mom just spent a solid twenty minutes telling me how great this movie was.

Granted, she doesn't have great taste, but it's nice to know I dodged a bullet when I rented 'Tron' instead. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's sap.
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post #14 of 43
7/16/06 at 2:34am
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl
it's nice to know I dodged a bullet when I rented 'Tron' instead
I wouldn't exactly say that's dodging a bullet.
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post #15 of 43
7/16/06 at 2:48am
I enjoyed it, I mean, the plot and acting were both godawful, but in a highly amusing kind of way. And I finally realized where 'Moses' in South Park comes from.
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post #16 of 43
7/16/06 at 3:10am
Sleepless in Seattle, will not watch it ever again, and Rudy

City of Angels is close as well

proably alot of others that I refuse to watch, such as Titantic and Radio
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post #17 of 43
7/16/06 at 4:33am
When Robin Williams is standing on a cliff, shouting at God and then is moved to tears when he sees a butterfly, you know that many many lines have been crossed.
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post #18 of 43
7/16/06 at 6:07am
I am Sam
Radio
The Other Sister

Usually, the above movies would make a trifecta of retard fun, but the sentimental rape that goes with these flicks is stomach-churning.

Rudy makes me gag, Field of Dreams & The Natural = PUKE!
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post #19 of 43
7/16/06 at 3:41pm
I'd like to think Kevin Spacey got this stuff out of his system- for the first half of the decade, he was the main culprit within this shitty subgenre.
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post #20 of 43
7/16/06 at 3:44pm
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Originally Posted by General Zod
I am Sam
I thought Penn did a good enough job that the sappiness was tolerable.
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post #21 of 43
7/16/06 at 4:53pm
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Originally Posted by Sharpel007
City of Angels is close as well
Brad Silberling, John Seale, and Gabriel Yared completely salvage this movie. When his ass isn't blowing in the summer wind, so does Dennis Franz.
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post #22 of 43
7/16/06 at 5:55pm
Deep Impact. At least Armageddon had style.
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post #23 of 43
7/16/06 at 7:30pm
Ghost.
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post #24 of 43
7/16/06 at 8:07pm
forgot one

Mr. Hollands Opus
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post #25 of 43
7/16/06 at 8:43pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
I thought Penn did a good enough job that the sappiness was tolerable.

Any actor who can half way remember his lines can play a retard. Give Hasslehoff the right retard role and he would win all the awards.
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post #26 of 43
7/16/06 at 8:44pm
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Originally Posted by fabfunk
I'd like to think Kevin Spacey got this stuff out of his system- for the first half of the decade, he was the main culprit within this shitty subgenre.

K-PAX being one of them.
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post #27 of 43
7/16/06 at 9:09pm
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Originally Posted by General Zod
Any actor who can half way remember his lines can play a retard. Give Hasslehoff the right retard role and he would win all the awards.
Gotta disagree. He didn't just play a retard, he had a lot of extremely emotional scenes as someone who couldn't grasp what was going on, only that his world was crumbling around him. It takes a bit more than shaking your head and slurring your words.
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post #28 of 43
7/16/06 at 9:16pm
C'mon, he's a retard. Those fuckers don't even know which way is up.
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post #29 of 43
7/16/06 at 9:36pm
When you put it that way, fuck Sean Penn.
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post #30 of 43
7/16/06 at 9:48pm
One of the most difficult things for an actor to pull off is playing a character with a different "mental speed" than their own. It's very tough to play mentally handicapped well, just as it's very tough for someone like Denise Richards to play a nuclear scientist. Sean Penn did it very well. Tom Hanks, not so much. The best was Corky.
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post #31 of 43
7/16/06 at 11:40pm
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Originally Posted by Blofeld
One of the most difficult things for an actor to pull off is playing a character with a different "mental speed" than their own. It's very tough to play mentally handicapped well, just as it's very tough for someone like Denise Richards to play a nuclear scientist. Sean Penn did it very well. Tom Hanks, not so much. The best was Corky.
Tom Hanks wasn't playing someone who was retarded though, just someone who was a notch above it.
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post #32 of 43
7/16/06 at 11:45pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
When you put it that way, fuck Sean Penn.

Good boy.
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post #33 of 43
7/17/06 at 12:33am
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Originally Posted by Blofeld
Tom Hanks, not so much.
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
Tom Hanks wasn't playing someone who was retarded though, just someone who was a notch above it.
Jesus Christ guys, they're called Slavs. Have a little class.
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post #34 of 43
7/17/06 at 12:52pm
A League Of Their Own fucking punishes the audience with sentimental pap. But that's what one would expect, so it's not exactly cringe-worthy. I only cringe if a good movie stumbles into sappiness. Return Of The King is a prime example. Jackson completely overplays it.
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post #35 of 43
7/17/06 at 1:15pm
Return of the King earns that right, though. These are characters we love and care for already, unlike many of the other films the sap isn't used in order to make us care for them. Makes a world of difference.
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post #36 of 43
7/17/06 at 1:18pm
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Originally Posted by Crow
Return of the King earns that right, though. These are characters we love and care for already, unlike many of the other films the sap isn't used in order to make us care for them. Makes a world of difference.
Agreed 100%. That ending is completely justified by what we've been through during the previous eight and a half hours.
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post #37 of 43
7/17/06 at 2:03pm
I find the opposite to be true. After hours of time with these characters less is more. We are intimate enough with them and the story that we don't need to be beat over the head with slow-mo bed hopping. The "you bow to nobody" scene would have been a lot more effective without the "for Frodo" scene making it redundant. It was too much.
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post #38 of 43
7/17/06 at 2:16pm
The fact that the bed hopping scene is the first time Pippin and Merry have seen Frodo since Amon Hen, it's exactly how excited all of them should be.

Not to mention, we already get a "less is more" moment with Sam in the same scene. Ditto for the dialogue-less moment at the Green Dragon later.

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Originally Posted by Bob Clark
The "you bow to nobody" scene would have been a lot more effective without the "for Frodo" scene making it redundant. It was too much.
"For Frodo" was the dedication of one important man towards a cause, whether the person he's fighting for has a hope (in the TE) or not (in the EE), and also served as a sign Aragorn hadn't been seduced by Sauron. "You bow to no one" was an entire nation and its leaders showing the ultimate sign of respect toward the hobbits, in person, no less.

I don't see the redundancy.
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post #39 of 43
7/17/06 at 2:19pm
I give up.
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post #40 of 43
7/17/06 at 2:26pm
I'm just saying extended slo-mo shots of hobbits running in, one by one by one undercuts the scene. Speed up the film and send them all in at the same time. And as you said, we're already given a similar moment. So why repeat?
The "for frodo" and bowing scenes say basically the same thing- This little Hobbit is fighting harder than any of us, so we owe it to him to show him respect (by standing in battle or bowing).
Too redundant for me. But, that's always been Jackson's shortcoming. Kong's climax suffers the same problems.
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post #41 of 43
7/17/06 at 11:33pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
Gotta disagree. He didn't just play a retard, he had a lot of extremely emotional scenes as someone who couldn't grasp what was going on, only that his world was crumbling around him. It takes a bit more than shaking your head and slurring your words.
It takes...a paper wall. Get it? He's cutting himself off from the world, just like he's making a paper wall! And Pfeiffer breaks through the wall--JUST LIKE SHE BREAKS THROUGH TO HIM! Fucking genius. I love that paper wall.

"we're shaking the camera every shot, oscar plz"
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post #42 of 43
8/8/06 at 5:55pm
Just Like Heaven. My friend begged me to see it with her. Possibly the only 2 hours of my life when I hated the confines of our local cinema. Though Pay it Forward comes in at a close second.
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post #43 of 43
8/8/06 at 6:18pm
A Walk to Remember.

Yick. Makes me cringe just thinking about it.
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