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Film endings that made you cry?

Started by Trevor, January 12, 2012, 03:03:03 AM

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Trevor

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.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Pilgermann

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.
 

claws

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

HappyGilmore

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

Except for maybe Brian's Song.
"The path to Heaven runs through miles of clouded Hell."

Don't get too close, it's dark inside.
It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide.

bob

The Elephant Man, Rocky, Stand By Me
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

ChaosTheory

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!
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
One chance opts between two worlds
Fire walk with me

Mr. DS

Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3, Field Of Dreams, Return Of The Jedi
DarkSider's Realm
http://darksidersrealm.blogspot.com/

"You think the honey badger cares?  It doesn't give a sh*t."  Randall

Hammock Rider

The end of Gladiator and the Crow made me well up a little. But I swear I was drunk!
Jumping Kings and Making Haste Ain't my Cup of Meat

Jack

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:
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

- Paulo Coelho

Kaseykockroach

Closetshipper.deviantart.com

"You wanna be a genius, it's easy. All you gotta say is, everything stinks. Then you're never wrong."

ChaosTheory

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.
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
One chance opts between two worlds
Fire walk with me

Kaseykockroach

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

"You wanna be a genius, it's easy. All you gotta say is, everything stinks. Then you're never wrong."

alandhopewell

     The President's speech in INDEPENDENCE DAY.
If it's true what they say, that GOD created us in His image, then why should we not love creating, and why should we not continue to do so, as carefully and ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of?

     The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

The Burgomaster

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

indianasmith

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.
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"