Schindler's List re:sad movies

[loveday]

The saddest thing about this movie were the people who showed up at the premiere. There were lots of veterans that showed up, many with tattooed arms from the camps. At the intermission 80% walked out with tears streaming down their faces and didn't return. I think I ended up in the pub afterwards nursing a brandy

[hisno1girl]

I won't watch that movie. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close or United 93 either.

I already know enough about those tragedies, TYVM.

[loveday]

SL is required viewing in English schools. You can opt out of course, but most kids will watch it in their secondary years.

[ndolehan]

i was required to watch SL in my American History course when I was a junior in High School.

This is going to sound weird, but SL is one of my favorite movies.

[Deleted]

I have never seen it. I am not sure I can.

[loveday]

I think the true stories make the best movies. It is absolutely heart wrenching to watch though.

[Chirp]

I was 11 when that movie came out (1993, right?). I didn't see it until I was in 10th grade, and even then the teacher had to get special approval from the school board and get permission slips from each kid's parent. Historically, a very well done movie. Same with The Pianist.

My classmates were weird. They didn't get the gravity of what they were watching. They were too busy tittering over the nudity.

Maybe I was the weird one... Not many 15 year old girls are history nerds with bookshelves full of WWII non-fiction.

[fuckstick]

Aug 8, 2012 14:05:18 GMT -5 ndolehan said:

i was required to watch SL in my American History course when I was a junior in High School.

This is going to sound weird, but SL is one of my favorite movies.

A lot of people would think so, but I kind of agree. I think its an important part of history to know about and its a well made movie. The scene where Liam Neeson is saying he could have saved one more life if he'd just tried harder... I cried like a baby.

[Awkward]

I watched it in english class junior year. I barely slept for a week. All I saw when I closed my eyes was that cart with the girl in the red jacket. I can't imagine seeing it in middle school.

[cleo29]

Did you see Life Is Beautiful or The Boy IN The Stripped Pajamas? I was haunted for days after watching the final scenes of the latter, but it was still a wonderful film.

[ndolehan]

Aug 8, 2012 14:12:47 GMT -5 fuckstick said:

Aug 8, 2012 14:05:18 GMT -5 ndolehan said:

i was required to watch SL in my American History course when I was a junior in High School.

This is going to sound weird, but SL is one of my favorite movies.

A lot of people would think so, but I kind of agree. I think its an important part of history to know about and its a well made movie. The scene where Liam Neeson is saying he could have saved one more life if he'd just tried harder... I cried like a baby.

part of what make the movie so amazing is the actors and Spielberg. They obviously did their homework and took the movie seriously. You can tell they wanted to stay true to the history.

[loveday]

Yes, both of them. Haunted is absolutely the right word for them. My grandparents grew up in WWII London, and their stories leave a pit in my stomach. I had to interview them for a school project once, and I was crying when my grandmother recalled her best friend in school. The friend and her had gone home for lunch when the sirens went, they got into shelters, but not before a V2 rocket smashed into the friend's house and killed all the inhabitants.

[pantsparty]

We watched this in my film studies class in high school. It was a morning class and I was a wreck every day. Incredibly well done but so hard to watch.

[Deleted]

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas haunts me, I bawled like a baby. Such a beautiful film though, but I'm not one of those people that would have the strength to watch it over and over again.

[cleo29]

Aug 8, 2012 15:32:20 GMT -5 @bettyhomewrecker33 said:

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas haunts me, I bawled like a baby. Such a beautiful film though, but I'm not one of those people that would have the strength to watch it over and over again.

When they grab each other's hand, I got chills. I still do just thinking about it.

[Bernadine]

I've never seen the movie, but I went to the Holocaust museum in DC for a school field trip and all the girls were crying, and the guys were close. It was awful.

[macmars45]

I had to watch as a junior/senior in high school. My parents had to sign a permission slip for me to watch it. We didn't have time to finish it in class so the teacher told us we all had to rent it because we had to write a paper on it. My dad forgot to return it for two weeks and had a huge late fee.

Another sad movie is The Power of One. I had to watch it twice within one month senior year of high school. Once in English and once in Current World Problems. Ugh.

[mrs.jacinthe]

We had to watch it in high school - complete with permission slip. We were on semesters at that point with block classes, so we watched it all the way through with no interruptions. I thought when the teacher brought out a sam's club size pack of tissue boxes and made everyone take one that he was joking around ... but even the football jocks went through about half a box each.

We saw the movie 2nd block, before lunch. It was the quietest high-school lunchroom you could imagine that day. Seriously, someone sneezed and about 200 people said 'bless you.'

[cleo29]

Aug 8, 2012 18:00:22 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

I had to watch as a junior/senior in high school. My parents had to sign a permission slip for me to watch it. We didn't have time to finish it in class so the teacher told us we all had to rent it because we had to write a paper on it. My dad forgot to return it for two weeks and had a huge late fee.

Another sad movie is The Power of One. I had to watch it twice within one month senior year of high school. Once in English and once in Current World Problems. Ugh.

I love The Power of One, it seems to be an underrated movie. It also features Daniel Craig.