Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[groovethang]

No matter how many times I see While You Were Sleeping, I still tear up near the end when Sandra Bullock objects to the wedding and then says why she kept up the pretense of being Peter's fiance. It makes me sad when she chokes up when saying they gave her a family when it's something she hasn't had for a very long time.

[Cranky Old Broad]

Same here, groovethang. No longer having my parents contributes, I'm sure. But I love that movie. So sweet.

The one movie that will make me weep every single time is Return of the King. It starts when Merry tells Gandalf, "I didn't think it would end this way" or some such and Gandalf's gentle reply. It continues when Sam picks up Frodo "I can't carry it for you but I can carry you" and by the end of the movie, watching the ship sail away, I'm a blubbering mess. But I have to be honest...the music alone will make me cry. I'm Howard Shore's bitch, I tell ya.

[india7]

bonsai said:

I'm seriously questioning my sanity. Mary Poppins came on t.v. over the weekend. I started getting tears in my eyes during the Feed the Birds song.

But it's a lovely song, and a very sad one, about a very sad character. I don't think there's anything wrong with you crying over that.

Yes, Sense and Sensibility when Elinor learns that Edward isn't married...and also the end with all the happy couples

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I think the board ate my post! Because I think you're replying to my post about what a great cryer Emma Thompson is in Sense and Sensibility, and now I can't find it. Damn board! (*Shakes fist*) But anyway - yes! The happy couples at the end, and Emma Thompson crying her eyes out once again at the news that he's not married. Love it, but I cry along with her.

[Shanmac]

I always cry during "While You Were Sleeping." Always when she tells them that they made her feel like she was part of a family again, and again at the end when we learn she got to go to Florence. Oh, Sandy, why must you tug at my heartstrings llike that?

[groovethang]

This morning, Against All Odds came up on my iPod so it reminded me of how much I bawled like a baby at the end of that movie when I saw it in high school, all because Jeff Bridges was supposed to stay away from gorgeous Rachel Ward and they could never be. They were so scorchingly hot together.

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I'm so glad to hear the Feed the Birds = Crying support! I think the part that put me over the edge is when the birds are flocking around her and she smiles so happilly at them and even strokes them, like they're her family. Her only family... Oh, shit... Here I go. I'm outa here to take a brisk walk. But I warn the world at large -- If I so much as set eyes on a bird I'll burst out sobbing.

[dwanollah]

"All around the cathedral, the saints and apostles, look down as she sells her wares. Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling-"

*wail!*

I was teary during various parts of the LotR movies, too. "No parent should have to bury their own child" kills me, as does when Eowyn sings that dirge at the funeral. When the Fellowship stumbles out of the Balrog's cave after losing Gandalf, and Aragorn is urging them to continue, and Boromir is all "For God's sake, give them a minute, asshole!" When Frodo tells Sam to go home in RotK, and Sam just looks shattered.

The first time I saw LotR:FotR, though, I'd only read the first book in the series, and hadn't yet started TTT. So I didn't know that my favorite character Boromir, was killed, and in such a tragi-heroic way! I was too shocked to cry! I was in a funk for DAYS, y'all.

Then again, I was in a similar funk when I read the part about Gandalf's death in Fellowship, so there you go.

I realize this totally makes me sound like a DomLijah 'shipper squeeing fangirl ILOVEYOUORLIIIIIII, but really, I'm not.

[india7]

Gah!

[Shanmac]

hen Frodo tells Sam to go home in RotK, and Sam just looks shattered.

Waaah! That totally broke my heart. Poor Sam.

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solly79 said:

barrie said:

What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams. Very sad.

Oh my God, yes. And the thing with this film is...there are so many scenes that make me actually sad, as if all these people really existed. When Robin Williams' character starts talking about the man his son might have become I cry every time.

When he first is in heaven and the his old dog comes running over to him and jumps on him. I started to cry so hard. Or when he finds his wife in "hell".