Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[ang]

It must be hormones, but Im watching Star Wars: The New Hope, and I got teary when Luke blew up the Death Star.

Geez, what a dork.

[underjoyed]

dwanollah said:

"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.

See, now, I get weepy at the scene in Return of the King, where Faramir leads an attack against the Orcs, knowing they've got no chance and they're going to die. It's juxtaposed against Pippin singing that beautiful little "All shall fade" song.

Futility of war, y'all. Gets me sniffling.

[dwanollah]

It's juxtaposed against Pippin singing that beautiful little "All shall fade" song.

Totally. I think that's one of the best-edited pieces of film ever... like, on par with the whole baptism scene in The Godfather. I get goosebumps just remembering the look on Pippin's face as he breaks down at the end....

[billdozer74]

This part in The Green Mile

John Coffey: You know, I fell asleep this afternoon and had me a dream. I dreamed about Del's mouse.
Paul Edgecomb: Did you, John?
John Coffey: I dreamed he got down to that place Boss Howell talked about, that Mouseville place. I dreamed there was kids, and how they laughed at his tricks! My! I dreamed those two little blonde-headed girls were there. They 'us laughing, too. I put my arms around 'em and sat 'em on my knees, and there 'us no blood comin' outta their hair and they 'us fine. We all watch Mr. Jingles roll that spool, and how we did laugh. Fit to bust, we was.

made me cry like a 3-year-old with two skinned knees. Seriously, there were full-on, culred-up-into-a-fetal-position, so-glad-I-was-alone-at-the-time, gut-wrenching *sobs*, y'all.

[codert]

Why did I watch My life on demand.

Near the end when his parents arranged for the circus in his backyard made me lose it.

[Deleted]

Parenthood has a lot of those moments for me - when the grandfather asks Kool if he wants to live with the grandmother and himself, and at the end with the new baby being born (the surprise!) . . . tears, man. It's one of my favorite movies.

[luckylexie]

The final scene of The Color Purple never, ever fails to reduce me to tears of joy and sadness. The car driving up the dirt road; Celie wondering who might be in that mystery car. Then, seeing the passengers standing there, the women's colourful garb blowing in the wind and Celie's realization that it's her sister. Running towards each other, through the fields of purple blooms. Tears, man, tears. Then, just as I think I've got it together, the final shot of Celie and her sister playing patty-cake like they did as little girls... oh, my God, I just lose it all over again. The music, too, it just pulls at the heartstrings. *sob*

TCP was on last night and I immediately thought of posting in this thread!

[dwanollah]

I blubber like a fool at the end of The Color Purple. Don't tell anyone I said so!

[ernestine]

In Mask when Cher is trying to write a letter to her son who is at camp but she's too high to do it and she's so flustered and she dictates this really childish letter to Sam Elliott to send for her. It's so pathetic, and you really get the feeling that despite what a lowlife she is, she really does adore her son and want to do right by him, she just has no idea how to do it. I always start crying during this part.

Cher deserved an Oscar for this movie.

[Mutagen]

firstaid said:

AMELIE When the old man on the video tape tells her to essentially go after the man she loves before it is too late.

Oh, yes! Even when I know it's coming, even when I'm reading subtitles... that packs a punch.

Actually, the moment in Amelie that REALLY gets me is when the real Bretodeau (?) finds his box of childhood memories in the phone booth. I have no idea who that actor is, but the quick, immediate reaction on his face when he realizes what the box is just knocks the wind out of me.