Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[bee]

Schindler's List is an absolute weeper, which reminds me of how bad I am with Saving Private Ryan. Mind you, I cried every. single. time I saw the preview for that. I cry at previews, oh yes. I cry at almost anything and lots of times have to pretend I'm not. Sometimes it puts me off watching films again. Some movies I listen to the soundtracks and cry, I don't even need the actual movie in front of me.

I have been oddly surprised at my liking for 50 First Dates and absolutely bawl at the end. I like its non-perfect but still perfect ending.

[strawberrylover]

Me too! I cried soo hard at the end of 50 First Dates. Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler were so sweet together.

It's like their obnoxiousness and quirkiness cancelled each other out or something.

[jennipoo]

...which reminds me of how bad I am with Saving Private Ryan. Mind you, I cried every. single. time I saw the preview for that.

Oh.... the scene where the mother sees the military vehicles coming up the lane is agony. it was bad enough when I first saw it but now I live in a house just like that one and my kitchen window faces our road. I don't think I could watch that scene again.

[india7]

Oh, God, that part just killed me, Jenni! When she sees the cars, and she just very slowly sinks down onto the porch, because she knows why they're coming - my heart just broke.

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duskwolf said:

Also, I get really teary during Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind when JC and KW are under a sheet and JC is trying to hold onto that one memory of them and he says something like "Please let me keep this one." Gah!

I always tear up during the scene when Clementine and Joel are under the sheet. The way she talks about the ugly doll she had as a kid and which she used to call Clementine gets me every time. And then of course Joel begging to let him keep this one memory of Clemetine makes everything even worse. I love this movie so fucking much.

[ijustworkhere]

Finding Nemo is devastating from the beginning all the way through, and especially all the parts with Dory. "I remember things better with you, I do, I do. When I'm with you, I'm home. And I don't want to forget that." And then when Nemo finds her swimming in circles, crying, saying she doesn't know where she is and she thinks she lost someone but she doesn't know who. Holy crap, the agony! I also cried in both Ice Age movies, the first one when the baby is reunited with its father, and the second one when Queen Latifah's character flashes back to being a child all alone under a tree when her family all froze to death, and she convinces herself she's a possum instead of a mammoth because it's too painful to remember. Gah! Kids' movies in general have the power to emotionally destroy me.

Braveheart. "Mercy, William, say mercy." "FREEEEEEDOM!" And Murron slowly walking through the crowd and smiling at him. Just the music in that scene will send me over the edge. Too bad Mel Gibson was what he is all along... I used to have such a crush on him.

I cried so hard in Moulin Rouge I started choking.

The aforementioned moment in Hotel Rwanda, when Joaquin is walking out to the bus and the bellhop tries to shield him from the rain with an umbrella-- "No, please! God, I'm so ashamed." Oh my lord, it was like somebody punched me. The breath left my body.

In Cry, The Beloved Country, when the dead white kid's father comes to see James Earl Jones, whose son killed the other man's, and JEJ realizes who the man is, and just... sort of collapses. I need to stop watching movies set in Africa. I can't even go near The Lion King. My reaction when Simba pulls on dead Mufasa's ear was so visceral, I think I frightened the other moviegoers.

My most embarrassing movie crying moment was when I was, I dunno, five or six? My family rented Look Who's Talking Too and when the boy saves his baby sister from the fire, I burst into tears and couldn't be calmed. I was just so relieved!

[crivens]

I probably shouldn't watch it as often as I do, but I always cry when Littlefoot's mom dies in The Land Before Time. In fact, I don't stop crying until the end. Then comes the Diana Ross song, so time to start crying again.

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The ending of Once Were Warriors (the fate of the daughter and aftermath) had me in near-hysterics. I made the awful decision to watch that movie the evening before a PhD comprehensive exam (what the hell was I thinking?) and my mind kept drifting back to the movie periodically as I was taking it. (It all turned out okay, but still.)

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Well, I might have something to add to this thread in a few days. Earlier today, I got the DVD of Two Brothers.

I was reading some reviews of Eight Below and someone mentioned Two Brothers as another tearjerker flick featuring beautiful beasties (in this case, tiger sibs).

I checked out a few reviews of it and apparently it's a pretty good movie overall, but definitely rough-watching in spots.

I plan on "treating" myself to a cry-a-thon, double-header this weekend, since I'll be taking a look at the tigger's saga and rewatching the heartbreaking, but excellent, Ruffian, tv movie that turned me into a blubbering fool back when it first aired in June.

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Edward Scissorhands:

Kim: "Hold me..."
Edward: "I can't...." and then she hugs him...

The Crow, when Eric emerges from his grave and wanders around his apartment while remembering what happened to him and Shelly.

Transformers: The Movie, when Optimus Prime dies...and to a lesser extent, when Starscream pitches Megatron out into space and nobody objects to it...

Beyond the Mat. I've been a wrestling fan for as long as I remember and it hurt even more to see how much Jake "The Snake" Roberts' demons have consumed him (especialy when tells us how he was concieved because his dad had raped the daughter of the woman he was dating at the time when she was 13, I believe), Terry Funk unable to let go and retire despite his age and his mounting injuries and Mick Foley watching a tape of one of his matches with his family and sees their tearful reaction to his vicious beating and says: "I don't feel like a great dad anymore..."