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Tim Raynor

Jun 20, 2008 - CDT 6:58 PM

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Here's my choice, I cried like a bitch!

bladerunner1

Jun 20, 2008 - CDT 7:07 PM

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Something about animals kill me too Tim. I can watch human beings get blown to pieces all day long, but if you throw in the dog too, well THAT is just crossing the line!

Jedi_Soljah

Jun 20, 2008 - CDT 8:40 PM

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Pathfinder (I know i've mentioned it before), I cried because I want my two hours of life back. I kept watching it expecting something semi-good to happen and it never did. I think my DVD player and I got progressively dumber as the movie went on. I think I found a way to beat Chuck Norris, just mention the movie Pathfinder to him and his nose might bleed...

-JS

Movielover316

Jun 20, 2008 - CDT 9:01 PM

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Here's my choice and unlike Old Yeller it has a happy ending but I totally thought Shadow wasn't going to make it to the end.

genfizzy4

Jun 20, 2008 - CDT 10:33 PM

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The final part of the John Adams miniseries. You know it's coming, but nothing kept those tears in when Abigail died. It was as much the humanization of John that made it so hard.

That was just the most recent...but probably most notable...

JJ79

Jun 20, 2008 - CDT 10:52 PM

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Tim,

EXCELLENT CHOICE! I wouldn't have even remembered "Old Yeller" if you didn't mention it!

And JS...dang, another great one! "Pathfinder" was just incredibly dreadful on every single level. A waste of resources and talent.

Okay, as I alluded to in the other thread, "Deep Impact." I'm fine as the shuttle crew goes to the big old rock in the sky. I'm fine as their mission fails the first time. But when they start saying goodbye to their loved ones via long range telephone, I loose it. The way Tea Leoni gives up her seat on the evac helicopter so Laura Innes and her daughter can get on...the way Ron Eldard, blind, says goodbye to his wife and newborn child...the sense of absolute despair on the shuttle as they know what they need to do...when the wave crashes down on Leoni and Maximillian Schell...

It always hits me really REALLY hard. Excellent movie, but it's not one I put in very often.

(I blubbered like a baby during "United 93," too, but I think that's entirely justified.)

Jason, man enough to admit I cry

genfizzy4

Jun 21, 2008 - CDT 12:29 AM

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United 93 is a great choice. I honestly can't think of a more powerful way to end a film (in any sense of the word). When the hymn begins in that blackness, that's usually a choking-up moment. Although, I find myself doing the same thing at the end of the first Lord of the Rings film.

I sob an awful lot at movies, too. If I'm not manipulated to feel that way, it's the best kind of art a film can offer me.

wolfen

Jun 21, 2008 - CDT 12:43 AM

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Star Wars - Episodes I, II & III

Money and time I'll never get back.

John J. Puccio

Jun 21, 2008 - CDT 12:43 AM

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OK, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the ending, where he has been in love with the beautiful Roxanne all his life but too ashamed of his appearance ever to dare mentioning his love to her. Then as he's dying, he admits his love, and she wonders why he's never said anything before. He says "I feared the mistress with a mockery behind her smile. But you--because of you I have had one friend not quite all a friend--across my life, one whispering silken gown!"

And "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," when the the lady has grown old in the coastal home of the sea captain, whose ghost visits her nightly and becomes her one true love, and she quietly dies in her chair, her spirit becoming young again, rising up, and joining the captain in eternity. I sort of burble over just thinking of the scene.

It's really about endings, isn't it? How about "Romeo and Juliet," "Pan's Labyrinth," "It's a Wonderful Life," Chaplin's "City Lights," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Mary Poppins," "The Wizard of Oz," and, yes, most recently "The Bucket List."

John

csjlong

Jun 21, 2008 - CDT 2:56 AM

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Some sad movies cry - "Dancer in the Dark" is the ultimate example for me. More often I find myself shedding tears at the more "transcendent" moments in movies. The ending of "2001" makes me tear up every time. Bresson makes me cry too, often right when the end credits hit, like an explosion of all that has been repressed in the movie.

And, as I have proudly admitted before, I cried when Spock died.