I don’t know anyone who could get through the passage where William Mandala read’s Margay’s centuries-old letter to him without tearing up…
(The Forever War, for those who don’t get the reference).
My own sure-fire tear-up is the conclusion to “The Incredible Journey”, the original 1960’s production (still the best), the recent one with the talking animals, and the original written story. Sure you see it coming and yeah it’s meant to tug the heartstrings and we know it but…yep, tears every time (FWIW, the book and original Disney production tells in right, IMHO).
How about non-fiction? One that always gets me is in The Color of Water, when old Eddie Thompson makes the phone call to the author’s mother.
I get it I get it!!
And yes, dead on.
Such a wonderful piece of literature, and I agree with you about getting the feeling across in the movie. That said, as far as novels and movies go, I think they did a decent job with the movie.
I mean, I’m a sucker. Pretty much any film intended to emotionally manipulate the audience will make me cry.
I try to make Scrooged, the Bill Murray adaption of a Christmas Carol, an annual Christmas tradition, but it’s been a while. When I watched it this past Christmas Day, I bawled for 15 minutes straight.
In 1776 when John and Abigail sing Till Then - it gets me every time.
Yes to Scrooged, especially when Calvin speaks at the very end.
Yes to Sally Field’s speech and breakdown at the funeral in Steele Magnolias.
Leonard being reunited with his mother after first waking up in Awakenings.
Rudy getting cheered on by parents and friends in the final game in Rudy. “Who’s the wild man now!!”
Dory asking Marlin not to leave her alone at the end of Finding Nemo.
When Forrest Gump meets his son and asks “Is he smart or is he like me?”
“Suuuuuuuupermannnn!”
Darn you, MacTech, now I can’t see the screen.
Could you please explain this one? I feel like I should know it, but honestly, it’s not ringing a bell. I know its not from any of the *Superman *films, because they never had any character screaming his name in an emotional scene, so please, enlighten me.
One of Brad Byrd’s best: The Iron Giant. He’s not a gun. (um, major climactic movie moment spoiler.)
Ah yes, The Iron Giant. I’ve only seen it once years ago, so I probably should watch it again. I know its a classic, but it always eludes me, so I’ll have to seek it out more intently.
Thanks!
The wedding of Amy Pond in the concluding episode of season 5 of the new Doctor Who. Karen Gillian saying:
Something old, something new, something borrowed…something blue.
…just slays me every time.
How are we 35 post into this thread and no one has mentioned the ending to Where the Red Fern Grows?
Thank you, folks–I don’t feel so sissy about tearing up at that scene, now. (Vin Diesel made me cry? What’s gone wrong with the world?)
I am THE total sucker for scenes like this: “Toy Story 3”: The toys are about to be incinerated at the dump and they all cease struggling and join hands, accepting their fate. PSYCH! PIG SAVES THE DAY!
“We … are … Groot.”
Guradians of the Galaxy
I am twisted in that I can watch any flavor or intensity of human suffering without so much as a pause in the popcorn ingestion process. Give me an animal with a paper cut or a headache, though, and I must avert my moist eyes.
So let’s talk about Eight Below.
It’s a movie, based on a true story, about an Antarctic expedition that does not go as planned. The protagonist - Paul Walker - at one point must abandon his team of sled dogs and seek safety on his own (I can’t even remember the details). Anyway, he leaves them each chained to a stake on the blizzardy frozen tundra (not Green Bay); the camera lingers as each pup watches their master walk away.
I will never watch that movie again.
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Let’s see. We have Schindler’s List, when Schindler says, “I could have done more.”
We have Outlander (the book) when Claire realizes she has to leave Jamie and feels her heart break, “with a small sound, like the snap of a flower stem.”
We have Outlander (the Starz series) when Claire sings a song to her miscarried daughter, then gives the baby to her friend Louise for burial.
We have the scene in the original Law and Order, when they are turning off the machines for Adam Schiff’s wife. The heart stops, and he doesn’t cry…he just gives this little whimper.
How to Train Your Dragon 2, after Toothless kills Stoick.
I got millions of these, guys.