I gulp a bit on occasion, but movies that really make me just bawl are rare. That being said…
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[li] Platoon[/li][li] Saving Private Ryan [/ul][/li]
It was one thing to know there were demons from Vietnam and WWII that haunted my father and grandfather…but seeing those movies were, to me, like having front row seats in their nightmares. I think in both cases I cried more out of grief for what two essentially kind and gentle men lived through and lived with as a result of their experiences than I did for the movies themselves.
Less close-to-home films:
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[li] Rob Roy - Danimal, I am SO with you on that scene…and even more in the aftermath, when Jessica Lange and Alastair are in the loch while Tim Roth and the rest of the thugs are retreating. However the KILLER to me is the duel at the end between Liam Neeson and Tim Roth. (I’m a sucker for guts and gallantry.)[/li][li] Braveheart - Self-explanatory.[/li][li] Sommersby - Although this movie ties with The Green Mile as the two movies with the single most INFURIATING endings and/or plot twists I’ve seen, so I’m not quite sure if I was crying in fury at those two or just crying. (I like my happy endings,I do.)[/li][li] Titanic - For the same reasons other folks mentioned before. All of them. When we saw the old folks holding each other, my husband and I just cuddled up and bawled unashamedly.[/li][li] Somewhere In Time[/li][li] *The Way We Were *[/li][li] Bicentennial Man…right at the end. <snivel>[/li]
[sub]okay, I’m off for a good stiff glass of perspective and soda…anyone else want to join me?[/sub]
Patton? Did you mean Platoon? Wow, that’s pretty cool.
I think I was suppossed to cry during Bambi and back then I never wanted to disappoint my parents so I’m sure I did.
Other than that (jeez, I hate to admit this) I did tear up a little when Henry torched the dreamhouse so ClayBoy could attend college in “Spencer’s Mountain.”
Shenandoah (the old Jimmy Stewart movie) was for a long time the only movie I’d ever cried at.
Then I saw Life Is Beautiful. And October Sky. (Okay, that’s an unususal movie to evoke tears, but the relationship between the main character and his father was eerily familiar.)
Homeward Bound -When Shadow walks over the hill and says “Peter.” (over dramatic music, of course.) Lordy, I’m a sucker. I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
I cry when I’m watching movies I’ve seen a hundred times. I guess that’s why I like them so much!
The first movie I remember making me cry was “The Wizard of Oz” when I was a child.
I remember seeing “Madame X” which also reduced me to tears (during the courtroom scene).
I cried as an adult when I saw “Forrest Gump” in the theater. His mom and his only true love both dying. That was tough.
That movie about the parrot, “Paulie” always makes me cry at the end. Happy tears, actually.
Hi, I’m resurrecting this post, because I watched Midnight Cowboy for the first time. Wept like a baby. And it wasn’t just from that song sung by Nillson. I’ll never take a bus trip again without thinking of that movie. Jon Voight, you have my respect.
the fact that he looks like Kermit the Frog. Long skinny legs and a banjo. It can’t have been intentional, since the film was released in 1971, but it’s there.
There has just never been anyone like Bud Cort, before or since. Matthew McConaghey came close, and Tobey Maguire was/is a plastic version, but no one else has really had that uncultured innocence.
“Avalon”, with that glorious Randy Newman score. The scene where old Sam is trying to tell his grandson about the glorious new America he walked into that long ago July 4th of 1914 as a new hopeful immigrant, and all the kid wants to do is watch his stupid TV.
“Schindler’s List”
“Baby Mine” from Dumbo (Bambi’s mother getting killed didn’t get to me much, because I knew some deer hunters and well, that’s what happened to deer sometimes)
As a history buff and a great fan of the Broadway musical at which I shed many a tear, the movie “Titanic” just provoked in me tears of laughter, unfortunately.
Didn’t used to ever cry at movies as a kid. (Though I would absolutely gibber in terror at anything scary, but that’s a whole other hangup)
Now I’m a big wussie. But the movie has to be good, or it’s too unbelievable/annoying to be sad (Dying Young , anyone? Right)
Best comment I EVER read on that was a movie reviewer’s line to the effect of my tear stayed in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
Movie I cried most at, ever, was An Angel at My Table
Yeah, and how about the ending? Michael finally wants to hear about it, and to have his son hear about it, but Sam’s so far gone, all he can say is, “I kem to Amirica in 1914…I kem to Amirica in 1914…”
Okay, I was in a hurry before. Here’s my list. Some have already been mentioned.
Any version of A Christmas Carol or Peter Pan, unless they’re animated and musical. The latest one with Patrick Stewart is exquistite, although it’s missing some of the moments from the George C. Scott incarnation, and the one I saw on PBS.
The entire landing scene in Private Ryan.
Almost all of Deep Impact. Are there really that many people who hate this film? When I saw it, here in LA, the women’s room was crammed with weepers, and Mr. Rilch told me that the men’s was similarly overrun.
Jessie’s song in Toy Story 2. Also, when Sarah MacLaughlan sang it at the Oscars, it was lucky I had Cartman with me (he wanted to see if his movie got anything); only his meanness kept me from losing it.
Often, it’s just that one moment that sneaks up on you just when you thought you could keep it together:
Iron Giant: “Superman…” Heavenly Creatures: “It was a condition of their parole that they never meet again.” Titanic: The shot of the stern disappearing. [sub]TITANIC * LIVERPOOL[/sub]. Two years to build, two and a half hours to destroy.