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Top 5 Movies that Touched You(not in that way)

Sorry, I'm not going to bother to come up with 5.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind​

I saw that with some friends, including an ex-girlfriend, who was my greatest love. Very emotional. Made me want to try to make everything work again between us.
 
Dr. Giggles - when he said "It's time to do what doctors do best." then grabbed a 9 iron to continue his killing spree, I laughed so hard I cried.

Hard Target - Jean Claude Van Damme and John Woo owe me 2 hours of my life back for this steaming turd of an excuse of a movie. Should be called "Laugh you ass off at bad filmmaking!"

Blair Witch Project - One of the few movies where I felt completely ripped off and wanted to go get my money back. I shed tears of pain that I spent the money on it.

Mortal Kombat 2 - First one was entertaining. This??? Holy %$#!!! Excuse me while I tear up from puking so much.

Thin Red Line - Existential filmmaking that tries too hard. Result - borefest posing as a war movie. Terence Malick needs to stop making movies. You are a pretentious prick who can't tell a story efficiently.
 
Ok, does this count?

Wedding Crashers​

I saw this with my Dad, and we laughed so hard that tears were running down our faces, and I couldn't breath. I think we laughed more than the rest of the theatre all together.
 
MarkCollette said:
Ok, does this count?

Wedding Crashers​

I saw this with my Dad, and we laughed so hard that tears were running down our faces, and I couldn't breath. I think we laughed more than the rest of the theatre all together.
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hell yeah .. what ever wet's your eye ball's :D
 
MarkCollette said:
Sorry, I'm not going to bother to come up with 5.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind​
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My wife and I enjoyed this movie, and saw it twice. Was very moving. Thanks for the post! :rolleyes:
 
mcarnes said:
Revenge of the Sith. Anakin becomes torso boy. So sad.
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OMG I am glad I am not the only one....just saw this the other day and no joke, I really cried hard over Anakin and Padme's lives going to hell. I had no idea it would effect me that bad, but then again if a person is as miserable as I am these days then its understandable why I would be so tore up.

Anyway, here is a few other movies that have wrecked me, made me cry like a baby, or affected me days later after watching!!

October Sky (the father and son scenes are what got to me the most)

Closer (the scene where Natalie Portman (Alice) is dumped, its like watching a clip from my own life---I acted the exact SAME WAY and said the same things almost word for word, flipped me out when I watched it)

Titanic

Romeo and Juliet (Baz Lurhmann's version)

Here on Earth

Moulin Rouge

When a Man Loves a Woman

My Girl

Marvin's Room

Karate Kid II----don't ask why!!

Any Benji movie or really ANY movie where animals die. Geez, Disney's The Fox and the Hound made me miserable for weeks after I saw it as a child.
 
in no particular order:
battle royale (never released in america for various reasons)--a group of schoolchildren are put on a deserted island for three days and have to kill each other. if more than one person survives, they are both killed by the overseeing power. if one person survives, he/she is the winner.
fight club--a man is perfectly content with his life until he meets someone who changes his life and makes him leave all his possessions behind to take down corporate america.
pi--a man goes insane over trying to find number patterns (better than it sounds)
harry potter and the goblet of fire--i'm sure everyone knows what it is
full metal jacket--follows a group of marines through training and deployment to vietnam.
she's so lovely--a man becomes insane and gets sent to a mental hospital for several years but he thinks it's 3 months. when he comes out his wife is remarried and his daughter is already in school (she wasn't born yet when he went in). he tries to understand this, then he gets back together with his wife.
vanilla sky--a guy goes through a bunch of really ****ed up events, including a car accident that maims him, then he realizes the car accident was real, but pretty much everything since was a dream because he had been cryogenically frozen. all the awful things that had happened to him were completely self-inflicted because he had complete control of the dream. he's offered the choice between sleeping forever in a dream of his own choosing or being thawed out and living in the real world.
that's more than 5 isn't it...i liked amelie but it didn't really "touch me" per se.
 
Happy Times - a sad Chinese film by Zhang Yimou
Ponette - a French movie about a little girl who loses her mother in a car accident
Amadeus
Life is Beautiful
Jean de Florette - A French movie about the consequences of dishonesty
 
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I see most picked Life is Beautiful as one of the movies that have touched them.

Onto that subject matter, I also suggest Schindler's List and The Pianist as great Holocaust movies. The edge goes to The Pianist as the most moving of the films.
 
1. The Elephant Man
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
3. The Godfather Part II
4. LOTR - the Fellowship of the Ring
5. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live in New York City
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Lately I've not seen to many movies that touched me, Love Actually is the only one that springs to mind (and that was really funny, too). Edit: Also a slightly similar movie (or is that just because Hugh Grant is in both?): About a boy. Touching, and funny...

But I was quite unexpectedly very touched by last weeks Doctor Who episode, "Father's Day", (Norwegian TV is lagging, I know...) That episode, even if it was easy to figure out what would happen, it actually got the better of me... emotinally... :eek: ;)

I haven't seen it in a while, but when I was a kid The Champ was the ultimate sad movie, even the toughest shed a tear when the father dies...
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Love actually, and about a boy, are 2 greats films, still ive never yet to expirience crying over a film??
 
betty02 said:
Love actually, and about a boy, are 2 greats films, still ive never yet to expirience crying over a film??
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I rarely get emotinal because a movie is sad (well, at least since The Champ), it's happiness that gets to me, when all goes well, and I'm not talking about the overkill "Independence Day"-way, but the more subtle way of some of the movies I've mentioned above... :eek: ;)

Edit: The end scene of Armageddon with Liv Tyler and Bruce Willis almost had me the last time I saw that (even if that is just as bombastic as those above mentioned "Independence Day"-endings). Close, but no cigar... ;)
 
MarkCollette said:
Sorry, I'm not going to bother to come up with 5.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind​

I saw that with some friends, including an ex-girlfriend, who was my greatest love. Very emotional. Made me want to try to make everything work again between us.
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I love this movie...should've put it as one of my five :)
Unfortunately I just got it back after lending it to a friend, and she didn't exactly take very good care of it. I'll have to buy a new copy soon.
 
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