I know I’ve probably gone through this before here, but here goes…
Ditto on both of those.
The only one I feel like a big baby for is the old couple holding hands on the bed in Titanic. The others are compeltely justified:
Mufasa’s death. (“C’mon, Dad, get up!”)
Outside the mines of Moria, after Gandalf’s Fall.
Boromir’s death. (“They took the little ones!”)
Sam chasing Frodo into the water. (“I made a promise!”)
The death of Edward Scissorhands’s father. Grave of the Fireflies The Doomsday Book The Maxx #35 (Final issue)
The end of A.I. Schindler’s List Hunchback of Notre Dame - Quasi singing “Heaven’s Light” The Iron Giant - “Superman!” and “I am not a gun.” Toy Story 2 - Jessie’s Song
Nothing like a good cathartic weep… er… And football and power tools. Yeah. grunt, grunt.
As for scenes in “Titanic,” when the lead violin player says “Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure playing with you” and they all split up–then he starts playing by himself and they all come back. Whammo! It gets me every time.
The only song that’s ever made me cry in-and-of-itself (without help from a pre-existing bad emotional state on my part) is Roger Waters’s “Watching TV”, about the Tiananmen Square massacre. This is despite the presence of both Don Henley and a few really cheesy lyrics among the otherwise good ones. If nothing else, the sample partway through from an audiotape smuggled out of China after the massacre (a student leader saying “'People in China, do not forget, do not forget the children who died for you. Long live the Republic!” in Chinese) gets me every time.
It doesn’t make me physically cry, but anything about about little kids losing pets. For instance, HBO did a movie about a family where the dad is in the Mafia, and they go into the witness protection plan. When the Men In Black come to take them away,
they won’t let the three-year-old daughter take her puppy. Much crying and howling ensues; it just tears me up inside.
Since we had kids, anything having to do with kids losing their parents or vice versa makes me bawl like a baby. Watching the pictures of children who died in the planes hijacked during 9-11 made me cry on and off for days.
The scene at the end of The Royal Tenenbaums where Chas and Royal are kneeling down next to Chas’ new dog, and he looks up at his father and says “I’ve had a bad year.”
From The Simpsons: Mr. Bergstrom telling Lisa why he has to leave. Also all of Maggie’s photos at Homer’s station.
I repeat, that’s disgusting and vile. If I was the prosecuting attorney, I’d put a woman who did that in jail for 20 years without batting an eye. You don’t kill in vengeance. If she wanted to off him, she should have waited with a gun concealed nearby and watched for him to make an aggressive move. That way it would have been self-defense. Otherwise it is just vengeance. Reason is, there is no way to know for sure that a person will take any act in the future. You can’t know for certain that someone who has previously been a domestic abuser won’t suddenly have an epiphany and change his ways, never to attack again. Unlikely, maybe, but possible. So for all you know, you’d be taking the life of someone who was never again going to harm you. Therefore, it is only moral to kill in self-defense, which means the immediate apprehension of death or serious bodily harm.
Of course, in real life he’d be in JAIL if he violated a restraining order, the cops take this stuff pretty seriously nowadays, and at least in my county the district attorney is especially vigilant about these sort of cases.
You’re talking like a lawyer, which is fine, but y’know, in the real world, If I’m kicked in the stomach every day for a few days straight, I’m going to assume that I’ll be kicked today. If I’m afraid for my life, even if I don’t have a gun in my face, I’m going to do something about it. Is it “disgusting and vile” because, legally, she’d go to jail? That seems to be your point. I think it’s disgusting and vile BECAUSE she’d go to jail.
The part of the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th, where it slows down and the chorus starts singing “Seid umschlungen. . . . MIL-LI-onen. . . dieser kuss den . . . GAN-ZEN Welt. . .” makes me want to cry/ believe in a god.
Sam Barber’s Adagio
Rutger Hauer’s character’s soliloquy at the end of Bladerunner when he knows he’s going to die and explains how he’s seen things we will never see and it will all be gone
Ok, hell, the end of the Futurama episode about Fry’s dog?! What did they do THAT for?
It’s funny-- I study art but I can’t think of a piece that makes me feel that emotionally. . . I wonder if I’ve overanalysed the stuff to death?
Lots of gin. . .
Several points in the obscure movie Liar’s Moon, when I know what’s about to happen, particularly the ending.
After the ship had gone down in Titanic, and they were in the sea together, before he drifted away. The girl I took to see that film didn’t shed a tear-we never dated again.
The ending of Cool Hand Luke.
When the deaf mute boy gets killed in The Last Picture Show.
In “To Kill a Mockingbird” when all the black people in the gallery in the courtroom rise to their feet as Atticus makes his way down the center aisle.
I’ve read “To Kill a Mockingbird” once or twice a year since I was in college, and I tear up every single time.
And certain episodes of ‘Little House on the Prairie’. Don’t ask me to give any specifics, but I do remember boo-hoo-hooing during some of the more highly emotional scenes. And needing lots of kleenex.
Everything makes me cry! I’m a big baby. Lifetime Channel movies…Hallmark commercials…that commercial with Rod Stewart singing “Forever Young” with the baby animals…in Stephen King and Peter Straub’s book The Talisman when Wolf dies…when Johnny comes back at the end of Dirty Dancing…whenever a man cries…father-son hugs…
Jon Voight’s death scene in Franco Zeffirelli’s The Champ. Hell, practically every five minutes in The Champ.
Hearing a recording of E. B. White reading Charlotte’s farewell to Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web.
Reading the last page of Charlotte’s Web myself.
Ice sculpting in the loft at the end of Edward Scissorhands.
Frying bacon while naked.
Dopers coming through for Polycarp when RTFirefly spread the word that he (Poly) would be offline indefinitely.