Best if the old movie is made before 1990
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. It’s been 22 years since release …
That is not an old movie. It’s not a recent movie, but it’s not an old movie.
Almost none of these are old movies
22 years is old.
Debatable. There are adults who weren’t even born back then.
Two decades is old. An 80s movie in the year 2000 was old.
I don’t agree. I watched tons of movies from the '80s in the 2000s and I didn’t really think of them as old. Certainly not recent, but not old old.
A 22 year old movie in the year 2000 would be from 1978, it’s a 70s movie!
Roughly the same gap between Star Wars: A New Hope coming out and Y2K happening.
Even talking about Y2K and AOL floppy disks sounds old and once again is roughly the same time span to today.
It’s a Wonderful Life, every time
Several plot points in that film are absolutely horrifying like the shopkeeper deafening him as a child
He was deafened by an ear infection after diving into a frozen pond to save his brother from drowning. Later he prevented Mr. Gower from accidentally poisoning a child when Gower was distracted by grief. I do believe Gower hit him during that sequence though, if that’s what you’re referring to. And yeah that last part is rough but sometimes life and history are unpleasant.
Oldboy. no, not because it’s sad
E. T.
Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.
Artax :_(
Batteries Not Included
Almost every Charlie Chaplin’s movie.
This mashup is great. i cri evrytim
Yes, and that speech is even now important. Chaplin was a great man.
It’s really incredible how timely it is 100 fucking years later.
An Affair to Remember (1957) Yes I did watch it because it is referenced in Sleepless in Seattle and yes I did blubber cry just like the SiS characters suggested.
Not before 1990 but when I watched Terminator 2 as a kid I cried when they lowered the t-850 it into the molten slag.
Schindler’s List
It is a cinematic triumph and a film that everyone should see. With that said, I am unable to ever view it again. The scene where Schindler is breaking down realizing that if he didn’t have expensive items he could have saved more people just absolutely killed me.
That plus the descendants of those he saved placing stones on his grave
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
Great film. I hate to call it old. Even though I realize it is now.
I think it holds up. But I’m biased because it’s on my top 5 movies of all time.
The Wizard of Oz. Such a good movie!
- Don’t mind me turning to dust in my chair.
“Paths of Glory” is one of Kubrick’s most underated films (or at least lesser known) and the ending is pure emotional power.
The fact that you just spent almost 90 minutes hating humanity and the shitty situations in which we put ourselves as a species, only to be able to come away from the film thinking “we’re not all bad” because of what happens in the final 10 minutes blows my mind.
If you haven’t seen it, I can’t recommend it enough.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
