Movies that made you cry - Page 4

Unfortunately, I was only able to see it on video, but that scene is the closest I've come to losing it in a long time.

Last time I actually lost it was the end of In America. My grandmother was near death at the time, and the movie uncorked a lot of emotion.

I watched both the Iron Giant and Grave of the Fireflies last night...Fuck that. Never again.

In one night? That's a little punishing.

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance

Watching the parents reactions as Geum-ja shows them the videotapes fucking destroyed me.

Agreed on Sympathy For Lady Vengeance. Same scene, same reaction.

Forrest Gump
Schindlers List
I Am Sam
...ing
Braveheart

There are many more that I can't remember right now.

You guys are fags.

I think you meant to post that in the "Movies that made you want to pound a dude in the ass" thread.

Oh I'm only joking.

For me, it's BRAVEHEART ("Freedom!") and ROTK ("You bow to no one"). Not much of a crier, I'm afraid.

I was too.

Although there totally should be a "Movies that made you want to pound a dude in the ass" thread.

At the very least it would be a thread where people could discuss TOP GUN.

And THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

162 posts and not one person said The Prequels.

I think I'm gonna cry.

Most recently, The Host got me to sniffles when (SPOILER) the grandad got smashed into the walkway. I re-watched The Prestige again this weekend (still loving it) (AGAIN, INVISO-SPOILERS) and when Christian Bale is saying to his twin, disguised as Fallon "I'm sorry about a lot of things. I'm sorry about Sarah. You can live a complete life now", or words to that effect... wow.Heart-strings = plucked. Bale is extraordinary when he wants to be.

I always get emotional whenever I see men cry. I dunno, but it's a powerful fucking image. There was this book with photos of famous male actors crying, right? I think Mickey Rourke mentioned being in it (or Michael Madsen, don't remember which of both).

That being said, I get misty-eyed everytime there's a scene like that, be it Scott Summers tearing up at the climax of X2 (notice how I sidestepped using "Cyclops" so as to not seem THAT geeky?) to Jackman in The Fountain.

I remember a weird one: for those of you who saw Wrong Turn (all three of you), the scene where Jeremy Sisto's girlfriend breaks down after his death and starts repeating "I want him baaaack" got to me. I dunno, it reminded me of that primal desperation that one must feel when a loved one dies unexpectedly.

Finally: "Mierzwiak! Please let me keep this memory, just this one."

That one line makes me go into a three-day depression.

I watched Rocky Balboa again the other night. I was glad my wife was out, because I would have embarrassed myself. It does the same thing to me the first film does. And none of the others.

First film I ever cried in when taken to it at the cinemas as a boy and just about the only time I can remember my father and I both crying at the same time. Still gets me hard to this day.

Oh thank Christ I thought I was the only one, never stops getting me - I don't know whether its a return to happiest childhood memories thing, or the promises I made to myself and my dreams that were never fullfilled, but I still get really emotional in those parts of the movie to this day.

I go a big blubbery one in quite a few films, I guess they're my emotional release in many ways as it's incredibly rare that I'll cry out in the "real world" so to speak.

Some others that get me every time:

LOTR - the last thirty minutes of the first two installments and almost the entirity of ROTK

Toy Story 1&2, Monsters Inc - Pixars tear my heart out moments that many in this thread have also mentioned.

Iron Giant - 'Superman' - oh god yeah, without fail

Lion King - I simply have been too afraid to watch this film since losing my dad eleven years ago for obvious reasons - Im tearing up at work just thinking about Mufasas death and his face in the clouds.

Munich - this one left a mark on me with the final scene and pan leaving me weeping on my way out of the cinema.

In The Name of the Father - the lit paper out the windows of the jail after "they killed your father Gerry", and the final aquittal get me really bad.

Return of the Jedi - "father pleease!" followed by the final redemption of Vader get me really choked up.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - the final scene in the hallway gets me

I was casually watching Harry and the Hendersons on cable the other day and was stunned by how blubbery I went in parts, the end where Lithgows yelling at Harry trying to make him head into the woods and even hits him, then turns around with tears in his eyes and just says quietly "Goodbye my friend" had me nearly having to change channels - that didn't get me anywhere near that much when I was a kid in the cinema.

There are a heap more but those are the ones at the front of my mind right now.

Do you cry before or after?

During.

I can only think of a few movies that make me cry, but a few that always do are:
Rudy
The Family Man
Legends of the Fall

Charlotte's Web - I saw the live action film last weekend on DVD and I wasn't expecting too much because of all the celebrity animal voices and I was worried about Dakota Fanning as Fern, but I found myself crying like a baby all through the film. I think it took me straight back to reading the book as a child.

When Wilbur said that about Charlotte, it slayed me.

I get misty at a lot of movies, mostly when something is beatiful or inspirational, but I'm a sucker for some sad shit too. Anyway heres a list(trying to add some new ones):

Glory Road-All the bullshit these guys put up with it's great to see 'em win

V for Vendetta-a few parts were sad but mostly just inspiring

300-honestly just because I'm in awe of the sheer badassery

Last Samurai-"Tell me how he died." "I will tell you...how he lived."

Hellboy-last line"What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them."

Freakin United 93

farenheit 911-The sounds of an Iraqi woman weeping and cursing.

The RainmakerMakes the rain

I Heart HuckabeesThat movie makes me feel oddly transcendant

Memphis BelleThe 1990 version i thought was great and i was really rooting for the characters

Good self indulgent topic.

1. Braveheart - For obvious reason of gall, nobility, and the quest of personal and national freedom.

2. Lonesome Dove - Coming out of Montana, raised on a ranch, bowboying for years till I went back to school and then NASA then FX and movies, this movie always hits me hard, even now. Robert Duvall is still one of the greatest actors of our time.

3. Titanic- Amazing Grace and all those people, so vividly seared into the brain...

4. Notebook- Mostly, because I lost my wife when she was 29 and I was 44, from epilepsy and it was a two year oddyssy into darkness, and another 2 year time of insane living to heal. Notebook, hits me hard and still does....Don't watch it much either because of that... Also, it was 10 years from the time of losing another maiden dear to me, and for which I also loved very much and had planned to marry. She rode a Space Ship, (STS-51-L), Challenger

http://www.behold-the-rage.com/resnik.html

5. Saving Private Ryan - For obvious reasons

6. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman's narration at times at the end, and their friendship.

7. The Green Mile

8. The Passion of the Christ - Mel Gibson's trieste to Jesus Christ.....

Probably some others, but those glare back in emotion and remain solidly in places of the heart.........with tears remembered.

RAMS

The movie that makes me cry the most is ROTK. Especially when Gandalf describes to Pippin what happens when you die. McKellan's voice in that scene and Boyd's response just get to me every time. Another kind of tears come up during Theoden's speech before the charge of the Rohirrim in ROTK.

In America got to me pretty good too, but the part with the videotapes in Sympathy For Lady Vengeance just destroys me. I get so upset I can't even cry during that scene. Going further back I have to add the end of To Kill A Mockingbird. Peck in that scene is flawless.

I know some of the others are great flicks, but this one....I don't know...I think there's something about it that makes me feel that when I let myself go with it...go wtih the moment...it ends up making me a better person for the experience. I know movies are there to manipulate emotions, or to bolster the story and characters with our acceptance of them. But as long as I live, I think that this movie, and perhaps "Secondhand Lions", were there to bolster who I am....and who I want to become.

Amelie where she's waiting for Nino to enter, she hears something, looks around only to see that it's her cat, the look on her face just gets to me.

About Schmidt. Admittedly I haven't seen the movie in a few years, I do remember the scene where Nicholson is sitting ontop of the car explaining and reasoning his life to God. It just really got to me.

*sniff*

Dammit, you're right about that one. It didn't start getting to me until the fifth or sixth time I watched the movie though.

While it's not a movie, for whatever reason I started getting tearing up during the Series two episode of "School Reunion" of Doctor Who. This ep featured the return of one of The Doctor's old companions and that moving toaster K-9.

For whatever reason (and especially because I've never seen the episodes featuring Sarah Jane Smith) I just started tearing up when they featured K-9 and especially at the end where Sarah and The Doctor say their goodbyes and a rebuilt K-9 is there waiting for her.

I have no idea why but I just felt really moved by that.

Should American History X go in here AND in the "ass-pounding" thread?

The Grapes of Wrath. Not so much for the famous "I'll be there" speech. The part that gets me crying everytime is when the Joad family is out at the local barn dance, and Tom has already decided to leave the next day. He's waltzing with his mother to "Red River Valley", and it's probably one of the last moments they'll ever see each other. As they waltz together, he's trying to make her smile, so he begins to sing the song to her, "Come and sit by my side, if you love me, do not hasten to bid me adieu. Just remember the Red River Valley, and the one who has loved you so true." And she just has this sad, heartbroken look on her face - she's trying to smile up at him, but she knows she won't ever see him again after that night.

Jane Darwell was great as Ma Joad in that film. "How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?" Niagara Falls, Frankie Angel.

A perfect World.-"BUUUTTCCHH!"

Lots, but most recently Bridge to Terabithia. I may never have taken the time to watch it if not for my wife and it was far from well-written, but I'll be damned if I didn't cry for like the last 30 minutes.

You know...I teared up during that section of the movie, too. But I knew it was a setup, and that annoys me. Yes, I know movies are there to manipulate emotions. I buy that. And if it's done well, it doesn't take you out of the flick but seems like a simple and correct outgrowth of the story. But you take the end of that movie....or the VERY end of "Big" with the kid in Tom Hanks' clothes on a golden afternoon turnin sadly to wave goodbye...and all of a sudden I'm jarred out of the story (what there was) that I'd been watching and being given the "OKAY...BIG EMOTIONAL MOMENT HERE!" sign.

And that strikes me as not only being unfair but the sign of a less than adequate craftsman. "Bridge", for its faults, wasn't terrible. It wasn't much of anything. But that last bit just got under my skin for the wrong reasons.

I don't care if the plot followed the book or not, you can set things up in a way that doesn't equate to a sledgehammer in the forehead to get your point across.

Oh god yes, every time without fail. Theoden had long been almost my favourite character in the books and Bernard Hill captured him so beautifully, his tragedy, his sense of guilt and lack of worthiness as King. That final speech on the Pelennor Fields and the screaming of "Death!" always moved me deeply in the book so to see that all culminate in the film, his characters final redemption coupled with the sight of thousands of Rohirrim screaming and riding in a suicidal charge is just about the most moving moment in a film saga amd touches me emotionally like no other.

It is an absolutely sublime moment in cinema as far as Im concerned and leaves me almost sobbing.

The scene where he gets the letter from the child he sponsored just devastated me.

And while ROTK is definitely a tear-fest, what oddly hit me hardest was the scene after "You bow to no one", as the scene pans up and turns into the map and the camera follows the path of the Fellowship in reverse back to the Shire. Just seeing the names "Rohan" and "Lothlorien" and "Moria" conjured up images from the first two films, and it hit me that this was it. It was over, and the enormity of what I'd seen caved in on me and I was a complete wreck from that point on.

Speaking of Doctor Who, the episode where the find the one Dalek in the underground alien repository just kills me. They really managed to add some depth to what had been a pretty one-dimensional race.

The Champ with Ricky Schroder. He was 8 at the time, but ripped my heart out with his plea for his dead dad, Jon Voight, to get up. The rest of the movie is as emotionally manipulative as any Lifetime Movie of the week, but the kid is soo good.

What Dreams May Come- When the mother is telling her daughter that the family dog needs to be put down. Anything to do with pets dying, killed etc. gets to me.

Of Mice and Men- the 1930's version and the 90's.

E.T., Star Trek II and Lonesome Dove get me everytime too.

Bob Jyono in Deliver Us From Evil. Ultimate anguish from such a stoic man made me ball.

Bump: taking over that other thread, cuz this came first!

The scene in The Fountain when Ellen Burstyn comes rushing in and tells Hugh Jackman that the treatment works and not ten seconds later, Izzie dies. Jackman's reaction, tossing the guy up against the window just gets me and then I'm a sobbing mess for the remainder of the film.

Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Jerry Maguire (fuck y'all that movie hits me hard)
Field of Dreams
Hitch ( I actually get a little misty as Kevin James says "I've waited my whole life to be this miserable")
25th Hour

I was going to start a thread about all this crying during movies nonsense when I vaguely remembered this thread existed. And low and behold, not only does the thread exist, I've posted several examples (that I have no recollection of) where I cried during movies (Brick? Really, 2007 Patrick, you cried during Brick?).

Odd.

Yeah, considering Burton's output since then, I feel real fuckin' dumb for crying at Big Fish.

That movie makes me cry in spite of Burton.

Lemme paste the exchange from Kick-Ass:

Diner Fight Guy 1: The fuck is wrong with you, man? You'd rather die for some piece of shit that you don't even fucking know?
Dave Lizewski: The three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!

In a movie filled with nudges and winks and lol ultraviolence and cock jokes, this little nugget of Silver Age optimism really got to me. Beneath it all, Dave wants to do good. It's kinda like a mini Spider-Man 2 train scene to me.

That was probably my favorite moment of Kick-Ass. It was too bad Dave didn't really follow through on that once he got famous.

Toy Story 3 has been added to my list. Furnace. I'll leave it at that.

Here's a weird one: the final shot of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

It's not saddening. It's more like one of those images/moments that are just transcendently right and beautiful. So I get choked up.

Yes, I'm serious.



More conventionally, there's the extreme pathos near the end of Dead Ringers:

"How about some cake?"
"I could go for that."
"And some orange pop."
"Some ice cream."
"We haven't got any ice cream, Elly. Mummy forgot to buy it."
"I want...some ice cream!"

Jesus, that's depressing.

Papillon. This is, hands down, the film that I think best captures what a deep friendship between two men is like. Hoffman's line that "blame is for God and small children" still gets to me.

Wild Strawberries. I never thought that a Bergman film could be an upper of a movie, but this pulls that off while never shying away from his nihilism, which I think is the sign of a great work. The last scene just tugs at the heart.

Diary of a Country PriestThis film kind of perfectly captures what Christians mean when we talk of a "blessed end."

AI. Teddy's arc made me cry. That's the weirdest film-related thing I've admitted here.

Pretty much any drama and most any other movie that isn't a straight-up goofy ass comedy.

The one I really remember was Moulin Rouge in the theater. I had just broken up with who I thought was the love of my life and went to see it. I'm pretty sure I've never cried that much or that hard in a public setting.

This is going to make exactly zero sense out of context, but the bridge scene in The Mothman Prophecies, where the camera pans up and you just see all of those bodies in the river. Its a beautiful and heart wrenching moment in an okay movie, that is immediately ruined by a shitty CGI transition.

Yeah, I know it's weird, but whatever.