Scenes In Movies That Make You Cry

[Thundarr]

This doesn't happen to me very often, but sometimes I get all teary while watching a movie. Now I'm not saying I'm too macho or manly to cry at movies. Its just not really in my nature to do so. Thus when a scene in a movie is powerful enough to evoke such a reaction, I think that's a pretty special thing. Here are some scenes that cause me to get a little weepy:

My Girl: The scene with Thomas Jay's funeral, and the very end where Vaida reads her poem about Thomas Jay. Those scenes always get to me.

Independance Day: The scene where Randy Quaid decides to kamakaze his jet into the alien craft's main gun, and he asks the President to tell his kids that he loves them.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season Five (The Body): Okay, this one's a TV show and not a movie. However I found the entire episode extremely moving and very well done.

So those are some of mine. What are yours? Don't be shy, no one will think any less of you for shedding a tear at the movies (and if anyone does, please keep it to yourselves).

 

[The Englishman]

The scene where Bond crashes his Aston Martin in Casino Royale....

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Independance Day and Buffy ?? Really ? I'm not judging you but I find it strange.

The last films I saw that triggered an emotion ( wet eyes ) were Dead Poete Society and Meet Joe Black.

 

[david icke]

Independance Day and Buffy ?? Really ? I'm not judging you but I find it strange.

You are obviously very unfamiliar with the best eps of Buffy, because that one is a great piece of work, it is extremely heavy though, so not one I look to for a re-watch.

and as for Independance Day,...any old movie can get to you, especially scenes involving family.

as for myself, I got a bit teary eyed and choked up at the bit in American History X when Ed Norton says goodbye to the guy who kept him alive in prison.

and I got a little tiny bit of a teary during kick-ass the other night during the part when he would not leave the guy's side who was being beaten up.

 

[Punisher Rising]

A few for me:


The death in The Terminator,

Spoiler

of Kyle Reese.

The ending of Terminator 2: Judgment Day,

Spoiler

T-800's sacrifice by lowering himself into the steel.

The ending of Alien 3,

Spoiler

Ripley's death and her subsequent fall into the furnace.

The ending of American History X,

Spoiler

with Danny's death.

In RoboCop,

Spoiler

when RoboCop is being mowed by the police while trying to get away when they're ordered to destroy him.

Return Of The Jedi,

Spoiler

the death of Yoda and pretty much the last third with the Luke and Vader conflict, and Vader saving Luke and when his mask is removed as he's dying. The burning scene gets me, too.

The Punisher (2004),

Spoiler

the slaughter of Frank's family but especially when his wife and kid are killed as they try to escape.

The Mist,

Spoiler

the ending, where Drayton kills his son and the survivors when they think the world is lost, only when he realizes immediately afterwards they would've been saved by the soldiers had they waited just a little bit longer.

Transformers: The Movie,

Spoiler

the death of Optimus Prime.

 

[Jochimus]

I think the one movie scene at least in recent memory that had me actually wiping my eyes afterwards was the last scene of "Revenge Of The Sith".

Other than that, I almost teared up when Optimus finally makes his entrance in TF '07 and Peter Cullen's voice comes out of him. And the end of T2 managed to put a lump in my throat - that last thumbs-up always gets me.

 

[scifiwolf]

Rudy. I cried for the scene where he reads his acceptance letter, the scene with the jerseys in Dan Devine's office, and the final two plays of the game. The rest of the movie I just have have a lump in my throat. Jerry Goldsmith's score is one of the best of his career.

 

[Laderlappen]

Any version of A Christmas Carol when Tiny Tim dies. And the ending.

 

[Mister H.]

I would never admit this anywhere but on a message board where I'm completely anonymous, but my wife dragged me to the theater to watch The Notebook and the final couple of scenes got to me. What was really rough was that it was in public, so not only was I trying to hide it from my wife, but from hundreds of strangers. The whole theater was boo-hooing though. It's kind of funny in retrospect.

 

[scifiwolf]

Yeah The Notebook got me too. Another one is Walk the Line. The last scene where Johnny asks June to marry him again makes me break down every time.

 

[lime]

This doesn't happen to me very often, but sometimes I get all teary while watching a movie. Now I'm not saying I'm too macho or manly to cry at movies. Its just not really in my nature to do so. Thus when a scene in a movie is powerful enough to evoke such a reaction, I think that's a pretty special thing. Here are some scenes that cause me to get a little weepy:

My Girl: The scene with Thomas Jay's funeral, and the very end where Vaida reads her poem about Thomas Jay. Those scenes always get to me.

Independance Day: The scene where Randy Quaid decides to kamakaze his jet into the alien craft's main gun, and he asks the President to tell his kids that he loves them.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season Five (The Body): Okay, this one's a TV show and not a movie. However I found the entire episode extremely moving and very well done.

So those are some of mine. What are yours? Don't be shy, no one will think any less of you for shedding a tear at the movies (and if anyone does, please keep it to yourselves).

Brilliant episode! Season five had some great ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lKEckx4yE

Scenes from movies to make me cry (usualy it's not a real cry but tears):

Finding Neverland: The last scene on the bench. ''You can always see her...in you'r imagination’’.

Titanic: The quick montage where the old couple is hugging, and the mother is getting her children to sleep.

Godfather: Part 3: The scene where Al Pacino goes insane with grief. Amazing scene.

There’s more, but I’m late for work so later.

 

[david icke]

more movie moments i have cried during...

in Escape to Victory when Pele is talking about how he learned to play football 'in the market, kickin' the oranges'.


In Rocky II when someone throws Stallone that orange in the market and it brings a tear to his eye as he is reminded of Pele's early days as a footballer.

In Titanic when that guy loses his shoe in the door and we know there's no time for him to go back for it, but he then does go back, there is time, and manages to get his shoe back. Actually, I'm not sure if this from the Poseidan adventure.

In Little Man Tate when Jodie Foster tries to teach the young Hannibal Lecter the value of eating vegetables and to stop sucking other people's thumbs, so gives him a celery stick and when she goes out the room he uses it to entice the local neighbourhood rabbit in, and then chucks it into an electric fan and eats the celery.

In Reservour dogs when that guy eats his own ear to escape from the dungeon.

In Oldboy, when at the end of the movie he finds out the valentine card he has been jerking off to for the past 15yrs was sent to him by his grandma as a sympathy, and then jerks off to it one more time except this time he is crying.

In Ghandi when Ghandi finally loses it and calls the world leaders 'a bunch of c****', and they smash his glasses.

In the Shawshank Redemption when that guy escapes through the hole in the wall with nothing to eat for days but the blu-tac off his poster.

In 'The Idiots' when that guy pretending to be a spastic does it for so long that he forgets he is not mentally handicapped and truly becomes a spastic, I like this because it is like a modern allegory for a true life Pinnochio.

In 'The Devil Wears Prada' when Meryll Strepp finally accepts that she is an old woman and takes her false teeth out in front of the whole office to rapturous applause.

In E.T. when E.T. headbutts that govenrment agent who is trying to steal his BMX and then uses his heat vision to seal his ass up.

Another one from Titanic, it is a sad movie,...when that guy who lost his shoe puts his shoe back on, that actual moment when he manages to get his shoe back on. That very moment.

of course, a lot of these dvds were watched when i was doing backshift at an onion factory, so my memory might be a little hazy on some details.

 

[chaseter]

Pan's Labyrinth when Ofelia dies

The beginning montage in UP

Titanic when the old people are lying in bed together and the mother is putting her children to bed as the ship sinks

The last scene in LOST where Jack lies down to die and Vincent the dog lies down beside him and Jack sees the plane fly overhead with his friends on it and he closes his eyes.

 

[david icke]

When the Elephant Man finds out his father was a bus-driver and it was he who drove the bus over the elephant that gave birth to him.

 

[SPider-T0rch]

Up- The opening montage and the scene near the climax where Carl looks throught Ellie's adventure book.

Toy Story 3 - The last 10-15 minutes

 

[-JKR-]

Edward Scissorhands - Finale... Daaamnn..

 

[DCW]

Rudy. I cried for the scene where he reads his acceptance letter, the scene with the jerseys in Dan Devine's office, and the final two plays of the game. The rest of the movie I just have have a lump in my throat. Jerry Goldsmith's score is one of the best of his career.

 

[redhawk23]

Quite a bit of Toy Story 3.

I second My Girl.

A scene that gets me is the funeral scene in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. oddly enough the character that died was played by Kieran Culkin. Whats with culkin brother dying in movies?

A scene that totally gets me is in Return of the king when Pippin sings for the Steward of Gondor and theres like the mantage of battle scenes. That whole sequence is fantastic.

#1 scene that makes me all teary eyed though is Michael Cains death in Children of Men. Also the birth scene. Also when every one stops fighting for a moment when they hear the baby crying but then go back to shooting eachother when they walk away.

 

[bapi]

The ending of...

Brokeback Mountain
The Shawshank Redemption
Toy Story 3
The Green Mile
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Meet Joe Black

 

[stlblues84]

End of Field of Dreams with father and son playing catch...gets me every time.

 

[chaseter]

Quite a bit of Toy Story 3.

I second My Girl.

A scene that gets me is the funeral scene in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. oddly enough the character that died was played by Kieran Culkin. Whats with culkin brother dying in movies?

A scene that totally gets me is in Return of the king when Pippin sings for the Steward of Gondor and theres like the mantage of battle scenes. That whole sequence is fantastic.

#1 scene that makes me all teary eyed though is Michael Cains death in Children of Men. Also the birth scene. Also when every one stops fighting for a moment when they hear the baby crying but then go back to shooting eachother when they walk away.

Oh I forgot Toy Story 3 too...

I never bust out crying in the theatres but I had a tear drop when they held hands in the incinerator. That was the saddest I had been at a movie in a long, long time.

 

[danoyse]

The ending of Toy Story 3.

The opening montage of Up, as well as the scene towards the end when Carl is looking through Ellie's scrapbook and realizes she filled all of the blank pages.

The ending of It's a Wonderful Life.

When the dad dies at the end of The Champ.

When ET "dies" and then again when he leaves.

 

[YoungE808]

Up- The opening montage and the scene near the climax where Carl looks throught Ellie's adventure book.

Toy Story 3 - The last 10-15 minutes

Pretty much nailed it for me. Also, some that get me in tv shows every time are:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Spoiler

Tales of Ba Sing Se- Iroh's Story marking the anniversary of his son's death.

LOST

Spoiler

The death of Juliet, Sun, and Jin.

 

[Thundarr]

Haven't seen Toy Story 3 yet. I hope there's a theatre in town still playing it.

Another scene that chokes me up is when Mathilda and Leon say goodbye in Leon: The Professional, right before the SWAT team busts the door down. Some others of mine . . .

Walk The Line: In the beginning when Johnny Cash's older brother dies.

Beaches: The end when Barbara Hershey dies. Yeah, it's a chick flick. But it was still really well done and very emotional.

The Sixth Sense: The ending, when Haley Joel Osment tells his mom his secret and then proves it by telling her what her mom had been telling him since her death.

Pay It Forward: The end when Haley Joel Osment dies, and then the candlelit vigil by all the people he had helped.

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

Nobody cried in Toy Story 3? Maybe it was Andy reminded me of myself