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Title: Movies that affected you
Post by: Eire1978 on January 15, 2007, 07:38:57 pm

What are the movies that affected you the very first time you watched them? That touched you deeply?

Here are mine:

Brokeback Mountain
Dead Poets' Society
Breaking the Waves
Jude
Jarhead
Finding Neverland
Schindler's List

They really moved me. If I remember correctly these are the very few movies I actually cried watching.
 

How about you?

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: ednbarby on January 15, 2007, 07:48:14 pm

Ooh, I love this kinda stuff.  :)

United 93
Brokeback Mountain (of course)
Requiem for a Dream
Shakespeare in Love
Snow Falling on Cedars
Breaking the Waves (good call - extraordinary movie)
Damage
Schindler's List
Heavy
Ruby in Paradise
Awakenings
Glory
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Elephant Man

Wow - didn't know I had so many in me...

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: chefjudy on January 16, 2007, 01:01:37 am

 :)  well lets see - there have been quite a few actually -

Brokeback Mountain
E.T.
Schindler's List
Close Encounters (can you tell I like Spielberg movies? ;) )
Sophies Choice
Dear Frankie
Phantom of the Opera (the hidden plot version)
Finding Neverland
Sense and Sensibility (another Ang Lee beauty)
Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth version)
My Life as a House
The Piano
The Crying Game

I have to say though, that although I have seen all of these movies several times and they never fail to bring a tear or two, no movie
in my life has ever moved me like Brokeback Mountain. I watched a little of it on HBO the other night, and I still weep when Jack sighs and resigns himself about the life they could have had or Ennis clutches the shirts and deeply inhales the scent of his beloved Jack.  It gets me every time - I never knew I could get so involved in and totally awestruck by a film - the subtle touches of Ang's genious, the wonderful story by Annie , but most of all the actors' amazing tranformations that became Jack and Ennis - I don't think it can get any better than that! :D

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: Meryl on January 16, 2007, 02:19:22 am

Brokeback Mountain
West Side Story
Bambi
Old Yeller
Sophie's Choice
Schindler's List
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
How Green Was My Valley
Peter Ibbetson
The Ice Storm
Sense & Sensibility
La Strada
Dr. Zhivago
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Silence of the Lambs
Aliens
Midnight Cowboy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Finding Neverland
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Wuthering Heights
A Single Man
Everything Is Illuminated

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: b_hynds on January 16, 2007, 11:37:24 pm

Brokeback Mountain
Schindlers list
United flight 93
It's my party
The goodgirl (if jake "dies" in a movie i'm gonna cry)
Sophie's choice
The Colour purple
Terms of Endearment
Fried Green Tomatoes(Wow I'm a sap)
One True thing
Marvins room
Forrest Gump

I'm sure there are more but that's all I can remember right now. While all these other movies have moved me in some way none of them come close to the impact BBM has had on me.

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: CellarDweller on June 21, 2011, 08:54:22 pm

Brokeback Mountain
Billy Elliot
Milk
Shelter
E.T.
Latter Days

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: green on July 24, 2011, 09:48:35 pm

Brokeback Mountain
The Shawshank Redemption
The Dirty Dozen
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
West Side Story
E.T.

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: Meryl on July 24, 2011, 10:14:55 pm

That's a good list, green.  Welcome to BetterMost.  8)

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: delalluvia on July 24, 2011, 10:30:47 pm

Isn't/wasn't there a thread on this on the movie board? 

I seem to recall one... :P

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: SFEnnisSF on July 31, 2011, 02:41:40 pm

Brokeback Mountain
Moulin Rouge
eXistenZ
Contact
Less Than Zero

Title: Re: Movies that affected you
Post by: Front-Ranger on August 05, 2011, 09:13:44 am

Just saw the 2009 movie Moon. It affected me deeply and I don't know what to think about it.

At first it provoked outrage...a large corporation stations just one man on the outwardly facing side of the moon for three years to run a mining plant, with only a computer to keep him company. Plus, they jam the live communications with Earth so he cannot have any two-way conversations.

But that's just the surface story.