also i didn't finish boyhood. found that movie kind of boring tbh

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this is probably the most emotionally intense film i've seen in a long time

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i dunno if it would make anyone here cry but it is a subtitled 2 hour black n white film that never lost the attention of my ADD-riddled mind. i think that's really saying something

Been meaning to see this one for a long time.

honestly i have very little exposure to east asian films/culture in general but i always knew one day i would take the time to delve into it. i have an online friend who is pretty well versed in their films and he gave me that recommendation as my intro. i was expecting to be somewhat bored tbh but it's really top notch stuff. since this one i've seen samurai rebellion and yojimbo (both buy the same guy as harakiri), which are also top notch films. yojimbo is apparently the movie sergio leone ripped off when he made a fistful of dollars. i liked that western flick but honestly yojimbo is way better/funnier and has a cooler protagonist imo.

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Might even get an extreme emotional reaction from it too.

Is Yojimbo not Kurosawa? I've seen it, and it's great. Big Kurosawa fan.

will do, thankshonestly all these jap names confuse me. my understanding was that the same dude made all 3 films. if not then maybe i misunderstood something my friend told me. haven't been doing research or anything myself tbh. either way i liked the movies. but that name you mentioned, kurosawa, definitely sounds familiar.

edit- yea you're right, the harakiri and samurai rebellion are both by kobayashi, whereas yojimbo was by kurosawa. different film makers. my bad. come to think of it yojimbo did seem different from the other 2 as well. harakiri is my favorite movie of the 3, but sanjuro from yojimbo is my favorite character out of any of the samurai flicks so far.

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i will say i have a hard time taking cartoons all that seriously. didn't realize yours was a cartoon, but i'll watch it.

I can't remember the last time a movie caused me to tear up but there are certain moments on certain albums that will kick in the waterworks if I listen to them in the right setting.

'Cartoon' makes it sound like Family Guy or something. It's animated yeah. It's superb though.

Watch it m8. It's not even that long.

yea i couldn't pirate it so i went ahead and watched it on youtube before they take it down.

it was a decent flick, really. pretty depressing. didn't make me tear up or anything but yea.

Dancer in the Dark is probably the most crushingly depressing film I've seen.

This is going to sound awful and pretentious, but I thought that was the point. Of course I don't think it was supposed to be hard to get through, and I don't think the characters were supposed to be boring (and the performances, especially Patricia Arquette's, were great), but yeah, there's no real plot and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, the biggest (only?) problem with the movie for me is the way the mother's marriage to her professor is done - it seemed really unnatural compared to the rest of the movie, and I thought the later thing involving the war veteran (her student IIRC) was done way better.

But like what you like, obviously. I just like movies and I don't talk about them much on here.

i honestly had a feeling someone would hit me with "that was the point." that's honestly not the first time i was bored by a film only to be told later that i was meant to be bored by the film. well, you can call me simple, but even if it was intentionally boring that doesn't make me any more inclined to want to watch it.

i don't think Boyhood is intentional boring....but rather celebrates the mundane in life

honestly i watched it cause i heard about the gimmick where they had the boy basically grow up on film and i thought this might the relationships and **** within the film more authentic and interesting to watch. but if i'm being honest if you didn't tell me about this aspect of the film it wouldn't have stood out to me.. seemed like a run of the mill coming-of-age film to me

This one instantly comes to mind

Oh god, that killed me when I was a kid.

I'm not sure which part of the ending you mean but both the incinerator scene and the final scene with Andy and the little girl really choked me up.

Oh man, I just saw the mention for Toy Story 3, and I nearly broke out crying at the incinerator scene.

That's more what I meant. Like I said, I don't think it was supposed to be hard to get through and I don't think you're supposed to be bored by it, but I think that its lack of a central plot and its, as you say, focus on the mundane, could bore some people.

I watched Cannibal Holocaust for the first time when I was probably 13 or 14. Shook me up pretty badly.

Requiem for a Dream is mine.

Kes- I remember watching it as a boy. Billy was probably the one character throughout time that could cause me to tear up. Ready to get depressed, just push play.

Do you mean Harry?

Ellen Burstyn not winning the Oscar that year for her performance in that movie was a travesty.

Nah Billy Casper from the movie Kes. Requiem is a great one. Erin Brokovich was a pretty good movie also though. Julia Roberts was decent enough. I think its because Requiem was such an obscure movie. A little too risque a pick i'm guessing due to content.

I thought Kes was a typo for Yes meaning you were agreeing with me about Requiem.

Will have to check out Kes.