I'm a big sap..........

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 02 Oct 2004, 19:17

I've just finished watching the movie "Iron Giant". It's a kid's animation about a wee chap who befriends a giant robot.

Anyone else see it?

I cried when the robot got blown-up and then I cried again at then end when it's made clear that the scattered pieces will find each other and the robot will eventually live again.

What a great wee film.

I love a good blub!

My worst 'blub crime' was to cry at the Yellow Pages ad from a few years back in which an old gardener looks like he's going to get the boot after his employees see him struggling to mow the lawn but, hey, his employees use good old YP to buy him a motorised lawn mower. Hoorah!!

Got me every time.

Please tell me I'm not the only 'saddo' here, am I?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 02 Oct 2004, 20:35

...when Spock dies at the end of "The Wrath Of Khan".

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 02 Oct 2004, 21:41

When the mammoth delivers the wee baby back to his dad at the end of 'Ice Age' (just as the tiger comes back from the dead)

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 02 Oct 2004, 22:47

"Daddy. My Daddy." at the end of the Railway Brats. Heartbroken in a happy way every time!!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 02 Oct 2004, 23:11

Poppy wrote:"Daddy. My Daddy." at the end of the Railway Brats. Heartbroken in a happy way every time!!

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 03 Oct 2004, 03:42

Got "Sliding Doors" and "The Debt Collector" to look forward to on DVD tomorrow. Along with the Scotland on Sunday and Sunday Herald free CD's, its looking like a good day already, so long as there is no headache.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 03 Oct 2004, 15:50

Dadaist wrote:...when Spock dies at the end of "The Wrath Of Khan".

Rutger Hauer's "time to die" scene near the end of Blade Runner

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 03 Oct 2004, 16:00

The film about the dolphins who were trained to put mines on German ships (honest, it is really a film!) and they're trained to say a few words (no, I'm not drunk!). At the end the trainer tries to save them by telling them to get lost and the wee dolphin goes "Fa love Pa"....... (I'm in bits just thinking about it

)

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 03 Oct 2004, 16:06

Poppy wrote:"Daddy. My Daddy." at the end of the Railway Brats. Heartbroken in a happy way every time!!

I juist watched that yesterday! Gets me every time.

We had a fantastic holiday there once, just up the hill from the railway line.

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:27

Capra's film 'It's a Wonderful Life' starring James Stewart still gets me every time. It should be compulsory viewing when someone is feeling a bit low and un-appreciated.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:36

Pal of Porty wrote:Capra's film 'It's a Wonderful Life' starring James Stewart still gets me every time. It should be compulsory viewing when someone is feeling a bit low and un-appreciated.

The BBC are running a ten movie series over xmas; the top ten films that never won the Oscar for Best Picture. I think IAWL is number 2 with Citizen Kane at number 1. I saw Barry Norman promoting this on the BBC the other morning, is he working for them again? I hope so.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:37

Xmas schedules already???

How depressing - I think I may cry.

Again...........

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:46

Epykat wrote:The film about the dolphins who were trained to put mines on German ships (honest, it is really a film!) and they're trained to say a few words (no, I'm not drunk!). At the end the trainer tries to save them by telling them to get lost and the wee dolphin goes "Fa love Pa"....... (I'm in bits just thinking about it )

I need a title for this Epykat, it sounds right up my street!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:50

ecm wrote:
Epykat wrote:The film about the dolphins who were trained to put mines on German ships (honest, it is really a film!) and they're trained to say a few words (no, I'm not drunk!). At the end the trainer tries to save them by telling them to get lost and the wee dolphin goes "Fa love Pa"....... (I'm in bits just thinking about it )
I need a title for this Epykat, it sounds right up my street!

Think it was "Der Dolphin ist Scheisskopf"

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:53

Porty wrote:
ecm wrote:
Epykat wrote:The film about the dolphins who were trained to put mines on German ships (honest, it is really a film!) and they're trained to say a few words (no, I'm not drunk!). At the end the trainer tries to save them by telling them to get lost and the wee dolphin goes "Fa love Pa"....... (I'm in bits just thinking about it )
I need a title for this Epykat, it sounds right up my street!

Think it was "Der Dolphin ist Scheisskopf"

The profanity filter doesn't do German then?

Hell's Cat · Post by **Hell's Cat** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:54

Went to see Bicentenial Man at the pictures. I was blubbering so much I was too embarassed to leave with everyone else at the end of the film so had to sit through all the credits before I calmed down enough to exit the cinema. How mortifying

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 03 Oct 2004, 22:58

Hell's Cat wrote:Went to see Bicentenial Man at the pictures. I was blubbering so much I was too embarassed to leave with everyone else at the end of the film so had to sit through all the credits before I calmed down enough to exit the cinema. How mortifying

I was exactly the same after seeing "The Elephant Man" many moons ago.

And "E.T."

And so on and so on

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 05 Oct 2004, 21:42

ecm wrote:I need a title for this Epykat, it sounds right up my street!:lol:

You'd love it ecm (I really am beginning to think we were separated at birth - maybe my Mum couldn't afford two lots of strudles?) I can't remember what it was called but I'll try and find out. The other one in that sort of vein was again nameless, but centered around a man in an iron lung who was in a plane crash and the only way they could get the plane working again was to disconnect the iron lung - thus effectively killing him - and use the bits to get the engine going. It was fabby. Very moving

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Oct 2004, 21:54

Epykat,

I just googled "talking dolphin movie" and found

this

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 07 Oct 2004, 22:35

You're a genius! Now see if you can find the iron lung one

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 07 Oct 2004, 22:58

Epykat wrote:You're a genius! Now see if you can find the iron lung one

Hope you do not mind me butting in but it sounds like this one. It's called Broken Journey.

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/gain ... 8/003.html

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 07 Oct 2004, 23:06

Pal of Porty wrote:Hope you do not mind me butting in but it sounds like this one. It's called Broken Journey.http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/gain ... 8/003.html

Excellent, Pal of Porty!

This film sounds sooooo bad it has to be a classic.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 07 Oct 2004, 23:30

And supposedly based on a true story too! I don't believe it!

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 09 Oct 2004, 22:09

Well done that man! It was truly hysterical. I laughed and laughed the whole way through it - and I was just in on my own!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 11 Oct 2004, 11:49

Has anyone ever heard of a cartoon film called Nobody's Boy?
I was obsessed with it when I was a kid but it made me cry buckets - the only film that ever did till i got grown-up hormones. My mam worked in a tv/video place and she used to bring it home for me all the time.
The only other person I've ever met who's heard of it is my ex-hubby. In fact I think that's why I married him.
Anyone else?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 11 Oct 2004, 18:22

Bellybabe wrote:Has anyone ever heard of a cartoon film called Nobody's Boy?

This site seems to say it's now out of print BB.

Nobody's Boy

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » 11 Oct 2004, 18:24

Hell's Cat wrote:Went to see Bicentenial Man at the pictures. I was blubbering so much I was too embarassed to leave with everyone else at the end of the film so had to sit through all the credits before I calmed down enough to exit the cinema. How mortifying

Yupp... Me too. Even though I knew the ending!

Another biggie was Titanic. The scene where the old couple lie on top of the bedclothes, holding hands, as the ship plunges to its death.

<sobs> I've got to stop now. Sorry.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 11 Oct 2004, 19:50

Hello Dakota and welcome to the saddo's club!

Never have seen Titanic and would like to keep it that way if possible, I'd be more scared of Celine Dion's singing than anything else!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 12 Oct 2004, 11:35

ecm, you made my day.
At least it proves it was real (well, although that site seems to think the English one might not be!).
And now I know it was actually Sans Famille, i love it even more because of a Chalet School connection!
Thank you. The old man he was sold to used to sing the Gounod-Bach Ave Maria in the streets...

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 12 Oct 2004, 13:39

Bellybabe wrote:i love it even more because of a Chalet School connection!

Ears p rick up immediately!!!! (I wasn't allowed the word pee ar eye see kay! 'Ears stand up' doesn't quite work!) Are you a Chalet School reader, too, Bellybabe?

Never having seen the film - WHAT is the connection with the Chalet School? Does it take place near Innsbruck? Or is it ...

Bellybabe wrote:The old man he was sold to used to sing the Gounod-Bach Ave Maria in the streets...

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 12 Oct 2004, 14:27

Ok, there goes wjhat little bit of credibility and cool I had.
Yes, i read the chalet school books. And go to meetings

.
No, Sans Famille was a book they (the middles or juniors) had to read a lot - in one of the books they did some tableaux or something for a "Saturday night" and one of them was where the man found Remi freezing to death or something... And now I know the story as I loved it as a kid!

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 12 Oct 2004, 15:09

Bellybabe wrote:Yes, i read the chalet school books. And go to meetings .

Meetings

Where? Locally?

I know there's a web-site, but I've never managed to get round to looking at it, as if I did, I would be there for hours!

Bellybabe wrote:No, Sans Famille was a book they (the middles or juniors) had to read a lot - in one of the books they did some tableaux or something for a "Saturday night" and one of them was where the man found Remi freezing to death or something... And now I know the story as I loved it as a kid!

Can't remember that bit ......... (remember the tableaux, but not that one) was it before or after Jo's time? In Austria? Guernsey? Wales?

"Chalet School and Jo" is on sale at the library book sale at the moment, if you haven't got it/want it ....... but it's the modern paperback vesrion.

Mimpty · Post by **Mimpty** » 13 Oct 2004, 13:21

When did they go to Wales?

I must have stopped reading before that, I knew they went to the Channel Islands... think I'm going to have to re-read them.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 13 Oct 2004, 13:27

Well, they didn't stay long in Guernsey due to the occupation! After that they moved to the fictional "Armiford" (Howells Village), can't remember which town that really is, until the drains went bad and then they moved to an island of the Welsh coast. And after that they went to Switzerland. There weren't enough precipices for people to fall off in the UK.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 13 Oct 2004, 19:12

Bellybabe wrote:Well, they didn't stay long in Guernsey due to the occupation! After that they moved to the fictional "Armiford" (Howells Village), can't remember which town that really is, until the drains went bad and then they moved to an island of the Welsh coast. And after that they went to Switzerland. There weren't enough precipices for people to fall off in the UK.

These Chalet School books sound a hoot. I take it they're not meant to be? I'd never heard of them til some you discussed them one time on another thread.
I get the feeling that I may have missed out there.

What made the drains go bad?