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Vladimir Ilych
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Posted - 2007.06.28 14:56:00 -
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 Originally by: Christopher Scott
Originally by: Ealiom
Oh dear me, maybe you should watch the film again. Only this time keep one fact in your head throughout the movie.
She is a little girl with a BIG imagination who is neck deep in a horrible world. How does a little girl like that escape from that world? Why through her imagination that's how.
Watch it again.
Maybe it is you who should watch it again.
The underworld was introduced first, before the girl was even introduced, or any other of the characters. Not to mention various parts of her so-called "imagination" affected the real world. Such as her mother physically getting better, and her recovery being commented on people other than the little girl. Such as her escape from a physically locked room with a magic chalk.
The fact that you would be so quick to dismiss such things as being "mere imagination" in favor of the more realistic setting of the film clearly shows what the director was trying to prove.
Its a matter of opinion just like the different ways you can take Donnie Darko. Films that get me... As mentioned already the beginning of Saving Private Ryan chokes me up. The end of Schindlers List when he is asking himself why he didn't sell his car to save more people.
The end of Sureshank does get me too but in a good way as he gets to see his friend again.
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Suziki BoD
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Posted - 2007.06.28 15:44:00 -
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I'm guessing none of you have seen Bridge to Terabithia yet ?
I wont spoil it but suffice to say stuff like that should never happen in kids movies 
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Horza Otho
Minmatar
Infortunatus Eventus
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2007.06.28 18:07:00 -
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Armageddon.
Only movie that really made me cry.
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Captain Thunk
Omniscient Order
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Posted - 2007.06.28 18:16:00 -
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Silent Runnings
poor ol' Luey 
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.06.28 18:23:00 -
[35]
Originally by: Christopher Scott
Originally by: Ealiom
Oh dear me, maybe you should watch the film again. Only this time keep one fact in your head throughout the movie.
She is a little girl with a BIG imagination who is neck deep in a horrible world. How does a little girl like that escape from that world? Why through her imagination that's how.
Watch it again.
Maybe it is you who should watch it again.
The underworld was introduced first, before the girl was even introduced, or any other of the characters. Not to mention various parts of her so-called "imagination" affected the real world. Such as her mother physically getting better, and her recovery being commented on people other than the little girl. Such as her escape from a physically locked room with a magic chalk.
The fact that you would be so quick to dismiss such things as being "mere imagination" in favor of the more realistic setting of the film clearly shows what the director was trying to prove.
I saw it as a "pic your own ending." One is the everything was real and Ofelia is now a princess, and the other is that it was all her imagination and Ofelia is dead. Either one works.
...but if I recall correctly you don't actually see Ofelia use the chalk door to go to her stepdad's room, and her mom's recovery could of been coincedental. Right before her stepdad shoots her, he sees her talking to herself when she was supposedly talking to the Faun.
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Irreligion
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Posted - 2007.06.28 19:21:00 -
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Originally by: Captain Thunk
Edited by: Captain Thunk on 28/06/2007 18:15:50
Silent Running
poor ol' Luey
Cool Runnings?
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Bluefix
Gnu Terror Corps
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Posted - 2007.06.28 19:39:00 -
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Originally by: Suziki BoD
I'm guessing none of you have seen Bridge to Terabithia yet ?
I wont spoil it but suffice to say stuff like that should never happen in kids movies
/agreed
That is by far the saddest movie I have seen. It probably also had some influence that I expected a movie for children, which obviously was a huge mistake
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Kalahari Wayrest
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Posted - 2007.06.28 20:08:00 -
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Quote:
Originally by: Christopher Scott
Originally by: BuxarooFor me it was Pan's Labyrinth.
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But she returned to her own world in the end, which was kind of the point. Not to mention the general got pwned in the forehead, and the resistance (good guys) ended on the winning side. How is that a sad ending?
Oh dear me, maybe you should watch the film again. Only this time keep one fact in your head throughout the movie.
She is a little girl with a BIG imagination who is neck deep in a horrible world. How does a little girl like that escape from that world? Why through her imagination that's how.
Watch it again.
Ahem
You do realise that those are both entirely valid interpretations, right?
The film is deliberately ambiguous. It encourages you to interact, interpret and question what you're seeing, it's one of the things that makes it a great film. So argueing about who's interpretation is best and telling eachother to go watch it again (and presumably not stop until you come away with the other persons point of view?  ) seems to me to be the very essence of redundancy.
Additionally, it is possible for something to be sad and hopeful at the same time.
Anyway, my list:
Pan's Labyrinth
Leon
Watership Down
My Girl 
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Vladimir Ilych
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Electus Matari
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Posted - 2007.06.28 20:19:00 -
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Das Boot kinda gets be too. It is the only war film where I really want the Germans to make it. They are mostly just ordinary people in an extraordinary situation and are portrayed as very human individuals.
*spoiler*
Then get wiped out at the end when you think they have made it.
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Empress Aphrodite
Soar Angelic
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Posted - 2007.06.28 20:43:00 -
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Green Mile
Yes, an honourable mention for Watership Down; it had less of an impact than Green Mile on repeated views for me personally.
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Camilo Cienfuegos
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Posted - 2007.06.28 20:59:00 -
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Quote:
Leon
Argh. Even if you didn't have that ending, it's still such a sad film...
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:07:00 -
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Originally by: Vladimir Ilych
Das Boot kinda gets be too. It is the only war film where I really want the Germans to make it. They are mostly just ordinary people in an extraordinary situation and are portrayed as very human individuals.
I've got the full 6 hour directors cut super duper every last bit DVD that I'm salivating over and saving for a quiet Saturday.
You can't beat a great WWII film IMO.
Downfall
Saints And Soldiers
Where Eagles Dare
The Bridge At Remagen
A Bridge Too Far
Saving Private Ryan
... and many, many more.
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Shalia Ripper
Caldari
High4Life
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:09:00 -
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Gettysburg. Based off of the book "The Killer Angels" by Micheal Shaara.
Mom refused to watch it with dad and I...she didn't like to watch men cry.
Why?
Little Round Top. That battle scene was wrenching....they just keep COMING UP THE HILL.
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:17:00 -
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, the movie.
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:32:00 -
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Armageddon was pretty sad, sadness isn't my thing mind you..
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lofty29
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:36:00 -
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Originally by: Mtthias Clemi
Armageddon was pretty sad, sadness isn't my thing mind you..
Armageddon wasnt sad. He chose to die
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thesulei
Applied Eugenics
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:41:00 -
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Because I've seen it last week and it's still in my memory:
Sicko from Michael Moore (especially the part with the black woman whose little daughter died of high fever and shock because the hospital sent her elsewhere).
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:41:00 -
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Originally by: lofty29
Originally by: Mtthias Clemi
Armageddon was pretty sad, sadness isn't my thing mind you..
Armageddon wasnt sad. He chose to die
Armageddon was pretty sad, i mean the fit girl lost her daddy!
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Brujo Loco
Amarr
Brujeria Teologica
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Posted - 2007.06.28 22:43:00 -
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Originally by: Vladimir Ilych
Das Boot kinda gets be too. It is the only war film where I really want the Germans to make it. They are mostly just ordinary people in an extraordinary situation and are portrayed as very human individuals.
Then get wiped out at the end when you think they have made it.
Hmmm WHEN in history the german army was NOT composed of very human individuals? bleh. I hate hollywood , and by extension, peoples perception of ALL of them, encasing germans and the german army of WWII as a bunch of rabid monsters thirsting for the blood of the innocent. People back then did awful crap, but not ALL of them 
To keep this in thread watch THE PIANIST , thats a damn sad movie where OMGZ!, a german officer actually helps someone (shocking cuz, everybody knows, they were rabid bloodthirsty monters hungering for the blood of the innocent)
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Requiem for a Dream
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vanBuskirk
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Posted - 2007.06.28 23:08:00 -
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My vote is a very old movie - On the Beach from the book by Nevil Shute. I won't write spoilers here - suffice it to say that it's about Australians, who weren't involved, after WWIII.
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.06.28 23:21:00 -
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I've never seen it, but I've heard Brian's Song is pretty sad.
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.06.28 23:32:00 -
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Originally by: Tarquin Tarquinius
I've never seen it, but I've heard Brian's Song is pretty sad.
Somewhat like the Green Stone Of Galvestone, Lord Percy?
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Ealiom
Infinitus Morti
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.06.29 01:12:00 -
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Originally by: Christopher Scott
Not to mention various parts of her so-called "imagination" affected the real world. Such as her mother physically getting better, and her recovery being commented on people other than the little girl. Such as her escape from a physically locked room with a magic chalk.
Yet there is not one piece of evidence, all these events could be pure chance.
At the end of the movie when her step father is baring down upon her. He does not see what she sees. Now you can argue that the creature does not wish to be seen or you can say that the little girl is imagining it.
Like any good movie you can run around in circles arguing either point. I personally think it is more tragic and powerful movie if i see it the way i have described.
You see it your way i will see it mine. I' am not alone though.
Originally by: Some random reviewer bloke
ThereÆs also the notion that OfeliaÆs fairytale escapades may only be a product of her imagination.
Some of the best movies are never as black and white as you would think. The best directors respect you enough to use your own brains and imagination. I think that it is the case with this movie.
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Micia
Minmatar
N.A.S.A.
Skunk-Works
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Posted - 2007.06.29 01:57:00 -
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Life Is Beautiful |
Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.06.29 02:41:00 -
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Originally by: Fink Angel
Originally by: Tarquin Tarquinius
I've never seen it, but I've heard Brian's Song is pretty sad.
Somewhat like the Green Stone Of Galvestone, Lord Percy?
I thought the stone was blue.
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Dario Wall
Caldari
Setenta Corp
Storm Armada
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Posted - 2007.06.29 06:49:00 -
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Originally by: lofty29
Originally by: Mtthias Clemi
Armageddon was pretty sad, sadness isn't my thing mind you..
Armageddon wasnt sad. He chose to die
Armageddon is one of the very few movies that can get me to cry...
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Kzarr Ntakki
Gallente
Faustus and Company
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Posted - 2007.06.29 08:10:00 -
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If you're really determined to squeeze the tears from your hankies, one film does the trick everytime, a wartime B&W classic: Brief Encounter.
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.06.29 10:15:00 -
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Originally by: Tarquin Tarquinius
Originally by: Fink Angel
Originally by: Tarquin Tarquinius
I've never seen it, but I've heard Brian's Song is pretty sad.
Somewhat like the Green Stone Of Galvestone, Lord Percy?
I thought the stone was blue.
I don't know, I've never seen it! 
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Kvaell
Minmatar
Terra Incognita
Dark Matter Coalition
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Posted - 2007.06.29 10:39:00 -
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"Der Untergang"
There is one specific scene that has a hold on me. Will not spoil it by telling what, those who have seen the movie knows what I am talking about.
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Agnar Koladrov
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2007.06.29 10:57:00 -
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The most saddest/depressive movie I have ever seen is a Aussie production named: "On the Beach".
It is about the 3rd ww and the nuclear halocaust that follows, and eventually the fallout. Australia was spared the halocaust, but it is not spared by the comming fallout. Really, the most depressing and sad film I ever saw. I was upset by it for several days, not because it was so grusome but becuase of the whole atmosphere of not being able to escape death.
I can advice anyone to see this movie once.
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