okay...I CRIED!!!

[RobertScorpio]

The Body... when buffy says "mommy"

technically it's from the previous episode, but it's also played again at the start of the body... sad stuff (until the end and it falls apart, imho)

I hadn't thought about TV shows...good idea. Definately THE VISITOR (DS9) and especially THE OFFSPRING (TNG) get me every time..and that early episode of SMALLVILLE with that little kid who wanted to fly before he died and clark took him on a balloon ride, I think...

Rob

 

[The Fatman]

The only two pieces of SciFi that have ever made me openly weep are Futurama's "Jurassic Bark" and E.T.

That said, there is a list of movies that gets me damn close...
The opening of Up
The endings of Armageddon and Deep Impact
Buffy's "The Body" and "The Gift"
The ending of TNG's "The Inner Light", when Picard is playing the flute

 

[EJA]

Definitely A.I., that gets to me every time. The end where his mother comes back to life for just one day, and then dies in her sleep, and David lies down next to her, and the way the camera pans back from the bed and the picture fades to darkness....God, I'm sniffing a tiny bit now just thinking about it!

 

[Rii]

If we're doing TV too I've got a few from BtVS and AtS:

"Becoming Pt. II" (Buffy and Angel's final moments)
"Wild at Heart" (Oz and Willow's last scene)
"All the Way" (Willow casts the spell on Tara)
"Grave" (Willow and Xander on the cliffs)
"I Will Remember You" (Buffy and Angel's final moments... again. )

Also, it's not SF/F, but I just finished watching it so it's going in here anyway:

The White Ribbon. Anyone who's seen it will know the scene.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

There were a bunch of 'em when I was a kid. The one that stands out is Spock's death in TWOK; when Spock slumps down and Kirk feebly says "No..." Say what you will about Shatner's acting, that remains the dramatic high water mark for Trek, IMO.

Wow - just reading that gave me chills. TWOK was such a beautiful piece of Trek.

I can cry at all kinds of movies, but here are a few choice ones:

Definitely Up, both at the Carl and Ellie's life sequence (when they find out they can't have a baby as well as when Ellie passes...), but especially when Carl looks through Ellie's Adventure Book at the end, and discovers what she added to the Stuff I'm Going to Do section.

In Return of the King the part that floored me and finally made me read the entire book was when Frodo collapses and Sam lifts him, saying "I can't carry your burden, Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you." I sobbed.

And the gorgeous magical realism movie Whale Rider when Pai climbs up on the whale - I had a tremendously intense emotional response, just buckets and buckets of tears.

 

[Chaos Descending]

...the funeral at the end of Firefly's The Message come to mind.

There must be something wrong with me.

I really didn't like anything about Private Tracy. There was something about the way be spoke that irritated me so badly that I wanted to smash his teeth in with a hammer after his first line of spoken dialogue. Therefore, I was not at all inclined to get weepy about anything that involved him.

That episode was otherwise very, very good.

 

[Apophis]

...the funeral at the end of Firefly's The Message come to mind.

There must be something wrong with me.

I really didn't like anything about Private Tracy. There was something about the way be spoke that irritated me so badly that I wanted to smash his teeth in with a hammer after his first line of spoken dialogue. Therefore, I was not at all inclined to get weepy about anything that involved him.

That episode was otherwise very, very good.

That scene wasn't so much Traceys funeral as it was goodbye to the show. Greg Edmunson over-wrote the music (meaning it was more than the scene called for) deliberately because they all new it was over.

 

[Apophis]

And I'll second (or third) "My friends, you bow to no one"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URmQXIeVpN8&NR=1

and add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxEkKxSO8Zo

 

[darkwing_duck1]

I could add a vote for many already mentioned but I want to add new ones to the list:

the Fall of the Jedi/Order 66

if you include "happy" tears: the reveal and launch of Enterprise-A in ST IV

"These are the voyages" at the end of ST XI

and bittersweet ones:

Archer's Speech at the end of "Demons" and the "These are the voyages" montage in TATV

 

[Lonemagpie]

Spock's death in TWOK
Jurassic Bark in Futurama
Sirius talking to Harry about Lily Potter in PoA (my mum had just died too, so...)
B5's Sleeping In Light
The Two Towers, when there's the vision of Arwen and Aragorn's future
Return Of The King when "Into the West" plays, though really it's the song alone, even on the soundtrack album.
If it counts as SF, Sam returning to 1973 in (the original UK version of) Life On Mars
The Girl In The Fireplace in nuWho season 2
The Master's "get out of the way" in End Of Time 2 (not the bit we're *supposed* to cry at, of course!)
The end of House Of Flying Daggers, if it counts as SF/F
The season 2 cliffhanger of Farscape.
Adama and Roslin off in the raptor...

Non-SF would include Carlito's Way every time, Casino Royale, and a few others.

Oh, and The Inner Light and The Visitor- my favourite episodes of their respective series...

 

[rac76]

We watched THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE again, and got a good tear out of that one.

Rob

I agree that "The Time Traveler's Wife" does bring on some tears. Even my hubby had a few tears when we watched in the movie theater.

Also for me, the last episode of "The Wonder Years" does it. I have watched it twice, and both times, crying like a baby. Don't know why, but it gets to me. Plus the last episode of TNG and the last episode of "Quantum Leap". Both very good episodes.

 

[Cartoonist]

Abrams' "Star Trek," three times in the first ten minutes:

1. The beebeep sound of the the ship at the beginning
2. George Kirk shoots down a torpedo that was about to destroy the shuttle holding his wife and son
3. George Kirk dies

Shit. Crying now just remembering that.

Then there's the opening montage in "Up," Sheridan trying to ram a weapons platform that President Clark had turned on Earth (knowing JMS's writing, I really though he was about to die), Sheridan being taken beyond the rim, Spock hugging Kirk to keep him from saving Edith Keeler, Tsu'tey and Neytiri watching Jake Sulley land a Toruk near the Tree of Souls, Walter watching parts of his brain die in Fringe, and old Dr. McCoy's entire conversation with Data in the first episode of TNG.

 

[Bishbot]

Tsu'tey and Neytiri watching Jake Sulley land a Toruk near the Tree of Souls.

Avatar had a couple. I got a little misty when Trudy's gunship went down in the final battle.

 

[FluffyUnbound]

Jurassic Bark in Futurama

THIS. It's funny how touching a cartoon, a satirical cartoon, can be. The Luck of the Fryish is pretty moving, too.

Deep Impact - yeah, the movie itself isn't that great, but the scene at the end where Tea gives up her seat on the helicopter for the child wipes me out. [I'm actually a bit wiped out right now typing it.] As does the scene where the blind astronaut hides that he's blind so his wife will think he got to see his son.

And then, of course, there is the Big Kahuna of Crying - Field of Dreams. It counts, it's a fantasy / ghost story. I used to just cry at the end, pretty much from James Earl Jones' big speech right through to "Dad, can we have a catch?" But nowadays if I rewatch it I pretty much just anticipate how sad I'm going to be and cry right from the opening credits.

Yes, I am a big sentimentalist.

 

[FluffyUnbound]

Ack! Now thinking about Deep Impact has me remembering the scene where Tasha Yar makes Frodo's girlfriend take the baby.

Damn you for starting this thread!

 

[Greg Cox]

The saddest sf sequence on film is in the animated film "Allegro Non Troppo." It's the sequence where a scrawny, starving kitten wanders through the post-apocalyptic ruins of his formerly happy house, while remembering what his life had been like as a beloved family pet. The contrast between his sunny, happy memories and the bleak reality of his new existence is just heart-breaking. I'm getting choked up just thinking about it.

And, yeah, I got teary when George Kirk died, too.

 

[Rii]

...the funeral at the end of Firefly's The Message come to mind.

There must be something wrong with me.

I really didn't like anything about Private Tracy. There was something about the way be spoke that irritated me so badly that I wanted to smash his teeth in with a hammer after his first line of spoken dialogue. Therefore, I was not at all inclined to get weepy about anything that involved him.

I hear that. I thought he was great on BtVS, but on Firefly he was like nails on a chalkboard.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

*Boromir dying in 'Fellowship of the Ring' (Right there, I knew Peter Jackson got the movie right)

*I recall some scenes in 'District 9' moved me; especially with the little alien kid

*There are some movies were I 'cried' inside because they were kinda lame, but I'll leave that for another thread.....

 

[Snaploud]

I've probably teared up more from SF&F tv shows than from SF&F movies. You're only around movie characters for a couple hours, so it's hard to get the same emotional attachment.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I don't usually cry at films or TV shows, but I'm not embarrassed to say that Babylon 5 brought tears to my eyes three times in the last 5 episodes:

The Fall of Centauri Prime - "but I can forgive... you"
Objects at Rest - when Delenn addresses the crowd
Sleeping in Light - I won't say because maybe some people who want to see it haven't done so yet and finales are important, but there's one scene in particular that really gets me, even more than the episode as a whole does

I actually literally burst into tears at "but I can forgive... you".

There are a fair number of scenes in "Babylon Five" that get me tearful, and I sobbed my way through most of Sleeping in Light, particularly the final five minutes as a whole and

Spoiler: Babylon Five finale "Sleeping In Light"

Vir's speech: "You know Londo never liked the Pak'ma'ra..." That speech actually still brings tears to my eyes remembering it. I just found it so moving