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post #101 of 130
12/28/10 at 6:02pm
Big Fish has its moments. Just don't let it get to you *too* much.

From Spalding Gray's Wikipedia:

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On January 10, 2004, Gray, suffering from increasingly deep episodes of clinical depression in part as a result of his injuries, was declared missing. The night before his disappearance he had seen Tim Burton's film Big Fish, which ends with the line "A man tells a story over and over so many times he becomes the story. In that way, he is immortal". Gray's widow, Kathie Russo, has said “You know, Spalding cried after he saw that movie. I just think it gave him permission. I think it gave him permission to die.”[6]
Now I can't watch the movie without thinking of poor Spalding.
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post #102 of 130
12/28/10 at 6:03pm
Well, this is probably a discussion for another thread, but I feel the theatrical introduces us to the Shire, while the EE sort of beats us over the head with it.
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post #103 of 130
12/28/10 at 6:10pm
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So many have been mentioned already, but one not yet mentioned is the ending to Big Fish. Sure, I'm an easy mark for daddy issues to hit emotionally, but this is so well-done and earns its sentimentality at the end. As the son tells his father how he really dies, in turn accepting and loving his father for who he is, it's beautiful.
I forgot about this. It was a tough watch for me. Not only did I have a strained relationship with my Dad, but he liked to embellish the hell out of stories and had the exact same Southern accent that Albert Finney uses. The exact scene you mention ripped me to shreds.

After it was over, I just kept thinking... Tim Burton directed this!?!?!? I want that Tim Burton back. I prefer it to the Crunking Mad Hatter Tim Burton.

UP and Shawshank will probably always have my number. Anybody mention Sicko yet? No matter where you fall on the issues, that movie's got some powerful stories in it.
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post #104 of 130
12/28/10 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by Bucho View Post
Backdraft - "Look at him ... that's my brother God damn it."
Oh, yeah. Gets me every time, too.

Weirdly, THE FOUNTAIN's end does not produce waterworks in me every time. I've now seen the film five times, I think - twice in the theater, and three times at home. First time I saw it, yes...and maybe the first home viewing. But I have to be in the right place to watch it at all, let alone for it to move me to tears. It's a favorite, without doubt, but for whatever reason, it doesn't always produce the same effect on me.
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post #105 of 130
12/28/10 at 6:30pm
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I have not seen any of those other movies you mention ( I intended to see LTC as part of the CHUD FOTMC but neglected to), but I will have to check them out. As far as Crucible goes, I think you're right. People dedicating their life to a principal can be very moving. While the end singing doesn't really do much for me (I was first exposed to that sequence in the context of trying to write a thesis on whether or not it was true to the spirit of the play), when Proctor tears up his confession with that great sigh of relief, and then, suddenly heroic, shouts to Goody Proctor "Show them a stony heart and sink them with it!"? It just kills me. I tried to show them a stony heart, but DDL's acting was too much for me!

Anyway, I have been bowled over with the awesome response to this thread. So many powerful scenes have been mentioned, and I am interested to hear that many scenes I too was effected by also had a great impact on other Chewers

I could begin to list off a bunch of scenes, and I will do that tomorrow, but right now I am physically wrecked and exhausted from no sleep

In the mean time, I figured that I'd just mention that I've now rewatched all of CARNIVALE SEASON ONE and I cried *twice* during the pilot! Once when Ben heals Jane Adams, and then at the end when he heals the little polio girl. Something about Nick Stahl healing people with magic powers just emotionally devastates me
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post #106 of 130
12/28/10 at 9:40pm
Spoilers for The Cove (shame on you if you haven't seen it):

I balled like a wreck at the end of The Cove, when O'Barry walks into the Whaling Commission Conference with the TV around his neck. It was such a surprise and an example of one man's voice standing up to the mockery that was that conference. It was a joyful moment, buillding inside of me throughout that film and especially after the horror of the secret footage of the cove. "See! See, you mutherfuckers!!!" Still gives me chills.
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post #107 of 130
12/30/10 at 3:57pm
Well, just . . . Well, dammit.

I thought I was fine. I thought I was going to make it. And then I hit the 2:30 mark.
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post #108 of 130
12/30/10 at 4:32pm
Oddly enough, the flashback involving Racer X at the end of Speed Racer gets me every single time.
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post #109 of 130
12/30/10 at 7:44pm
Pretty much any scene from In The Name Of The Father that includes or even references Pete Postlethwaite's character.
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post #110 of 130
12/30/10 at 8:08pm
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Pretty much any scene from In The Name Of The Father that includes or even references Pete Postlethwaite's character.
Yes.

Big Fish also does me in.

The final moments of The Wizard of Oz put a lump in my throat no matter how many times I've seen it.

The final sequence in Last of the Mohicans - the theatrical version with no dialogue - has me riveted and choked up every viewing.

Ennis's "I swear" at the end of Brokeback Mountain - though I should've expected it since it's a Larry McMurtry trademark, it hit me in the gut with a force that undid me. I still associate that movie with a headache from how much I cried the first time.

Speaking of which, I can't even watch Lonesome Dove after Deets is killed.

Tony Leung's face breaking in such loneliness and regret near the end of Happy Together. Damn.

And because I wouldn't be me without mentioning Ewan, Norman and Beatrix's sweet courtship and its very sad end in Miss Potter are handled so tenderly, so innocently, that I am wrecked afterward. I am similarly wrecked when Curt leaves the bar at the end of Velvet Goldmine. He and Arthur exchange those knowing looks of remembrance and longing and I am CRUSHED. Go after him!!!

Oddly, both UP and Shawshank leave me totally cold. Hm.
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post #111 of 130
12/30/10 at 8:21pm
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And because I wouldn't be me without mentioning Ewan, Norman and Beatrix's sweet courtship and its very sad end in Miss Potter are handled so tenderly, so innocently, that I am wrecked afterward.
I can't even think about 'Let Me Teach You How to Dance' without tearing up.
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post #112 of 130
12/30/10 at 9:08pm
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I can't even think about 'Let Me Teach You How to Dance' without tearing up.
Thank you. I'm not gonna lie, the first time I saw the movie I was too infatuated with Ewan's pornstache to notice much else, but the second time I was a blubbering mess. That quick, super-excited / relieved and heart-wrenching smile that breaks over his face when he realizes she's accepted him and I'm a goner.
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post #113 of 130
12/30/10 at 9:49pm
About Schmidt - The final scene when Nicholson receives a thank you letter from the African child he'd previously donated some $ to. He wells up & is overcome by the realization that his meager life actually touched someone else's. It kills me just thinking about it.

Surprised no one has mentioned the "Damn you, John Williams" blind-child-touching-the-adult-Peter-Pan's-face scene in Hook.

Speaking of Spielberg-ian face touching, the final scene in Empire Of The Sun when a haunted & exhausted Bale finally reunites with his parents. This destroyed me as a kid.
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post #114 of 130
12/31/10 at 4:12am
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Surprised no one has mentioned the "Damn you, John Williams" blind-child-touching-the-adult-Peter-Pan's-face scene in Hook.

Speaking of Spielberg-ian face touching, the final scene in Empire Of The Sun when a haunted & exhausted Bale finally reunites with his parents. This destroyed me as a kid.
If I am not mistaken, that Lost Boy was not blind. He was touching Pan's face to stretch out the skin and eliminate wrinkles, so be could see what Williams looked like when he was younger. He is not touching his face for tactile memory purposes

I rewatched HOOK earlier this year and totally lost it when he says "It is you, Peter!" too though lol

EDIT Still think Rufio deserves his own stand alone prequel film CHRONICLES OF PAN - RUFIO ORIGNS
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post #115 of 130
12/31/10 at 6:42am
I haven't seen it since I saw it in the cinema but I do remember in Signs the scene of Mel Gibson cradling his son and crying 'I HATE YOU' being very emotionally overpowering.
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post #116 of 130
1/1/11 at 10:33pm
Don't know if this one's been brought up. If so, my apologies. But Saving Private Ryan playing on TNT right now reminds me of another moment.

When Wade is bleeding to death and doped up on morphine calling for his mother. Everything about that, Ribisi's muttering voice and shaking, the other actor's reactions, how the camera captures it all, etc. brings tears.
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post #117 of 130
1/2/11 at 1:03am
The end of Silent Running, when the last robot is dutifully taking care of the last forest as it heads out of the solar system. Even Joan Baez caterwauling over it can't keep me from tearing up.
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post #118 of 130
1/3/11 at 4:44pm
Crying at the movies isn't something I've done very often, though it has happened more frequently since I got married. But the singular moment that always gets me is in Cast Away, when Tom Hanks is on what is left of his raft and awakens to find that Wilson (yes, the volleyball) is floating away. His absolute brokenness, desperation to save him, and his failure to do so just completely breaks my heart.
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post #119 of 130
1/3/11 at 5:07pm
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I haven't seen it since I saw it in the cinema but I do remember in Signs the scene of Mel Gibson cradling his son and crying 'I HATE YOU' being very emotionally overpowering.
I thought it was a very sharp, moving moment - but the stories he told his children about their births were more overpowering and poignant (as someone has mentioned previously in this thread).
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post #120 of 130
1/3/11 at 5:16pm
Watched My Boy Jack last night and spent the last half hour in tears. And tears verging on full sobs at that. Brutal.

And in honor of Mr. Postelthwaite, his speech at the end of Brassed Off is always such a good clincher. I adore that film.
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post #121 of 130
1/5/11 at 12:27am
Into the Wild: the hill climbing scene with McCandless and Franz.

Monsters Inc: "Kitty!"

FOTR: Boromir hopelessly defending Merry and Pippin, especially the EE version. It's such a mixture of exhilaration, futility and bravery that my brain can't handle it.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles: the very last scene.
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post #122 of 130
1/5/11 at 1:08am
Spider-Man 2 has two moments that can make me tear up, or at least depressed/exhilarated. Highlight for spoilers.

When Spider-Man stops the train and almost kills himself doing so, and then everyone helping him onto the train and the one guy saying, "He's just a kid...no older than my son." After all the crap that Spider-Man goes through, that was great. And at the end when the movie gets so quiet and Peter and Mary Jane are on a web and Peter tells her why he can never be with her. That was so bittersweet and painful, and so beautiful, especially when I was heartbroken and going through a lonely period when I first saw it many times in theaters.
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post #123 of 130
1/5/11 at 1:11am
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Spider-Man 2 has two moments that can make me tear up, or at least depressed/exhilarated. Highlight for spoilers.

When Spider-Man stops the train and almost kills himself doing so, and then everyone helping him onto the train and the one guy saying, "He's just a kid...no older than my son." After all the crap that Spider-Man goes through, that was great. And at the end when the movie gets so quiet and Peter and Mary Jane are on a web and Peter tells her why he can never be with her. That was so bittersweet and painful, and so beautiful, especially when I was heartbroken and going through a lonely period when I first saw it many times in theaters.
Absolutely. Another great moment is when they promise they won't tell anybody who he is; people who sneer at that moment and say "That would never happen!" can fuck right off. Sometimes it pays to be unrealistic.
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post #124 of 130
1/5/11 at 1:44am
I always liked the moment where he finally confesses to Aunt May about his role in Uncle Ben's death.
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post #125 of 130
1/5/11 at 1:46am
Aunt May desperately imploring Peter to accept her 20 dollars as a birthday gift is what gets me a bit choked up. It's just such a real thing for a loving maternal figure to do.
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post #126 of 130
1/5/11 at 1:58am
The end of the train sequence is great, but the part I love is when Ock shows back up and the passengers stand between him and Spidey. It's a moment that works wonderfully, and in such sharp contrast to how a nearly identical one in the first film completely doesn't, because a) the people are obviously terrified and b) the bad guy tosses them aside so casually.
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post #127 of 130
1/6/11 at 11:52am

Spider-Man 2 has a number of heart-tugging moments. But the kicker for me is at the end: "Isn't it about time somebody saved your life, Peter?"

 

And as bad as it's aged, the first movie had its moments too particularly the "I have a father. His name was Ben Parker" line. My audience actually applauded when he said that.

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post #128 of 130
1/6/11 at 1:23pm

Lots of stuff in here gets me.  I'll try not to repeat much, but I will also mention Up, but only becasue I watched it again recently, and in this particular instance I should have known better.  I've taken to watching stuff on a portable DVD player on my commute and I give myself time in the morning while I have coffee or whatever.  Not good to be sitting in a coffe shop by yourself only to start crying.  Dammit...  I need to choose wisely from now on.

 

Also, I've mentioned it before, but no movie completely destroyed me the way Elizabethtown did.  It was more a moment in time and a working out of personal issues, but that movie (love it or hate it) set me on a path to be able to release some stuff that needed releasing.  I made it out of the theater before it started, then in the lobby I veered off in another direction from the folks I was with and the waterworks began, followed by me balling in the streets of the village here in the city for an extended period.  Whoa...

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post #129 of 130
1/6/11 at 1:45pm
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And as bad as it's aged, the first movie had its moments too particularly the "I have a father. His name was Ben Parker" line. My audience actually applauded when he said that.



This thread made me put in Spider-man 1 again, and that moment got me too.  I forgot how effective it was.  I hadn't seen it for a long time.

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post #130 of 130
1/6/11 at 2:28pm

While we're on the subject (at least, in the superhero genre), the "Why do we fall?" callback in Batman Begins always gets me.

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