Makes You Cry

[NileQT87]

Movies:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Annie Laurie and on Christmas when the alcoholic, dreamer father goes out to look for work and doesn't come home (he dies). James Dunn gives one of the greatest performances in motion picture history.
Boys Town - When Pee Wee is hit by the car when he tries chasing after Whitey.

Television:
Angel
* A Hole In The World - "Please, Wesley, why can't I stay?"
* Shells - The musical montage... with Fred smiling in the car on her way to L.A.
* Not Fade Away - "Would you like me to lie to you now?" Sobfest. It's also the greatest piece of television I've ever seen. And with Andy Hallett's real-life death now in the mix... "Good night, folks."
Roswell
* Leaving Normal - Max allows Liz's grandmother to say her last words.
* A Roswell Christmas Carol - Max saving the cancer ward children in the hospital and just physically collapsing.
* Cry Your Name - ALEX!

Honorable mention to a real-life tear-up that was put on television (though it doesn't make me cry so much as smile):
I Love Lucy
* Enceinte - Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball announce that they're having a baby (and their characters, too). Desi sings "We're Having A Baby" while they're both getting choked up. This was performed in front of a live audience. They did another take because of how emotional they got, but they ended up using that first take. Desi's best and most touching acting in the whole series.

Music:
Danny Boy - This one's done it during Elvis Week or when combined with a lot of funeral footage.
Old Shep - I've squeezed out a few tears after gratuitous overplay of this song.

Talk about painful lyrics:

With hands that were trembling
I picked up my gun
And aimed it at Shep's faithful head
I just couldn't do it
I wanted to run
I wish they would shoot me instead

He came to my side
And looked up at me
And laid his old head on my knee
I had struck the best friend that a man ever had
I cried so I scarcely could see

Old Shep he has gone
Where the good doggies go
And no more with old Shep will I roam
But if dogs have a heaven
There's one thing I know
Old Shep has a wonderful home

 

[Too Much Fun]

I don't cry over them, but certain TV episode/movie moments have made me get teary-eyed...

Movies

- The final scene of "About Schmidt" with Schmidt looking at the letter and his reaction.

- The final scene of "The Ice Storm" when Kevin Kline's character looks at his son.

- The song that the girl sings in her room at the end of "Before Sunrise".

- The first scene between the blind hermit and the monster in "Bride of Frankenstein".

- Robert's conversation with his father at the end of "Five Easy Pieces".


TV

- Homer Simpson sitting on his car looking at the stars at the end of "Mother Simpson".

- Data's last conversation with Lal in TNG's "The Offspring".

- Picard's announcement at the end of TNG's "Lower Decks".

- Fry's realization at the end of Futurama's "Luck of the Fryish".

- The montage at the end of Futurama's "Leela's Homeworld".

(The ending of "Jurassic Bark" was going for the same effect as those two, but for me it didn't work ).

 

[Warp Coil]

Cry? Not necessarily. Teary-eyed? Perhaps a little. Emotional? For sure.

TV Series:
Angel, "I Will Remember You": Angel tells Buffy he's turning back time to prevent him from becoming human
Angel, "You're Welcome": Cordelia's goodbye
Angel, "A Hole in the World": Fred's death
Angel, "Not Fade Away" Wesley's death
Battlestar Galactica, "Revelations": the arrival at Earth
Battlestar Galactica, "Daybreak": most of the character goodbyes
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Becoming": Angel's soul is restored but Buffy has to send him to hell anyway
E.R., "On the Beach": Mark Greene's death
Lost, "Through the Looking Glass": Charlie's death
Lost, "The Constant": Desmond calls Penny
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "All Good Things...": the poker scene
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "What You Leave Behind": the flashback/goodbye sequence

Movies:
Titanic: Leo's freezy-pop death; Rose and Jack reunited at the end (dream? afterlife?)

Strangely, I'm having a hard time thinking of more movie moments. I'm sure I'm missing a ton.

 

[Michael Chris]

Teary eyed is crying

 

[Too Much Fun]

Cry? Not necessarily. Teary-eyed? Perhaps a little. Emotional? For sure.

TV Series:
Angel, "I Will Remember You": Angel tells Buffy he's turning back time to prevent him from becoming human

Good pick. That one gets to me too. Sarah Michelle Gellar overdoes it a bit in these scenes with all her face muscle flexing, waterfalls of tears, and super-emotive dialogue, but I love it anyway.

You've reminded me of how I'm moved in a similar way by Angel and Buffy's hilltop scene in "Amends" where she's trying to convince him not to kill himself. Brutally intense and emotional stuff.

And I assert that teary-eyed and crying are totally different! Crying is much more powerful, it involves your whole eyeballs getting moist and possibly some shaking and some sounds coming out of your mouth. Teary-eyed just means your eyes well up a little at the bottom.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias never fail to make me cry.

 

[CaptainStoner]

When the horse sinks into the mud in The Neverending Story... actually no, that I used to laugh hysterically at.

When the kid gets accidentally shot in the face in Pulp Fiction.... sorry, no. Also the hysterical laughing.

But when Spock dies...now that's sad. Spock! No...

 

[NileQT87]

I'll admit to crying over the end of Titanic. But it's usually the musicians playing as the ship is sinking that just kills me every time.

While after a few hundred watches of the film, it's impossible to make me cry at it, but this scene has always chilled me and tugged at my heartstrings--something I truly find haunting (the cart driving through the cast iron graveyard, the unceremonious dropping into the pathetic mass grave for such an immortal figure and the billowing quicklime just kills me along with the music... THE MUSIC! There has never been a more gorgeous piece of music before or since. "Wolfi!"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmq5M0w97sE

Rather than make me cry, it just has always made me feel barren and unworthy.

 

[Mistral]

Spock's funeral-I cannot handle "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes at all. Sam's comment, "I'm never going home, am I?" in the Quantum Leap finale.

 

[NileQT87]

That Amazing Grace moment was the best part of any of the ST movies. By far.

 

[Top41]

I'd probably be better off listing what didn't make me cry--I cry at everything. I cried in Terminator 2.

Some random selections, since there really are too many to list:

Movies:
Titanic
Steel Magnolias
Terms of Endearment
Terminator 2
Star Trek 2
Star Trek XI
Generations
Nemesis


TV Shows:

Buffy--"The Gift," "The Body," "Chosen," "Becoming Part 2"
Angel--"I Will Remember You," "A Hole in the World," the final ep (can't remember the name at the moment)
TNG--'Inner Light," "All Good Things"
DS9--"The Visitor," the one where Bareil...you know, the one where Dax...you know, "What We Leave Behind"
ENT--"Twilight"

Books:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Unit by Ninni Umqvist
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Music:
Ghost by the Indigo Girls

Ironically, songs don't make me cry nearly as much as things from other mediums.