# Movies You Didn't Expect To Make You Cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098 "2009-08-20T17:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/41 "2009-08-21T17:00:56Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Two things for this thread, the former being the main course. The latter being secondary, as it’s a topic that gets done now and again. > > **1) Movies that made you cry when you were expecting them to.** > > Example: _Phone Booth_ makes my eyes tear up, there I said it. In the end when Stu/Colin Farrell “confesses” his sins, gets to me every time and I never thought that movie was going to be one that would make me tear up. I thought I was the only person who likes that movie. That scene in particular is one of my favorite scenes in film. It is so well written. I don’t like Farrell at all really, but this one scene proves to me that he really can act if given the right script. Though I must admit I have an unusual fascination with confessions in literature. I bought the film on DVD, but I never watch it straight through. I just skip to the confession scene. Also, ditto on **UP!** ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/42 "2009-08-21T17:10:25Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > [Insert “Fail” picture for comparing a breakup to the death of someone’s child] I **said** it wasn’t nearly as bad, not by a mile certainly! It just reminded me of a “we need to be cheered up, let’s go see this lighthearted movie… ouch” incident that I knew of. _On another note_, I cried at the end of **Return of the King** , and Annie Lennox’s “Into the West” from that scene still breaks me up some. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/43 "2009-08-21T17:22:08Z")
Son of Godzilla… Okay I was 8 years old. The last scene, Big G and the kid are on a island that is being frozen by -evil movie science stuff- sure why not- and it is snowing heavily. Godzilla is trudging through the snow trying to make it into the ocean and safety and little Minya keeps falling further and further behind. Eventually Godzilla disappears into the blizzard leaving Minya behind who is calling out for him and now unable to get up. Godzilla comes back and kneels infront of Minya and wraps his arms around his son and the two are covered in snow and frozen… … until the next movie. But man, I cried. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/44 "2009-08-21T17:53:08Z")
**Batteries not Included** When all the little ships show up and put the building back together. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/45 "2009-08-21T17:59:58Z")
**Drum God** , I apologize for juxtaposing the example I did with what you went through. It was not intended to be any kind of a comparison of scale or scope of grief, and I’m sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/46 "2009-08-21T18:03:19Z")
> [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](#): > > I thought I was the only person who likes that movie. That scene in particular is one of my favorite scenes in film. It is so well written. I don’t like Farrell at all really, but this one scene proves to me that he really can act if given the right script. Though I must admit I have an unusual fascination with confessions in literature. I bought the film on DVD, but I never watch it straight through. I just skip to the confession scene. I’m looking forward to getting around to renting \*\*In Bruges \*\*because I think he’s probably very good in that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/47 "2009-08-21T18:18:27Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I rented it because I thought it would be a silly teenybopper movie one summer day a few years ago and I bawled. I cried so hard I gave myself the hiccups. The scene where America Ferrera’s character is trying on bridesmaid dresses and none of them fit her. I yelled at the TV in support of America Ferrera because I’m fat too! I understand your pain, America Ferrara! > > \*“And you know what, Lydia? Just forget about the dress. We can tell everybody that Carmen’s Puerto Rican. And it never occurred to you she might be built differently. Or that, unlike you and your daughter, she has an ass that the tailor didn’t have enough bolts of material to cover, or better yet, just tell everyone there is no Carmen. Carmen doesn’t exist!” \* I cried my eyes out at the second movie, too. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/48 "2009-08-21T18:35:27Z")
Snoopy Come Home gets me every single time. And The Lion King, and Toy Story 2, and Finding Nemo, and The Little Mermaid, Wall-E…just about every stinking animated film ever made. Gran Torino had me in tears several times. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/49 "2009-08-21T18:53:30Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > _Toy Story 2_. The sequence where Jesse sings “When She Loved Me”, as her owner grows up, and forgets her… Oh, yes. Probably the most powerful scene in a warehouseful of powerful Pixar scenes. _A.I. Artificial Intelligence_ had me sniffling and wiping my eyes even as I resented, just a little bit, its efficiency in punching my emotional buttons, especially when the boy is abandoned by his father in the forest, and at the end when he has that one perfect day with his mom and climbs into bed to sleep… forever. In _The Sixth Sense_, near the end when the little boy - Haley Joel Osment again, dammit! - is sitting in the car, explaining to his mom how _her_ mom still watches over them both. _Dark City_, when the hero goes to the pier and sees his true love waiting there for him, radiant in the sunshine after years and years of darkness. _Breaker Morant_, also near the end, when Morant and Handcock silently grasp each other’s hand as they walk to the chairs in which they’ll be shot by the firing squad. _The Fellowship of the Ring_, when Boromir dies after professing his newfound respect for Aragorn: “I would have would have followed you, my brother… my captain… my king.” Aragorn then closes his eyes and says quietly, “Be at peace, son of Gondor.” Good stuff. And _The Iron Giant_, as noted above, for the robot’s last word. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/50 "2009-08-21T19:38:13Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’m looking forward to getting around to renting \*\*In Bruges \*\*because I think he’s probably very good in that. Rent it as soon as possible. He’s fooking brilliant in it! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/51 "2009-08-21T19:39:15Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’m looking forward to getting around to renting \*\*In Bruges \*\*because I think he’s probably very good in that. Incredibly underrated movie. I don’t think you’ll cry or anything, but it was excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/52 "2009-08-21T19:42:45Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > \*The Notebook \*and _Scrooged_ Is it the scene where Murray’s trying to stop his coffin from going into the crematorium furnace? That always gets me. I blame it on the death of a friend of mine when I was 21. First time I’d ever lost someone. Didn’t cry at all at movies until that event happened. Since then, sappy moments get the waterworks going. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/53 "2009-08-21T20:30:52Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I blame it on the death of a friend of mine when I was 21. First time I’d ever lost someone. Didn’t cry at all at movies until that event happened. Since then, sappy moments get the waterworks going. Reminds me of when I first saw “School Daze”, some years after it came out. A group of friends had done a talent show skit of one of the song and dance numbers in college and them one of them died our senior year. Finally saw the movie and lost it at that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/54 "2009-08-21T21:16:47Z")
Almost forgot, I cry every single time at the end of **To Kill a Mockingbird** , when Scout is walking Boo back home, and Bernstein’s score swells, and Stanley’s narration, and the haunting cinematography. It isn’t a particularly sad moment, but it is so profoundly beautiful and perfect that it gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/55 "2009-08-21T22:03:54Z")
Glad to see my thread has passed hit multiple pages. I have a good track record with such things. 🙂 **Drum God** : Sorry to hear about your loss and experience at the movies. Sometimes you just can never tell what’s going to be sad and what isn’t. **SunSandSuffering** : _Gran Torino_ I actually forgot had me tearing up slightly. The scene with the girl (I forgot her name) shows up at her house bruised and with a bit of blood running down the inside of her leg. Rape really affects for me some, being an unraped male, I’m not sure why it affects me so. **Gyrate** : Burst into tears during a live performance? That’s a good way to top everyone else in the thread. 😛 **Maddie** : I have never skipped directly to the confession in _Phone Booth_ but I suspect the effect would not be as great. For me, all the previous build-up is mostly what contributes to my emotional weakness when the time does finally come. Especially once Kelly shows up. The hostage-taker definately screws with his head once Kelly is around and you can see that it gets to Stu. **Hockey Monkey** : Can you tell me the several times that _Gran Torino_ had you in tears? I can only recall the aforementioned scene as being The Big One. People by the way, don’t make me tap the sign: > [@The OP](#): > > 1. Movies that made you cry when you were expecting them to. > [@](#): > > Two things for this thread, the former being the main course. The latter being secondary, as it’s a topic that gets done now and again. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/56 "2009-08-21T22:20:27Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > Is it the scene where Murray’s trying to stop his coffin from going into the crematorium furnace? That always gets me. There’s that, but the scene when he… discovers Michael J. Pollard’s homeless guy Herman frozen to death And of course “Goodnight, Frankie angel”. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/57 "2009-08-21T23:18:04Z")
_The Outlaw Josey Wales_,near the end, when the Union general played by John Vernon, pretending he doesn’t know it’s J.W. he’s talking to, says somethng like “When you do see Josey Wales, tell him the war is over…” The end of _Boyz ‘N’ The Hood_when Doughboy pours out his 40, then walks away…and fades ad vanishes from the scene, just before the screen says he was killed a week later. _Miracle Mile_. When the credits rolled I burst out crying, as much to my surprise as my partner’s, and said "At least the old folks got to have that sandwich together…: The climax of \*Near Dark \*actually choked me up twice–first when the kid vampire is running down the road in broad daylight in flames, and when Jesse and Diamondback take each other’s hand and turn to face the sun and meet their doom together The last minute of _Spun_when the trailer with the Chef in it suddenly explodes. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/58 "2009-08-22T00:13:40Z")
Lilo and Stitch. My poor husband rented it to make me laugh. I was about eight months pregnant and very emotional. When Stitch is left alone and has no family I sobbed. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/59 "2009-08-22T04:42:30Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Lilo and Stitch. > > My poor husband rented it to make me laugh. I was about eight months pregnant and very emotional. > > When Stitch is left alone and has no family I sobbed. The part that makes me cry is the 2-month anniversary of the death of Lilo and Nani’s parents, when Nani sings “Aloha Oe” as they release flowers into the night breeze. Another part that touches me, but I usually don’t cry since I already cried earlier, is near the end when Stitch is saying goodbye to the girls and says “This is my family. I found it all on my own. Is little… and broken… but still good. Yeah, still good.” I just found that scene on Youtube and now I want to cry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/60 "2009-08-22T15:25:28Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > When William Forsythe has been banking on suing the driver who hit him, and finds out his mom has hired some lawyer who won’t get them much. The thing he’s been clinging to is gone and he barges outside and has this impotent rage where he just kind of yelling and sort of crying. I know I wasn’t supposed to like him but I felt SO BAD for him!!! That poor guy. That was one of my first thoughts . . . along with the fact that he was driving his motorcycle drunk and was largely at fault for the accident. As I recall (haven’t watched it for a while), he hadn’t really been aware of that until his friend told him, because he had no memory of the crash. The Wesley Snipes character caused a lot of his own grief too. Awesome movie. I gotta pick it up on DVD one of these days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098.md?page=4)