I was watching AI on TV tonight and remembered how the first time around it made me bawl my eyes out - the ending with the little boy completely alone and never able to see his mommy again made me so sad, and then he got his wish to see her one last time.
Other films that have reduced me to blubber:
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[li]Brokeback mountain - the hugging the shirt in the closet bit[/li][li]LOTR Return of the King - the bit where Aragorn says “my friends, you kneel to no-one”, so powerful![/li][li]Stranger than fiction - it really is a moving film, Will Ferrell aside.[/li][/ul]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the first movie I can think of. I also cried while watching Persepolis yesterday.
I cry fairly easily though. I remember crying buckets during the Sailor Moon episode where Uranus and Neptune sacrifice themselves for … something or other, I can’t even remember the details. But it was sad. Really.
Yes. Also the episode where Fry wrote “I Love You” to Lela, by moving the stars themselves around, and nobody saw this. Sad.
Jurassic Bark really got to me. Don’tchew be messin’ with no dogs, hea’ !!
And of course “Old Yeller”
I don’t go to movies very often, so this is ancient history, but I was totally blindsided by “When She Loved Me” in Toy Story 2. There have been lots of films that have caused tears to course silently down my cheeks. In this case, I was working hard to make sure those around me didn’t hear my sobs.
I keep wanting to download “When She Loved Me” from iTunes, but I know I’ll bawl every time I hear it.
I’m not much of a weeper, but for some reason, no matter how many times I see it, and for reasons I don’t understand and can’t explain, Donnie Darko reduces me to big, snotty, heaving sobs.
My elementary school had a peculiar fondness for showing Where the Red Fern Grows every year (a dead dog(s) movie). One year I actually ran away from school and went home b/c I couldn’t bear to see it again.
Ditto on Brokeback.
Life is Beautiful almost killed me. Shan’t be watching that ever again.
Terms of Endearment, when I saw it in the theatre with my mom.
Nowhere in Africa, a German(?) film was wrenching for me.
A TV series, but: the last episode of “Six Feet Under” had me on the floor sobbing for two hours afterwards.
Forrest Gump, when Forrest is talking to Jenny’s grave about how their son is growing up…
We Were Soldiers, and movies of their ilk…Saving Private Ryan (especially the end when Matt Damon’s elderly character is standing at his long-dead captain’s grave and asks his wife “tell me I lived a good life”…)
As a vet, many of these realistic war movies that depict the all too real suffering that wars cause is usually enough to get me sobbing, especially after a few beers…
I saw this right after my childhood pup had died in a somewhat gruesome manner. I cried even more at that than the Gilmore Girls series finale. As far as movies go, The Hours had me crying my eyes out the whole time. I watched it by myself (something I rarely do) and had a snotty lil blubberfest. Happiness (Todd Solondz is a freakin sadist, I swear) made me wish I’d never been born, let alone watched this movie about awful awful things.
I’ve been sad at countless scenes in movies. But as an adult I’ve cried only twice.
Once was during E.T. Not when he “dies” but at the scene where the kids reveal him to their mom. As mom makes everyone back out of the room E.T. reaches out an cries. He’s sick, dying, and now he’s being abandoned.
Anyone remember Ryan O’Neal in Barry Lyndon? The scene where the dying boy asks his parents to stop fighting with each other, then the shot changes to his funeral procession, as the music swells loudly? I turned my head and lay it down on my husbands shoulder and started to bawl! It was worse because
I just didn’t expect it.
Brassed Off, especially the ending. You see, my father played in a brass band in England, and my grandfather played in a band that won Best Band in England several times. Dad moved from Lancashire to America when I was a child, but that music is what I grew up with and what’s in my soul.
I tear up at the last scene of Rocky – when he wins his girl and you hear the announcer saying he lost the fight, and you know that doesn’t matter one bit to Rocky.
