Movies that made you tear up or cry like a baby

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GORRAMREAVERS

Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:39 PM

Saw a similar thread over at SA. Made me think of Firefly cause the scene in the first episode where Simon is talking to the crew about his sister makes me well up. The end of Out of Gas does the same.

The Green Mile makes me cry like a baby when they have to 'do the deed'.

Alot of people mentioned 'What Dreams May Come' with Robin Williams. Never seen it..want to rent it now.

Im a guy but I am also a big sap. The things that are important in my life are based on emotion (such as love and relationships with family/friends)..so yeah, I like sappy movies.

So what movie(s) do it to you?

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UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:41 PM

Maybe it was because I'd just gotten engaged, but I think it was that Nick Cage movie "Family Man" (was that the title...came out a few Xmases ago) and I just started tearing up at the end.

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HERO

Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:41 PM

The last one that really got me was WE WERE SOLDIERS.

Not so much crying like a baby, more like crying like my old man.

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PURPLEBELLY

Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:45 PM

Monster. I started crying before the opening credits. Well, at end of the first sentence. And that was because I knew how it was going to end - how's that for positive spoilers?

EST120

Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:03 PM

the end of saving private ryan. when the elderly ryan asks his wife if he is a good man. gets me every time.

BADGERSHAT

Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:36 PM

E.T.

Saw it when it was first released in theaters. Became absolutely hysterical, to the point where grown men stopped as they were leaving at the end to try to comfort me.

Mom bought it for me on video when they released it in 1990. Turned it on, barely got to the end.

Can't watch it.
Haven't been able to watch it in many many years.

Got into a big argument with a girl I was dating, when they re-released it back in 2002 in theaters, because she wanted me to go see it with her.

Cannot watch that movie. Absolutely kills me.

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SHINYSEVEN

Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:43 PM

Casablanca--when Rick backs up Laszlo about playing La Marseillaise and Yvonne shouts "Vive La France!"

GORRAMREAVERS

Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:53 PM

Any Futurama fans here?...I have never seen the episode but at the other forum alot of people brought up an epi called 'Jurassic Bark'.

Everyone said they couldnt believe a funny cartoon could get so emotional. Anyone that has ever owned a dog knows it has to come to an end..but it doesnt make it any easier to deal.

"..it is my very favorite gun."

CONNORFLYNN

Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:13 PM

"Powder"

Theres a scene that gets me every time, when Powder is relaying the Sheriff's dying wife's words to the Sheriff. Too much..I'm tellin ya.

NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:20 PM

ET, FIELD OF DREAMS, MY LIFE, GOOD WILL HUNTING, AND THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST JUST TO NAME A FEW............YEAH I SAID ET!

"Hamsters is nice."

GORRAMREAVERS

Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:26 PM

Yeah..the 'not your fault' scene in Good Will Hunting gets me too.

"..it is my very favorite gun."

STATIC

Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:35 PM

Any movie with Adam Sandler or Rob Schnieder makes me weep. . .but that's mostly due to the idea that those guys, being the two most UNFUNNY F**KS in the 'Verse are still making money.

Truthfully. . .

"We Were Soldiers"

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MOHRSTOUTBEARD

Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:54 PM

"I'm glad you're here with me, Sam. Here at the end of all things."

Actually, a lot of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy made me weepy. (But a manly type of weeping reserved for commandos, secret agents, ninjas, and the like.)

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BEATLE

Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:57 PM

'Old Yeller'
and
'My Life'

JADEHAND

Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:57 PM

Surprisingly, there are a lot of these.
Out of gas, and Green Mile will do it.
Good Will Hunting and Powder too.
Recently, and this may sound odd but, The Last Samurai. "Perfect....They are all Perfect."
One of my favourites, because I can at different times identify with both of the main characters, Don Juan DeMarco.
Really too many to name. But I'll go ahead and predict Serenity will be on the list.

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CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:59 PM

The Green Mile was the first film to ever make me cry.

There's been a few others but the only other one I can remember offhand is Return of the King when Sam thinks Frodo is dead and does his "don't leave me alone here, don't go where I can't follow" bit. Gets me every time.

Hell of a lot of Buffy gets to me too.

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THEGREYJEDI

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:00 PM

The end of Return of King were everyone shows up at Frodo's bedside, and Frodo sees his dear friend is actually still alive, just music, no words. Very moving scene. No tears, but a little misting.

We Were Soldiers, What Dreams May Come, AI, Saving Private Ryan. The first time I saw Gladiator in theatres, the end was a pretty powerful scene, honoring the dead, the scene with his family in Elysium. A powerful scene. Music helped.

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GORRAMREAVERS

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:00 PM

"Serenity will be on the list."

I agree :)

Has anyone seen the movie Iron Giant?
I am hearing really good stuff about the emotional ending on this one.

"..it is my very favorite gun."

BARCLAY

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:13 PM

The opening of Serenity, when I realize I'm sitting in a theatre actually watching it.

Return of the King "My friends, you bow to no one." And then the kingdom of Gondor kneels for the Hobbits...

NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:16 PM

yes the ending of the iron giant is weepy and the whole film is wonderful.i was one of the few who actually saw this in theatres--its a wonderful film.vin diesels best work.

"Hamsters is nice."

NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:17 PM

yes the ending of the iron giant is weepy and the whole film is wonderful.i was one of the few who actually saw this in theatres--its a wonderful film.vin diesels best work.

and yes when i see serenity in theatres i too will cry.

and anytime allyson hannigan cries(especially in btvs-the body--emma caulfield too) i cry with her.

"Hamsters is nice."

MALICIOUS

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:37 PM

It's a Wonderful Life. 'Nuff said. I bawl like an itty bitty baby. At then end, I am sobbing. Every stinkin' time.

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DARKJESTER

Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:59 PM

Believe it or not, first time I ever cried in the theatre was watching "Ghost", the scene with the penny. Another one no-one has mentioned is "Deep Impact", where the parents give their baby to their teenage daughter and her husband to save while they stay behind to die. "What Dreams May Come" left me a bit misty at the end, but smiling nonetheless. And the score for "The Crow" still sends shivers up my spine, poignant and powerful.

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JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

SHEALYNN88

Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:17 PM

Let me just preface this with...there are LOTS of good movies (and shows) that DON'T make me cry. And I really appreciate that, too. Some movies make you cry and you HATE them for it, because it is so hollywoodized. I'm trying to think of the Keanu Reeves movie about the baseball team...shoot, can't remember. Anyhow, that's a "I HATE that movie for pulling that cheap trick and making me cry" kinda thing.

But, for the good cry kind of movies...I think the worst was Sommersby, with Jodie Foster. OMG, I BAWLED!! On a happier note, I tear up every time I watch "Going My Way," with Bing Crosby. So worth seeing if you haven't. I'm one of those that crys at the end of E.T. I think the last time I saw it I was able to keep it down to a short sniffle, but it was still there. Dances With Wolves is one of those 'I never got through it, it was so cry-worthy.' I have never seen the very end, and have no real desire to. What a depressing movie!

On the up side, the best non-crying, but very touching and uplifting movie I've ever seen was "Uncorked" with Minnie Driver.

Shealynn

ZOID

Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:21 PM

I'm with 'Lish on this one: It's A Wonderful Life was the first movie that actually made me cry (oddly, not until I was in my mid-20s, though I'd watched it every year since childhood). When Uncle Billy's squirrel climbs his sleeve as if to console him, on the bridge when it starts snowing again and the final scene.

After I broke down for that movie, however, it's been 'Katie bar the door' ever since. Now just about everything makes me cry, unless it's just ridiculously maudlin, in which case it makes me laugh uncontrollably.

Y'all hadn't mentioned "Forrest Gump" yet, and that's got 2 or 3 really good weeping jags in it.

For PurpleBelly:

"Animal House" always makes me cry. Kevin Bacon's tearful, "Thank you, sir! May I have another?" is very reminiscent of, and provides a powerful counterpoint to Dickens' Oliver Twist, as he heart-rendingly asks "Please, sir, I want some more" at the orphanage. I often wonder if Landis wasn't paying homage to Dickens' with that scene. "What are your thoughts, Hobson?"

(Name that tear-jerking movie for spurious prizes and unimaginably faux cash! NB: It doesn't google, even if you know the name of the movie, so cheaters will not prosper)

Lachrymally,

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PURPLEBELLY

Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:03 PM

"What are your thoughts on that, Hobson?" (Dudley Moore, "Arthur")
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
"Animal House" always makes me cry.

I like to imagine D-Day's career, and I mean career, through the FBI before running the gang-bust in Collateral.

ZOID

Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:27 PM

PurpleBelly:

Spurious and faux, en route to you, even as we speak! Just keep an eye out your front window for the delivery van! You must be present for the prizes to be awarded (and do try to wear something appropriate for the holiday television audience; perhaps a Santa suit).

The line, delivered by the late Dudley Moore, from one of the best scenes in 'Arthur':
Arthur: Oh, stay with me Hobson. You know I hate to be alone.
Hobson: Yes, bathing is a very lonely business.
Arthur: Except for fish.
Hobson: Pardon? Did you say "except for fish"?
Arthur: Yes... Fish all bathe together. Though they do tend to eat one another. I often think: Fish must get awfully tired of sea food. What are your thoughts, Hobson?

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When Hobson dies, Arthur realizes he has just lost his 'father'. Very poignant.

Cinematically,

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Friday, December 17, 2004 2:35 AM

Quote:
Gorramreavers wrote:
Thursday, December 16, 2004 08:53
Any Futurama fans here?...I have never seen the episode but at the other forum alot of people brought up an epi called 'Jurassic Bark'.

Everyone said they couldnt believe a funny cartoon could get so emotional. Anyone that has ever owned a dog knows it has to come to an end..but it doesnt make it any easier to deal.

Man...i balled for like,days it seems...even when i think about poor Seymore waiting for Fry to come back,holding quiet vigil in front of the pizza parlor,only to die waiting...Fry thought Seymore had a good long life,when he had a sad empty life alone. gets me every time.

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ARAWAEN

Friday, December 17, 2004 3:15 AM

Cyrano de Bergerac and A.I. for me.

Knowledge is sorrow; they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
-- Byron

SGTGUMP

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by est120:
the end of saving private ryan. when the elderly ryan asks his wife if he is a good man. gets me every time.

Me too. Every time that old man stands up and salutes the grave, I just can't stop it. I know its coming, I’ve seen it a dozen times. I think it's harder now that I have a friend who is buried at that cemetery.

MONTANAGIRL

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:42 AM

It's not a movie, but the last B5 after JMS turns off the lights and everyone leaves and then they blow up the station makes me lose it every time. Normal people watch things like 'Steel Magnolias' when they want a good cry, I watch Babylon 5.

Also, I have to concur with all the 'Return of the King' references. It started with "Rosie Cotton dancin'," continued at "...here at the end of all things," got really bad at the unspoken look exchanged between Frodo and Sam in Ithilien, and reemerged at Frodo's departure at the Grey Havens. An excellent movie on so many counts.

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JADEHAND

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:06 AM

Ok, I thought of a couple of more wierd ones that tend to have that effect: The Fifth Element (ending, beam o light) and American History X ( I saw this in the theatre once , bought it when it came out on VHS and let it sit on a shelf for years before I could watch it again.)
Also agree with the Crow Music post, being a big big fan of the original graphic novel. added emotion. I always liked the little off topic quotes in the books, added flavor. One of my favourites: " There was a man, Playing the violin, and the strings, were the veins in his own arm."

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MONTANAGIRL

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:16 AM

I can't believe I forgot 'Life Is Beautiful.' I saw it in the theater and still have not been able to watch it again.

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BEATLE

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BlueSunCorporategoon:
Quote:
Gorramreavers wrote:
Thursday, December 16, 2004 08:53
Any Futurama fans here?...I have never seen the episode but at the other forum alot of people brought up an epi called 'Jurassic Bark'.

Everyone said they couldnt believe a funny cartoon could get so emotional. Anyone that has ever owned a dog knows it has to come to an end..but it doesnt make it any easier to deal.

Man...i balled for like,days it seems...even when i think about poor Seymore waiting for Fry to come back,holding quiet vigil in front of the pizza parlor,only to die waiting...Fry thought Seymore had a good long life,when he had a sad empty life alone. gets me every time.

Did you have to bring that one up?
I felt so bad for the dog. Whenever I see that episode I hug my dog.

SERGEANTX

Friday, December 17, 2004 6:09 AM

Not exactly a movie, but did many of you see the last episode of Quantum Leap?

Amazing stuff. When Sam realizes he could save Al's first marriage and goes back to tell his wife he's still alive. I get choked up thinking about it even... and then the closing fade to black with "Sam Beckett never made it home" or something like that. Jeezz.. powerful.

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Friday, December 17, 2004 6:12 AM

Ok, I'm a major dork for these two, but I always cry when Artax dies in "The Neverending Story" and when they take the little bunny's birthday coin his parents saved all year for in Disney's "Robin Hood". MEAN mean Sheriff!

I also bawl like a child thru the entire movie of "Radio Flyer" about the abused little boys. (incidentally, the abuser is Adam Baldwin...hmmm)

Through the last 45 min. of "Hamburger Hill", especially when the planes are killing their own men and they are waving their arms and trying to call them off. The futility of it and the hopelessness get me every time.

And, of course, when Satine dies in Moulin Rouge (My ABSOLUTE favorite movie of all time)

P.s. My hubby cried during Iron Giant too

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MINIME

Friday, December 17, 2004 9:11 AM

Makes me girly, but - Little Women.
Also, inevitably, the Buffy ep 'As you were' from season 6 when Riley comes back to visit.

ALIENZOOKEEPER

Friday, December 17, 2004 10:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by shinyseven:
Casablanca--when Rick backs up Laszlo about playing La Marseillaise and Yvonne shouts "Vive La France!"

Yeah. Lazlo wants the band to play La Marseillaise in response to what the Germans are singing (dunno the song, but the phrase 'wacht am Rhein' means it was provocative), they look to their boss, who nods. Understated and very kewl!

"Boss, you've done a beautiful Thing!" Excellent Movie!

Me, I cry a *lot* at movies. Even a couple of places in Cellular, for instance. Not so much in Sky Captain, except for the way they butchered the whole concept... Grr, Yargh!

The scene in Galaxy Quest where Alan rickman tells the dying alien 'You will be avenged!"

Vince the Alien Zookeeper

IAMZOE

Friday, December 17, 2004 1:56 PM

"Also, inevitably, the Buffy ep 'As you were' from season 6 when Riley comes back to visit."

I’m glad someone mentioned a Buffy episode… it’s pretty impressive when a TV show makes you cry, since it gets less time and no silence and popcorn to help (unless you’re being strict with family / flatmates).
One I might mention, because it was kind of strange, is the film ‘Goodbye Lenin’. I saw that with three friends: two of us thought it was the saddest film ever, and the other two were in hysterics all the way through and thought it was the funniest film ever. Either way, we all thought it was brilliant, but it was weird to get such different reactions.

STILLSHINY

Friday, December 17, 2004 2:36 PM

I know it's not a movie but, The last episode of Angel

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when Wesley dies...

Episode 100 of Angel

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when he looks up & Cordy is gone & he realizes she never was there

and the latest installment of LOST

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I had a serious inner argument that was quite verbal when I thought Charlie was gone

as for movies

My Life, Return of the King, Dead Poets Society, With Honors, Swing Kids, & believe it or not.....The Truman show & Bruce Almighty.

That's what I can recall for now.

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GORRAMREAVERS

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:12 PM

As for Buffy episodes...the 3 I can think of off hand:

Passion: Ms. Calender dies...but when Buffy has to punch Giles at the end and then breaks down...sheesh.

The Body: Joyce is gone and you feel numb. Great job by Joss to have no music in the episode. Music is a great way to get emotion but this really worked. When Anya has her lil breakdown...that will make me well up.

The Gift: Buffy dies. The reaction from the gang is what gets me...mostly Spike.

"..it is my very favorite gun."

CYBERSNARK

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:27 PM

I'll echo whoever named Return of the King, with all of Gondor bowing to the Hobbits.

Also Bicentennial Man. To have come so far, and die together.

And (in animé), InuYasha, after he slaughters Gatenmaru's army and their hostages alike, and Kagome walks in on his hysterical hand-washing "Lady Macbeth" scene. Then he realizes she's watching, and gets all defensive and says he doesn't care, and she throws his own catchphrase back in his face ("Don't kid yourself.") and just hugs him.

And that one ep of Buffy (I suck at titles), just after Spike gets his soul back, and he's insane and confesses everything to Buffy, then hangs himself on a cross (to try to burn the pain away).

And a couple of times in Deep Space Nine, after the Feds retake the station during the Dominion War. Damar has just murdered Ziyal, and we see the proud, unbending, wickedly calculating Gul Dukat. . . broken. Just senile and delusional as Sisko visits him in his cell, not as an enemy, but as a sympathetic father. I'm way to young to have kids, but the look between Sisko and Dukat tells me exactly how much it hurts to lose one. Then in the last episode, after Damar sacrifices himself to free Cardassia.

Especially impressive when you realize that Damar's gone from the guy who murdered an angel to a hero himself.

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SHINYSEVEN

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:32 PM

My weepy Buffy moment in "The Prom" is the one-two pitch of Buffy walking through the aisle (echoing Angel's dream of their their wedding) to receive the Class Protector parasol (from Jonathan!) and realizes that even the people who were really mean to her appreciate her. And then Angel showing up after all, and dancing together to the weepy classic "Wild Horses."

BUCKAROO

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:34 PM

Iron Giant, every time. Saw it multiple times while it was still in the theater - it blew me away. Best American traditionally-animated (OK, so there *was* some CG) film in the last 50 years.

Two David Lynch films: The Elephant Man (which I've sworn never to watch again) and The Straight Story (which I've sworn to watch as many times as possible.)

Gandalf's speech to Pippin in ROTK about the Undying Lands busts me up.

The bit in Galaxy Quest where Tim Allen has to explain to the Thermian strapped to the table that he's not who the guy thinks he is is tough to watch without the rivers a' flowin'. (What's that actor's name? He's really good...) Crazy, that a silly comedy should affect me so... it's a better Star Trek movie than most Star Trek movies.

Lots o' Buffy

Roy Baty's death scene in Blade Runner kills me.

That scene in Empire of the Sun when the P-51's are strafing the camp, and Jim, standing on a roof, comes eye-to-eye with the pilot. Don't know why that breaks open the floodgates.

Guess I'm just weird that way.

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BADGERSHAT

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:58 PM

Not a movie, or, strictly speaking, TV...

... but has anyone ever seen the video for "Angel's Son" by the band Strait Up?

If you don't know the story--

Back in about 1998, James Lynn Strait, lead singer of the poorly named metal band Snot was driving with his dog, Dobbs, and both were killed in an accident.

Strait's friends, lots of them, LOTS of them, recorded a tribute CD to him, under the name Strait Up, and one song in particular, "Angel's Son," is quite possibly the single most emotional 4 minutes I've ever witnessed... I'm literally tearing up as I type this, thinking about it.

Basically, it starts off mid-afternoon on the beach, with a group of musicians (a few guys from Strait's band, the singer from Sevendust, etc) siting on the sand, playing the opening of the song. The day progesses, as more and more musicians, and Strait's mother, all start gathering around, building a bonfire, laughing, drinking, hugging, etc.

Meanwhile, a ghostly, blurred, shimmering image of Strait is walking around the crowd, touching their shoulders, pressing his fist to their fists, putting his arms around his mother.

And the scene that finally breaks me completely... the very last shot, the ghostly image of Strait, joined by the ghostly image of Dobbs, chasing a ball, then the two of them walking away down the beach into the night.

Haven't seen the video in a while, and given the fact that my heart currently resides on my right bicep, that might be a good thing...

Regardless of your musical taste, if seeing this video doesn't make you cry, you should have your programmers update your emotion module immedately.

--Jefé The Hat

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SLAYER730

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:39 PM

Wow - apparently the LotR series of movies gets a lot of people. The part that makes me cry the most is when Sam swims out into the lake to go with Frodo even though he can't swim. The sheer raw emotion of how deep their friendship runs really got me weepin' (and Sam's my favorite).

Also in Evita during all of the song "You Must Love Me" while Eva is dying in the hospital. I love the original musical and I thought this song was an amazing and emotional addition to the movie.

And I too cried at the last episode of Angel. Partially because of what happened ("Do you want me to lie to you now?") and partially because I knew it was the end of Whedon television as we know and love it.

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GORRAMREAVERS

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:46 PM

Wow..Jefé The Hat

That sounds like a great video. I hope I can catch that.

"..it is my very favorite gun."

RADHIL

Friday, December 17, 2004 6:10 PM

There are many movies that get me to teary and eyes overflowing. Not many get past that, because I'm a ruthless bastard about holding it in once it gets that far. I sat next to a guy who was openly sobbing (I don't mean sniffles - I mean train wreck) well before it even got to the Emotional Bits when Return of the King was in theatres, and I've sworn never to get to that level of shame.

And after all, if a movie does get that far with me - I'm enjoying it. It's a knife-edge balance, and I love every minute. There's nothing like a story that destroys you, whether its with pain or with joy.

Speech over, list on.

Moulin Rouge. I'm a guy and I think it's the best chick flick ever made. At least five seperate spots in the film get me, and get me good, and from completely different angles. I love it. No shame.

Iron Giant, when he says that last word. You guys know it.

Shawshank. Can never help laughing like mad at parts (from "Am I blind??" to Book of Exodus), and can never help tearing Red finally sees his way out.

Green Mile. The books were better, and the movie was still killer. That's a testament to the worth of the book, by the way (I am very much a King worshipper). When Coffey faces the end of his Mile, and when you see the length of Paul's...

Truman Show. This one echoes to me in so many ways I can't help it.

Return of the King. 30 minutes of pure perfection at the end there, starting at about "For Frodo." And any number of classic moments from earlier in all the films.

Matrix. Trinity whispering to Neo as the world falls apart. Love or hate the sequels, nothing can ruin that moment for me.

Contact. The final message from one species to another soul, summing up the entire movie so well. This movie started my worship of Jodie Foster as well.

There are probably many many more - this might as well be my favorite movie list. There are also more that I'm sure I haven't seen yet (I pass on most war movies, so still have not seen Saving Private Ryan, and there are old classics I've yet to see)

Many TV shows that do it too - Firefly gets reeeaall close but not quite. What does do it is Buffy - just about every ultra-classic episode (Passion, Becoming, The Prom (YES to whoever mentioned Wild Horses), The Body, The Gift, Grave). Every great John/Aeryn moment in Farscape. The end of Babylon 5, the last ten minutes in particular, really get me, and the final shot of the station and the closing monologue put me out of comission for a good hour.

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MSSAM

Friday, December 17, 2004 6:28 PM

No one has brought up "Titanic" yet?? Too commercial, or what? Having had an interest in all things Titanic for years before the movie, I couldn't wait to go see it... then had to sit hiding my head in my hands as the theatre emptied at the end because I couldn't control myself enough to stop crying. Man... So much was lost so tragically. Could've been emotional since it was based on true events - could've been hormonal 'cuz I was pregnant at the time.

GORRAMREAVERS

Friday, December 17, 2004 6:59 PM

MSSAM, yeah...Titanic was emotional at the end. I only saw it once though..might be time I watch it again.

Another movie that was SO depressing was 'Cold Mountian'. You sit thru almost 2 hours and they finally get back together...for about 1 day! You gotta be kidding me!

"..it is my very favorite gun."

MAUGWAI

Friday, December 17, 2004 7:06 PM

Until recently discovered allergies are what were causing my dry eyes, I used to picture sad movies in my head so I could cry to wet my contacts. For a while I used the scene in Titanic where she had to let go of Jack in the water.

Life is Beautiful makes me cry violently, as does Big Fish. Hero is also an excellent tear jerker because since the story is told three different times, I cry for three different reasons during the movie.

As for TV, "The Gift" still makes me cry even though I've seen it a dozen times. Also, the Angel episode where Connor came back. I was so happy for them both when Connor got in the elevator to leave.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

SERGEANTX

Friday, December 17, 2004 11:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Buckaroo:
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Two David Lynch films: The Elephant Man (which I've sworn never to watch again) and The Straight Story (which I've sworn to watch as many times as possible.)

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The Straight Story is one of Lynch's best. As an interesting bit of trivia, the soundtrack of the original pre-release cut of Serenity consisted largely of Angelo Badalamenti's music from the Straight Story. I suppose they just pasted in to use for the demo, but it fit very nicely.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

REGINAROADIE

Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:57 AM

Yo. FUTURAMA fan in the house. Love this show as much as FIREFLY, maybe even more. I have a weird affinity for cult sci-fi shows on FOX. Those two and SLIDERS.

The 'Jurassic Bark' ep was heartfelt, but my fave of the overly emotional eps was 'Luck of the Fryish' when Fry realizes that the Philip J. Fry grave he was desecrating was his nephew that accomplished everything Fry had wanted to do. Plus, the very final moment of the series was one of the most perfect curtain lines for a show.

"Please don't stop playing, Fry. I wanna hear how it ends."

But as for movies, not many. I'm a sap, but I've only cried as in bawling once. I was 10, and the movie was the Disney version of HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. I know it's pathetic now, but then it made a big deal. But as in the last five year, there were only two movies that made me have a tear in my eye at the end. One was A.I. And the other was a movie that came out this year, actually. It was the Cole Porter biopic, DE-LOVELY with Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd. Just that final moment with Cole at the piano singing "In the Still of the Night" to Linda. I'm a straight 19 year old guy, but I actually had a tear in my eye at the end.

But there were two other movies that at the end, while I didn't cry, that I felt enlightened. That after seeing them, I wanted to rush out of the theatre to try to change my life. One was AMERICAN BEAUTY, the other one was GARDEN STATE. I love that final line at the end of BEAUTY.

"You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday."

"NO HAI ES BANDAI. THERE IS....NO.....BAND. AND YET....WE HEAR A BAND."

NEEDLESEYE

Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:04 AM

Movies that I directly relate to a part of my life really get the tears going for me, and I'm not much one for crying, especially in public. My rational side says it's not logical and unneccessary, while my heart and tear ducts have their way with the situation.

Titanic- I could barely see through my soggy contacts after that movie. I saw it with my new boyfriend (now husband) after previously being stuck in a destructive, confining relationship. For weeks after that if I thought about the movie I'd tear up.

AI- When I saw this in theater, yeah it made me sad when the mother,Monica has to leave David in the woods. I watched it recently (have a 1yo. son now) and I could barely get through that scene without about 12 tissues. The whole "Mommy don't leave me" and "Why?" OMG! I could barely watch it.

Saving Private Ryan. Giovanni Ribisi's death scene is too painful to watch. I cry big time on that one.

The Missing- Didn't think the movie was great, but the mother and little daugther who are captives to the Brujo. What the mother does near the end. Holy cow! At the time my son was 3 months old so I think my "mommy nerves" were way tweaked by that.

Whew, I'm almost upset thinking about all these tearjerkers.

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)
I am Nathan's biggest Flan

WALTERPIPP

Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:19 AM

If you like movies that make you tear up, you ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE "Bang the Drum Slowly," a baseball movie made in the '70s starring Michael Moriarty and Robert DeNiro.

It's a fantabulous movie. Trust me. Watch it. You'll wonder why nobody told you about it before.

PINGJING

Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:56 AM

One movie no one has mentioned is Phonebooth. The scene near the end when Colin Farrell confessed how much he's messed up his life really gets to me. There are so many others but I can't think of them right now...

Julia

SOUPCATCHER

Saturday, December 18, 2004 7:22 AM

I'll add a third vote for the scene in "Casablanca" where the band strikes up "La Marseillaise".

It's my favorite movie of all time and I've watched it at least once a year for the past twenty years. I know it's coming and there's not a damn thing I can do about it... gets me every time and I'm bawling like I just had to put down my own dog. Hell, I didn't even cry that hard when I actually held my dog in my arms while the vet put the needle in.

Another one is "Independence Day" when Randy Quaid suicides into the alien craft's mondo cannon. Just chokes me up is all.

And the end of "Red Dawn" when the Central American (I want to say Nicaraguan but I'm not sure) officer watches Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen escape the town after the raid.

I'm just going to keep editting this entry as things pop into my head . I also got all teary-eyed the first time I watched "All Quiet on the Western Front" at the end - even though I had read the book and knew exactly what was going to happen.

There are three kinds of people: fighters, lovers, and screamers.

GUNRUNNER

Saturday, December 18, 2004 7:29 AM

Hmmmm no one has mentioned ‘Das Boot’…
I’m usually not emotional with movie “sad scenes” but at the end when they pan to most of the crew dead from the bombing then they go to the mortally wounded Captain as he watches his U-Boat go down in La Rochelle harbor then dies with Lt. Werner looking on sobbing gets me every time.

CALHOUN

Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:00 PM

Battlefield Earth...

Loved the book and for about 15 years eagerly awaited the movie which was touted as coming soon..

They butchered it!!

SIMONTAMFAN

Saturday, December 18, 2004 1:16 PM

I watched Saving Private Ryan and the part that got to me was when Nathan Fillion's character the "not correct" Private Ryan thinks that his brothers are dead and he starts crying I bawled (well, at least teared up)

Brian's Song (2001) starring Sean Maher as Brian Piccolo. One of the final scenes when Brian tells his wife, Joy, that he loves her (and he hasn't the whole movie up until that point)gets me EVERY TIME I watch it! (I bought the DVD)

And I cannot forget Steel Magnolias!

NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:10 PM

"you stay--i go."-the iron giant

gets me every time

"dr sam beckett never returned home"-quantum leap

im getting goose bumps just writing that

"you have no idea what im talking about.but dont worry.you will"-american beauty

i love that movie

the ending of the serenity movie---okay i havent seen it but im pretty sure im gonna wheep happy/sad tears--then get back in line and do it all over again.

"Hamsters is nice."

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:46 PM

As someone else has mentioned, "Luck of the Fryrish" for me - its hilarious, and then at the end you are in floods of tears at a cartoon. A small moment of genius.

In terms of films, there are a fair few that turn on the waterworks, but foremost is probably Chasing Amy.

As for TV, well Buffy, Angel, Firefly (River's speech in Objects in Space, the end of the Message) and Farscape - as well as a number of episodes of Quantum Leap. The king of all these for me is B5, several episodes throughout the years. The one that hits me hardest is Passing Through Gethsemane - not just the final scenes, for obvious reasons, but the moment where Brad Dourif's character questions his faith - for someone profoundly unreligious it amazes me how that scene gets me every time; I ascribe it to the level of honesty in the writing and acting.

As for songs, well, don't even get me started...

"I threw up on your bed"

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Radhil:
Many TV shows that do it too - Firefly gets reeeaall close but not quite. What does do it is Buffy - just about every ultra-classic episode (Passion, Becoming, The Prom (YES to whoever mentioned Wild Horses), The Body, The Gift, Grave). Every great John/Aeryn moment in Farscape. The end of Babylon 5, the last ten minutes in particular, really get me, and the final shot of the station and the closing monologue put me out of comission for a good hour.

The last four episodes of B5 are full of those moments for me - the goodbyes between the characters. As for SiL - well after "nice day for a drive", I'm no use to man nor beast.

"I threw up on your bed"

NIKNAK

Sunday, December 19, 2004 12:30 AM

Another vote for "La Marseillaise" in Casablanca. Who'd have thought that the French national anthem could have us all teary?

How about the reel of cuts at end of "Cinema Paradiso"? That always gets me and its hard to describe why.

I can think of so many more but won't list them all.

For TV how about the end of Blackadder goes Forth? Also Firefly: Objects in Space - I love that episode so much.

BUTTERFLY043

Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:11 AM

Don't know if anyone's seen A.I. Artificial Intelligence, but the bit where Haley Joel Osment's character, David, says to his mum (when she has to abandon him in the forest as he isn't her 'real' son) ''If you let me, I'll be so real for you'' just gets me every time, and then the bit at the end where he finally gets his wish (in a way) and then...well, I ain't gonna spoil the end for anyone who hasn't seen it but it's such a beautiful movie. *blubs*

Others?:

Running On Empty (with late, great River Phoenix)
Titanic
Untamed Heart (possibly Christian Slater's finest performance)
The Land Before Time
The Sixth Sense
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

...others I can't think of right now.

BUTTERFLY043

Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:17 AM

Ah, tv shows?

Buffy, definitely, including The Prom, Becoming, The Body, The Gift, Chosen.

Also Angel (which is my fave show) - particularly Hero, There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb, Birthday, Home, You're Welcome, Shells and Not Fade Away. I love Angel! *sigh* *misses Angel*

MRSEMBASSY

Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:18 AM

Has anyone else mentioned "In America"?? I'm a sucker for stories about children who die, but this one was just devastating. So beautifully directed, and so poignant without being crass and maudlin.

I have never sobbed like that at a movie in my life ... I had to rush into the theatre bathroom and wash my face for about 20 minutes before I could go out to dinner afterwards, and even then I kept welling up every time I thought about it.

Shit, I'm getting teary just thinking about it to type this note!

WONDERFUL, moving, fabulous film. The thing that got me bawling even more hysterically was the credit at the end of the movie, when the writer/director (Jim Sheridan) dedicated the film to his dead brother, and I realized the story was semi-autobiographical.

I highly recommend renting this one. Just make sure you have an entire box (or two) of tissue handy.

-Mrs. Embassy

P.S. As for TV, I don't think I'll be able to watch the "Buffy" episode "The Body" ever again. I watched it for the first time shortly after my mom died and I thought I'd never stop crying.

INSIGHT SPINNER

Sunday, December 19, 2004 3:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
"Powder"

Theres a scene that gets me every time, when Powder is relaying the Sheriff's dying wife's words to the Sheriff. Too much..I'm tellin ya.

Wow...good call. I forgot all about that movie

insight spinner
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INSIGHT SPINNER

Sunday, December 19, 2004 3:32 AM

Wow, alot of great stuff! I'm popping out of lurkdom to contribute my list:

-Shawshank Redemption
-Out of Africa -- despiet the fact that Robert Redford can't act...Meryl can I and sobbed like a baby.
-Six Weeks -- not the best movie, yet I cried for the fact that, as a dancer, I could imagine dancing with my daughter and could not imagine her dead 6 weeks later.
-Born Free. STOP IT!! I cried like a baby. So what if I was in elementary school at the time. Sing it with me people...BORN FREE...AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS...AS FREE AS THE GRASS GROWS...BORN FREE TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART!! LMAO!!

This is fun. Why am I not hanging out with you people more? hehehe

insight spinner
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Just an object. It doesn't mean what you think....

INDIANABANZAI

Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:52 AM

Field of Dreams.

Even though you know the scene is coming, even though you know what's about to be said...

"Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?"

Gets me every time, even just thinking about it. Like now.

LINDEN

Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:40 AM

Dead Poets Society - Every. Single. Time. Particularly at the end, when Robin Williams character Keating is just about to leave and you see Todd getting up on his desk, saying "Oh Captain, My Captain". That kills me!

And, of course, several others. But that scene always gets to me.

WILDHEAVENFARM

Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:56 PM

There are so many on here that warrant a "me too" that I would choke the entire thread with my concurring.

"The Education of Little Tree," a wonderful film about a part-Cherokee boy being raised by his good-and-simple moonshining grandparents in the backwoods of the Apalachains. I know it doesn't sound like anything from my description, but its really great and y'all should go rent it immediately. The ending is so sure to make me cry that I just stop the movie before it gets there.

And the little boy who played the lead, who will be very sexy when he's grown, is starring in the remake of "Where the Red Fern Grows".

Hasn't anyone cried at "Angela's Ashes"?

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

SIMONWHO

Sunday, December 19, 2004 4:09 PM

Okay, I don't cry at movies/TV shows/adverts with babies with bows in their hair but I've been moved by some:

Good Will Hunting. A great movie with lots of interesting performances.

The Luck of the Fryrish episode. It just touches so nicely on family and how we fight tooth and nail with our brothers but love them underneath.

The Natural. Just the ending where he's standing there, bleeding and you almost want him to stop but know he's going to finish the job and he runs and the fireworks and then we're in the field and... well, if you've seen it, you know.

Also, very weirdly, the song 'Dance with my Father' makes me feel very sad and yet my father is alive and well.

Pretty much every episode of a TV show where they have to kill off a regular because the actor has died is both great and sad. Even the Suddenly Susan one was good.

INSIGHT SPINNER

Sunday, December 19, 2004 4:27 PM

I typed that and then erased it because of the controversy, Mary. But I LOVE Education of Little Tree.

Sometimes I cry at the end of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but other times I just don't believe they are really dead, and then I don't cry.

insight spinner
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Just an object. It doesn't mean what you think....

WILDHEAVENFARM

Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by insight spinner:
I typed that and then erased it because of the controversy, Mary. But I LOVE Education of Little Tree.

What controversy?

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

WILDHEAVENFARM

Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:05 PM

I like how many men are answering and we've avoided mentioning all the chick flix like "Beaches", "Steel Magnolias" and "Fried Green Tomatoes" (never saw two, cry at the third one).

Since it's long enough and often regarded as a movie, did anyone cry at "M*A*S*H - Goodbye, Farewell, Amen"?"

And that HBO movie about the Sam Sheppard killing, was it "Angels in America"?, when the religious reich is protesting so vulgarly in front of the courthouse and all the young people make big angel wings costumes and stand in from of the mob so the dead boy's parents and friends don't have to see them.

Oh, and the candle light vigil in "Pay it Forward." I'm pretty butch, but I could NOT stop crying.

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

ZOID

Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:16 PM

Nobody has brought up one of my favorite movies of all time (and not just because it'll make grown men cry): "Grand Canyon".

If you've seen it: 'nuff said. If you haven't, you must rent it. 'Life Affirming' is the best way to briefly describe it, and thus avoid PurpleBelly's 'no scrolling' proscription...

v/r,
-zed

P.S.
Steve Martin's violence-pimp movie producer is easily the 'flattest' character, and yet still a favorite of mine. It makes some sense of humans, as we insist on repeating our sins: "And we never failed to fail; it was the easiest thing to do," Crosby, Stills and Nash. So much for 'no scrolling', eh? Yet another failure...

HOBBES

Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:59 PM

The Futurama episode with Fry's dog.
He stops the professor from bringing him (the dog) back becasue the dog lived for like 10 years after Fry was gone and so Fry figures the dog moved on and had a good life.
And then it shows the dog standing outside the pizza shop waiting for Fry to come back for the rest of its life.

Also the Lemony Snicket movie and the letter at the end.

The Big Fish and the funeral.

My So-Called Life and half the fricking episodes.

Probably more, but thats all that comes to mind right now.

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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May you be in heaven an hour before
The Devil knows you’re dead.

DANFAN

Monday, December 20, 2004 3:13 AM

Movies that choked me up? Too many to count... as I get older, I seem to cry much easier. I find that disconcerting. Here I am in my late 40's and I can get a lump in my throat at the most hackneyed of cliches.

But the first time I recollect being brought to tears by a movie was a made-for-TV presentation of "Of Mice and Men." It was in 1970 (I was 15 years old) and it starred George Segal in the role of George. I cannot recall who played Lennie, but that actor did an incredible job. The final scene where George killed Lennie to protect him from the townsfolk just shattered me. It brings a lump to my throat just remembering it now... 34 years later.

Go figure.

BUCKAROO

Monday, December 20, 2004 3:24 AM

The one I forgot in my previous post, and I'm astonished no one has mentioned yet - Shaun of the Dead! It had a couple of REALLY moving scenes, all the more so because they were completely unexpected. I'm thinking especially of the moment between Shaun and Philip, which suddenly puts a whole new spin on their relationship, and the audience's perception of Philip. Shaun and Ed's exchange at the end is pretty moving, too... An altogether great film.

"Well, here I am..." - Jubal Early

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, December 20, 2004 2:53 PM

"It's a Wonderful Life" gets me everytime. I watch it several times every Christmas season. Got plans to watch it again tonight.

"Casablanca" is my favorite Bogart movie of all time. It never fails to get the ol' eyes watering.

"M*A*S*H - Goodbye, Farewell, Amen". I loved M*A*S*H* and watched the show w/ my mom every week. I still catch the reruns every weekday on the Hallmark channel. When "Goodbye, Farwell, Amen" aired, I was already choked up knowing a great series was coming to an end. The last scene choked me up so bad I thought I was going to lose it. I still have a hard time watching that finale.

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JADEHAND

Monday, December 20, 2004 3:06 PM

Ok, since we moved from movies to tv, I'll take it one more step. I just read the first 6 issues of Astonishing X-men (written by Joss), he can do it in a comic? Yeah, and make a joke right in the middle of it too. And of course, the Original Graphic novel The Crow by J. O'Barr.

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JABBY

Monday, December 20, 2004 4:41 PM

I gotta say almost all the major Buffy moments make me cry. Especially...the Body and the Grave. I cried last night watching Serenity when Simon talks about River.

As for movies there are a lot, but nothing and I mean nothing, makes me cry harder than the scene in Terms of Endearment when Debra Winger is in the hospital and the nurse hasn't given her a shot and Shirley Maclaine goes into the hall and screams "Give my daughter her medicine." I cry like a baby every single time.

Life is Beautiful and Braveheart get me pretty good as well.

MOOSE

Monday, December 20, 2004 4:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SergeantX:
Not exactly a movie, but did many of you see the last episode of Quantum Leap?

Amazing stuff. When Sam realizes he could save Al's first marriage and goes back to tell his wife he's still alive.

Its even more heartbreaking when you've seen the episode that Al sacrificed his freedom (and his marriage with it) so Sam could save his brother's life in Vietnam.

ATILLA

Monday, December 20, 2004 5:10 PM

The first movie to make me cry was "Old Yeller", I was a kid--I still love dogs.

"The Color Purple"

"Shindler's List"

Any movie with any emotional content after 6 beers

PEACE

Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:33 AM

I'm pretty weepy for a guy, but really only a few films get me.

ET-- every time.

Schindler's List-- esp. the scene where the little girl in the red coat walks through the destruction of the ghetto, and then you see her body later.

Ben Hur-- the crucifixion and Ben's mother and sister getting healed.

Sleeping in the Light (last ep of B5)- the end-credits, which shows everyone as they were and as they became, with really great music. Actually, that whole episode generally has me sniffing throughout.

The Body-- midway through I just start leaking.

I've only seen the last 15 minutes or so of AI, but it still had me sobbing. If I'd seen the whole film in a theater they probably would have had to carry me out on a stretcher.

But the biggest weeping jag I've had lately was when I just a few days ago watched the end of the movie Spartacus, which always gets me, but for some reason (maybe because I'm so depressed about how the world is going right now) this time around I was absolutely disconsolate and unable to move. I was glad I was alone in the house at the time. My wife would have probably called 911.

PS-- It's not a movie, but parts of Le Miserable leave me a basketcase. You just can't cry as loud in a live theater.

Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

ATILLA

Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:00 AM

Oh! Those were the real elections, I thought they were a really sad movie.

ANKHAGOGO

Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:42 PM

The only LOTR that made me cry was Return of the King, and it's the Faramir-Denethor "you wish our places had been changed" conversation followed by the charge to Osgiliath. Lost it,lost it, lost it. And they added a bit more in the extended edition. Bastards. And yep, the "here at the end of all things" did it, too. And I KNEW what was going to happen next! I'd known for years!

And actually, the only Whedon to make me cry was The Body, and the Angel finale. When I watched the re-run of the Angel finale, I started crying like a little girl in the opening credits and just kept on.

Hmmm, what else?

Band of Brothers, episode 9, "Why We Fight"
Lonesome Dove, book and mini-series

Wow, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. I'm not a big movie cryer.

"I know your name, jackass!"

GUITARCHICK

Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:29 AM

I think the movie that I cried the most to was "Last of the Mohicans;" I always need my own jumbo sized box of kleenex to get me through that one.

I also recently cried to "The Punisher." I get choked up whenever there's death and children combined.

RANDOMLING

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:39 AM

Can't believe anyone's not mentioned it before now: Donnie Darko makes me cry like a baby every damn time. The very end, when Donnie decides that the world would be better without him in it, and just smiles at the irony of it all...

SO sad.

GUITARCHICK

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:48 AM

Donnie Darko, and SLC Punk. Herione Bob did not have to die!

NORUTTINWAY

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:55 PM

My guaranteed to make me cry list:

1. Schindler's List
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Field of Dreams
4. Dances with Wolves
5. Open Range (Yeah Costner's movies get me) :P
6. The Horse Whisperer
7. The Abyss (When Virgil tries to revive Lindsey)
8. Friday Night Lights (when Boobie breaks down in his Uncle's Car)
9. The Straight Story
10. Sling Blade
11. We Were Soldiers
12. The Last Samurai

Oh yeah...and the last episode of "Lost" (the Charlie part)

What can I say...I am a softee!

JILTEDTOO

Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:01 AM

Sling Blade.

Saw it for the first time last night. The part where he is with the boy who he has become such good friends with.

JT

SBOOK

Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:23 AM

Actually, The Muppet's Christmas Carol always gets me - when they talk about Tiny Tim's death. That's the power of a good story plus I always think of Jim Henson when they do it. This was the first big project they did without him and the movie is dedicated to him.

JUUL

Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:00 AM

to GORRAMREAVERS

i believe you've repressed this portion of your life, so i'm sorry to bring it up again, but there was a Buffy episode called Seeing Red.

PSYCHOTICBRIDE

Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:19 AM

Besides a lot of the ones already mentioned (and a big thumbs up to everyone who mentioned "What Dreams May Come"), I get weepy at the end of "Edward Scissorhands", every time, failsafe. And I've seen the movie, like, a dozen times and I still get weepy.

I'm such a movie wimp though. I get teary-eyed at the end of most movies, unless they completely suck, or aren't that kind of movie.

CHINDI

Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:54 AM

All of the above.. but one or two more...

Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet.. I wept and wept in the theater when they died...

and more recently, a small british indie film from the 80's called "Let Him Have It",,, it is about the ending of capital punishment in the UK and it was very very powerful...

Chindi

KUANGAORUI

Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:04 AM

Grave of the Fireflies

and Stealth (god that was a crappy movie!)

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You know what's bad? Animal testing.
You know what's worse? Nuclear testing.
You know what's even worse than that? Nuclear animal testing!!! When will they learn?
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HAILFAX

Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:10 AM

Old Yeller.
Where the Red Fern Grows.
Lion King.

i have a soft spot for animals.

We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.

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