Forrest Gump is a minefield of tears for me. Two parts stand out especially.
Forrest is dragging the soldiers out of the woods one by one after the attack. Lt. Dan demands that he stay where it’s safe. Forrest pulls away yelling “I gotta get Bubba!”.
Forrest discovers he is a father. He then asks Jenny “Is he smart…or…” and then points to himself.
Ah, add that one to my list.
I get it too. When I’m hungover I’m like a manic/depressive. I’ll be all hyper one minute, but then weepy over little things.
I cried during Ladder 49, but I’m pretty sure everyone in the theater did. You had to be made of stone not to shed a few tears on that one.
Rudy
Gets me every time, when the crowd starts chanting “Rudy! Rudy!” and then the coach puts him and he’s makes the big play.
I bawl like a baby, and I’m very much not a crier.
:wally You know what I mean.
I also forgot to mention my other tearjerker, which is from BtVS season 5 - The Body. When Buffy finds her Mom on the couch, I lose it every time.
Whatever you do, don’t watch **Truly, Madly, Deeply ** unless you’re alone with a new box of kleenex.
And the VW Touareg commercial? Where the couple goes up to the top of the mountain to take a picture for the little old lady tourist whose bus has broken down?? Yeesh.
DeHusband is a wee bit inclined to mistiness (whereas I am the hormonal wunderkind). He’s been known to tease me when I get weepy over the end of Amazing Race, for example, tossing kleenex at me. But without fail, every time he watches the opening sequence to The Lion King, he loses it. *The Circle of Life * - even when watching the clip in The Disney Store. I just love him.
My heart must be made of stone because I did not shed one tear, although everybody in my theater did as well. I guess it’s because I saw the ending a mile away.
And yet, I cry everytime I see the movie Babe.
“That’ll do pig.”
Yes, I cried when Gollum died.
Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan.
Ivylad admits he got a bit sniffly during Brian’s Song. I think that’s the typical gut-wrencher for the guys…if that doesn’t make you bawl like a little girl, you have no soul.
Moving this from IMHO to Cafe Society.
FYI, Jackson never directed a single trashy horror movie, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
I didn’t mean it as a criticism. There was something on TV about his previous directorial achievements. I’m sure they were good films, it’s just that the clips looked like they were low-budget and involved tomato-sauce type sfx. That’s what I mean by ‘trashy’.
For me it’s when Anya gives her little speech (Very roughly: )- ‘I was having fruit juice and I thought that Joyce would never get to have any, and it doesn’t make any sense!’ That was when I started sniffing. (Actual lines appreciated)
Also Dancer in the Dark. From when Selma starts ‘A Few of my Favourite Things’, up 'til the end, and was a mess. The last half hour of LotR:RotK makes me cry, but then the end of the book makes me sob so I wasn’t surprised. Explaining why the ending is so sad makes me well up a little, which is kinda embarrassing.
They were extremely effective and smart parodies of trashy movies. More specifically, they were parodies of movies in which special effects take center stage, rather than keep their more important place as support for the plot and characterizations. The fact that he was so obviously aware of how NOT to use special effects made it very clear that he was the right choice for the director of LOTR.
Do you mean that theoretically?
If not. I always thought it was the other way round. LotR was his life ambition and that that was the sole reason for the creation of these movies.
Your implication (deliberate or accidental) is that the intent to make films of the book was not made by Jackson, and that the people who made it chose jackson to realize it.
(For those not in the know, MacTech is quoting The Iron Giant, which is both awesome and tear-jerking. I’m getting misty just thinking about it.)
For me, the moment in RoTK that most makes me tear up is when the riders of Rohan show up, and Theoden gives his speech, and then they start yelling DEATH!!!
A few others:
-The execution at the end of Braveheart, particularly when Mel’s dead wife shows up in the crowd
-The last scene of the last episode of My So Called Life (and many other moments)
-The end of season 5 of BtVS
-The previously mentioned scenes from Les Miz, but more than them, the ghost of Fantine showing up to thank Valjean for raising her daughter in love, then calling him home. Oh. Man.
That got to me, too. I’d read the books, and I knew it was coming, but I was still fighting back tears during his death scene.
Nyah. That’s not just a guy thing. My father was dying when I saw that movie. He had taught me to love baseball. The movie really connected with me and the tears were long overdue. I went back to see it two more times. The last time was two days before he died. I took to carrying a baseball around with me after that.
One day a visiting minister at our church gave a sermon based on the themes of Field of Dreams. After the service, I just walked up to him and handed him my baseball. A few minutes later while we were having coffee, he asked me to autograph it for him, and I wrote “Go the distance…” and signed my name.
That was fifteen years ago. To this day I am very aware of how much that movie helped me through a really difficult time in my life.
In chronological order:
The funeral procession for the little boy in Barry Lyndon. They cut directly to it from his deathbed scene, where he says the one thing he wants is for his parents to stop fighting.
In ET. its not his death scene, but where the kids take their mom to see him in the bathroom. She’s scared, and forces them all out, and ET gives this moan and reaches for them. He’s cold, sick, dying, cut off from his people, and now he’s being abandoned.
The third one is at a quote from my favorite television show(now canceled). I’ll bet you know what it is.
“Well, look at that, sun’s coming up.”
I pretty much never cry at ‘sad’ death scenes or anything like that… and I rarely even cry about real life stuff unless it’s something REALLY bad… but some stuff always gets me:
Maybe it’s “guy crying” or something. I have no clue.
-K.