Movie scenes that make you cry

One of my friends swears that the only time since the age of 10 that he's cried in a movie theater was at the end of Terminator 2...

 

Your friend's a moron. "I know know why you cry."

Damn you for bringing that up! The scene where Matthew Broderick is showing the cigarette to Virgil, but he can't really get it because he's behind glass. Of course it ends with the chimps starting a new life in the wilderness. So, that makes me happy.

Actually, any movie where any kind of animal dies is upsetting. I skipped the remake of King Kong because of that.

 

Admit it. That friend is you isn't it? C'mon. We're all coming clean here.

 

The part that kills me is when Emma Thompson opens the Christmas gift.

 

The first time I saw Billy Madison, in 1995, I nearly cried through the entire movie.

 

OK, tell me someone has mentioned Pride of the Yankees already.

The Champ

When Rocky keeps getting up. The look on Creed's face does me in every time. When the music starts signaling that we have a real fight on our hands and not just lucky punches gets me started as well.

 

Some fine acting by Thompson in that scene. She goes from elated (unwrapping the gift) to devastated (realizing it's not what she thought) to trying to hold it together (telling the kids to get ready) to devastation again (in the bedroom crying, listening to Joni Mitchell) to pretending to be composed so no one suspects a thing. All in about 1 minute of the film.

Doesn't get me quite as much, though, as another scene written by Richard Curtis: the eulogy that Matthew gives Gareth in Four Weddings and a Funeral when you realize they're lovers. When he gets to the part in the Auden poem "Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off The Telephone" that goes "He was my North, my South, my East, my West..." it gets real dusty in my house.

 

I'm four pages deep, but have to leave, so I'll just assume no one else went with this:

Cinderella Man, basically all the final scenes not in the ring. When his wife goes to the church to pray and it's already full of people praying comes immediately to mind.

 

Virgil was the chimp that survived. You're thinking of Winston.

 

I've cried many times in a theater. Some of them are pretty embarrassing, but T2 is not one of them...

 

That movie destroys me...