What movies have made you bawl?

[Tenser42]

I know there have been several movies that forced tears out, but the only one that comes to mind is Braveheart. That one was an emotional rollercoaster ride for me.

 

[Hopping Vampire]

Gladiator
My Girl
Radio Flyer

 

[Hopping Vampire]

This was one of the most unintentionally funny movies I've ever seen. I broke out into hysterical laughter during the sequence where they were landing on the asteroid. It was just so fundamentally absurd. One of the real shuttles was destroyed because a chunk of foam fell off and hit it on the wing and they have their shuttles slamming into a rocky surface with large crystal spears jutting all over the landscape. You can't build an aircraft and make it fly if it's armored enough to survive that, never mind a craft you have to get into deep space from earth. Then of course there was the multiple vulcan cannons on the rover vehicles. Every ounce counts in space launches and they were hauling up several thousand pounds worth of ammunition and weapons. Were they afraid Marvin the Martian was going to try to stop them?

or it could be that you're taking things too seriously. Its a movie.

 

[Enforcer]

Tear up? A few movies. Actually bawl? Life is Beautiful.

 

[Rackhir]

or it could be that you're taking things too seriously. Its a movie.

Oh believe me I would NEVER try to take a Jerry Bruckhimer film seriously. In fact when I was watching the previews I found my self saying "You know those explosions seem familiar. I've see this someplace before..." and then the Jerry Bruckhimer logo came on the screen. It was all clear then, you can always tell a Jerry Bruckhimer film by the explosions.

 

[billd91]

Actually made me cry:

When the Wind Blows

Wow. When the Wind Blows. I didn't cry for that one, but I did feel that anxious nausea that a lot of us who grew up during the cold war remember not-so-fondly.

You people sure are a bunch of softies. I simply don't cry very often watching movies though there are a couple of infrequent exceptions. The funny thing is I'm not vulnerable to the same movie every time.

Dumbo - but not during the Baby, Mine song that seems to get so many other people. I was 18, sitting at home on a weekend having just made myself some dinner, when I got to the scene in which Dumbo drops the 'magic' feather and flies anyway. Tears were streaming down my face.

It's a Wonderful Life - gives me a lump in my throat, but not when Clarence gets his wings. It gets me when everyone pours into the room and George Bailey's jaw drops open and everyone opens their purses. It's a really beautiful moment. Hell, if I did enough good in this world to merit a moment like that, I'd die really happy man.

Shadowlands - when CS Lewis finally breaks down with his step-son

 

[Gnarlo]

Good lord, what a list it is... Scent of a Woman, American Beauty, Goodfellas, Fargo, Pulp Fiction... hell, there are very few movies from the 90's that I didn't have to rewind the next day and watch again because I could only remember the first 10 or 15 minutes.

First date my wife and I ever went on we saw Sliver, came back home and ended up on the couch, and that kinda set our movie history ever since.

What's that?... wait a minute...

Oh, b-a-W-l.... my mistake, was spelling it wrong....

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I just watched The Patriot again...the scene when Benjamin and Gabriel Martin are riding off to war again, and Benjamin's daughter talks to him for the first time...*sniff* heartrending.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Only in the past decade have movies started to get me to tear up. I'm 32 now. Lately, many movies can get me teared up even. Heck, even some commercials have given me a lump in my throat. I think becoming a father was part of it. Anything sentimental with kids and dads just puts me over the edge. Also, selfless sacrifice by the common lowly soldier in movies gets me blubbery.

The first movie that got me to even tear up got me bawling. It's a Wonderful Life.

Other's that I remember...
Big Fish
Return of the King
Black Hawk Down
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Pay it Forward
Tears of the Sun
Passion of the Christ

Oh... and Monsters Inc. got me weepy.


Regards,
Eric Anondson

 

[Qlippoth]

I do pride myself on being curmudgeonly, but there is a squishy center in there somewhere.

Saving Private Ryan: I've managed very well at resisting Steven Spielberg's attempts over the years to yank at my heartstrings, but I did get teary about midway through the opening scene. What turned on my waterworks? Looking down my row, I noticed an older woman holding her teary-eyed, elderly husband's hand while speaking to him softly. Spielberg, ya got me.

Return of the King: I'd read reviews (here and elsewhere) in which people described feeling moved to tears multiple times through this one. I thought, "Maybe." Never got to see it on the big screen (still holding out for a Boston-area IMAX run), so I waited until the EE came out. Well. Let's see. The fiery beacons along the White Mountains? Check. Theoden's speech to the Eorlingas before the Battle of the Pelennor? Check. Theoden's death? Check. The Grey Havens? Check. Hell, I bawled when Sam found Frodo after Shelob had "had her way with him"!

OK, maybe I'm not so tough after all.