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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:45 AM
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What movie or TV show makes/made you cry?
I'm not an overly emotional person but I cried like a baby when:

Snoopy came home.

Tasha Yar died.

They shot Ol' Yeller.

What about you? What movies or TV show made you cry?
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:48 AM
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1. Yes, "Ol' Yeller" And a few others.
I bawled when that happened.

"Bambi". A very sad movie.

"Star Trek II"...when Spock died...and Admiral Kirk reconciled with his son at the end. That was so emotional.

"Ghost". I couldn't leave the theater for a few minutes...I couldn't stop crying.

Terry
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:02 AM
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9. lassie, & a scene in rob roy after jessica lange is raped
Edited on Sat Feb-14-04 11:03 AM by kodi
where she forces her cousin not to tell her husband she had been purposely raped so as to infuriate her husband to reckless revenge.

my god, whenever i watch that scene i cry like a child. lange is so powerful in that scene that i consider it one of the most moving scenes in cinema.

also, for those who can stand to watch it, the first 30 minutes of saving private ryan.
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muchacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:50 AM
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2. every time
O'Reilly comes on.....
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:51 AM
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3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In "Becoming, part 2" when Buffy has to kill Angel, even though he got his soul back.

In "The Body" -- well, pretty much the whole episode, but most particularly when Buffy first admits what has happened "We're not supposed to move the body!"

In "The Gift," when Buffy explains to Dawn what she's got to do -- and then does it.

In "Once More, with Feeling" when the gang learns that they've pulled Buffy out of Heaven.
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:55 AM
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7. Oh fer criminy sake...
I forgot about Buffy!

I cried when they killed Ms. Calendar AND Buffy's mom!
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muchacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 10:51 AM
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58. yes
My wife loves Buffy, but everytime it come on I cry.

I think it's the abysmal acting and glib "witty" bantor.
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 12:08 PM
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60. Sorry it's not up to your taste...
Perhaps we can find a show more to your liking?
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muchacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 06:49 PM
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65. I did...
Gilmore Girls!!
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Intelsucks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:53 AM
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4. Saving Private Ryan, Band Of Brothers, We Were Soldiers
n/t
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:55 AM
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6. true true
Same here
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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 01:15 PM
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23. You sir are obviously a veteran
Try "Coming Home" with Jane Fonda & John Voight. Break out the kleenex, though.
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FireHeart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:51 PM
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32. Tears of The Sun, When Trumpets Fade.
Very powerful movies, each in their own way. The ethnic cleansing scenes in "Tears" was horrific... :(
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Liberal Christian Donating Member (746 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:53 AM
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5. These days almost anything makes me get teary-eyed
Recently I cried at

Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Return of the King
Joan of Arcadia -- just a couple of little tears

I pretty much tear up whenever someone dies, prays, or presents themselves as emotionally vulnerable to another person.

I guess I'm just a softie.
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zanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:42 AM
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15. I can't watch animal stories
Because they usually die in the end. I've never seen Bambi or Ole' Yeller, and I don't intend to. Why do they have to end like that?
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FireHeart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:53 PM
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33. Ring Of Bright Water is a good example of that. n/t
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 10:57 AM
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8. Apollo 13
Even though I know they make it through the ionization (sp?) blackout, and are returned safely, I still get all weepy when I watch the family and the rest of the country "watching" the event live. No one knew what would happen and they astronauts had already been through so much, to get within a few thousand feet. Wow, it would have been awful had they not made it.
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 05:02 PM
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47. The irony of Apollo 13
After reading the Challenger and Columbia accident investigations, if Apollo 13 happened today, there would have been 3 more casualties. Too bad we don't have the NASA of the Apollo days.
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phaseolus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:13 AM
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10. two --
M*A*S*H TV series finale, when the musicians die at the end

Gandhi, the Amritsar massacre scene. I cry just *thinking* about that one.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:24 AM
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11. the ending of Jackie & Hillary
made me blubber
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:53 AM
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19. That is a wrenching one
A few years ago, my Sunday movie group in Portland went to see the 1994 version of Black Beauty, and all of us came out of it blubbering.

As you may remember, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a variety of masters, both good and bad, until as an old, brokendown horse, he is sold once again and finds himself being cared for by a groom who once worked at the place where he was happiest as a young horse.

We talked about the movie afterward, and we felt that by our age (we were all over 40), we had suffered unmourned losses in the form of friends we had once treasured and lost touch with, making the movie resonate for us.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:03 PM
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27. it's strange, isn't it, how people move in and out of our lives
Edited on Sat Feb-14-04 02:04 PM by Skittles
I can think of people I knew 20, 30 years ago and remember them fondly or not so fondly. Our memories may fade but they do remain with us and they help to make us who they are.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:26 AM
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12. "JT" A CBS special presentation from the 1960s...
about a young boy in the ghetto and a stray cat. It was written by Lily Tomlin's partner Jane Wagner, and starred a young Kevin Hooks. Absolutely heartbreaking.
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zanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:44 AM
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17. Does the stray cat die?
The animal usually dies in the end, breaking the kid's heart and making me cry for days.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:30 AM
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13. Not a fair question.
I cry if the wind blows... god knows those trees must hurt when they bend....
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DemOutWest Donating Member (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:40 AM
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14. Showing my age...
the original "Brian's Song".
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:44 AM
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16. M'Lynn's "Why-Why-WHY???" Scene At Shelby's Funeral In "Steel Magnolias".
-- Allen
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bratcatinok Donating Member (786 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:57 AM
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20. Me too because
I did much the same when my Mom died. I was 18 and it happened suddenly and seemed so unfair. It marked a major turning point in my life.
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 11:45 AM
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18. West Side Story
do you have enough bullets for me, chino?

YOU ALL KILLED HIM!!!

(sniff)
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thermodynamic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 12:19 PM
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21. Series finale of "Blake's 7"
Spock dies

Enterprise-D gets destroyed

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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 12:59 PM
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22. Babe, Field of Dreams, E.T., Of Mice and Men, West Side Story
Babe - "This is a tale of an Unprejudiced Heart and how it changed our valley forever"

"And while the Crowd didn't know what to say, the farmer, who in his life had uttered fewer words than any of them, knew exactly what to say: That'll do Pig, that'll do"

I wish more of us were like Babe. This movie teaches morality better than any scripture and it makes me cry for what I've lost.



Field of Dreams - "Is this Heaven?" No it's Iowa, "I could have sworn this is heaven" "You wanna have a catch, Dad" "Yes son"



E.T. - "I'll be right here"


Of Mice and Men, Sinise and Malkovitch version - When Lennie is getting his ass kicked and he's just taking it and of course when Lennie dies.

West Side Story - I think it's the music more than anything else, I don't get emotional at Romeo and Juliet
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:31 PM
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Babe
The moment when the farmer dances with the pig had me bawling!
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:50 PM
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40. I almost had forgotten Field of Dreams
I haven't seen it in a while. I cried at the part when the doctor as a young ballplayer coming back steps off the field as the old doctor to save the child thus ending his playing.
Speaking of baseball movies, I cried at the end of League of Their Own too.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 01:32 PM
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24. Emergency Vets on Animal Planet.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 01:35 PM
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26. I Had To Stop Watching That Show...
The heartbreaking stories were just too much to take. It was so emotionally exhausting and draining that I had to put the brakes on it and just tune out.

Same thing with Animal Precinct and all those stories of animal abuse and cruelty and neglect. Even though there was some satisfaction in seeing those bastards arrested and prosecuted, it was still too much for me to handle.

Both of them affected my mood for HOURS afterward.

-- Allen
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:23 PM
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28. A confession
Although I watch those shows for the animal stories, and I do cry often, I have to admit I also watch for some of the hunky guys--Max Mixson on Animal Cops Houston, and that hunky vet on Emergency Vets, and a few others. Woof!
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 01:33 PM
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25. Movies....

It's A Wonderful Life
Tears of Endearment
Schindler's List
Dancer in the Dark

Among others!
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 10:12 AM
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56. Eight Men Out
Hey, could that be Shoeless Joe?
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:29 PM
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29. I love older movies
An Affair to Remember (both versions!)
It's a Wonderful Life
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 08:35 AM
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VeniceBeat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 02:39 PM
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31. It's a Wonderful Life
makes me blubber every time.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:06 PM
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34. Yep
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Alenne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:31 PM
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35. Boys Don't Cry
I was hysterical during the rape scene. Great movie but I will never watch it again.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:37 PM
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37. I Had Almost Forgotten...
Well, it's kind of hard to forget that movie... but it's been so long ago that I didn't immediately think of it.

I bought it on DVD because I was so moved by it the first time I saw it... but I just haven't had the heart to watch it again.

-- Allen


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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:39 PM
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38. Another Ending That Makes Me Weep...
is the ending of Longtime Companion where all the departed friends come back... as though it was just a bad dream and we really hadn't lost them at all. If only.

-- Allen
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 04:51 PM
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45. Another scene in Longtime Companion that REALLY got me crying...
Was the scene when Bruce Davison's character is with his dying partner in the hospital. And he tells his partner to "just let go". Tears were streaming down my face when I was watching that. It was love...and letting go of the person you love.

Terry
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:33 PM
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36. Dumbo n/t
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 03:47 PM
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39. I cry easily
I haven't watched much television lately. They also tend to ruin the emotional tempo of it by commercials. My memorable crying time for television was on Dr. Who when Andric died. It was a rerun but I hadn't seen that episode. I was in junior high and always liked his character and was bumbed out about it for weeks after crying about it.
Another televsion crying time was Star Trek the Next Generation in the episode where Picard's mind connections with alien probe of the dying planet and he lives a whole life there complete with having children and learns to play the recorder (or something like that) which he does at the end after he mentally comes back.
As for movies off the top of my head: Schindler's List, It's a Wonderful Life, Old Yeller, Bruce Almighty, Titanic, Somewhere in Time, Carrie (I found that to be a sad movie more than scary), What Dreams May Come, Home Alone (the part with the old guy and his family), Dare Devil, and Shine. there are probably many more that I cried from.
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 04:19 PM
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41. Lorenzo's Oil, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List
all of them reduced me to tears at one point or another.

In Saving Private Ryan the point that tore me apart was when the car was driving up to the Ryan's farm to tell the mother that she had lost her sons...then to see (but not hear) them tell her and to see her just drop to the porch floor...that was profound...

Lorenzo's Oil ...god that whole movie was just traumatic.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 04:28 PM
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42. TV Series: The Wonder Years almost always left me choked up
at the very least. I identified heavily with Kevin.

Designing Women did it on a few shows. A few selected episodes of Mad About You.
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 04:31 PM
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43. A couple for me
The ending of Saving Private Ryan was very emotional for me.

The old Star Trek show Deep Space Nine has an episode that always knocks me out whenever I see it.

In the episode, Capt. Sisko gets caught in some sort of Star Trek-style physics where he's trapped in some sort of sub-space thingy.

The episode is how Sisko's son, Jake, deals with the loss of his father.

In the episode Jake is shown as an old man, and we see through flashbacks all of the instances where Sisko phased back into reality for brief periods of time, and how Jake and the others at DS9 tried (without luck) to bring Sisko back into the real world.

I did not have a father growing up, and the episode brought back all the pain and longing for having a father in my life. I cry like a baby every time I see it.
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Leftist78 Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 05:09 PM
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48. That episode
of DS9 gets me every time. It's my favorite episode of any of the ST series.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 04:40 PM
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44. "Wings of Desire" and "Cradle Will Rock" make me bawl like a...
...Japanese girl at a Cheap Trick show.

Ad, yes, when Snoopy came home.
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 05:01 PM
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46. Brian's Song, Steel Magnolias, Final Impact
Brian's Song...I remember the first evening it appeared (early 70's). Had gone to a gig so I missed the first run, and when I got home, everyone was crying about how sad the movie was. It was a few years before I saw it and it was somewhat touching.

Steel Magnolias - a grim reminder of my own mother's death from complications of diabetes. However, I love Sally Field's soliloquy at the cemetery --it is a total crack up, end up crying from laughing so hard.

Final Impact -- the astronauts goodbyes to their families remind me of the astronauts in Challenger and Columbia...I'll here.
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tedoll78 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 05:17 PM
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49. I bawl like a baby at the end of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
A grown man crying his eyes out at the drenched cat returning to her arms. She gets the man AND Cat! So wonderful..

(too bad he's gay.. hehe..)

I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about it.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 06:56 PM
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52. Me too
Not gay, but a grown man crying over a drenched cat. There's one very brief scene when Holly throws Cat out into the rain and you see her (the cat) drenched and huddled in in the ally.

Why did you have to bring that up?
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 06:44 PM
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50. On DS9 , when O'brians lost Molly
Only time I ever cried because of a show
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-04 06:49 PM
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51. Snoopy come home
I was little but I bawled for hours after that one. Funny huh?
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 08:56 AM
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54. A few
Crying isn't exactly the word. Some of these movies mess me up, with or without weeping.

Nuclear war movies --
Threads
The Day After
Testament
Miracle Mile

Some disaster movies --
Final Destination
Deep Impact (many of the scenes)
Poseidon Adventure
Titanic (film critics: FOAD)

Various --
Bastard out of Carolina
The Quiet Earth
The Loved One (Final scenes with Mr. Joyboy and Ms. Thanatogenous)
The Last American Virgin (overall it's a puerile movie, but toward the end, when the protagonist realizes what has happened, it gets difficult to watch for better reasons)
Enemy Mine
Roots, Holocaust, other of the better popular treaments of slavery/genocide

The TV series Space: Above and Beyond had many emotionally difficult moments in it, especially the last episode.

Blast from the Past, Guncrazy, and Pleasantville were also intense in many ways, though not really teary.

Both shuttle losses, and the 9/11 disaster, easily outdid any of them.

--bkl
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Limbought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 09:10 AM
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55. The end of "Madam X" when Lana Turner dies always brings .....
on a flood of tears.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 10:31 AM
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57. If These Walls Could Talk
Almost the whole movie. The end sent me into hysteria, and I had to have several drinks to calm down.

Saving Private Ryan and parts of Band of Brothers, definitely.

And I remember a TV movie from when I was around 11-- Paul Winfield was in it. It was called "Green Eyes." He was a Vietnam vet who went back to try to find his child. All he knew was that it had green eyes. I bawled my eyes out, and still remember it.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 12:05 PM
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59. I cry during almost all movies that are concered dramas
...it's really unbelievable.
I'm only going to mention the most recent one because obviously there are far too many to list. "In America" made me cry several times. When the little girl was singing the song "Desperado" the tears really flowed.
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 12:55 PM
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61. Requiem for a dream, ma vie en rose, beaches
Probably others, but off the top of my head (and movie collection), this is what I can come up with
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 01:09 PM
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62. The montage od the different minor characters in "Titanic"..
Not the panicked, spectacular action on the deck, but the people who have calmly accepted their fate. As the ship is being consumed by the sea, and the multiple cuts to the 'small lives' which are about to end, unfold:

The Irish steerage-class mother telling a bedtime story to her children as water lifts the cot from the deck; Guggenheim and his Valet trying to remain their composure as the Salon is engulfed; the clock on the mantle finally submitting to gravity as the ship begins to nose downward; the old couple curled up together, sobbing, as the sea boiles beneath them; the china dishes slowly tumbling, en masse, from their cabinets. And most excruciatingly of all, the chamber musicians on the deck reuniting for "Nearer My God to Thee".

Love or hate the movie, but those few minutes are some of the most perfect examples of dramatic vigniette ever recorded to film, and I'm teary even recounting them.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 01:10 PM
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63. Oh, and what about "Field of Dreams"
n/t
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64. M*A*S*H
It makes me laugh and cry, often in the course of one episode.
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