I don't do much more than tear up when I read books, and I only cry a little during a few special songs. But the first time I saw Life is Beautiful I bawled like a baby and didn't stop until the next morning. Just the love that Roberto's character had...(shiver). The fact that it was a comedy made it even better for me. I was laughing right up until I started crying.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...
All that candy... All that chocolate... Umpaloompa's!
::cries::
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Oh, God, yes, I cried so much when I watched Life Is Beautiful. I cry at a lot of movies lately...
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
I'm sure I'll remember more later, but when I think of crying in movies, two always come to mind. Life Is Beautiful is indeed one of them. The other is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . Perhaps I shouldn't admit that. Shatner is such a ham actor. But ever since the first time I saw it, I always fall apart at Spock's funeral scene. Even now, as many times as I've seen Search for Spock , and as well as I know that he's not really dead, it still gets me. Seeing Spock slowly die for his friends, and seeing Kirk break down in his speech... "of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human ." One of the great moments in cinema.
Posted by tonguetied&twisted (Member # 5159) on :
Old Yeller.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I don't remember the last time I actually cried at a movie. But The Two Towers (the scene where the twelve-year-old kids are putting on armor and getting ready to die) and Signs (when the dad regains his faith) almost brought me to tears.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I didn't cry during Life is Beautiful. I always found it kind of chilling that he would endanger so many people for his son. I don't know why. Perhaps I just need to have some of my own to understand. Regardless, that movie didn't do it for me.
The original Little Mermaid, like I said on another thread. That did me in when I was little. I can't really think of any others. I don't really cry much I guess? I've been teary in some, but not flat outright crying.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Might be a shorter list to name the movies that don't make me cry.
Seriously, I'm bad about crying in movies, even if they aren't "sad" movies. I've even been known to cry during the coming attractions. Oh, well. I'm not as bad as I used to be, at least.
The movie I probably cried most in was Romeo and Juliet (the 1968 version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli). I was in junior high when I saw it the first time and, of course, knew how it would end. I started crying when the Chorus started speaking at the beginning of the film and cried all the way through it. And all the way home, I think.
Posted by Possum (Member # 2549) on :
One of the most powerful films I have ever seen is Testament. (Jane Alexander, Lukas Haas, William DeVane, Kevin Kostner, 1983) If this one doesn't make you cry nothing will.
I have, also, an emotional place in my heart for How Green Was My Valley, but that is the Welsh coming out in me.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I don't completely break down, but movies can often bring me pretty close.
I seem to recall having mentioned this recently here somewhere but The Prince of Tides despite its serious flaws, affected me deeply.
Believe it or not, Catch Me If You Can misted me up. I must be the only one in the world who had this reaction . . . most people I hear mention it just say it was sweet (perhaps too much so). But for some reason, this movie really touched a nerve in me.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Only movie that ever made me cry was Flowers for Algernon (the Hallmark version with Matthew Modine).
Posted by MattB (Member # 1116) on :
Field of Dreams.
Kevin Costner's daughter is lying still after falling from the bleachers - everyone is horrified into silence - and the young Moonlight Graham steps out of the crowd - and you know he is there to save her.
Devastatingly beautiful moment.
And later on, same film. Costner's not that great an actor, but "How about some catch?" makes me crumple up inside.
Posted by sweet_sheepy (Member # 5136) on :
Powder really made me sniffle a lot ...
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I agree with Jon Boy about Signs, although I detested the movie, it was misty.
The ultimate tear jerker(although I never sob in movies, tears just come), was Simon Birch. I love that movie.
EDIT: Braveheart was another one. Tears flowed when William Wallace was being tortured and he yelled, "FREEDOM!".
[ June 25, 2003, 02:38 AM: Message edited by: Nick ]
Posted by Silas (Member # 5220) on :
I have yet to see Life is Beautiful. I will make it a point to watch it sometime soon though.
I have yet to cry in a movie, although the "My brother, My captain, My King" speech Boromir gave brought me close. But the closest I've ever been to crying in a movie was Gladiator (Russell Crowe...Well he's the only actor I can remember right now, getting late). But yeah, that's about it for me. -Silas
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Dumb and Dumberer.
I didn't actually see it, but knowing it exists makes me cry for humanity.
Posted by MattB (Member # 1116) on :
quote:The ultimate tear jerker(although I never sob in movies, tears just come), was Simon Birch. I love that movie.
Try reading A Prayer for Owen Meany, the book Simon Birch is a pale, pale adaptation of. It's hard to adapt a John Irving novel, and if you read it, you'll see why. Light years beyond the film, in depth and power.
[ June 25, 2003, 04:11 AM: Message edited by: MattB ]
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Well of course the movie is going to be nowhere near as good as the novel.
The thread is: "what movies make you cry?"
There is a different thread for novels that make you cry. Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
I agree with MattB about Fied of Dreams.
Even though I am not a baseball fan I still cried like a baby.
Posted by kerinin (Member # 4860) on :
i don't ever really bawl, and i don't usually get teary, so this is rather strange, but something about Amelie really got me. and the wierdest part is that it wasn't the intentionally melodramatic parts that got me, for instance i couldn't help myself during the opening credits, with the footage of her as a child playing with raspberries and making records out of icing. i about lost it watching her skip stones on the causeway.
i'm not sure what it was, maybe nostalgia for lost innocence or the music. strange...
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
I cry every time I watch the movie Glory. Something about that film really gets to me.
I cried at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring when Sam refused to let Frodo go on alone. I knew it was coming -- I've read the books -- and I thought that scene might have actually been one of Peter Jackson's worst in the films so far, but I still wept like a baby.
I also cried at the end of Signs. Yeah, OK, so it may not have been all that great, but by golly, there's just something that touched me about Mel Gibson's character.
Finally, I may be the only person to have ever cried watching a Paul W.S. Anderson film (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil and the upcoming Alien vs. Predator film). I cried while watching Soldier because my girlfriend had just broken up with me. I think I would have cried watching any movie, but I just so happened to have been watching this one... Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
I cry a lot in movies. Sometimes single glistening tear in eye, sometimes tears streaming down face. Two that involved full-throttle sobs were Bent (the end, oh my goodness the end) and Lady Jane (for issues involving Patrick Stewart's character). Recently watched A Walk to Remember, cried for issues involving the guy's father. Cried a couple of times when Boromir dies in LOTR. Pay It Forward, though not for the reasons most people did. *thinks* And so on. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
No books made me cry.
If I watch a movie alone and it's good, I'll bawl.
Shawshank Redemption Girl, Interrupted American History X The Power of One Life as a House Igby Goes Down A Beautiful Mind Lilo and Stitch Ordinary People Taps The Cure Hamlet The Great Santini
But, I only cry if I'm watching it alone. If anyone else is there, I'm fine. Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
A tear rolled down my cheek during a particular scene in Patch Adams that hit close to home because of what was going on in my life at the time.
...there have been movies that wrenched me or made me feel like crying, but I don't cry often or easily.
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
I cry fairly often at movies, but I have NEVER been able to watch "Braveheart" without crying at Wallace's shout...
Whoever mentioned "Glory" is way cool-- one of the best movies ever and grossly underrated, IMO. The other Colonel threatening to take away the 54th and make them "contraband" is the scene that makes me cry... the end doesn't-- Shaw and Tripp just seem to belong together... it's all just fitting.
IRL, the person on whom Tripp (Denzel Washington) is based survived the battle and received the Medal of Honor for rallying the men and holding the flag up after having been shot.
Posted by Fishtail (Member # 3900) on :
Saving Private Ryan Blackhawk Down The Crow Pretty Woman Moulin Rouge
I don't remember if I cried the first time I saw Braveheart or not, but I don't any more.
I have also teared up at several baseball movies, including The Pride of the Yankees, The Natural, and Field of Dreams.
Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
Umm... People cry at movies?
::sighs:: It's a long story but basically I don't even cry all that often period so it would have to be a heck of a tearjerker to get me bawling.
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
I'll cry during movies at the drop of a hat. I'll cry during TV commercials, radio commercials, particularly touching songs, coming attractions, crap made-for-tv movies, kids cartoons, and the Cosby Show. You name it, it's probably made me cry.
Probably one of the most humiliating crying at a movie experiences, especially as a film student, was the degree to which AI made me bawl. We must have been in that theater 20 minutes after the credits started rolling as I tried to get a grip. Even though, as I cried, I was thinking about all of the problems with the film, I couldn't stop. Unbelieveable. Posted by qsysue (Member # 5229) on :
Movies can make me cry pretty easily too, although not so much anymore. I do love tear-jerkers. I think the one that made me cry the worst was When a Man Loves a Woman. I came out of the theater so incredibly drained from trying not to just start bawling right in the audience. Every. Single. Scene. was such a huge emotional ordeal.
Any movies where someone dies (in a sad way) will make me bawl, mainly because I have a brother and a sister who both died. I tend to try to stay away from movies where I know someone will die unless I'm in the mood for a good cry.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I don't cry at movies. I don't know why. I can recognize sad moments, but I don't tend to tear up.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
I cried at Fellowship, only a little when Gandalf fell, and a lot at the departure of Boromir. I had not yet read the books when I first saw the movies.
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
[ June 25, 2003, 11:17 AM: Message edited by: Javert Hugo ]
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
Here is my list of tearjerkers: Beaches Dead Man Walking Dead Poets Society Life Is Beautiful Message in a bottle Moonstruck Patch Adams Philadelphia Platoon Schindler's List Steel Magnolias (who doesn't cry in this one..)
I'm sure I can think of more
[ June 25, 2003, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: Traveler ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
My mother died of the same thing that the mother in Beaches died of - it's the movie I use to tell people when they ask. Thing is, its getting old enough most people haven't heard of it, so the conversation seques into a movie review. *muses*
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
The one that really does it for me is Awakenings . At least part of the reason the movie moves me so deeply is that I read the book the movie is based on, so I know that while the characters got shifted and altered somewhat, the essence of the actual events are very real.
The movie might have won some awards that year if Dances with Wolves hadn't dominated the public consciousness.
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
Just have to add some more:
Always What Dreams May come Mask I Am Sam Leaving Las Vegas ET Top Gun (C'mon ...who didn't tear up when Goose died?)
Not a Movie but... The last M.A.S.H. Episode
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
I cry all the time at movies (and get mocked endlessly for it), but my two latest embarrassments have been Lilo and Stitch and A Walk to Remember.
Makes me feel lots better though that both of those have been mentioned already. (Thanks Lissande and Mackmillan )
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
My wife had the misfortune of watching A Walk to Remember and Message in a Bottle one after the other.
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
A Walk to Remember...yes...I am much embarrassed.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Did somebody mention Patch Adams? I cried in that movie too, but that wasn't due to sadness.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN IT, SKIP THE NEXT PARAGRAPH.
I thought the best moment was when he had the two giant women legs on the two sides of the door that the gynecologists (sp?) were supposed to enter.
Shawshank Redemption was another. I thought The Life and Death of Malcom X with Denzel Washington was another particulary sad movie.
Posted by BebeChouette (Member # 4991) on :
Field of Dreams kept getting me in front of my wife. Embarrassing!
Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
"My Life" with Michael Keaton always gets me.
Posted by finestraoscurata (Member # 5317) on :
La Haine (Hate) made me bawl and Boys Don't Cry certainly choked me up. ET made me sob in fear when I was little, but I think I've gotten over that .
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
To add a couple more Disney movies to my list, Bambie always made me cry from the time that I was a toddler, and The Lion King kills me... I just can't fathom how Scar could do that to his own brother!
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Green Mile. That's the only movie I've seen in the theaters during which I haven't been able to hold them back. Though I do still get misty at the aftermath scene in Top Gun, among others.
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
Frank Darabont + Stephen King Prison story = great movie
If only The Green Mile had been up against Titanic instead of American Beauty.
Thinking of it... 1999 gave us Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, The Green Mile, and American Beauty... probably others I can't think of (I looked up Snatch and Memento, both 2000)
what a year, eh?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Dead Poets Society Okay, so it was manipulative, but it wasn't the sad part that made me cry. It was the end when some of them stood up on their desks. I cried so hard, and kept crying. Ron held me all the way out into the parking lot and held me in the car, while I kept crying. Our conversation went something like this:
Me: Sorry for crying so much
Him: I thought it was kind of an uplifting ending...
Me: Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *sniff* I-it was. Waaaaaaaah! (pause) I'm sorry for crying so much.
Him: S'okay. It's kind of neat to have you cry and it not be my fault.
Shawshank Redemption also got me, a little. Life as a House got me, but I was mad that it got me, because ... I should have known.. And I DID know... and it STILL got me.
Radio Flyer . OMG, I'm such a goober.
Saving Private Ryan , but not for the reasons you think. I cried when Ryan, as an old man, collapsed in front of Tom Hanks' white cross. Because my granfather was at Iwo Jima, and, well, I just thought of him, and I cried.
Beaches is another six-hanky movie. (((Katharina)))
Posted by :Locke (Member # 2255) on :
Freak the Mighty
Posted by Toes (Member # 4603) on :
I almost never get teary during a movie, but What Dreams May Come just about killed me, when Robin Williams is waving goodbye to his kids who drive off in the van. The narration is something like "That was the last time I saw them alive.." Geez that killed me. Also Star Trek:Nemesis at the end. If you've seen it you know what i mean. I recently saw The Legend of 1900 which is an excellent movie, which I recommend to everyone, but is also a tear-jerker. Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I hate to repeat some of these but:
The Crow The Iron Giant (I cried like a baby) Grave of the Fireflies Powder Braveheart Rain Man Armageddon Shane Titanic The Wall
There are more, but I am brain-dead
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:I cry all the time at movies (and get mocked endlessly for it), but my two latest embarrassments have been Lilo and Stitch and A Walk to Remember.
I am so relieved I'm not the only one. I detest most cheesy American flicks, but for some reason Mandy Moore made me bawl my eyes out!
And Lilo and Stitch was bad because I was watching it on the plane... and I have issues with being protective of my little sisters... and yeah, it was pretty sappy.
I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned Shadowlands yet. Oh, man. The movie was bad enough, but I saw the play, and I couldn't stop crying even a half hour after it was over.
And although it's one of my favorite movies ever, Return to Me makes me cry when David Duchovny is sitting in front of his front door, telling the dog that she's not coming home, and then starts sobbing.
And of course I lose it every time I see Little Women, not when Beth dies, but later when Jo is looking through her trunk. Awful.
All of the above are good cries, because they resolve themselves, but there are some that make me cry in a disturbed sort of sadness. Hope Floats was one of these, during the scene where the little girl wants to go with her Daddy and he's packing up and leaving and she's just sobbing. I can't handle the painful sobbing and how she keeps screaming "Daddy! Daddy!" - it's just a little too much, psychologically.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Annie,
I totally agree with you about Shadowlands. I read the novelization of the movie first, and bawled for about a day and a half. That movie just tugs at me.
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
I, like Ayelar, am a you-name-it-it's-made-me-cry person, at least where movies are concerned. I'm not even going to try to list them all.
~Jane~
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Okay, like I mentioned in the other thread, we watched Grave of the Fireflies last night, and my wife couldn't stop crying for about 18 hours. Literally. Her eyes were so swollen that she could barely see out of them, and she almost couldn't go to school.
But there's another I wanted to mention. I just got done watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on the new DVD box set. It had been a while since I saw it, and I forgot how choked up I get at the way the father-son dynamic is handled. Namely the following two scenes:
1) Indiana Jones goes off the edge of the cliff in the tank, then comes back up and joins everyone looking off the side for him. It's an old joke, and always played for laughs. When his father turns around and, rather than the standard double-take "whaaaaa...?" reaction, just hugs him like he never thought he'd see him again... it gets to me.
2) The most powerful scene in the entire movie, at the end, just after Elsa dies trying to reach the Grail. When Henry Jones sees his son reaching for the Grail, the object of his entire life's work, and he realizes that getting the Grail may cost his son his life, so he tells him to let it go. I won't say I cried, but I'm always very moved by that scene. It's an amazing thing to find in an action-adventure film.
I kind of hope that Indiana Jones IV never gets made, because I can't see how they could possibly top The Last Crusade.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Gandhi One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Man Who Wasn't There Kundun (Well it didn't, but it came close enough) Requim for a Dream Pi came much closer than it really should've Godfather Part II with Fredo in the boat..
Wow, now I feel like a cry-baby. Though I don't actually full out sob, but tears definitly come to my eyes...
<--*Cry-baby*
Hobbes Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I cry from laughter everytime I see Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Dumb and Dumber. But I rarely have any "sad tears." Um...I think I might have got a little teary-eyed the first time I saw Return of the Jedi, and Mr. Vader died right after joining the flipside of the force (but I was four, so give me a break).
[ November 01, 2003, 01:44 AM: Message edited by: Da_Goat ]
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I just finished a movie I cry at, so I thought I'd mention it. The Oh My Goddess movie always makes me cry... ;_;
Posted by Chocodile (Member # 5857) on :
This is funny, I can remember crying at a lot of movies, and I remember the sentiments, such as in Annie's post.
quote: And of course I lose it every time I see Little Women, not when Beth dies, but later when Jo is looking through her trunk. Awful.
It seems like it's often not the death of a loved one that makes you cry, but afterwards, when you're forced to remember them or rummage through their things. The funny thing is, as much as I want to...at 2am on halloween night, I can't recall a single specific movie that made me cry. Man, what's wrong with my brain.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Two Japanese animated movies that made me cry:
- Grave of Fireflies - Jin Roh - The Wolf Brigade.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Everything makes me cry. But the weird one I have to mention is when I first saw Honey I Shrunk the Kids, at the part when the ant saves them, I ran from the room bawling and buried myself in the couch for the rest of the movie.
Posted by Chocodile (Member # 5857) on :
Oh man, I knew someone would remind me of one. [I]Grave of the Fireflies[/I. That movie pushes the absolute limits of sadness for me.
I guess I'll have to see that other one "Gin Roh the Wolf Brigade"\
Thanks Sauron
Posted by Starla* (Member # 5835) on :
The last 2 movies I saw that made me cry were The Piano and Flashdance.
Heavy hormonal influences on flashdance. I had to watch both for a class.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
It's funny, this thread remembers me that before I met Vincent I rarely cried watching movies (except Cyrano de Bergerac and Philadelphia ) But after we went together I became a real crier-watching-movies. Lilo and Stitch , the first Harry Potter , Monster inc (the part when Sully thinks Booh is dead), movies which before would have make me smile make me cry. And I don't even talk about movies that would have make me cry before... Strange how love transforms you...
[ November 01, 2003, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Anna ]
Posted by Starla* (Member # 5835) on :
***grumbles at singledom***
mmphm.
Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :
Adding to the list: Ayelar, JaneX, MyrddinFyre plus me.
I cry at any sad movies, some tv commercials too. I've been getting more teary lately so my list would mostly consist of recent movies. Or it might be that my memory of tearjerker movies doesn't extend past a few years.
edited to make sense
[ November 03, 2003, 12:49 AM: Message edited by: esl ]
Posted by Chocodile (Member # 5857) on :
"Life is Beautiful," that movie's awesome.
**growls at singledom**
I've never seen flashdance. I have to rent that and the movie Time Bandits. Not that I expect Time Bandits to make anyone cry.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Did I say Lilo and Stitch?
I'm SURE I did.
And I'm sure someone will point this out in a link.
*waits*
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
In truth... I don't believe I've ever actually cried over a movie.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
A Walk to Remember definately made me cry. I'd love to watch it again but I'm not ready to cry that much right now.
Somewhere in Time still makes me cry even though I've seen it many, many times.
There are so many... I cry easily. Too much stuffed down emotions resurfacing I guess. I need a good cry but the problem is stopping Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
The only movie that has ever made me cry would be We Were Soldiers.
-Rhaegar The Fool
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
But Kirk, we all saw you cry IN a movie. Though that was pretty tough of you to not give your secret pain to the laughing Vulcan.
By the way, I cried at the beginning of Generations last time I saw it.
Also the beginning of Tarzan, when the baby gorilla gets eaten by the leopard.
And I cry during only the preview of Lilo and Stitch. Tia Carrera's voice should be a controlled substance.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Mack,
Did you ever see this? It's a small bit from a piece by Starhawk, in Dreaming the Dark. (Note - this is not my usual type of reading. A professor in graduate school exposed me to this.)
As I recall, she prefaces this with talking about the longing that everyone carries within them:
quote: Community
by Starhawk, 'Dreaming in the Dark'
Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
That particular scene in Lilo and Stitch caused a little "catch in the throat" and I remembered this.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
quote: I cry any sad movies, some tv commercials too.
Yes! The first time I saw that CVS photo thinggy commercial...The one where the little boy shows his grandmother that picture and says, "Gramma, can you still do this?"...
Old people make me cry.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
These are the movies I have cried watching, some of these are very old though, so I may have been only seven or eight.
The Lion King- from where mufasa dies onwards Titanic- um. Like all the second half. ( I should have never seen that in the cinema...) Gone With the Wind Goodbye Mr. Chips The Two Towers
And a lot of movies with suppressed tears. (I forget specifically which ones) When watching with other people, I tend to disconnect myself from the movie, so I suppress tears...
Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
There is only one movie I have ever cried in. And I bawled and screamed like a baby. The movie The Little Princess made me cry. I don't know why all I rember was crying my eyes out and yelling at the characters on screen.
Posted by Poseidon (Member # 5862) on :
Movies: -the M*A*S*H episode "sometimes you see the bullet" (or is it hear?) -Now & Then, the scene with Sam and Teeny in the treehouse when Teeny gives her the bracelet -Little Women (the good version) when Beth dies -The Lion King, when Mufasa dies, of course
Books: -Red Prophet, pretty much through-out -The Firebrand, during the fall of Troy (i was so ashamed i cried over that book since i hate it and it was written really badly) -Ender's Shadow, happy tears at the end -Firesong, at the end -Walk Two Moons, at the end and others
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I'm a sucker for a romantic comedy - I even cried in While you were Sleeping
But the movies that have made me bawl so much my eyes are sore for the next 24 hours...
Braveheart Life is Beautiful (I know they've both been mentioned a lot, but I figure they deserve another mention!)
And one film about the Spanish Revolution - I can't remember the name of it for the life of me but it was very good and very very sad.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
quote:But Kirk, we all saw you cry IN a movie. Though that was pretty tough of you to not give your secret pain to the laughing Vulcan.
*mutters*
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I still think I'm the lamest for almost crying at the end of Pi.
And anyone who doesn't at least get misty eyed at the end of Requim for a Dream clealry lacks a soul.
Hobbes Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Requim for a dream was a pathetic movie.
But, while your trying to curse me for not having a soul, it makes me cry that people are bored enough to do these, and I am bored enough to go to them at least once a day.
-Rhaegar The Fool
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
ok, unless i skimmed a little too quickly, it seems like i'm the only one who cries at triumph/overcoming odds:
rudy mighty ducks 2 glory amistad a league of their own remember the titans
I cry during the olympics, especially after watching a feature on a specific athlete who's had an especially rough time and who goes on the win the gold.
i have to limit my intake of oprah because, with the exception of the one with nick lachey and jessica simpson, she makes me cry.
when i was a kid charlotte's web got me every time. i haven't watched it in close to twenty years for that reason. the green mile and pay it forward get me, too, but i still watch them every chance i get.
Posted by Abrynne (Member # 5826) on :
Fellowship of the Ring Two Towers soon to be Return of the king Forrest Gump Cast Away Any other serious Tom Hanks movie (including The 'Burbs heh) Braveheart The Patriot The last Star Trek The Next Generation episode. When Qui-Gon died!!!!! ****spoilers****
When Data died! When Wolverine CRIED about Jean dying!
Yes, I'm a dork and proud to be one. Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
I never tear up at movies, but god help me if that last scene in Braveheart -- not Wallace's torture scene, though that definitely set me up for the bawl -- the scene where the Scottish patriots charge the English, goddamn if I didn't cry like a baby all through the credits. Thank god the first time I saw it wasn't with a date.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
I never cry in public, but I have been known to get a bit misty.
A River Runs Through It
A Walk in the Clouds
Boys on the Side
Frida (When Diego is sitting outside of her hospital room, holding her painting and weeping – Alfred Molina is brilliant)
Gods and Monsters
Life As A House
Life is Beautiful
Ordinary People
Princess Bride
Shadowlands
Steel Magnolias
The Dollmaker
The Thin Red Line (“Where’s your spark now?”)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Wit
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
I cry all of the time at movies. Overcoming the odds, somebody dying, reconciliations. It's horrible and wonderful.
I cried during "Rugrats Gone Wild". *blush* Well, the children were lost! And the parents were worried! And then they found the children and they were all relieved! And the grownups who were mad at Tommy's dad apologized to him~!
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I watched it with my five year old in the theater, and he very sweetly took my hand and said, "Don't cry, mommy, it's just a movie."
Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
West Side Story always gets me. Even more so than Zefferelli's R & J. Other than that, I don't really cry at movies. Oh, and Apollo 13. I love that movie.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
The first time I saw The Pianist I cried. Correction: bawled. It was so bad, in fact, that I was clutching the armrests to keep myself from sobbing out loud. I hadn't cried like that in years. Oh, and it was my birthday.
Crying at movies depends a lot on my mood at the time. So sometimes I'll cry at the end of Gladiator, sometimes at the end of Amadeus, sometimes at Jedi, Saving Ryan's Privates, and so on and so forth.
Posted by :Locke (Member # 2255) on :
I hardly ever see movies, and when I do, I never cry.
But watching Edward Scissorhands...I just couldn't keep it in. The flashbacks, especially. I can't really explain why, but I think it had to do with the soundtrack. Whenever I listen to the theme I just get all depressed, and doubly so for watching the movie.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
oooh, remembered one other..
Gallipoli
I don't know if it's as well known in the US as it is over here though...
Posted by Maethoriell (Member # 3805) on :
Pearl Harbor got me pretty good, Lilo and Stitch, A Walk to Remember, Four Feathers.
I am predicting RotK will definitely have me crying too.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
quote: I've never seen flashdance. I have to rent that and the movie Time Bandits. Not that I expect Time Bandits to make anyone cry.
You're going to rent Time Bandits? Why oh why would you do such a thing? You'll only encourage them.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
When I was a kid I cried while watching Snoopy Come Home. I really felt bad for Charlie Brown. Unfortunately I have never lived this down, and the worst part is this is the only movie I can remember tearing up over. I'm such a weenie!
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I never cry at movies, either, but I do tear up sometimes. They just dry up before they roll down my face. The one movie experience that stands out that way is Dead Poet's Society, which I saw in the theater with my younger brother. We were both tough-guy teenagers, but that last "Captain, My Captain" scene got both of us. Afterward, we stood around outside the theater with moist eyes giving each other sheepish looks.
I saw My Life (Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman) with two other guys from the dorms in college. They were both bawling when we came out, and I just didn't get it.
Another one that gets the eyes glistening is The Mission (Jeremy Irons, Robert DeNiro).
UofUlawguy
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I think I might be a lost case. *sniffle* The only movies mentioned on this thread that I didn't cry at are ones I haven't seen. O_o
No one mentioned Phenomenon, which gets me every time.
But most-tissues-required-for-shortest-film has got to be the Wonderworks adaptation of Bradbury's "All Summer In One Day." 30 minutes. Many many MANY tissues. And every time I watch it, I cry harder.
Oh, and I cry at commercials too -- so glad it's not just me. Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Oh, oh, oh, oh! Can we do television, too? Because the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer KILLS me. When Spike sings "Let me Rest in Peace". *sniffle* Even when I listen to the soundtrack, it chokes me up a little.
Yes, I am a chickie.
Also: I refuse to watch We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, or any of those military movies, because I accidentally watched part of Hamburger Hill once (Chuck was watching it in the living room and I was half-listening) and it turned me into a blubbering mess. It doesn't help that Chuck is in the Army.
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Oh, well. I'm not as bad as I used to be, at least.![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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I just can't fathom how Scar could do that to his own brother!
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Though I don't actually full out sob, but tears definitly come to my eyes...![[Wave]](graemlins/wave.gif)
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