Wow, I never would’ve thought that I wasn’t a freak for crying during Lilo & Stitch. The scenes that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Stitch all alone in the woods: “I’m lost.”
“Ah. You don’t have a family, I made you.”
Stitch gets nervous and kneads his little hands “Maybe - I could…”.
That always gets me for some reason.
Titanic , as the priest is holding on to two other guys and he’s reciting from Revelations “…and every tear shall be wiped from their eyes” as they’re all about to pluge to their deaths. couldn’t care less when Leo turned blue and sank…
Both of mine are horse-related.
As a child (and maybe now if I were to watch it again) the scene in The Neverending Story where Atreyu and Artax are in the swamp, and Artax is overcome by the sadness and begins to sink into the water. Atreyu screaming and pulling him right up until the water swallows him is HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE. I didn’t have a horse to hug when I was a child, so I’d hug my dog and cry.
Also, the horrible ferry boat scene in The Ring made me cry like a baby.
The end of The Miracle Worker, when Annie takes Helen in her arms and signs, I… Love…Helen as Hush, Little Baby, Don’t You Cry swells up on the soundtrack.
The end of To Kill a Mockingbird when the camera pulls back from the window looking into Scout’s bedroom and the adult Scout narrates in voiceover. “…and Atticus would be there in the morning.”
The king’s hand slips down his comforter, signifying his death, as his son. the Crown Prince, proclaims the rules of the new regime in The King and I.
The end of The Garden of Finzi-Continis as the Italian Jews are herded into the classroom to await deportation followed by a shot of the now-empty tennis court.
Another De Sica: The old man plays with his dog at the end of Umberto D.
The terror and tears of the ending of The Diary of Anne Frank when Anne and Peter kiss as the Nazis storm the annex.
Do I really need to mention The Way We Were???
The last thing on TV that made me cry as when Victor Meldrew died. The bit where he actually died was ok, but after the episode finished they showed a video of him jogging around the park and getting attacked by things and being miserable and they played “End of the Line”. That’s when I cried. I’m a geek!
That Futurama episode with Fry’s older brother.
The last episode of Band of Brothers, when Winters explains what became of the surviving members of E Company after the war.
In LOTR: FOTR, I always cry when
Boromir is dying after defending Merry and Pippin. As soon as that first arrow hits him, my eyes start getting watery.
ST:TNG - The Inner Light also made me cry at the end.
Picard holds that flute to his heart, then he starts playing a song on it as the camera pulls away.
It’s interesting to see the same 10 movies over and over here.
There are three movies that made me cry. One was McCabe&Mrs. MIller with warren Beatty and Julie Christie. This is probably the most affecting, poetic movie I have ever seen.
Truffau’t Small Change made me cry, but this was more tears of joy-i think.
The ending of Splendor in the Grass, also Warren Beatty, is so heartbreakingly melodramatic one would certainly feel something.
What got me was the Irish mother telling her children why they had to wait: “We’re waiting for the rich people to get off the boat. When they’re done, then it’ll be our turn.” Later, you see her tucking her children in, life jackets and all, telling them a “bedtime” story in which the character goes to Heaven.
The very end gets me as well, when we pan over Rose’s pictures and we see that even though Jack wasn’t there to teach her, she still learned to “ride like a man” and got to see her “flying machine.”
I cried at Sleepy Hollow…when Ichabod has his nightmare ands shoots up in bed into Katrina’s arms, then later, when he has to leave and burns his ledger, but finally reads the book she gave him and rushes back.
Brian’s Song. The original Tv movie with Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo, not the horrid remake that ABC foisted off on us a few years back.
Three movies bringon the wet stuff for me:
2 scenes from The Joy Luck Club. The first is the story of the woman that left her twins next to a tree because she thought she was at death’s door. The second one is in the present when a mother is giving a speech to her daughter and says something like “…waiting like a Tiger crouching in the dark…” (can’t remember the exact words) as the camera slowly pans and her daughter is sobbing.
Empire of the Sun, when Jim is cheering on the P-51 Mustangs (Cadillac of the skies!). The doctor stops him on the rooftop and Jim breaks down and says “I can’t remember what my parents look like.”
The Exorcist. Yup, that’s right. When Father Karras commands the demon to come into him, then realizes the demon has done so and leaps out of Regan’s bedroom window to cause his own death and vanquish the demon’s presence in this world. I’m hard pressed to think of a less selfless act.
I recently watched Truly Madly Deeply. That movie starts depressing, and just gets worse and worse. I couldn’t watch more than 20 minutes at a time!
I’d have to agree, but I think of Jason Robards when I remember the movie, rather than Beatty. It WAS Beatty’s finest performance as an actor, IMHO. {side note: I grew up a block from Shirley and Warren’s house in Arlington VA. They were ahead of me at Wash./Lee H.S. by a few years. MY mom and their mom were passing friends).
But I posted to add Gunga Din, another 1939 movie(hey, that was the greatest year for movies, bar none).
If you could get through that movie and watch a wounded Sam Jaffee climbing the parapet to sound the bugle to warn the troop without bawling your eyes out, then “you’re a better man than I, …”