I need your help!

[TombRaiderChik]

hiya guys :) i have to do a 5 minuet report, essay, w/e you'd like to call, it for one of my classes, public speaking. we could do w/e we wanted for a topic so i chose to do movies and the impact they have on people. now i have to have 5 minuets of info to talk about! i have probably about a over a minuet down. can you guys give me your opinions on the subject? i am going to show different scenes from different movies, one being the scene in Girl, Interrupted when Lisa steals Susanna's journal.

when you guys watch movies, how do they affect you. are you inspired? do you feel for the characters? etc....

thanks in advance everyone! :D

edit- id love to hear responses fom the godfather, davej, or anyone else out there who is a hugggee movie fan ;)

[dhama]

Movies rarely move me in the excited sense, it takes a pretty good movie to move me at all, but some movies have been known to give me an emotional kick in the teeth, like Nell, Contact and Little Buddha to name but a few.

Some Martial arts movies I have watched can have the undesirable effect of making my leg twitch in the fight scenes, but that's a bit like playing a game and ducking and diving the head in response to the gameplay. :D

[JSWY]

I hate those leg twitches, and some movies have a nasty effect on my bladder, which annoys quite a few people. The only movie that really made me think was 2001: A Space Oddesey, that got me going on the meaning of life at age 8 or something...

[TombRaiderChik]

thanks guys!
keep the responses coming please! :)

[PtTe2]

In Moulin Rouge, though I be moved most of the movie, I am especially moved when Satine and Chris come down off the elephant, singing the whole way, then they break into "I Will Always Love You" as the camera angle spins around them and the little lites around the opening in the elephant kinda "blast-off" to some vanishing point in the background.
Well, that's my two cents worth. :)

[TombRaiderChik]

wow! i know practically no one who liked that movie! thanks! :D and i also liked that scene in the movie. :tear:

im all done w/ my report now, but i am still interested in peoples opinions :)

[Lil Lara]

Moulin Rouge is my all time favorite move. Everything about that movie is so brilliant. Not just the sad ending, but the romantic scenes as well, like the Elephant Love Medley, move me to tears. :D

[HikingBoots]

Movies and films force the audience to see the story through the eyes of the director, as opposed to theater, which lets the audience see the story in their own way.

[Noreen]

Forest Gump was a mopvie that wanted me to go out with the main character in the film.
Titanic made me sad for about a week after.
Apocalpyse Now made me think why are these dudes going surfing in the middle of a war.
And I had something really smart to say but someone erased my memory which happens alot these days

[Munin the Raven]

A lot of mainstream movies just make me angry now with all of their product placements and tie-ins, and some are just all-out MTV propaganda machines.

[croftmania]

The music of a film is very important for me! It really adds to the atmosphere if it is well-made. As with videogames, sound plays a vital part. That's what gets me moved.

And yes, I usually think a lot about the movies I've seen. They sometimes make me understand some things about my own life.