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Downfall had me in tears a number of times throughout the movie. Perhaps the saddest film I've ever seen.
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Movies that bring a tear to your eye?
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was beautiful. Yes indeed!
Also, The Messenger is pretty good (about Joan of Arc). I really had to cry, not just wipe a tear!
Also, The Messenger is pretty good (about Joan of Arc). I really had to cry, not just wipe a tear!
I hear the creator of the original Manga says he doesn't agree with the ending. So I'm not gonna have to expect it, thank God. Happy ending for Kenshin for me!Himuro said:
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The end of Rudy.
To see him finally get in a game and play hard and everyone in the crowd cheering "RUDY RUDY RUDY!" put a tear to my eye.
To see him finally get in a game and play hard and everyone in the crowd cheering "RUDY RUDY RUDY!" put a tear to my eye.
The end sequences to all of these films had me tearing up big time:
Schindler's List -
"This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!"
The Royal Tenenbaums -
"Royal had a heart attack at the age of sixty eight. Chas rode with him in the ambulance, and was the only witness to his father's death."
Big Fish -
"That was my father's final joke I guess. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him."
Schindler's List -
"This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!"
The Royal Tenenbaums -
"Royal had a heart attack at the age of sixty eight. Chas rode with him in the ambulance, and was the only witness to his father's death."
Big Fish -
"That was my father's final joke I guess. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him."
wow thats wierd, a minute after posting this thread, I picked up my local newspaper and there was a frontpage article on tearjeakers in the entertainment section
http://democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050620/LIVING/506200303/1032
freaky
this is what they said
Romances
Casablanca: The older you get, the harder it is to literally see the final moments. The earlier scene in Rick's apartment when Ilsa breaks down and confesses her love doesn't get any easier, either.
The Way We Were: Who hasn't felt they were Katie to someone's Hubbell? That final gesture Streisand reaching up to brush a lock of Redford's hair from his forehead still kills.
Out of Africa: Meryl Streep, as Isaak Dinesen, at her lover's graveside in Kenya. A book of AE Housman is opened. She begins: "The time you won your town the race ..."
The Bridges of Madison County: Reading her long-ago lover's final letter, Streep (again) uses only a few nods, a brief smile and then a fumble with eyeglasses to transform from a silver-haired, sensibly-dressed 70ish widow into a vibrant woman clearly still in the grip of a passion she could not keep.
Family Life
Terms of Endearment: Debra Winger saying goodbye to her sons is a nose-blower; but Shirley MacLaine's reportedly largely ad-libbed scene a few minutes later, when Winger finally goes, is simply a jaw-dropper.
Steel Magnolias: Sally Field raging in a tour-de-force meltdown after daughter Julia Roberts dies: "I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I'm so mad I don't know what to do!"
Philadelphia: Neil Young's haunting "Philadelphia" plays as the camera pans over friends and family after Tom Hanks' death from AIDS. It rests on a picture of him as a happy boy. Fade. Sit. Think.
Mr. Holland's Opus: A rare happy bawl as 25 years' worth of music students stream into the auditorium to play Richard Dreyfuss' symphony. He conducts with joy, realizing his life as "just" a teacher was not wasted.
Musicals
The Sound of Music: Camera pulls out. Family climbs over alps. Nuns sing. Like you don't squirt a few every time. Camelot: When Vanessa Redgrave's Guinevere says goodbye to Richard Harris' King Arthur, you want to fall on your own Excaliber.
West Side Story: From the time Chino plugs Tony to the moment Maria and the gangs are silently led away by the cops, this is just one big shoulder-shaker.
Fiddler on the Roof: You try putting your daughter on a train for Siberia, while picturing her as a little girl romping in the fields. Oy.
Epics
Reds: Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty's slow walk toward each other and embrace on the train platform is so raw you almost want to look away.
The Killing Fields: Dr. Haing S. Ngor and Sam Watterston re-create the real-life reunion between a Khmer Rouge escapee and reporter Sydney Schanberg as John Lennon's "Imagine" plays. Thank God we've learned our lesson about war since then.
Dances With Wolves: No Native American cry in this case, professing eternal friendship has ever been so heartbreaking.
Titanic: See, the thing is, she says she'll never let go, and then she does. So, either you cry because it's sad or because she's a faithless liar and he wasted his life on that.
Buddy films
Midnight Cowboy: Jon Voigt hugging his only friend, the dying Ratso Rizzo, as the bus rolls away gives the word "poignant" new meaning. E.T.: "I'll be riiiighhhtt ... heeeeere." Even now, Spielberg slays you with that one.
Dead Poets Society: By the time the last kid's on his desk, you're on your last Kleenex.
War films
Sophie's Choice: That anyone even saw the end of the film, following the staggering black-and-white scene explaining its title, is a miracle.
Schindler's List: The final scene, where black-and-white actors give way to that full-color shot of Schindler's Jews today walking over that hill, may be the most powerful moment of film ever.
Saving Private Ryan: Is there, in any film, any character so heart-rending as old Pvt. Ryan stumbling through the French graveyard 50 years later, searching for the marker of the man who saved his life?
Cartoons
(Note: Not going here. With rare exception, Walt Disney and his ilk believe no flick is worthy unless a parent or best pal kicks over in some awful way. This genre drains your serotonin faster than the end of Bonnie and Clyde. So let's move on.)
Guy Flicks
Pride of the Yankees: As Gary Cooper tells Yankee Stadium he considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth, you will have the wettest face on the face of the earth.
Brian's Song: Try this: Go up to any man older than 35 and say in a trembling voice: "I love Brian Piccolo. And tonight ... when you hit your knees ... please ask God to love him." It'll buckle him faster than Wide-Right on a wide-screen.
The Champ: Ex-boxer Jon Voigt raises Ricky Schroeder after Faye Dunaway leaves. Son adores Dad. Dad tries one more fight. It doesn't go well. Here, too, if you can actually see the end-credits, you are a mutant.
Rocky III: Hideous Grief Post-Boxing Match, Pt. II: As beloved trainer/father figure Mickey dies of a heart attack, Stallone sobs inconsolably, and you realize there was a time when Sly really could bring it.
Field of Dreams: Maybe, maybe, you get through Kevin Costner's stunning Oh-my-God-it's-my-father scene. But we know no one who can hold it together when, minutes later, Costner shyly asks his pop if he wants to have a catch. No one. Really, who would want to?
http://democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050620/LIVING/506200303/1032
freaky
this is what they said
Romances
Casablanca: The older you get, the harder it is to literally see the final moments. The earlier scene in Rick's apartment when Ilsa breaks down and confesses her love doesn't get any easier, either.
The Way We Were: Who hasn't felt they were Katie to someone's Hubbell? That final gesture Streisand reaching up to brush a lock of Redford's hair from his forehead still kills.
Out of Africa: Meryl Streep, as Isaak Dinesen, at her lover's graveside in Kenya. A book of AE Housman is opened. She begins: "The time you won your town the race ..."
The Bridges of Madison County: Reading her long-ago lover's final letter, Streep (again) uses only a few nods, a brief smile and then a fumble with eyeglasses to transform from a silver-haired, sensibly-dressed 70ish widow into a vibrant woman clearly still in the grip of a passion she could not keep.
Family Life
Terms of Endearment: Debra Winger saying goodbye to her sons is a nose-blower; but Shirley MacLaine's reportedly largely ad-libbed scene a few minutes later, when Winger finally goes, is simply a jaw-dropper.
Steel Magnolias: Sally Field raging in a tour-de-force meltdown after daughter Julia Roberts dies: "I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I'm so mad I don't know what to do!"
Philadelphia: Neil Young's haunting "Philadelphia" plays as the camera pans over friends and family after Tom Hanks' death from AIDS. It rests on a picture of him as a happy boy. Fade. Sit. Think.
Mr. Holland's Opus: A rare happy bawl as 25 years' worth of music students stream into the auditorium to play Richard Dreyfuss' symphony. He conducts with joy, realizing his life as "just" a teacher was not wasted.
Musicals
The Sound of Music: Camera pulls out. Family climbs over alps. Nuns sing. Like you don't squirt a few every time. Camelot: When Vanessa Redgrave's Guinevere says goodbye to Richard Harris' King Arthur, you want to fall on your own Excaliber.
West Side Story: From the time Chino plugs Tony to the moment Maria and the gangs are silently led away by the cops, this is just one big shoulder-shaker.
Fiddler on the Roof: You try putting your daughter on a train for Siberia, while picturing her as a little girl romping in the fields. Oy.
Epics
Reds: Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty's slow walk toward each other and embrace on the train platform is so raw you almost want to look away.
The Killing Fields: Dr. Haing S. Ngor and Sam Watterston re-create the real-life reunion between a Khmer Rouge escapee and reporter Sydney Schanberg as John Lennon's "Imagine" plays. Thank God we've learned our lesson about war since then.
Dances With Wolves: No Native American cry in this case, professing eternal friendship has ever been so heartbreaking.
Titanic: See, the thing is, she says she'll never let go, and then she does. So, either you cry because it's sad or because she's a faithless liar and he wasted his life on that.
Buddy films
Midnight Cowboy: Jon Voigt hugging his only friend, the dying Ratso Rizzo, as the bus rolls away gives the word "poignant" new meaning. E.T.: "I'll be riiiighhhtt ... heeeeere." Even now, Spielberg slays you with that one.
Dead Poets Society: By the time the last kid's on his desk, you're on your last Kleenex.
War films
Sophie's Choice: That anyone even saw the end of the film, following the staggering black-and-white scene explaining its title, is a miracle.
Schindler's List: The final scene, where black-and-white actors give way to that full-color shot of Schindler's Jews today walking over that hill, may be the most powerful moment of film ever.
Saving Private Ryan: Is there, in any film, any character so heart-rending as old Pvt. Ryan stumbling through the French graveyard 50 years later, searching for the marker of the man who saved his life?
Cartoons
(Note: Not going here. With rare exception, Walt Disney and his ilk believe no flick is worthy unless a parent or best pal kicks over in some awful way. This genre drains your serotonin faster than the end of Bonnie and Clyde. So let's move on.)
Guy Flicks
Pride of the Yankees: As Gary Cooper tells Yankee Stadium he considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth, you will have the wettest face on the face of the earth.
Brian's Song: Try this: Go up to any man older than 35 and say in a trembling voice: "I love Brian Piccolo. And tonight ... when you hit your knees ... please ask God to love him." It'll buckle him faster than Wide-Right on a wide-screen.
The Champ: Ex-boxer Jon Voigt raises Ricky Schroeder after Faye Dunaway leaves. Son adores Dad. Dad tries one more fight. It doesn't go well. Here, too, if you can actually see the end-credits, you are a mutant.
Rocky III: Hideous Grief Post-Boxing Match, Pt. II: As beloved trainer/father figure Mickey dies of a heart attack, Stallone sobs inconsolably, and you realize there was a time when Sly really could bring it.
Field of Dreams: Maybe, maybe, you get through Kevin Costner's stunning Oh-my-God-it's-my-father scene. But we know no one who can hold it together when, minutes later, Costner shyly asks his pop if he wants to have a catch. No one. Really, who would want to?
Glory: The final 40 minutes or so of the movie. The score was so perfect.
Big Fish: The final story about the father's death that his son tells him, until the credits.
Forrest Gump: The last 10 minutes or so of the movie.
Star Wars Episode III: The final shot on Tatooine, with the Force theme being played a final time as it builds into the Star Wars theme, with Owen, Beru and Luke facing the setting suns.
I was fine through most Disney flicks when I was younger except for Bambi of course. The death of Littlefoot's mom in Land Before Time got to me when I was little. The fact that Whispering Winds was playing really helped a lot. Beautiful music.
And it doesn't count, but Band of Brothers: We Stand Alone Together always gets to me when the real Richard Winters said that his grandson asked if he was a hero during the war and he responded, "No, I was not a hero, but I served with heroes."
Big Fish: The final story about the father's death that his son tells him, until the credits.
Forrest Gump: The last 10 minutes or so of the movie.
Star Wars Episode III: The final shot on Tatooine, with the Force theme being played a final time as it builds into the Star Wars theme, with Owen, Beru and Luke facing the setting suns.
I was fine through most Disney flicks when I was younger except for Bambi of course. The death of Littlefoot's mom in Land Before Time got to me when I was little. The fact that Whispering Winds was playing really helped a lot. Beautiful music.
And it doesn't count, but Band of Brothers: We Stand Alone Together always gets to me when the real Richard Winters said that his grandson asked if he was a hero during the war and he responded, "No, I was not a hero, but I served with heroes."
I freakin cry at everything. But the movie that ripped me apart the most was LotR:ROTK. The end where the hobbits all bow just beat me up.
Saving Private Ryan got me pretty emotional.
Any movie about a great sports team gets me. Prefontaine's story is pretty powerful/sad.
I like to cry at movies. It's good to feel anything sometimes.
Saving Private Ryan got me pretty emotional.
Any movie about a great sports team gets me. Prefontaine's story is pretty powerful/sad.
I like to cry at movies. It's good to feel anything sometimes.
Banjo Tango
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My Neighbor Totoro...
I feel like such a wuss.
I feel like such a wuss.
Error Macro
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There are a few, but the one that came into mind first was...
To Kill A Mockingbird
"Stand up. Your father is passing."
That gets me every time. Such a powerful moment.
To Kill A Mockingbird
"Stand up. Your father is passing."
That gets me every time. Such a powerful moment.
dammitmattt
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I got teary-eyed just reading this thread!
The big ones for me have already been mentioned:
Lion King
Saving Private Ryan
Big Fish
Field of Dreams
Braveheart
Gladiator
Recent films:
Hotel Rwanda
THAT scene in Crash - if that doesn't move you than you have no heart
Million Dollar Baby
TV:
Scrubs - many times throughout the series
Seinfeld - final clips show with Time of Your Life playing - how could you not?
Lost - Boone, are you kidding?
The shortest scenes that ever made me cry were a few of the intros to Band of Brothers. Absolutely devastating to see old men that shaken, even 50 years after the fact.
But nothing tops Schindler's List. Everytime I watch it, I have full-blow tears for the last 15 minutes of the movie. It makes me cry just thinking about it.
I am a big baby, no doubt about it
The big ones for me have already been mentioned:
Lion King
Saving Private Ryan
Big Fish
Field of Dreams
Braveheart
Gladiator
Recent films:
Hotel Rwanda
THAT scene in Crash - if that doesn't move you than you have no heart
Million Dollar Baby
TV:
Scrubs - many times throughout the series
Seinfeld - final clips show with Time of Your Life playing - how could you not?
Lost - Boone, are you kidding?
The shortest scenes that ever made me cry were a few of the intros to Band of Brothers. Absolutely devastating to see old men that shaken, even 50 years after the fact.
But nothing tops Schindler's List. Everytime I watch it, I have full-blow tears for the last 15 minutes of the movie. It makes me cry just thinking about it.
I am a big baby, no doubt about it
woodchuck said:
i did
mine are:
signs - when mel is trying to revive his son 1st and 2nd time
armageddon - when willis has flash backs before he blows the nuke
Finding Nemo - the begining when marlin picks up nemos egg, and the music starts, so sad
Big Daddy - when they take julian, and he say i wipe my own ass
Forrest Gump - when hes talking to Jennys grave
As a kid:
Land Before Time
All dogs go to heaven
Lion King
Now:
Iron Giant
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
ROTK
Katsumoto at the end of Last Samurai
Can't believe no one's mentioned the end of House of Sand and Fog,
you'd have to be a robot not to cry at the end there..
Land Before Time
All dogs go to heaven
Lion King
Now:
Iron Giant
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
ROTK
Katsumoto at the end of Last Samurai
Can't believe no one's mentioned the end of House of Sand and Fog,
you'd have to be a robot not to cry at the end there..
Late Stage Marxist
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American Beauty
Big Fish
The Deer Hunter
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Million Dollar Baby
Once Upon A Time In America
Big Fish
The Deer Hunter
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Million Dollar Baby
Once Upon A Time In America
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Fellowship of the Ring - Death of Boromir
Ash Housewares
The Mountain Jew
triste said:
atleast once I have, and gotta yuck it up later when
ultra magnus 'splodes
hmm, what else, plenty stuff but nothing jumps to mind, I am an avid movie watcher and I get involved with the story so it's not uncommon, I might have for Boromir's final scene it was great and I'm a big Bean fan
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