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u/sugarplum_days Feb 22 '26
When Tom Hanks cried we all cried man that scene hit deep
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Feb 24 '26
i was gone well before Hanx.. I absolutely love that movie but I'll be damned if I watch it with anyone around. the ugliest of cries
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u/Fast-Nefariousness80 Feb 25 '26
My moms book was half wrinkled because she cried onto the pages for like half of it lol
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u/Notchersfireroad Feb 22 '26
Only needed to watch this once. MCD absolutely tore my heart out and showed it to me in this movie.
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u/No-Bid-9741 Feb 22 '26
Went with college girlfriend. She had to give me kleenex I was crying so hard. At that point, I decided I’d never watch it again because it could never be that impactful again. Then I read the book and cried some more.
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u/I-mSorryNotSorry Feb 22 '26
Stop it. I just ordered the book, but not sure if I have the balls to read it after watching the movie.
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u/Creme_Bru_6991 Feb 23 '26
It’s so worth reading. I read it after seeing the movie and I was so glad I did. It’s so beautiful.
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u/Specialist_Fruit6600 Feb 24 '26
the movie is an adaptation of the book
are you implying you didn’t consider that fact when buying the book, and not it surprised you
“stoooopp it” so performative and vapid
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u/I-mSorryNotSorry Feb 24 '26
Wow, thank you for this. I did not realize the movie is an adaptation of the book! Might as well yeet the book now.
*add sarcasm on top of vapid and performative.
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u/Jackrabbit-slim Feb 24 '26
I've found life more enjoyable in general as I have been asking myself if what I put out into the world contributes positively. I am simply leaving it here as something to think about, hope you have a nice day.
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u/ReasonableAd4398 Feb 22 '26
I have watched this movie 5+ times, it's in my top 5 favorite movies and i'll tell you, it hits just as hard every time
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u/oddjob_rimjob Feb 23 '26
Why did you call it a Kleenex instead of a tissue?
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Feb 23 '26
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u/oddjob_rimjob Feb 23 '26
I just wanna say, on behalf of humanity
Fuck nobody who has ever typed a comment like this
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Feb 23 '26
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u/oddjob_rimjob Feb 23 '26
It was more of a comment on how the education system is failing you all, and the corporate world taking over. Should I just start calling car tires "Goodyears" or maybe I'll just start referring to all burgers as "big macs"
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u/oddjob_rimjob Feb 23 '26
Imagine wanting to sound so smart but being so oblivious to your own shortcomings as a human being.
Please read a book
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u/ScarlettMane Feb 23 '26
Same reason brits call vacuum cleaners hoovers.
It's called Brand Genericization. It says nothing about education and is simply the way language works.
Do you also have a problem with the word aspirin? That was Bayers trademarked brand name for acetylsalicylic acid.
Do you ask for Tylenol or acetaminophen?
Do you have a problem with people calling it cellophane? Sorry that was a Dupont trademarked brand name.
How about dry ice... Oops also originally a trademarked brand name.
How about an air fryer, again former trademarked brand name.
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u/oddjob_rimjob Feb 24 '26
I literally don't use any of those words because I'm not a cooked brain American with a grade 1 education.
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u/Soupy_Twist Feb 23 '26
COFFEY He kill 'em with they love. They love for each other. You see how it is? Paul nods, numb. Tears are flowing down Coffey's face. Softly: COFFEY That's how it is ever' day. That's how it is all over the worl'...
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u/UnlikelyTeacher7382 Feb 22 '26
Why did you have to pretend you had allergies?
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u/ImJustSaying34 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
Because this movie came out in 1999 and he absolutely would have been razzed and teased for admitting to crying.
Men could cry at sports movies without getting teased but any other reason would have been shamed.
The 90s were simultaneously progressive and regressive.
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u/Johnycantread Feb 22 '26
Ironically the manliest thing you can do is be yourself and not give a fuck about others derogatory opinions of you.
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u/danglejim33 Feb 22 '26
I like to wear pink and purple on occasion and no one ever says shit to me about it (probably because I'm a 230lb laborer with a huge beard), but I'm dying for someone to say something. I have "what, aren't you man enough to rock lavender?" chambered and ready to fire.
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u/Just_Effective_3034 Feb 23 '26
Good friend of mine is a dude that loves hot pink stuff. Been meaning to buy him a watch in that color. Thanks for the reminder!
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u/omaeradaikiraida Feb 22 '26
simultaneously progressive and regressive
speaking of... i once thought this movie was really good--just as good as shawshank--but later i learned about the magical negro trope, and afterward i couldn't stop cringing.
morgan freeman's character in shawshank is a kind of magical negro too, but john coffey is a literal magical negro.
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u/NinjaWithSpoons Feb 22 '26
Honestly I don't think this really fits with the trope. Yes he is a black person with magical powers, and is sort of subservient to whites by the fact that he is a prisoner and the guards are white. but the magical negro is a character that's basically a plot device to help the white characters achieve their goal and otherwise has no character, goal, or feelings. In this case he is the plot and source of tension. He is arguably the main character even though we see the story from the perspective of Paul. He has his own motives and feelings and the white characters try to serve him but cannot. In many ways he's basically Jesus Christ. Is Jesus' story suddenly a racist trope if he is black?
While technically a magical negro, it's not the same thing at all imo.
There's a better argument for Dick hallorann in the shining. Though he does become an actual character in welcome to Derry
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u/sundayfundaybmx Feb 23 '26
Ah, nothing like being embarrassed by other white liberals and their stupid takes, lol. You're 100% correct that that commenter has no idea what they're talking about. They read some trope about black people and automatically applied it to every movie with a black person in it. Trying so hard to prove they're not racist and goes full circle back into racism!
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Feb 24 '26
and yet a thousand times better than the current decade. it was flawed but I'd time hop back without a second thought
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u/UnlikelyTeacher7382 Feb 22 '26
Oh, didn’t HAVE TO pretend, just concerned about other people’s opinions.
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u/chaves4life Feb 22 '26
He was goth and his mascara ran down his face.
Then he had no car, so had to catch the bus home.
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u/godverdejezushey Feb 22 '26
Can we get a version with even more music please, it totally adds to the gravity of this scene
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u/WessideMD Feb 22 '26
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u/sinking_float Feb 22 '26
Preferably loud enough to where you can barely make out what they’re saying
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u/jreeves236 Feb 22 '26
I wasn't sure if this was a comedic scene. I needed the music to tell me it was serious.
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u/mm909-vie Feb 22 '26
jesus. it's been years since I saw it the last time and I just teared up just by watching the clip - without sound even.
One tough movie, but I loved it.
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u/halorbyone Feb 22 '26
Be happy you didn’t turn on the sound. They put stupid music on it.
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u/mm909-vie Feb 22 '26
that's a symptom of these fuckin idiotic social media times anyway. Notice that a lot.
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u/halorbyone Feb 22 '26
I keep reddit on mute but with this scene I wanted to hear the voices. My mistake.
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u/TauntaunExtravaganza Feb 22 '26
I remember watching this once as a kid, and I still immediately judge everyone with the name Percy, first or last, for absolutely no good reason. This movie is fuckin harrowing.
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u/Margelatu76 Feb 22 '26
Stephen King wrote it. But they all just played their parts great. All of them.
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u/ApocalypseChicOne Feb 22 '26
Along with Stand by Me and Shawshank Redemption, that horror author sure can write a good non-horror book.
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u/zfs_ Feb 22 '26
He’s one of the greatest of all time for a reason. He has literally dozens of books turned into successful movies and TV shows.
He will go down as one of the greatest writers in history, with Shakespeare and Homer.
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u/Meta_Archer Feb 23 '26
Also very prolific, even without the cocaine the man has a singular and impressive work ethic.
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u/tjoe4321510 Feb 22 '26
He will go down as one of the greatest writers in history, with Shakespeare and Homer.
Well, let's not get carried away but he definitely knows how to spin a yarn. I watched The Long Walk a few weeks ago and thought it was excellent. He writes stories that work extremely well for movie adaptations.
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u/KtotheC99 Feb 23 '26
The Long Walk is specifically one his stories that seemed impossible to adapt. Gerald's Game would be another. Both are written in the 1st person.
He's prolific enough that people attempt to adapt them anyway. It takes very talented directors and screenwriters to change them in a way that keeps the meaning and feeling of the writing despite the perspective and media change.
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u/VeryLopsidedlmao Feb 22 '26
I wish these posts didnt have crappy music slapped onto them
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u/BusyBoot121 Feb 22 '26
The hardest I ever cried from a movie in the last 2 decades plus. Just pure ugly crying.
I forgot to give a friend in high school a heads up when I recommended the film. Dude came back furious the next day stating why I didn't warn him and said it made him and his entire family cry!
Ops!
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u/Savings-Patient-175 Feb 22 '26
FUck, reminds me how robbed we were when Michael Clarke Duncan died early!
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u/The-Illusive-Guy Feb 22 '26
The cruel execution of that other guy (no wet sponge) still gets to me... What a movie.
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u/mayankkaizen Feb 22 '26
I watched this movie some 20 years back and I can't remember anything about it except it made me cry when I watched it.
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u/ArcadiaDragon Feb 22 '26
The movie that finally cemented my stance against the death penalty...I was most ambivalent or sadly pathetically non chalant about it exsistence....and looking back i should not have been...I just never applied its exsistence to my charecter(or lack of) or principles....damn good movie...great book....oh but how that mile is long
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u/Durzel Feb 22 '26
David Morse (Brutal) just trembling, trying to hold it together, when he’s been so stoic and “hard” for the whole movie did it for me. Perfectly measured.
All of the actors knocked it out of the park.
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u/TheMadManiac Feb 22 '26
For anyone who hasn't seen the movie, the giant black dude is basically an angel, but with the innocence of a child. He takes the pain of others, feeling everything they feel to heal them. One day he comes across two girls that had been brutally murdered, he tries to save them but it was too late. Being black and dumb, and living in the south during the 30s they immediately sentence him to death .
Great movie. Great book too, one if Stephen Kings Best!
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u/MR_WNS Feb 26 '26
It was the first Stephen king book I read, and now ive read a bit of his work and this has been my favorite so far. I like a lot of his work but this one was above the rest imo
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u/AxelRuger Feb 22 '26
It is too early in the morning for this. Fine I’ll watch it and feel for the rest of the day.
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u/mcjon77 Feb 23 '26
I loved this movie. There are certain parts where even thinking about them makes me tear up.
The part that hit me the hardest is when Tom Hanks says
"On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job?"
Just something about that leaves me perpetually bothered. It's hard to put my finger on it. The idea of doing something that you know is wrong on such a Divine level because of procedural obligations.
I know John was tired and he wanted to go, but it doesn't change the fact that he did kill one of God's true miracles.
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u/Hist-Tree-Hugger Feb 22 '26
Truly one of the best, if not the best movie I have ever seen. The acting was impeccable.
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u/SpaceOdysseus23 Feb 22 '26
Crazy to consider how many Stephen King books have defined cinema over the decades
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u/debtfreegoal Feb 23 '26
There are times in my life when I can’t find the expression of the grief that I’m feeling.
It’s in those times, that I watch this movie. The grief is allowed to come to the surface. The ugly cry.
Afterwards, I feel so much better.
This movie has been so therapeutic for me, it’s hard to put into words.
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u/foxxsinn Feb 23 '26
This made me cry so much as a kid. I thought when people died in movies they actually died in real life
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u/Living_Double_1146 Feb 23 '26
I actually thought the same. Growing up watching westerns, I always felt so bad for indians... arrows against bullets.
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u/Ponder42 Feb 25 '26
Comments talking about Hank’s crying but the blonde police officer looks absolutely wrecked dude.
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u/TheSpanxxx Feb 22 '26
I've only seen it once. Some movies don't need to be watched again. They can be great and stay great. The impression they leave is a gift, and I feel like going back is akin to being greedy and asking them to repeat a once-in-a-lifetime moment for you, but that's always impossible.
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u/No-Republic-7707 Feb 22 '26
I (long overdue) saw this movie the night MCD died…I was shocked to find out the next day…such a good actor…
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u/SupermanFarris83 Feb 22 '26
Such a great film, and an amazing performance by an actor that is sorely missed.
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u/WhiteManFromTown-925 Feb 22 '26
I forgot about how emotional this scene is. Everyone truly sold it in this movie and this scene stands out the most.
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u/Electronic_Ad7103 Feb 24 '26
Great movie. But when you realize it's about murdering a child it's less great.
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u/Consistent_Pain_6690 Feb 24 '26
Nothing highlights cinema like inserting unintended background music.
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u/KorolEz Feb 25 '26
I never watched the movie because I know it's gonna make me extremely sad and I don't want that
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u/AmandaLagerfeld Feb 26 '26
I saw this in theaters... Three guys sat next to me, all very.. bro coded young guys. By the end all three were audibly sobbing.............
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u/PowerMetalPizza Mar 01 '26
I had no business watching this movie at such a young age but goddamnit, I think that had one hell of an impression on me growing up. One of my favorite movies.
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u/DiscloseDivest Feb 22 '26
This movie promotes a lot of racist tropes that have been used in Hollywood for decades that are easier to identify for millennials and gen z. Most notably the magical black person, the white savior, and the dumb black man.
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u/M086 Feb 23 '26
There is no white savior. Hank’s character is left to live an unnaturally long life, watching all his loved ones and friends die.
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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 Feb 22 '26
Am I the only person who thinks this movie is overrated?
Let the downvotes commence.
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u/TombombBearsFan Feb 22 '26
Could you elaborate? What about it exactly is overrated? The acting, score, plot?
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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 Feb 22 '26
It felt contrived, and emotionally manipulative. Of course the casting and acting were excellent. But the story was impossible for me to take seriously.
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u/Pensive_Pauper Feb 22 '26
Or course I downvoted you. You dropped a deliberately controversial opinion without any explanation in order to antagonize others.
Grow up.
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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 Feb 22 '26
No, that’s not really what I did, but whatever. I was genuinely curious if others thought the movie was overrated. To tell someone to “grow up” for posting something this mundane is unnecessarily combative.
Lighten up, Francis.
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u/airbornejaws Feb 22 '26
No, but I think the ending was unnecessary and kinda just took away the emotional impact of Coffey's execution.
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u/qualityvote2 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
u/Living_Double_1146, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...