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Only one film has made me tear up and that's Remember the Titans.
What about you guys?
Remember the Titans was cool. The only movie that has done it for me was The spice Girls movie :(. What a sad sad sad bit of acting. :p
Lion King when Simba's old man got killed
Scrumhalf
2 Nov 2004, 00:45
Jerry Ma-f**cking-guire! :p
I don't remember what the movie was called, but it was French and at some point the girl cut her arm because she was depressed, her boyfriend came in and saw it, so he cut his arm in the same place, then they just hugged each other and cried. I haven't described it very well, but that had me weeping. Saddest thing I've ever seen. :(
Jerry Ma-f**cking-guire! :p
"you had me at hello" gets me evry time I'm ashamed to say.
bluesSAfan
2 Nov 2004, 08:23
Hardball with keanu reeves
SaveFeriss
2 Nov 2004, 08:27
This Is Spinal Tap always has tears streaming down my cheeks.
What a bunch of pussies.
Cool Runnings
The Land Before Time
Only the Estonian's (?? :confused: ??) can bring me to tears. In the film "DARKNESS IN TALLINN" a young wife dies giving birth. The husband kneels by her side and starts crying. One of his tears drops onto her lips and into her mouth, and she is miraculously comes back to life. You probably need to watch the previous 90 minutes of heartache to get the full gist of it.
There are a few other films that get me close to tears:
Pandora's Box
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Zhivago
Prix de Beaute
Veronica Guerin
Roobunny
2 Nov 2004, 08:59
A League of Their Own and Toy Story 2 :o
goaldrush
2 Nov 2004, 09:00
The Power of One, Titanic and The Fugitive
Con Air when he meets his daughter for the first time.
A Walk to Remember (My girlfriend made me watch it OK) :p
Valkyrie
2 Nov 2004, 09:37
A League of Their Own and Toy Story 2 :o
Toy Story 2 - the bit where Jessie is singing about the little girl who grew up and left her on the side of the road in a cardboard box??? I get teary just thinking about it...
Disgustipated
2 Nov 2004, 09:48
Watership down.
"Where's Bellamy"
birssyboy40
2 Nov 2004, 10:18
A Walk to Remember
This one for me as well.
A Walk to Remember (My girlfriend made me watch it OK) :phaha.
I got a few tears in that one too.
I made my boyfriend watch it, and I swear he had a couple of tears in his eyes. :p
Mattlowry
2 Nov 2004, 10:27
Philidelphia w/ Hanks and Washington.
Only movie that ever made me cry. When they are watching the videos of him as a kid with the sad music :'(
When Boromir goes down in Fellowship of the Ring.
When we see Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walking around the cafeteria in Bowling for Columbine. That was pretty devestating.
I'll tell you what, Théoden's speech and the Ride of the Rohirrim had me hiding some tears. Good thing I was in a dark cinema at the time.
I saw ROTK as a bit of a satire. Numerous slow-mo moments strung together that were supposed to make you tear up. They didn't break me, yesiree Bob.
Knowledge
2 Nov 2004, 10:36
I didn't cry but i was extermly sad.
Requiem For a Dream
I didn't cry but i was extermly sad.
Requiem For a Dream
Yeah, that last scene is... emotionally draining, to say the least.
Portmagpies
2 Nov 2004, 10:51
Dancer in the Dark
Kramer vs Kramer
The Finished People
The Champ (damn little Ricky Schroeder)
And comedies like...
Blazing Saddles
Police Academy
Dumb and Dumber
NorthBhoy
2 Nov 2004, 11:10
Can't remember.
Honestly.
I don't like that I don't cry during movies, as I am sure I am missing the genuine emotion that also makes someone truly lose themselves in a story. I have seen many of the films mentioned in this thread, and got nothing......
Sports Capital
2 Nov 2004, 11:21
I never cry during movies. But when Gandalf died in Fellowship of the Ring I came THAT CLOSE.
got a bit choked at the end of gladiator, there's been more but thats all I remember
Life as a House
Mystic River
Saving Private Ryan (someone will understand why i got brought to tears in this one)
Left Field
2 Nov 2004, 11:50
Tom Cruise makes me cry. How can that ******** be worth millions, but me nothing??
BomberGal
2 Nov 2004, 12:03
A few times during Gladiator, every time I watch, without fail. (basically when his family dies...or when he dies...or any time it cuts to the 'gates' - with that music - sigh!)
I might just sit here and pretend that I didn't bawl at the end of Titanic and Pearl Harbor. :o :D
Also the movie version of One True Thing, I cried the whole way through, but only because I'd read the book (studied it for Year 12), and always knew exactly what was going to happen next - so even when it was happy, it was sad!
But hell, any movie that's slightly happy or sad seems to make me cry these days! Do they show 'AngelFlight' ads in Melbourne? Hell, even they make me cry! :D
Roobunny
2 Nov 2004, 13:26
haha.
I got a few tears in that one too.
I made my boyfriend watch it, and I swear he had a couple of tears in his eyes. :p
My little sister made me watch it - I was crying in agony at the dreadful film! :p
Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear
2 Nov 2004, 13:42
The green mile almost. Kept them in though. :o
Doesn't take much - but the only one I can remember at the moment is Pay It Forward.
AngelEyes
2 Nov 2004, 13:53
Do you have the time? ;)
Walk To Remember
William Shakespere's Romeo And Juilet
Titanic
An Affair To Remember
Moulin Rouge
Field Of Dreams
Casablanca
Meet Joe Black
Jerry Maguire
Ghost
Forrest Gump
Finding Forrester
The Notebook
My little sister made me watch it - I was crying in agony at the dreadful film! :p
it wasn't -that- bad, besides Mandy Moore's shocking acting. :p
Roobunny
2 Nov 2004, 13:59
A few times during Gladiator, every time I watch, without fail. (basically when his family dies...or when he dies...or any time it cuts to the 'gates' - with that music - sigh!)
he dies? I haven't seen it yet! But I wouldn't have guessed that!
AngelEyes
2 Nov 2004, 14:04
and Pearl Harbor
that one too. :(
My worst crying wasn't from watching a movie it was watching Dr Green Die on ER. :( Somewhere over the rainbow.... :(
sabre_ac
2 Nov 2004, 14:20
Only one film has made me tear up and that's Remember the Titans.
What about you guys?
With laughter...
I still crack up when I think of that scene where one captain in a emotion charged scenes says nothing but just points at the opposing captain.....
LOL
Pearl Harbor.
Would that be because you realise you've just wasted 3 hours/10 odd dollars?
A Walk To Remember for me too.
I didnt think Mandy Moore was that bad in it though.
My Girl - do you people not have a soul? When she goes up to the coffin and says that Mac Culkin needs his glasses that's it it's all over for me. Still the only movie that makes this grown man well up.
Oh that and when Yoda died.
Dancer in the Dark
that and 'breaking the waves'... didnt cry.. but really f*cks you up on the inside...
eyes got watery during 'king kong'... when the poor bugger was scaling the empire state building whilst getting shot at.... :(
portentous
2 Nov 2004, 16:05
When I was a kid "Charlottes web" and "Bambi" made me ball. So did the "lassie" movies. I still cry whenever an animal dies in the movies.
"The Notebook" really got to me the whole way through. Didn't REALLY cry until the end though.
some films make me cry because they're so bad..........
Harp of Burma
Dersu Uzala (sp?)
Map of the Human Heart
As a kid E.T and The Lion King always made me cry
These days as sad as it is..the only one to have made me teary was in Armageddon when liv says bye bye to bruce...
yeh i know...
Lots and Lots. I am a big softy in touch with my feminine side!! :D
Kramer vs Kramer
Billy Elliot
Forrest Gump
Hook
Almost Famous
Philadelphia
We Were Soilders
In the Name of the Father
Awakenings
Colour Purple
Watership Down
Ghandi
I am sure there are heaps more. Crying is very cathartic.
SydneyBomber
2 Nov 2004, 16:57
Shawshank Redemption - when Andy & Red meet at the end (but 'happy' tears - geez that sounds gay!).
Also, I was glad that one of my fave stories (a King short story) of all time wasn't mangled as badly as most of the other movies based on his books.
'Once were warriors' - the first time I saw it, I found the beating Jake gives Beth was particularly harrowing and upsetting.
:(
BomberGal
2 Nov 2004, 21:18
William Shakespere's Romeo And Juliet
Oooh, how did I forget this. Definitely!! I love that movie.
My worst crying wasn't from watching a movie it was watching Dr Green Die on ER.
Aww, hey me too! (Do we have more in common than we realise? :p) I looooved Dr Green. That episode was so sad.
Would that be because you realise you've just wasted 3 hours/10 odd dollars?
Haha! Hey, it was a school trip anyway (for History). Not much of a movie, but I was bawling because Josh Hartnett's character died!! :D
RooBunny...sorry ;)
I know I'm going to absolutely bawl watching the last Friends ep! :(
Docker_Brat
2 Nov 2004, 21:35
Lots and Lots. I am a big softy in touch with my feminine side!! :D
Showusya tits.
coasting
2 Nov 2004, 22:41
I cannot believe people are saying Dancer in the Dark. That is the most pathetic and pretentious movie I have ever seen.
I cannot believe people are saying Dancer in the Dark. That is the most pathetic and pretentious movie I have ever seen.
All of Lars von Triers movies are pretentious chunks of crap. Ever seen the Idiots? What a crock of ********, and that includes the hardcore sex at the end.
portentous
3 Nov 2004, 07:14
"The Butterfly Effect" made me cry heaps. Didn't think Ashton Kutcher would be any good but I loved that movie.
AngelEyes
3 Nov 2004, 09:58
A few times during Gladiator, every time I watch, without fail. (basically when his family dies...or when he dies...or any time it cuts to the 'gates' - with that music - sigh!)
Aww, hey me too! (Do we have more in common than we realise? :p)
Again ;)
For me though it's just like most romantic movies where someone dies, someone finds their true love, regains their love....the music, the emotion...I'm getting teary eyed thinking about it
Another telly show that made me cry; the My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancée finale, when she was saying the speech at the very end.....:(
I know I'm going to absolutely bawl watching the last Friends ep! :(i've already seen it, and i completely bawled my eyes out at the end.. :o
AngelEyes
3 Nov 2004, 10:17
i've already seen it, and i completely bawled my eyes out at the end.. :o
aww...don't tell me that. :( Looks like I'll need those Kleenex by my side.
"The Butterfly Effect" .
:eek: i forgot about that one, completely agree!!
When I was a kid "Charlottes web" and "Bambi" made me ball. So did the "lassie" movies. I still cry whenever an animal dies in the movies. .....
Me as well, I only get emotional at movies where animals die or are hurt.
aww...don't tell me that. :( Looks like I'll need those Kleenex by my side.
:p
you'll need them for that... and for the last sex&the city episode.
both teary ones!
FattyLumpkin
3 Nov 2004, 11:27
Shenandoah
An old b&w film with Jimmy Stewart. When "Boy" walks into the church right at the end..... it gets me every time!!!
Fatty
AngelEyes
3 Nov 2004, 11:52
the last sex&the city episode.
both teary ones!
No :( Carrie :( I love that show. So I would be crying either way.
BomberGal
3 Nov 2004, 12:09
you'll need them for that... and for the last sex&the city episode.
both teary ones!
Awww! Where'd you see it? I've resisted the temptation so far to see what happens in the final Friends episode, and have stopped people who've seen it from telling me, but it's killing me. Three to go! :(
I'm gonna have to catch up on SATC. Stopped watching it in Year 12 because I didn't have time...then I watched it the other night..."eh? Samantha had cancer?" :D
Terminator 2. Watching Arnie wave goodbye as he lowers himself down into the pool of molten metal, then with just one hand above water, he gives a thumbs up.
Powerful stuff. I was a mess.
Awww! Where'd you see it? I've resisted the temptation so far to see what happens in the final Friends episode, and have stopped people who've seen it from telling me, but it's killing me. Three to go! :(
I'm gonna have to catch up on SATC. Stopped watching it in Year 12 because I didn't have time...then I watched it the other night..."eh? Samantha had cancer?" :D
I downloaded it off the internet pretty much straight after it was aired in America.
It'd be worth the wait though to see what happens! :)
Only one film has made me tear up and that's Remember the Titans.
What about you guys?
Agree on that one and as well as for me -:
The Elephant Man
Philadelphia
Old Yeller (when i was a kid-Disney Channel shows it now and then)
Born Free (still @ my age - the opening music sets me off) basically any animal movie
and the last scene in Schindler's List when the real people from the story are with the actors who play them.
Cheer Red Blood
3 Nov 2004, 15:57
Doesn't take much - but the only one I can remember at the moment is Pay It Forward.
Good movie that one, not tear worthy though.
Cheer Red Blood
3 Nov 2004, 15:58
Dr. Zhivago
Good movie that one.
Lady Lawrence
3 Nov 2004, 16:30
I'll just preface this with saying that I cry in the Anzac Day McDonald's ad!!!
But off the top of my head the movies that made me cry.
Last Of The Mohicans
Beaches
The Champ
The Last Snows of Spring
Purple Rain
Philadelphia
Terms Of Endearment
ET
Jerry Maguire
Ghost
The Colour Purple
I know there are heaps and heaps more.
Noddy Holder
4 Nov 2004, 08:28
The Power of One, Titanic and The Fugitive
poor poor one-armed bandit
:rolleyes:
Noddy Holder
4 Nov 2004, 08:34
Philadelphia
Pay It Forward
Message in a Bottle
The Green Mile
many others but can't remember them all at the moment
Portmagpies
4 Nov 2004, 09:56
All of Lars von Triers movies are pretentious chunks of crap. Ever seen the Idiots? What a crock of ********, and that includes the hardcore sex at the end.
DOGVILLE is quite possibly the worst film ever made.
A glorified student film.
I was disgusted by the end credits. Playing Bowie's 'Young Americans' over photo's of poor Southerners was a cheap-shot, a low blow and very undignified from this smart-arse.
But I know left-wing loonies who think it's amazing.
They're also arts ********ers as well, though.
Portmagpies
4 Nov 2004, 10:01
The Elephant Man
A beautiful film, easily Lynch's most mature work (ironic since it came very early in his career.)
Years ago, there was a 'Johnson & Johnson's' TV commercial that would get me all choked up.
It was the one where the little schoolboy grazes his knee playing soccer and his Mum puts a band-aid over the wound.
It was the 'whistling' music I think. Or the fact that I was five at the time.
A beautiful film, easily Lynch's most mature work (ironic since it came very early in his career.)
Years ago, there was a 'Johnson & Johnson's' TV commercial that would get me all choked up.
It was the one where the little schoolboy grazes his knee playing soccer and his Mum puts a band-aid over the wound.
It was the 'whistling' music I think. Or the fact that I was five at the time.
I remember that kid - (i was quite a bit older than you) -i think his name was Beau - became a media darling for awhile then the novelty wore off like it does - personally i thought he was an obnoxious brat after seeing him do interviews etc....
SaveFeriss
4 Nov 2004, 13:02
I cannot believe people are saying Dancer in the Dark. That is the most pathetic and pretentious movie I have ever seen.
I disagree, but I have a Bjork fetish :eek:
Freo Big Fella
4 Nov 2004, 13:44
Must admit to shedding a few tears in October Sky, it hit pretty close to home for me at the time.
jess-jess
4 Nov 2004, 14:08
I'll just preface this with saying that I cry in the Anzac Day McDonald's ad!!!
.
me too! :o
The movies that make me cry no matter how many times i see them
My Girl
Forrest Gump
Jerry Maguire
Kramer vs Kramer
Philadelphia
DOGVILLE is quite possibly the worst film ever made.
Might be why Nicole Kidman has gotten herself out of doing the sequel.
portentous
4 Nov 2004, 15:29
DOGVILLE is quite possibly the worst film ever made.
A glorified student film.
I was disgusted by the end credits. Playing Bowie's 'Young Americans' over photo's of poor Southerners was a cheap-shot, a low blow and very undignified from this smart-arse.
But I know left-wing loonies who think it's amazing.
They're also arts ********ers as well, though.
I watched it the other day and couldn't work out what all the fuss was about. It was just pure and utter cr**. Couldn't even get a decent set together...... :D
Yeah, that last scene is... emotionally draining, to say the least.
Thought the whole movie was 'emotionally draining' personally.
Pretty much every movie. I got tears in Freaky Friday ffs :(
Falchoon
4 Nov 2004, 17:48
I remember the first time I saw Ghost, my girlfriend of the time had already seen it.
She was crying during the opening credits :eek:
DOGVILLE is quite possibly the worst film ever made.
A glorified student film.
I was disgusted by the end credits. Playing Bowie's 'Young Americans' over photo's of poor Southerners was a cheap-shot, a low blow and very undignified from this smart-arse.
But I know left-wing loonies who think it's amazing.
They're also arts ********ers as well, though.
It is amazing.
NikkiNoo
4 Nov 2004, 21:50
Schindler's list - especially the little girl with the red coat
Bowling for Columbine - gets me everytime
Farenheight 9/11 at the end with the mother. I just wish that nobody else has to go through what she has.
I tend to bawl at most things, I can even cry when reading a book, but they are the main ones that really get me crying.
HurricaneHazza
4 Nov 2004, 21:56
the green mile...
NikkiNoo
4 Nov 2004, 22:42
forgot to add that "The Body" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the greatest pieces of television that I have ever seen.
jess-jess
5 Nov 2004, 00:04
i forgot 'The Pianist' and 'Life is Beautiful.'
Those are two of the most moving films i'm ever seen.
Cinema Paridiso
Orphans
Kes
The Yearling
The Champ (correct whoever it was that said damn that little Ricky S)
Freak the Mighty
Yea, kids and heartbreak will always get me in.
Cheer Red Blood
5 Nov 2004, 20:12
Series 7 of Buffy, episode "conversations with dead people"
Not really a movie.... but that scene with Willow....
Bomaz_Magic
6 Nov 2004, 10:40
Lord of the Rings - knowing the fact at the end that irreversable damage had been done to my bowel and nothing had happened. the Matrix also made me cry - cry because so much money was wasted on a piece of crap.
How can Forrest Gump make you cry - it's one of the greatest films and you cry, why because a drug abuser uses an innocent man so as she can take advantage of him in her dying days.
Lion King would probably be the saddest film I've seen - if you didn't cry than yor emotionally retentive.
Bomaz_Magic
6 Nov 2004, 10:42
Cheer Red Blood who's in your avatar?
Lord of the Rings - knowing the fact at the end that irreversable damage had been done to my bowel and nothing had happened. the Matrix also made me cry - cry because so much money was wasted on a piece of crap.
How can Forrest Gump make you cry - it's one of the greatest films and you cry, why because a drug abuser uses an innocent man so as she can take advantage of him in her dying days.
Lion King would probably be the saddest film I've seen - if you didn't cry than yor emotionally retentive.
haha
Give us a rendition, Mr Gump.
Cheer Red Blood
6 Nov 2004, 14:33
Cheer Red Blood who's in your avatar?
Julie Benz, a Buffy and Angel character, it deserves rep, don't you think?
http://www.cowsforbuffy.com/restless/scans/misc/julie1.jpg
http://www.sfedora.com/julie%20benz2.jpeg
http://www.mezza-notte.com/angel/imm/darla/darla73.jpg
Beaches...what a sobfest
Bowling for Columbine
Looking for Alibrandi (but I cried when I read the book too...)
Dead Poets Society
Midnight Cowboy
Reckless (starring Aidan Quinn, 1984)
I recall sitting in the cinema in 1997 or so when Star Wars as rereleased. I had tears welling up in my eyes the same time the title music rose. I couldn't help it. I wish I could feel as good today as I did sitting in front of that screen.
What a fanboy I am.
Bomaz_Magic
7 Nov 2004, 19:40
Looking for ALibrandi? What sort of &^@%$ are you. Talk about weak. Sorry Cheer Red Blood as the soup Nazi said in Seinfeld, "NO [Rep] for you!". Beaches was sad wasn't it.
Life is Beautiful
In the Name of the Father
they're the two I can clearly remember choking up in, and maybe one or two I can't remember.
Cheer Red Blood
7 Nov 2004, 20:41
Sorry Cheer Red Blood as the soup Nazi said in Seinfeld, "NO [Rep] for you!".
Agree with you on Alibrandi.... but no rep?She's a ********ing hot woman.
I saw Thirteen yesterday morning, and spent the second half of it nearly catatonic, and as soon as it finished I burst into tears and spent half an hour trying to recover before suddenly realising I was supposed to be at work.
Other than that:
Shawshank Redemption and Dead Poets Society Every.Single.Time.