That was an awesome movie.
Look, I’m a guy. I don’t get choked up at movies. Ever, okay? But sometimes those bastards at the movie theatres or those who put movies on TV pump smoke or something through the screen or speakers that I’m allergic to and it makes my eyes water. Maybe it’s some subliminal video images. But I never. get. choked. up. That’s not Manly, and I’m a Manly sort of guy, see?
That being said, I’m glad someone finally mentioned “Ole Yeller”. No one mentioned “Pride Of The Yankees’” yet, so I will.
AGE: 49
GER: 7 (animals 11)!
Gigot - A not too well known film from 1962 starring Jackie Gleason as a mute homeless man trying to care for an abandoned little girl. Practically the whole film (though it has a happy ending). Gleason gives an astounding performance thru pantomime alone (think it was remade as a TV movie with William H. Macy).
Schindler’s List (natch) - The final scenes, when Schindler is getting ready to drive away and he breaks down feeling he could have done more, saying why didn’t he trade the gold button on his lapel, it would have been two more lives etc. Then when the Russian soldier arrives on horseback and tells them they’re free. It’s so empty, free to go where and to do what? And the final shot knowing it’s actor Liam Neeson placing the last stone on Schindler’s grave.
***Titanic ***- Hate to admit it, saw it in the theater and got weepy at Jack’s death scene, mostly because of Winslet’s performance.
King Kong (2005 remake) - When Naomi Watts is frantically waving her hands and screaming “NO!” at the airplanes killing him, then as he slowly & silently falls.
***Allegro non troppo ***- Animals. Less said the better. Only scene I truly wish I could go back in time and prevent myself from watching. Can’t even listen to the classical piece Valse Triste without weeping.
Watership Down - When Fiver is told that Hazel’s been shot, as he looks for him while Art Garfunkel’s song Bright Eyes plays. And as mentioned, Hazel’s (future) death at the very end. Sad, but appropriate & satisfying.
Plague Dogs -** A word of warning:** If Watership Down made you sad don’t *EVER *watch this movie! Same author, same animation team, but it makes WD look like The Brave Little Toaster! Unbearably heart-wrenching from start to finish (strangely the book had a happy ending!)
Holy crap.
“My friends. You bow to no man.” HERE COMES THE FLOOD.
And in Two Towers (I think) when Théoden is talking about how no parent should have to bury their child.
Edit: No one is going to mention Charlotte’s Web? Or the book version of “Cheaper by the Dozen”? Monsters.
oh and 50 here. 2 with Zoloft, 12 without.
Excellent pick.
51 here, probably about a 5 or 6. One that surprised me was The Rookie (2002 with Dennis Quaid). A couple of scenes late in the movie: One where Jimmy calls home to tell his wife and his son that he’s going to the big leagues, and when he sees his dad outside the locker room after the game and gives him the baseball.
Not a man so I won’t respond with my choices, but…oh, God, yes. I cannot watch this scene. Just thinking about it makes me go to pieces.
Age: 50+
GER: Based on other responses here, about a 1. Objectively a 3. You weepers need to go back and up your score to at least 7. Sheesh.
Anyway, I’m surprised no one mentioned Where the Red Fern Grows, particularly the 1974 movie as well as the book.
Also, Fiddler on the Roof. As the father of 3 daughters, the relationship between Tevye and his oldest 3 daughters is especially poignant. In each case he strives to balance Tradition and wishing his girls happiness. “Is this the little girl …” I can hardly type it without choking up. Then finally when he wrenches his youngest (of the oldest three), Havilah, from his life for a compromise he cannot make … damn. And then near the end, a hint of redemption. As one who has come to non-belief relatively late in life, I am thankful that I cannot think of something that would make me do that, i.e., cast my daughter from me.
58, moderately soppy and getting more so as I age.
Four Weddings and a Funeral - the reading of the Auden poem in that beautiful Scots accent just tears my heart out.
53; GER 6.
Saving Private Ryan: at the end, the cemetery scene, when the old Ryan looks at the gravestone of the Tom Hanks character, then tells his to tell him that he’s a good man and he led a good life.
Gawd, there’s a catch in my throat just now as I typed that.
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Age 44. Score 7.5.
Guaranteed tear-inducing films for me include Breaking the Waves (final scene), *We Are Marshall (several scenes, including the “everyone shows up on the lawn for board meeting” one), and Toy Story 2 (yes, that Jessie song). Oh, also the last scene in Lives of Others.
*I didn’t know it had already been mentioned when I wrote this just now! Cool.
Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows.
Stupidly enough Armageddon, ‘No daddy don’t go’. Liv is beautiful…but still FU. Don’t say that.
Every effin time is brought by Mel Gibson. Braveheart. A father to a son ‘I’m a happy man.’
Too much Gibson…but still…
Age: 40
Weepiness during movies: High. I’m relatively immune to scenes involving animals, though (e.g. the movie War Horse or the Futurama episode “Jurassic Bark”).
That’s the type of thing that often gets me to tear up.
I could probably come up with a huge list of movies (Iron Giant, It’s A Wonderful Life and Return of the King all have been mentioned). But the one that sticks out is in Spider-Man 2 where Spider-Man knocks himself unconscious rescuing a subway car full of people and some little kids give him his mask back. I was watching the movie with my future wife at a theatre and she was worried that there was something seriously wrong with me. Nope, just a sappy scene. Even to this day, she can’t understand how someone could cry during “Spider-Man 2”.
Another scene that gets me is the brief snippet showing an elderly couple in bed, fully clothed and dressed to the nines, facing each other and holding hands, as the water fills their state room.
I’m probably a 2.5. I watched this film a few days ago and there were tears streaming down my face at the Auden poem. It’s only the second time I’ve experienced this. The first time was a few years ago watching The English Patient.
I also saw Up only last week; no response whatsoever.
Yeah, but what about the end of “Luck of the Fryrish”? That one gets me every time.
38, 8/10 emotional (for a guy)
The triumphant scenes actually get to me much more than sad scenes.
I freakin’ bawled at the end of Shawshank Redemption, Return of the King “you bow to no one”, and Toy Story 3.
One sad one that did get to me was “My Life” with Michael Keaton. When he is recording the speech for his unborn son and says, “No matter what, I’ll always be your dad.” Tearing up now, just thinking about it. I’m such a wuss! 
Age: 47
Score (IRL): 3
Score (@ movies): 4
Titanic, when I first saw it and the camera showed all the people in the water shouting for help…
Million Dollar Baby, uh… some scenes after her last fight.
ET, when he died. At least, the scene upset me back in 1982… not so much now, having seen it 400 times.
34, i’m probably a 10/10, i’m getting teary just reading the posts in this thread…
Since they haven’t been mentioned yet i’ll say How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2… cried HARD… at both.
Age: 51
General Emotional Reactiveness: 3 prior to fathers death, 6 after.
Glad to see Armageddon pop up a few times. It didn’t get to me until after my dad died.
Then there’s the end of Turner & Hooch…