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Chasing Amy--when Amy and Ben Affleck have that fight in the rain, she walks away while the camera stays with Affleck only for her to come back running into his arms some seconds later. Gets me everytime!
The 25th Hour--the final sequence. A father is driving his convicted drug-dealer son to jail but on their way there the father (Brian Cox) is telling his son (Edward Norton) that he doesn't have to take him to jail--instead they can take a different road and the son could start a whole new life somewhere else, start a family, etc. Brian Cox's words and Spike Lee's imagery combine to create a powerful emotional effect.
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I have absolutely no idea why, but I'm nearly familiar with every scene in that movie but I don't think I've ever scene it all the way through. Weird.
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From Here to Eternity--Montgomery Clift playing taps with tears running down his face. I'd set it up more, but I don't want to spoil it for people who've never seen it.
Schindler's List-- Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more. Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them. Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just... Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did. Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough! Itzhak Stern: You did so much. [Schindler looks at his car] Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. [removing Nazi pin from lapel] Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. [sobbing] Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!
Ben-Hur, Glory, The Hustler, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, In America
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I've seen Return of the Jedi about 20 gazillion times. But you know what? When Luke says, "I have to save you, Father!" and DV/AS says, "You already have, Luke. You already have. Tell your sister... you were right about me..." I break down every single time.
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"A League of Their Own" - when the girl whose father has raised her leaves home. And then again, at the end, when the older versions of the women are at their reunion at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Happens every freaking time I see the movie. In fact, I'm tearing up just thinking about it as I'm writing this.
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(derail) Hey, the_Somalian, I just was composing a response to your Happiness post and it disappeared! Anyway, yes I do believe there is a true thing called happiness beyond removal of troubles--usually tied in with gratitude. (re-rail)
OK, crying moments: how about "You had me at hello!" in Jerry Maguire ?
the scene where the Indians are being shot down in The Mission -- uncontrollable bawling.
Emma Thompson's blubbering scene at the end of Sense and Sensibility .
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Uprooted, I deleted the thread in attempting to edit it. Don't ask me how. I will create it again.
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Brigham City. The Bishop is trying to tell friends their daughter was murdered, and he can't get them to shut up about getting him something to drink and so on, and . . . then they get what he's come about.
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quote:Originally posted by Will B: Brigham City. The Bishop is trying to tell friends their daughter was murdered, and he can't get them to shut up about getting him something to drink and so on, and . . . then they get what he's come about.
Not then (for me), but the final scene with the sacrament.
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Okay, I'm as cliche'd as they come: the final scene of It's a Wonderful Life when all the neighbors who've been helped by George Bailey come bail him out of trouble. Every time.
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In Deep Impact, when the mother hands her baby to her son because she wants to save the child and knows she cant.
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Oooh, another one-- in Titanic (I know, I know), when the mother down in steerage class knows she can't get off the ship with her children and it's going to go down, and so she tucks her children into bed and strokes their hair and tells them a story of Tir Nan Og, the land of eternal youth... I'm crying just trying to type this!
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Lies My Father told, when the little boy goes running out into the cold looking for his dead grandpa
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There are so many... some of which have been mentioned, some which haven't. The Notebook , when they're dancing and she suddenly collapses back into illness (for example).
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Philadelphia, (SPOILERS) the opera scene and the end, when Tom Hanks says Antonio Banderas he's ready and you feel like death is so much more than we can see with our eyes.
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I don't cry at movies, no not ever. I have come close a handful of times.
Return of the King: When Frodo has to say goodbye to Merri Pippin, and finally Sam. Because he was going to a place none of them could follow him to.
The Land Before Time: When Little Foot has to say goodbye to his dying mother. I was a little kid, killing Little Foot's mother in such a drawn out violent way; and so early in the movie was an unforgivable crime.
The Passion of Christ: I came close to crying once or twice during that movie. Movies on crucifying Christ have always done that to me.
Ok I lied, there has been ONE movie that made me cry. It not only accomplished that feat, it made me cry TWICE. The movie? "The Elephant Man" with John Hurt. Maybe its the fact that the movies is based on the true story of a hideously deformed boy who is raised in a circus. But when he is kidnapped from the man who is trying to save him from the circus and he is being beaten with a cane back at the circus by his evil manager I lost it.
The elephant man walks around wearing a mask so that people don't stare at him with such horror. He disembarks from a train I believe and is trying to to leave when two stupid boys start making fun of him and follow him. He starts trying to run from them and the boys chase after him. This attracts a large group of people who all join the chase and they finally corner him and rip off his mask. The elephant man then shouts to them all "I am not an animal!" "I am...a human....being!"
I lost it again, I wan't to see the movie again just to see if it can do it to me still, but its a hard movie to find, its very old (Black and white).
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paying $7.50 for a movie and having other people in the audience talk constantly to each other and/or on the cell phone, children jumping around and talking, babies crying and the parents don't remove them...
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Silent E, DPS gets me every time too. At about 50 places. But I'm so angry that they used Walt Whitman, because he really annoys me.
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Sergeant, the last image in "The Grapes of Wrath" did indeed bring tears to my eyes. That's all I can think of at the moment...
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"I can't carry the ring, Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you."
Samwise Gamgee is perhaps the greatest hero ever to grace the silver screen, and one of the greatest to walk across the printed page as well. And Sean Astin's performance was nothing short of perfect.
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In America, where the daughter tells her father to say goodbye to his dead son.
Silly and obscure, but... Ever see "Rock & Rule"? There's a moment where the heroine tries to sing to banish a demon, knowing it may be a futile effort. The hero joins her, knowing they may both might die, but in harmony they're able to send the demon back. That scene always gets me. Courage and loyalty in the face of what seems to be a hopeless situation.
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Another one from Samwise- "I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise. Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee, and I don't mean to. I don't mean to."
Also, the Shadowlands wedding scene-the second wedding, the *real* one, with C.S. Lewis' bride on her sickbed with cancer-always does me in. So much for machismo.
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I don't remember having ever actually cried during a movie. I've come close.
A couple of my friends and I went to see the Pokemon movie, and we all nearly cried when Ash was turned to stone. But we were ten or something, and all of us were very sensitive young boys.
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The inevitable scene in all movies starring a boat in which the boat is destroyed, sunk, or beached.
1. Waterworld (5 hankies) 2. Sahara (3 hankies) 3. Pirates of the Carribean ( a box of hankies) 4. Titanic (half a hankie for the old tub) 5. Gilligan's Island opening sequence ( a roll of Brawny)
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The Professional. The Family Man. When I was a kid, the first time I saw Snoopy Come Home. The ST:TNG ep "Inner Light". I bawled my head off.
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Steel Magnolias, when the machines are turned off and the men all leave, one at a time, and then the camera shows Sally Fields still there, holding her daughter's hand.
How about "Be at peace, Son of Gondor?" That one still gets me.
Passion of the Christ when Mary is running to him as he's falling and she sees him falling as a little boy.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: "The Elephant Man" with John Hurt...but its a hard movie to find, its very old (Black and white).
Um...it isn't that old a movie; it was made in 1980.
I've been thinking, and there are some other moments for me:
Return of the King - near the end when everyone bows to the four hobbits, recognizing their contribution to the destruction of the Ring.
Titanic (a film I mostly don't like) - when they show the older couple laying in bed holding each other as the water rises.
The Trouble With Angels - when it is announced that Mary is entering the convent after graduation and her best friend, Rachel, won't even acknowledge her.
There are surely lots of others, because movies make me cry all the time.
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quote: Oooh, another one-- in Titanic (I know, I know), when the mother down in steerage class knows she can't get off the ship with her children and it's going to go down, and so she tucks her children into bed and strokes their hair and tells them a story of Tir Nan Og, the land of eternal youth... I'm crying just trying to type this!
Yes, yes yes!
Hmmmm, well when I was a wee lass and first saw Honey I Shrunk the Kids, when the ant died to protect the kids and they just shrugged and moved on, I ran screaming from the room and buried myself in the couch and cried the rest of the movie. And also when I was little, apparently I bawled violently at the end of E.T. (I hate goodbye scenes)... that one still gets me
The Green Mile gets me every time (and I've seen it like ten times)... at about five different parts, but the worst is the very last lines.
The end lines of Dune (miniseries) gets to me too, as well as certain parts of The Prince of Egypt. The Crow also. I get a little teary at the end of Equilibrium, as well as the end of Blade Runner. And the end of that ST movie, it might be Generations (the one where the Enterprise crash lands on a planet).
Probably a lot more, I cry at books and movies too easily. Oh, and add Futurama to the list (the dog one and one of the ones with Leela's parents).
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Breakfast At Tiffany's, when she dumps the cat out of the taxi in the pouring rain. Dunno why, but I sob every time. Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day. At the end when the Terminator asks to be lowered into the molten steel and John is bawling and ordering him not to and he says "Now I know why you cry." Every time, I at least mist up a little, if not cry.
Also I second Myr: The episode of Futurama with Fry's dog is one of the saddest things ever.
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There's plenty of examples for me, but for some reason one just came to mind.
When I was in pharmacy school I'd be up most nights studying and I'd take a break at midnight to watch Star Trek: Voyager. Now I've cried in more movies than I can count, but there are very few moments that I've cried during a television show. But this episode of Voyager always got me at the end. If you try to figure out why just by reading the summary, you won't get it. But if you've ever seen the episode, maybe you'll understand.
I really miss Voyager. I wish they'd start playing it again.
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Oh! That reminds me that an episode of Star Trek made me cry too... TNG, when Captain Picard "lives" a whole life on a planet that is doomed.
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