Okay, thanks, I’m crying RIGHT NOW after reading that! I always do that, I open these threads thinking “this time, I’m not going to cry” and then I do anyway. Of course, I’m a big crybaby girl, but still.
This thread was timed nicely. Just this evening, while we were watching an episode of The West Wing, Mr. Del apparently got something in his eye. It was the one:
At the beginning of the second season, when white supremists shot the president, and we see a series of flashbacks to when the various characters started working on the campaign. Josh is waiting for a flight after learning his father died. Martin Sheen shows up to wait with him in the airport, even though he is supposed to be delivering his victory speech.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: when Charlie returns the gobstopper to Wonka, prompting Wonka to whisper, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Hoosiers: Shooter’s (Dennis Hopper) reconcilliation with his son.
i don’t cry at sports movies. i do not watch sports or movies about sports
it starts when juliette says “what’s here? a cup closed in my true love’s hand? poison i see hath been his timeless end…” by the time she gets to “oh, happy dagger! here is thy sheath” i have succumbed.
tangently related, tony’s death in west side story
i agree on the scene where forest is standing at jenny’s grave and talking to her.
I can’t think of many movies, most war movies evoke lots of emotion in me as being part of an ex-defence family and having friends in defence forces I can relate it to people I car about. One episode of Scrubs however, 3x14 My Screw Up, never fails. Talk about an emotional episode. To see a character you have grown to love go through something that bad makes you realise how attached you can get to tv characters
Oh gods yes , and it’s every bit as big of a tear jerker . I watched it several years ago wih a friend and her big , strapping lumberjack-type hubby , and the three of us were blubbering in out popcorn .
My dad cried in the Disney “Homeward Bound” , the remake of The Incredible Journey , when the old Golden Retriever falls into a hole and tells his friends to go on without him , then it shows the other 2 pets returning , and the little boy scanning the horizon , looking for his dog . sniff The Golden comes hobbling over the hill , that we had a room full of sobbing adults .
An Affair to Remember. The irony was that Sleepless in Seattle was loosely based on An Affair to Remember.
Mr. Ruby’s Achilles heel was A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristopherson. Kristopherson’s character commits suicide in the movie and I don’t think Mr. Ruby has ever forgiven him for it.
They may have mentioned An Affair to Remember, but I believe they were talking about The Dirty Dozen in the scene cosmosdan is talking about. Remember when they were getting all weepy talking about James Brown throwing the grenades down those airholes?
I meant to mention that scene in Edward Scissorhands when we see Edward, back in the attic of the mansion on the hill, making an ice sculpture of Kim dancing.
But when I was submitting The Champ, something got in my eye.
I didn’t bawl, but I did go pacing around the house asking “Why? Why?” every couple of seconds for two hours. Man, it was a distressing documentary. When Hotel Rwanda came out, I thought they should have just put Ghosts of Rwanda on the big screen instead. Admittedly, I boycotted Hotel Rwanda for several reasons, so that’s probably not quite fair.
The other Frontline that I’ve had to pace out was the reproduction of an old (incomplete) British film that they broadcast this spring. It had been made quite literally upon WW2’s end, and it talked about all the death camps under the Germans. Unlike with today’s documentaries, this one showed the victims and the bodies every time they talked about them, so it was an hour of corpses. Just sick.
I don’t really cry when seeing films, not out of toughness but because I go numb before I can reach the point where I’d cry.
My Life. I have only seen my brother cry over two movies - this is one of them. I was watching it on HBO a fews years back and he came in and joined me. It was his choice, I never said or did anything to make him watch it. By the end of the movie we were both blubbering idiots, and as he walks off into the kitchen he says, “goddammit, why’d you make me watch that?”
The other one was Free Willy. My dad took me to see it and made my brother go when it came out in theatres (I was 9, he was 11). I was sniffling through the entire last half of the movie, but my brother totally lost it when the kid threw that big soda bottle at Willy.
Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark will do me in every time. Not a “something in my eye” movie, that. More of a “The riot police seem to have unloaded a canister of pepper spray in my face when I wasn’t looking” thing. Sweet jesus.
Grave of Fireflies is good for a lump in the throat and blurry vision.
I Am Sam, too.
Ah, crap, I ain’t foolin’ anyone. I’m a weepy nancy-boy.
I get a little misty in the scene when Momma Lovell (played by Momma Howard) snaps out of her senility and says if they were able to get a washing machine in the air her Jimmy could land it.
I’m afraid thats not what I was talking about. The charecter played by Hanks’ wife get’s all weepy when talking about that movie earlier in the scene. Later Hanks and the other actor start talking about some macho guy flick and mock her by weeping. What movie were they talking about when they mocked her?
AHHHHH I believe you’re right. A bunch of the guys in TDD got killed in that scene.
Thanks. I thought Sleepless in Seattle was an okay movie. Thats my favorite scene. Very funny.
