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[Brix Bond]

This is a serious question, so I won't appreciate comic answers like "Oh yes, Die Another Day made me cry because it was so awful" or anything along those lines. So, has a film made you cry and if so, which one and why?

Being a hard bastard, there are few films I have cried at. Strangely enough I can't watch the end of Donnie Darko without really crying. I mean full on tears and shaking. I don't know why exactly I get so upset at the end of it. I think it's mainly to do with the line about taking all the sadness and replacing it with happy moments that affects me. Perhaps also Mad World being played at the end helps too, but I can't pin down any sure reason as to why it makes me cry and to such a degree. As far as I remember I've never known anyone to be crushed by a jet engine.

Odd.

OHMSS is my second film. I let slip a tear or two at the end. It's just the sudden shock of her being dead and the bullet hole in the screen and blood running down her head. Then 'All The Time...' plays very slowly, almost like a funeral march. It's such an emotional moment, something which is never seen in the rest of the films and as such, is the main reason why OHMSS remains my favourite Bond film.

[Qwerty]

Brix, I just finished On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and I remembered the first time I ever saw it, I don't think I cried, but that film has a monumental power like no other. It's so unexpected and extremely shocking.

That ending is like nothing else and I don't think we'll ever see anything like it anytime soon. You can't really top a scene with that much strength and emotion.

[zencat]

I haven't cried at a movie in a long time -- but I love it when I do! Seriously. The first movie I remember crying in was the

[zencat]

P.S. I remember an interesting experience while watching Schindler's List. EVERYONE around me was crying throughout the movie and I wasn't. And this was during my late 90s "crying stage." I felt awful. I must be a Nazi. Then...as soon as the first credit appeared, I just went to pieces and sobbed for 20 mins. I realized I was so tense and horrified during the movie, I couldn't cry. But as soon as it was "over"...crying time bigtime. It was awesome.

[Xenobia]

I am the worst person to ask, because I cry at films at the drop of a hat.

Case in point, during the film Dick Tracy when The Kid shows Tracy that he has named himself Dick Tracy Jr, I cried a little bit.

The last movie I cried at was Evelyn. But I am guarnteed to sob during sections of Yankee Doodle Dandy, Imitation of Life, The Joy Luck Club, among others too numerous to list.

And no, I have never cried during a Bond movie, nor have I ever been tempted to.

-- Xenobia

[Brix Bond]

I've never shed any tears for Titanic, but I have been moved (though not to tears) by the actual event itself. I want to see Schindler's List after seeing footage from it where the Nazi executes a group of Jewish prisoners after one of them tried to escape, bar the man himself. That stirred up hatred rather than sadness however. I find the Nazis to be the 'Kings' of history's monsters so it would not surprise me to feel such sadness at the atrocities they comitted.

[censored]ers.

[jwheels]

I haven't cried during a movie since I was a kid. But I remember crying the first time I saw ET. Never watched it again because of that.

[zencat]

There's this one trailer for Armageddon that makes me cry. Yes, a trailer! It's not on the special edition DVD, it's only on the regular DVD. It really builds and builds and then there's something about Liv Tyler with tears in her eyes screaming "He's my father!" while being held back by control room technicians that...I'm getting the rush just typing it.

Oh, and I have cried while writing my own scripts. I know...I'm a big sap.

[jwheels]

P.S. I do predict that I will shed a tear or two during The Passion of Christ. Just the trailer starts to get me choked up.

[Matt O'S oo4]

Made me cry?

Yup.

Benji.

Lost six bucks over that.

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Sorry, but there have been those rare moments in some flicks that do touch off some unfortunate memory. But, I find that to be totally personal and rather private so, forgive me if I do not share it.

Matt

[Brix Bond]

I still hope for the day that everybody actually reads what I write.

[Xenobia]

I did cry during Schindler's List right at the end, as they visit Schindler's grave. I have also wept through the last five minutes of Simon Birch and Saving Private Ryan.

-- Xen

[Joyce Carrington]

Earliest memory of crying at a film: Boys on the side

Then I didn't cry for a long time, but lately I've realised I am a bit less of a tomboy than I thought - I'm really just a big sentimental at heart. Been crying to a lot of TV shows lately (for instance when Mark Greene died on ER).

Recent films? I don't know. Maybe I was so embarrassed I repressed the memories.

[Loomis]

FORREST GUMP

SCHINDLER'S LIST

TITANIC

THE LAST EMPEROR

(Yep, I cry at Best Picture winners only - nah, not really, but those four all had me dabbing my eyes.)

[BONDFINESSE 007]

titanic...what a truly great movie that was


deep impact

driving miss daisey

the terminator 2...at the end when he destroys himself


saving private ryan...a gripping movie, war truly is hell

[Loomis]

titanic...what a truly great movie that was

Agreed. Of course, it's fashionable to slate it, but, my, what a truly great movie.

[mattbowyer]

OHMSS almost gets me there though I feel its hard to know film characters well enough to cry.

The death's of Rachel Goldstein and Teri Bauer are another matter entirely...

[BONDFINESSE 007]

titanic...what a truly great movie that was

Agreed. Of course, it's fashionable to slate it, but, my, what a truly great movie.

loomis just think, those people had a choice..either drown or freeze to death in the water, i cant fathom such a situation as that night must have been

[Atticus17F]

Dunno what it is about boxing films but I remember crying at The Champ when I was a kid... and I came over all unnecessary when Mickey died in Rocky III. Weird.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

Dunno what it is about boxing films but I remember crying at The Champ when I was a kid... and I came over all unnecessary when Mickey died in Rocky III. Weird.

forgot the champ, that a great crying movie

[Blofeld's Cat]

I've only ever cried twice while watching a movie, both at the cinema.

1. During the lobster scene where the townspeople were victimising the "village idiot" played by John Mills in Ryan's Daughter. (It was rated R but for some reason my Scots College class mates were sent by the school to see it - we were no older than 10 I would think.)

2. The scene where Isadora Duncan played by Vanessa Redgrage in "Isadora" chokes to death on her flowing scarf after getting caught in the spokes of the rear wheel of the car she was in. (also saw this while at Scots College).

[Ezekiel]

Shawshank Redemption, that whole hope thing really got to me. A film that I think shocked me into crying most was American History X, at the end (duh) it just brings you right down.

The one movie I hate to admit crying in, but that gets me every time is "Pay it Forward". I think it's all those people with candles at the end.

[Q-Zar]

Dead Poets Society (when he commits suicide)
E.R. : Marc Greene's Funeral

You've been following a character for seven years, and then he dies...no movie can do that.

[brendan007]

Quite a lot televsion shows make me teary. That ep of ER had me the whole way through.
The only show that made me flat out cry were the buffy eps that dealt with the death of buffy's mum. I was balling out every five minutes.
I dont remember many movies though that get me teary.

[Agent 76]

I think the only film that has made me cry was "Scent of a Woman" with Al Pacino...what a great movie!

[Joyce Carrington]

The only show that made me flat out cry were the buffy eps that dealt with the death of buffy's mum. I was balling out every five minutes.

Ah, Brendan, my dear fellow Buffy fan... that was indeed quite sad. I can't remember crying to those episodes, but strangely enough I cried at the final episode of Season 7, which wasn't even that good. (Maybe that's why I cried, LOL )

[Xenobia]

I cried when I watched The Silent Razor.

But tears of laughter don't count, do they?

-- Xen

[taxman2001]

Deep breath.

There are 2 films I swell up over.

The first is the classic 1972 sci-fi fil Silent Running starring Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, which I saw as a 9 year old when BBC2 aired in back in 1980.

The scene in question is when Lowell sends the 3 robots he's christened Huey, Dewey and Lewey out to make repairs on the ship during a meteor storm.

Well, only 2 make it back and I just couldn't watch. I even left the room and sat on the stairs still able to hear what was going on. And just through the sound I started to blub.

I even caught the film about 10 years ago and as it got to the same scene I felt myself swelling up inside and I had to change channels.

The second film is something I will no doubt be mocked over for the rest of my natural life ...

The end of Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country when the music stirs and the cast sign their names on the screen.

I saw it at the cinema when I was 20 and cried and every time I watch it on DVD or tv the tears flow like a river.

[Athena007]

When I was little the first film I ever cryed at (excluding Bambi) was "Iron Will" ...i know ... cheese! How could I cry watching that.

I don't think I've ever balled in a movie before. Though Moulin Rouge got some tears out of me.

[Kingdom Come]

So many get me going and I can't remember most of em!! But here's a few I do remember:


[ T.V. ]

Little House on the Prairie


[FILMS]

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981 remake - when Jessica Lange is accidently killed, Jack Nicholson runs to her body at the side of the road and................


Titanic

A few scenes, but one that stands out is the woman and her husband lying down on their bed with their children as the water starts to envelope their cabin and them pretending everything is okay. When I think about it, I doubt there is any other scene in the history of film that is as powerful. [For me that is]


Out Of Africa

Meryl Streep at the graveside of Robert Redford....


Terms of Endearment

Debra Winger dying from cancer in a hospital ward with her 'mother' Shirley MacLaine and husband present.


The Remains of the Day

Anthony Hopkins having tea & the Prominade sequence with Emma Thompson; him discovering that she will not be coming back to Darlington Hall, and that his duty to his Lordship and his rejection of any romantic contact with Emma many years before, cost him dearly; his face expressing all this. The prominade scene is a masterwork of subtext.