What movies make you weepy?

[Verdandi]

Saw this on another (non-EQ) message board and it sounded like fun.

What movies, and what parts in particular, make you reach for the tissues?

Mine would be The Fox and the Hound, the part where Widow Tweed drives Todd out to the forest to leave him there and reminisces over the time they've had together. She's doing it because Todd isn't safe at her house anymore, but the poor little fox doesn't understand. He just knows the only mother he remembers is abandoning him in the middle of a big, scary nowhere. I bawl like a baby, big heaving sobs, every time.

[Turlo Lomon]

Titanic always gets me. Especially the scene with the old couple in bed while the cabin is flooding.

As silly as it sounds, Volcano. The scenes where subway director sacrifices himself to save an engineer, and the two demolition experts sacrificing themselves to save the hospital.

Ugh... getting misty eyed at work. Must stop typing.

[Sanna]

Grave of the Fireflies. Animated movie, on par, quality wise, with Studio Ghibli stuff (the makers of Spirited Away and Mononokehime), about the final days of WWII... from the point of view of a Japanese boy and his sister who lost their mother in a firebombing raid, and try to eek out a living while the sister gets progressively more ill.

It's one of those that you know the end from the beginning of the movie... but you can't stop watching... and there are parts you want to root /against/ the American soldiers in the planes....

My roommate came back /right/ after I finished watching, and she asked if I was alright... I told her I had just watched a really sad movie.


My sister's 10th grade history class had a sub for two days, and she mentioned watching "this stupid anime movie about this boy and some girl and it's in wartime Japan, and it's subbed and none of us want to read subtitles, so we just laughed at it for an hour cause we didn't get it." I turned around in the car and verbally backhanded her, lashed into her for being so shallow and not trying to understand. She just blew me off. It made me so mad that she just doesn't want to see what GotF is saying...

which in turn got me thinking about the movie again, and nearly made me cry again.



Also, humorously-oddly enough... "Equilibrium." It's... I guess it's an action movie? But there's this one scene that just slammed into me... I think her name was Molly Brown? Ahhhh that movie just takes your emotions on a complete roller coaster ride... excitement then fear then exhilaration then "oh bleep, he's bleeped himself" then "they're gonna win!" then "they're gonna lose!" ... ahh it's so good. But such a sad sad scene... *weepy*

[Grimina]

Mr. Holland's Opus had me in tears. Been a few years since I saw it, so I can't remember the plot or even why it made me cry, but it also made my husband (Mr. Macho Man that NEVER cries) bawl so it musta been a definite tearjerker hehe.

Titanic actually sends me sobbing from the room. Mainly the part once the ship has gone down and the survivors are staring in horror, but when the people first realize that there aren't enough lifeboats runs a close second. READING about the titanic, and listening to the soundtrack have the same effect /boggle. I did a speech on it for college a few years ago and once my tears started running I had the rest of the class moist eyed hehe. I think I died on that ship in a past life or even worse, watched a loved one die. My responses just can't be deemed rational otherwise hehe.

And any movie involving a small child in imminent (or present) danger starts the tear factory working overtime. I'm an overprotective, smothering mother of an (obviously) well loved 4 year old. I don't like thinking about what *I* would do were my daughter in the same situation. Ugh, just thinking about some of the evil things they do to children in movies has got me ready to cry.

*runs off to watch a happy movie to chase the bad thoughts away*

[Maisie]

The part in Braveheart when the wife gets killed

And any part of Hamburger Hill/ platoon

[Itzena]

The Iron Giant - "Superman"

[Grenoble]

The Green Mile. Coffey's death. Wells my eyes up every time.

[Elyssanda]

"Where the Red Fern Grows" I was about 12 the first time I saw it.. sitting with my mom had to run from the room grab a box of kleenex, and it was empty by the time the movie ended.. Kids and puppies..OMG

[Ngreth Thergn]

Not a movie... but latest thing to mkae me weapy...

Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

They choose truly deserving families to makeover their home... and man, the stories and the gratitude and the volonteers and the neighboorhoods/towns (last one had a WHOLE town helping... not just a neighborhood)

[Chenier]

Recent ones:

The ending of "Big Fish" - I was bawling (saw on DVD for the first time...what a great flick!). And the ending of "Return of the King" - cried my eyes out at the theatre when it came out, cried again watching it this week on DVD (it was released on Tuesday).

I always cry in Snow White when she sings "Someday my prince will come".

[Itek]

Steel Magnolias....

Oops... now I have to make sure you all never tell anyone...

[Melinia]

Does Realizing I wasted $8 to see Van Helsing count? (If i wanted to see a computer generated movie I would have seen Shrek 2 instead).

Real tears would be in "Everafter".. Love that movie... I cried when her dad died, cried when the prince pushed her away after learning the truth, cried when he came to her "rescue" and said her real name. I laughed, I cried, I cheered!

[Cerpicio]

Not a movie... but latest thing to mkae me weapy...

Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

They choose truly deserving families to makeover their home... and man, the stories and the gratitude and the volonteers and the neighboorhoods/towns (last one had a WHOLE town helping... not just a neighborhood)

Amen to that one! I *love* that show!

Ok, I haven't read all your posts yet, but if no one has mentioned Whale Rider by now, it deserves to be mentioned. If anyone can watch the young girl give her speech without shedding a couple tears, you must be dead inside.

Another that always gets me, believe it or not, is Backdraft. But just at the end when there's a huge procession in the street honoring the dead fireman. That kind of loyalty gets me every time.


-- C.

[Lothay]

Believe it or not, Lothay is a pretty emotional person.

I get pretty worked up at lots of movies, tear-jerkers or not. The most stiring films I can think of at the moment are:

• Henry the V (St. Crispin's Day scene, Kenneth Branaugh version)
• The Maltese Falcon
• Casablanca
• Heat
• Memento (a must see film)
• Traffic
• Glory
• Unforgiven
• Being John Malchovich

I also loved Mr. Holland's Opus, and it too drove me to real tears. The fantastic and sudden realization that your life wasn't wasted is a very powerful experience.

Steel Magnolias is also a great film.

But then, I also love movies for their power to make me laugh, to make me think, and to just entertain.

There's a song, the perfromers of which I can't recall that is about movies --

"Thank you Thomas Edison; the movies are great medicine. Thank you for giving us the best years of our lives!"

[Niellya]

• Pay It Forward
• Armageddon
• Ever After
• Renaissance Man
• (a slew of others)