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JakeSully
05-01-2014, 03:45 AM
Just admit it.
The Grave of the Fireflies: Such a very sad and powerful animated movie.
Pan's Labyrinth: The ending.
Armageddon: Harry's sacrifice.
The Dark Knight Rises: Batman's sacrifice.
Up: the opening.
Toy Story 3: the ending.
Iron Giant: The alien robot sacrificing himself and saying "Superrrrman".
Old Yeller: Need i say more?
Ghost: The end got to me when i saw this in theaters as a kid.
ET: when ET died then came back to life and the ending.
The Muppets take Manhattan: Saying Goodbye scene.
Frozen: Anna freezing and everyone thought she was dead.
Terminator 2: T-800 saying goodbye and sacrificing himself making John sad, i was 10 when i saw the movie in theaters and found it touching.
The Land Before Time: Littlefoot's mom's death, made me sad when i was 7 when i saw it in theaters.
The Wizard of Oz: When Dorothy said goodbye to her friends.
The Neverending Story: The death of Atreyu's horse Artax in the Swamps of Sadness. (Such a powerful scene)
Bambi: Seeing this movie in theaters in it's 88 re-issue made me cry when the mom died.
The Elephant Man: moved me as a kid when i saw it on HBO as i felt how bad that poor man was and the ending got to me.
Snow White: I saw this in 87 in it's re-issue and when the Dwarfs thought Snow White died.
Dobey's death in Harry Potter 7.
The Transformers The Movie: Optimus's death, it did it for me when i was 5 seeing it in theaters.
Star Trek II: Death of Spock.
Gandalf when he was falling to his death in Fellowship of the Ring.
The Fox and the Hound: I saw this in it's 88 re-issue as a kid and i felt emotional at some scenes like the old lady leaving her fox to be free and the ending.
Snoopy Come Home: Him saying goodbye to his pals.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "I love you all my sons" scene.
And there are some others.
Candy Kappa
05-01-2014, 03:53 AM
Bambi, the first Littlefoot movie and Grave of the Fireflies comes to mind. I'm sure there is more.
DarkLightDragon
05-01-2014, 07:54 AM
Two Brothers: The one with the two tiger cubs. I found myself crying multiple times when it came out. It might be because tigers have always been one of my favorite animals, but some of things each cub went through just made it easy for me to cry whether it was a sad or happy moment.
Toy Story 3: That ending man. Nuff' said.
Kung-Fu Panda 2: Yeah, to this day I can't believe a DreamWorks movie made me cry. A company that put a big focus on humor with it's animated movies for the longest time, actually dialed it back for the sake of telling a good story and making me care about it's characters and the situations they were in. Seeing that vision where Po's mom puts him in the basket and comforts him one last time before she flees and eventual demise at the wolves just gets to me every time.
And oddly enough, I'm one of those kids who grew up on mostly Disney, but never found myself crying over Bambi's mom, Mufasa, or Dumbo being with his mom. They were each sad, sure, but for whatever reason, I never got too emotional over them.
Peanut
05-01-2014, 08:19 AM
Cool Runnings and Spider-Man (Peta...peta..)
AT-Man
05-01-2014, 08:24 AM
Shunmao Monogatari Taotao (1981) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2836400/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
Storm Eagle
05-01-2014, 09:12 AM
Snoopy Come Home: Him saying goodbye to his pals.
I recently had a look at this one, since I happen to be dealing with the possibility of losing contact with someone. The scenes that saddened me the most were the scenes with Lila. When she'd cry, I'd cry, and I always wanted to hug her.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I cried at the scene where Harry returns from the maze with a dead Cedric.
I also cried watching Peter Pan during Wendy's mother song.
Last but not least, was Gigli. It really was that bad a movie.
(Just kidding, I never saw Gigli.)
JakeSully
05-01-2014, 10:44 AM
Two Brothers: The one with the two tiger cubs. I found myself crying multiple times when it came out. It might be because tigers have always been one of my favorite animals, but some of things each cub went through just made it easy for me to cry whether it was a sad or happy moment.
Toy Story 3: That ending man. Nuff' said.
Kung-Fu Panda 2: Yeah, to this day I can't believe a DreamWorks movie made me cry. A company that put a big focus on humor with it's animated movies for the longest time, actually dialed it back for the sake of telling a good story and making me care about it's characters and the situations they were in. Seeing that vision where Po's mom puts him in the basket and comforts him one last time before she flees and eventual demise at the wolves just gets to me every time.
And oddly enough, I'm one of those kids who grew up on mostly Disney, but never found myself crying over Bambi's mom, Mufasa, or Dumbo being with his mom. They were each sad, sure, but for whatever reason, I never got too emotional over them.
Oh yes KFP 2 was emotional.
How about Elephant Man? that made me cry when i was 10 when i saw it on HBO and the ending was powerful.
Kanon
05-01-2014, 10:51 AM
The only movie that made me cry so far was Hachiko.
Such a cute and loyal dog.......sniff......:cry:
T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!
05-01-2014, 05:49 PM
I don't think I've ever really actually cried from a movie but man Toy Story 3 is one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life. My little boy went through a phase of wanting to watch it constantly and I told my wife that he wish he would have became obsessed with something much less sad. LOL. Grave of the Fireflies is probably the ACTUAL saddest movie ever made since it was actually based on a true story. It's just one of the greatest movies of all time that EVERYone should watch. I actually watched it on youtube.
Jester
05-01-2014, 05:59 PM
The Sesame Street movie Follow that Bird.
As a kid it was because of this:
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and now as an adult, it's because of the very end of Big Bird's letter back to Sesame Street talking about his new bird family: "I should be happy here...what's wrong with me?"
ObiWanFan4life
05-01-2014, 06:45 PM
Toy Story 3 tore me apart. Arashi No Yoru Ni never fails to mske me cry.
Icebot
05-01-2014, 06:46 PM
The Little Mermaid when King Triton destroyed all of Ariel's human stuff.
Jester
05-01-2014, 06:47 PM
Toy Story 3 had me on the verge...
I wanna say that I lost it to the opening montage from Up.
MsMarvelDuckie
05-01-2014, 07:37 PM
What movies made me cry? Name a Disney or Don Bluth film, most of the DreamWorks animation, and you've pretty much got it. Also I tend to cry at some live-action films, especially any movie about animals of any kind. Hidalgo, Secretariat, War Horse, Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, Incredible Journey, Black Beauty, and Seabiscuit all come to mind. Yeah, I'm a sucker for an emotional flick, especially if it involves animals, kids, or a love story.... (I even cried during a couple of scenes in Independence Day, if that tells you anything!) Big death scenes always get me, too.
RaphAndDonnie
05-01-2014, 08:07 PM
The very end of "Donnie Darko". While it didn't make me cry Donnie sacrificing his life for Gretchen and accepting death with a laugh did make me very sad. :( And, to top it all off, when things go back in time Gretchen passes by his house, talks to a neighbor boy AND SHE DIDNT EVEN MEET DONNIE. Having " Mad World" at the end while it pans over all of the characters did NOT help.
Donatello19
05-01-2014, 08:40 PM
Toy Story.
Toy Story 2.
Toy Story 3.
Those films are a huge chunk of my childhood. Toy Story was my favorite movie of all time as a kid, the Toy Story 2 came along, loved it, and then of course, Toy Story 3...which was AMAZING. I really just cry whenever I see any of these because they remind me of my toys as a kid, and how bad I felt if one broke and had to be thrown out or something, or if I lost it or anything like that.
"When somebody loved me" from TS2 made me cry my eyes out all the time as I kid (still cry a little to this day :P) because just the thought of how these toys feel to be abandoned by their owners who once loved them...it's just...and the kids don't even know they're causing them this pain, and...I just can't. The thought of the toys that I had outgrown feeling the same made me a little sick and sad inside (I know toys can't really come to life, I'm not stupid :P but as a kid I'm pretty sure we all did after seeing Toy Story).
TS3 makes me cry for quite obvious reasons. I don't think I even need to explain. One part that makes me sick in that movie though, is when the toddlers are mistreating the toys, throwing them around, coloring on them, licking them, crashing them into each other, glueing things to them...UGH. Since I'm a huge toy collector with TMNT and such, this part made me cringe...bad. Not only did I feel bad for the toys condition (BULLSEYE AND JESSIE ARE VALUABLE COLLECTOR'S ITEMS :x) but for the characters themselves.
This is probably going to sound REALLY stupid...but I don't care, I'm gonna say it anyway. As a collector I sometimes think about the whole "toys coming alive when you're not there". Do my TMNT figures complain about not getting played with? Do they enjoy being collectables and would freak out if someone started playing with them? I know they're not real, obviously, but I've seen the three films so many times that it's something I think about often.
I hope I didn't sound too stupid in this...it's just that Toy Story as a series is very, very special and important to me. As a kid the first two were my favorite movies to watch, and the third is one of my favorite movies of all time. There's a lot of memories I have about this movie...I'll never forget the Christmas where my parents got me a Buzz figure and Woody doll that were in scale to how they were compared to humans in the movie :D Pretty sure I still have those somewhere!
JakeSully
05-01-2014, 10:10 PM
The Sesame Street movie Follow that Bird.
As a kid it was because of this:
and now as an adult, it's because of the very end of Big Bird's letter back to Sesame Street talking about his new bird family: "I should be happy here...what's wrong with me?"
Oh yes that scene is sad.
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Remember this classic Casper cartoon? i was 5 years old watching it on USA Cartoon Express and i remembered i cried at Ferdie's death, still does move me.
Hey Jester since you said Blue Bird of Happiness made you cry, do you think it rivals this other Henson tearjerker scene?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penzsVANV0k
T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!
05-02-2014, 02:09 AM
Toy Story.
Toy Story 2.
Toy Story 3.
Those films are a huge chunk of my childhood. Toy Story was my favorite movie of all time as a kid, the Toy Story 2 came along, loved it, and then of course, Toy Story 3...which was AMAZING. I really just cry whenever I see any of these because they remind me of my toys as a kid, and how bad I felt if one broke and had to be thrown out or something, or if I lost it or anything like that.
"When somebody loved me" from TS2 made me cry my eyes out all the time as I kid (still cry a little to this day :P) because just the thought of how these toys feel to be abandoned by their owners who once loved them...it's just...and the kids don't even know they're causing them this pain, and...I just can't. The thought of the toys that I had outgrown feeling the same made me a little sick and sad inside (I know toys can't really come to life, I'm not stupid :P but as a kid I'm pretty sure we all did after seeing Toy Story).
TS3 makes me cry for quite obvious reasons. I don't think I even need to explain. One part that makes me sick in that movie though, is when the toddlers are mistreating the toys, throwing them around, coloring on them, licking them, crashing them into each other, glueing things to them...UGH. Since I'm a huge toy collector with TMNT and such, this part made me cringe...bad. Not only did I feel bad for the toys condition (BULLSEYE AND JESSIE ARE VALUABLE COLLECTOR'S ITEMS :x) but for the characters themselves.
This is probably going to sound REALLY stupid...but I don't care, I'm gonna say it anyway. As a collector I sometimes think about the whole "toys coming alive when you're not there". Do my TMNT figures complain about not getting played with? Do they enjoy being collectables and would freak out if someone started playing with them? I know they're not real, obviously, but I've seen the three films so many times that it's something I think about often.
I hope I didn't sound too stupid in this...it's just that Toy Story as a series is very, very special and important to me. As a kid the first two were my favorite movies to watch, and the third is one of my favorite movies of all time. There's a lot of memories I have about this movie...I'll never forget the Christmas where my parents got me a Buzz figure and Woody doll that were in scale to how they were compared to humans in the movie :D Pretty sure I still have those somewhere!
I feel EXACTLY the same way about my toys. I tell people that Toy Story 3 gets to collectors more because we have such an emotional attachment to our figures. I also used to think that my toys played with each other while I was sleeping and things like that. I was just telling someone that yesterday and they thought I was a moron but how can a young kid be a moron? I want my little boy to have a wild imagination. I feel like wild imaginations have been what ultimately helped to make the world a better place.
Jester
05-02-2014, 02:13 AM
Hey Jester since you said Blue Bird of Happiness made you cry, do you think it rivals this other Henson tearjerker scene?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penzsVANV0k
I was much younger when I saw Follow that Bird, so that might be why that makes me well up.
TheBlueTurtle1
05-02-2014, 03:26 AM
The Grave of the Fireflies
An American tail
Lord of the rings the return of the king
I ll have to have more of a think.....
arkangel
05-02-2014, 04:12 AM
E.T, - first movie to make me cry but I was also pretty young when I first saw it in the theatre.
Pan's Labyrinth - if this doesn't make you well up, you're simply not understanding the movie.
Moon - when the main character realizes .......and that he isn't .... F%^$ I'm almost crying right now. :lol:
Life as a House - when the young man remembers his Dad holding him up in the ocean, his heart pounding and laughing, and all the love he had for his little guy. :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry: It's ok. I'm ok now. really. :cry:
AT-Man
05-02-2014, 05:20 AM
Moon
Jeesh, good thing I have seen the movie already, but you might wanna use some spoiler tags there.
arkangel
05-02-2014, 06:06 AM
I didn't think it would matter since the movie has been out for so long, but you're right. Spoiler words removed. Thanks for the save.
Wildcat
05-02-2014, 04:56 PM
Never actually cried but some movies have brought tears to my eyes. Older movie for me...White Man's Burden. Good movie with a sad ending.
I guess Im in the minority but I did not like Toy Story 3's ending.
You never really know how other kids are gonna treat their toys or if they'll love them as much as you did even when they start growing up.
I know they did it have that heartwarming scene at the end and so they could make a Toy Story 4 but I just wish they would have thought of something else.
tmntpower1988
05-02-2014, 05:22 PM
I cried once when watching the ending of Terminator 2 lol My eyes always water at that scene.
JakeSully
05-04-2014, 06:58 AM
What do you all think of Elephant Man?
I teared up in the beginning of UP and a little in AI too.
But actually cried? Only one movie, and through out all of the movie. Hachi: A dogs tale (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1028532% 2F&ei=GWdmU5HfGeac8QHKwoCYCQ&usg=AFQjCNGejMTKK8NBfXRMa5WHyfKU_DdH3g&bvm=bv.65788261,d.b2U)
electric_sheep
05-04-2014, 11:29 AM
Have any of you guys watched Plague Dogs? It's probably the most depresing movie that i ever saw in my life...
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Lethal Lullaby
05-04-2014, 11:42 AM
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Fluke
Rugrats in Paris When Chuckie is watching all the other children with their mom's and he's just alone :cry:
ObiWanFan4life
05-04-2014, 12:01 PM
Godzilla vs Destroyah was pretty sad. Mainly when Godzilla dies at the end. .
Thoughtmirror
05-04-2014, 05:36 PM
The movies that made me cry was Pan's Labyrinth, the new Spiderman movie (poor Gwen), and the Titanic. All three of them were pretty heart wrenching for me.
AT-Man
05-04-2014, 05:40 PM
Forgot about Iron Giant. It didn't make me cry per se, but just a bit teary.
Peanut
05-04-2014, 05:41 PM
I suggest you spoiler tag that before you get your ass whooped, Thoughtmirror.
Warhorse
05-04-2014, 06:50 PM
Man on Fire got the biggest cry for me, at the end. Holy crap, can that little Dakota Fanning act! The chemistry she and Denzel brought on the screen made the ending even more heart wrenching.
TheSkeletonMan939
05-05-2014, 07:03 PM
I almost cried when Spock died in Star Trek II.
Almost.
TheBlueTurtle1
05-08-2014, 07:29 AM
The Road with Viggo Mortenson.
When viggos character dies, and the desperation he has to stay alive, not becasue he is afraid of death but because he does not want to leave his son unprotected and alone.
Zulithe
05-08-2014, 07:51 AM
A.I. when the android boy David played by Haley Osment was abandoned... won't say by who cause I want to be light on the spoilers.
Was a really heartbreaking moment to me, great performance
JakeSully
05-12-2014, 06:18 PM
I almost cried when Spock died in Star Trek II.
Almost.
Everyone did including Trekkies
Jephael
05-13-2014, 06:52 PM
I get kinda teary eyed when I listen to the opening theme to Superman the Movie.
Wingnut
05-16-2014, 12:03 AM
Stand by Me
At the very end when Gordie is writing about how Chris died and the last line "I never had friends like the ones I had when I was 12, Jesus, does anybody?"
Gets me every time.
pennydreadful
05-18-2014, 10:31 PM
Stand by Me
At the very end when Gordie is writing about how Chris died and the last line "I never had friends like the ones I had when I was 12, Jesus, does anybody?"
Gets me every time.
Yeah, Stephen King really knows how to stick it in and break it off!
For my part, I always tear up during The Last Unicorn when Molly Grue finally meets the unicorn.
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