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I was introduced to the most stirring movie of my life last year. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why it did so.

The movie was "Donnie Darko"

Yeah, that movie made me ball my eyes out. You should watch it. It's very well done, and I'd like to hug the director for daring to do what hollywood can't, make a good movie.


Anyway, as it turns out, the reason it makes me ball my eyes out is because I fear that I will be unable to give to society as I am planning to. If you read my story "Man and Wolf" (under creativity), you'll understand a little more.



Of course, another movie had an even more profound effect on me.

Mononoke Hime (screw the Disney version, watch the fansub, the words were changed by Disney.)

It literally changed my life. Up to that point, I still bought into the propaganda that everything is black and white, or to quote a certain Jedi, I dealt in absolutes...just like nearly all of you do, I'm sorry to say. Hey, it's programmed into us. Gay/Straight. Liberal/Conservative. Red/Blue. Abortion/Pro Life. Get it? Anyway, that movie singlehandedly taught me tha there aren't two sides to an issues. More importantly, it taught me that good people can do bad things, and bad people can do good things.

From then on, I had a completely different understanding of wolf issues. More importantly, it caused me to face the reality of things: that there are real people out there on both sides, who just have the wrong idea of things, but are otherwise good people (except the Republicans, they are all evil...hehe.)



Anyway, I'd be curious to see if anyone else has been affected thusly by movies, books, etc.


Oh yeah, and I did mention that "The Wild" by Strieber moved me to tears as well. Read it and find out. Yes, its a werewolf book...of sorts. But the guy becomes a wolf and joins a pack, and helps them survive in a world overrun with humans (the real world of today.)

Well the only movie that ever made me cry was The Fox and the Hound and I was five it was so sad
So I didn't cry when old yeller died it just wasn't said to me

And don't you dare make some stupid pun up about how I cried during the fox and the hound Figarou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cried when I watched Fluke. I couldn't stand seeing him get hurt anymore and I turned it off. Then my mom watched the rest of it with me and I cried again. It was so sad

When I saw armegeddon it made me cry at the end no matter how hard I tried not to. And I cried while watching the green mile, even though I only started watching the last 20 minutes of it.

Edward Scissorhands- that ending always gets me "*sobs* I love Edward!!!

Nightmare Before Christmas- Such beutiful music, songs and visuals; freakin great story as well

Watership Down and The Plauge Dogs- Touching characters and stories

Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away- So beutiful, animation, story, characters, the very concepts. Love the imagination

The Lord of the Rings Trilology- Very well directed, very well cast, amazing special effects, music, ect

The Hunchback of Notre Dame- I've been obsessed with this Disney film since it came out in 1996 The songs and music and animation are all amazing. I think I kindof identified with Quasimodo then

Others: The Secret of NIMH, all other Miyazaki films, other Burton films(Big Fish, Batman Returns, ect),

From the trailers of The Corpse Bride I've seen, it may make the list indeed and hopefully Freeborn

Not a movie but Wolf's Rain really just blew me away. I dont really think of it as just a tv series, its like a film broken up into segments It is one of the most amazing things I've watched

edit: I really REALLY want to read Wild. I've been looking for it at every book store I go to, used books stores as well. Sadily, no luck yet. Going to have to find it off amazon or ebay or something

Fenrir wrote:
And don't you dare make some stupid pun up about how I cried during the fox and the hound Figarou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who? me? I wouldn't dare.


*crosses fingers behind back*

Rex Wolf wrote:
The movie was "Donnie Darko"

Yeah, that movie made me ball my eyes out. You should watch it. It's very well done, and I'd like to hug the director for daring to do what hollywood can't, make a good movie.

I have The Wild on my PC. Yeah, I know, but I still haven't found a copy of it either...

But if you want it, let me know.


And for clarification, I'm interested in hearing about movies, or books, etc, that changed lives, or stirred deeply. I cry at Fluke and many other movies, but I balled my eyes out at Darko. VERY moving to me.



Thanks though, great stuff so far.

no movies have made me cried, infact I think that since I was five I have only cried twice

Silverclaw wrote:Nightmare Before Christmas- Such beutiful music, songs and visuals; freakin great story as well

Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away- So beutiful, animation, story, characters, the very concepts. Love the imagination

Yeah, baby, yeah! (God I gotta stop saying that.)
But bottom line: Those movies so kicked tail.

EDIT: Oh-em-ef-gee, thi post just made me legendary!

I dont really think any movie really CHANGED by life. Nightmare Before Chirstmas got me obsessed with good ol' Tim Burton and Danny Elfman And the amazing animated films have inspired me to get involve with making animated movies(Yeah Wolf!) Some, like the ones I've listed, certinaly enriched my life I think They mean a lot to me, they move, touch, entertain, and stir my emotions. I think such good movies help make the world a little better They at least help me be a happier person

And thanks for the offer; though I think I'm going to order it off the internet soon. I love books you can own and hold in your hands Gotta add Wild to my ever growing book collection

Wit

It's about a mean, hardass professor who finds out she has cancer. (Don't worry, I didn't give anything away).

Rex wolf, it seems that you and I have similar taste in movies, because I found Donnie Darko to be very changing as well. You would probably like Wit, though for the life of me I don't know if you'd be able to find it.


As far as the anti-abortion messages in The Island (bear in mind I haven't seen it yet) I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I, personally, am pro-life (for the most part) and I think if the creators of this movie want to put their beliefs into this movie, more power to them. Mainly, I feel this way because I am tired of people skirting around the issues, not saying how they really feel. (Oh and by the way, most Republicans aren't evil. Only the most prominent ones )

Well it didn't make me cry or anything. But it certainly made me think.

K-PAX. It's about this guy who ends up in an insane asylum because he claims to be an alien from another planet. Naturally the doctors think he's crazy, but the patients believe him and he knows all sorts of odd things he shouldn't know.

What movie HASN'T stirred me or made me cry...? Here are just a few of my absolute faves. Each has very special meaning to me, or has touched me in some deep way. And if a sequel has touched me, I'll specify, otherwise it just means the FIRST movie only.

-All Dogs Go To Heaven
-Land Before Time
-Pay It Forward
-An American Tail
-Brother Bear
-Finding Nemo (I know, I'm pathetic)
-Mr. Holland's Opus
-Hercules (The Disney film)
-Dragonheart
-Fisher King
-Lion King
-Fruits Basket (anime series)

...Yes, I am pathetic. And cry easily. XD The new Chronicles of Narnia movie will proooobably make me cry, too. I love Aslan. Kingdom Hearts made me cry, too, but I'm not sure that counts. So did Jak 3.

Rex Wolf wrote:(except the Republicans, they are all evil...hehe.)

Nah, their not evil. They've just been so integrated into that dark corporate "the company must always be growing at all costs" world that by the time they get high enough up the ladder that they could influence a change in even the slightest way, nevermind have a chance of any major corporation sponsoring them for a political campaign, their incapable of thinking any other way.

John Steinbeck once wrote that everyone working in a Bank hates what they do, but they do it anyway because they know that if they don't, the company will find someone else who will. Even the CEO is expendable; his only real purpose is to be offered to the law as tribute if any of their illegal activities become exposed (Enron, Martha Stewart, etc.). *shrugs* Maybe that's why Dick Cheney said he'd be the best candidate for V.P.

Lady Eboshi is actually a great parallel to the way corporate executives and corporate-sponsored Republicans (which is kind of redundant if you think about it) are evil. All things considered, Lady Eboshi has a good heart; she saw the strength of brothel girls and the skill of leppers and made a fortress with them, but because the Feudal warlords all want her iron and are willing to kill for it, her only options are to either mine the forest or watch her people starve and the enemy storm the gates when the shipments stop (they were a mining community with no suitable farmland) and the last bullets are spent.

And her greatest opposition, Moro, is not just as easy to love because she's a wolf. Her tolerance of San and Ashitaka is evidence enough that she bares no ill will to humans; just one in particular.

You can probably tell that Princess Mononoke's at the top of my list of moving movies as well.

Looking back... Well, there's only two movies I can remember that actually got me to cry, and I'm sort of embarrassed to say it:

Big Fish and Powder.

NarnianWolfen wrote:Kingdom Hearts made me cry, too, but I'm not sure that counts. So did Jak 3.

I'm sorry, but that made me giggle. Not because you're pathetic, but because it reminds me about just how I was bouncing off the ceiling when I played Jak & Daxter.

I was just remembering crying in the theater during Star Trek III, when they blew up the Enterprise. Oddly enough, I kept it pretty straight when they totalled the Next Gen Enterprise-D in Star Trek: Generations. Obviously, I'd be remiss not to mention the death of Spock in II, or the penultimate emotional rush of Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales.

If you're not a nerd, however, you can get your emotional fill with The Shipping News. It's a low key independent film, with mind-blowing images and heart-wrenching Celtic music. It focuses on a broken man being renewed and awakening to his sea-faring heritage as he and his daughter move into a northern coastline village. I won't mention plot twists, but it's got a lot of great highlights and moments.

And, of course, there's Robbin Williams, and his unique talent for making you laugh and cry simultaneously. Aside from his over-the-top characters, he plays some more low key ones in Bicentennial Man and What Dreams May Come, which both feature some pretty haunting imagery.

To Terastas and Scott: Powder and The Shipping News both stirred me as well. I'm glad you mentioned those.

(and What Dreams May Come is gorgeous. Best use of color ever)

A.I was a very moving movie imho. So sad
[spoiler]my mom watched it up til Davids 'mom' abondened him in the woods. That had her in tears, then she got angry at the scene and left [/spoiler]

I like both versions of Animal Farm as well.

Big Fish!!! Love it

Fluke made me cry as a child too. Also more recently the onyl thing that has moved me now as a movie was a 2 hour show on someone who had wolves in a gaint pen inwhich he studeid, it was beautiful and even had a sniffle here in there. I belive it was on Discovery or National Geographic.

I had not watched Animal Farm but have red the book, I liked it very much. I am capable of crying to a book, it can happen. Otherwise I don't cry very much over things unless its well done and I'm really into it. I don't know why, some things seems to be as though my eyes are drying out, but it's quite easy to get me to cry; all I have to do is think of my cat's death. My cats arn't dead, I just sniffle at the thought.

NarnianWolfen wrote:What movie HASN'T stirred me or made me cry...? Here are just a few of my absolute faves. Each has very special meaning to me, or has touched me in some deep way. And if a sequel has touched me, I'll specify, otherwise it just means the FIRST movie only.

-All Dogs Go To Heaven
-Land Before Time
-Pay It Forward
-An American Tail
-Brother Bear
-Finding Nemo (I know, I'm pathetic)
-Mr. Holland's Opus
-Hercules (The Disney film)
-Dragonheart
-Fisher King
-Lion King
-Fruits Basket (anime series)

A few months ago I went and dug All Dogs Go To Heaven out of the shed and watched and I bawled at the end. I never did when I was little, which was weird... My friends and I went to watch Brother Bear in the theater and I about bawled during that that too. Especially the part where the little animal spirits are running around after the mama bear dies. Just the music and the way it was illustrated I guess....

I really liked Big Fish. I remember being sad when the dad died, but everyone from his stories were at his funeral, which was really cool. I cried when Bruce Willis' character in Armageddon died too.

Finding Nemo was pretty surprising. I wasn't prepared for how layered a piece it is; Pixar is definitely coming into its own.

Harry Potter 6 made me cry, during the [spoiler]funeral of Dumbledore...[/spoiler]