What’s even worse, though, is when there’s a sappy sad scene and you’ve got a bad cold, and you really need to sniffle but don’t want to seem like you’re crying. This happened to me during Spiderman. Nothing in there warrants a real cry, but I was so stuffed up, I eventually did sniffle during a “sentimental” scene, and about 10 people turned to look at me.
This one got to me, but that not saying much. However, I was impressed that a roomful of my hubby’s buddies got teared up during John Q. His friend Wally told me it was “the kind of movie that causes a strange stinging sensation in the eyes.”
Crying is for wimps. That being said, when Mulan goes back home to her dad and he says to her, “The greatest gift and honor is having you as a daughter.” I experience a little, uh, ocular condensation.
Film, shmilm.
In Les Miz (the musical), when
Fantine dies, and later on, when her ghost returns to the dying Valjean…
F:Monsieur I bless your name
V:I am ready Fantine
F:Monsieur lay down your burden
V:At the end of my days
F:You’ve raised my child in love
V:She’s the best of my life
F:And you will be with God
Oh, the waterworks…
for movies, Legomancer is absolutely right about The Iron Giant. If I impregnated a woman today and then died, my one dying instruction for raising my children would be to show them The Iron Giant early and often.
In Armageddon, at the end, when the plane breaks off into the Missing Man formation.
In Navy Seals when the chief gets shot.
And, really this time, during Holden’s confession to Amy in the car in the rainstorm in Chasing Amy. I don’t cry, but it does choke me up.
And I can’t friggin’ believe nobody has mentioned Old Yeller yet. That gets me crying like a sap every stinking time.
Oh, on another maybe I should be joking but I’m not note, Braveheart, during the pre-battle speech at Stirling.
Off topic a moment, I just finished Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, and even though the speech at Stirling scenes is one of my all time favorites, I had to laugh out loud when one of TP’s characters shouted, “You can take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom.”
“Carcer’s men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like the most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe. Vimes could see their lips moving as they tried to work it out.”
Tee hee.
Another one for Grave of the Fireflies.
You know in the first five minutes that they both die and yet you spend the whole movie hoping that somehow they don’t.
Not to mention everything else that happens in that movie.
I bought it two years ago and have managed to watch it twice–once in English and once in Japanese. That’s it.
Okay, here’s one that I choke up at every time, and I sear to God, I don’t know why. It’s not a tear jerker. It’s not heavily emotional. It’s not even good, but every time I see it, I get all verklempt:
Volcano.
I’m not even remotely kidding. No other movie affects me that strongly. Bambi? No problem. Brian’s Song? Piffle. Love Story? It is to laugh. But every time I see Los Angeles engulfed by magma, I get all teary. And I’ve long been on the opinion that being engulfed by magma would be the best possible thing that could happen to L.A.
Not a movie, but certain episodes of Buffy routinely get to me. Though little else on either the big or the small screen does.
Another vote for LOTR. I aslo knew it was coming.
The end of West Side Story does it also.
Crown Prince of Irony, Have you ever seen Bang the Drum Slowly? Another sad/funny great baseball movie.
The scene in Renaissance Man where the students are leaving the class kinda echoes parts of my life (all the effort I put in, not appreciated, etc.) always chokes me up.
It would seem that it takes a bit of cheese to get taichi to shed a few…
Dumbo gets me every time- ALWAYS the scene where Mrs.Jumbo is locked up and Dumbo goes to see her and her trunk snakes out the window so that she can cradle him while singing. “Baby Mine”…>siiigh…<
Sad things really never make me feel like crying. The things that make me feel less like not crying than usual(because I never cry 
) Are emotional battle scenes. Like Roberts speech at the end of Braveheart “You bled with Wallace, now will you bleed with me?”.
or maybe the Big V was James Potter’s brother and he was in love with Lily and turned to the dark side due to this unrequited love… wow this speculation can really carry one awaaaaayyyyy…
Three movies that always make me cry, and they’re all musicals:
Dancer in the Dark: the whole last half hour
West Side Story: the end
and one that hasn’t been mentioned yet: Hair: twice – Easy to Be Hard and the whole end section, from Berger going to Vietnam to the end.
I also cried the whole last half hour of Malcolm X because I knew he was going to get killed.
I did get the sniffles once during the “I Will Go Sailing No More” song in Toy Story when Buzz Lightyear realizes he is just a toy and can’t really fly. But I was already feeling kind of depressed when I started watching it.
That’s my story anyway, and I’m sticking to it, dammit!
In My Girl after McCauley Culkin dies from the bee stings and the girl runs to his coffin at the funeral and is sobbing. First time I ever cried in movie theater.
At the end of Best of the Best when Dae Han apologizes to Tommy for killing his brother.
HELL YA! I remember that movie-loved it!!
Geez, and here I was, thinking that I was the only one who had even seen it!