Ok, time to fess up -- what movies make you pull out the Kleenex, blubbler, get you choked up, openly weep -- make you cry like a leetle guurl...
I'll give it some thought and get back to ya...
Posted by rokk steady on :
The most recent is Far From Heaven - it's happened twice. Magnolia has also done it to me twice. I guess that When Julianne Moore starts to cry, I just need to roll in a pile of Kleenex.
Also, on Buffy, in Season 3 (I think) when Buffy gets recognized at the school prom.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
It's funny that you would mention Julianne Moore, Rokk.
Cause after I saw the Hours, I was sitting in the car turning it over and over in my head, and then after thinking about the movie for about 15 minutes, I burst into tears. It was such a strange experience. That movie had a lot of power.
Also, I caught "Dumbo" a few weeks back one Sunday morning on Toon Disney. I was fine and really enjoying it. Then came the "Baby Mine" scene when Dumbo goes to visit his mom in the clink. And I just started BAWLING. It was SO silly, and I remember thinking how silly it was at the time.
The Lion King did that to me too. Oh, and it's not a movie, but the Broadway show of Les Miserables... one big sob-fest. Of course the fun thing about seeing Les Mis is seeing all the guys with their wives sobbing ilke BIG BABIES. It's not my favorite show, but it's done a lot for the popularity of stage musicals. That's about it. I got a little choked up at the end of Dead Poet's Society, but nothing major.
Posted by lil'rhino on :
Dancer in the Dark starring Bjork.
I can't even listen to the soundtrack w/o getting choked up!!
lil'rhino
Posted by Estimate Lad on :
Errr...the Umberellas of Cherbourg always brings a tear to my eye. Of course if you told that to my friends that I'd refuse to admit it!
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
The following always bring at least one or two tears to my eye: -- "The Sixth Sense" when the boy tells his mom how her mom did in fact see her in the school play -- "Glory", one of my favorite films. The scene on the beach right before the end. It was the emotional climax of the movie because they achieved victory just by earning the right to be there. -- "Armageddon". Ok, I admit I fell for it as manipulative and cheesy as it was -- the scene with Bruce and Liv at the end. -- "Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael" (anyone else even see this?) The scene near the end when Winona Ryder's orphan character desperately tries to reach the woman she thinks is her mother, but Jeff Daniels has to tell her that she's not.
Posted by Princess Crujectra on :
One movie that gets me every time I watch it is "Steel Magnolias." That seen with Sally Field in the cemetary reducing me to a blubbering fool every time.
A happy scene that also makes me cry is toward the end of "Christmas Eve" with Loretta Young. I get all fluttery and weepy... such a nice little movie.
Posted by minesurfer on :
The end of Saving Private Ryan where the old Pvt. Ryan is standing in front of the graves of the men who died tryin to "save" him, when he turns to his wife and says, "Tell me I'm a good man..."
I think the fact that I have a great uncle that I lived with when I was very young who fought across N. Africa, D-day, and the Battle of the Bulge makes me empathize more than I should. I'm also a retired soldier myself (not much of one, but it still counts), but the weight of the sacrifice of the WWII soldiers landing so squarely on one man just gets to me every time.
Honorable mention is Forrest Gump when either Jenny or Bubba dies. Tom Hanks is such a great actor.
[ July 16, 2003, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: minesurfer ]
Posted by Kid Prime on :
You're absolutely right about the cemetary scene with Sally Field in Steel Magnolias, Cru. God, what a mess I was the first time I saw that.
Posted by Princess Crujectra on :
quote:Originally posted by Kid Prime: You're absolutely right about the cemetary scene with Sally Field in Steel Magnolias, Cru. God, what a mess I was the first time I saw that.
On the DVD, they talked about how they had to film that seen a great number of times, to get all of the camera angles and whatnot. Anyhoo, they said that Sally did the scene the same way each time, and nailed it every single time.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
That's amazing. You know, I think Sally Field is SO good an actress that it just tears her up emotionally, which is why she has had problems in the past and doesn't work so much anymore. I've always thought she was just brilliant.
Posted by the boy with UltraPowers on :
i find it hard to cry in films ..... i'm usually just on the edge of FLOWING tears !!! and then the scene shifts to something light-hearted !!!
and they've GONE !!!
but i do cry in 'ET' [ actually now !!! not when i was a kid !!! ]
also the end of 'THELMA & LOUISE' [ such a great film ... ]
i'll have to think of some others ....
Posted by the boy with UltraPowers on :
i've just remembered one .... does anyone recall a film called 'DAY of the DOLPHIN' ??
these scientists teach Dolphins to 'talk' but then they come into the control of some NAVY people ?? who want them to 'plant' bombs on ships ??
[ i'm sure thats the plot ??? ]
anyway at the end, the scientists tell them to swim off, and the dolphins, are saying 'bye' and the 'love' them !!!
okay !!! it sounds really BAD !!! but it did make me cry .....
Matthew.
Posted by Danny Blaine on :
The Stepmom with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon
Posted by Poverty Lad on :
King Kong.
Don't laugh-- I saw the remake in the theater when I was little, and I was hysterical when they killed the monkey... Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
quote:Originally posted by minesurfer: The end of Saving Private Ryan where the old Pvt. Ryan is standing in front of the graves of the men who died tryin to "save" him, when he turns to his wife and says, "Tell me I'm a good man..."
Yes! I forgot about that movie. That scene gets me, but the one that made me almost bawl was the beginning -- that whole sequence from when the lady typing the letters realizes she's sending three to the same woman up to when the army car drives up to the house and the mom, silhouetted in the doorway (with the photo of the brothers next to the door) just collapses to the ground when a priest exits the car.
Oh, and also "Field of Dreams" when he sees his father.
Posted by Greybird on :
Almost any film that pulls at emotions honestly, and earns what is demanded from the audience, makes me at least water at the corners of my eyes. I'm a veritable waterworks compared to most men. Tears of joy, outrage, empathy all come along.
The single most melancholy film I've seen, though, in the sense of pulling this from me when I don't want it to do so (not for its being unearned), is Francis Ford Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married." I don't know why I feel that way. It's superbly acted and written, especially by Kathleen Turner. Perhaps ... too many thoughts of one's might-have-beens.
Posted by matlock on :
quote:Originally posted by the boy with UltraPowers: i've just remembered one .... does anyone recall a film called 'DAY of the DOLPHIN' ??
these scientists teach Dolphins to 'talk' but then they come into the control of some NAVY people ?? who want them to 'plant' bombs on ships ??
[ i'm sure thats the plot ??? ]
anyway at the end, the scientists tell them to swim off, and the dolphins, are saying 'bye' and the 'love' them !!!
okay !!! it sounds really BAD !!! but it did make me cry .....
Matthew.
Matthew! You may be the only other human being I've come across that even remembers that movie at all. I saw it as a little kid, it's the first movie I have any memory of seeing in the theater. Unlike you though the only thing I remember is a boat blowing up, which I have to say I thought was pretty cool at the time.
I've never seen it since so I guess there may have been deeper levels to it than things getting blowed up good!
Matt
Posted by the boy with UltraPowers on :
quote:Originally posted by matlock:
quote:Originally posted by the boy with UltraPowers: i've just remembered one .... does anyone recall a film called 'DAY of the DOLPHIN' ??
these scientists teach Dolphins to 'talk' but then they come into the control of some NAVY people ?? who want them to 'plant' bombs on ships ??
[ i'm sure thats the plot ??? ]
anyway at the end, the scientists tell them to swim off, and the dolphins, are saying 'bye' and the 'love' them !!!
okay !!! it sounds really BAD !!! but it did make me cry .....
Matthew.
Matthew! You may be the only other human being I've come across that even remembers that movie at all. I saw it as a little kid, it's the first movie I have any memory of seeing in the theater. Unlike you though the only thing I remember is a boat blowing up, which I have to say I thought was pretty cool at the time.
I've never seen it since so I guess there may have been deeper levels to it than things getting blowed up good!
Matt
Hey Matt !!!
i seen this film twice, and they were both many years ago .... i seem to remember the male dolphin was called 'Far' ??? because when their own tells them to swim off, 'Far' keeps turning back to say "Far loves Pa" ......
Matthew.
Posted by Stu on :
I always get a bit choked up by the scene in Toy Story 2 when Jessie the cowgirl doll is singing about being abandoned as the little girl she belongs to grows up and gets tired of playing with toys...
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
Ok, I just watched "Ransom" and I always tear up during the scene where Mel and Rene are in agony because they think their kid has just been killed -- I'm realizing that a lot of the films I picked have to do with parents / children ... I definitely have issues....
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Christopher Reeve's Time after Time does it to me every time.
And My Dog Skip with a young Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle. God animals can be so loyal it hurts.
Posted by lil'rhino on :
Scott! You just reminded me of the last scene in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" when she kicks "Cat" out of the cab & into the rain, then has a change of heart & goes looking for him in the alley, where she finds him all wet & scared!!
*bawl* lil'rhino
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino: Dancer in the Dark starring Bjork.
I just saw that movie recently! I knew it'd be depressing, but HO-ley Moley, what a gut-wrenching, slit-my-own-throat depressing movie! There were several parts of that last scene that got me going -- man, that was sad...
Posted by deanlegion on :
I saw Dancer in the Dark without my wife, and because it made such a wreck of me, she didn't want to see it.
Ordinary People had my eyes dripping, when I recently got stuck watching it on Bravo.
I agree with Drake (which I do a lot here at LW) about movies that include drama with kids. That always gets me.
I think because things are cruising along so nicely with my own family in my real life, I get a lot of release by watching emotional movies. I cry very easily. I'm looking forward to seeing Mystic River, yet I'm also cautious because I know I'll probably cry till my head hurts. I haven't seen Monster yet, either.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
There are many that qualify, but for now, I can't get 50 First Dates out of my head! In particular:
Lucy looking at pictures of herself from the accident.
Lucy asking how many times she had seen the videotape ("This is the first time.") Also, the videotape itself and her reactions to it.
Lucy singing "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" and painting the walls with flowers.
Most of all, the ending...I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but God, it was both very uplifting and incredibly depressing!!!
Before this movie, I was indifferent to Drew Barrymore, but I think she is an incredible actress to pull my heartstrings so strongly...
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
quote:Originally posted by Pex the Unalive: Before this movie, I was indifferent to Drew Barrymore, but I think she is an incredible actress to pull my heartstrings so strongly...
She's tugged at my heartstrings twice before -- during "Never Been Kissed" when she find out she's the victim of a cruel joke and gets egged by her dream prom date and also in "Ever After" when she tries to defend her dead mother's dress. I think she has a very relatable quality onscreen and is able to be vulnerable, garnering empathy from the audience.
Posted by Numf El on :
There are only two films in the recent past that have had me blubbing like a big girlie.
The Green Mile was one of them, even though I'd read the book and I knew what was going to happen.
And I can't remember what the other one was - I'll let you know if I recall.
Posted by Bevis on :
Not many films make me cry simply because for the most part if they try to hard it just comes across as schmaltzy and twee to me (and being twee is one of the biggest sins in the world in my book). The ones that do make me cry often take me by surprise though.
I have to admit that i blubbed like a little girl when we went to see 'Moulin Rouge' and watching it again on DVd the other week I went all weepy again. I know, I know. I'm a sucker for musicals. Every time we go and see 'Blood Brothers' on stage I cry and cry even though i know exactly what's going to happen.
'Bus Stop' doesn't really make me cry but I do think it's horribly sad. Same with 'The Misfits'. Marilyn was a much under-rated actress I think (even by herself) but her performances in both films are just incredible. In 'The Misfits' you can tell much of the time she's drugged up to the eyeballs but that still doesn't stop her performance from being incredibly emotional. No-one ever did, or has since, that 'little girl lost' thing as well as she did. Maybe it's because she really was like that. The scene where she realises they kill the horses and she looses it makes me well up, both with sadness and anger.
And then there's the biggie... OK, this might sound silly but it's true. One of my favourite films ever. Fantastically funny, incredibly witty, hugely uplifting but also heartbreakingly sad. Yup, I'm talking about 'Lilo & Stitch'. When I went to see it at the cinema I was expecting a good film since everyone said it was but I wasn't expecting to get the emotional kick from it that I did. The whole sequence right from when David tells Stitch to stay away after Cobra tells Nani that he's taking Lilo away gets me big time (hell, I have a lump in my throat just thinking about it). But then when Stitch leaves and Lilo says he can always come back, and the bit where he's alone in the forest ("lost" *sniff*) and then when Jumba is taunting him about not having a family just makes me cry every single bloody time. *That's* how to do emotion in a film. *That's* how to tug at the heart-strings without making it twee or icky. For an animation to do that especially is incredible.
Of course, then it all gets happy again with the big chase ("also cute and fluffy!") and the bit where Stitch is being taken away and explains about his new family ("it's small, and borken, but still good") is the kind of sad but makes you happy at the same time moment that is so hard to do.
Ahh, I could rant on about how good Lilo & Stitch is for hours...
Posted by UTS on :
quote:Originally posted by Bevis: Ahh, I could rant on about how good Lilo & Stitch is for hours...
L&S is great. And there's supposed to be a deluxe DVD set coming out sometime too.
Have you seen the made-for-TV series (which has pretty awful animation, IMO) or the direct-to-video prequel, "Stitch! The Movie"?
Posted by Bevis on :
My sister has the prequel, which she said is good ut not great, and I've seen a few episodes of the TV series. It's... OK. Some quite good jokes, but the animation while not being awful imho just is so below the standard of the film that it looks worse than it is. It's very clearly not done by the same guys who did the film though.
Posted by Greybird on :
And Disney rewards the Florida animation unit that created Lilo & Stitch by ... dissolving it, and stupidly getting out of 2D animation altogether. No good deed -- and that movie was a very good deed to 2D animation buffs -- goes unpunished, I guess.
I'll certainly second Bevis about Moulin Rouge. Seventeen times in the theater, for me, to inform the few around here who don't know by now.
Posted by Bevis on :
Yeah, how stupid are Disney? But then again they didn't want to fund L&S in the first place, hence all the hand painted watercolour backgrounds which were cheaper to do and, ultimately, looked so much better than anything else that Disney have put out in years. Sometimes i despair, I really do. They have one of the best animated films in years (hell, decades) both in terms of enjoyment and just technical skill and what do they do with it? Absolutely sod all. No building on the sucess (unless you count all the merchandise), just throw away the studio seemingly in an attempt to hack of the nose with a blunt spoon to spite their face. That being said my talking Stich is just fantastic (now how crude does that sound?).
Posted by lancesrealm on :
"A League of Their Own" does it for me. There are 2 scenes that get me all choked up.
One is the scene where the poor woman doesn't know if she made the team or not because she can't read. The other scene is where another woman receives a telegram informing her her husband has been killed. I sniffle my way through both these scenes.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
It's funny I just noticed this thread. I just watched "Big Fish" and the ending when the son described to his dad how he was going to die had me crying at a movie like I never have before. I NEVER cry at movies. It probably has something to do with the fact that my father recently had a stroke, and it made me realize just how important he is to me. Looking back, the movie was kind of corny, but circumstances made it more real than it normally would have been.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
for me, it was Watership Down, when the old rabbit dies.
Scott, i think you're citing Somewhere in Time, with Christopher Reeve and (i think) Jane Seymour. great movie.
Time After Time was amlcolm MacDowal as HG Wells, who travels to late 70s San Fran to hunt down Jack the Ripper, who used his time machine to flee the law.
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
Two more: "Mulan" when she saves her father and gains acceptance not only from her father, but from the teeming masses.
"Whale Rider" - almost every time that girl tries so hard to gain her grandfather's respect and is treated like crap just because she's a girl. Also the big assembly scene where tears are streaming down her face when her grandfather doesn't show up and the scene at the end when she disappears into the ocean and her grandfather realizes what an idiot he's been.
Posted by Blockade Boy on :
None, never, those weren't tears.
Remember the Titans and Green Mile caused slight discomfort. There was the Old Yeller thing but I was young.
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
quote:Originally posted by Bevis: ... OK, this might sound silly but it's true. One of my favourite films ever. Fantastically funny, incredibly witty, hugely uplifting but also heartbreakingly sad. Yup, I'm talking about 'Lilo & Stitch'
Hey, no need to be embarrased. You reminded me of one film that *always* gets a tear (or two) running down my cheek is "Iron Giant" .... when that big lug flies off to sacrifice himself for a community that feared and hated him, uttering the name of the hero he wants to be, "Superman"....
Also "In America" - I highly recommend this film. Any movie about a family trying to recover from the loss of a child can't help but be heartbreaking (and uplifting too - the two little girls in it are amazing).
[ August 15, 2004, 01:25 AM: Message edited by: DrakeB3003 ]
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
Chuck Jones' and Michael Maltese's Wagner parody "What's Opera, Doc?"
I would be amazed if anyone here hasn't seen this, but
S P O I L E R
S P A C E
... the one classic-era Warner Brothers short in which (at least within the context of the story) Elmer Fudd actually succeeds in killing Bugs Bunny.
(Bugs "breaks character" in the final shot to remark "Well, what did you expect in an opera: a happy ending?")
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