You know, I had no answer for this until I came across the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon thread. The fight scenes in that are really moving to me, the way they defy gravity and smoothly glide around, jumping from rooftop to rooftop and such. Really beautiful choreography.
ET. Every freaking time.
Harry Potter GOF, when his parents appear during the Priori Incantatum. (And it’ll happen again at the end of Deathly Hallows…I cry just reading it so the movie version will get me I know)
The end of Peter Jackson’s King Kong really gets me.
This big animal living a lonely but content exsistence is sad enough but then he’s yanked from his element, is confused and scared, trys to find solace with the only friend he has ever had, and is killed for it.
Once
Very emotional movie for me, though I can’t exactly put my finger on why.
I’m doomed to blub 47 times a day currently, as Toy Story 2 is Bubster’s favorite movie. He knows how to work the VCR in his room, so every time I go back the hall, it’s playing. It doesn’t help that when I was a kid, I totally bought into the whole “toys are alive and have feelings” thing, and it lasted far past what would be considered normal.
Hmmm, what else gets me, that hasn’t been mentioned?
The anime Metropolis. I can’t tell you how many times I have suggested this movie to folks that aren’t anime fans, to show them that cartoons from Japan can be legitimate films. The climax of the movie (with accompanying Ray Charles song) tears me to shreds, just typing about it. sniff
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. (The one with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio.) I’ve seen probably twelve film adaptations of this play, and none of them cut me like this one does. Something about the contrast of modern imagery with Olde English language, I suppose, though it may also be due in part to the fact that I have a fondness for Claire after growing up on My So-Called Life.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Such a brilliant, moving film. (Although I must admit, I’d cry even if it was rubbish. Musical saw, you know.)
Ah, isn’t that Snoopy Come Home show the one with that song that goes “Snoo-oo-oopy, Snoo-oo-oopy, where oh where did you roam (come home, come home)”?
I recall bawling my eyes out while a young boy watching that.
And to add to the list, the scene in Saving Private Ryan where Tom Hanks’ character goes off to cry by himself after burying their medic, with his twitching hand and everything. The fact that he wouldn’t let his men see him weep was what gets me every time I see that.
When she says good bye to the children…just kill me. KILL ME.
Another one for Iron Giant. It was what I immeadiately thought of when I saw the thread title. I am SO glad I watched at home and not in a theatre,
The end scene left me silent for a moment, and then I just started SOBBING…
Completely blew my cover as a big, strong guy…
FML
I misted up during that scene when I saw Toy Story 2 during its theatrical release. Justifiable: it’s a powerful emotional moment.
Last week, I watched that scene again on YouTube after someone here mentioned it. And I sobbed. Sobbed, sobbed, sobbed on my couch, like a little baby.
Why? I’ve got a kid now, almost 3 years old, who’s going to grow up, and while I won’t be abandoned like a toy, the whole point of parenting is to train your kid not to need you. The emotional power of that scene was ratcheted up ten- or a hundredfold for me.
The last time I remember sobbing in a movie theater was during In the Name of the Father, the Daniel Day-Lewis movie about the Guildford Four. Spoilers for those who haven’t seen it: After Pete Postlethwaite’s character dies, and the fellow prisoners drop flaming materials from the windows in mourning, I wept like a baby. I haven’t watched the movie since then, in fact, because I’m wary of the emotions being uncorked again.
Embarrasingly enough, my contribution here is An Officer and a Gentleman. I have no excuse.
I cry at the drop of a hat at a lot of movies, particularly cartoons. But the worst (best?) was at the end of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru: I spent half an hour sobbing like someone had just shot my dog.
The exact scene I was thinking about.
She’s put on a little makeup to mask the fact that she looks like she’s just about dead and she’s asking her kids “I think that went kind of well, don’t you?” the whole time the little one is crying and the older one is trying to hold it together. Pure hell.
In V for Vendetta when the girl tells her story about coming out to her parents. (And I’m hetero.)
This thread seems to come up every 6 months.
The correct answer, already identified many times in this thread, is of course The Iron Giant.
Most of mine have already been mentioned. But I’m a sucker for anything animal related. My Dog Skip does the trick for me.
Yep. I think mine was the last one.
A list of movies I really love that don’t make me blub would be shorter. I don’t think I’ve ever sprung a leak during Silver Streak, 9 to 5, or Star Wars.
My Life starring Michael Keaton. Towards the end of the movie he’s too weak to get out of bed so everyone is pitching in to take care of him. The scene where his father is shaving his face for him. It’s a very tender, moving scene, and it gets my every time.
I saw that movie in the theater, and most of the place started bawling about 5 minutes into the flick. Towards the end, it was one of the noisiest environments in which I’ve ever watched a film. I’m talking about people sobbing, sniffing loudly, honking into tissues, etc.
Of course, my date and I were the only two in the theater not crying & we decided that we needed to do something a bit more upbeat for the rest of the date.
Your description made me cry. FUCK!
The Toy Story 2 moment, as several people have mentioned. It gets supervenusfreak, too.
Also, Beaches…from about the time Hillary’s disease starts to affect her all the way through to the end…kills me!