TooOld4This Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 On December 23, 2015 at 4:30 PM, IrmaJean said: We were talking in another thread about true love. I wanted to share this clip from the movie Up. It's very poignant and I cannot watch it without bawling. I think they did a very good job of conveying true love with these two characters. This is how I see it anyway. It's very beautiful. Up One of my all-time favorite films (especially that opening sequence, and this scene); seen it multiple times on my DVD player. Always brings the tears. Did it again when i saw this clip. Thanks. IrmaJean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrmaJean Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) I loved Up too. Very poignant and moving. I found this post (below) that I wrote about it back in 2010. It might help to explain the clip better. *Spoilers below* "It was the typical scene of me bawling in the movie theater while my kids all chuckled at me.  "Up" was in essence a love story which illustrated what is truly important in life. The old man's wife had died. All of her life, she had expressed a dream of going to a place called Paradise Falls where they would build a house and live happily ever after. But then real life happens...they lose a baby...a tree hits their house....the money always goes elsewhere. So no Paradise Falls. She dies and he feels he's disappointed her. So he goes on a quest himself to reach Paradise Falls. Throughout the movie, he occasionally looks at the cover of his wife's scrapbook, which she called, "Stuff I'm going to do". Every time the old man picks up the book, there is a sad and painful reminder that he didn't give his wife what she wanted in life. But he never brings himself to look inside or beyond some certain part of the book (I can't remember exactly which), assuming it will be filled with blank pages or dreams she was never able to live out. So one day he turns the page...and this is the part where I really lost it in the theater...and is surprised by what he sees on the pages. Turns out they aren't empty to represent her unfulfilled wishes and dreams as he'd feared... instead each page has pictures of their life together. As he turns the pages, there is the realization that his wife's life was ultimately fulfilling because she had been able to share it with him. In the end, life isn't about climbing to the highest peak of every mountain...it's about living day to day with your best friend by your side, through better or worse. Very powerful message. Good stuff, most definitely."  Edited April 16, 2016 by IrmaJean Added spoiler warning and space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) Beth; you should have written "spoiler alert"!!! I hope I'll see the film some day. Edited April 19, 2016 by LaLa weird typo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrmaJean Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Oohh boy, maybe I should have, lol! Sorry about that. (We need a red faced embarrassed smilie) If you do watch I hope you enjoy. LaLa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resolute Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 @IrmaJean too bad this is a "nice videos" thread; otherwise i would've given it to you good . tho, i, too, found certain parts of the movie moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrmaJean Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 LaLa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 As far as I know, they "just" repeated experiments that had already been done about this - but in that case, it probably wasn't filmed, so it's good to actually see it - some people might found it "more persuasive". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrmaJean Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 I watched and it made my heart warm so I wanted to share. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted June 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 For fun: There are many, many great sketches of Fry and Laurie on YouTube, even whole episodes of some series! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 As many members here are Americans... 😛 And there are many great videos for 'everybody', of course. For instance (quite timely now): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 LaLa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Snow leopards, very beautiful LaLa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted August 15, 2020 Report Share Posted August 15, 2020 I thought I'd link this here if anyone is into this sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJo0uIH8Us&list=PLTvLq79zCwvL8GsPVNKJNosVzqFYHKq1O It's a playlist on YouTube of all the UK Grenada Television Sherlock Holmes series from the 1980's. I never read these books or was interested in Sherlock Holmes until one day I happened to see one of these in my list of recommended videos and just really loved it. No sleazy sex, constant double entendres, gore, or cursing. Proof that something can be thoroughly entertaining without all of that. I'm sure a 32 year old single male watching this on a Saturday evening just screams eunuch and sexual inadequacy, at least I don't have to be constantly reminded of it while I'm watching it. Here's a short clip from a favorite episode of mine, The Speckled Band..."Violence does in truth recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2vgHK96N8Y LaLa and geronimo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geronimo Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 I've read some of the stories. Jeremy Brett was a good Sherlock, looked the part. Also liked the modern version with Benedict Cumberbatch. Victimorthecrime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geronimo Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 Benedict's Sherlock sends a lot of text messages, wonder what Arthur Conan Doyle would have thought of that. Victimorthecrime and LaLa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted August 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/15/2020 at 10:21 PM, Klingsor said: 'm sure a 32 year old single male watching this on a Saturday evening just screams eunuch and sexual inadequacy, I'm sorry you feel this way. I would never make that connection and I don't see it there even now, when I understand, from your post, why it could be made by some. On 8/15/2020 at 10:21 PM, Klingsor said: No sleazy sex, constant double entendres, gore, or cursing. This is also what I expect from a movie or series I'd like to watch!!! Victimorthecrime and Klingsor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted August 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 I'd like to add that I wish you to watch anything you like without thinking about any implications and opinions that others might have about it. (But I see that it's not that easy when one's been so much under the influence of mean or stupid people who had belittled him for no reason etc. But imagine that you can "defy" them by learning to enjoy things without letting them spoil them for you by thoughts about their opinions. ) Victimorthecrime and Klingsor 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted September 13, 2020 Report Share Posted September 13, 2020 . LaLa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted September 15, 2020 Report Share Posted September 15, 2020 LaLa and Victimorthecrime 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingsor Posted November 4, 2020 Report Share Posted November 4, 2020 Stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geronimo Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 ? What's that video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLa Posted November 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 (Something the US would need now probably more that ever...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LaLa Posted May 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 Have a look... There are many videos "of this kind" on that YT channel. For instance also this one, putting causes of death into perspective (I'm sure some will surprise you a lot (I just don't know which ones 😛 , in your case)): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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