I think I remember seeing a thread about this a while ago, but I'm not sure, so I'm risking a good thrashing by [possibly] reposting the thread.
But, seriously, what movie has made you cry the most?
It's kind of a sad curiosity, but I think it's an easier question than 'What's the funniest movie you've ever seen?'.
And, while I do enjoy a nice snide dig at some movie that was so horrible it made you cry (Which of course, was very original of you, to think it up), could you, pretty please, couple said comment with an honest answer? I mean, you can't just leave us hanging... What made you cry?
I'll go first (As if I have much choice).
My Girl.
It had Anna Chumplsky, Jamie Lee Curtis, and that kid from 'Home Alone' in it. There's some guy who plays the dad who's famous, I think, but I don't know his name. I think he was in 'The Village'... Funny I should mention that movie in this thread.
Anyway, this is an awful lot to write in a thread that's possibly already been posted, so I'll stop now.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
I arm myself with Kleenex whenever Beachescomes on. Gets me every time.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I am so sorry to admit this, because it's as trite as can be, but I always cry at It's A Wonderful Life. The fear and the hardship for so many years, and then the joy and delight his friends have in helping him. It makes me bawl. Kindness undoes me.
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
No movie has ever made me cry. Not that I'm bragging, I just don't cry very easily. I do occasionally get a little watery-eyed, though, and Crash was probably the movie that affected me the most. Anyone who has seen it probably knows exactly which scene it was that almost brought me to tears.
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
There was a thread on this awhile ago because I remember posting "Life is Beautiful" and the LDS fiction movie "Charly" as topping the cry-o-meter for me. I cry at most anything, so the fact that these two stand out is saying something.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Both times I caught the series finally of A Different World I cried. Seriously.
As for movies, My Life was a real tear jerker.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:I am so sorry to admit this, because it's as trite as can be
I don't understand why you think that's trite.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Yeah, I'm right there with Porter, CT. I do believe I've gotten choked up more often at a book than I have a film (and not very often at all for either, just wired funny I guess), but IaWL will do it for me on at least a 50% basis.
There isn't a thing that's trite about that movie.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Because everyone I know cries at It's a Wonderful Life. It's like saying "I get wet when I shower," or "being hungry makes me want something to eat."
But my father used to watch it with me every year, although my mother would tease us about "that movie." (She'd watch, though, from the kitchen.) My father was born in 1909 and lived through those years, and I think he knew quite a bit of sacrifice. I remember reading a card he'd sent home to the family, having gone to Chicago to make his fortune. He wanted to be an actor, but was clerking for the railroad to send money home for food for his brothers.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Well, sounds to me like you know some pretty groovy people, then Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Perhaps "trite" wasn't the right word. Maybe "expected."
Funny thing is, I know what's going to happen to my emotions, and I still watch it. Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
Now you've made me well up.
It's a Winderful Life was the first film that came to mind for me, too.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I know! I've got that burny-tingling in the tip of my nose that presages the tears.
Kindness! Friendship! And the undoing.
Posted by DevilDreamt (Member # 10242) on :
Grave of the Fireflies.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
the most? that's really hard. I get emotionally invested in most of the movies i watch, so tears come pretty naturally
Little Women. Muppet's Christmas Carol. Clockwork Orange (for totally diff. reasons than the other two!)...Titanic, though i'm shamed to admit it at this point in my life. Saving Private Ryan. 28 Days Later (although it only made me cry a lot the first time through.) also Serenity. These are just ones that are sticking out as either A) having made me cry everytime i watched them or B) that i remember as being particularly violent crying episodes.
yeah...there's definitely too many.
[ April 03, 2007, 12:28 AM: Message edited by: Leonide ]
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Saving Private Ryan made me cry. Field of Dreams did me in a good number.
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
Yikes... I'm about to watch Serenity. (I've been getting the firefly season disks off of Netflix... God! Why did they cancel that show?)
Anyway, Serenity's next. Don't tell me why you cried though... But Yikes. I'm getting mixed feelings... Did someone die? No! Don't tell me. You know what, I'm going to stop typing now.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Movie -- It's a Wonderful Life, probably because I've seen it more than most other movies.
TV -- Buffy, "The Body"
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
V For Vendetta... Don't ask me why, but after watching it, at the very end, when you see all those who were lost standing and watching the final act, it really gets to me. Maybe thats why it is my favorite movie.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
quote:Grave of the Fireflies.
That one gets me every time.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
quote:Clockwork Orange (for totally diff. reasons than the other two!)
ahhh.....memories.
Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
The movie that always gets me is A League of Their Own. At the end, when they are at the hall of fame ceremony, and the two sisters come together and meet again and hug. Hell, it's making me cry just writing this. I think because you get to see how those two fought growing up, and how the younger one wanted to get out of the shadow of the older, and how the older wanted her to fight out of it and not just step aside for her. Then after all that history, all those years apart, they come together and none of that matters because it's just those two sisters and their love for each other. Gets me every damned time, no matter how often I've seen that.
As far as tv goes, the series finale to Six Feet Under, when the youngest daughter is driving off to NY and you hear the music and see the montage of all the things to come for the family, and the future history of the family. what gets me every time about that is when the mom is dying and Nate Sr and Jr are there waiting for her. Then when David sees Keith playing in the football game and Keith smiles, then David dies. Then finally, when Claire dies herself, surrounded by 100 years of family pictures and the record of her life and family and friends on the wall. Oh man does that break me up. I cry like a little baby.
In general, I cry for sad things in movies/tv very easy. But the worst thing I've experienced was when I saw Philadelphia. The whole freakin' theater was balling their eyes out and it was very weird.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
The most? The Pianist. I always put it on when I need a good cry - much like I will tomorrow night.
Several of those mentioned often make me teary or weepy (Saving Ryan's Privates, A Muppet Christmas Carol, V for Vendetta), but The Pianist makes me bawl.
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
Dead Poet's Society
Posted by Jutsa Notha Name (Member # 4485) on :
Requiem for a Dream Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
The dad in My Girl is Dan Akroyd.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Serenity had me bawling like an infant, though there were extenuating circumstances at the time.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
Schindler's List, maybe.
Although Life is Beautiful was also very teary.
And Dirty Dozen...Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin...were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...And Trini Lopez...He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
quote: Grave of the Fireflies.
That one gets me every time.
Ditto.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
The Mission. And what a gorgeous soundtrack -- it's a popular choice for figure skating performances lately.
Oh, and speaking of trite or expected (and of course It's a Wonderful Life makes me cry too) -- no one has mentioned Lord of the Rings yet! I can't make it through Boromir's death or Gandalf's falling in Moria or the Grey Havens dry-eyed.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Until Bridge to Terabithia came out, the only movie that had ever made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows. Ditto with the books.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, It's a Wonderful Life, and, for personal reasons, Finding Neverland upset me something awful.
If they ever make "Unaccompanied Sonata" into a movie I will bawl like a baby.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Man, I can't answer this question. I cry at everything. I cry at juice commercials!
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
quote:Clockwork Orange
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
quote:Originally posted by SenojRetep:
And Dirty Dozen...Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin...were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...And Trini Lopez...He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Sleepless In Seattle much, do we?
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
No question; Grave of the Fireflies.
Requiem would have made me cry if it hadn't put me in a state of shock first.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I tend to avoid sad movies for just this reason. I haven't seen many of the ones already mentioned. I guess I don't understand the purpose of going to see a movie that is just going to make you feel bad later. Pay $7 and feel like crap!
However, there have been some on TV that have made me cry (and I DON'T cry easily). I'm trying to remember which ones they were:
To Sir, With Love Love Story A Patch of Blue Taps Shane
I'll add others if I think of them.
FG
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by twinky: Serenity had me bawling like an infant, though there were extenuating circumstances at the time.
If infants cried that quietly it wouldn't be a problem going to movies in which they were in attendence.
And while you certainly did have extenuating circumstances, I don't think that you were the only one in the group who was brought to tears. I seem to remember kwsni was crying too, and I'm pretty sure that others were as well.
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
Guys cannot cry. Its law.
There are however exceptions.
1. When your dog dies. 2. When the car crashes, (Yeah you know, that car.)
Keeping this in mind that as a guy I do not cry this is a list of some movies that might have moved me to tear up a bit, had I such capacity... *cough*
Old Yeller, (see rule 1) Turner and Hooch (New rule: If it has a dog I dont go.) Gladiator, its over and he walks through the fence towards his family. Ben Hur: pick a scene. We were soldiers
Aleady mentioned: Its A Wonderful Life At the Gray Havens, (Howard Shore makes holding out on this one impossible.) Saving Private Ryan.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Crying because of a movie is such an unremarkable occurance that I don't remember which ones made me cry and which ones didn't. I probably cried at Serenity, but I can't be sure.
I do know that I recently cried at Bridge to Terabithia, though.
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
I didn't cry myself, but, after going to "Imitation of Life" with a bunch of weepy Andersen cousins, as a teenager, I seriously contemplated putting myself up for adoption. There were puddles on the floor!
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
quote: The Mission. And what a gorgeous soundtrack
I have to second both of those sentiments.
I guess there are two movies that make me cry every time-The Mission and Grave of the Firefly (as previously noted).
Normally I don't cry.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Guys cannot cry. Its law.
Yet more proof that I am not a guy. I'll throw it in the stack which includes my disinterest in sports, beer, porn, and cars.
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Guys cannot cry. Its law.
Yet more proof that I am not a guy. I'll throw it in the stack which includes my disinterest in sports, beer, porn, and cars.
I was trying to be satircal about the whole machismo thing; I guess I missed. I like the cars and most sports (no baseball please). I get teary and even on occasion cry. What is the world coming to these days.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I'll give you a hint: it involves a handbasket. Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: V For Vendetta... Don't ask me why, but after watching it, at the very end, when you see all those who were lost standing and watching the final act, it really gets to me. Maybe thats why it is my favorite movie.
Don't feel bad, at the end of that movie, I was choking back tears myself, and I couldn't really tell you why, specifically. I think just the upwelling of emotion in seeing all those people stand up for themselves, especially after all we'd just see happen, it was a very powerful, moving moment.
The only two movies I've ever actually cried during are Mighty Joe Young (at the end when Joe falls off the ferris wheel and Charlize Theron is crying over his body) and Driving Miss Daisy, at the part when she's walking around the house and she's trying to find the papers for her students, but she has alzheimer's and hasn't had students for years. I hate it when bad things happen to old people, especially old women, so I got really misty eyed knowing she was NEVER going to find those papers but she was so intent on finding them and was crying herself because she didn't want to disappoint the students.
Other than that, It's fairly hard to make me cry, especially at a movie. Rarely if I'm feeling somewhat emotional for whatever reason I might get a little more choked up than usual at the end of a movie, like Happy Feet, but that too is rare.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
Steel Magnolias Fried Green Tomatoes Millions What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Walk the Line
Once I cried during Speed, but it was when I was in the middle of my hormone treatments, so it doesn't count. I cried at a lot of strange and inappropriate times then.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
One of the most moving movie experiences I've ever had was during From Here to Eternity when Montgomery Clift is playing Taps after... well, I won't ruin it in case people haven't seen it yet. At that moment I was proud to cry, because to not cry would be to not feel.
Anyway, that's a gorgeous movie.
Hmm.. my three listed (four, including Drity Dozen) responses all have to do with the human element of war. They're also primarily about men and their male relationships and moral dilemmas. I bet I'd weep at The Pianist.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
At the end of Die Another Day, I cried when I saw what happened to the Ferrari.
My wife thinks I'm weird.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Man, I cry at movies all the time. Bridge to Terabithia. Forrest Gump. While You Were Sleeping. I cry at movies often enough that I can't think of specific occasions - it's like asking for movies that provoked a laugh.
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
I cry at a lot of movies. <shrug> Maybe I'm just sensitive. Here's a short list off the top of my head.
Sense and Sensability West Side Story Braveheart Michael Collins Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King I just watched Apocolypse Now for the first time and I cried like a baby for most of the first half.
And while it's not a movie, it never fails to make me cry: The Six Feet Under finale. Really just the last ten minutes or so. It is so powerful.
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: V For Vendetta... Don't ask me why, but after watching it, at the very end, when you see all those who were lost standing and watching the final act, it really gets to me. Maybe thats why it is my favorite movie.
Don't feel bad, at the end of that movie, I was choking back tears myself, and I couldn't really tell you why, specifically. I think just the upwelling of emotion in seeing all those people stand up for themselves, especially after all we'd just see happen, it was a very powerful, moving moment.
All I could think of at that point in the movie was, 'so they've brought down the government through popular revolt, with little to rally around except a martyr who's identity was basically equated with opposition against the establishment (with the exception of a few platitudes about freedom and the like). And here come the reign of terror and waves of revolution which engulf the country before peace and freedom can be secured.'
Depends which revolution you look to as historical precedent, but no matter what way you look at it, there are going to be heaps of people dying after the movie cuts out.
My friend tells me that it's the romance that counts.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
quote: - posted April 03, 2007 12:21 AM Profile for stihl1 Email stihl1 Edit/Delete Post Reply With Quote The movie that always gets me is A League of Their Own. At the end, when they are at the hall of fame ceremony, and the two sisters come together and meet again and hug. Hell, it's making me cry just writing this. I think because you get to see how those two fought growing up, and how the younger one wanted to get out of the shadow of the older, and how the older wanted her to fight out of it and not just step aside for her. Then after all that history, all those years apart, they come together and none of that matters because it's just those two sisters and their love for each other. Gets me every damned time, no matter how often I've seen that.
As far as tv goes, the series finale to Six Feet Under, when the youngest daughter is driving off to NY and you hear the music and see the montage of all the things to come for the family, and the future history of the family.
I admit to holding back tears at that scene. I'm not even sure why, really, since I only watched a few episodes of the last couple of seasons.
I blame the music, myself. Very powerfully set to that scene.
Niki has admitted to holding back tears every time she watches that episode.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by Euripides:
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: V For Vendetta... Don't ask me why, but after watching it, at the very end, when you see all those who were lost standing and watching the final act, it really gets to me. Maybe thats why it is my favorite movie.
Don't feel bad, at the end of that movie, I was choking back tears myself, and I couldn't really tell you why, specifically. I think just the upwelling of emotion in seeing all those people stand up for themselves, especially after all we'd just see happen, it was a very powerful, moving moment.
All I could think of at that point in the movie was, 'so they've brought down the government through popular revolt, with little to rally around except a martyr who's identity was basically equated with opposition against the establishment (with the exception of a few platitudes about freedom and the like). And here come the reign of terror and waves of revolution which engulf the country before peace and freedom can be secured.'
Depends which revolution you look to as historical precedent, but no matter what way you look at it, there are going to be heaps of people dying after the movie cuts out.
My friend tells me that it's the romance that counts.
Maybe, maybe not. You perhaps forget that at that point in the movie, the leadership of the totalitarian regime had just been cut off. The army didn't fire on the revolters like they had so many times in history. And the great icons of the government were toppled. For all intents and purposes, the revolution was already over by that point.
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
Finding Neverland Saving pvt Ryan City of Angels
as for most impactful, possibly Band of Brothers (if it counts) or American History X
Posted by Mama Squirrel (Member # 4155) on :
Pay it Forward Phenomenon Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
quote:Originally posted by Euripides:
All I could think of at that point in the movie was, 'so they've brought down the government through popular revolt, with little to rally around except a martyr who's identity was basically equated with opposition against the establishment (with the exception of a few platitudes about freedom and the like). And here come the reign of terror and waves of revolution which engulf the country before peace and freedom can be secured.'
I think one of the problems with V for Vendetta as a movie was how it ignored that the main question posed by the original graphic novel was something like is no government better than a fascist government? In the book V was an anarchist, and everybody donning on Guy Fawkes masks in order to stand united against the tyranny would have run completely against his purposes.
That said, I think the point of the movie still works, even if it causes plot holes like the one you mentioned and even though Alan Moore withdrew his name from the project because of it. And I too cried at those final moments. Plus in some ways movies can't tell as complex tales as graphic novels.
Anyway, other movies that made me cry:
Au revoir, les enfants Amélie The Great Dictator Grave of the Fireflies Good Bye Lenin! Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
From the top of my head:
It's a Wonderful Life
The Green Mile
Forrest Gump *I cried really hard on that one*
Hate me for this, but I cried on Titanic when Jack sinks.
And the two movies I cried a torrent on were Air: The Movie, which is a Japanese animation and The Little Matchstick Girl which was a short by Disney that was released in the Little Mermaid DVD.
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
Forrest Gump
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
>>FOX AND THE HOUND<<
Finding Neverland
Posted by Perplexity'sDaughter (Member # 9668) on :
What? Nobody said The Notebook?
Yes, I cried in that one.
And...
Where the Red Fern Grows
Click-I know, supposed to be a funny movie. But keep in mind I'd just had a baby at the time and was crying about everything.
Charlotte's Web-The cartoon version, when Charlotte dies.
I have to agree I've cried in more books than movies, really.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
The Green Mile, from When you find out Coffey is innocent, but still determined to die up through his actual death.
Black Hawk Down, when Sgts Shugart and Gordon are holding off a horde of armed and angry Somalis
Reutrn of the King, Pippin's Song
Treasure Planet, the "I hope I'm there to catch some of the light comin' off a ya' that day" speech
Serenity, for some reason, didn't, though I felt it was a very emotionally powerfully film... I was more with Mal-- "Hell... I'm a fan of all seven, but right now, I'm gonna go with Wrath."
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Battlefield Earth made me cry, because I know people who believe in scientology.
Posted by Samuel Bush (Member # 460) on :
Hey, I’m a guy. So I don’t cry at movies like “An Affair to Remember”, “Lake House” or the end of "Return of the King." Nor do I cry when I read books like “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo. I’m not Mister Sensitive Guy at all.
Ok, my mother tells me that I cried like a baby when the King died when we saw “The King and I” when it first hit the theaters back in the late fifties. But I don’t think that counts since I pretty much WAS a baby at age four or something.
But beyond that . . . Hey, I’m a guy. So I don’t cry at movies and stuff.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Well, there was that one time that I got all choked up at “Starship Troopers.” But those were tears of rage because I shelled out six bucks for that travesty pig of a movie.
Posted by Dubshack (Member # 10403) on :
For some reason the movie Armageddon makes me cry the most. I think its a combination of Ben Affleck's horrible acting, that scene between Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler at the end, and the fact that I have this insane surround sound system and always play the movie at full blast, and at the end of the movie people OUTSIDE the living room are an emotional bombshell.
I did cry a little during Serenity. And for Buffy, The Body and also the second season finale where she kills Angel.
Oh, and the series finale of Dawsons Creek when Jen makes the video tape to her daughter. I'm not ashamed to label those genuine tears. That was just well written drama.
And I'll throw in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Even though we know Spock gets brought back in III... That whole scene in the engine room at the end is just too much.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Didn't anyone else cry for The Little Match Girl?
That animated short was SO sad. What surprised me the most was that Disney kept the original ending.
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
Possibly a better question for me would be what movies have I NOT cried in, then hit Tzadik for looking over at me, smirking and faking huge emotional sobs.
300 wasn't one of them. The Notebook, however, was, due to the fact that both of our sobs really were huge and emotional. For about fifteen minutes after the movie ended. (I think I've mentioned before how I HATE Nicholas Sparks movies for being predictable and emotionally manipulative.)
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
It's curious how these threads turn political, but
quote:Maybe, maybe not. You perhaps forget that at that point in the movie, the leadership of the totalitarian regime had just been cut off. The army didn't fire on the revolters like they had so many times in history. And the great icons of the government were toppled. For all intents and purposes, the revolution was already over by that point.
The totalitarian government was cut off, but IIRC it wasn't replaced with anything? The fact that the soldiers didn't fire on citizens was encouraging though.
I don't know; I don't see the destruction of Parliament House as a good thing. Why not have someone get on the roof and wave a flag? Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Old Yeller
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
E.T.
It's a Wonderful Life - every time.
( CT!)
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Rent Pay it forward Life as a House The Green Mile The Bounty Last of the Mohicans
There are a couple of others that had the same effect as The Bounty and Last of the Mohicans, where I cry not for the individual loss suffered by the characters, but by the knowledge that an unspoiled world will be forever damaged by the inevitable coming of the white man. Oh, yeah: Dances with Wolves was one, but I still can't think of the other one.
I've never cried for It's a Wonderful Life.
And the movie that most surprised me by making me cry: Return of the Jedi. I definitely never saw that coming.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I've cried at some point during most of the movies people have mentioned, or at least gotten sniffly.
Jim-Me's list and POV strike me particularly, I admit.
V for Vendetta I cried when he let her out of the 'detention camp' but for an unusual reason, I think. That whole sequence pissed off a lot of people, but all I could think of was what a profoundly beautiful gift he'd given her, and what a difficult gift it must have been to give. [/wildly skewwed personal perspective]
The movie that made me cry the most was Dead Poet's Society. Not the suicide, which I thought was lame, but the very end.
Cried like a baby, in the theater. Walked out with my Beloved (we were dating then, not married or even engaged) crying with my face pressed into that hollow between his shoulder bone and pectoral muscle. Sat in the car and cried some more.
He later remarked that it was kind of neat to see my cry and not feel that it was somehow his fault.
Beaches made me sob, but only the one viewing-- I was 800 miles away from home for six months during government training, and feeling a bit fragile. I think that had more to do with my state of mind-- I'm usually quite annoyed by movies that are that deliberately manipulative (even though they usually get to me a little).
Schindler's List made me cry at the end, but it, like DPS, was more from inspiration than from sadness or sympathy.
Finally, I cried tears or relief when The English Patient was over, satisfied and happy that so many unpleasant people had perished, if annoyed that it took them so long.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
quote:Where the Red Fern Grows
They made a movie?!
Has anyone else seen My Life? Geez, I was smiling through a stream of tears for the entire movie.
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
quote:Hey, I’m a guy. So I don’t cry at movies and stuff.
Yeah, me too. But, last month I stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon, and cried. It was so beautiful!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I don't cry, but I get to the verge of tears and hold them back in a lot of movies. I can't really think of which ones, because it's a relatively common thing.
One that I do remember that I haven't seen mentioned here is The Prince of Tides. Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
quote:Originally posted by Olivet: Finally, I cried tears or relief when The English Patient was over, satisfied and happy that so many unpleasant people had perished, if annoyed that it took them so long.
Amen. The English Patient was one of my most excruciating movie experiences, ever.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
The scene where the little girl cries for her dad to stay home rather than go back to war. She screams, "Please daddy, I'll say anything, just don't go." The Patriot
When Rudy runs onto the field. Rudy Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
This past Friday I saw Bridge To Terabithia. I did not cry because I knew what was going to happen--but I was literally bumped out and despondent for the entire weekend.
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
Surprisingly, the one that gets me everytime is Raising Arizona. The ending, where H.I. is desribing his last dream, when you realize what he's describing, and then the banner that's strung across the top that says welcome home... crap, I'm crying now (not kidding).
[edit]The Last of the Mohicans does it. When whats-her-name jumps off the cliff...
Life is Beautiful, when Begnini marches to his death like a clown...
Shindler's List, the obvious scene, which pisses me off when I hear that it never happened, so I feel manipulated, but damn it to hell it's powerful.
Amistad, when the one (not)slave looks at the three masts on the ship as they're walking to the courthouse.
Sophie's Choice, obviously. Boring movie, but that one friggin scene...
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
I always bawl when I watch The Little Princess, the one Alfonso Curan directed in the mid 90s. Dad has amnesia and doesn't recognize his own daughter and she's screaming at him to remember her as the cops are dragging her away. And then he does and he comes running out intot he rain after her and she just clings to him and screams, "Don't ever leave me!"
It's one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The colors and the magic are wonderful. And the ending gets me every single time.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
I cry at lots of movies.
I tend not to cry at the "sad" parts. People can die all day and all night and I don't get emotional, so I don't think movies like "My Life" or "My Girl" would do it for me, though I haven't seen either.
I tend to cry when either:
1. Someone makes a great personal sacrifice for those around him ("Life is Beautiful" is probably in this category)
2. Somebody takes a stand (I don't cry when the guy shoots himself in "Dead Poets Society", but the last scene leaves me bawling, even if I just change the channel to that movie in the middle of that scene)
3. Somebody realizes a dream (Believe it or not, I usually cry during "Jurassic Park," during the scene where Dr. Grant first sees real dinosaurs)
4. Somebody not only endures real hardship, but downright thrives in real hardship (About the first six times I saw "Matilda" I cried nearly from starting credits to ending credits)
Yeah, yeah, I'm an idiot.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I cried all the way through Matilda, too.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
Schindler's list, the scene where the survivors place rocks on Schindler's grave. I bawled like a kid who had lost his favorite toy. Loudly. In the theatre. My girlfriend at the time actually had to shush me.
"The Elephant Man", which I saw on TV probably 20 years ago. Dunno why.
Bridge to Terabithia, I almost cried.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I am moved to the verge of tears by stories of old people who make their love last until the end.
I am moved to the verge of tears when people realize they have succeeded in being the people they wanted to be.
I am moved to the verge of tears by stories of parents who love their children.
"Sad things" rarely move me to the verge of tears.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by DevilDreamt: Grave of the Fireflies.
I tear up at the silliest things sometimes, but this movie pushed me way beyond tears. My husband and I both sat holding each other sobbing for a long time after the movie ended.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
quote:I am moved to the verge of tears by stories of parents who love their children.
Yes. Count me in on this one, too.
Cried my way through Lorenzo's Oil.
quote:I cried all the way through Matilda, too.
::notes 478th reason for adding Kat to his "Hatrack Friends" list::
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Added another movie to the list tonight.
Akeelah and the Bee
Posted my review on my blog. Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
Great movie, but it made you cry?
Who am I to talk? Look at the top of my list.
Posted by jaysedai6 (Member # 8856) on :
Since I am older than dirt The Yearling Bambi the first Body Snatchers, in black and white Shane
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
quote:Originally posted by stihl1: As far as tv goes, the series finale to Six Feet Under, when the youngest daughter is driving off to NY and you hear the music and see the montage of all the things to come for the family, and the future history of the family...
That reminds me sort of how I felt when I bought the Babylon 5 DVDs and watched the whole series in order and then the finale, Sleeping in the Light.
The whole episode was sorta hitting the emotions, but the end credits which show a split appearance between the first time we see each character and the last time we see each character really got me.
It really shows, even on each character's face, how far each one has gone and what momentous events they have struggled through. Really moving stuff.
Posted by Sean Monahan (Member # 9334) on :
The Futurama episode entitled Jurrasic Bark.
I don't know how anyone who has ever had a pet that they loved that has died could watch that and not cry.
And it was all the worse for being so unexpected.
Posted by DevilDreamt (Member # 10242) on :
OMG
Futurama has made me cry twice. Jurrasic Bark is one episode, and one of the Valentine's Day episodes is the other (it's the one with the candy hearts).
my friends make fun of me over Jurrasic Bark, but I simply call them heartless, because they clearly are.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Here's the xkcd comic about this very subject. Be sure to check out the alt text. And yes, I cry at both of them.
Posted by jaysedai6 (Member # 8856) on :
Another movie I cried over was King Solomens Mine with Richard Chamberlin and Sharon Stone. It was so impossibly bad.So miscasted, that I cheered for the evil witch doctor.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
The Passion of the Christ, at the very end. My family had taken me to see it, and I finally admitted to myself that I no longer believed, hadn't believed for several years, really.
And A Scanner Darkly. Not at the story, but at the list of names at the end.
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
Charly got me as someone said earlier. During This movie I cried in the most.
The movie that I was suprised to cry in was Star Wars episode 3: Return of the Sith. When Amidala dies. I knew it was coming but it Hit me hard. I was with friends so I didn't cry for that long. But it still came as a shock to me.
Posted by foundling (Member # 6348) on :
I tend to fight tears as hard as I can during most movies. I HATE feeling emotionally manipulated, and I hate knowing I'm crying over a fictional loss.
However, documentaries get me every time.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill had me bawling like a baby. Beautiful documentary, though.
My boyfriend and I recently sat through a documentary on rehabilitation centers for chimps and we both cried from start to finish. Pretty much any animal documentary that involves a dry, academic voice detailing scenes of horrific violence and amazing beauty will have me crying unabashedly. "Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies" made me cry, although I wanted to strangle the stupid woman narrating it.
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
Looks like they got to you, Danzig. A shame. But you know the story of the prodigal son.
Posted by Humean316 (Member # 8175) on :
quote: V For Vendetta... Don't ask me why, but after watching it, at the very end, when you see all those who were lost standing and watching the final act, it really gets to me. Maybe thats why it is my favorite movie.
I cried at V for Vendetta too, but I cried when Valerie read her letter. Just the idea of what she went through, her love, and her final words are simply brilliant. I cried at 300 too, I cried at King Kong (I rooted for the monkey--yeesh, well done Peter Jackson), The Green Mile, but the movie that always gets me is...I kid you not...
Major League. Seriously, when Bob Ueker says "And the Indians win it...", the celebration, and everyone celebrating. It's just wonderful to see a good movie with an ending that rocks, is happy, and not "real".
For tv, I cried at My Screw Up on Scrubs, The West Wing crew remembering Leo (because it was so real, he actually died), for Buffy in The Gift and her sacrifice, but the episode that always gets me...
Ed, Happily Ever After. Those final five minutes are awesome and has the best quote I have ever heard: "I've always believed that life is divided into two parts: what is and what should be. And that, with a lot of effort, some hard work, and maybe a little luck, there are moments in your life when the two parts touch. When what is and what should be are the same. I guess I can't help but think that standing here next to Carol, next to my wife, and in front of all of you friends and family, all of us here inside this crazy, beautiful, dumpy old bowling alley which I love, I can't help but think that this is one of those times. And I thank you."
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I just saw Grave of the Fireflies and I thought it was good but I expected more from it. It was really sad and I cried but because of all the hype I'd heard about it, I was really hoping for one of those movies that hits you from the very beginning but that was not the case. In other words, I felt like it lagged a little...
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Originally posted by DaisyMae: ... the LDS fiction movie "Charly" as topping the cry-o-meter for me...
Was this the 1968 movie "Charly," based on Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes? What's the LDS relationship? *interested
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Edited to correct: Ah, an unrelated 2002 movie of the same name with an LDS character. Never mind. Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Added Pursuit of Happyness to the list.
I need to go rent some Jackie Chan or something.
Posted by DevilDreamt (Member # 10242) on :
quote:Originally posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion: I just saw Grave of the Fireflies and I thought it was good but I expected more from it. It was really sad and I cried but because of all the hype I'd heard about it, I was really hoping for one of those movies that hits you from the very beginning but that was not the case. In other words, I felt like it lagged a little...
Well, it is a slow movie. I didn't cry until the very end of it the first time I watched it. I tried to watch it a second time a few weeks later, and cried throughout the whole thing. I don't even try to watch it anymore.
It's a bit worse when you know the story is based on real life, and the original story was written as an apology to the main character's little sister.
Both of my parents worked, and I had to take care of my little sister a lot growing up, especially after my parents got divorced, and this movie hits me hard. She really looked up to me and I had no idea. She feels like I'm the one who raised her, and I can't say I did a competent job, since I was pretty young myself and had no idea what sort of responsibility I had.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
The Elephant Man, every time.
I can't even watch it anymore because the ending tears me apart.
I have yet to cry in another movie.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Mississippi Burning was an incredibly moving film.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
"The Elephant Man, every time.
I can't even watch it anymore because the ending tears me apart.
I have yet to cry in another movie."
Oh, my God. I seriously thought I was the only one.
For me I think it's the fact that it was a true story.
Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
Cheyenne Autumn, every time
The Wrath of Kahn, every time
Brother Bear when Kenai tells Koda how his mother died
Spirit Wild Stallion of the Cimarron when the Indian Kid and Spirit jump the gorge I either cry or cheer and yell epithets at the cavalry guy
Contact when Ellie sees the her "dad", because deep down I wish I could see my dad, who died when I was six, one last time.
Two brothers when the tigers are mistreated, and then when they find each other.
Return of the King during Pippins song
T.V.: Beauty and the Beast in the episode when the plague comes to the secret world
Little House on the Prairie in the episode about the kids getting lost in a blizzard
Judging Amy when Maxine's fiance dies
Star Trek TNG when Tasha dies
Books regularly make me cry
I'm a regular wuss!
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
If we're adding TV to the mix, I bawl every single time I watch SG-1's "Meridian."
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by steven: "The Elephant Man, every time.
I can't even watch it anymore because the ending tears me apart.
I have yet to cry in another movie."
Oh, my God. I seriously thought I was the only one.
For me I think it's the fact that it was a true story.
Its a true story, but its been embellished somewhat in the movie version.
Spoilers*
Ending Details! He did die from sleeping on his side, and its quite possible he did so intentionally.
/spoilers
I am glad Mel Brooks produced it but tried to play down his part so that people would take the movie seriously.
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
Some more sad scenes I just remembered:
In Casablanca when everybody starts singing La Marseillaise over the German national anthem.
In Mean Creek when they go to the dead boy's parents to tell what has happened.
The final episode of the anime series Fruits Basket (the beginning of it, not the silly stuff with Akito).
Also some of the Ishbal flashbacks in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, even though all of that stuff was handled much better (and sadder) in the manga version.
Posted by Snowman (Member # 10426) on :
It's a Wonderful Life. I was so happy at the end that my eyes were gushing a storm.
I probably would have in Reign Over Me if it weren't for my friends surrounding me.
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
So many of the previously mentioned ones, of course.
I HATE it when sad movies make me cry. I do not like tearjerkers like My Girl and Love Story and the Nicholas Sparks oevre. Steel Magnolias is an exception to this because there's so much more to the story.
And I'm with docmagik about "taking a stand." Throw in loyalty, and it'll get me every time. That's why the part that makes me cry in Titanic is when Ida and Isadore Strauss are together in their bed and the water is rising. Almost anything Sam ever does or says in LotR makes me cry. The middle of Fellowship, when he says he'll go to Mordor...the end, when he follows Frodo into the river even though he can't swim...and on and on.
*Most* of RotK makes me cry. I spent most of the last 45 minutes or so not just with a few tears running down my face, but really crying. I love when Eowyn takes a stand, the hopeless last stand and Mordor when Merry and Pippin run out, the "end of all things" line from Frodo, and on and on.
The most recent movie I cried at was Freedom Writers.
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