Top 5 emotional or uplifting Man Films
Discussion
Alright probably a sub genre of your top 5 films, however I've just caught the last hour of an acting tour de force by Al Pacino, and because of it, the only decent film by Chris O'Donnell, and is Scent of a Woman. Would be in my top 5 Pacino films, his speech to get o'donnell off the hook at the end never fails to put a manly lump in my throat (no tears).
Anyway, this got me thinking, and the challenge, 5 films as man, that you can watch again and again, that in your opinion its okay to feel emotional about or makes you always feel uplifted at the end.
My 5 at the moment are
1. scent of a woman
2. Shawshank Redemption, whats his faces only good film, innocent man, overcomes all odds, avoids bum rape, stitches up warden to boot, in escape to s
tory, prison break.
3. Field of Dreams, kevin Costner, magical cornfield, lets son play catch one last time with dad...(I don't even like baseball)
4. Best Shot (called Hoosiers in the USA) an obscure low budget gene Hackman(my favourite Hackman) film a small hick town high school basketball team ( I don't care for that sport either) in david versus goliath triumph.
5. Ice cold in alex, 3 men (one a germanspy) and 1 nurse, cross desert, hand crank ambulance up a hillside, for a beer road movie.
Can you give me anymore, I need some cheering, synopsis optional.
Anyway, this got me thinking, and the challenge, 5 films as man, that you can watch again and again, that in your opinion its okay to feel emotional about or makes you always feel uplifted at the end.
My 5 at the moment are
1. scent of a woman
2. Shawshank Redemption, whats his faces only good film, innocent man, overcomes all odds, avoids bum rape, stitches up warden to boot, in escape to s
tory, prison break.3. Field of Dreams, kevin Costner, magical cornfield, lets son play catch one last time with dad...(I don't even like baseball)
4. Best Shot (called Hoosiers in the USA) an obscure low budget gene Hackman(my favourite Hackman) film a small hick town high school basketball team ( I don't care for that sport either) in david versus goliath triumph.
5. Ice cold in alex, 3 men (one a germanspy) and 1 nurse, cross desert, hand crank ambulance up a hillside, for a beer road movie.
Can you give me anymore, I need some cheering, synopsis optional.
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Shawshank Redemption - the end on the beach always chokes me up.
American Beauty - we all know how Lester Burnham feels sometimes.
King Kong - the fking ape loves her, leave him alone for god's sake.
Leon - big-nosed, odd-ball French hitman dies protecting little scamp.
Heat - the two greatest actors of my lifetime, one comforting the other in their final moments, to the sound of Moby's God Moving Over the Face of Waters.
American Beauty - we all know how Lester Burnham feels sometimes.
King Kong - the f
king ape loves her, leave him alone for god's sake.Leon - big-nosed, odd-ball French hitman dies protecting little scamp.
Heat - the two greatest actors of my lifetime, one comforting the other in their final moments, to the sound of Moby's God Moving Over the Face of Waters.
A good war film should be there. How about
"Reach for the sky"
About Bader. According to Stamford-Tuck's autobiography, every airman at some point thought "well, if a man with no legs can do it..."
And a Steve McQueen film, to remind us all that we are NOT steve mcqueen, and never will be, regardless of how many Gulf racing jackets we buy
"Reach for the sky"
About Bader. According to Stamford-Tuck's autobiography, every airman at some point thought "well, if a man with no legs can do it..."
And a Steve McQueen film, to remind us all that we are NOT steve mcqueen, and never will be, regardless of how many Gulf racing jackets we buy
williamp said:
A good war film should be there. How about
"Reach for the sky"
About Bader. According to Stamford-Tuck's autobiography, every airman at some point thought "well, if a man with no legs can do it..."
And a Steve McQueen film, to remind us all that we are NOT steve mcqueen, and never will be, regardless of how many Gulf racing jackets we buy
Ice Cold In Alex is war movie! Admittedly an unconventional one."Reach for the sky"
About Bader. According to Stamford-Tuck's autobiography, every airman at some point thought "well, if a man with no legs can do it..."
And a Steve McQueen film, to remind us all that we are NOT steve mcqueen, and never will be, regardless of how many Gulf racing jackets we buy
Was never a huge fan of "Reach For the Hand Rail" never cared for Kenneth More much, which is not to knock Bader himself, a hero, although I've he was a bit of b
d, but I don't care, a hero is a hero, even complicated. I nearly put "Battle of Britain" in there, there's scene in that towards the end when we've just turned the tide of battle, when there's loads of squadrons our "Few" forming up to repel the Boche's last big push, and there's a huge stirring swell in the soundtrack dar da da dar da da da dat darrrr ! (done by the bloke who did 633 squadron) and one of the pilots covers over the radio commenting on our "Big Wing" forming up, as we see all those Spitfires, and the pilot says "Look at that Bloody Marvellous", makes me bloody proud to be British, I'm choking up just thinking about it. I also felt sorry Michael Caine's black labrador, when he didn't comeback, "He just blew up!" God I'm sentimental... DJC said:
Ice Cold in Alex. Legendary film.
The Longest Day. Just for the beachmaster and swagger stick.
Shawshank Redemption.
Hometown hero.
Grand Prix.
I find the Longest Day is worthy like Bridge Too Far but goes on about half an hour too long (I know its historical) and just peters out, when it comes on TV on a bank holiday, I've usually given up on Longest Day long before we see Richard Burton over acting shot down in a farmyard with a jerry with his boots on the wrong feet, running into that annoying craps playing yank.The Longest Day. Just for the beachmaster and swagger stick.
Shawshank Redemption.
Hometown hero.
Grand Prix.
I can't say I've seen Hometown Hero will have to give that butcher's.
Grand Prix, love the cinematography, split screen, Frankenheimer, just wish the Manetti (Ferrari) had won, rather than black flagging... Just so the yank could win... I could have done with a little less of Stoddarts "Play Misty For Me" wife, melodrama.
But still not a car racing movie to hold a candle to it since, except maybe Le Mans, which goes the other way and had too little story, then had a dodgy one bolted on, to stop it being silent movie for dialogue.
Northern Munkee said:
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My 5 at the moment are
1. scent of a woman
2. Shawshank Redemption, whats his faces only good film, innocent man, overcomes all odds, avoids bum rape, stitches up warden to boot, in escape to story, prison break.
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Hate to piss on your chips, but it's implied by Morgan Freeman that he didn't always manage to avoid the bum rape.My 5 at the moment are
1. scent of a woman
2. Shawshank Redemption, whats his faces only good film, innocent man, overcomes all odds, avoids bum rape, stitches up warden to boot, in escape to s
tory, prison break....
youngsyr said:
Northern Munkee said:
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My 5 at the moment are
1. scent of a woman
2. Shawshank Redemption, whats his faces only good film, innocent man, overcomes all odds, avoids bum rape, stitches up warden to boot, in escape to story, prison break.
...
Hate to piss on your chips, but it's implied by Morgan Freeman that he didn't always manage to avoid the bum rape.My 5 at the moment are
1. scent of a woman
2. Shawshank Redemption, whats his faces only good film, innocent man, overcomes all odds, avoids bum rape, stitches up warden to boot, in escape to s
tory, prison break....
Apollo 13 - The fact that your watching a dramatisation of true events doesn't take away. For me it's pretty fking special that they got those guys home. The final moments when they are waiting for communications to resume is superbly done, very uplifting when it suddenly cuts to the footage of the module with the chutes open.
king special that they got those guys home. The final moments when they are waiting for communications to resume is superbly done, very uplifting when it suddenly cuts to the footage of the module with the chutes open.
TankRizzo said:
Saving Private Ryan. I always lose it at the end when an aged Ryan asks his wife if he's been a good man.
Schindler's List as well when Oskar Schindler breaks down at the end and tells his foreman he could have saved more Jews if he had sold everything like his tie pin or his car.
Saving Private Ryan. Schindler's List as well when Oskar Schindler breaks down at the end and tells his foreman he could have saved more Jews if he had sold everything like his tie pin or his car.
When that came out I had never seen anything like it.
After watching first time on holiday in Las Vegas I happend to pass some veterans wearing their pins, etc. I asked them if they'd seen it and what they thought.
They said, that's almost what is was like, only worse !!!! can you imagine ?
Other good one's for me:
-Entropy
-2001 a space odesey
-The Grinch (fantastic film)
Emotional or uplifting, 2001? Shirly shum mishtake. It's an hour too long, and assuming I'm not asleep, or switched over, it ends with 15mins of mumbo jumbo, I have more time for 2010, hal9000 sacrifices himself in the name of world peace, bearded computer programmer expresses his love for misguided bad boy computer.
Northern Munkee said:
Emotional or uplifting, 2001? Shirly shum mishtake. It's an hour too long, and assuming I'm not asleep, or switched over, it ends with 15mins of mumbo jumbo, I have more time for 2010, hal9000 sacrifices himself in the name of world peace, bearded computer programmer expresses his love for misguided bad boy computer.
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