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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2006, 02:19:31 PM »
Quote from: Beach Bum on October 29, 2006, 02:03:43 PM
Never seen The English Patient.  I wouldn't be caught dead reading the book.  The only "chick book" I've read is Memoirs of a Geisha.  Well, maybe Snow Falling on Cedars is another.  But I don't like love stories (i.e., chick flicks).  I prefer brain dead action/adventure movies and slapstick comedy.  The occasional drama.  Give me James Bond and Mel Brooks any day of the week. 

I'm guessing you wouldn't read the book because you think it's a "chick" book?  It isn't at all. It's a story about the devastation of war... it's got spies, thieves, archeologists caught in the middle... it's a lovely, lyrical novel. There are ten pages where Ondaatje describes the beauty of different kinds of sands... shame you would just discount it like that.  :'(
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2006, 02:26:27 PM »
Quote from: Clubber Lang on October 29, 2006, 02:07:34 PM
ive never seen the english patient becuase it looks long and boring

I give up.  :'(
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #27 on: October 29, 2006, 02:37:20 PM »
she tried

and pleaded

straight from the heart

but the clubbster

said no

before she could start

;D

ps just for you ill download it later ;)
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #28 on: October 29, 2006, 02:41:40 PM »
Quote from: Clubber Lang on October 29, 2006, 02:37:20 PM
she tried

and pleaded

straight from the heart

but the clubbster

decided no

before she could start

;D


Lol, imagine that, he's a poet.  ;D
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #29 on: October 29, 2006, 03:09:36 PM »
Daredevil was pretty fucking sad. I want my $10 back!  >:(
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2006, 04:03:38 PM »
The Saint of Fort Washington with Matt Dillon and Danny Glover was a very moving film.

When Sam carries Frodo up Mount Doom
"C'mon Mr Frodo... I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you! C'mon!"
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #31 on: October 29, 2006, 06:15:32 PM »
Back to the Future III

When the Delorean was finally destroyed.   :'(

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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2006, 06:47:28 PM »
Quote from: newmom on October 29, 2006, 06:38:44 AM
terms of endearment and schlinderlers list

Quote from: Clubber Lang on October 29, 2006, 06:48:54 AM
whats this one about ?

It's from the early 80's with Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger and Shirley McLaine.  It's about a mother (Shirley) who lives next door to (Jack) and her married to a cheating husband with kids daughter (Debra) who gets cancer.  It's a tear jerker.
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #33 on: October 29, 2006, 06:49:13 PM »
Older, but both always make me cry:
Beaches (Bette Midler)
Mask (Cher)

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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #34 on: October 29, 2006, 08:41:57 PM »
Quote from: Deedee on October 29, 2006, 02:19:31 PM
I'm guessing you wouldn't read the book because you think it's a "chick" book?  It isn't at all. It's a story about the devastation of war... it's got spies, thieves, archeologists caught in the middle... it's a lovely, lyrical novel. There are ten pages where Ondaatje describes the beauty of different kinds of sands... shame you would just discount it like that.  :'(

Are you saying it's not a love story?
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #35 on: October 29, 2006, 11:18:26 PM »
Quote from: Beach Bum on October 29, 2006, 08:41:57 PM
Are you saying it's not a love story?

read the book . . . saw the movie . . . they're both more than decent.  didn't like ralph fiennes acting or character in this one, but the rest of the movie is real strong.  both book and film do period really well . . . so I'd say more of a costume drama than a chick flick. can't buy the film as history though, . . . although it isn't dumb about the history it deals with. has a lot to say about immigrants/travelers and boundaries/borders.  the book is smart, no doubt.

PS. so i looked at the rest of the thread.  Ondaatje is not a chick-lit writer, and quite good . . . i've never read the memoirs of a geisha, although i have it somewhere, and was planning on reading it t some point.

Remains of the day is an excellent film and book. Like Ishiguro and recommend him enthusiastically.   

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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #36 on: October 29, 2006, 11:58:03 PM »
Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn...

BONES: Don't!  You'll flood the whole compartment...!

KIRK: He'll die - !

SCOTTY: (also holds him) He's dead already!

        Kirk's eyes bulge.

BONES: It's too late.

With stunned understanding, Kirk stumbles to the door, sees Spock on his knees, hands blackened, face cracked with radiation lines and scars. Spock shakes his head.  With a feeble hand he reaches the intercom button:  FILTERED communication.

KIRK: (mouths word) Spock!  :o (calls out into intercom)   Spock!

SPOCK: Ship - out of danger?

KIRK: Yes (Spock is satisfied; he fights for breath.)



SPOCK: Do not grieve, Admiral - it is logical:  the needs of the many outweigh -  (He almost keels over.  Kirk has tears steaming down his face.)

KIRK: ... the needs of the few...

SPOCK:   Or the one.

   (He props a hand on the glass to support himself.  Kirk's

   hand reflexively goes to match Spock's on the other side

   of the glass)

SPOCK: I never took the Kobayashi Maru test - until now.  What do you think of my solution?

KIRK: Spock...!

SPOCK:   I have been - and always will be - your friend...Live.  Long.  And.   Prosper..... (Spock falls.  Bones and Scotty react.)

KIRK: No...!  :'(



AH HAAAAAAA!!!!!! The government has to leave me alone!!!...  I'm a Trekker with Intergallactic Diplomatic Imunity... Any cases against me will just look silly, I'll wear my spock ears to court ;D
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #37 on: October 30, 2006, 03:38:36 AM »
Clubber you meant the movie 'Blow' J. Depp as drugdealer and everything gets screwed up. yeah very good movie.
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #38 on: October 30, 2006, 05:21:55 AM »
Saddest film?

"Mask".

No, not the one with Jim Carrey (although that was pretty sad), but the one from the 80's with Cher in it who plays the mother of some kid with a ginger perm who has the most FCUKED UP face you have ever seen.

He dies in the end because people with his kind of facial abnormality don't live very long apparently. But he did manage to snag some blind girl at a holiday camp.

Cool film.  :)
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #39 on: October 30, 2006, 07:28:21 AM »
Has anyone seen In The Bedroom? Its depressing as hell, but its a great movie.
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #40 on: October 31, 2006, 10:50:59 AM »
Quote from: Al-Gebra on October 29, 2006, 11:18:26 PM
read the book . . . saw the movie . . . they're both more than decent.  didn't like ralph fiennes acting or character in this one, but the rest of the movie is real strong.  both book and film do period really well . . . so I'd say more of a costume drama than a chick flick. can't buy the film as history though, . . . although it isn't dumb about the history it deals with. has a lot to say about immigrants/travelers and boundaries/borders.  the book is smart, no doubt.

PS. so i looked at the rest of the thread.  Ondaatje is not a chick-lit writer, and quite good . . . i've never read the memoirs of a geisha, although i have it somewhere, and was planning on reading it t some point.

Remains of the day is an excellent film and book. Like Ishiguro and recommend him enthusiastically.   



I tend to agree with you that EP was more of a costume drama... and the idea of borders/boundaries/immigrants seems to be recurring in his work. He's from Sri Lanka and came to Canada via the UK, and I have read that these experiences were very affecting.  Anil's Ghost is also very good, beautifully constructed tableaus mixed in with the story... and apparently this will be a film as well.
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #41 on: October 31, 2006, 10:54:43 AM »
Quote from: Thunderfck1 on October 30, 2006, 07:28:21 AM
Has anyone seen In The Bedroom? Its depressing as hell, but its a great movie.

Yes, thought it was good too.  Another successful adaptation... the short story it's based on could bring you to tears...
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #42 on: October 31, 2006, 11:11:59 AM »
"where the red fern grows"


Saw it when i was 8 in a theater of full of 300 7-8-9 years olds.  EVERYONE was crying at the end.   :o
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #43 on: October 31, 2006, 11:16:36 AM »
My little one cried at the end of King Kong.   :)
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Re: saddest movie you can think of
« Reply #44 on: October 31, 2006, 11:29:41 AM »
Quote from: Beach Bum on October 31, 2006, 11:16:36 AM
My little one cried at the end of King Kong.   :)

Truthfully, my eyes welled up a little too...  :)
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