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We don’t necessarily go to the movies to cry, but it tends to happen. Well, unless you’re a manly man, in which case you likely only cry at a movie when a football star dies, or Jason Statham wrecks a beautiful car. But the fact is that there are a lot of depressing movies in [...]
Posted by Jeff Kelly on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged American Beauty, cool hand luke, Denzel Washington, depressing endings, depressing movies, Harvey Milk, inspiring sad films, Jeff Kelly, John Steinbeck, Life is Beautiful, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Oskar Schindler, Paul Newman, Philadelphia Tom Hanks, Randall McMurphy, Roberto Benigni, Schindler's List, Sean Penn, Steven Spielberg, The Grapes of Wrath, tom hanks, Tom Joad
You will notice an anti-war stance with this list. John Wayne is noticeable by his absence! The films have a common mission and that is to tell the truth as the writers and directors see it. Before I receive a deluge of comments on why ‘Saving Private Ryan’ isn’t included, I think that the first [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 2:47 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, American film directors, apocalypse now, Benjamin Willard, born on the fourth of july, das boot, donald sutherland, elliot gould, film, fourth of July, Francis Ford Coppola, full metal jacket, Heart of Darkness, John Gielgud, john wayne, Joseph Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Lawrence Olivier, Lewis Milestone, Liam Neeson, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, MASH, Mickey Mouse Club, Nick Nolte, Oh, Oliver Stone, Oskar Schindler, Paths of Glory, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough, robert altman, Ron Kovic, saving private ryan, Schindler's List, Sean Penn, stanley kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Terence Malick, the Oscar, Thin Red Line, Tom Cruise, top 10 lists, u boat, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnam War films, War, war movies, What a Lovely War, wolfgang petersen, world war i, world war ii
