okay...I CRIED!!!
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RobertScorpio
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I remember taking my 10 year old niece, and as the wave approached the father/daughter on th beach, she looked up with tears in her eyes and asked me if they were going to die....
I like DEEP IMPACT, and cant stand its sister movie, Armeggedon.
Rob
George Kirk's death during the beginning of Star Trek XI. Spock-Prime's return as well.
The scene in the TNG episode where Data's daughter is killed makes me bawl like a kid.
The scene in the TNG episode where Data's daughter is killed makes me bawl like a kid.
I'm glad a few others have now mentioned Deep Impact; I thought I was going to be the only one. As a narrative, it's not a great story, but it does have some wonderful set-piece emotional moments that are directed with real sensitivity to tug the heartstrings. I noticed that the director also did several quite emotionally strong ER episodes, so she clearly "had form" on how to pull off these soft scenes in the middle of spectacle.
Here's mine:
1. The "signature sign-off" at the end of TUC. '2nd star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.' *cue the river starting*
2. The end of Apollo 13, with Gary Sinises (sp?) monologue about when we'll be going back to the Moon. Especially given recent events, this most likely means "Never".
3. The afore-mentioned first 10 minutes of Up. Damn you, Pixar!
4. Jessie's story during Toy Story 2, when she gets left behind in the field by her owner. Double Damn you, Pixar!!
5. And, of course, Spock's death scene in TWOK.
Cheers,
-CM-
1. The "signature sign-off" at the end of TUC. '2nd star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.' *cue the river starting*
2. The end of Apollo 13, with Gary Sinises (sp?) monologue about when we'll be going back to the Moon. Especially given recent events, this most likely means "Never".
3. The afore-mentioned first 10 minutes of Up. Damn you, Pixar!
4. Jessie's story during Toy Story 2, when she gets left behind in the field by her owner. Double Damn you, Pixar!!
5. And, of course, Spock's death scene in TWOK.
Cheers,
-CM-
For me it was reversed, both definitely teared up at both. What I love is that we can go from that heartbreak at the beginning into the hilarious montage of Carl's morning routines and still laugh. Such is the power of great movie making.
Also almost everyone I know who's seen Up have admitted to crying in the first ten minutes. Very few other movies have that.
Also agree about the opening sequence to the latest Star Trek movie. Kinda interesting that the two movies I've teared up to in cinemas in 2009, it have not only been in the intro, it has been in movies with music by Michael Giacchino.
While a lot of the dead wife stuff in Up is very well done, the rest of the movie is such a goddammed mess, I really can't fathom why so many people love it. It's like everyone stopped watching after the 1st 10 minutes.
True dat!
A recent moment that ALMOST made me cry (for I am far too manly to shed actual tears) was the Roswell episode "The End of the World." When Liz has to lie to break up with Max to save the world, I feel her pain so keenly.
True dat!
A recent moment that ALMOST made me cry (for I am far too manly to shed actual tears) was the Roswell episode "The End of the World." When Liz has to lie to break up with Max to save the world, I feel her pain so keenly.
That was the first that I thought of. I was at a World Series game once, and the conversation turned to movies. The people around me all agreed that, in any given stadium or sports bar, Brain's Song and Field of Dreams are the only movies that men will admit made them cry.
The last minute of that episode with the dog waiting on the sidewalk for Fry absolutely kills me.
Cocoon, the scene in the pool house when Brian Dennehy tells the old man that the water won't be bring his wife back to life. You can feel the weight of the years that they had spent together.
It doesn't take much for a movie to make me cry anymore. In the past couple of months both Up and Crazy Heart got the job done quite nicely. Certain movies like Rocky and Edward Scissorhands will likely make me weep until the day I die.
Toy Story 2 should be classified as WMD.
My wife "hates cartoons", so she's never seen either one. But one day we bought a box of childrens' books, one of which was a 12 page Disney "board book" of Toy Story 2, basically ripping the story down to the kind of essentials you'd read to a 2 year old. And the 12 page board book made her cry like a baby. That's how powerful a cry-inducing weapon Toy Story 2 is.
My wife "hates cartoons", so she's never seen either one. But one day we bought a box of childrens' books, one of which was a 12 page Disney "board book" of Toy Story 2, basically ripping the story down to the kind of essentials you'd read to a 2 year old. And the 12 page board book made her cry like a baby. That's how powerful a cry-inducing weapon Toy Story 2 is.
I nearly cried watching Hitman on Friday night - but that was because of how wrong they'd gotten the character of Agent 47...
I'll throw one more in, but it's one that I'm sure no one else got particularly emotional at.
In 2007's "Transformers", the entire sequence when the Autobots arrive is wonderfully done. The music leading up to it really taps your brain and then when Optimus is doing his big reveal transformation, the angles, the way Sam and Mikaela were looking at him and the music all made me tear up. It wasn't so much about it being sad or what have you, it was more like the 9 year old in me never thought he'd see this and there it was. It was a super happy but teary moment for me personally.
In 2007's "Transformers", the entire sequence when the Autobots arrive is wonderfully done. The music leading up to it really taps your brain and then when Optimus is doing his big reveal transformation, the angles, the way Sam and Mikaela were looking at him and the music all made me tear up. It wasn't so much about it being sad or what have you, it was more like the 9 year old in me never thought he'd see this and there it was. It was a super happy but teary moment for me personally.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
And yes...I did get mushy in the eyes at the end of Titanic, when Leonardo bits the big one, and the old lady dies at the end, and her ghost goes back down to the titanic and is reunited with him...big mushy gushy
Rob
Rob
I admit that the ending of Titanic did get to me a bit, when Rose is reunited with Jack.
Most of the big ones were already mentioned, but here are a few moments that got to me:
"Short Circut 2" when Johny 5 get's trashed. I saw it as a kid and it really got to me.
Several moments in Lost: Lock banging on the hatch after Boone's death, Rose and Bernard's reunion, Desmond and Penny and so on.
The 'good' ending of "Bioshock". Maybe it was becuse it reminded me of somethings in my real life, but that bitter sweet ending got a tear in my eye.
"Short Circut 2" when Johny 5 get's trashed. I saw it as a kid and it really got to me.
Several moments in Lost: Lock banging on the hatch after Boone's death, Rose and Bernard's reunion, Desmond and Penny and so on.
The 'good' ending of "Bioshock". Maybe it was becuse it reminded me of somethings in my real life, but that bitter sweet ending got a tear in my eye.
Just listening to the music from that scene will make me tear up, to this day.
In the same episode,
Delenn sitting on the bench, watching the sun rise.
"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to take care of one another, because if we don't, then who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly though I think it taught us that there can always be new beginnings. Even for people like us."
And from a slightly earlier one...
"I believe that when we leave a place part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go any where in this station when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going, will very much miss the part of you that is staying."
So many moving scenes and words in that show....
Several have mentioned the first 10 minutes of Up. That got to me, too. But when he was reading the scrapbook toward the end and turned to the note, I do believe I made a gaspy "I'm about to lose it" sound.
Another one also mentioned a few times, Somewhere In Time. The penny scene, yes. But what always gets me is when she goes off-book during her onstage monologue about the man of her dreams...
Serenity, "I am a leaf on the wind... watch how I soar."
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Believe it or not, there's a Broadway musical version of SOMEWHERE IN TIME in the works. Could be a tear-jerker.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
huh..I would actually go see it. I think its the greatest chic flick of all time..in any time.
Rob
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