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Of every movie you've ever seen, which one is the biggest tearjerker and why?

The Green Mile - When the Warden's wife gets cured of cancer by John Coffey, she says "I dreamt we were lost, and everything was dark. But we found each other. We found each other in the dark." Because of specifics of my relationship with my girlfriend, this hit me really hard.

Since movies that make you feel strong emotions are often the best ones, I felt this would be a good thread idea.

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for me...

American History X - some peple called it predictable but nonetheless i was so freaking sad
Garden State - such a sappy ending... Frou Frou - Let go playing in the back ground while they are kissing and the camera zooms out
Gladiator - music while he is meeting his family.. idk tear jerker for me
Black Hawk Down - That one dude got his leg artery shot and he died... and they tried to save him but they couldnt...
Beauty And the Beast - "i love you" and he dies... the rest of it is the bs ending... the real ending is sad omega

cant think of anythign else right now

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i havent changed my avatar or anything in a long time! time for a change yall!

Well, for me it would be Secret Window. I found out that Johnny Depp is a good actor after I saw this one. The plot, twists, characters' roles, and everything in-between is just top-notch stuff. One movie that gets me everytime I see it is The Passion of the Christ- watch it! I loved it.

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

I've never come close to crying over a movie, but I'd say the saddest was when Lois Lane dies at the end of Superman. I know he turned back time for her and everything, but seeing her alive again (plus her ending diologue) adds an extra punch to the situation.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

Schindler's List always gets me. Hotel Rwanda managed to make me cry, too. Other than movies about genocide, the only movie that still gets me to cry is Forrest Gump.

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"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

Even though it is a cornball movie, Parts of Armageddon got me welling up...
Also the end of Return of the King was quite emotional.

Starman had its moment at the end, but the one that got me the most was Capricorn One, At the end when James Brolin is running in slo-mo and his wife starts to realise he is alive, a real tear-jerker and no-mistake!

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Ozzie - lead singer from Black Sabbath
Flea - Bassist from Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Slash - Guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses

He drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand...

Tell The King - The Libertines

When I was really little, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey really got me weeping. Any movie where you see dogs or cats suffer really gets to me, I'm such a pet person.

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Strangely, Toy Story 2 is my biggest tearjerker, at the part where the cowgirl doll gets abandoned. Yeah, I'm a dork. But the scene, along with the music, made it very sad.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

The last movie I remember crying on was Deep End of the Ocean back when I was 12 or 13. Yeah, that movie got to me, probably because I'm a big and little brother. Swing Kids was another one I watched 'round that time that got my eyes watering.

EDIT: I forgot about The Cure (a movie made back in the wonderful 90's). That movie was a tearjerker if any are.

This post has been edited by The_Pink_Nu1 on 17th February 2005 23:28

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SPEKKIO: "GRRR...That was most embarrassing!"

Adam Sandler starred in Little Nicky , Satan shoved a pinapple into Hitler's ass. Awesome.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Movies that come to mind...

American History X, as mentioned before... I walked away from it with a greater respect for life and something else I can't quite describe.

Armageddon, as mentioned before. Along the same thread, a few parts of The Core, too.

The biggest tearjerker of them all, however, would be:

Dead Man Walking, before the guy gets executed and when he apologizes to the families. The expression in his face: regret, sadness, despair, fear, hopelessness, resignation. The actor portrained it so genuinely that, if I was ever in the same situation as the families, I would have second thoughts about having him put to death.

Biggest NON-tearjerker that was designed to be a tearjerker: final scenes of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. They couldn't quite... capture... the moment... AT ALL.

A.I always gets me... I don't even like that movie much, but when the little boy waits in front of the blue fairy for so long... *Sniffles*

Spirit makes me teary too. Yeah, I know, it's a pretty sappy movie about a horse, but I can't help crying when Spirit looks out of the train and hallucinates about his herd...

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TURKEY! - (The only way not to get blocked for using Fowl Language)

I've seen most of the movies listed, and while the parts mentioned are sad, they never made me come close to tears. In fact, only one movie has ever made me -- and still makes me -- choke back tears.

So what movie is it? Why, The Fox and the Hound. A little ways from the end, when the old lady drops off the fox (his name escapes me at the moment) in the nature preserve and then "abandons" him there - gets me every time. That sure makes the Dork-o-Meter shoot up a few points.

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Don't worry, I'm still above you on the Dork-o-Meter, because I remember that Todd was the Fox's name. I liked that movie when I was a kid, but I don't recall ever getting that sad on it.

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SPEKKIO: "GRRR...That was most embarrassing!"

Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies. I don't cry at movies as a rule of thumb, but that one gets me pretty darn close.

EDIT: Fixed. Can't believe I forgot about that.

This post has been edited by Super Moogle on 18th February 2005 03:38

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
~Dorothy L. Sayers

"The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
~T.S. Eliot

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!"
~ Bruce Lee

Grave of the Fireflies isn't Miyazaki. That one is the masterpiece of Isao Takahata, the other director affiliated with Studio Ghibli.

Not to say that it isn't really sad, or that it isn't really good. I think that Fireflies is animated film's version of All Quiet on the Western Front, in terms of being an excellent war story in itself.

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Quote (SilverFork @ 17th February 2005 18:45)

So what movie is it? Why, The Fox and the Hound.

SOMEONE ELSE WHO'S SEEN IT!

That one used to get me misty. :'(

X2 almost got me near the end... in Nemesis, I wanted to cry so bad at the end (and still do sometimes)... and a few others that I'm having trouble recalling...

Chick flicks do it easiest, though, even if I haven't seen many.

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I'll admit that there exist a few movies out there that get me very emotional. One, mentioned by SuperMoogle, is Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies. It's just so sad to watch what happens to the two children.

The other movie that gets to me goes back to my last relationship.
The End of The Affair reminds me in many ways of that last relationship.

Quote (AnarchistDream @ 17th February 2005 00:23)

Adam Sandler starred in Little Nicky , Satan shoved a pinapple into Hitler's ass. Awesome.

This thread is supposed to be about moments in movies that are upsett... yeah, okay.
If it were a better movie, you could tack that onto my list.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

Easily the Return of the King, as mentioned before. When you love LotR as much as me, and you see Frodo say goodbye to his lil hobbit homies, it gets ya. Not "I'magonnacryd00d," but damn close.

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"Dance, water, dance!"
-Demyx, Kingdom Hearts II

"I met my love before I was born..."
-AFI, 'Love Like Winter' from 'Decemberunderground'

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Any part of any move you can think of when somody dies... that's the one for me. Even in the movie El Mariachi, the part when Domino died really pulled on the heart-strings.

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"No matter what happens, I will always be with you... forever." ---- Pocahontas, Pocahontas

"Only those who are already at the top are rewarded without trying."----- Delita Hyral, Final Fantasy Tactics

http://www.ffshrine.org/fft/fft-midi/1-42-back_fire01.mid ---- My favorite FFT battle song

A perfect World, God that was a good movie, and the ending, WOW That got me wound up a bit. When the convict "butch" is about to give something to the kid he was with for most of the movie (phillip) and the FBI agent thinks its a gun and shoots him with teh sniper WOW i just wanted to punch that idiot in the face, luckily the ranger (Red) did it for me . A very touching movie, specially at the end

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You wont be saying that when you get a
lead pipe across the head -James (Darkness Illusions II)

Quote (RoyalKnight @ 17th February 2005 21:34)

Biggest NON-tearjerker that was designed to be a tearjerker: final scenes of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. They couldn't quite... capture... the moment... AT ALL.

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I used to have sleepovers with a good friend of mine once every couple months during most of my junior high and high school years. We had a tradition at these sleepovers of watching one of a very small rotation of our absolute favorite comedies, all of which we'd basically memorized the lines for. One of those movies was "Dumb and Dumber."

Now, if you're familiar with "Dumb and Dumber," you might remember the scene where Lloyd and Harry are riding their scooter into Aspen, Harry says he needs to pull over to take a piss, and Lloyd says, "Just go man." Lloyd's next line, which in all its stupidity would still get my friend and I laughing every time, is, "Ohh... it's warm."

This is the same friend I saw Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on the day of its theatrical release. When we got all the way through the movie to it's "climactic" ending, where Dr. Sid steps down next to the crater and feels the Lifestream bubbles (or whatever Spirits Within decided to call it) pass through his body, we burst out laughing at his dramatic line: "Ohh... it's warm."

As for my personal tear-jerkers, I'll admit that, as lame as it may sound, the Cowboy Bebop movie, as well as the series' final episodes, completely broke me down. Episode 24 (Hard Luck Women), still does.

The Green Mile, which I watched in segments over a couple week-long span (watched it in a class), also left me in radically different, highly emotional states after each segment.

Edit: Snap, I've gotta add that Grave of the Fireflies kills me too. Good call, SM.

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Didn't know that the Bebop series counts, but Episodes 25 and 26 ("The Real Folk Blues" parts 1 and 2, respectively) are tremendously moving. To date, I have yet to view any animated production on any medium quite so stirring as the final scenes of Bebop.

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
~Dorothy L. Sayers

"The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
~T.S. Eliot

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!"
~ Bruce Lee

I know it sounds odd, but Puff The Magic Dragon. In the end when

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Jonny Paper grows up and leaves Puff

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Love and Peace- Vash, the Stampede

If Life kicks you long enough, eventually he'll get tired and walk away- Drew Carry

I'm going to have to admit it, a few points in Baz Luhrmans' Romeo & Juliet were quite saddening. Namely

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their deaths. Unlucky, that. The death of Mercutio was quite powerful, too.

Amazing film, that.

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Quote (AnarchistDream @ 17th February 2005 00:23)

Adam Sandler starred in Little Nicky , Satan shoved a pinapple into Hitler's ass. Awesome.

This thread is supposed to be about moments in movies that are upsett... yeah, okay.
If it were a better movie, you could tack that onto my list.

Not true, it was "Upsetting" movie moments, Seeing Hitler accept a pinapple to the poop schute is VERY upsetting.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

The end of Ordinary People was touching. Although I didn't weep like a grandmother or anything, I still got a tear or two in my eyes.

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

The Lion King, specifically the scene with the stampede.

Another movie that got me upset the first time I saw it was Man on Fire, with Denzel Washington. The acting in that movie makes the whole situation so believable.

Quote (Golbez @ 4th March 2005 22:44)

The Lion King, specifically the scene with the stampede.

Another movie that got me upset the first time I saw it was Man on Fire, with Denzel Washington.  The acting in that movie makes the whole situation so believable.

Oooh, I do remember getting all tear jerky when I was younger, about the stampede scene

Meanwhile, when I first saw "Fellowship of the Ring" I got all emotional when Gandalf went down with the Balrog. I hadn't read the books at that point (tsk, silly me), and I thought the kindly old wizard was gone for good

This post has been edited by Rock Lee on 8th March 2005 23:50