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Top 27 best movies - ever

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My favorite movie with Robin Williams in a dramatic role is Moscow on the Hudson. What a wonderful, charming, endearing film. It's a nice reminder of what people will do to come to this country to try to make it.

He was excellent in Good Will Hunting and in Awakenings as well, though for my taste I preferred MotH more.





(there are still plenty of people who want to come to the US for economic opportunity: despite all the "outsourcing" complaints, we are still "insourcing" some of the world's most talented and ambitious people. Our company is probably 30% immigrant, for example, all based in the US).
 
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I was thinking about the best movies at which it is okay for guys to cry, or movies during which guys can cry without being ashamed (metrosexuals excluded).

For example, it is never acceptable for a guy to cry during any "chick flick" since from a guy's point of view, chick flicks "manipulate" emotions to produce that result.

Also, while it might be okay to cry at the end of Old Yeller, because you cried when you were a young boy, it is that young boy's memories that help bring the guy's tears, and so while excusable, it doesn't really "count" for this category either.

The scene in Shane when the young boy is calling after him to come back is borderline.

I guess in a war flick (e.g. The Seven Samurai), when one of the likable secondary characters gets killed, it might be okay.
 
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FreshFish said:
I was thinking about the best movies at which it is okay for guys to cry, or movies during which guys can cry without being ashamed (metrosexuals excluded).

For example, it is never acceptable for a guy to cry during any "chick flick" since from a guy's point of view, chick flicks "manipulate" emotions to produce that result.

Also, while it might be okay to cry at the end of Old Yeller, because you cried when you were a young boy, it is that young boy's memories that help bring the guy's tears, and so while excusable, it doesn't really "count" for this category either.

The scene in Shane when the young boy is calling after him to come back is borderline.

I guess in a war flick (e.g. The Seven Samurai), when one of the likable secondary characters gets killed, it might be okay.
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Rudy
 
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DaveStPaul said:
Field of Dreams. What can I say. /shrug/
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The one that really got me was Awakenings with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams....it's sort of like the requisite high school short story "Flowers for Algernon."


Also, every time I see Miracle on Ice (the 1981 version with Karl Malden as Herb Brooks, not the 2004 Kurt Russell one)...I still get chills every time I hear <strike>Marv Albert</strike> Al Michaels' voice asking "Do you believe in miracles?"



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DaveStPaul said:
Field of Dreams. What can I say. /shrug/
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Every time - unashamed and like a baby!

I hear Marley and Me brings out the waterworks, but I haven't seen it after having to put my dog down after 15 years.
 
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Also, every time I see Miracle on Ice (the 1981 version with Karl Malden as Herb Brooks, not the 2004 Kurt Russell one)...I still get chills every time I hear Marv Albert's voice asking "Do you believe in miracles?"
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Marv Albert?
 
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when matt damon's face morphs into the old dude at the us d-day cemetery and he asks his wife if he's lived a good life / tell me i lived a good life... as the taxi driver in scrooged would say, "niagara falls, frankie angel".
 
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Miracle (Kurt Russell). Not only during the Al Michaels' moment, but also when Kurt goes into the corridor, and basically collapes with emotion...
 
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i see movie #1 is going to be a double feature at 8p and 1015p on ovation network tomorrow night.
 
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Not a proper movie, although there are short films adaptations, but my family's favorite tear-jerker is "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote, his basically autobiographical story about growing up in abject poverty in the care of his favorite distant, elderly cousin. We read it aloud together as a family each Christmas (it's short), taking turns each year. Almost none of us can even get the first sentence out without cracking with emotion. The line that always gets me is when his cousin tells him that she wishes she could get him a bicycle for Christmas:

"It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”

I highly recommend reading it with those you love and appreciate the most.
 
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FreshFish said:
A Christmas Carol, the classic b&w version with Alistair Sims. Gets me every time.
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How true. With a close second the older version with Reginald Owen. (Leo G. Carroll just seems to pop up everywhere in these old flicks)
 
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