Movie scenes that make you cry

Is it really? Damn ... I think I have that episode on video. Need to go find it.

 

I've mentioned this before, but the end of Hoosiers is visceral for me as my own high school won a regional title on that same floor on a shot from the same spot as Chitwood hit his shot on its way to a state title (before the dipshit class system was put in place).

I rushed the Hinkle Fieldhouse floor several times myself in high school, so it just hits in a realistic way.

I hate myself for it, but that graveyard scene from Saving Private Ryan does it too. I hate myself for it because Spielberg sets you up for that reaction.

Fields Of Dreams makes me cry too ... cry to the mountain top how overrated it is.

 

From when I was a kid...

E.T. - I was 8, what do you want from me? ;D

Outsiders - Stay Gold Ponyboy...

Empire Strikes Back - When Han Solo gets frozen... I was five and my parents love to tell the story how I sobbed when that happened, but shrugged when Luke got his hand cut off... ;D

 

I agree that Field of Dreams is overrated, but the last scene is pretty amazing...

Hoosiers may be one of the best sports films of all time, but I don't remember getting teary in it...

 

Then you'd like my all-time favorite fan sign, which I saw at Purdue for a Purdue-Notre Dame game sometime during the Davie era in the late 90s ...

"Rudy sucked too"

 

No need to go searching ...

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How did we ever exist before YouTube?

 

Remember in the remake of "The Thing," with Kurt Russell and the guys in that Artic science base? Remember how the one dead guy, lying on the slab in the makeshift morgue, his head falls off the table while no one is looking? Remember how it suddenly sprouts crab legs from his eye sockets and stuff, and how it starts to scamper from the room?

Yeah. That's another one that makes me teary.

 

I love football movies. I grew up rooting for Notre Dame. I had a "Play Like a Champion Today" sign in my room as a kid...

I hated Rudy...

 

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The M*A*S*H episode when Col. Henry Blake died. So unexpected, a jaw-dropping moment.
Odd that both deal with the military.

For my money, Forrest Gump is a hackneyed piece of Hollywood flotsam.

 

The only reason I get teary is because I've lived that moment (as a fan) myself right down to the letter. Otherwise, I don't think I'd get teary, I rarely do at movies.

I admit, though, that watching a Green Bay Packers history film at the old Packer Hall Of Fame got me going once.

I think that was my first trip to Lambeau and I must have been emotional that day, because the subject matter was the "glory" days being brought back by the Don Majkowski-era Pack. I think I saw it in '95 or '96, before the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI, so clearly, the film was a bit dated even when I saw it.

So yeah ... the Majik Man made me cry.

 

"The Indians win the pennant! The Indians win the pennant! Oh my God, the Indians win the pennat!" For a funny movie, that never ceases to get me teary. Because I am a fan.
(Then, usually, I notice the blooper: fat guy in the grey shirt running out of the stands twice -- once in one shot, then running from the same place in a scene that's supposed to be seconds later -- and I stop.

 

Many, many ND alumni agree with you. The message boards, whenever he's mentioned, generally become a tidal wave of bashing him for being a self-promoting a-hole.

I still love the movie, though.