My Dad bawled like a baby when he watched Turner & Hooch.
The Autobiography of John Wayne Bobbitt…:eek:
for real-
“Schindler’s List” still gets to me, esp. the end you know,
I could’ve…one more
“Gonna go watch Grave of the Fireflies now. Wish me luck.”
So what did you think about it?
Myself I thought it was really sad but also really beautiful. Though I may be in a minority here, I thought that the very final scene was moving rather than tragic. The tragic part was the “Home Sweet Home” sequence a little earlier.
I think GOTF achieves true greatness because it’s more than a tear-jerker about two orphans dying slowly during a war, though it’s a damn effective tear-jerker as well.
Movie: THE IRON GIANT
THE GIANT: Hogarth–you stay. I go. No following.
(THE GIANT turns and flies up into the atmosphere to confront the nuclear missile and give his life for the people of Rockwell. HOGARTH watches him go.)
HOGARTH: I love you.
ME: (To my friends:) Kleenex, please. Oh, shut up. Oh, f#%@ you, give me the f#%@ing Kleenex, dammit! (I dissolve in helpless sobs.)
What a wonderful scene.
Oh, I don’t think this really counts as film, but the end cut-scene from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time always gets me going…
It’s sooooooo sad, he’s done all that, and he has to go back in time when he doesn’t even know Zelda… Poor little lnk. And then it all freezes when he first meets her…
sigh
Henry V
Private Ryan
What Dreams May Come
The Postman
Braveheart
Cool Runnings
I didn’t know it was a book!
So I can’t really answer you.
But I get weepy, so…
61 makes me cry every time I see it. I cry at the beginning and then at the end. Don’t know why. I do know this movie is one of the reasons I don’t like the Yankees.
October Sky, especialy at the end when you find out The science teacher died of cancer.
If you are not moved by “When she loved me” in Toy Story 2, you have no soul. (ok, maybe a bit of an exageration)
Brian
Sorry to bring back such an old thread, but I just remembered what is likely the saddest movie (and book) ever made:
Johnny Got His Gun.
It’s the story of a WWI soldier who had an artillery shell land right in his foxhole. He went home Blind and Deaf, with no arms, legs, face, jaw (so he’s mute too), etc. Almost entirely cut off from the world, but still fully conscious and aware.
He spends the movie remembering happy scenes from his life and trying desperately to communicate with somebody. He finally realizes that he knows Morse Code, and starts hitting his head against the pillow in an attempt to talk to his doctor.
His message?
K…I…L…L… …M…E… …K…I…L…L… …M…E… …K…I…L…L… …M…E…
Anybody who isn’t moved by that film truly has no soul.
P.S. It’s the movie used in the video for “One” by Metallica, and was probably the inspiration for the song lyrics.
When Luke is pleading for help from Darth Vader in the final showdown with the Emperor in ‘Return of the Jedi’.
‘12 Monkeys’: The airport shooting
The soldiers getting decimated in the opening scenes of ‘Saving Private Ryan’.
‘Silent Running’: The little robot wandering around at the end of the movie with a little flowery watering can, watering the plants…damn starting to get teary just thinkin about it…
Dances With Wolves–the farewell at the end.
Out of Africa–the bit at the end about the lions on the grave.
A League of Their Own–the reunion of the sisters.
FOTR–Boromir’s farewell, among others.
Schindler’s List–the gift of the ring and everything afterward.
City of Angels–“I’ll tell them it was you.”
The Two Towers–Smeagol and Gollum.
What Dreams May Come–Chris decides to stay with Annie.
Excalibur–Arthur’s farewell to Guenevere:
Huh? How is “my king” clunkier than “my liege?” Besides, he had to say “king” because it was a refutation of his earlier line, “Gondor has no king–Gondor needs no king.”
Mr. as_u_wish gets misty eyed at a number of scenes in Fiddler on the Roof. I’m surprised that one hasn’t been mentioned.
my husband cried during I AM SAM.
Dr. Rieux: Something about calling the king “King” to his face sounds wrong to my ears. You tell someone else “He is my King, and I fight for him!” or something along those lines, and it’s passable.
My Lord, Milord, My Liege, Your Highness, Your Majesty…
Any of those works better than My King, when you’re addressing the man with the metal beanie.
Like I said, it was minor, but it bugged me.
[sub]I see where you’re coming from, I think. Boromir was telling him, “You are my brother, my captain, and my king.” But it still sounds goofy to me, the way it was filmed.[/sub]
I teared up last night watching Parenthood. Now that I’m a dad a lot of the scenes make more sense, and are funnier too.
Actually, I tear up at tons of movies. I get into them and let them sway my emotions. At other times I can be the tough guy.
-Tcat
Other Michael Bay films with tear-jerking moments:
The Rock - When Nicolas Cages girlfriend is waiting for him in the control center while the jets start theit bomb run on the island.
Pearl Harbor - About half way through when I realized there were still 2 hours left in the movie
:(I will see your Gallipoli and raise you one All Quiet on the Western Front (remake).
When Ernest Borgnine dies
When the main character at the end is reflecting on how all his friends are either dead or crazy, stares up at a passing bird and BLAM!!!
and of course
:(“Ahh know now why you cry…but it is sahmthing I can never do…” (* (cue the music… lowers into the smelting pit…big thumbs up…display goes blank and… scene)
This might not be one that many people will remember, but there was a 1990 movie called “Flashback.” Dennis Hopper stars as an Abbie Hoffman-type 60s radical who is still on the run from the FBI, and Kiefer Sutherland is the federal agent that is trying to bring him in.
There is one scene where they end up at a 60s commune where, it turns out, the Sutherland character spent part of his childhood. As they are walking up the path to the commune, the Jefferson Airplane song “Coming Back To Me” is playing. It turns out that there is just one 40 or 50-something hippie woman still living there. As someone who was born too late to have experienced this era first-hand, but who nevertheless believes very strongly in the ideals of the era, this scene made me weep. The Jefferson Airplane song is a rather sentimental one, and really adds to the emotional impact of the scene.
Field of Dreams does it for me as well. Both my dad and my grandpa on my dad’s side were very into sports, including baseball/softball. Although I was not a very talented athlete, their love of sports was definitely passed down to me.