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Film endings that made you cry?

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

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ChaosTheory

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"

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

Trevor

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

sleepy

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.

Rev. Powell

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

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

Trevor

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:
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alandhopewell

     The end of STAR TREK: NEMESIS.
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?

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Trevor

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

Allhallowsday

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
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AndyC

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.
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Trevor

I hate to admit it but I blubbed at the final episode of Scrubs last night.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

bob

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

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.
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bob

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.
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.

The Burgomaster

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

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