07 Sep 2021, 1:05 am
I think I saw The Yearling many years ago but I was in elementary school and barely remember it.
I think another sad movie involving dogs you would have enjoyed from that era was "Where the Red Fern Grows"
i read the book in jr. high school and it was sad for sure.
I remember reading the book and seeing the movie. It really was sad.
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07 Sep 2021, 1:16 am
I think I saw The Yearling many years ago but I was in elementary school and barely remember it.
I think another sad movie involving dogs you would have enjoyed from that era was "Where the Red Fern Grows"
i read the book in jr. high school and it was sad for sure.
I remember reading the book and seeing the movie. It really was sad.
both movies of the book [1974 and 2003] were, unfortunately, mere shadows of the novel which was redolent of time and place.
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07 Sep 2021, 12:01 pm
Sounds interesting.
Have you heard of a movie called A.I. Artificial Intelligence? It's like a futuristic take on the Pinocchio story about a robot child who gets taken in by a human family. It had some very emotional scenes.
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07 Sep 2021, 12:30 pm
If you are interested in downbeat Science Fiction movies I can think of a number of interesting choices...some are incredibly good and some are acceptably good. But Melancholia [2011] is, I think, the most melancholy science fiction movie I can think of.
07 Sep 2021, 12:49 pm
If you are interested in downbeat Science Fiction movies I can think of a number of interesting choices...some are incredibly good and some are acceptably good. But Melancholia [2011] is, I think, the most melancholy science fiction movie I can think of.
I will definitely keep a look out for it if I can find it on my Roku.
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08 Sep 2021, 2:58 am
AI made the whole theatre i was in, quietly weep. at the end of it, people slumped out, silent and looking down. it felt like a funeral. that "flesh fair" in the movie just about did me in.
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12 Oct 2021, 5:03 pm
fargo. depressing dark tale, almost as nasty as any of the tarantino rot in terms of having almost no good human beings as characters, the coen brothers like to think of evil people as being "hip" but they can have 'em.
the little prince. a bit of a tear jerker, 3 hanky. a fuller musical take on antoine de st. exupery's fanciful, eloquent but sketchy tale. 5 stars. 
richard kiley can really sing! 
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16 Oct 2021, 6:33 pm
A true classic of cult films!
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