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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:11 PM
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Poll question: Fess up, guys - which one of these movie roles can bring you to tears?
Pretty straightforward. You know the actress, you know the role she plays. Now go vote!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:13 PM
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1. Oh, that's easy
http://www.millaj.com/milla_index.html
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:20 PM
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2. I gotta admit...
When Leelu first learns what "War" is and horrible it can be, my heart breaks along with hers.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 04:22 AM
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18. Exactly!
And she's like "if that's all you're going to do to each other anyway why should I save you?" (paraphrasing)
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:52 PM
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3. Kate Winslet in Finding Neverland
So I'm not a guy... it's the last movie I watched.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:55 PM
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5. But Fifth Element was still one of the best movies of all time
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 06:45 AM
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21. OMG, yes! (I'm not a guy either) n/t
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 08:49 AM
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22. It brought me to tears also!
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:55 PM
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4. What kind of tears?
Because there are those like Portman and Jovovich which make me cry and wail, "I will NEVER have a chance," and Whoopie, which is more of a "What a heart rending depiction of a tragic character."
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:55 PM
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6. You are waaaaaay off.
I'm a guy and I cry at the silliest of movies. But none of the above.

You're not really a guy, are you? ;)
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:04 PM
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7. My wife would be in for a hell of a shock if I weren't
I think it's safe to say on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being McLaughlin's metaphysical certainty and 1 being no chance in Hell, that I'm on the 10 scale of guyhood. :silly:
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:07 PM
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8. Of the above, I've only seen Gone With The Wind, and...
...The Color Purple. Great movies, but they didn't make me cry, and Vivien Leigh wasn't exactly a sympathetic character in that movie to make one want to cry, however, Olivia de Havilland was...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:08 PM
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9. Robert Duvall in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:18 PM
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10. Meryl Streep. "Sophie's Choice." Scene where she has to choose...
Edited on Wed May-18-05 10:19 PM by KzooDem
which one of her two children will live, and which one will die upon ariving at Auschwitz.

Pass the kleenex, please.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:31 PM
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11. Nice call, and very sad movie.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:33 PM
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12. this movie always makes me cry.....
Edited on Wed May-18-05 10:35 PM by orleans
it's Anna Calder Marshall and Timothy Dalton in Wuthering Heights from 1970
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:41 PM
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13. raise the red lantern...
is one of my fav films ever. gong li, shedding that single tear in the opening scene as her life is altered forever is a magnificent precursor to all the sorrow that is to follow :cry:

i say: raise the red lantern
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:46 PM
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14. smartest answer in the thread
IMO of course

wrong scene, but miserable movie, absolutely miserable to watch

I can still there click click click click click of the foot massages
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:48 PM
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15. Woohoo! I have never seen any one of those movies.
But the episode of Futurama about Fry's dog makes me cry.

:cry:
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:49 PM
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16. Dirty Dozen
Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of "the Dirty Dozen."

Greg: Who didn't?

Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin (Begins to cry)

Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...

Greg: (Crying too) Stop, stop!

Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez ...

Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!

Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...

Greg: Stop.

Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...

Greg: (Crying harder) Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 04:07 AM
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17. Gone with the Wind
ALso Brief Encounter when she nearLy kiLLs herseLf.:cry:
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dancing kali Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 04:25 AM
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19. Juliet Stevenson
in Truly Madly Deeply.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 06:33 AM
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20. Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment...head in hands...full on sob...
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 08:52 AM
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23. Okay this may sound silly, but
if you have ever been cheated on, you could probably relate to Natalie Portman's character in Closer when she finds out Jude Law has been cheating on her and is leaving her. It brought me to tears and I do not cry easily in movies or real life for that matter.
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 08:59 AM
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24. Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein.
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chickenscratching Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:00 AM
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25. c'mon you all know it's kate winslet in titanic
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SkipNewarkDE Donating Member (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:21 AM
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26. Seabiscuit, in Seabiscuit
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:25 AM
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27. I tend to cry more in animal documentaries.
I get so emotional about these poor little animals. Most recent one was a documentary about wolves on Discovery.
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