The first scene I came to think of, reading this title, was in Shadowland , a great picture with the great great Anthony Hopkins, which I saw ten years ago (no, more than that!); a scene which to my surprise is on YouTube …! I’m not sure it’s a good idea watching it out of context, doing so could spoil the film - and the scene itself - but for the fullness of this post, there it is.
“Don’t grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many…”
I can’t help but cry every time I see that scene. It sums up what it means to be a true friend so perfectly. And the man who never showed emotions took exactly 2 seconds to decide what to do when the moment came. He saved his friends at the cost of his own life.
Good heavens, I haven’t seen maybe more than two of the movies you guys have mentioned.
I will second SaharaTea’s Steel Magnolias Sally Field scene. That really did me in as well. I was watching it again with my friend shortly after my friend’s son’s death and it was pretty rough. It was like, I didn’t want to make a big deal and turn the channel, but I wasn’t sure he could watch the scene.
We both made it through the scene, but we were crying.
As far as the other movies, I thank you for a good list of movies to watch when I need some catharsis. I mean that. Thank you for all of the responses so far. I’m tempted to check out the scenes in question on YouTube but I don’t want to spoil the whole movies for myself.
Exactly. I only heard the scene when he was holding the jewelled Nazi pin, and asking ‘How many people is this?’
Add me as another one for the end scene with Schindler in Schindler’s List. That whole movie pretty much wrung me out like no movie ever has before or since.
Other ones:
“When Somebody Loved Me” from Toy Story 2 gets me every time.
The whole scene with the little cat from Allegro Non Troppo. (link goes to a YouTube of the scene)
And yeah, I’ll admit it: the scene with all the ghosts welcoming Rose back at the end of Titanic. I know it’s not fashionable these days to admit to liking that movie, but I do.
In Brokeback Mountain when Ennis finds the shirts and hugs them to his chest.
Also, Shawshank Redemption, where Brooks hangs himself.
“I doubt they’ll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.”
Oh, man, you had to bring that one up, didn’t you?
I clicked on that link sometime this past winter when a Doper was talking about it. Like a doofus I clicked and I’m still not right.
Tell you what, my shrink got an earful that week.
But really, it is a lovely cartoon. I am just so not going to look at it now.
I’m making myself a “movies to cry by” list for moments when I need a good cathartic cry. I will add mine, though I don’t know if “sad” is the right adjective for it: Pay It Forward. I could handle the death; what made me come completely undone was the afterward… I was hysterical for a good fifteen minutes. I did not see that coming.
That was the one I came in to mention. Similarly, although television, Hawkeye’s therapy breakthrough in MAS*H.
:mad: This SHOULD have won best song. When was the last time you heard that Bob Dylan song that won for the Wonder Boys?
When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful.
Every hour spent together, lives within my heart. :o
I read the book. I decided right then and there I was never going to make it through the movie.
The Notebook…oh God, I think I went through an entire box of Kleenex with that one. I absolutely cannot watch that again…I’m too wrung out from watching it the first time!
And Ivylad won’t admit it, but he got some dust in his eyes during **Saving Private Ryan **and Brian’s Song.
How 'bout when Jim Brown got killed in the ‘Dirty Dozen’? It’s about the only moment that it’s acceptable for men to cry in front of each other. Well, at least amongst the ‘Dirty Dozen’ watching crowd.
What about "I know now why you cry…but it’s something I cannot do…" from Terminator 2?
Saving Private Ryan. “Earn this” is some pretty heavy shit to lay on a dude.
Although I have already submitted one nomination for this honor, I would like to suggest another one. I don’t remember the title of the movie; It was a French movie from the 1960s and I think it starred Brigette Bardot. It took place a hundred years or so ago in a small town. A young rich woman,Brigette (or one of her clones), is going to get married the next day. In spite of her beauty she had lived a very sheltered, chaste life. The man she is going to marry has a reputation for having been a womanizer and she is afraid he will be disappointed in her inexperience. She decides to get a little experience by finding someone to take her virginity the night before the wedding. Living in the basement of her father’s mansion is a poor, nerdy tutor who has had a crush on Brigette for years but has never had the courage to say anything to her. She goes down to his room knocks on his door and whispers through the door what she has in mind. The poor tutur who had been lying on his bed fantasizing about the woman leaps from the bed, flies to the door, and pulls on the door handle… which breaks off in this hand. He can’t open the door. The woman tells him to hurry up and open the door or she will have to go find someone else. When he can’t open the door, she leaves to look for someone else. The last we see of the tutor is his anguished form sliding down the door and sitting on the floor with tears coming from his eyes. Damn, I felt sorry for that poor guy!
Yep.
I swear that movie is on weekly around here and I always breakdown in that scene… cry and cry.
No, no, no, don’t feel out of fashion: that is a great scene and a perfect ending to the movie.
I mentioned these the last time a subject like this came up, but here they are again:
The end of the sequence with the blind hermit in Bride Of Frankenstein.
When Kong dies. In the original one.
Last few seconds of Boyz N The Hood. I’m not gonna write it up here because I’m choking up a little bit just from remembering it.
The scene in** 7 Faces of Dr Lao** where Merlin does real magic for the family of hicks, and he’s messing it up because he’s too old to keep it together but it’s real magic and the best show the hicks ever saw but they’re too stupid to realize it and heckle the poor old guy until he’s crying and then leave him there…and the little boy comes up and hugs him…
Aw shit. Now I’m a half step from sobbing all over my keyboard.
Damn near all of The Joy Luck Club but especially the baby in the bathtub, the twins on the road, and Andrew McCarthy’s “I’m listening.”
Field of Dreams when young master Graham steps off the field and becomes Doc. I frigging bawl every time.
Saving Private Ryan when the old man falls to his knees in front of the grave stone.
Pride of the Yankees. You know when the big one is, but the scene when he falls down in the clubhouse and no one moves to help him is crushing.
Every now and then I just need a good cry, and I will watch one of these.
We Were Soldiers - the wives distributing telegrams
And another vote for Saving Private Ryan final scene.