What movies have made you bawl?

[Vigilance]

Star Trek: Nemesis

Chuck

 

[Templetroll]

It's a Wonderful Life - when Clarence gets his wings. That's one of the best. How many TV shows have done an episode based on this one?

Gunga Din - a couple of scenes at the end. Gunga with the bugle and the eulogy.

Fellowship of the Ring - Boromir's death. Sean Bean did a great job.

Peter Pan - when you clap to show you believe in fairies. I always do.

Yankee Doodle Dandy - Jimmy Cagney is great; when George is talking to his father before he dies, and at the end, as he joins in the parade of soldiers singing, "Over There".

[edit] Wolf's Rain - That is a sad ending.

 

[gregweller]

All of the LOTR movies at different points--some of it just from the sheer beauty of it all. But the movie that has me crying from beginning to end is 'The Elephant Man'. The scene where he stands up at the opera house ...I've literally got a tear in my eye as I type this...

 

[Gunslinger]

the end of "The Butterfly Effect"
"The Green Mile"
"Armaggedon"

can't think of anything else at the moment

 

[Krieg]

But the movie that has me crying from beginning to end is 'The Elephant Man'. The scene where he stands up at the opera house ...I've literally got a tear in my eye as I type this...

Unfortunately The Elephant Man creeped me out too much as a kid for me to develop enough emotional attachment with Mr. Merrick to empathize with him.

the end of "The Butterfly Effect"

Theatrical or Director's Cut?

 

[Nellisir]

An addition: The Notebook, about 20 minutes ago.

 

[Rackhir]

Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko - From Studio Ghibli - I saw it at the local anime fan gathering. It's about a bunch of Tanuki (transforming racoon creatures from Japanese myth), who are trying to save their area from development by humans. They struggle very so very hard and for a moment it looks like they might have won, but their home is wiped out anyway and they hold this parade of various ghostly figures singing and dancing until they faded out. It was heartbreaking, they'd fought so hard and they they were going off to die, fading out and they were celebrating while doing it. It was the celebrating that really got to me. I just had to go into the bathroom and broke down. It was one of the sadest things I've ever seen. I was watching it in japanese, so I may have misunderstood what was going on, but it was just heartbreaking to watch.

 

[Rackhir]

"Armaggedon"

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?

 

[Wormwood]

Actually made me cry:

When the Wind Blows (although I wonder how it would affect anyone who doesn't remember the Cold War)
Million Dollar Baby
Lady Jane
Requiem for a Dream

And the "Spaulding Grey Memorial Kick-My-Ass Tearjerker Award" goes to:
Big Fish

That film left me in a paroxysm of tears so bad that my wife made me take Xanax...and called my mother. Which was really embarrasing.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

It's a Wonderful Life - when Clarence gets his wings. That's one of the best. How many TV shows have done an episode based on this one?

I saw a horror film once, that mixed It's' a Wonderful Life with Night of the Living Dead in one scene. A woman was trapped in some hellish version of IaWL with zombies outside, and the line went something like:

Every time you hear a bell
Another person goes to hell!

Anyone know what movie that is? I've only seen about a five minute clip (too much channel flipping)....

I don't think this movie would make me cry, though.

I get choked up in the beginning when Mr. Gower boxes young George's ears. Once you've seen the movie, all the little things mean so much more--it really gets much better on a second viewing (unlike most movies).

A really good version of A Christmas Carol can get me, too; there just aren't that many good ones. So, it isn't surprising that IaWL gets to me.