Monsters Inc.: “Kitty!”
True dat.
I will add Bambi.
Geeze, what is it with Mickey Rat & orphans…?:smack:
You are all pathetic. Being prone to such tawdry emotional responses, especially when watching simple cartoons with their tedious sentimental set-pieces, is just inexcusable. As a grown man, I am in control of my emotions and certainly capable of rising above this kind of trivial, saccharine and manipulative nonsense.
However, I have noticed that whenever Finding Nemo is on and we get to the part where Dory is trying to persuade Marlin to stay around and not give up, because “nobody’s ever put up with me this long before”, the room tends to become unusually full of annoying dust particles, and it’s usually just after I’ve eaten some food stuff or other that has the annoying after-effect of forming a large lump in my throat.
That’s what happens, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Another YouTube classic animation, made by a graphics student:
the kiwibird that wanted to fly.
I’d just gotten done letting the memories of that one scab over.
Damn you, Yookeroo! Seconded, for truth.
There’s a scene in the manga/anime ‘Maison Ikkoku’…
Kyoko Otonashi is a 24-year-old widow. It’s been less than a year and the dog (who shares a name with her husband) she got with her husband is lost. As she’s searching she’s remembering all the interactions with the dog, herself, and her husband.
At one point it comes out of a flashback and she’s standing perfectly still with tears pouring down her face. It is pain laid bare and plain and I never have a defense.
But I’m a sentimental, romantic, silly man.
All I had to do was read that…
Kiwi bird, yes.
Maison Ikkoku, yes.
Grave of the Fireflies, and Dumbo I can’t even watch.
I pretty much had wet eyes through my whole first watching of WALL-E. I love that movie.
Haven’t seen Up yet.
Oh, god, and “Kitty!”
One more thing. Sometimes I think that animation can do even better, with certain people, at bringing emotion to you. There’s not people to get in your way, perhaps for certain people it’s easier to identify with the animated characters. Hard to explain.
This scene from Ratatouille always puts a lump in my throat because this has happened to me. The smell of freshly baked Hefezopf and good coffee will instantly transport me back to my Uroma’s humble little kitchen.
Without looking at it I know which scene you are talking about. Yes, some things instantly take me back to sitting on the floor or on a low cot in India, with a plate of piping hot prontis and makhan and achaar being put in front of me.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart’s a memory
And there, you’ll always be
If you don’t tear up at that part of The Fox and the Hound, you’re not human.
Feed the Kitty, that Looney Tunes short with the bulldog and the kitten. When the woman hands him the cat-shaped cookie, and he starts blubbering, it is simultaneously both completely hilarious and a total tearing-up moment. Complete genius. Got me when I was a kid, and still does (just did).
Dammit. Why’d you have to go and do that?
“We’ll always be best friends forever, right?”
Excuse me, I have to go get a glass of water.
This one. Even moreso than “Jurassic Bark,” because the latter left me too numb with sadness to react outwardly. “Luck of the Fryrish” brought forth my favorite response to any art: happy tears.
In other words, Best. Twist Ending. Ever.
I hate to admit these sorts of things, but I do tear up every time I see that video.
that is a tear jerker !
The version with Mad World music (it should show up as one of the related You tube videos) is a real tear jerker. That music works much better with the video IMO.
As was recently discussed in a thread about the British war plans of the mid-60s, the British were pretty much aware that a country as small as Britain would get saturated in a nuclear war, with the survival rate of anyone other than a handful of government people in deep shelters hovering around zero. Not much room for post-apocalyptic fantasies there.
That was what immediately jumped to mind when I saw the thread title. Every single time I see that scene, and I’ve seen it dozens of times, I cry. Without fail. I have a lump in my throat right now and I haven’t seen it in months. Randy Newman’s beautiful song, Sarah MacLachlan’s wonderful singing, the brilliant Pixar animation all move me deeply…but the capper, the thing that makes me get all weepy as I type this, is Joan Cusak’s amazing acting. “You never forget kids like Emily and Andy…but they forget you” is wrenching enough, but after the song when Jesse responds to Woody’s “Jesse…I didn’t know…” with “Just go” turns me into a weepy blob.
I didn’t think they could ever top that, but the scene in Up!:
The montage of Carl and Ellie’s life together, and Ellie dying.
…could serve as the Voigt-Kampf Empathy test from Bladerunner. Didn’t cry? Replicant.
Fullmetal Alchemist - the episode with the Chimera Dude and his daughter, Nina. And now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go be depressed for the next 72 hours.
Big… Brother?