What movies have rendered you speechless?
What movies have rendered you speechless?
#0What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:00pm
You know the deal... You see a movie so powerful/brilliant/profound/unique, that you don't talk about it for the time following the film. Here's my list, and it will probably go as time goes on:
Sophie's Choice
House of Sand and Fog
Before Sunrise
Moulin Rouge
AI: Artificial Intelligence
The Hours
Donnie Darko
From Here to Eternity
The Color Purple
Terms of Endearment
Schindler's List
Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
Requiem for a Dream
Howards End
E.T.
Se7en (I know, I know. An odd choice.)
Talk to Her
21 Grams
Dancer in the Dark
Far From Heaven
Million Dollar Baby
Updated On: 2/22/05 at 02:00 PM
#1re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:01pm
Finding Neverland
Little Women
POTO
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Moulin Rouge- I cry...a lot..
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#2re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:03pm
Schindler's List
The Color Purple
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:03pm
In addition to some already mentioned, I would add:
The Fisher King
Shine
Powder
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:04pmPhiladelphia
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:07pm
Also:
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
#6re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:08pm
Sophie's Choice and Phildalphia are the two that make me cry like a newborn.
Showgirls left me speechless...but for an altoghether different reason.
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#7re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:10pm
"Showgirls left me speechless...but for an altoghether different reason."
I know what you mean...
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#8re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:12pmMy favorite film, THE ICE STORM.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
jjdude2000
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/04
#9re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:13pmDefinately Finding Neverland.
Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.
#10re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:19pmA Day In October.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:20pm
Beav - I'm not sure you can EVER really truly finish that therapy 
Another one: Urbania
me101
Featured Actor Joined: 10/25/04
#12re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:20pmMonster, Million Dollar Baby and that made for TV Anne Frank movie
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-Dorothy Parker
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#13re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:22pmI don't recall ever seeing a film that left me speechless; although THE MIRACLE WORKER came close.
scooter3843
#14re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:21pm
In The Mood For Love
3 Women
The Color Purple
Far From Heaven
Vera Drake
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Requiem For A Dream
Bowling For Columbine
All About My Mother
#15re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:28pm
Errico-
I see that you have "All About My Mother" on your list. Have you seen "Talk to Her", also by Almodovar?
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#17re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:30pmIt's a masterpiece. I cried.
#19re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:36pmDid you see Bad Education?
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#20re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:08pmThey Shoot Horses, Don't They?
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#21re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:12pm
Schindler's List
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
The Hours
Looking For Mr. Goodbar (which I will NEVER see again)
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:13pm
IRIS
Million Dollar Baby
The Horse Whisperer
Boys Don't Cry
The Magdalene Sisters
The Silence of the Lambs
#23re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:13pm
MEF-
I loved "Bad Education". It was my pick for the best foreign language film of the year.
#24re: What movies have rendered you speechless?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:14pmThe Hiding Place - we went with our church youth group in junior high school. I've perhaps never been so disturbed.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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