Aliens. “You always were an asshole, Gorman” – Vasquez, tough as nails and afraid of nothing, but grateful that her definitively-useless officer didn’t leave her to die alone.
Count me as another one with daddy issues.
From Deep Impact, after one of the astronauts has been blinded by looking directly at the sun and he’s saying his last goodbyes via satellite to his wife and baby son who he’s never seen…
Be good, Orin…be good…
From The Incredibles, that little laugh that Dash gives off after he finds he can run on water. I watch my own son experience the same joy from learning his abilities.
From early on in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,
- That’s all right. That’s okay. I’ma go to school without him, I’ma get married without him, I’ma have a career without him. I don’t need him!! I don’t need him!!* breaks down sobbing Why don’t he want me, man? Why don’t he want me?
It just hammered the meaning of true friendship into me when Aragorn told Gimli and Legolas at the end of FotR: “We will not abandon Pippin and Merry to misery and torment.”
And (same actor + film):
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams … glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those … moments will be lost … in time, like tears … in rain. Time … to die.”
I second Forrest Gump . Many moist lines in there. The one that never fails is when Forrest is describing the things he saw when running cross country, and Jenny says something like “I wish I was there with you.” Forrest replies, “You were, Jenny.”
And since many people in here have connected weepy movie lines with father issues, I nominate Luke and Yoda:
Luke: But I need your help.
Yoda: No more training do you require, already know you that which you need.
Sob.
Kramer v. Kramer, Merly Streep saying, " I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
Same here!
And as long as we’re doing TV shows, I’ve got an episode of Murphy Brown.
In '92, they did an episode where all five leads reminisce about voting. Frank’s segment has him in 1972, being told by a cute female poll worker that he can’t wear his McGovern button in the building. They talk, they flirt, and finally he takes the button off. Looks at it for a moment and says, “He promised to stop the war. How could people not vote for him?” Just that quiet, resigned despair makes me tear up.
Yes.
Bit of trivia related to that - apparently Bean had to argue with PJ to get that line kept in the final version.
I’m not a weepy sort, but that line gets me every time. Every damn time.
Another one from Apollo 13 when the mother is explaining to her son that something has gone wrong on his daddy’s spaceship.
I don’t know why, but that really gets me.
Just thought of two more, prompted by, of all things, the Kevin Costner thread:
The last scene of A Perfect World (this was when I was about 11, so it may not hold true anymore).
In Testament when one of the children dies (this isn’t really a spoiler- the a-bomb has dropped and people are dropping like flies) and the mother/narrator mentions it almost in passing, because she knew it was coming and she herself is pretty much waiting to die.
I just remembered another one.
In Saving Private Ryan, the whole movie is a big ol’ tearjerker. (Damn Spielberg). But the scene I can’t even watch is the scene when they come to tell the mom about her sons and as she says the Army car turning into the drive, her legs can’t even hold her up anymore and she just falls down on her deck.
Any scenes like that, where parents have willingly given up their sons (and these days, daughters) to their country and yet hope day after day to see them home…only to be confronted by the Official Car or Official Notice in the mail.
'Scuse me. I feel a lump in my throat.
You just reminded me of the scene in A League of Their Own when the one woman gets THE TELEGRAM. Always kills me when she starts wailing.
Well if we’re doing tv shows as well, then the scene from the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Xander is asking Andrew about Anya, and he says:
"She died saving my life.’
And Xander replies:
“That’s my girl. Always doing the stupid thing.”
Makes me break down completely.
Sorry to anyone who hasn’t seen it, I wish I knew how to do those black spoiler boxes… anyone want to let me know for future reference, would be much appreciated…
Well if we’re doing tv shows as well, then the scene from the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Xander is asking Andrew about Anya, and he says:
"She died saving my life.’
And Xander replies:
“That’s my girl. Always doing the stupid thing.”
Makes me break down completely.
Sorry to anyone who hasn’t seen it, I wish I knew how to do those black spoiler boxes… anyone want to let me know for future reference, would be much appreciated…
Well if we’re doing tv shows as well, then the scene from the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Xander is asking Andrew about Anya, and he says:
"She died saving my life.’
And Xander replies:
“That’s my girl. Always doing the stupid thing.”
Makes me break down completely.
Sorry to anyone who hasn’t seen it, I wish I knew how to do those black spoiler boxes… anyone want to let me know for future reference, would be much appreciated…
woah. dunno what happened there. sorry.
Here’s how I remember the scene:
It opens with a close-up of the mother working with a needle and thread. We can see that she’s sewing, but at first we can’t tell what she’s working on. She is quite deliberate in her actions. As the camera pulls back, we see that she’s sewing up her daughter in a sheet.
This is scene devastated me when I first saw it. One reason it was powerful was that it was underplayed.
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thanks for that… I’ll remember that next time I’m giving away big secrets like
He’s actually a ghost the whole time! Gasp!
On a related note, the scene in Big Fish where Allison Lohman gets THE TELEGRAM, and all she can do is fall to her knees beside her mailbox.