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08-25-1999, 05:30 PM
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In the 50s there was a movie titled Man of a Thousand Faces, the biography of Lon Chaney. I was about 8 and my dad took me to see it. The deathbed scene at the end was the coup de grace--I think I cried all the way home. (Oddly enough, I haven't seen the movie anywhere since then.)
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#2
08-25-1999, 05:36 PM
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Lots of movies have made me cry. Some have already been mentioned in other threads like Schindler's List and Field of Dreams.
However, there is but ONE television series that has elicted tears from my eyes on a regular basis and that was: Little House on the Prarie Damm that little half-pint, Mary, Ma, and Pa really get to me! ------------------ Contestant #3
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#3
08-25-1999, 05:40 PM
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The first movie that ever made me cry was Captains Courageous with Spencer Tracy. There's a part where Tracy's character is thrown overboard and injured and yelling up to the crew on deck in his language (I forget which one, it's been so long) so the boy who's become like a son to him won't understand. In English he tells the boy how much he loves him and everything's ok. Then in his language he tells the crew that the bottom half of his body is cut of by some rigging and he's going to die any minute. At the end, the boy throws a wreath off a cliff into the sea in his memory. Oh, man...no stopping the waterworks. I also cried at "Imagine -- John Lennon" even though I knew he was gonna die (haha) but the way they portrayed it was so poignant, a pair of tinted granny glasses falling in slow motion and shattering. Chilling.
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#5
08-25-1999, 06:03 PM
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I cried at the end of "The Elephant Man" (the David Lynch version), in my highschool sophomore English class. I can't think of a more embarrassing place for a guy to cry. I took shit for that for years. Very powerful movie, though. I remember way more about it than I do that stupid class.
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#6
08-25-1999, 06:43 PM
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Just saw the "Iron Giant" today. Warning: Spoiler. I cried when IG "died" while saving the town and I cried when it was apparent that he would come back to life.
I am a crier at movies..I spent the last hour of "Good Will Hunting" just sobbing. I cry at sad things and touching things. This is why I can't sit through "Dumbo" Luckily it's not one of my daughter's favorites. ------------------ Gail "Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you, my friend-- Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again...." -Steely Dan
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#7
08-25-1999, 06:52 PM
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The only movie that makes me cry (I'm a hard-hearted wench hehehe) is Truly, Madly, Deeply (i.e. a much better version of Ghost). I bawl every time I see it, probably because Juliet Stevenson spends 90% of the movie crying.
 ------------------ I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895)
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#8
08-25-1999, 06:56 PM
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definatly dumbo when momma gets locked up and dumbo can't see her...That gets me every time.
Also Puff the magic dragon...when puff leaves jackie and they start to play that song.. And lastly, in 'Best of the Best' Warning spoiler...when Tommy wants to kill Dae Han and he doesn't and then then Dae Han Shares his metal and says all that stuff about them being brothers...sorry i gotta go blow my nose!
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#9
08-25-1999, 07:04 PM
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A couple come to mind- I'm not usually a big movie crier, but in the last few years it's gotten bad..
Steel Magnolias (yikes- really bad crying, too) Born on the Fourth of July Philadelphia (during the final scene when they're at the house after the funeral showing the home movies..oh, my God..even my hard-hearted husband left the movie with bleary eyes) And- I didn't want to, believe me...the part in Titanic where he dies and she blows the whistle...damn, I am getting so soft in my old age... ------------------ An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
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#10
08-25-1999, 07:12 PM
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Dirty Devil:
I can't believe you brought that up. While I have cried at probably hundreds of movies, the only one I recall crying pretty much all the way through was "The Elephant Man". In fact, not only did I cry, and cry hard, all the way through, I cried for nearly an hour after it was over, all the way home. Like I said, I've cried at hundreds of movies. If you're supposed to cry, I cry. (Although certain movies leave me remarkably dry-eyed, such as "The English Patient, which I thought mostly sucked.) One of the early ones that I cried so hard I nearly screamed, and again cried all the way home and cried myself to sleep, was Franco Zefferelli's "Romeo and Juliet", which I saw when I was 11 years old. I barely comprehended most of the language, of course, but I certainly understood enough to be completely devastated by their suicides. I have now seen that movie around 40 times. I didn't completely stop crying until about the 20th time. Most ridiculous crying at a movie (Hey, I was 11 or 12) was "Son of Godzilla" - poor baby godzilla was crying and stuck in the snow at the end! ------------------ ************* He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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#11
08-25-1999, 07:15 PM
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Crying moments in movies.
I agree with Gail about the Iron Giant, tears welled up as I realized what was gonna happen. There was this episode of Happy Days were Fonzie was home alone for Christmas, and he made up some crazy story about where he was going and Richie went over and spied him eating tuna fish or something, then he invited him over. Cry moment. Its A Wonderful Life. Miracle On 34th Street. I guess the holiday movies just get me. Sixth Sense that end scene between the boy and his mom. The Sweet Hereafter when the lawyer is telling the story about saving his daughter from the spider bite. Philadelphia Pride of the Yankees when Lou Gherig (Gary Cooper) is walking into the stadium to give his retirement speech and the sick kid from earlier in the movie comes by to tell him he is feeling better. To Kill A Mockingbird when Scout sits on Boo Radley's lap. Thats all I can think of right now. Oh, then there is the scene in Batman Forever when George Clooney pulls out the Bat Credit Card. I wanted to cry, I really did. Or scream, or pillage, or burn or something.. Stupid, ruin Batman like that, and just when he recovered from the 60s. pat
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#12
08-25-1999, 07:21 PM
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To Pricciar: It's a Wonderful Life is a favorite of mine, although I break down when I read what Clarence wrote on the flyleaf of Tom Sawyer and although Potter was never nailed for stealing the $8000.
Another movie--a comedy documentary--always gets to me: The Golden Age of Comedy. As Laurel & Hardy walk off, in the same oversize trousers, the announcer says, "The clowns depart. We shall never see their kind again...this is the end of America."
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#13
08-25-1999, 07:38 PM
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OK: I'll fess up, even if, officially, us men just don't cry - period. I'll admit shedding a tear or two when I first saw 'Terms of Endearment'. Second time I saw it, I went to the cinema with a female friend; when THE moment came up, I just sat back and listened to the concert of noses honking all around. First time was in Ontario, second time was in The Netherlands.
Some things are just universal. 
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#14
08-25-1999, 08:59 PM
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I'm a pretty sensitive guy, and crying at movies is not a big deal to me. But one movie that makes me bawl is Deep Impact. I've seen it four times, and I cry buckets every time. It's pitiful.
Not to nitpick, but Pricciar made an error. George Clooney is in "Batman and Robin," not "Batman Forever." Val Kilmer plays Batman in BF. Adam ------------------ "Life is hard...but God is good"
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#15
08-25-1999, 09:05 PM
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Well I cry pretty easily, and I have cried at some really awful films.
My favorite movie that brings on the waterworks is Schindler's List. The end at Schindler's gravesite gets me everytime. ------------------ Carpe hoc!
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#16
08-25-1999, 09:10 PM
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Moosiegirl! I thought I was the only person on the planet who knew about "Truly Madly Deeply"! I bawled my way through that one too.
. "It's a Wonderful Life," "The Color Purple," and "Deep Impact" are movies I can hardly get into the VCR anymore without bursting into tears.
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#17
08-25-1999, 09:37 PM
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How about scenes that choke you up? I'm not one to cry at movies, and some of the tears at the movies described here seem to be caused by the sum of all the bits and pieces of the movie.
For some reason in Thelma & Louise I get all choked up when Sarandon (Louise) is talking to her boyfriend (Jimmy) on the phone from the motel. She can't explain why they can't meet and what kind of trouble she is in. That Glen Frey song is sneaking up in the background, and I just go to pieces...in my own way. Ripley is really pushing all the right buttons.
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#18
08-25-1999, 10:00 PM
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Second for Steel Magnolias. I've seen it about seventeen times, and I don't think I've made it through without crying. I still get teary-eyed at the end of When Harry Met Sally, too. But the all-time worst is And The Band Played On... I quite literally BAWL every time I see that movie, especially the nice gut-wrenching photo montage set to that one Elton John song at the end (what is that song called, anyway?). I love that movie...
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#20
08-25-1999, 10:30 PM
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I get bleary-eyed and choked up more often than I actually cry. Only two movies have made me cry, Steel Magnolias and Titanic.
Shakespeare in Love did something to me (or maybe it was just Joseph Fiennes...) ------------------ Veni, Vidi, Visa ... I came, I saw, I bought.
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#21
08-25-1999, 10:55 PM
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I cried when I saw the death scene in "The Champ" (the one with Ricky Schroeder...was that a TV movie? I was young then), at Dumbo,and Ghost.
Say, does anybody remember a Christmas program called "Nestor, the long eared Donkey"? It was about a donkey born with really long ears, the other donkeys make fun of him, and he gets chosen to ride Mary into Bethlehem so she can give birth to Jesus. I cried SO hard when I saw that! I haven't seen it aired since...I believe it aired in the late 70s, maybe early 80s. Anyone? ------------------ MaryAnn Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck!
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#22
08-25-1999, 10:59 PM
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Add me to the "Truly, Madly, Deeply" crowd. not so much crying, although I did get emotional, just really dug the film. Beats "Ghost" to hell and back.
Her reaction when she first sees him is so incredible, and so believable. And for some reason I just really empathized with her... what a (seeming) dream come true, to have the one you lost through death come back to you in touchable flesh... sigh...
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#24
08-26-1999, 09:10 AM
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The haven't played Nestor the Long eared donkey or The Little Drummer boy ( I think they are one in the same) since the Politically Correct Mafia said that the Arabs were offended because of a hand cutting off scene of a theif. Pardon me if I am wrong, but isn't that the punishment for stealing in Arabia and therabouts? It hasn't been on probably since mid 80's.
FTR - The flick that made me cry in the show was Somewhere In Time. Christopher Reeves giving up on life to go to heaven to be with Dr. Quinn Medicine Chick..it was too much for this 12 year old to bear.
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#25
08-26-1999, 09:17 AM
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Drain Bead, the Elton John tune you're looking for is called, appropriately enough, "The Last Song".
------------------ I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895)
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#26
08-26-1999, 09:46 AM
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Two classics, both from the 40s--Now Voyager and Brief Encounter. I start to tear up the minute the theme music starts.
Also, the final reels of Dark Victory and Intolerance--I don't want to give away the ending of the latter, but if you don't cry at the finale of the Babylonian sequence, you're made of stone.
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#27
08-26-1999, 10:49 AM
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Titanic, Mister Holland's Opus, and Lorenzo's Oil.
I guess I'm just a sucker for cheap sentiment. ------------------ Chaim Mattis Keller ckeller@schicktech.com "Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks." -- Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
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#28
08-26-1999, 01:18 PM
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Shirley, I saw both "Nestor" and "The Little Drummer Boy" aired repeatedly on the Family Channel not only last Xmas, but as recently as last month. They're also available on video.
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#29
08-26-1999, 01:19 PM
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I was crying so hard while watching Radio Flyer that I was barking when I exhaled.
Most of the movies mentioned here made me cry. But then, I still get choked up watching Bambi. And due to my daughters fixation on it, I've seen it probably close to 40 times. Waste Flick Lives!
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#30
08-26-1999, 05:55 PM
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My sister (about 2 years younger) was 10 when in 1962 she saw the movie Gigot with Jackie Gleason as a simple-minded Parisian mute, being friends with a prostitute's child. Gleason himself wrote the story. My sister said Gigot died at the end. I probably would have broken down on the spot.
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#31
08-27-1999, 12:33 AM
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Deep Impact really unhinged me. Saving Private Ryan not only made me cry, it made Mr. Rilch and two of his friends cry.
I cried at Truly Madly Deeply, too: the scene in the psychiatrist's office, and the ending. I didn't expect to cry at Mr. Holland's Opus; I thought it would be corny and predictable, but it kept blindsiding me. Worked at Universal Studios Hollywood (the theme park) and was subjected to many of their films on video. Don't think there was one time when Babe didn't make me cry. Much as I love Titanic, it didn't evoke one tear. And why is it that I didn't cry at Free Willy, but I do tear up when Homer says "Jump, Free Willy! Jump with all your miiiiiiiiiiiiight!" ------------------ Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together. ---Red Green
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#32
08-27-1999, 12:52 AM
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I hate to say it but I get all choked up with the Incredible Journey everytime! (the recent one with the voices of Don Ameche, Sally Field, and Michael J Fox voicing the animals.) The scene where Shadow and the boy see each other just tears me up and I am 25! My girlfriend thinks its cute and occasionally spring it on me. I can't help but cry because it remind me of my dog and me as a kid.
The end scene with the kid and the mother in the Sixth Sense made me tear up too. Philadelphia really really hurt me deeply and I was sobbing at the end. Platoon did also, specially when William Dafoe died and his buddies could see him. I cried hard after that scene Shane always gets to me. I just know he died on the horse and I dare any western fan not to cry at the end. I choked up watching this TV movie called "The Electric Grandmother" and still remember crying so much that it made my throat hurt Oh and to agree with Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle..when Jim Brown bought it in the Dirty Dozen I got all choked up (heheh) and hopefully, if they follow the story to the letter. I am betting that The Green Mile coming out in November will be a real tearjerker. The story made me cry.
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#33
08-27-1999, 12:57 AM
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Brian's Song
It's a wonderful life The fighting O'Sullivan's - this is a WW2 movie in which 5 brothers get killed on a navy ship, at the end a navy guy delivers the news to the family and tells them all 5 are dead. It's one of the sadest scenes I've ever seen. Saving Private Ryan
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#35
08-27-1999, 08:52 AM
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Oh, Health, do you mean that Twilight Zone episode, "I Sing the Body Electric?" That one always got me, too!
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#37
08-27-1999, 03:17 PM
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Guess I didn't want to admit that I've seen "Babe" about 15 times now, and 15 times it's made me cry. As for "Titanic," well, I've seen that one a few times too, and I never fail to just lose it completely at the scene where that Irish steerage mom is tucking her children into bed and telling them a story as the ship is sinking. Jiminy, I'm tearing up just thinking about it now. I didn't much care for the character of Rose...until she started swimming for that dead guy and blowing that whistle. The look of utter determination on her face was incredible.
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#38
08-27-1999, 04:29 PM
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Not movies, but a couple of TV moments:
Archie Bunker sobbing at the end of the "Mike & Gloria Leave for California" episode of "All in the Family." Radar informing the operating room that Henry Blake's plane had been shot down on "MASH." Trivia tidbit: the cast did not know that Radar was going to say this so their dumbfounded expressions were somewhat genuine. ------------------ Tim "My hovercraft is full of eels."
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#39
08-27-1999, 05:09 PM
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I'm an odd sort of guy, in that I cry at very odd times, and often do, in films and other circumstances. Heck, I was in tears the other day at the car dealer getting my oil changed, when I saw a poster promoting the use of child safety seats. I had the pictures of cute little kids that had died in car accidents because they hadn't been in safety seats, with quotes from thier parents for the excuses why they weren't in the seats. I wept unashamedly.
My biggest tear jerker film is a relative unknown. I think its called "Mr. Krueger's Christmas" or somthing to that effect. It stars Jimmy Stewart, and was basically an hour-long commercial for the Mormon Church, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Its the story of a poor widower who lives alone, and is all by himself on Christmas. A passing groups of carolers stop by the front of his apartment, and he is transported into all kinds of "flashbacks" and fantasies about his life. One of them is when he is stareing at a nativity scene in the front of the store, and he is suddenly standing with the shepherds and wisemen before the baby Jesus in the stable. He walks up to the manger, and thanks the Christchild for helping him out during the tough times after his wife died. The movie ends with a little girl from the Christmas carolers returning to find a mitten she's left behind, and Mr. Krueger is invited to join them. My wife and I had been going through some particularly tough times early in our marriage, and we were watching this movie in the wee hours of the morning in the weeks before Christmas, and the two of us just sobbed together. Its silly, but I tear up now just thinking about it.
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#40
08-27-1999, 05:52 PM
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Some of these stories are truly beautiful. But have you guys considered NOT giving away the best parts to the films you mention? It's good I've seen Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, My Girl, and Titanic. Otheriwse, I'd be upset that you told me what happens.
Adam ------------------ "Life is hard...but God is good"
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#41
08-27-1999, 10:15 PM
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Schlinder's List
My Girl Steele Magnolias Hope Floats (when the little girl is running after her father) and many, many others. trisha ------------------ He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein
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#42
08-27-1999, 11:17 PM
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A Midnight Clear
It's a war movie. You have to see it or read the book to really understand the impact. My heart breaks anew each and every time I see it. The symbolism, the characters, where the grand design goes wrong. I can picture myself in those young men. I can feel their pain and the horror. The part that makes my body ache and my soul scream? When, after all they have been through, that uncaring buffoon puts the dog tags in the body's (can't say who, you have to see it) mouth and smacks it shut. The first time I saw it I almost became ill. So violent against such a body so well loved. A body that had saved their own lives. It still brings tears to my eyes. If you've seen it you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't than you are missing out. I can't ever hear that Christmas song without thinking of this movie.
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#43
08-28-1999, 12:00 AM
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Add me to the parade for "Truly, Madly, Deeply" -- when he comes back and she starts bawling, it always tears me up.
And there's an extraordinary scene in "Wings of Desire," when a young man is dying from a motorcycle accident, and an angel comforts him. Never fails. And "Braveheart," always. Catrandom
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#44
08-28-1999, 01:50 AM
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There was a period of about 5 years in my life when I wouldn't and didn't cry. I've been catching up ever since.
Awakenings had me practically sobbing...I cried first when Leonard was well ("Mom! Mom!"), then soaked several tissues in the last half hour watching everyone degenerate. I cried without interruption for probably 40 minutes of that movie. Schindler's List, Steel Magnolias, Babe, The Incredible Journey, and Lorenzo's Oil are guaranteed tearjerkers every time I see them. Meanwhile, on TV, "Emergency Vets" frequently causes me to choke up. I'm such a sap. ------------------ "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" "English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."
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#45
08-28-1999, 02:19 AM
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Watership Down
The Color Purple ET
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#46
08-28-1999, 08:50 PM
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A TV moment that made me cry recently...
I hardly ever watch "Trauma: Life in the ER," but there was something on there a few weeks ago about a guy who had a knife stuck in his head. Anyway, he lived. But there was an 18 month old baby who had been in a car accident with her mom. The kid was strapped in the car seat, but the accident was particularly bad, and the baby didn't make it. The irony of the guy with the knife in his head (which had gotten there in a drunken fight, IIRC) surviving vs. a baby safely strapped in, but dying anyway, was too much for me.
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#47
08-28-1999, 10:32 PM
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What you guys said, as well as:
Forrest Gump (several times) The last scene in The Searchers, John Wayne walking out the cabin door (never liked him except in that movie) Also -- almost any Hallmark commercial, and the old phone company ads -- daughter calling home just to say hi and her dad is so proud Do the rest of you hate it when you have to buy a sympathy card? They need to put tissues in the display. Just reading most of those messages tears me up. Geez.
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#48
08-29-1999, 01:54 PM
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What about "Life is Beautiful"? That's is one of the saddest movies ever made. But I must admit I did cry during the part in "Titanic" when the musicians are playing, and one says to the other "Why are we even playing? They're not listening anymore?" and the other guy says "Well, they weren't listenind during dinner either." That got to me. . . has anyone here ever seen the movie "Lawndogs"? The ending is supposed to be "happy", I've been told, but I thought it was painfully depressing.
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#49
08-29-1999, 02:06 PM
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This may sound silly...
"Godzilla vs Destroyer" (1995; Japanese), when Godzilla died. It was billed as Godzilla's final movie, but I still teared up seeing my favorite movie character die. See my profile for my page about this movie. ------------------ "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument" - William McAdoo
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