Movies that made you tear up or cry like a baby
POSTED BY: Gorramreavers
UPDATED: Monday, November 21, 2005 04:10
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I know it's not a movie but, The last episode of Angel
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when Wesley dies...
Episode 100 of Angel
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when he looks up & Cordy is gone & he realizes she never was there
and the latest installment of LOST
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I had a serious inner argument that was quite verbal when I thought Charlie was gone
as for movies
My Life, Return of the King, Dead Poets Society, With Honors, Swing Kids, & believe it or not.....The Truman show & Bruce Almighty.
That's what I can recall for now.
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As for Buffy episodes...the 3 I can think of off hand:
Passion: Ms. Calender dies...but when Buffy has to punch Giles at the end and then breaks down...sheesh.
The Body: Joyce is gone and you feel numb. Great job by Joss to have no music in the episode. Music is a great way to get emotion but this really worked. When Anya has her lil breakdown...that will make me well up.
The Gift: Buffy dies. The reaction from the gang is what gets me...mostly Spike.
"..it is my very favorite gun."
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I'll echo whoever named Return of the King, with all of Gondor bowing to the Hobbits.
Also Bicentennial Man. To have come so far, and die together.
And (in animé), InuYasha, after he slaughters Gatenmaru's army and their hostages alike, and Kagome walks in on his hysterical hand-washing "Lady Macbeth" scene. Then he realizes she's watching, and gets all defensive and says he doesn't care, and she throws his own catchphrase back in his face ("Don't kid yourself.") and just hugs him.
And that one ep of Buffy (I suck at titles), just after Spike gets his soul back, and he's insane and confesses everything to Buffy, then hangs himself on a cross (to try to burn the pain away).
And a couple of times in Deep Space Nine, after the Feds retake the station during the Dominion War. Damar has just murdered Ziyal, and we see the proud, unbending, wickedly calculating Gul Dukat. . . broken. Just senile and delusional as Sisko visits him in his cell, not as an enemy, but as a sympathetic father. I'm way to young to have kids, but the look between Sisko and Dukat tells me exactly how much it hurts to lose one. Then in the last episode, after Damar sacrifices himself to free Cardassia.
Especially impressive when you realize that Damar's gone from the guy who murdered an angel to a hero himself.
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My weepy Buffy moment in "The Prom" is the one-two pitch of Buffy walking through the aisle (echoing Angel's dream of their their wedding) to receive the Class Protector parasol (from Jonathan!) and realizes that even the people who were really mean to her appreciate her. And then Angel showing up after all, and dancing together to the weepy classic "Wild Horses."
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Iron Giant, every time. Saw it multiple times while it was still in the theater - it blew me away. Best American traditionally-animated (OK, so there *was* some CG) film in the last 50 years.
Two David Lynch films: The Elephant Man (which I've sworn never to watch again) and The Straight Story (which I've sworn to watch as many times as possible.)
Gandalf's speech to Pippin in ROTK about the Undying Lands busts me up.
The bit in Galaxy Quest where Tim Allen has to explain to the Thermian strapped to the table that he's not who the guy thinks he is is tough to watch without the rivers a' flowin'. (What's that actor's name? He's really good...) Crazy, that a silly comedy should affect me so... it's a better Star Trek movie than most Star Trek movies.
Lots o' Buffy
Roy Baty's death scene in Blade Runner kills me.
That scene in Empire of the Sun when the P-51's are strafing the camp, and Jim, standing on a roof, comes eye-to-eye with the pilot. Don't know why that breaks open the floodgates.
Guess I'm just weird that way.
"Well, here I am..." - Jubal Early
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Not a movie, or, strictly speaking, TV...
... but has anyone ever seen the video for "Angel's Son" by the band Strait Up?
If you don't know the story--
Back in about 1998, James Lynn Strait, lead singer of the poorly named metal band Snot was driving with his dog, Dobbs, and both were killed in an accident.
Strait's friends, lots of them, LOTS of them, recorded a tribute CD to him, under the name Strait Up, and one song in particular, "Angel's Son," is quite possibly the single most emotional 4 minutes I've ever witnessed... I'm literally tearing up as I type this, thinking about it.
Basically, it starts off mid-afternoon on the beach, with a group of musicians (a few guys from Strait's band, the singer from Sevendust, etc) siting on the sand, playing the opening of the song. The day progesses, as more and more musicians, and Strait's mother, all start gathering around, building a bonfire, laughing, drinking, hugging, etc.
Meanwhile, a ghostly, blurred, shimmering image of Strait is walking around the crowd, touching their shoulders, pressing his fist to their fists, putting his arms around his mother.
And the scene that finally breaks me completely... the very last shot, the ghostly image of Strait, joined by the ghostly image of Dobbs, chasing a ball, then the two of them walking away down the beach into the night.
Haven't seen the video in a while, and given the fact that my heart currently resides on my right bicep, that might be a good thing...
Regardless of your musical taste, if seeing this video doesn't make you cry, you should have your programmers update your emotion module immedately.
--Jefé The Hat
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Wow - apparently the LotR series of movies gets a lot of people. The part that makes me cry the most is when Sam swims out into the lake to go with Frodo even though he can't swim. The sheer raw emotion of how deep their friendship runs really got me weepin' (and Sam's my favorite).
Also in Evita during all of the song "You Must Love Me" while Eva is dying in the hospital. I love the original musical and I thought this song was an amazing and emotional addition to the movie.
And I too cried at the last episode of Angel. Partially because of what happened ("Do you want me to lie to you now?") and partially because I knew it was the end of Whedon television as we know and love it.
***Never judge a book by its movie***
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Wow..Jefé The Hat
That sounds like a great video. I hope I can catch that.
"..it is my very favorite gun."
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There are many movies that get me to teary and eyes overflowing. Not many get past that, because I'm a ruthless bastard about holding it in once it gets that far. I sat next to a guy who was openly sobbing (I don't mean sniffles - I mean train wreck) well before it even got to the Emotional Bits when Return of the King was in theatres, and I've sworn never to get to that level of shame.
And after all, if a movie does get that far with me - I'm enjoying it. It's a knife-edge balance, and I love every minute. There's nothing like a story that destroys you, whether its with pain or with joy.
Speech over, list on.
Moulin Rouge. I'm a guy and I think it's the best chick flick ever made. At least five seperate spots in the film get me, and get me good, and from completely different angles. I love it. No shame.
Iron Giant, when he says that last word. You guys know it.
Shawshank. Can never help laughing like mad at parts (from "Am I blind??" to Book of Exodus), and can never help tearing Red finally sees his way out.
Green Mile. The books were better, and the movie was still killer. That's a testament to the worth of the book, by the way (I am very much a King worshipper). When Coffey faces the end of his Mile, and when you see the length of Paul's...
Truman Show. This one echoes to me in so many ways I can't help it.
Return of the King. 30 minutes of pure perfection at the end there, starting at about "For Frodo." And any number of classic moments from earlier in all the films.
Matrix. Trinity whispering to Neo as the world falls apart. Love or hate the sequels, nothing can ruin that moment for me.
Contact. The final message from one species to another soul, summing up the entire movie so well. This movie started my worship of Jodie Foster as well.
There are probably many many more - this might as well be my favorite movie list. There are also more that I'm sure I haven't seen yet (I pass on most war movies, so still have not seen Saving Private Ryan, and there are old classics I've yet to see)
Many TV shows that do it too - Firefly gets reeeaall close but not quite. What does do it is Buffy - just about every ultra-classic episode (Passion, Becoming, The Prom (YES to whoever mentioned Wild Horses), The Body, The Gift, Grave). Every great John/Aeryn moment in Farscape. The end of Babylon 5, the last ten minutes in particular, really get me, and the final shot of the station and the closing monologue put me out of comission for a good hour.
Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction
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No one has brought up "Titanic" yet?? Too commercial, or what? Having had an interest in all things Titanic for years before the movie, I couldn't wait to go see it... then had to sit hiding my head in my hands as the theatre emptied at the end because I couldn't control myself enough to stop crying. Man... So much was lost so tragically. Could've been emotional since it was based on true events - could've been hormonal 'cuz I was pregnant at the time.
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