Edward Scissorhands- The end of this movie never fails to grab me. Danny Elfman's score fits so perfectly.
Mr. Holland's Opus- The only film I've ever cried tears of joy over. I thought perhaps something was wrong with me, but others experienced the same thing.
Forrest Gump- I know some of you guys hate it, and I certainly have problems with it, but when Forrest finds out he has a son, and he asks Jenny if the kid has the same problem he has, it's just so touching.
Call me insane, but I got a little misty at the eulogy for the director in Terror Firmer the first time I saw it (and no, I'm not making that up).
The ending of It's a Wonderful Life gets me every time. Maybe it's because I identify with George Bailey, a community-minded guy who questions the choices he's made and the value of his own contributions. The whole message about the difference one good man can make is quite powerful.
My emotional response usually begins around the revelation of Harry's grave, builds through the 'let me live again' speech and peaks during the joyous ending as George gets a huge outpouring of support from the community. If I've been able to hold it back that far, the inscription in the book usually gets a tear or two to fall - "no man is a failure who has friends."
Great, great movie. One of my all-time favourites.
Speaking of Tear jerkers, a friend of mine was talking about crying during a walk to Remember and although I have yet to figure out why, he ended up asking me what I had cried through. This posed a perplexing question as I knew I had before but could never remember which one it was.
Ginger Snaps was one that almost made me but that wasn't the one. I can safely say that the film is a horror movie but can't remember which one it was.
The Guardian was another one that might have made me cry if not for the whole the baby wasn't even killed part but never mind.
I don't get misty eyed much. 3 movies in recollection have made me actually sob.
The Color Purple - and sometimes i only have to catch a certain scene
Ponette - nobody has seen this (it's foriegn)
Dancer in the Dark (i actually had those hiccup sobs on this flick)
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Testament
Next to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE for causing a tear-jerker, I would also place the Empire film GHOST WARRIOR right next to that subject.
The ending of GHOST WARRIOR was just sad and I did have a tear find it's way out of my eye. Also, Richard Band's great score was also possible for making that tear show up as well.
Elephant Man: works every time. I'm on the verge of blubbering as soon as he's introduced. The poor guy.
The Ninth Configuration: Scott Wilson's speech at the end always brings a tear or two
Jack: My most embarrassing moment. I was up really late and Jack came on TV. I thought, what the heck, let's see how sucky Coppala is now. However, I was tricked. I thought it was a straight comedy, I didn't know it was sad and I was completely unprepared, and a totally offguard due to my physical and mental tiredness due to the late hour. It caught me unawares and I was thinking, "Oh my God, the poor kid just wants to play with his friends! Why God, would you let this happen!?". Before sanity returned I was in tears. Come to think of it, no one saw me do this so I could get away with it. No one will ever know. Ha ha, I'm so smart.
Once, under the influence of painkillers, I was watching Adrian Lyne's Lolita. I was just bawling. "Why can't they be togher? Age is nothing but a number!". When I sobered up I felt like an idiot.
The end of Saving Private Ryan always makes me shed a tear. Also in The Patriot when Mel Gibson's daughter speaks for the first time near the end (daddy I love you, don't go) is a particularly heartwrenching scene. Another one is the end of "Pay It Forward".
"The Luzhin Defense" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0211492)
"Saving Private Ryan" is one that got me. I saw this in the theater, which was full of older men and their wives. When the film was done and the lights came on everyone was still sitting and many of the older guys were crying.
Oddly enough, "The Iron Giant" is another. That would be near the end, when the title character says who he wants to be.
*mild spoiler*
The Others- I always cry whenever Nicole does her little speech after finding out...the secret big twist. "At first, I dodn't know what the pillow was doing in my hands..."
I also cried during Requiem for a Dream and One Hour Photo..
Pvt. Ryan. The music drives it home. Same with Band of Brothers.
Stand By Me...makes me remember the friends i had when i was 12...my family moved and i had to leave them behind...like the movie says, you never have friends again like you did at 12 or so...
-mr. henry
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I'm with you there. "Superman!". I also agree with Stand By Me. I grew up in roughly the same area as the kids in the movie and those kids really felt like my friends and I. Every character reminds me of a friend I had.
The series finale of lexx got me a little teared up, which I feel quite lame for but don't miss a chance to mention in a conversation about sad films because people find it funny that out of all these sad sad movies, this is one of the ones that got me
You're forgetting Of Mice And Men...that had me bawling the longest of every sad movie out there.
I'm a crier so I would list just about everything with a sad moment.
Also, Mrs Doubtfire when Sally Fields says she wants a divorce. Everybody thinks I'm nuts to cry at that movie but it gets me every time.
The first three Trancers movies. Hard to explain but the Trancers series is my favorite series of movies (Excluding 6, which I don't think I want to see. No Tim Thomerson involvement really ticked me off.) with the original Trancers being my favorite film ever.
I guess it has something to do with the way the future is supposed to turn out in that series. There's a line in the second film that sums it up nicely. "Knowing that it's all going to be under the water after the great quakes of the 22nd century." or something to that effect. Bad matte painting effect aside, keeping that whole idea in mind when watching the "Lost Angeles" diving scene from the first movie and hearing the appropriately depressing music really gets to me.
The scene in the third film where it's revealed that McNulte "bought it" and then realizing that none of the other characters (Not the actors, the characters themselves. Like they stripped the storyline to it's bare bones for the 4th and 5th films with the exception of Alice in the part 4, and that was just a passing mention.) will be seen again in any of the movies after part 3 has that effect on me as well. Very odd, I know. The Ryder/Davies composed score for the first three films is my favorite film music ever, and knowing that there will likely never be any sort of soundtrack with that score saddens me greatly as well. Makes me wish that the soundtrack that was advertised on the cover of the first Trancers actually did exist.
--Tony
I hardly ever cry at all, much less watching films. Don't take me wrong: I'd love to cry more often, it is great relieve. The only time I have been on tears watching a movie was with Steven Spielberg "Empire of the sun". The whole thing is quite emotive, but what really hits me is the ending, when the child who's been missing during most of the war can't even recognise his parents when they find him.
The only movie that literally had me crying (I mean hands over my face and utterly incapable of doing anything other that bawling like an infant) was My Dog Skip.
The scenes of Hobbiton at the beginning of LOTR: FOTR get me every time. I have no idea why.
Ditto on Requiem for a Dream. I was crying my head off. Like a little f**king baby. Seriously. That last scene got me.
Hannah's War always bothered me. Based on a true story too.
I don't think i'm a very emotional person, but a few movies have gotten to me.
The Fox And The Hound- Just hearing the music would have me crying a river(guess what my brother and sister liked to do.).
Heart Of Dragon- Great movie but it will get to you. The music and direction definatley set the tone but you've got to give credit to Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan for those great performances. At the very least, this movie will make you get mysty.
The knowledge that the heroes will never win in any of the Phantasm series gets me a little misty, but really makes me realize how much of a breath of fresh-air those films actually are.
All the usual suspects come to mind. Of course, I barely even tear-up (and I f**king hate it, because I know I'll explode one day).
Glory: The scene where the Colonel reads the CSA proclamation that all black soldiers (and white officers commanding) captured in union uniforms will be summarily shot, then offers them all discharges if they want them. Then the next day he comes out and they're all still there.
Also, anyone who doesn't tear up during the scene in Schindler's List when the Nazis take the inmates' children away and the kids all run and try to hide in the concentration camp just isn't human I tell you.