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Posted by: INTS, June 9th, 2013, 3:07pm
Hi. I just had a thought about how easy movies makes as laugh and how very few of them makes as really cry ( even we are fully mature man or woman). To make someone laugh some movies need 30 seconds or less ,but crying is totally different story.

WHICH MOVIES MAKES YOU REALLY CRY??> ( cos I'd like to see them too)

I cry when I see GLADIATOR (when maximums gives last instructions before death),
                       GREEN MILE ( when cofy lets him electrocute)
                       TITANIC      ( when Rose is old and dreams she's back on titanic)
                       THE ELEPHANT MAN ( when Joseph Merrick starts to cry when doctors wife is first women on earth who's not afraid to look into his crippled face)
                       THREE KINGS (when they gave up their gold)
Posted by: Grandma Bear, June 9th, 2013, 4:02pm; Reply: 1
I never ever cry at movies, but yes, The Elephant Man got me.  
Posted by: Forgive, June 9th, 2013, 4:10pm; Reply: 2
Lassie - gets me every time ... even after all these years.
Posted by: spesh2k, June 9th, 2013, 4:13pm; Reply: 3
Pursuit of Happyness actually made me tear up a little bit... two scenes, the bathroom scene with his son, and near the end after he finds out that he got the job (celebrating among a sea of people). Each scene got me teary eyed for different reasons. Powerful stuff.
Posted by: RegularJohn, June 9th, 2013, 5:30pm; Reply: 4
Blue Valentine gets to me.  Wow, what an ending.
Posted by: James McClung, June 9th, 2013, 5:58pm; Reply: 5
Second Blue Valentine. That's a film that rips your guts out if ever there was one.

I'm also going to throw The Fly and Dead Ringers into the ring. The Fly is my all time favorite film. Hands down one of the greatest love stories and tragedies of all time. It was a near impossible act to follow but Cronenberg did just that with Dead Ringers, among the most complex and emotional films in his oeuvre, in which there are already many complex and emotional films. My second all time favorite film, respectively. There was some magic going on 1986-88.
Posted by: spesh2k, June 9th, 2013, 6:13pm; Reply: 6
The end of Terminator 2: Judgement Day - "Now I know why you cry."
Posted by: Pale Yellow, June 9th, 2013, 6:43pm; Reply: 7
Sometimes I will completely avoid going to a movie if I know there is going to be a sad ending! :) I hate to cry...
Posted by: the goose, June 9th, 2013, 7:40pm; Reply: 8
Two films I cried at.

One was when the mother is killed at the start of Mighty Joe Young (I was about 10)

and the other was when Lee Marvin died in "Shout at the Devil" (I was about 7 then)
Posted by: RJ, June 9th, 2013, 7:45pm; Reply: 9
*Nights in Rodanthe - the whole 'Great Love' speech Adrienne gives Amanda, close to the end, always gets me.
*My Girl - solid classic - when Vada searches for the ring.
*Million Dollar Baby - when Maggie tells Frankie to kill her.
*Romeo and Juliet (1996) - At the end when Romeo is walking towards Juliet in the church - the music for that is spot on and Leonardo's expression - oh - always brings a tear to the eyes.

Oh, and apparently when my mum took me to the movies to see The Neverending Story when I was 4 - I crawled under the seats and cried the place down when the horse died :)
Posted by: Leegion, June 9th, 2013, 8:01pm; Reply: 10
Marley and Me.  I don't CRY.  But I did tear up at the end of it.  You watch it and think "ah, funny dog comedy" and at the end you're like "whoa, this is deep".


Posted by: SAC, June 9th, 2013, 8:38pm; Reply: 11
Three things that will get me crying every time:
Baseball, fathers and sons, Jack Nicholson crying.
Field Of Dreams - "Hey, dad...you wanna have a catch?"  (welling up just thinking of it)
Frequency - "I'm still here, Scout."
And whenever Nicholson cries, I cry:
The Crossing Guard
About Schmidt
And, oh yeah, I was bawling like a baby at the end of Marley and Me.  
Posted by: Bogey, June 9th, 2013, 10:06pm; Reply: 12
Brian's Song (the original, not the remake, which was garbage)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Field of Dreams
Sweet November (1968) - saw it about 10 years ago, had to feign allergies
Posted by: trickyb, June 9th, 2013, 10:21pm; Reply: 13
it's been a while but for me I remember getting emotional when I watched:

Artex (horse) death - neverending story
rocky's death - mask (cher & eric stoltz)
Hazel's death - (song, bright eyes) during watership down.

on the flip side as a kid a watched nightmare on elm street 3 and I didn't sleep for weeks.
Posted by: Toby_E, June 10th, 2013, 4:40am; Reply: 14

Quoted from spesh2k
Pursuit of Happyness actually made me tear up a little bit... two scenes, the bathroom scene with his son, and near the end after he finds out that he got the job (celebrating among a sea of people). Each scene got me teary eyed for different reasons. Powerful stuff.


Yeah, that's the only film that really comes to mind for me, as well. The endings of films often hit me on an emotional level, but Pursuit of Happyness was one of the few that actually brought tears to my eyes. Both Water Lillies and Oslo August 31st brought some intense emotions to the surface, so that when I finished watching them I literally just stared at the credits, but I wasn't close to crying. Oh, and Stand By Me can sometimes get me, depending on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a nostalgic, reminiscing mood I often think back to all the friends I used to be super-close with when I was a kid, who are now "just another face in the hallway", so to speak.
Posted by: AmbitionIsKey, June 10th, 2013, 5:35am; Reply: 15
Remember Me actually made me cry a lot.  The ending, plus I felt bad for the sister after what those asshole kids did to her hair.

I third Blue Valentine.  Such an emotionally amazing movie!
Posted by: ArtyDoubleYou, June 10th, 2013, 6:28am; Reply: 16
I've only cried in a couple of films, though randomly Short Circuit nearly broke me when I was a kid.

Up- When the guys wife dies crushed me. I blame it on the fact I had just spent two awesome weeks with my then girlfriend who lived in New York. I watched it on the plane on the way home and it just got me. Was pretty embarrassing.

The Impossible- The scene where Ewan Mcgregor phones home, he breaks down and hangs up, I just found his performance so powerful in that scene, I felt his pain. I tried to resist the tears, but I couldn't.
Posted by: AmbitionIsKey, June 10th, 2013, 7:40am; Reply: 17
I think most Pixar movies pull the heart strings.

Up made be cry.

And Toy Story 3 when they toys are in the furnace and they all look around and hold hands.  Killed me. <\3
Posted by: nawazm11, June 10th, 2013, 8:19am; Reply: 18
Although nothing has really made me cry, there have been films that got my close to it.

Atonement is a huge one here, just an amazingly story that's sad to its very core, just those last few minutes are incredibly depressing... And the second one is Moon, gets me every time.
Posted by: RJ, June 10th, 2013, 9:24am; Reply: 19
I second Toy Story 3 - I was watching it with my kids and thought 'oh my gosh, I'm going to cry'.

I have to also add - My Sisters Keeper + Mary And Martha (TV movie, 2013) - some intense moments in those movies.
Posted by: DV44, June 10th, 2013, 10:47am; Reply: 20
Hachi - A Dog's Tale was pretty sad once Richard Gere's character dies.

E.T. at the end when he leaves Earth.
Posted by: AmbitionIsKey, June 10th, 2013, 11:00am; Reply: 21
On God.  How could I forget My Sisters Keeper?!  I SOBBED my heart out!  I'm a big girl, I love soppy movies!
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