What movies make you weepy?

[Kyahra]

All three LOTR movies. Especially the last one.

[hyelaw]

• Memento (a must see film)

I didn't understand this one...

As for Weepy. The Princess Bride will ALWAYS be my favorite. And of course all three LOTR, and any John Cusack movie (I just finished listening to the Serendipity soundtrack...) Moulin Rouge and Big Fish too. And I know it's a messed up movie, but I really liked Chasing Amy (lots of profanity).

[Inyidd]

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.

This was the first serious anime I ever saw (a looooong time ago). It was shown on the PBS station in Denver, and interspersed with breaks where they had short reports and clips on some of the real-life inspirations for portions of the movie - such as the firebombing that happened. GotF is one of those movies that you start out with a box of tissues because you *know* you're going to need them at some point.

The only other movie that's come close to moving me in the same way was when I saw Dead Poet's Society in the theaters.

--Inyidd

[astianax]

grave of the fireflies did me in, too.
*sigh* and a group of friends asked me to suggest a good anime that they'd never heard of...and came back complaining that that one 'sucked'...there's no accounting for taste

[Saruton]

Watership down, the green mile. Especially the later one was tough. For anime its Now and then, here and there. A great but depressing series.

[Lothay]

I didn't understand this one...

As in you didn't understand the movie, or didn't understand why I might find it moving?

[JMorgana]

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

Same movie for me, different scene...the one where the woman is tucking the kids into bed, knowing they won't ever wake up.

Also, Steel Magnolias, from the scene with Sally Fields and Julia Roberts in the hospital where Julia Roberts is in a coma...all the way through the funeral.

[Kahmon]

For me it's the final scene of Field of Dreams where he finally gets to play catch with his father. It's just brings up memories of me & my dad. To this day it's the only movie thats ever made me misty.

[Furyrpied]

The one movie that has moved me to tears to the point where I can not watch it again (or at least won't untill i have enough left in me to last to the end) is A.I. http://aimovie.warnerbros.com/

Haley Joel Osment does a great job of playing the robot boy, I dang near died when he was under the water waiting for the woman to come to life. Then i curled up in the fetal position when the aliens bring back his mom


Misty eyed even now.. haven't watched the movie in a very long time but very powerfull

[Silound]

Armageddon
Glory
Lion King (Actually its a song from the movie, but there's a long story behind that)
Not a movie per se, but Band of Brothers will occasionally give me misty eyes

[Cubwynn]

Beauty and the Beast for me.

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

someday he will. At least I'm hoping.

[Koru]

When Neo-Tokyo blows up at the end of Akira, and towards the end of Saving Private Ryan. Titanic did nothing for me on the emotional front. Nor do most of the films that make other people weepy, me and my friends are a bit too coldhearted for most Hollywood tricks. We're the kind of people who can watch Schindler's List and still remain cheerful. We restocked on popcorn and discussed the weather while Trinity made her death speech. When Leo drowned we sighed 'finally!'.

It usually takes a good deal of death and suffering to make me emotional, and even then... Or very inescapable doom combined with non-annoying characters who didn't have a prayer of chance before, but got some small glimmer of hope only to have it brutally squashed. Really, when your first reaction to the hero of the drama is "will someone finish off that little prick already?" it's hard to get weepy when he or she finally dies. Tragic love stories almost never do anything for me. Although I do agree on Hamburger Hill, that one did make me a little misty eyed at the end.