A "Man! I'm so sensitive" post.

[The Burgomaster]

1. The original BRIAN'S SONG. 2 scenes. One is when a nurse tells Brian's wife that a little girl who wanted Brian's autograph died. The other is when Gayle Sayers has to tell the team that Brian is sick.

2. BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY. The scene where the guys are all sitting around the locker room and one of them starts playing his guitar and singing the song, BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY . . . reminding the audience that Robert DeNiro's character is dying of Hodgkin's Disease.

3. The end of THE CHAMP. I don't care what you think of Ricky Schroeder . . . I dare you to try to hold back the tears.

4. The final scene of THE DEERHUNTER.

5. The ending of THE CURE.



Post Edited (06-06-03 10:36)

[Neville]

"The Deerhunter"! That's a good one. True, the ending is devastating. Same happens to me with the ending of "Once upon a time in America", another DeNiro film.

[Mofo Rising]

I don't really cry (it's a problem), but I do appreciate a good sad moment.

That being said, Ian Holm going to meet the daughter he knows will never show up in THE SWEET HEREAFTER is one of the saddest things I have ever seen.

[Ash]

I remember back in 1998 when this film was over and the theater lights came on, grown men were still sitting in their seats holding their wives and weeping together.

It still makes me choke up when I see it especially in the beginning when it shows all of the hundreds of crosses at Arlington Memorial Cemetary.

All of those men that died so we could live the way we do today.

What a powerful film.

[jmc]

WEST SIDE STORY, and for some strange reason, WON TON TON, THE DOG THAT SAVED HOLLYWOOD.

[AndyC]

The one that never fails for me is It's a Wonderful Life. Basically, I start getting choked up at the "I want to live again" line, and it builds from there. By the big, joyous finale, the waterworks are going.

It's a well-done scene, and George is a likeable character, but I think it also resonates with my small-town values and personal ideals.