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Strange topic, I know but I have a few:

The ending of Star Trek (reboot) where Mr Nimoy says the famous phrase and the Enterprise shoots off into space.
The ending of The X Files: I Want To Believe with Gillian Anderson smiling at her patient as if to say "I'm going to heal you."
The ending of Uwe Boll's Darfur where life is found in a dead village....  :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:
The ending (and indeed the prior ten minutes) of To Heal A Nation...... yowza.
The ending of Jans Rautenbach's Katrina ~ if you don't cry at the end of that, you don't have tear ducts in your head.

A couple of these have always gotten to me but I get way more emotional while watching movies than I used to.

The "Superman..." part of The Iron Giant which was basically at the end.
The Elephant Man - Adagio for Strings makes it worse!
House (1977) - The last couple minutes or so, I don't know why, but it gets to me and I can't explain it.
Save the Green Planet - The closing credits!  Combination of lovely music and touching scenes reflecting the life of the main character.  Just makes the whole strange film hit home all of a sudden.  It's actually heartbreaking.
Ran - Where Tsurumaru is on the edge of that cliff.
I may have cried at the end of Changeling (2008).  I don't know, I cried a few times during it.

I'm sure there are others, but those came off the top of my head.

Imitation of Life (1959) - the coffin, the daughter. That was just too much. I cried like a baby  :bluesad:

Marley & Me- the only movie I can think of that had me going.

Except for maybe Brian's Song.

The Elephant Man, Rocky, Stand By Me

THE IRON GIANT - self-explanatory
SECONDHAND LIONS - when Walter realizes Garth wasn't making that stuff up after all. 
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS - when Chaz says "I've had a rough year, Dad." to Royal; not right at the end but pretty close
UP - actually I started crying at the "married life" montage and just didn't stop

I'm gonna cheat a little and count TV - the veterans being interviewed at the end of BAND OF BROTHERS.  "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war? Grandpa said 'No, but I served with a company of heroes.'" 
God, I got misty just typing that!

Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3, Field Of Dreams, Return Of The Jedi

The end of Gladiator and the Crow made me well up a little. But I swear I was drunk!

Titanic.  There I said it.  It wasn't an actual cry, it was a tears welling up sort of thing.

Yeah, I know - I'll never live this one down.   :tongueout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLiIehpLnE

Quote from: Jack on January 12, 2012, 02:12:40 PM
Titanic.  There I said it.  It wasn't an actual cry, it was a tears welling up sort of thing.

Yeah, I know - I'll never live this one down.   :tongueout:

I didn't cry at the end, but in the midst of the ship sinking there's a bit where a random man is putting his kids on a lifeboat, and he tells them he'll be on the next boat, knowing full well he won't be....that got to me.

Also, the ending to Harry & Tonto (1974).

     The President's speech in INDEPENDENCE DAY.

The Champ

The ending of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN  (and the beginning . . . )
The end of RETURN OF THE KING
About the middle of THE PATRIOT, where Benjamin Martin's little girl, who has refused to talk to him during his entire visit, runs after him cryihg "I'll say anything!  I'll say whatever you want!  Jut don't leave!"  I BAWL at that one every time!
And the end of GLADIATOR.

TOY STORY 3 is the only one I can think of at the moment.

I think we may have done a topic or two similar to this in the past. Most stuff doesn't really get to me today but the following have made me shed a few tears.

Old Yeller - if this doesn't move you, you haven't got an heart.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters - when the Oxygen Destroyer is released. So much sadness and sacrifice in those scenes.

King Kong - pretty much a given - the end on the Empire State Building.

Hollow Triumph - a film noir from 1948

And I might not have cried but the following also left me feeling very bleak (yet they remain some of my all time favourite films):

1984 (1984)
Blade Runner
12 Monkeys
Brazil
Soylent Green
Requiem For A Dream

more from me: Toy Story 3, Up, It's a Wonderful Life, Life is Beautiful, Schindler's List, Into the Wild, Finding Nemo, The Green Mile, Gran Torino, Spartacus, Leon: The Professional, Paths of Glory, My Neighbor Totoro, Cool Hand Luke and How To Train Your Dragon

the ending (more or less) of MRS DOUBTFIRE, when the kids suddenly realise "she's" their dad. I literally cannot watch this without crying

can't think of any others!

Also:  ROB ROY, LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992), PAN'S LABYRINTH

Dancer In The Dark

Elephant Man

      I know this wasn't an ending, but it made me cry when I first saw it, and still want to cry now-

     I was three or four the first time I saw FRANKENSTEIN, the '31 Karloff version. I cried when Fritz was torturing the creature with the torch, and my mother thought it was because I was scared,and she wanted to send me to bed....
I was crying because he was being treated so mean, and he hadn't done anything.

     Also, the endings of....
the original KING KONG
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
SON OF KONG
THE COSMIC MAN, when the alien makes the little boy able to walk again, after all they'd (we'd) done to him.

Did I mention that I also teared up at the end of ZOMBIELAND when Woody Harrelson finally got his Twinkie?

I never actually cried at the end of a movie, but there were a few that really depressed me. The ending of Deathdream was both creepy and very sad. Also, the ending of Threads was pretty devastating as well. Someone mentioned Requiem For A Dream, I agree with that one. The ending of The Deer Hunter was probably the closest thing that almost brought me to tears.

Labyrinth gets me. The David Bowie/Jennifer Connelly film directed by Jim Henson.

Quote from: HappyGilmore on January 13, 2012, 09:31:55 PM
Labyrinth gets me. The David Bowie/Jennifer Connelly film directed by Jim Henson.

Saw this one in the theatre. Great movie! And Jennifer Connelly, yum!

Jennifer Connelly...drools...

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRSla1RaEiM

Every single time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_Vsmqf6X8

I've cried during movies, but not at the end.

However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Terminator 2 came close.  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is another.  I basically never CRY CRY, just get misty eyed. 

I forgot about the (for me, anyway) emotional ending to Jurassic Park with Laura Dern and Sam Neill seeing the birds flying over the ocean and then that glorious shot of the helicopter flying off into the sunset..... wow: I blubbed then in the cinema and I still do. The other scene that does it for me is the scene where the scientists see the dinosaurs for the first time.

Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

Yeah, that's pretty much the litmus test to determine whether someone has a soul or not.

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince when Dumbledore dies.  That whole scene and everything behind it gets me a bit teary eyed.

Sidenote, I'm glad I'm not the only one for Finding Nemo.  When Nemo swims back to hug his dad completely and utterly DESTROYS me.  

I noticed a lot of Toy Story 3 nominations too, I was literally hyperventalating in the theater when Andy was giving his toys away to the little girl.  

LOTR ROTK when everyone bows to the hobbits.  

Not an ending but when I went to go see the re-release of Star Wars in the theater I cried at the beginning.  It was just a thrill seeing the scroll on the big screen for the first time. This behavior followed me through all the prequels which of course ending up blowing.  

I watched "Cats & Dogs" with my sons last night and the scene @ the end where the heroic dog "Lou" has seemingly perished but is brought back to life by his boy tearfully whispering "You're my best friend!" gets me every time.

This one doesn't exactly make me cry.  It makes my gut hurt.  Here is the ending of BICYCLE THIEVES (1948)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_lJbSJoIuw

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

Yeah, that's pretty much the litmus test to determine whether someone has a soul or not.

I bet my wife once that she would cry at the end of an episode of Futurama, and only having a passing familiarity with the show (but knowing it only as a goofy cartoon from the Simpsons guys), she said "no way."  I showed her this one of course, and she was a goner (not to mention me).

I guess another one that I didn't see mentioned would be kind of an obvious one – Sophie's Choice...

I didn't exactly cry, but I was sad after watching Kowalski slam into the two bulldozers running 110 mph in "Vanishing Point"

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

Yeah, that's pretty much the litmus test to determine whether someone has a soul or not.

I've never seen that episode so I googled it and yes, I would cry after seeing that ending.  :bluesad:

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

Yeah, that's pretty much the litmus test to determine whether someone has a soul or not.

I've never seen that episode so I googled it and yes, I would cry after seeing that ending.  :bluesad:

I came pretty close myself. I read some behind the scenes stuff on that, originally it was supposed to be his mother instead of the dog, but it was agreed (and rightfully so) that it would have been beyond depressing. Apparently they still got a lot of hate mail from people who cried over it, to the point that it was later retconned via time travel.

Marley and Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7HZgqpH9E&feature=related

This isn't the exact ending.  The real one was only availabe in Spanish.  But, this is the best English version I could find.

The ending of The Shawshank Redemption always gets me good.

Quote from: DS on January 16, 2012, 12:03:18 PM
LOTR ROTK when everyone bows to the hobbits.  

"My friends, you bow to no one." That was great.  :smile:

Oddly enough, the ending of The Wild Geese with Richard Burton talking to his dead friend's son always gets me.

The last few minutes of Armageddon [from "We win, Gracie!" to the end] always leave me blubbing. It's a combination of the good acting, great music by my homeboy Trevor Rabin, great cinematography and the fact that I am a complete wussy when it comes to emotional film endings.*

* I actually blub as much as Michael Clarke Duncan does at the wedding.  :wink:

Quote from: DS on January 16, 2012, 12:03:18 PMNot an ending but when I went to go see the re-release of Star Wars in the theater I cried at the beginning.  It was just a thrill seeing the scroll on the big screen for the first time. This behavior followed me through all the prequels which of course ending up blowing.  

Not an ending: I experienced the same phenomenon when I saw "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in the theatre the day it was released.  I was overcome by the feeling that it was back after so many years and that feeling lasted through the whole opening sequence.  (Yes, I had a lot of emotion invested in the original series!)

Quote from: Newt on January 27, 2012, 08:28:17 AM
Not an ending: I experienced the same phenomenon when I saw "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in the theatre the day it was released.  I was overcome by the feeling that it was back after so many years and that feeling lasted through the whole opening sequence.  (Yes, I had a lot of emotion invested in the original series!)

Although I was only 12 when I saw STTMP in 1979, I liked it then and it is IMO better than the so-called Director's Cut.

We watched Free Willy last weekend. I'd never actually seen it before, so I was kind of surprised by how moved I was by the ending. Didn't cry, but definitely got a little weepy.

MASK (1985)

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Quote from: Newt on January 27, 2012, 08:28:17 AM
Not an ending: I experienced the same phenomenon when I saw "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in the theatre the day it was released.  I was overcome by the feeling that it was back after so many years and that feeling lasted through the whole opening sequence.  (Yes, I had a lot of emotion invested in the original series!)

Although I was only 12 when I saw STTMP in 1979, I liked it then and it is IMO better than the so-called Director's Cut.

You young pup, I was 15 when I saw it   :teddyr:  I also liked the original better than the Director's Cut.  Unfortunately it's the Director's Cut I've got on DVD.

Another film - not an ending - was 2 Days In The Valley.  A guy is going to commit suicide, and his little dog is there barking at him.  And he's explaining to the dog how he'll have to take care of himself, and I think apologizing to the dog.  Oh man, I'm a softy for sad scenes with animals.   :smile:

Quote from: DS on January 12, 2012, 12:12:56 PM
Return Of The Jedi

Oy, the memories.....Luke seeing his father and his mentors keeping a fond eye on him, even Yoda seems to be smiling.... that got me too but it's a good sad feeling: they've gone, but they're still there.  :bluesad:

Damn, now I've gone all  :bluesad:

Quote from: Jack on January 31, 2012, 05:26:07 PM
You young pup, I was 15 when I saw it   :teddyr: 

I checked my maths and yes I did see it when I was 12, so I am a young pup.  :teddyr:

Police Academy. When Mahoney and the rest of the misfits graduate and finally earn that salute from Lt. Harris, I swear, I just lost it.

Quote from: Trevor on January 27, 2012, 08:42:39 AM

Quote from: Newt on January 27, 2012, 08:28:17 AM
Not an ending: I experienced the same phenomenon when I saw "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in the theatre the day it was released.  I was overcome by the feeling that it was back after so many years and that feeling lasted through the whole opening sequence.  (Yes, I had a lot of emotion invested in the original series!)

Although I was only 12 when I saw STTMP in 1979, I liked it then and it is IMO better than the so-called Director's Cut.

I will say one thing for the Director's Cut - until they'd added the new effects, I could never figure out what the hell V'Ger was supposed to look like as a whole. They only had extreme close-ups and weird angles.

Can't say ST:TMP affected me very much emotionally when I saw it, although on later viewings I did discover a fetish for bald women.

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

Yeah, that's pretty much the litmus test to determine whether someone has a soul or not.

I've never seen that episode so I googled it and yes, I would cry after seeing that ending.  :bluesad:

I came pretty close myself. I read some behind the scenes stuff on that, originally it was supposed to be his mother instead of the dog, but it was agreed (and rightfully so) that it would have been beyond depressing. Apparently they still got a lot of hate mail from people who cried over it, to the point that it was later retconned via time travel.

Yep that one got me to and I came very close to crying in The Sting episode.

Another ending that got me going was the ending of Cool Runnings where the Jamaican bobsled team become the heroes of the Winter Olympics despite coming in last.

German competitor: "You done good Jamaica: we'll see you in four years, yah?"
Derice: "Yeah, mon!"  :teddyr:

That is what the Olympics is all about.  :thumbup:

Quote from: Trevor on February 02, 2012, 08:40:25 AM
Another ending that got me going was the ending of Cool Runnings where the Jamaican bobsled team become the heroes of the Winter Olympics despite coming in last.

German competitor: "You done good Jamaica: we'll see you in four years, yah?"
Derice: "Yeah, mon!"  :teddyr:

That is what the Olympics is all about.  :thumbup:

Ah yes, the hard-won respect of the most skeptical rival. Can't remember if there was a slow clap involved. :teddyr:

Believe it or not, there is also a Jamaican dogsled team. It figures that Jimmy Buffett would be their main sponsor. http://www.jamaicadogsled.com/ (http://www.jamaicadogsled.com/)

Quote from: The Burgomaster on January 31, 2012, 04:32:22 PM
MASK (1985)

How DARE you bring that one up?!?!?  I've spent years trying to forget the ending...

"These things are good: ice cream and cake, a ride on a harley, seeing monkeys in the trees, the rain on my tongue, and the sun shining on my face. These things are a drag: dust in my hair, holes in my shoes, no money in my pocket, and the sun shining on my face. "

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Quote from: Trevor on February 02, 2012, 08:40:25 AM
Another ending that got me going was the ending of Cool Runnings where the Jamaican bobsled team become the heroes of the Winter Olympics despite coming in last.

German competitor: "You done good Jamaica: we'll see you in four years, yah?"
Derice: "Yeah, mon!"  :teddyr:

That is what the Olympics is all about.  :thumbup:

Ah yes, the hard-won respect of the most skeptical rival. Can't remember if there was a slow clap involved. :teddyr:

There was indeed: later becoming loud sustained applause: great ending.  It was also sad that CR was one of the late great John Candy's last movies.

Big Fish made me weep like somebody I loved had just died.

The ending of Billy Jack teared me up a little, with all the kids saluting Billy as the cops drove him off. It didn't help me at all seeing Barbara (I think it's her but I'm unsure) cry as well.  :bluesad:

Strangely, the final moments of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors made me bawl, especially Patricia Arquette hugging Heather Langenkamp, sobbing and saying "Don't die, I'll dream you into a beautiful dream..."  :bluesad:

The South African film Ipi Tombi with its' heart tugging (for me anyway) final aerial shot of the glorious Victoria Falls in full flow, sun glinting on the water and a lovely rainbow in the sky made me blub for home. Add to that the choir singing over that shot and I was on the floor, sobbing.   :bluesad:

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was kinda sad at the end.

Not necessarily a 'sad' cry, but more like, cries of cheers cause the heroes won, etc, and the playing of Van Halen's song "Dreams". 

I don't know if I've mentioned this one but the last ten minutes of the TV movie To Heal A Nation based on the Jan Scruggs book absolutely wipe me out. From the time where a stone worker finds her brother's name on the panel that she's cleaning to the final scenes where veterans meet up at the Wall's opening: wow.....   :bluesad: :bluesad:

Class Action-This Gene Hackman courtroom drama is not an amazing film but god did it make me cry multiple times. 
Causalities of War-Some ppl dislike the ending to this one but it worked for me. At the same time hopeful and depressing.
The Shawshank Redemption-Just a perfect ending to a perfect movie.
Terminator 2-Haha haven't seen this in a while but when I was younger I remember always getting teary at this finale.

     THe ending of THE LAST SAMURAI, which was also the only movie I could stand Tom Cruise in.

     I got verclempt at STAR TREK !V: THE VOYAGE HOME, when Kirk gets busted back to Captain, and gets his ship back.

Rocky 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

This here- the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
Ok...yer thinking-"quit joking,Ronny."
I aint joking.
I actually teared up seeing her in the back of the truck laughing like a maniac.
She gotta way. She got away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bWZhvvZQM

Tina and me watched it-cuz she aint never seen it.
She was yelling "RUN! RUN!RUN!OH MY GOD HE'S SO CLOSE" through a good part of the film.
She was actually cheering when Maryilyn Burns found the truck drivers-(she wondered-which I always did-"Where did the semi driver go?"-I love watching horror films with greenhorns! Like logic comes first,or something!  :twirl:) And at the end she teared up-made me tear up.

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    I got verclempt at STAR TREK !V: THE VOYAGE HOME, when Kirk gets busted back to Captain, and gets his ship back.

I cried in the scene where Kirk and company crash, release the whales and the whales save the earth and swim away. I really blubbed there and still do ~ despite a smile at Mr Nimoy breaking character and grinning like a loonie when he lands in the water.  :teddyr:

The ending [My friends: we've come home] also got me good.

The end of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN always has me blubbering like a baby.  Especially when the older Ryan turns to his wife and says "Tell me I've been a good man."

The ending of Blade Runner has made my throat tighten up and my eyes sting.  It isn't so much the words themselves, which are awkward (although the originally scripted soliloquy is worse).  It's the sudden reversal of it all... the show of humanity in death, and in the delivery of it.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."  (time to die.)

I haven't seen that film in so many years.

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Quote from: alandhopewell on July 12, 2012, 01:18:12 PM
     I got verclempt at STAR TREK !V: THE VOYAGE HOME, when Kirk gets busted back to Captain, and gets his ship back.

I cried in the scene where Kirk and company crash, release the whales and they save the earth and swim away. I really blubbed there and still do ~ despite a smile at Mr Nimoy breaking character and grinning like a loonie when he lands in the water.  :teddyr:

The ending [My friends: we've come home] also got me good.

     Exactly- not just the characters, but the franchise came home.

Quote from: RCMerchant on July 12, 2012, 08:07:59 PM
This here- the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
Ok...yer thinking-"quit joking,Ronny."
I aint joking.
I actually teared up seeing her in the back of the truck laughing like a maniac.
She gotta way. She got away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bWZhvvZQM
Tina and me watched it-cuz she aint never seen it.
She was yelling "RUN! RUN!RUN!OH MY GOD HE'S SO CLOSE" through a good part of the film.
She was actually cheering when Maryilyn Burns found the truck drivers-(she wondered-which I always did-"Where did the semi driver go?"-I love watching horror films with greenhorns! Like logic comes first,or something!  :twirl:) And at the end she teared up-made me tear up.

There's really nothing to compare that film to.  Despite all the rip-offs, it's possibly negative influence, the naysayers, and dimwits, and it's relentless terror, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE is a brilliant, beautiful, important film. 

I actually got a little misty last time I watched Apollo 13. In particular, it was the monologue at the very end, when Lovell talks about still looking up at the moon and wondering when people will return, and who it will be.

Spock's funeral from Star Trek The Wrath Of Khan

"His was the most......human......"

Add to that William Shatner choking up as he said it and a close up of Kirstie Alley crying: that was not acting, that was real.   :bluesad:


From Star Trek 111 The Search For Spock:

"Jim...... your name is Jim......."  :bluesad: :bluesad: but also a  :smile: and a  :teddyr:

I rarely cry, but I've known to be close to tears with some movie endings. "Saving Private Ryan" and the last "Star Trek" movie with Nimoy delivering the opening monologue from the series have already been mentioned, but one that always gets me is the ending of "Carlito's Way". Yes, the gangster fil starring Al Pacino. And I'm not the only one, I saw it last time with a friend and he started looking desperately for handkerchiefs while calling me all kind of names, because I was the one who had chosen the film. He's a very tough man, which added to the hilarity of the moment. Although he later admited to me that the ending of "Million Dollar Baby" had left him devastated.

Oh, and also the end of "Empire of the Sun". Seeing a young Christian Bale not being able to recognise his parents after everything he's gone trhough is just too much for me.

The end of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.  $150,000 gone kablooie.. (sniff)

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The end of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.  $150,000 gone kablooie.. (sniff)

:teddyr: :teddyr:

The ending of Local Hero with the telephone ringing in the call box and Mark Knopfler's Going Home playing on the soundtrack.  :bluesad:

The ending of The Iron Giant had some tears coming out. The Robot is the hero and dies a noble death.

The ending of The Winners (South Africa: 1972) where the physically and emotionally exhausted Will Maddox is urged across the line by everyone in the stadium, all set to Frank Sinatra's My Way. Yowza.....  :bluesad: :bluesad:

Oddly enough, the ending of Manhunter where Will Graham is reunited with his wife and child and the song Heartbeat plays on the soundtrack gets me every time. They've been through hell and survived and you think that Will had killed himself by the riverside, then: all is well.

     Not an ending, but the sequence in the original GODZILLA showing the devastation of Tokyo, with the children's choir over it.

Rewatched Warrior today, and wow this is one sentimental film! Despite being on the surface about fighting this is a film about family relationships and what happens when they are severed. There are at least 3 or 4 parts that get me teary but by the end its full on waterworks folks!

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Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 14, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
I've cried during movies, but not at the end.
However, I did cry at the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Oh yeah, that's a great one.

a lot of people I know have cried at the end of "Jurassic Bark."

Yeah, that's pretty much the litmus test to determine whether someone has a soul or not.

I've never seen that episode so I googled it and yes, I would cry after seeing that ending.  :bluesad:

I came pretty close myself. I read some behind the scenes stuff on that, originally it was supposed to be his mother instead of the dog, but it was agreed (and rightfully so) that it would have been beyond depressing. Apparently they still got a lot of hate mail from people who cried over it, to the point that it was later retconned via time travel.

I just made the mistake of looking for that on Youtube; now I'm blubbing so much that I can barely type.  :bluesad: :bluesad:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uU7-X0iHes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uU7-X0iHes)

If I got the link wrong, blame me: I can barely see, let alone type.  :bluesad: :bluesad:

I've seen Chinatown 4 times and the final scenes get me so worked up.  Makes me sad and angry...god, I love that movie.  I teared up when I watched Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind recently.  Hmm, what else...It's a Wonderful Life,  All Quiet on the Western Front, The Tree of Life (actually several minutes after the film had ended when I got in my car), The Land Before Time, um, I'm sure there are others.

The ending of Platoon with Charlie Sheen's voice over and the footage of him in the helicopter.  :bluesad:

Not outright crying but RED TAILS got me a little teary.
the original MUPPET MOVIE and (I'm not proud of ths) the Sesame Street movie FOLLOW THAT BIRD
FINDING NEMO
THE PRINCE OF EGYPT -- for some reason only war movies and childrens' movies seem to affect me.

As for tv, apart from BoB,  the "Night of the Meek" and "Big Tall Wish" episodes of TWILIGHT ZONE, the "Mission Accomplished" and "Final Grades" episodes of THE WIRE, and of course that damned "Jurassic Bark"

Quote from: ChaosTheory on September 02, 2012, 01:24:04 PM
and of course that damned "Jurassic Bark"

Reply #87 has a link to that.  :wink:

The ending of the Mist destroys me.  Seeing the Dad do that to his son...  to give up the fight.

Near the ending of Children of Men, where all the fighting stops, all the soldiers stop shooting, just listening to the cries of a child.  Such a good movie, such a good book.

Pan's Labyrinth, where the General kills the hunter, and seeing his Father cry out in anguish. And again at the end.

Surprised I forgot this one: "Helsinki," the closing segment of Jim Jarmusch's NIGHT ON EARTH. Devastating.

Not an ending, but I did cry out in agony when Hugh Jackman kicks the limb-regenerating mutant in the cobblers in X Men The Final Stand and says "Grow those back."  :buggedout: :buggedout: :teddyr:

I watched Toy Soldiers (1991) the other day and got all misty eyed at the end: not a sad ending but a kind of a happy sad.*

* I should just add that I got upset when one of the actors playing one of the rebel school kids gets shot.  :buggedout:

     The end of STAR TREK: NEMESIS.

Quote from: ChaosTheory on September 02, 2012, 01:24:04 PM
for some reason only war movies and childrens' movies seem to affect me.

Then you should never watch the South African movie Shangani Patrol with its' very sobering ending.

GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (1948 GERMANY YEAR ZERO) has the most devastating ending in all of cinema.  If you have not seen this film, do not look at this clip.  For it's full effect you must watch the entirety of this masterpiece of Neorealism; it will change the way you think about movies, and maybe change your life. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgBFvxfiz_E

Been watching a few of the more recent Disney movies with the family. Didn't expect them to affect me that much, but the endings of Lilo & Stitch and Mulan both had me a little weepy.

I hate to admit it but I blubbed at the final episode of Scrubs last night.

It's a Wonderful Life did it to me again a few days ago.

Quote from: bob on December 21, 2012, 01:47:34 PM
It's a Wonderful Life did it to me again a few days ago.

Me too. And I was watching it with my daughter, so I was trying like crazy to be inconspicuous about it. She gave me a couple of funny looks but never mentioned it.

I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

I saw Les Miserables yesterday and I'll admit that my eyes got watery 3 or 4 times during the movie.

Quote from: The Burgomaster on December 30, 2012, 06:51:57 PM
I saw Les Miserables yesterday and I'll admit that my eyes got watery 3 or 4 times during the movie.

That happened to me when I saw the play: that ending when everyone is singing ~ wow.

I have to admit, I saw Charlotte's Web with Dakota Fanning on Christmas Day and yes, I blubbed. I actually am terrified of spiders but I did cry.

Exterminator 2, because I realized I had wasted almost an hour and a half of my life watching it.  I actually prayed for forgiveness for wasting any of the precious time God gave me to watch that movie.  Seriously.

Quote from: akiratubo on January 03, 2013, 03:16:18 AM
Exterminator 2, because I realized I had wasted almost an hour and a half of my life watching it.  I actually prayed for forgiveness for wasting any of the precious time God gave me to watch that movie.  Seriously.

:teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:

I have to warn you that there is an Exterminator 3 aka Out On Bail.  :buggedout:

The ending of an old Shaw Brothers martial arts film called Avengng Eagle, when Ti Lung finds out that Fu Sheng was helping his fight his enemies for his own reasons, and not out of the goodness of his heart. A good lesson on accepting help from strangers.

Not a full movie, but the ending of the Little Rascals short "Birthday Blues" when Dickie Moore hands his mother the birthday present he wound up ruining the house for. A great short filled with true pathos.

And yes, the ending of "It's A Wonderful Life" when the little girl gives the speech about the angel getting his wings every time a bell rings.   More as I think of them..

I don't think I've mentioned the final scenes in Michael Mann's Heat with the one character holding the other's hand as he dies and Moby's God Moving Over The Face of The Waters playing on the soundtrack. Wow.

I cried at the end of SUPER. 

The ending of an old animated movie called "Plague Dogs" about a pair of laboratory dogs on the run after they escape the doctors that were experimenting on them. 

Be warned: if you love animals, this movie will make you cry.  It's a very cruel movie on all levels and these dogs go through hell when all they wanted was someone to love them..

I always forget to include the ending of Harold Ramis' Analyse That in this thread. It makes me cry for several reasons.

1. When I saw it, I was horribly homesick having left South Africa for the first time since I arrived here in 1987. I was on the plane flying home from Frankfurt when I saw it and was desperate to get home.
2. The horrors of 9/11 were still vivid in my mind: I saw this in March 2002.
3. The final scene that starts with Billy Crystal waving goodbye to Robert DeNiro and Joe Viterelli and then pans across the scarred skyline of New York  :bluesad: : I started blubbing in the plane and the guy in the seat next to me moved away.  :smile:

the only ending that ever made me cry was the one in Mary and Max

There's a lot of movies that made me cry or get teary-eyed, but Toy story 3 got me bad.

I cried in the middle and at the end of The Dark Knight Rises (2012), where Bruce Wayne finally makes the leap from prison, and during the end sequence where the will is read, Bruce's fate is discovered, and Robin inherits the Batcave.  I saw TDKR in a midnight screening on the day of release, after watching the first two back to back, and found the experience very emotional.

I also admit to crying in the middle of Michael Bay's Transformers (2007), where the Autobots burst through the atmosphere and assume their new forms.  That sequence moved me greatly for some reason, even though it wasn't an overtly emotional scene.  Even now it still gives me shivers of joy.

The end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), where James Bond holds the body of his new bride and the screen fades to black.

Quote from: indianasmith on July 13, 2012, 08:48:17 AM
The end of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN always has me blubbering like a baby.  Especially when the older Ryan turns to his wife and says "Tell me I've been a good man."

Ditto. I actually was watching it with my kids and hadda go into the bathroom cuz I didnt want my kids to see me blubberung.

Stardust.

They become king and queen and when they die, they become stars to shine over their land!

Awww!

bridge to teribithia,i cried like a baby!

Marley and Me (2008) very nearly made me cry. It did make my girlfriend cry.

Voices of A Distant Star: It just made me tear up at the end.

The Glacier Fox: Because most of the adult foxes didn't survive save for one adult male and his dad. It is a very sad and painful movie to watch about the glacier fox family as they die off one by one in very cruel ways.The first half of the movie is very beautiful at the beginning when the male fox meets the vixen, but in a deceptive way. A fox cub who is blind is the first one to die, when he gets too close to the ocean and is swept away. Then the vixen loses her life due to a leg trap and bleeding to death after tearing her leg off trying to get away. the father is left to raise the pups on his own to adulthood. The other cruel deaths take place after the foxes become adults and have long since left the dad.

E.T.:Whenever E.T. hugs Elliot in the end before leaving for his spaceship makes also tear up.

Ben:I cried when I saw this because of the rats being killed with the flame throwers when I was kid, and the boy with the heart condition crying thinking Ben is dead. Even though Ben shows up in the boy's room, he's still in bad shape and you don't know if he gets to live or not. The Jackson Five song didn't help either.

The Golden Seal: This one started the water works because the boy is crying because he has no choice but to let the seal mom and her pup leave, otherwise his father and the other hunters will try to kill them for their golden fur. He had become attached to the seal after both the dog and her puppies die from an illness earlier in the film.

Toy Story 3: I had to hold back my tears because of being in a dentist office surrounded by other people.

Parts of movies that made me cry:

One I can think of is the Neverending Story. The part where Atreyu's horse Artax becomes sad, and sinks into the Swamps Of Sadness. And the part later on where the Rockbiter says"They look like big strong hands,don't they?" to Atreyu. Then he explains to him he was trying to hold to his friends, the man with the racing snail and the troll with the stupid bat. But the Nothing snatched them away, and so he's now sitting and waiting for it to take him away as well.

Dumbo: The whole scene while Baby Mine was playing especially while Dumbo's mother cradles him and rocks him in her trunk.

TV Shows:
Now And Then, Here And There: I couldn't watch all the episodes, they were too painful for me to go on. The ending theme song always gets to me every time.

Futurama: Jurassic Bark, along with the space bee episode (where Fry supposedly dies and keeps telling Lelah to wake up), and the episode where Fry thinks that his brother had stolen his 7 leaf clover and his identity. But then he discovers that it really was his nephew named after him, when he goes to his grave.

Fullmetal Alchemist:Night Of The Chimera's Cry episode. When Edward and Al run after Nina who was turned into a chimera by her selfish and greedy father, Tucker, only to be too late in trying to save her. Scar had felt her pain when he found her in the alleyway, and decided to end her suffering by placing his hand on her head,and using his powers to blow her to pieces.

The happy / sad ending of Fluke always gets me good and that wonderful score: wow.

I wonder what Brother Odinn7 would think of Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of a squirrel?  :teddyr:

Life is Beautiful (How has this not been mentioned?)
UP (Didn't see that one coming at all)
The Pursuit of Happiness (If you are a father of a son and don't cry at this movie, check your pulse)
Million Dollar Baby (Man that one was depressing)

I hate to admit it, but the ending of Firestarter -where Drew Barrymore goes to the New York Times building, looks up and says "I'm doing it, Daddy: I love you" - yowza. I saw that this morning and I got all choked up waiting for the bus later.

Watership Down, The Green Mile, Armageddon, The Passion of The Christ, ... and a few others.

Friends with Benefits....

I'd tell you if the forum had a "spoilers" option that hides my post.

:wink:

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.....There's a punch in the gut.

The ending of Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields  :bluesad: :bluesad: but also very much  :smile: :smile:

Sydney Schanberg: "Forgive me?"
Dith Pran: "Nothing to forgive, Sydney. Nothing."

Add to that John Lennon's Imagine over the sequence and you have one blubbering South African.

Gladiator (2000)  :twirl:

Wreck-It Ralph.

Quote from: DeepBlueNothing on May 26, 2013, 10:30:27 AM
Voices of A Distant Star: It just made me tear up at the end.


Ben:I cried when I saw this because of the rats being killed with the flame throwers when I was kid, and the boy with the heart condition crying thinking Ben is dead. Even though Ben shows up in the boy's room, he's still in bad shape and you don't know if he gets to live or not. The Jackson Five song didn't help either.

Agreed. Ben limps into the boy's room, squealing in pain and discomfort as the song plays in the background. That was very heart-wrenching seeing it as a young boy.Seen it in the theatre, cried, and my father made fun of me on top of it. He's an idiot that's been re-married 5 times anyway, so the joke's on him, lol

Quote from: DeepBlueNothing on May 26, 2013, 10:30:27 AMThe Golden Seal: This one started the water works because the boy is crying because he has no choice but to let the seal mom and her pup leave, otherwise his father and the other hunters will try to kill them for their golden fur. He had become attached to the seal after both the dog and her puppies die from an illness earlier in the film.

Yeah, that and the one Benji film where the hunter kills the mountain lion, and then Benji finds the orphaned cubs and carries them out to safety by the backs of their necks one by one.

Quote from: DeepBlueNothing on May 26, 2013, 10:30:27 AMDumbo: The whole scene while Baby Mine was playing especially while Dumbo's mother cradles him and rocks him in her trunk.

Give the man 64 dollars. That one hit us all.

I'll add the end of Dances With Wolves, when Wind-In-His-Hair is on top of the hill on his horse, shouting 'Dances With Wolves' over and over again in Lakota as Costner is leaving the camp. It was magnificent scenery too, on his horse holding the spear over his head as his hair was blowing in the wind. Made me truly proud to be American, and still does.

Godzilla vs. Destroyer, when Godzilla melts down at the end as they play his swan song in the background, as he lets out that one final pain-filled growl and just dissolves into radioactive glitter. It was the end of our old, original buddy  :bluesad:


TV Shows:

Leave it To Beaver: Whenever Ward would punish Wally and Beaver, or sit them down and calmly and gently explain the facts of life as the orchestrated music played inthe background. I won't go into a long bit, but let me say abut Ward, "now there's a father."  The last TRUE American family sitcom, period.

More as I think of them.

Men In Black 3 got me

Quote from: bob on December 29, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

I always cry from the time that Red decides to change his life for the better ("Get busy living or get busy dying") to the end. In fact, I'm getting a little misty-eyed just typing this, remembering the first time I saw this.  :bluesad:

The ending to Field Of Dreams was pretty emotional too.

I'm a little embarrassed but the ending of this made me cry the other day:

(http://forgottenflix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/electricdreams2d.jpg)

I always liked the song Together In Electric Dreams but it did always make me a little misty-eyed and I never thought that it might be connected to the Steve Barron film. I was watching the ending on Saturday and the scene starts where Lenny Van Dohlen and Virginia Madsen's radio goes on the fritz, leading the computer Edgar to say "Hello, hello: This is dedicated to the ones I love" and then the song starts: I blubbed hysterically.  :bluesad:

I should also add that there is a shot of a fire-boat seemingly exploding with water fountains and that also made me blub.

Quote from: bob on December 29, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

This sub-plot was what I carried away from the film the most. The whole Brooks segment reminded me of what could happen if you live a life with nothing to show for it, and nobody to miss you when you're gone. What Red did at the end and in the above photo was beautiful, and a fair reminder that none of us are ever truly alone regardless of how we may feel sometimes.

Toy Story 3 - When Andy gives his toys to the little girl
Taegukci (Brotherhood) - When Jin-seok finds the remains of his brother.

The Muppet Christmas Carol made me blub over the weekend.

12 Years a Slave gets pretty tough too at the end.

The other day Her did this to me....good thing I was sitting in the back row of the theater.

Ugh...  Points to the one who mentioned Life is Beautiful.   (Mari?).  The way that one ends...  I have no words.

Quote from: zelmo73 on November 16, 2013, 01:51:24 PM

Quote from: bob on December 29, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

(http://galeri.uludagsozluk.com/30/brooks-was-here_42047.jpg)

This sub-plot was what I carried away from the film the most. The whole Brooks segment reminded me of what could happen if you live a life with nothing to show for it, and nobody to miss you when you're gone. What Red did at the end and in the above photo was beautiful, and a fair reminder that none of us are ever truly alone regardless of how we may feel sometimes.

I get misty eyed at the beginning of SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I think, "Oh poor me, now I'm going to have to watch SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!"

Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 15, 2014, 10:09:27 PM

Quote from: zelmo73 on November 16, 2013, 01:51:24 PM

Quote from: bob on December 29, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

(http://galeri.uludagsozluk.com/30/brooks-was-here_42047.jpg)

This sub-plot was what I carried away from the film the most. The whole Brooks segment reminded me of what could happen if you live a life with nothing to show for it, and nobody to miss you when you're gone. What Red did at the end and in the above photo was beautiful, and a fair reminder that none of us are ever truly alone regardless of how we may feel sometimes.

I get misty eyed at the beginning of SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I think, "Oh poor me, now I'm going to have to watch SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!"

Again I say: you're the only person I know that doesn't like Shawshank.  :smile:

Quote from: Trevor on February 19, 2014, 07:28:04 AM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 15, 2014, 10:09:27 PM

Quote from: zelmo73 on November 16, 2013, 01:51:24 PM

Quote from: bob on December 29, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

(http://galeri.uludagsozluk.com/30/brooks-was-here_42047.jpg)

This sub-plot was what I carried away from the film the most. The whole Brooks segment reminded me of what could happen if you live a life with nothing to show for it, and nobody to miss you when you're gone. What Red did at the end and in the above photo was beautiful, and a fair reminder that none of us are ever truly alone regardless of how we may feel sometimes.

I get misty eyed at the beginning of SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I think, "Oh poor me, now I'm going to have to watch SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!"

Again I say: you're the only person I know that doesn't like Shawshank.  :smile:

There are others. We have a support group.

Actually, I don't hate it, but I think it's probably THE most overrated movie of all time, and I feel the need to mock it on principle.

You're one of a very few people I know who doesn't like Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING.  :wink:

The first time I watched LAND OF THE LOST (the only time!!!)  I cried for two hours afterward because Will Ferrell had taken a whimsical, fun childhood memory of mine and used it for toilet paper!

Not one of those one-wipe-and-done jobs, either.  It was one of those use-half-the-roll-and-still-have-Trevor-undies-the-next-day jobs!!


CURSE YOU, WILL FERRELL!!!!

Quote from: indianasmith on February 19, 2014, 10:48:24 PM
Not one of those one-wipe-and-done jobs, either.  It was one of those use-half-the-roll-and-still-have-Trevor-undies-the-next-day jobs!!

:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :teddyr:

I think I made it through about 30 minutes of this film: no more.  :thumbdown:

Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 19, 2014, 08:25:06 AM
There are others. We have a support group.

:bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :teddyr:

QuoteYou're one of a very few people I know who doesn't like Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING.  :wink:

:teddyr: :teddyr:

True: there are very few of us and I am surprised that I didn't get flamed on The Shining IMDB board when I posted a link to my review here.  :smile:

Talking about likes. Dislikes. Flaming.

I don't think there's ever  been a film that everybody likes. Nor do I think there's ever been a film that everybody dislikes. What is odd is that here we respect almost everybody's opinion on a film. Whether we agree with them or not. So no flaming. And I hope that never changes.

I didn't cry out of sadness.. but I laughed till it hurt and tears definitely did spring from my eyes, at the end of FINAL DESTINATION 2.  I was with my mom at the theater.  Some young kids glanced surprisingly over at me as I busted up.
Final Destination 2. Funny/Horrible Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvYbYWbhs3c#)

The only film to ever draw tears from me is "Requiem for a dream". The ending was as devastating as it was heartbreaking, by the end I felt like my soul was dragged through all nine of the circles of hell, absolutely haunting.
I also find the endings of "Jacob's Ladder", and "Princess" incredibly sad.

On a related note there have been lots of good T.V. shows that have drawn tears from me, "Six Feet Under", and "Cowboy Bebop" come to mind.

I hate to admit it but the final episode of Boy Meets World where the students say goodbye to Mr Feeny for the last time had me bawling.

Mr Feeny: (to the empty classroom) "I love you all. Class dismissed."  :bluesad: :bluesad:

I also had a teacher like Mr Feeny who refused to give up on her very troubled student and because she never gave up on me, I never gave up.  :smile:

Quote from: Trevor on April 03, 2014, 04:19:26 AM
I hate to admit it but the final episode of Boy Meets World where the students say goodbye to Mr Feeny for the last time had me bawling.

Mr Feeny: (to the empty classroom) "I love you all. Class dismissed."  :bluesad: :bluesad:

I also had a teacher like Mr Feeny who refused to give up on her very troubled student and because she never gave up on me, I never gave up.  :smile:

Then you may be interested in "Girl Meets World." A decade or more after "A Boy Meets World" has ended, Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage have married and have had a daughter played by Rowan Blanchard. Most of the old cast have an open invitation to appear on the new show. So far, there have been cameo appearances by William Daniels, Lee Norris, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle. And Willie Garson has said he's going to appear on the show sometime in the future.

I might have mentioned it before, but the ending scene from Dances With Wolves when Wind-In-His-Hair is saying goodbye to Kevin Costner.  Not to mention that we all know with great resignation, the fate awaiting Dunbar and the Lakota when they finally get caught.  Note the symbolism of the fear the Indian scouts have when the wold begins to howl..
this scene has a lot more power than people think..

http://youtu.be/nLABrjgZ2PU (http://youtu.be/nLABrjgZ2PU)

Another one I can think of is the ending to the Shaw Brothers film "Avenging Eagle", where Ti Lung's character finds out from his former crime boss that Alexander Fu Sheng's character is the husband of the pregnant women he was forced to kill before quitting the group. Ti Lung gets this look like his heart was ripped out, and realizes that his only real friend was helping him for his own purposes. Not to mention the ending itself where Ti Lung forcefully causes Fu Sheng to drive his double knives into him, and as Fu Sheng stands there totally shocked, Ti Lung tells him that he had to die by his hand, or the spirit of his wife would never rest in peace.  It really hits you...

Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 19, 2014, 08:25:06 AM

Quote from: Trevor on February 19, 2014, 07:28:04 AM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 15, 2014, 10:09:27 PM

Quote from: zelmo73 on November 16, 2013, 01:51:24 PM

Quote from: bob on December 29, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
I've seen Shawshank Redemption around 10 times in my life. I've always really enjoyed it, but for some reason today I got misty eyed at the end for the first time.

(http://galeri.uludagsozluk.com/30/brooks-was-here_42047.jpg)

This sub-plot was what I carried away from the film the most. The whole Brooks segment reminded me of what could happen if you live a life with nothing to show for it, and nobody to miss you when you're gone. What Red did at the end and in the above photo was beautiful, and a fair reminder that none of us are ever truly alone regardless of how we may feel sometimes.

I get misty eyed at the beginning of SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I think, "Oh poor me, now I'm going to have to watch SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!"

Again I say: you're the only person I know that doesn't like Shawshank.  :smile:

There are others. We have a support group.

Actually, I don't hate it, but I think it's probably THE most overrated movie of all time, and I feel the need to mock it on principle.

You're one of a very few people I know who doesn't like Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING.  :wink:

I got a little teary-eyed as Jack Torrance slowly froze to death in the maze, crying out his son's and wife's names as the cold took him at the end of the movie. In the end, Jack Torrance was the victim of his own insanity and the Overlook Hotel's evil spirits and their influence. Aside from his alcoholism, he didn't seem to be a bad guy. Just a victim of supernatural circumstance.

I'd never seen John Carpenter's Starman until Sunday - that ending with Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges bathed in a comforting glow and that soaring score made me blub.  :bluesad:

I've been known to get a little misty now and then over movie scenes, but this always makes me cry real tears.



 http://youtu.be/xuQZJHfWf9U (http://youtu.be/xuQZJHfWf9U)


I'm doing it right now at work, thank God everybody else is at lunch.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

poor Billy and  McMurphy   :bluesad:

The ending of Fast and Furious 6 / Fast 6: Tyrese Gibson's prayer and the feeling of family there: more or less what we have here. I also saw this after Paul Walker died and I really blubbed.*


* Only to have the you-know-what scared out of me by that pre-credits accident shortly thereafter.  :buggedout:

Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 15, 2014, 10:09:27 PM
I get misty eyed at the beginning of SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I think, "Oh poor me, now I'm going to have to watch SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!"

This is why I try to limit my viewings of it to maybe once a year. Once it hit syndication here in the States, I'm actually surprised that they didn't already have a Shawshank Redemption Channel on cable TV.  :bouncegiggle:

The ending of Arthur Hiller's Teachers where Nick Nolte rediscovers his will to teach (The school wasn't built for us, it was built for the kids!) and the song Understanding by Bob Seger plays. I do cry but it's a joyful cry.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dlCAfq4wVg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dlCAfq4wVg#ws)

Whenever I hear that, I'm reminded of the one teacher at my college who never gave up on her troubled student - me.  :smile:

Quote from: Trevor on February 27, 2012, 12:39:10 AM
The ending of Billy Jack teared me up a little, with all the kids saluting Billy as the cops drove him off. It didn't help me at all seeing Barbara (I think it's her but I'm unsure) cry as well.  :bluesad:

Strangely, the final moments of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors made me bawl, especially Patricia Arquette hugging Heather Langenkamp, sobbing and saying "Don't die, I'll dream you into a beautiful dream..."  :bluesad:

The South African film Ipi Tombi with its' heart tugging (for me anyway) final aerial shot of the glorious Victoria Falls in full flow, sun glinting on the water and a lovely rainbow in the sky made me blub for home. Add to that the choir singing over that shot and I was on the floor, sobbing.   :bluesad:

These are the Victoria Falls and this is home to me:

(http://www.namibia-tours-safaris.com/assets/images/banner-best-of-namibia-botswana-and-victoria-falls-4.jpg)

Titanic (1997) is for me a funny example. I was seeing it at the cinema at the time with quite few friends (including girls); and I was honestly touched in the phase where everyone goes crazy: the commander goes in her room, the violinists continue to play even in the disaster, etc...

I looked around and I felt I was the only one moved. The movie continues; the boat goes down and Jack dies. In that part it was pretty much the opposite, all the girls were crying and I was like "well? what's the problem?"

The one that comes to recent memory is 12 Years a Slave. Some of the score and acting in that movie get me every time.
Also The Elephant Man and Grave of the Fireflies.

In the early days of VHS I have vague memories of a cartoon movie which I believe was called Nobody's Child. I can't really remember much about it (I think it was about an orphan) that had my entire family in tears. One of these days (proberly when I am stuck for inspiration for her birthday or xmas present) I am going to have to do some internet searching and see if I can track down a copy of it for my mother who seems to have fond memories of it.

Quote from: Dark Alex on January 26, 2015, 08:31:48 AM
In the early days of VHS I have vague memories of a cartoon movie which I believe was called Nobody's Child. I can't really remember much about it (I think it was about an orphan) that had my entire family in tears. One of these days (proberly when I am stuck for inspiration for her birthday or xmas present) I am going to have to do some internet searching and see if I can track down a copy of it for my mother who seems to have fond memories of it.

It isn't a cartoon but there is a film with that title:

http://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Child-Marlo-Thomas/dp/B000H26YHE (http://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Child-Marlo-Thomas/dp/B000H26YHE)

Unfortunately thats not it Trevor, but thanks for looking. Was talking with a friend about it there and he seems to think it might be Nobody's Boy Remi. I don't remember it being a series, but then again, I'd have been about 4 when I saw it. My tastes in cartoons at that time ran to Tarzan, Bod & Battle Of The Planets.

It's not a film but The Concert For Diana (2007) had me bawling several times.

Rod Stewart performed his hit Sailing - what the hell is it with that song which can give me major goosebumps with the opening chords?  :bluesad: :bluesad:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt3oQ_k008 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt3oQ_k008#ws)

Then, P Diddy performed a reworked version of I'll Be Missing You: wow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmS_IZ1pSQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmS_IZ1pSQ#ws)

Then, finally, Take That performed Back For Good

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhjHnG4v1TQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhjHnG4v1TQ#)

:bluesad: :bluesad:

The "beginning of life cycle" ending of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (2005) always makes me a bit teary-eyed: some of that footage is beautiful.

I hate to admit it anywhere but here that the ending of Jack had me in tears on Saturday.

QuoteI don't have very much time these days so I'll make it quick. Like my life. You know, as we come to the end of this phase of our life, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times, and we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry , thinking, "What am I gonna do? Where am I gonna be in ten years?" But I say to you, "Hey, look at me!" Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did. I made it, Mom. I'm a grown up.

:bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:

A scene in an otherwise blah documentary - TrekNation - which had me bawling was when the seriously ill Gene Roddenberry appeared at a Star Trek convention in 1991 (his last) and told his audience: "The truth is.......... I love you."  :bluesad: :bluesad:*

The ending of Furious 7:  :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/you-are-not-alone-if-furious-7-brought-you-to-tears#.saqR38ogJ9 (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/you-are-not-alone-if-furious-7-brought-you-to-tears#.saqR38ogJ9)

Scroll down: not quite exactly the ending but wow......  :bluesad: :bluesad:

Paths of Glory did it to me again

Not the ending but the scene between Rocket and Groot in Guardians of The Galaxy had me all misty eyed  :bluesad: :bluesad:

(http://pre11.deviantart.net/5d7c/th/pre/i/2014/326/5/0/we_are_groot_by_p1xer-d87b1nk.png)

QuoteRocket Raccoon: No, Groot! You'll die! Why are you doing this? Why?
[Groot uses a thin branch to wipe away Rocket's tears]
Groot: *We* are Groot.

And how on earth could I forget the ending of Pale Rider as Clint Eastwood rides away?

QuoteMegan Wheeler: [her voice echoing through the mountains] Preacher? Preacher? We all love you Preacher... I love you!... Thank you! Good-bye!

:bluesad: :bluesad:

Quote from: Archivist on April 22, 2013, 03:41:31 AM
The end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), where James Bond holds the body of his new bride and the screen fades to black.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_kHSuB9DXbU/maxresdefault.jpg)

Oy  :bluesad: :bluesad:

Toward the end of Minions (2015) when it became apparent that Kevin died, and little Bob burst into tears and was so heartbroken because he thought that he lost his best friend forever...oh dammit, there I go again.  :bluesad:

The ending of A Serbian Film didn't make me cry per se but it bummed me out so much that I vowed to never watch it again. "Start with the little one". Of course I've rewatchtced it many times since and I have to stop namedropping that one. The ending to The Girl Next Door (Jack Ketchum) was a real heartbreaker for me.

Quote from: Trevor on July 14, 2015, 02:15:44 AM
The ending of Furious 7:  :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:

I should just add this: after you've watched the ending a few times, you realize that while the ending is very sad - the death of Paul Walker and the gut wrenching, emotional song See You Again - it is also very life-affirming. But that final shot of the Supra riding away on an empty road into a brilliant sunset over the mountains and then the words FOR PAUL appearing on the screen: wow. That also indicates that Brian is heading off to a wonderful future with Mia and his kids: a future that wasn't to be for Paul.

RIP Paul Walker: ride safe, ride free, brother.  :bluesad:

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQEO_tpoaFUgTLocUlqiB3WAnPjbTaHCtLWWHc6LkhopShd7eOq)

And yes: I blubbed like a baby watching it.  :bluesad:

I'm a little embarrassed about this one but I watched the documentary Turtle Power - about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle phenomenon - last week and the ending had me tearing up badly. The song that plays at the end and the shots of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, reunited after many years, sitting together as friends, chatting, laughing, signing autographs made me blub.

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/58/90/6d/58906d5a5362a9ed8fb0f59bc133dc3c.jpg)

But this pic made me  :teddyr:

When I was very sick a month ago, I watched Spielberg's LINCOLN and blubbered like a baby at the end!

Quote from: indianasmith on August 19, 2016, 07:09:51 AM
When I was very sick a month ago, I watched Spielberg's LINCOLN and blubbered like a baby at the end!

As a fellow historian, I still have to see that.  :smile:

I forgot about the winning then losing your life ending to this one:

(http://networkonair.com/shop/70-large/silver-dream-racer.jpg)

:bluesad:

I've just seen the trailer for Life Animated (2016) about a young autistic man who communicates via the power of movies: Disney films specifically.

I don't have a dry spot on my sleeve or my hanky.  :bluesad: :bluesad:

Wreck It Ralph

"The Road to Perdition"

SPOILER


Seeing Tom Hanks' character looking out of his beach home window and admiring the ocean waves, and then to be shot dead was a huge surprise. The music by ever-reliable Thomas Newman, nailed the moment, and I think had me in tears shortly afterwards.





Planes, Trains and Automobiles

SPOILER

Neal Page reflecting on all the crazy things that went on between him and Del Griffiths. He then reflects and realises that Del is all alone sitting in a train station waiting room with no one to visit over the Christmas period. So Neal goes back to the station and takes him home where he is warmly welcomed by Neal's family.

Lots and lots of tears, and I still cry despite seeing the film many times over

TOY STORY 3.  I was fifty years old when I saw it, and I STILL cried at the end.

terminator 2.

The ending of Jurassic Park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOE7rosXN8A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOE7rosXN8A)

:bluesad: :bluesad:

I never saw the ending of it, but I have the feeling if I'd stayed and watched all of 'La La Land' I'd have been in tears by the end of it. I am not a fan of most musicals.

I watched Marley and Me recently. 

That ending got to me. 

The ending of Ladder 49: :bluesad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79VzLIqNXVQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79VzLIqNXVQ)

The ending of the 2003 South Korean movie Oldboy.
I kinda felt like a wimp at first for crying.
However, when I found out recently that Oldboy's ending made Quentin Tarantino cry I felt a little better.

It's one of the most emotionally powerful endings to any movie I've ever seen. I loved everything about that movie.

Avengers: Endgame - when Tony's reactor light flickers, fades out and dies I bawled.  :bluesad:

I think Gladiator (2000)

(https://www.tobis.de/fileadmin/Tobis/News/Alles_Geld_der_Welt/GIFs/Gladiator_Daumen_ohne.gif)

Yup, that one gets me right in the feels, and I watch it every year!

Also, the end of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.  Every. Time.

It's not an ending, but boy oh boy I have to fight off tears half the time I watch The Lion King and (okay not going to spoil it, just in case but) a certain character is betrayed by a certain relative and goes a certain direction off a certain geological feature, meeting his certain death. Man that is sad!

Not an ending but an extremely powerful scene from an almost perfect argentinian movie: when Benjamín finds Pablo in his house in EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS. It gets me. Every time.

The farewell from Katsumoto in THE LAST SAMURAI. As someone mentioned before, it was pretty much the only time Tom Cruise was actually tolerable.

The ending of DRAGONHEARTH. The score and overall situation mix amazingly.

William Castle's Teargas: The Experience.

Quote from: ER on February 19, 2020, 06:52:29 PM
It's not an ending, but boy oh boy I have to fight off tears half the time I watch The Lion King and (okay not going to spoil it, just in case but) a certain character is betrayed by a certain relative and goes a certain direction off a certain geological feature, meeting his certain death. Man that is sad!

If we're allowed to list things besides endings, I must say Bambi. Everyone knows what happens to his mom; that didn't get to me. Him running turning around & saying "Well momma, we made it!" got me.  :buggedout:  :bluesad:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sCqMEkgLIw#)

I don't remember if I actually cried, but I came close to crying at the end of The Alamo (1960) It might be a slow, pondering, historically-inaccurate movie, but the end is powerful:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyyuV8T1RHk#)

Same goes for the 1953 version of Titanic:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQWgM9yKTA#)

And if we're allowed to list things which aren't movies, Bye,Bye Butterfree gets to me, even today:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MR5s2eJEY#)

Quote from: Trevor on February 19, 2020, 03:07:47 AM
Avengers: Endgame - when Tony's reactor light flickers, fades out and dies I bawled.  :bluesad:

that happened to me yesterday

Quote from: Trevor on February 19, 2020, 03:07:47 AM
Avengers: Endgame - when Tony's reactor light flickers, fades out and dies I bawled.  :bluesad:

Same.  Same.

I also cried during Guardians of The Galaxy 1, when Groot sacrificed himself to save the others.

Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 04, 2020, 07:54:43 PM

Quote from: Trevor on February 19, 2020, 03:07:47 AM
Avengers: Endgame - when Tony's reactor light flickers, fades out and dies I bawled.  :bluesad:

Same.  Same.

I also cried during Guardians of The Galaxy 1, when Groot sacrificed himself to save the others.

"We are Groot."

Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) still get me right in the feels.

The end credits scene in Wonder Woman 1984 was unexpected and (a) made me blub and (b) made me feel like a ten year old again.*


SPOILER ALERT


A mysterious woman is walking through a market and saves a child in a stroller from a falling pole. Duty done, she walks on and the child's mom catches up to her, pleading with her to let her say thank you for saving her child. When the person turns around, it is a smiling Lynda Carter. Oy: I am glad I was alone in that theater.  :bluesad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWb4RCMS4J8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWb4RCMS4J8)

Bicycle Thieves

The ending of Ghostbusters: Afterlife: the respect shown to the memory of Harold Ramis made me smile and then cry but happy tears. And then of course, these two words appeared on screen and I really lost it.  :bluesad: :bluesad:

Spencer (2021) was another one which made me tear up.

Kristen Stewart was brilliant as Diana: it is quite eerie how much she resembles her.

The visuals at the end are excellent and the use of the song All I Need Is A Miracle fit the sequence well: it is just sad that my Princess didn't get that miracle.  :bluesad:  :bluesad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUVRDTdoLc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUVRDTdoLc)

The ending of Fast and Furious 9: it wasn't a really good movie but the last few minutes - yowza  :bluesad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVddSvXK-Q8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVddSvXK-Q8)

No Time to Die

The Champ (1979)

The ending of CODA where the father smiles at his daughter, says "Go" (his only word spoken in the film) and smiles  :bluesad:

It wasn't at the end and I've written about it before but while I've never found The Exorcist scary, only lurid and interesting, as a teenager i did once suddenly start crying at the altruism of the old sick priest, going in to help some girl he didn't even know, at great personal cost. (Plus back then I think I had a brief stage as a crier.) I still find something extremely poignant about that, that in the midst of this campy '70s flick there is this moment of brave kindness.

The ending of Inception made me feel like crying....with relief. Is it really finally over? Can I leave at last? :lookingup:

Quote from: ER on December 13, 2022, 05:01:39 PM
The ending of Inception made me feel like crying....with relief. Is it really finally over? Can I leave at last? :lookingup:

Thanks, I started the day with a chuckle.  :bouncegiggle:

But no, you can't leave. It's a Nolan movie, you need to stay a few more hours while we discuss how amazingly deep the script is. And we have to come up with at least 20 interpretations, even when the director probably never intended to make much sense in the first place.

Quote from: Gabriel Knight on December 14, 2022, 07:12:49 AM

Quote from: ER on December 13, 2022, 05:01:39 PM
The ending of Inception made me feel like crying....with relief. Is it really finally over? Can I leave at last? :lookingup:

Thanks, I started the day with a chuckle.  :bouncegiggle:

But no, you can't leave. It's a Nolan movie, you need to stay a few more hours while we discuss how amazingly deep the script is. And we have to come up with at least 20 interpretations, even when the director probably never intended to make much sense in the first place.

Ha! Exactly, Gabriel....

Top Gun Maverick: I cried because of the emotion I felt seeing the first movie I had seen in a theater for two years, I felt sad when you feel like you know that Ice is going to die, I cried with relief when Mav and Rooster are rescued by Hangman, I cried when Mav and Rooster reconciled and when Mav and Penny's plane flies off into the sunset  :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:*

* But I was smiling the whole damn time.  :smile: :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4nE30c4ufU&t=209s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4nE30c4ufU&t=209s)