For those of us who don't cry.

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Now I’m not a very emotional guy, or rather I’m a very emotional guy who almost never feels the need to have a physically display of my emotions, but about once ever decade or so there’s a film that gets to me and makes me cry.

Where the Red Fern Grows. Saw it in the middle of the night in the early 80s when I snuck out of bed because I couldn’t sleep. A boy and his dead dogs. I was a boy and I had a dead dog. I could’t help myself.

Falling Down Another one that kinda mirrored my life. My parents got divorced and my dad ended up moving to Kansas and we very rarely got to see him. It really got to me. I mean it really hit home, I almost turned it off.

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring I teared up when they came out of Moria. I knew he survived but still, I felt there grief. It was a really good scene.

What movies have called forth your rarely used waterworks?

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I don’t cry, but when I was watching Dancer in the Dark… well, there… there was something in my eye…

excuse me…

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Forrest Gump when Jenny dies.

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Glitter: when Maria dumps her boyfriend…

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From the opening scene to the closing scene in Now, Voyager . . . The finales of Intolerance and One Way Passage . . .

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The Fast and the Furious*, when the Camero gets trashed.

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Toy Story 2: “When She Loved Me.” Randy Newman deserved the Oscar for this one.

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:smack:

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:smack: was for my vB error, not for your post, *h.sapiens

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sigh…

I’m crying right now.

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I become a blubbering mess every time I watch Truly, Madly, Deeply. I can’t help it, I’ve never seen anybody cry as much as Juliet Stevenson does in that movie!

Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. sniff

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Terms of Endearment
Love Story
Brian’s Song
Homeward Bound

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I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but the 1969 musical version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips has always made it difficult for me to breathe properly (my equivalent of crying). I have no reasonable explanation for this.

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Iron Giant. “suuuuuuperman”

and

The Royal Tenenbaums. “It’s been a rough year, dad.”

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Beaches of course.
Also, the movie about the racehorse Pharlap. Ugh, animal movies always get to me.

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4 words or less:
Grave.
Of.
The.
Fireflies.
WAAAAHHHHH!

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Another one here for Dancer in the Dark. That whole end sequence where…

Selma was on Death Row singing “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things” into the vent

… just tore me up. Bjork really gave a good performance in that movie.

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For some reason, I get the most choked up during baseball movies:
The Natural, at the end, when the big home run shot fades into the scene of Redford’s character playing catch with the young boy (his son?).

Field of Dreams, when the Ray Kinsella character asks his dad (or his dad’s ghost), if he wants to “have a catch” (notice a pattern here?), and, earlier, during James Earl Jones’ speech about the greatness of baseball. ::sniff::

Hijack: if you are a baseball fan, you must pick up any of W.P. Kinsella’s baseball novels or short story collections - Shoeless Joe is the novel that Field of Dreams is based on, and reading it is like walking through a dreamland.

For Love of the Game, the whole frigging movie.

Pride of the Yankees - Gehrig’s speech, of course.

I’m not even much of a baseball fan anymore - but I love the game itself.

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Showgirls. She just wants to be a dancer, people! Dammit, why can’t they see that!

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I can’t think of a movie that ever made me cry. One book did, however: the final chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed.