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Movies that make you feel empty inside

posted 12 years ago by ssk2600
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After watching this movie (which I really enjoyed), I just sat there looking at nothing for ten minutes. Now, half an hour later, I've still got a lump in my throat. This movie really got to me.

I'm a guy in the 20's and I like.. you know.. Guy movies. I love Django Unchained (and everything other Tarantino), Sin City and stuff like that.

However, I also really like movies like this. I don't cry during or after movies though, but sometimes, like now, I watch a movie that just makes me want to (hence the before mentioned lump).

I think it has something to do with me really enjoying the movie while it lasts, and then, when it's done, I'm a little sad that (in this case) Charlie is just Logan Lerman and Sam is just Emma Watson once again.
I don't know them anymore. I get back to reality. And it makes me feel kind of empty inside.

This of course means that the characters in the movie have grown on me, and I bet I'm not the only one who feels like this once in a while. So therefore I'm asking you guys to share with me some of the movies that have made you feel this way.
Amélie springs to my mind as another example.

[–] aaaf-2 10 years ago

Sorry, I thought this was about ....make you feel empty inside...in a bad way

I haven't seen Perks, so I can't really comment on that, but films that regularely leave me empty are all film by Quentin Tarantino.
While watching them I feel they are the best thing in the world, but I swear to god, as soon as the credits roll I have forgotten 90 percent of it.
QT's films are really the only film that happens, but I think that's because his films are like Hamburgers...while you eat them they taste good, but you get hungry immediatly after. Or maybe it's because Mr. Tarantino is like the biggest copy and paste director in the world, and literally every story, scene and character you have seen in his films has existed in some shape,way or form, idk.
Pulp Fiction was great at the time though.

Oh, and "Her"! Really wanted to like that film, but just couldn't suspend my disbelief of a human sounding and thinking and feeling AI. Don't think that will ever happen guys!

[–] shawnjohnson159 10 years ago

Thanks for posting. I was comforted to find others who felt the same way after watching this movie. I was probably a wallflower more than anything in HS, but I don't have any cool memories like these characters. Nothing particularly good or bad from those years for me. If nothing else, I enjoyed the escape and sharing in the world that was created in this film.

[–] davikawasaki 10 years ago

A little late - one year, but I've got to express the same feeling about that movie too. I'd say that a similar movie that made me feel empty was Boyhood, released last year. It's curious that I've watched it before Perks, but I guess the order doesn't matter at all. Both movies are sentimental and make you feel for the characters...

[–] HeartOfSky 10 years ago

As this movie was wrapping up for me, just before I wondered to myself why the friend who recommended Perks wasn't sobbing through the end, I thought of Imaginary Heroes (Sigourney Weaver). So interested in the characters' lives. Gonna have to put that in right now.

[–] wolfpacr2 10 years ago

The Shape of Things -- also has Paul Rudd in it.

[–] azi_f 10 years ago

I felt exactly what you felt after I finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife. The movie was good but the book..after you finish reading the last page, the last sentence, you kind of drift around for a little while.
The Help is a great movie, moved me to tears.
Requiem for a dream (brace yourself, very heavy content)
Oh & one of my favourites - Once.
Hope this helped :)

[–] leo_nunsioeu 10 years ago

Lost In Translation
Taxi Driver

[–] clarence2223 10 years ago

I know what the OP means. It's one of those movies that makes you think and reflect back on times in your life. I wish I had the types of memories that the characters in the movie had. It was interesting to think about what the characters may have become, and what Charlie became after all of his friends left him.