Les Miserables

[Manator]

I have watched this film twice now, and I am reminded of the fruit pastill adverts!

You know the ones, I bet you can't put this in your mouth without chewing! Well I can not watch this film without shedding a tear!

Just wondered how many of you are man enough to admit crying like a girl at a very emotive film such as this.

 

[ProDave]

Most disappointing.  I was expecting a thread about miserable customers, :coat

 

[Apache]

Never cried at a film in my life.

Are we not MEN.

 

[sprocketflup]

No! we are Devo!

Never cried at a film in my life.

Are we not MEN.

 

[steptoe]

ive had a few little silent cries to myself

when Ive sat down to watch a movie with the missus and it turns out to be a chick-flick or similar  :_|

 

[Evans Electric]

Not seen it Maneater , it looks a bit depressing , but it can't be half bad ,by the length of time its been in the theatres.

I admit to having the odd bit of grit in the eye occasionally .  Can't think of them all right now .

There was someone on " Who do you Think You Are"   once,  who discovered their grandparents perished in Auschwitz.

There was a cheesey Disney film " The Incredible Journey"  where 3 animals trek miles, with many adventures, after their owners who have moved .  At the end It looks like the old dog hasn't made it when they turn up .......... but he suddenly appears over the rise as they go to walk away.

I remember we had the book "Black Beauty" to read at junior school .  Its the horse telling the story which starts off fine but the cruelty to horses during the story upset me as a kid  and all those years later I've never forgotten.

And lets not mention Tom Hanks still feeding Mr Bojangles the mouse at the end of The Green Mile.  

And when the last of the First World War soldiers marched past the cenotaph to " Tipperary" .  There are none left now .

Yeah  ...yeah ... I know... I'm a softie   

Just have to blow my nose.. back in a sec.

 

[kerching]

Took the two granddaughters to the local park today, usual saturday thing...play on the swings, get an ice cream.

on the way back we pass the Cenotaph.  All the names of the fallen from WWI.  And WWII,  along with a local,lad who died in afghan   Two,years ago and another from 3 years ago.  Every time i see it I stop for a moment and....you know the rest

 

[steptoe]

Cenotaph's get me too,

wife generally leaves me to myself on July 1st, and Remembrance Sunday.

hoping to take my 1st born to the Somme in next couple of years, and to Thiepval [ where his Great Great Uncle is remembered, July 7th 1916 ]

 

[misssweden]

There was a cheesey Disney film " The Incredible Journey"  where 3 animals trek miles, with many adventures, after their owners who have moved .  At the end It looks like the old dog hasn't made it when they turn up .......... but he suddenly appears over the rise as they go to walk away

I have cried bucketloads to that film!

It generally doesn't take a lot to set me off. Went to the cinema a while back before War Horse came out, but the had the trailer on for it. Just watching that had me crying. I'm such a wimp

 

[Badger]

i like les miserable i think its a really good show i have the dvd of the 10th anniversary albert hall, and have just ordered the musical on cd to.

 

[Technician]

I have not seen the film but I have read a bit of Victor Hugo,

the author of the original book.

Set against the tragedy of the French Revolution that promised

so much and delivered nothing but carnage I would not

be in the least surprised at Manator's reaction as he has

told us if I were to see it in anyone else.

The further tragedy is that Pol Pot, the failed radio operator

from Kampuchea went to the Sorbonne, absorbed all he

could about those events and then went home to implement

all of the same nonsense in the Far East and this led to the

killing fields.  Neither Mao Zhe Dong nor Chin Peng rated him.

A famous Chinese politician was once asked about the

French revolution a long time ago in the 1950's.

His reply?  "I think it is too early to tell."

How prophetic.