Tear jerker January 22, 2006
Normally, I don’t cry at movies. I can count on both hands the number of movies that made me cry, out of all the movies I’ve ever seen, ranging from a few sniffles to outright sobbing.
The scene in The Empire Strikes Back, when Leia shouts “I love you!” to Han Solo, and he says, “I know” is always a good one to elicit a few sniffles.
The whole Carmen storyline in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, but especially towards the end. It was hard not to shed more than a few tears.
From the very first time I saw it, The Last Unicorn. Like, every time! I’ve seen it more than two dozen times, and every time, I get all choked up at the end. Even worse - in the last few years, the scene where Molly says to the Unicorn, “Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!” has really gotten to me.
Within the first ten minutes of the opening scene of Truly Madly Deeply, I was openly weeping. Then again, about halfway through. And at the end. I cried more watching that movie than any other.
I’ve never seen all of Iris, but whenever it’s on TV, without fail, I will flip to it the scene before the scene where John looses his patience and goes into the kitchen, then sees Iris watching him through the French doors, so he goes and reads to her from a book, and she stops him and says, “I wrote?” and John says to her “Yes, my darling, clever cat! You wrote books.” I don’t remember what the scene before that is because I’ve already started with the waterworks at that point.
Embarrassingly, the scene in Titanic, near the end, where the ship is really sinking and there’s a priest or a minister surrounded by a group of people and they’re reciting Psalm 23 (”the lord is my shepherd…”). I was holding on until that point, then I lost it. Worse, I didn’t have any tissues.
Tonight I went to see Brokeback Mountain, which FINALLY opened in Sudbury yesterday. The scene where Jack tells Ennis “I wish I knew how to quit you!”? Sad, heartbreaking, but not as sad and tear-jerky as the scene where Ennis goes to visit Jack’s parents. Oh, how I wish I wasn’t being distracted by the losers sitting behind us who talked all the way through the movie. Even with the oh-so-clever commentary which only 16-year-olds can provide, it was, without a doubt, the scene where I should have lost it. If I hadn’t been distracted, mind you.
Alright - I’ve laid my soul bare. What movies made you cry?
there was a lot of crying for me during Brokeback Mountain. Both scenes you mentioned did me in. Such a great movie. Shame about the mouthy teenagers. Similarly mouthy teenagers ruined The Age of Innocence for me. (i’ve since seen it a few times and, yes indeedy, tears. may tears).
Moulin Rouge makes me tear up EVERY TIME. I’ve seen it a million zillion times, but I go from painful-silent-laughter when Nicole Kidman is rolling around on the tiger rug to weeping when Ewan starts to sing. EVERY TIME.
In Love Actually, after the Christmas play when Emma Thompson asks Alan Rickman “What would you do if you were me” and goes on to explain how she feels a fool because of what he is doing/almost doing with his secretary.
Waterworks, everytime.
i really should know better than to admit this, but i used to watch Armageddon whenever i needed a really good cry. (i guess i also shouldn’t admit i’ve seen it more than “a few times!) i would put it on knowing i was going to bawl the whole way through, from the beginning to the very end, with no breaks at all. how sad is that?
I can’t believe you mentioned Truly Madly Deeply! That movie KILLS me. Love it.
Big Fish. The scene at the end when he’s describing his dad’s final moments. I’m a complete wreck.
Little Women - the one with Winona Ryder. Mainly b/c I used to watch this one with my mom.
In the Double Standards category: when my husband cried during Antwone Fisher (the scene where he meets his birth mother) - I turned and stared at him.