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07-15-2007, 02:20 AM | #11 | ||
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There has been a large number of movies which have made me cry the first time around - I'm such a sensitive soul - but have somewhat lost that power on repeated viewings when I know what's coming and can be better emotionally prepared, but Jacob's Ladder is one of the few to have made me cry every time I've seen it. There's something about that ending sequence that really gets to me. I just can't help it. The tears come thick and fast.
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When Tod, following the bear attack, is lying too battered and exhausted to defend himself, and Copper refuses to let Slade kill him. Then, after Slade backs down and Copper starts to follow him, he and Tod have that moment in which they acknowledge each other amiably for the final time, before setting off, their footprints each going down a different path. Symbolism doesn't get more obvious than that, and neither do tearjerkers. I'm aching for a fresh box of Kleenix just thinking about it. And, please don't laugh, but I cried - long and hard - at the conclusion to Peter Jackson's King Kong.
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07-15-2007, 08:39 AM | #12 |
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When I was seven years old (back in '64, guys), I bawled at The Three Lives Of Thomasina. In more recent times, the final scene of Breaker Morant gets me misty-eyed.
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07-15-2007, 04:50 PM | #13 |
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One scene that always makes my eyes start to mist up is in Return of the Jedi when that ewok dies and his friend is trying to get him up. Forrest Gump also made me choke up at the end.
The original Land Before Time always makes me feel like I'm on the verge of bursting into tears. Poor Littlefoot's struggles just strike a chord in me every time. Truly a wonderful movie. But the one movie that really made me cry for the first time was Paulie. I remember watching it when it first came to video and I just couldn't stop crying when the old lady who befriended Polly passed away. It was a fantastic movie, but I'll never watch it again.
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07-15-2007, 06:14 PM | #14 |
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Saving Private Ryan
Forrest Gump Click Armageddon Titanic E.T. (I was watching it the other day, started crieing) Band of Brothers (Not a movie, but a mini-series about a real group of WWII troops) Probably more that I forgot.....I'll update. |
07-15-2007, 07:09 PM | #15 |
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Oh you mean "Paulie"? I went to that on opening day; its not often that they make a movie about a parrot, let alone a conure. I have it on tape, need to get it on DVD. Yes, that is a very sad scene.
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07-15-2007, 07:18 PM | #16 |
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Another war flick which tears me up is John Wayne's The Green Berets
AWESOME movie. Absolutely required watching. The end scene with Hamchuck looking for "Peter-san" always brings up the tears.
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07-15-2007, 07:49 PM | #17 |
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I've never seen any movie that got me an teary (although I did see Forrest Gump when I was young. I don't remember what it was that made me cry). I got close during the climax of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, mainly due to the destruction images and the Ray Charles song playing in the background.
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07-15-2007, 08:13 PM | #18 | |
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That movie just brings you down, seeing how miserable Amy Smart was in one reality and how dark and miserable everyone was. One movie from my childhood that always made me sad was in "Short Circuit 2". There was a couple scenes that made a few tears come. The first is when Johnny 5 leaves the police station and reveals the two books he chose: Frankenstein and Pinocchio. The second is hard for me to watch sometimes, it's after the villains beat the crap out of him and he's left broken, falling apart and unable to speak or even move that well. I may be over analyzing the scene a bit much but when the character Fred Redder came to see him and said "My god, what have they done to you?", I really could feel how awful he felt once he saw what happened to Johnny 5.
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07-15-2007, 08:53 PM | #19 |
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I loved Fred. I was just thinking of that movie the other day; I'd like to see it again. It was awesome when Fred gave Johnny his silk shirt. But of course the best part was when they were in the sewer and we just hear Fred say "Do you know what I'm standing in??"
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07-15-2007, 09:25 PM | #20 | |
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Not to mention, has one of the best ending music themes I've seen. "I need a hero" by Bonnie Tyler.
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