Last film that made you cry/choke up

[Sadken]

You know that sensation where you're reading something and someone or the TV says the same word at the same time you're reading it?

No?

Well anyway, the actual film that I have come closest to blinking really quickly (I have, of course, never cried at a film, you understand) is on right now...The Family Stone.

SOme of the scenes get me every time....Lucky it's also actually so funny in other parts that it works so well

Possibly the worst film I have ever seen. I saw it on a plane and thought it was some kind of parody.

 

[Bakunin]

wasnt that Pol Pot or some shit? or has Eddie Izzard broken my mind

I can't remember exactly who originally said it, if I'm honest, but from a psychological point of view it makes sense, unless of course you consider the point of view of those who suffered such dreadful things at first hand.

I remember my grandfather saying, about his war service, that the situations don't get any less awful, but people's reaction to them changes. You go from being utterly appalled at seeing your first proper battle, but with experience you become hardened to it and eventually you can come to accept horror as a part of the job.

 

[pboi]

the (morbid) wonder of the human mind imo

 

[Bakunin]

the (morbid) wonder of the human mind imo

Agreed.

The medical profession have made enormous strides in dealing with physical ailments and illnesses, but the study of the human mind hasn't, it seems, kept pace with the physical studies. It could be said that the study of the mind and how it works is perhaps more difficult than physical medicine, in that everybody's personality and mental state is different whereas physical ailments are more standardised across the species.

 

[deadringer]

the ending of blow gets me everytime. its one of my favorite films, must have seen it 10-15 times and never fails to bring tears to my eyes, especially after a heavy weekend. ive got shivers up my spine as i type this now!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

once were warriors never fails for me tbh.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

IIRC, it was a former Nazi who said, with reference to the Holocaust of all thing, that the death of one 100 people is a personal tragedy, but the death of thousands is merely a statistic to many people.

I guess you're thinking of "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic". This was attributed to Stalin, but there's considerable doubt over whether he actually said it.

Either way, it's a fucking stupid quote.

 

[electrogirl]

Lion King

I mean, come on! When his dad dies! And Scar blames him! Maaaaaaaaaaaaaate! Come on!

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Lion King

I mean, come on! When his dad dies! And Scar blames him! Maaaaaaaaaaaaaate! Come on!

I know someone who blubs at that, despite hardly being a crier otherwise.

 

[Bakunin]

I guess you're thinking of "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic". This was attributed to Stalin, but there's considerable doubt over whether he actually said it.

Either way, it's a fucking stupid quote.

That's it.

On a thread-related note, I didn't cry or choke up when I first saw Threads, but I did nearly lose my lunch and spent most of the film thinking 'Bloody hell, isn't there something else I could be doing right now?'

 

[lilli]

the ending of blow gets me everytime.

Me too! ... and I don't cry that often

 

[pboi]

THIS just made me choke. im such a pussy

 

[colbhoy]

I get emotional at The Green Mile (surprised no-one has mentioned it yet) and also the end of The Truman Show.
I have absolutely bawled at the end of the last ever episode of Blackadder and have also been moist eyed at some episodes of The Wonder Years.

I do think I am getting worse as I get older, maybe having a family alters your emotional state

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I get emotional at The Green Mile (surprised no-one has mentioned it yet) and also the end of The Truman Show.
I have absolutely bawled at the end of the last ever episode of Blackadder and have also been moist eyed at some episodes of The Wonder Years.

I do think I am getting worse as I get older, maybe having a family alters your emotional state

Yay, someone who appreciated the Truman Show.

Green Mile was good, but not really on a par with Truman Show IMO

If some polish director had made the Truman show, Jefe et al would have been wanking off in the cinema over how 'amazing' it was, 'a real comment on the human condition' etc.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I do think I am getting worse as I get older, maybe having a family alters your emotional state

I've just remembered that my granddad always said he found the birds of a Feather closing credits quite moving, when they're walking along together as children through the field. I always dismissed him as an old nostalgic but now I've got a kid and can look back to growing up myself, i sort of see what he meant.

 

[RubyBlue]

Loads of movies make me choke up - I easily get emotional but I'm thinking of that movie with Jack Nicholson / Shirley McClain and maybe Debra Winger - oh, Terms of Endearment - when the daughter dies and Shirley said - Oh my when she was at her bedside? Just when she died? I cried Saying that I could cry at any old shit - if the terminator died I'd be sobbing

 

[Miss Potter]

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.

just watched it this evening. Oh My God. I almost had to walk out of the room in the last 15 mins

 

[ViolentPanda]

That's easy. The war graveyard scene at the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan". I always get choked-up when an image of war graves is on telly or in the paper.

 

[newme]

Not a film, but Fridays Eastenders, Stacy reminded me a lot of someone I know.

 

[Bakunin]

That's easy. The war graveyard scene at the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan". I always get choked-up when an image of war graves is on telly or in the paper.

I've been to most of the bigger Normandy graveyards, and they're very sobering places indeed. What's even more sobering is the average age of Allied soldier in one of those graves:

17 years, 8 months and 9 days.

 

[sned]

Deep Impact was on last night. Its pretty sad when the astronauts (especially the one what got blinded) say goodbye to their families. Good film actually, not seen it in a while.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Loads of movies make me choke up - I easily get emotional but I'm thinking of that movie with Jack Nicholson / Shirley McClain and maybe Debra Winger - oh, Terms of Endearment - when the daughter dies and Shirley said - Oh my when she was at her bedside? Just when she died? I cried Saying that I could cry at any old shit - if the terminator died I'd be sobbing

That's a good one yeah.

I keep myself from crying when she dies in the film by thinking about what was actually going on.

Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger hate(d) each other and MacLaine quit at one point while making it and told Winger she could 'Take the Oscar I'm not gonna win now and shove it up your ass, I quit! ' ....obviously she came back and did win the Oscar, but I think of that when that part comes up solely to keep me from crying.

But, it's a good one for sure.

 

[Orang Utan]

the wrestler and dean spanley last night

 

[Gingerman]

Gallipoli always brings a lump to the throat esp the ending,the scene in Schindlers List with the little girl wearing the red coat another lump in the throat moment.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

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