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What's the last movie that made you cry or tear up?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Mizzougrad96, May 7, 2008.

  1. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure I really considered BoB a movie, and it wasn't, as the original question asks, the last. But the "Why We Fight" episode, where they find the concentration camp, just ruins me.
     
  2. One that gets me every time is the last five minutes of Bill Forsyth's Local Hero, when Peter Riegert's getting ready to leave Furness and that great Knopfler score starts to kick in. So many little moments:

    "Go up and see her, Mac."
    "You say cheerio, Gordon. And cheerio to you, too."

    "Is that the Yank in that thing, Edward?"
    "Yes, Peter, that's him away."
    "Ah, bugger it. I meant to say cheerio."

    And then Stella looks up at the helicopter passing overhead.
    It gets me every time.
     
  3. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    They're esoteric as hell, but what the heck:

    "Voices of a Distant Star" and "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" by Makoto Shinkai
     
  4. BigSleeper

    BigSleeper Active Member

    I tear up a little bit to a lot of movies, no matter how bad there are. Happened the other night near the end of "The Astronaut Farmer."

    E.T.? My parents thought something was wrong with me when afterwards I said I wished the government had caught the little bastard. I remember my father slamming on the brakes, giving me this look and asking me if I would have rooted for the nazis, too. I I think I was 8 or 9.

    A couple off the top of my head:

    * In "The Abyss" when Ed Harris is communicating with his wife from deep down a trench with a keypad, and let's her know he's not coming back. "Knew this was a one way ticket but u knew I had to come ... Don't cry baby ... Luv u wife." I've always held James Cameron couldn't write cereal-box literature, but that shit gets me every damn time, even I typed this.

    * The Robin Williams-Matt Damon "It's not your fault" scene from "Good Will Hunting" gets me a little.
     
  5. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Shawshank... when he says "Get busy livin, or get busy dyin." Then the pause, where I am losing it.

    "That's goddamn right."
     

  6. Steal a line from Bob -- "He not busy being born is busy dyin'" - and you're stealing from The Master.
     
  7. Boobie Miles

    Boobie Miles Active Member

    Not waterworks, but serious chills, little (happy) lump in the throat: In Miracle after they beat the Russians and Kurt Russell/Herb Brooks goes back into the tunnel by himself and finally lets out his emotion, still in a somewhat restrained manner. The payoff to a superbly acted role IMO.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I didn't cry at Armageddon, but half the theater was bawling when the guy handed the flag to Liv Tyler and said "Bravest man I've known," or something like that...
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Awful movie. Ending was sad. They advertised it like it was a light comedy...
     
  10. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    Creator is another one that gets me. Probably a movie few have seen or even heard of, but there's two tearjerker moments in it.
     
  11. Chef

    Chef Active Member

    I had no idea there were so many vaginas on this board.
     
  12. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    Like I said earlier. I'd rather turn in my man card because I have the ability to experience emotions than keep it and be empty inside.
     
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