Movies that filled you with tears of joy.

[Smokey]

I hear what you are saying PS.

Sometimes movies can catch viewer by surprise emotionally. Most of time it happen at end of movie where emotion keep building and erupt like a volcano at the end. I guess it is kind of release.

[eisforelectronic]

"Rudy" makes me tear

[PeruvianSkies]

I hear what you are saying PS.

Sometimes movies can catch viewer by surprise emotionally. Most of time it happen at end of movie where emotion keep building and erupt like a volcano at the end. I guess it is kind of release.

Or it's the sweeping orchestral arrangement that is as manipulative as it gets. This was one problem that I had with A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which is one of the worst films I have ever sat through. I don't just say comments like that without some support of my answer, so I'll try to dig up some of my memories that I tried to repress of this truly horrific film...

When A BEAUTIFUL MIND was released I was in a huge hurry to see the film. I was excited to see Russell Crowe in a new role and the previews really looked awesome. I saw the supporting cast lineup and that it was being directed by Ron Howard, who at the time I wasn't a fan of, but he was on a hotter streak in his career. Anyway, I truly wanted to love this film...I did. I had every intention of loving this film and as the film progressed I find myself fully engaged in the story and was swept away. That was, until I felt like a 'sucker'! A sucker I say! A true sucker! I fell for the crap....the entire thing was a farce. A joke. The second half of the film emotionally takes you to a place of phony decent. Then, as if our emotions are invaluable, the film turns again into this so-called heartfelt tidal wave with the sweeping music score pouncing away and the slow-motion camera movements to really conjur up emotion that at this point was dead....the film killed it about 30-minutes ago when it basically told us that everything we have seen is a joke. I've tried to forget as much of this film as I possibly can and I remember being in theaters as the people around me seemed to cheer and clap at the end of this film and I had to restrain myself from jumping up and yelling at the sheep to sit down...they all fell for the lie of this film and sadder yet...they were fine with it. Again, my problem with Hollywood in general is that it honestly tries to 'think' for us and it's caused us to become numb to our own senses. We need to take Hollywood back!

[Smokey]

Dam it GMichael and Rich-n-Texas for high jacking this thread

This was one problem that I had with A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which is one of the worst films I have ever sat through.
Anyway, I truly wanted to love this film...I did. I had every intention of loving this film and as the film progressed I find myself fully engaged in the story and was swept away. That was, until I felt like a 'sucker'! A true sucker! I fell for the crap....the entire thing was a farce. A joke....the film killed it about 30-minutes ago when it basically told us that everything we have seen is a joke.

Wait a minute PS, you might be going little bit too fast!

The first half of movie was shown thru the eyes of a person that was schizophrenia. It showed how a paranoid person see his or her world. Although scientifically it might have not been accurate, but it was a glance at world of hallucinations.

Then as movie progressed to reality, the audience felt what main character was going thru and how he dealt with imagination and reality. And I thought Ron did a good job connecting both worlds.

[Worf101]

I sometimes get a little misty eyed at some films, but lets be clear here, the man said "tears of joy" not SADNESS! That narrows it down considerably for me.

1. It's a wonderful life - Every year it get's me. But the end of that movie I'm a blubbering fool.

2. Shawshank Redemption - Sometimes ya catch a break, just sometimes.

3. Boogie Nights - When Don Cheadle's character finally catches a break (out of tragedy) and remakes his life.

4. Scrooged - Bill Murray "get's it". I love it when a light bulb comes on.

5. Never been kissed - For every boy that never went to the prom every girl that never got a date in High School.

5. Revenge of the Nerds - "There's a lot more of us then there are of you."

6. Varsity Blues - You can walk away from the Dark Side, sometimes.

7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - There's a little of Mr. Nourie (sp) in all of us.

8. Groundhog Day - Murray "gets it" again and learns that theres more to life than being a prick.

9. Four Weddings and a Funeral - Hugh Grant, sometimes I do just love this guy.

10. About a Boy - Hugh Grant again, the bastiche.

Da Worfster

[GMichael]

Dam it GMichael and Rich-n-Texas for high jacking this thread
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Hey, we brought it back unharmed.

[PeruvianSkies]

Dam it GMichael and Rich-n-Texas for high jacking this thread



Wait a minute PS, you might be going little bit too fast!

The first half of movie was shown thru the eyes of a person that was schizophrenia. It showed how a paranoid person see his or her world. Although scientifically it might have not been accurate, but it was a glance at world of hallucinations.

Then as movie progressed to reality, the audience felt what main character was going thru and how he dealt with imagination and reality. And I thought Ron did a good job connecting both worlds.

Oh I get it. I got the film. I understand what the angle was, but my problem is: don't make me care for a character for nearly the entire film, then switch the entire thing around as if the entire thing was a big dream, and then use sweeping orchestral music to try and heighten the mood to a sappy ending that comes outta nowhere. Boooo.

[Rich-n-Texas]

I hear what you are saying PS.

Sometimes movies can catch viewer by surprise emotionally. Most of time it happen at end of movie where emotion keep building and erupt like a volcano at the end. I guess it is kind of release.

Y'all are a bunch of sissies. Us Texas cowboys don't cry over movies for Pete's sake!

I suppose it's fair to say that I become emotionally attached to films.

There are a few hot babes here I'd like to become physi...err... emotionally attached to!

I'm outta here!

[GMichael]

Y'all are a bunch of sissies. Us Texas cowboys don't cry over movies for Pete's sake!

But you'll cry if your dog runs away.

There are a few hot babes here I'd like to become physi...err... emotionally attached to!

Send some this way. It's warm up here for a couple more months. They'll be ok. I'll send them down when it gets cold again.

[JSE]

Y'all are a bunch of sissies. Us Texas cowboys don't cry over movies for Pete's sake!

There are a few hot babes here I'd like to become physi...err... emotionally attached to!

I'm outta here!

What he said!!!! Texans don't cry unless we spill our beer, or like G'man said, our dog runs away.

[Rich-n-Texas]

What he said!!!! Texans don't cry unless we spill our beer, or like G'man said, our dog runs away.

I've got that problem *licked* too JSE. All you have to do is play the song backwards... the dog comes back, your wife comes back, your house gets rebuilt after the fire, and your front teeth replant themselves back into your gums (hope you're not from Ft. Worth)

[GMichael]

I've got that problem *licked* too JSE. All you have to do is play the song backwards... the dog comes back, your wife comes back, your house gets rebuilt after the fire, and your front teeth replant themselves back into your gums (hope you're not from Ft. Worth)

I heard that you guys invented the toothbrush.

[JSE]

I've got that problem *licked* too JSE. All you have to do is play the song backwards... the dog comes back, your wife comes back, your house gets rebuilt after the fire, and your front teeth replant themselves back into your gums (hope you're not from Ft. Worth)

My-tthhhh Thhhhhhwunt Teeth are r Juthhh fine!

Ft Worth? That's Yankee country! I'm in Houston.