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If you didnt cry at all while watching this....you may not have a heart

posted 9 years ago by riddlerfiddler
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First off, I was extremely impressed with this bleak, subdued, adventure story. Its really about parental bonds, and a parent's love for their child. (spoiler alert!! coming up!!)
This is one of the most emotionally powerfully impacting movies ive seen in quite some time. The scene, where viggo the father sais to his son, "my boy....my boy.....you have my heart...." It really really got to me, perhaps because I am one of those people who wishes they could experience that powerful kind of love from my own father, yet, iknow that I never will.

"Everytime i put myself out on a limb for someone.......the limb breaks...."

[–] Little_Tyke 9 years ago

Not only do I have a heart, it was repaired two years ago by a cardiac surgeon who fitted replacement pipes. I did not cry at all. The movie was utterly predictable and far too long. The Man made so many mistakes, in real life he just wouldn't have survived beyond the first few streets away from his home. I'm wondering whether any director can make a decent apocalyptic film, as I watched These Final Hours recently and that was just another sequence of box-ticking, too.

[–] riddlerfiddler 9 years ago

wow,,,im surprised to hear you say that. I consider myself to be quite jaded and overly analytical when I watch movies, but I got totally absorbed by this one, and really bought into the characters. its probably the first movie to make me cry in about 15 years. my question to you is this. 'what is the last movie that touched that repaired heart of yours and brought you to tears?"

"Everytime i put myself out on a limb for someone.......the limb breaks...."

[–] Little_Tyke 9 years ago

What difference does it make what movie I last watched that touched me? This one did not.

[–] riddlerfiddler 9 years ago

Because its a friendly conversational question based on curiosity and interest, you A-whole! As if people only ask questions in which the answer makes a difference.......I hope I never get stuck on a deserted island with YOU

"Everytime i put myself out on a limb for someone.......the limb breaks...."

[–] Little_Tyke 9 years ago

"A-whole", eh! And this is your gambit in posing a "friendly conversational question"?

[–] plubok-467-665057 9 years ago

Lmao all you had to do was answer his question. Uptight douche

[–] The-ManWithNoName 9 years ago

The surgeon should have let you die.

[–] wild_cobra427 9 years ago

You're either a female or gay. Real men don't cry to movies. Death of a loved one, maybe. This film was pointless. Nothing new or entertaining. It didn't even have a story to tell. Why would anyone get emotional over such drivel?

Example of senility.http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2779/paintx.png

[–] greg-233 9 years ago

"Real men don't cry to movies."

Roger Ebert cried when he saw Testament. Even after a second viewing:

"The film is about a suburban American family, and what happens to that family after a nuclear war. It is not a science-fiction movie, and it doesn't have any special effects, and there are no big scenes of buildings blowing over or people disintegrating. We never even see a mushroom cloud. We never even know who started the war. Instead, "Testament" is a tragedy about manners: It asks how we might act toward one another, how our values might stand up, in the face of an overwhelming catastrophe."

That last sentence could also describe The Road.

[–] MrsTeller 9 years ago

You don't have to be female or gay to cry. That's ridiculous.

[–] greg-233 9 years ago

"You don't have to be female or gay to cry. That's ridiculous."

Of course it's ridiculous. No one, not even the most macho meathead, actually believes that. 

When I was at school I had a male geography teacher who admitted to crying at the end of My Girl.

[–] MrsTeller 9 years ago

Right! Men are allowed to have feelings and emotions too! I see nothing wrong with a straight man showing it.

Everyone needs a good cry once in awhile anyway. Lol

[–] shlarue 9 years ago

I saw this movie at the show back when it came out and I enjoyed it but it didn't resonate with me as much until I had a child of my own. I just watched this movie again the other day, my son just turned two years old. Now, it is a completely different movie and much more emotional than ever before.

[–] MrsTeller 8 years ago

Yes, I think being a parent makes a huge difference on whether or not this movie will get you emotional.

Since having children, a lot of things that used to not effect me, do now.

[–] gasivodo 9 years ago

Real men only cry here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agl--3GoMBk

..yeah-well..we were boys..it's okay;-( (SOP, sigh, damn onions)

[–] OldSamVimes 9 years ago

I didn't cry for this.

I thought the whole thing was depressing as hell, as well as a waste of some great Nick Cave music.

The only way this movie made me cry is when I watched 'Fantastic Mr Fox' on DVD a few months later and remembered I saw this in the theater instead of that.

BTW, Fantastic Mr Fox had a couple of scenes that brought tears to my eyes.

[–] StrikerStripe 9 years ago

I didn't cry but (it's been a few years since I've seen this) when there was that family who were keeping people trapped in their basement and they chopped someones leg of that was just messed up.
This scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6QXs4oMayc
Doesn't bother me now but when I first saw that I was kinda shocked.

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[–] molypocho 9 years ago

My problem was the lack of 'subdued' qualities (over reliance on music when expressing deep, critical emotions) and faulty scene construction. Those two issues probably relate to each other: a lacking cohesion in scene construction (scenes shift speeds unevenly, dialogue doesn't flow together, film feels heavily edited) is often remedied with heavy reliance on soundtrack: like using music as glue.

Think Malick or Once Upon a Time in America.

My rating: 6

[–] jjcc178 9 years ago

i did not cry for this piece.

but The Judge got me.😭

[–] shanayneigh 9 years ago

Nope, didn't cry. The scene in the end ("you have my heart!") felt pretty melodramatic. The dialogue didn't ring true to me.

Working in the movie business since -92

[–] Droark-40-905010 9 years ago

This is the first and only movie I've ever cried watching. I'm definitely with you on this one. I think most of the others came to see a gritty post-apocalyptic film but it was really just a drama set in a post-apocalypse.

The people that complain about the realism are the same who would complain about how unrealistic the concentration camp was in Life Is Beautiful. They miss the point entirely.

[–] MrsTeller 9 years ago

I cried a few times while watching this a couple years ago. I actually never got to see the end. I'm going to watch it on Netflix first chance I get.