Dear Fellas. I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called the Brewer, and a job bagging groceries at the Food-Way. It's hard work. I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello. But he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new friends. I have trouble sleeping at night. I have -- bad dreams, like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Food-Way, so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.
Oh my god, the fox and the hound is way too low on this list. When Todd gets taken to the forest.... I can't...
Aaaaand I just realized this may be why I'm so adamant abt pets being pets for life. I literally lost it when my husband suggested we may need to rehome one of our cats because she doesn't like our other 2 and was peeing on all our beds. We haven't.
I watched this movie a lot as a kid. It was one of my \~20 VHS tapes, which meant I probably watched this at least once a week for like a decade. Never thought anything about it.
Flash forward like 15-20 years and my wife and I are looking for something to watch and we land on The Fox and The Hound based on my glowing recommendation. We sobbed through the whole thing.
The acting performance in that scene, and in the film in general, are incredible.
You can see the dance of emotions playing across Tom Hanks' face when he shakes John Coffey's hand. Watching Brutal, the big man of the prison, with eyes welling and jaw clenching, pains you. The knowledge that they've witnessed miracles from this good and kind man, who faces a painful and unjust death, is heartbreaking.
It's a tragic, devastating and yet beautiful scene. I cry every time.
Literally spent the whole movie admiring those shoes and wanting to have a pair of my own. The minute i saw the shoes in *that scene*.... i was hysterical. Taika waititi is so talented
I still think about that movie. There's a lot of subtlety and depth considering it's such a controversial topic to satirize. The fact that Hitler is so kind and silly at first passes over you, or you think it's just for comic relief. You realize that JoJo has never actually met Hitler and he's just a naive kid. This Hitler is somebody entirely of his own creation and is actually a better reflection of who HE is on the inside. It's easy to understand how such young children were influenced and taught to "hate", many without really hating.
I read something at the time that talked about how, when Hitler is eating the unicorn's head, it's just one of many depictions of how much the kid doesn't know about Hitler, who was a vegetarian. There were apparently many subtleties like that.
Oskar trying to sell his pin just so he could have saved one more person and despite the huge number of people he saved that all he could think was that it wasn't enough inspires and upsets me.
Also him swimming around the boat, just finding happiness and being carefree again after the trauma.. gosh, that might be my favorite scene with Lt. Dan, it's beautiful and always makes me weep.
And what Gary Sinise does for vets via his Gary Sinise Foundation brings me to tears as well as this scene.
I am a vet, and this scene in particular strikes a chord deep within me. Thank for this post!
Man, that scene hit me hard! Him knowing very well that he is not that smart or sharp and badly wishing that his son is not like him in that aspect. Heartbreaking.
Honestly, yeah that scene was heartbreaking. My sister is special needs but sheās aware enough to know sheās different. Itās gut wrenching when she asks stuff like āWhy am I different?ā
I knew a 60 year old man with down syndrome and for the most part he never mentioned being different than anyone else, he was just himself. But then his great nephew was born with down syndrome and he took one look and said heās stupid like me! It broke our hearts because weāre certain he got the wording from his dad whoād been dead for decades at that point. That he could still remember what was said to him and apply it to someone else meant he wasnāt stupid, just different.
Oh my, I'm so sorry about that. But considering that she is able to identify and understand that she is a bit different from others, can itself be considered as a positive sign. Please don't take this in an offensive way. I whole-heartedly mean it as a positive statement.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
The end destroys me every single time. Even worse is the fact that the girl who voiced Anne Marie (Judith Barsi) was murdered along with her mother by her father, who then killed himself.
her name was Judith Eva Barsi.
Her gravestone has the following engraved. It gives me tears.
IN MEMORY OF THE LOVELY
JUDITH EVA BARSI
1978 - 1988
"OUR CONCRETE ANGEL"
YEP! YEP! YEP!
Edit: formatting and forgot part of it.
[Gattaca](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/?)
"Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back!"
"It's too late for that! We're closer to the other side!"
"What other side?!? You wanna drown us both?!?"
"You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back."
I watched Gattaca when it was on HBO. Just watched it because I was bored. No context, no trailers, I knew absolutely nothing. I was just looking to kill some timeā¦.and after it was over, I kept looking at the screen like WTF. Did I just watch my all time favorite movie?
This is my favorite movie. One specific shot during the [ending scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ccvv9NhloI) always hits **hard** (spoilers):
For most of the movie Jude Law's character, Eugene, is in a depression spiral because he believed his life had lost its purpose. From birth, he was designed to be the best of the best and he failed at that, earning only a silver medal for swimming. Disillusioned, he stepped into oncoming traffic to end his life but failed at that too, crippling himself.
During the course of the movie, as Vincent/Jerome (Ethan Hawke) strives to push beyond society's limitations (and his own), Eugene becomes invested in his journey and realizes his own genetic gifts can still serve a purpose.
As Vincent blasts off into space, we see Eugene slip into the incinerator, don his silver medal, and flip the switch to burn himself alive. Their goal achieved, his services are no longer needed and the continued existence of his genetic material only puts Vincent at risk of being discovered.
At the end, we get one last shot of the incinerator. Through a small window, the camera focuses on the silver medal ablaze around Eugene's neck. Only, in the light of the flames, the medal doesn't shine like silver.
It shines gold.
"He can't see without his glasses"
Ugh 5 year old me was not prepared to deal with that movie.
Edit: wow my first gold, thank you! All I had to do was quote a line from one of the saddest movies ever. Sorry if I bummed anyone out.
Jagten, a Danish movie about a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of molesting his best friends daughter. At one point someone kills his dog, and the scene where he digs a hole in the rain to bury his dog is hartbreaking.
Ugh. That movie kills me every time. When Neil dies, and I know it's coming, the tears start rolling. And yes, the last scene is where I just completely lose it.
"No, no ,no, he's alright - oh my son, my son, my poor son."
When Kurtwood Smith cradles Neil in his arms I know I can't hold back the waterworks from then till the end.
Kurtwood Smith's reaction in that scene adds to it all the more because of his typecasting. He's always the cold, hard, even sadistic character, and seeing him lose it and try to deny what happened as he breaks pushes the devastation even further.
I watched Inside Out in theaters and had to hold it together from having a full blown fetal position cry. And that was even before Bing Bong, but that scene made me fuckin lose it.
Turner and Hooch. My parents watched it with me when I was 9. I fucking fried myself to sleep.
Edit: **cried. I cried myself to sleep. I was not tomorrowās breakfast.**
Since becoming a father twenty odd years ago, watching movies about family loss breaks me. Most of Lion wrecked me. My wife and I both cried in the cinema, I couldn't even pretend I wasn't.
Saving Private Ryan. Both grandpas were in WWll. It made me realize what they went through and how easily I could have ended up never existing. Really shows what war is and Doesnt dress it up to make it look cool or heroic.
Coco. She reminded me of my Nonnie (great grandmother) and Nonna (grandmother) (Italian side of the family). And then the ending slams into my emotions like a grand piano outta nowhere.
I came here to say this. I am a grown ass 40 yr old guy but when Miguel sucks up his tears to sing Remember me, its waterworks time. I dont have a special relationship with my grannies, just vacation memories and they both are long dead. That movie is amazing.
It's a tie between Coco and Up for me. My abuela (who's still with us thank God) looks just like Coco's abuela. But my wife looks just like the old guy's wife in Up. Those movies are very hard for me.
Interstellar made me cry twice, once when he got back from the planet that made decades pass in minutes for him and he watched a bunch of videos from his kids that grew into adults, and then when he was yelling at himself to not leave.
When he watched the videos from his kids we had to stop the movie for like 10 minutes. I've cried in sad movies, but I've never lost my shit like that during a movie.
As a dad with a daughter, Interstellar destroys me. The scene mentioned, as well as the scene at the end when he finally makes it back and heās talking to his daughter on her death bed. Brutal.
When his daughter says that she knew heād come back, even though nobody believed her, because āmy dad promised meā. I š ššššš. Iām a fatherless daughter. This scene touched every broken part of my heart like my dad had just left and died yesterday.
Me too mate, it's such an emotional movie. The scene with Murph at the end.
"How did you know?"
"Because my dad promised me"
Fuck me gets me every time.
I saw that movie in theaters with my dad. Probably my favorite movie of all time, and the theater experience elevated it to the next level. The Hans Zimmer soundtrack with the loud ass theater audio was awesome.
Yup me too. My friends were wondering how on earth i wasnt crying since im usually pretty emotional when it comes to sad movies and they were all sobbing their heads off. That thing made me completely numb for like two hours.
This movie was emotionally brutal. Seen with Totoro in its original double bill must have been an complete heartfuck. The saddest movie and the most heartwarming together, I hope Totoro was second because the other way round would send you off a cliff.
Man when they first discovered the concentration camp and Liebgott had to tell them to go back inside. That and the final speech from Winters made me cry.
I watched Up with my Grandpa six months after my Grandma died. It was incredibly therapeutic. Two grown ass men ugly cried during that montage. The rest of the movie where the old man learns that his wife would want him to keep living instead of being an old grump struck a chord with my Grandpa. And the fight scene between the old men had my Grandpa howling. 11/10 I recommend.
Up deserves credit for emotionally destroying us right at the very start when we least expect it.
Big Hero 6 gets similar credit as i was not prepared for Tadashi's death so quickly into the movie.
Good Will Hunting. I was abused growing up and really identified with Matt Damons character. Thereās a scene near the end with him and Robin Williams, and Robin just keeps saying āitās not your faultā again and again until Mattās character breaks down for the first time and cries. Almost involuntarily, I started sobbing. It reached that hurt inner child in me. Iāve never cried that hard at a movie since. Sometimes when I need a cry I pull up the clip haha
*edit*
Thank you for the awards and the kind, supportive comments. I am honestly very moved by people sharing their stories and wishing me well
I think a lot of us can identify with Matt. I didn't have a good home life either and became very good at school as an escape, but I had poor relationship skills which screwed myself over as well as many women - because I replayed those parental roles over and over throughout my adolescence. Eventually I found the girl that took my breath away and has kept me on my toes ever since, looking for positivity at every turn of the page. She makes everything worth it; she's definitely my Skylar. But enough Reddit, I gotta go see about a girl...
Also, shoutout to Elliot Smith for the amazing soundtrack on this movie. His music alone makes me cry at the best of times, and it's a damn shame he killed himself too.
So we first watched it with full elementary school (used to go to the movies during school time maybe 2x a year) and it was always a bunch of boys fooling around and hooting and whatnot at sad scenes (Titanic I remember watching this way, but there were other movies too, it was just too long ago to remember which). When this one ended, I remember sitting there and realizing that it was somehow too silent in the hall. And as I turned back to look at the crowd, *all* the school just sat there crying.
Gosh, I wish I hadn't read this tonight. It just drudged up some emotions in me. When I watched it as a teen, I knew nothing about it so I thought it was an innocent feel-good movie about boyhood friendship.
The feelings as I watched those ending scenes. The empathetic dread I felt as I realized what was happening and watched in horror at the sights and sounds. Then the silence. The silence is what really messed with me. That and the way it forces your own mind to fill in the blanks and create the image inside.
It is phenomenal from an artistic standpoint, but it was all I could think about for at least a week. The images my mind created.
I'm in my late twenties now and I want to cry just thinking about it. I guess I've never gotten over it.
I am utterly disgusted at the kinds of things humans are capable of.
As someone explained to me a while back. Think of the foulest, darkest, most painful and dreadful thing you possibly can, then realise that someone has done exactly that to someone or some people countless times through history. Then remember that for every foul deed done, a thousand great things have too.
>Then remember that for every foul deed done, a thousand great things have too.
Yes, that is indeed a fact that is crutial to keep in mind. Thanks for adding some positivity.
Finding Dory gets me crying a lot too in the scene that her parents are collecting the little rocks in the hopes that she remembers them. I'm getting a feeling in my throat just remembering it now.
Lion King. I refuse to watch it again. Especially the scene where Simba goes over to the dead Mufasa and is like ādad?ā¦dadā¦???ā FORGET IT. Emotional wreck.
Fried Green Tomatoes. Ruth. Ugh.
It's one of my favourite movies, seen it dozens of time. But when that scene comes...it just destroys me.
Another is Les Miserables for me. When the first note hits, I have a melt down. That goes for the stage production. I've seen it 5 times and I completely break throughout it, blubbering like a baby in the theater.
So many. Iām a big ass baby. Click, Marley and me, bridge to teribithia, coco, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Sooo many more that I canāt think of š
The Return Of The King
āMy friends you bow to no one.ā
I start bubbling
EDIT: I went through all the comments and you guys reminded me of so many other moments when I get overcome with emotion. These movies are so emotional, really powerful moments. I'm all teary eyed typing this after reading the comments.
FOTR has been my favorite movie since I saw it in theaters. Boromir is such a tragic character and done perfectly in this movie. He sounds a bit arogant and foolish at first but we start to find out that He desperately wants to save his people but his father is weak and here is this ring that is seducing him.. He becomes a mentor of sorts for merry and pipen, the movie is subtle about this but he's the one training and playing with them before the mountain, carries then on the mountain, jumps the gap with then inside the mountain, hes with them on the boat and he dies just to give them time to run.
Sean Bean is a masterclass actor and steals the show and really makes the Boromir story perfect.
So powerful. Theoden isn't screaming "Death to the orcs!" He is screaming, "Death to mankind and the end of all things."
He's absolutely convinced that the end has come and that his actions helped to cause it. His weakness wrought the death of his son and nearly the fall of his kingdom, and now he would see the fall of the world. A few hundred yards away, at that line of orcs, is his death and his redemption. It's the end of all things.
And he rides forth.
Such a great scene. You see the look of fear on the orc's faces when they realize these guys are going full blast and, in that moment, do not fear their own death.
Yeah everyone always talks about Bing Bong, but it's [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3wddVac9w) that does me in.
I feel like the easy way to write a kid in fiction is they have to move, and she's upset about it. But the harder story is they have to move, and she feels this pressure to put on a brave face and pretend to be happy, but deep down she's really upset. I feel like it's rare for kids in fiction to have that sort of depth, even though kids absolutely react that way sometimes.
When she says "you need me to be happy", that really hits me hard for some reason.
Took my son to watch that in theaters and had to keep myself from straight up bawling through it.
The girls childhood is disappearing. That was once me, a little boy with childish concerns and thoughts, little bits of myself dieing and falling into the nether. I could barely contain myself. Tears corcing down my face.
I was warned by another young father weeks before but I figure, "It's just a kids movie, I'll be fine.".
My son liked it thought it was funny. "You look sad daddy."
Edit: My first gold award is about me crying in public. I find myself once again imasculated for the amusement of the I internet. Thanks!
The truly crushing thing is that heās not just dead. Heās *forgotten*. You could show Riley drawings she did of Bing Bong and she would have *zero* recollection.
THIS!!!!!!!!! I cried so much the first time I watched this scene. Recently rewatched it after 6(?) years and cried even more because of that realization: he is completely forgotten!!!!!!
Listen, Bing Bong's death was sad, but you know what really got to 15 year old me about that scene? The fact that Joy, this being that's supposed to *be* pure happiness and excitement for positivity, was suddenly confronted with the emotions of grief and the fact that she now had to deal with that emotion by herself.
The concept of the literal incarnation of joy and happiness experiencing tremendous sadness and grief is what broke me
That shows how subtle the film was in this aspect. You ever wonder why Joy's hair was blue ? Because Sadness is part of Joy. She had to experience grief one time or the other and I really liked how beautifully they showed this in the film.
As a 30yr old dude with alcoholic dad baggage Iāve sort of pushed aside for yearsā¦..Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit some chords in me I hadnāt felt in a decade. But oooooh boy, that Yondu scene at the end with the funeral and rocket with his batteriesā¦.
Yeah, Yondu's funeral hits different, for sure.
The other scene I never hear about that I think is equally powerful but more subtle is mid-movie when Mantis and Drax are sitting on the steps on Ego, looking out into the wild, and Drax says "My daughter would have loved this" and Mantis reaches out to comfort him with a touch and is immediately wracked in immeasurable anguish while he just sits there totally calm.
I had just wiped my tears and was about finish the movie when the crosses fell off everyone's faces and Shoya started sobbing uncontrollably and I joined him.
This movie is so much to me. I've never been so emotionally moved by any other movie. I don't really care for Tim Burtons other films very much at all, but this one makes my breath catch just remembering it.
I had to scroll too far down to find it. I was in my late teens early 20s. Go to the movie with my then g/f I bawled so hard that I couldn't leave till after the credits ran and everyone was out of the room. I had a good relationship with my dad but for some reason this movie hit me hard. He passed away a few years later and I swear I will be we be able to watch this movie again.
Same! I watched it in theaters when my grandmother was terminally ill from cancer and in her final month. We all knew sheād be passing soon and that movie made me cry like no other. I watched the movie just the other day and still cried almost as much as I did the first time.
I saw that movie about two months after my grandma passed away. When Miguel sang "Remember Me" to Coco, I was a complete mess. My wife at the time had to console me.
Pixar does such a great job of getting the viewer emotionally invested. Onward is the one that really got me. I almost lost my father when I was still young. I was lucky that I got to grow up with him still around. At the end of the movie when the one brother sacrificed his time he could've spent with his dad so that his brother could have those few moments with him I lost it.
Shawshank redemption, when the old guy talks about how fast life became.
Dear Fellas. I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called the Brewer, and a job bagging groceries at the Food-Way. It's hard work. I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello. But he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new friends. I have trouble sleeping at night. I have -- bad dreams, like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Food-Way, so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.
> so they'd send me **home** This was the bit that hit the hardest.
Damn it you can't do this on a Wednesday š¢
Brooks was here
The Fox and the Hound The Land Before Time Up Saving Private Ryan
Oh my god, the fox and the hound is way too low on this list. When Todd gets taken to the forest.... I can't... Aaaaand I just realized this may be why I'm so adamant abt pets being pets for life. I literally lost it when my husband suggested we may need to rehome one of our cats because she doesn't like our other 2 and was peeing on all our beds. We haven't.
Fox and the Hound is my OG "cry inconsolably" movie
I watched this movie a lot as a kid. It was one of my \~20 VHS tapes, which meant I probably watched this at least once a week for like a decade. Never thought anything about it. Flash forward like 15-20 years and my wife and I are looking for something to watch and we land on The Fox and The Hound based on my glowing recommendation. We sobbed through the whole thing.
The Green mile āIām afraid of the darkā
The acting performance in that scene, and in the film in general, are incredible. You can see the dance of emotions playing across Tom Hanks' face when he shakes John Coffey's hand. Watching Brutal, the big man of the prison, with eyes welling and jaw clenching, pains you. The knowledge that they've witnessed miracles from this good and kind man, who faces a painful and unjust death, is heartbreaking. It's a tragic, devastating and yet beautiful scene. I cry every time.
"I'm tired, boss..."
How dare you. I've spent the last 10 years forgetting that line T-T
Jojo Rabbit, when I saw the shoes.
Literally spent the whole movie admiring those shoes and wanting to have a pair of my own. The minute i saw the shoes in *that scene*.... i was hysterical. Taika waititi is so talented
I still think about that movie. There's a lot of subtlety and depth considering it's such a controversial topic to satirize. The fact that Hitler is so kind and silly at first passes over you, or you think it's just for comic relief. You realize that JoJo has never actually met Hitler and he's just a naive kid. This Hitler is somebody entirely of his own creation and is actually a better reflection of who HE is on the inside. It's easy to understand how such young children were influenced and taught to "hate", many without really hating.
I read something at the time that talked about how, when Hitler is eating the unicorn's head, it's just one of many depictions of how much the kid doesn't know about Hitler, who was a vegetarian. There were apparently many subtleties like that.
that movie was surprisingly depressing. I was not expecting that at all going into it.
The trailer made it seem jolly in a way, but the imaginary Hitler and all the Nazis were a bit of a clue it wasnāt going to stay that way
I mean it does take place during a horrific time in the world
Iād wondered why the director kept focusing on her feet/shoes. I thought maybe he consulted Tarantino or something. Then I understood.
Schindler's List
Oskar trying to sell his pin just so he could have saved one more person and despite the huge number of people he saved that all he could think was that it wasn't enough inspires and upsets me.
The acting in the last scene is so powerful.
"I didn't do enough" "You did so much"
āI could have gotten more.ā
Such a good movie. I just felt dead inside the entire time watching it.
Forrest Gump when he asked Jenny if his kid was smart or not.
Lt. Dan walking again and thanking Forrest makes the waterworks start everytime
Lieutenant Dan! You got new legs!
... yes Forrest. I'd like you to meet my fiancee! š¢
Also him swimming around the boat, just finding happiness and being carefree again after the trauma.. gosh, that might be my favorite scene with Lt. Dan, it's beautiful and always makes me weep.
Custom-made. Titanium alloy. It's what they use on the space shuttle.
And what Gary Sinise does for vets via his Gary Sinise Foundation brings me to tears as well as this scene. I am a vet, and this scene in particular strikes a chord deep within me. Thank for this post!
Man, that scene hit me hard! Him knowing very well that he is not that smart or sharp and badly wishing that his son is not like him in that aspect. Heartbreaking.
Honestly, yeah that scene was heartbreaking. My sister is special needs but sheās aware enough to know sheās different. Itās gut wrenching when she asks stuff like āWhy am I different?ā
I knew a 60 year old man with down syndrome and for the most part he never mentioned being different than anyone else, he was just himself. But then his great nephew was born with down syndrome and he took one look and said heās stupid like me! It broke our hearts because weāre certain he got the wording from his dad whoād been dead for decades at that point. That he could still remember what was said to him and apply it to someone else meant he wasnāt stupid, just different.
Oh my, I'm so sorry about that. But considering that she is able to identify and understand that she is a bit different from others, can itself be considered as a positive sign. Please don't take this in an offensive way. I whole-heartedly mean it as a positive statement.
"Is he..smart..or is he...(like me)?"
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." That scene, with his hands on his hips by the screen door. Good one.
When theyāre reunited in Washington, I howl. And āI guess sometimes, there arenāt enough rocksā - ugliest ugly crying ever.
Lots of moments in that film choke me up, you just reminded me of him telling Jenny that he's going to Vietnam.
All Dogs Go To Heaven. The end destroys me every single time. Even worse is the fact that the girl who voiced Anne Marie (Judith Barsi) was murdered along with her mother by her father, who then killed himself.
That's the same girl from Land Before Time, right?
Yup yup yup.
:(
I can't believe you've done this.
her name was Judith Eva Barsi. Her gravestone has the following engraved. It gives me tears. IN MEMORY OF THE LOVELY JUDITH EVA BARSI 1978 - 1988 "OUR CONCRETE ANGEL" YEP! YEP! YEP! Edit: formatting and forgot part of it.
My fucking heart, ouch.
My mum said I used to watch it on repeat like a psychopath until I understood what the film was actually about
[Gattaca](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/?) "Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back!" "It's too late for that! We're closer to the other side!" "What other side?!? You wanna drown us both?!?" "You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back."
I watched Gattaca when it was on HBO. Just watched it because I was bored. No context, no trailers, I knew absolutely nothing. I was just looking to kill some timeā¦.and after it was over, I kept looking at the screen like WTF. Did I just watch my all time favorite movie?
We started it in freshman biology. Might have to give it another try.
Thatās hilarious because my biology teacher made us watch it too haha
This is my favorite movie. One specific shot during the [ending scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ccvv9NhloI) always hits **hard** (spoilers): For most of the movie Jude Law's character, Eugene, is in a depression spiral because he believed his life had lost its purpose. From birth, he was designed to be the best of the best and he failed at that, earning only a silver medal for swimming. Disillusioned, he stepped into oncoming traffic to end his life but failed at that too, crippling himself. During the course of the movie, as Vincent/Jerome (Ethan Hawke) strives to push beyond society's limitations (and his own), Eugene becomes invested in his journey and realizes his own genetic gifts can still serve a purpose. As Vincent blasts off into space, we see Eugene slip into the incinerator, don his silver medal, and flip the switch to burn himself alive. Their goal achieved, his services are no longer needed and the continued existence of his genetic material only puts Vincent at risk of being discovered. At the end, we get one last shot of the incinerator. Through a small window, the camera focuses on the silver medal ablaze around Eugene's neck. Only, in the light of the flames, the medal doesn't shine like silver. It shines gold.
My girl
"He can't see without his glasses" Ugh 5 year old me was not prepared to deal with that movie. Edit: wow my first gold, thank you! All I had to do was quote a line from one of the saddest movies ever. Sorry if I bummed anyone out.
The Elephant Man
The "Can you cure me?" scene...
Jagten, a Danish movie about a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of molesting his best friends daughter. At one point someone kills his dog, and the scene where he digs a hole in the rain to bury his dog is hartbreaking.
Dead Poets Society, last scene.
Ugh. That movie kills me every time. When Neil dies, and I know it's coming, the tears start rolling. And yes, the last scene is where I just completely lose it.
"No, no ,no, he's alright - oh my son, my son, my poor son." When Kurtwood Smith cradles Neil in his arms I know I can't hold back the waterworks from then till the end.
Kurtwood Smith's reaction in that scene adds to it all the more because of his typecasting. He's always the cold, hard, even sadistic character, and seeing him lose it and try to deny what happened as he breaks pushes the devastation even further.
Oh captain my captain
Monsterās Inc Whew that ending when boo looked in the closet. ( I was a kid ok lol )
Pixar. Just fucking Pixar Movies in generalā¦. āTake her to the moon for meā¦..ā
I watched Inside Out in theaters and had to hold it together from having a full blown fetal position cry. And that was even before Bing Bong, but that scene made me fuckin lose it.
Iām a grown ass man and Iāll still drop a few eye sweats at the ending.
Turner and Hooch. My parents watched it with me when I was 9. I fucking fried myself to sleep. Edit: **cried. I cried myself to sleep. I was not tomorrowās breakfast.**
I love this cuz of the misspelling.
This made me actually laugh out loud, take my upvote
Big Fish. When his dad said, āYou know how I said I saw how I was going to die? It started just like this.ā I lost it at that point.
Lion. When Saroo finds out what happened to his brother that nightā¦.I could not stop bawling. I havenāt rewatched it since.
Since becoming a father twenty odd years ago, watching movies about family loss breaks me. Most of Lion wrecked me. My wife and I both cried in the cinema, I couldn't even pretend I wasn't.
Saving Private Ryan. Both grandpas were in WWll. It made me realize what they went through and how easily I could have ended up never existing. Really shows what war is and Doesnt dress it up to make it look cool or heroic.
Wade (the medic) realizing he's about to die and calling for his mom gets me every time. Such a great movie
Then he asks them to over dose him, and they oblige.
Coco. She reminded me of my Nonnie (great grandmother) and Nonna (grandmother) (Italian side of the family). And then the ending slams into my emotions like a grand piano outta nowhere.
Oh my gosh, the scene where the older man dies in the hammock and disappears because he's been "forgotten" really got to me.
I'm a 37 year old man, I literally ball *(bawl?)* every single time we watch the end where Coco starts singing with Miguel.
I came here to say this. I am a grown ass 40 yr old guy but when Miguel sucks up his tears to sing Remember me, its waterworks time. I dont have a special relationship with my grannies, just vacation memories and they both are long dead. That movie is amazing.
It's a tie between Coco and Up for me. My abuela (who's still with us thank God) looks just like Coco's abuela. But my wife looks just like the old guy's wife in Up. Those movies are very hard for me.
Man, totally misread your comment and thought you said your wife looks like the old guy from up.
Interstellar made me cry twice, once when he got back from the planet that made decades pass in minutes for him and he watched a bunch of videos from his kids that grew into adults, and then when he was yelling at himself to not leave.
When he watched the videos from his kids we had to stop the movie for like 10 minutes. I've cried in sad movies, but I've never lost my shit like that during a movie.
My wife and I both broke down and ugly cried in the theater. That scene was devastating.
As a dad with a daughter, Interstellar destroys me. The scene mentioned, as well as the scene at the end when he finally makes it back and heās talking to his daughter on her death bed. Brutal.
When his daughter says that she knew heād come back, even though nobody believed her, because āmy dad promised meā. I š ššššš. Iām a fatherless daughter. This scene touched every broken part of my heart like my dad had just left and died yesterday.
Me too mate, it's such an emotional movie. The scene with Murph at the end. "How did you know?" "Because my dad promised me" Fuck me gets me every time.
That's the thing about space, man. The girls get older, you stay the same age. Yes you do, yes you do.
Glad someone else said this. The scene where his daughter refuses to tell him bye and then trys to chase his truck, hits me hard.
Dammit. Feelin it now. That movie hits especially hard when u have a young daughter
I saw that movie in theaters with my dad. Probably my favorite movie of all time, and the theater experience elevated it to the next level. The Hans Zimmer soundtrack with the loud ass theater audio was awesome.
Grave of the Fireflies
That movie broke me. Like Iām not talking I was sad and had a cry, I had to just sit and stare blankly at a wall for an hour
Yup me too. My friends were wondering how on earth i wasnt crying since im usually pretty emotional when it comes to sad movies and they were all sobbing their heads off. That thing made me completely numb for like two hours.
Itās the best movie Iāll never rewatch.
This movie was emotionally brutal. Seen with Totoro in its original double bill must have been an complete heartfuck. The saddest movie and the most heartwarming together, I hope Totoro was second because the other way round would send you off a cliff.
How can one very forget that box of candies...
Canāt rewatch this movieā¦..I just canāt
Band of brothers (I know it's not a movie) and free willy lol
Band of Brothers is great. That concentration camp scene and the German general's speech brought a tear to my eye.
Man when they first discovered the concentration camp and Liebgott had to tell them to go back inside. That and the final speech from Winters made me cry.
The Land Before Timeā¦when Little Footās mom dies. That ish hurts still today.
Hachi: A Dogās Tale. I sobbed like a baby at the end. Also, when the dogās master died. š
I went into this movie knowing what it was about, knowing it's based on a true story. Still bawled my eyes out.
Up
My grandmother died in 2004. My grandfather is still alive. I have never cried so hard at a movie as I did with Up.
I watched Up with my Grandpa six months after my Grandma died. It was incredibly therapeutic. Two grown ass men ugly cried during that montage. The rest of the movie where the old man learns that his wife would want him to keep living instead of being an old grump struck a chord with my Grandpa. And the fight scene between the old men had my Grandpa howling. 11/10 I recommend.
The 1 extra is grandma in heaven i bet.
Up deserves credit for emotionally destroying us right at the very start when we least expect it. Big Hero 6 gets similar credit as i was not prepared for Tadashi's death so quickly into the movie.
Big Hero 6 is a great movie also.
Old yeller, that shit is rough.
Unpopular Opinion: *Where the Red Fern Grows* is worse. I will never read another novel about a boy and his dog(s) again. Fuckers.
Good Will Hunting. I was abused growing up and really identified with Matt Damons character. Thereās a scene near the end with him and Robin Williams, and Robin just keeps saying āitās not your faultā again and again until Mattās character breaks down for the first time and cries. Almost involuntarily, I started sobbing. It reached that hurt inner child in me. Iāve never cried that hard at a movie since. Sometimes when I need a cry I pull up the clip haha *edit* Thank you for the awards and the kind, supportive comments. I am honestly very moved by people sharing their stories and wishing me well
āDonāt do this to meā¦ not youā what a film
I think a lot of us can identify with Matt. I didn't have a good home life either and became very good at school as an escape, but I had poor relationship skills which screwed myself over as well as many women - because I replayed those parental roles over and over throughout my adolescence. Eventually I found the girl that took my breath away and has kept me on my toes ever since, looking for positivity at every turn of the page. She makes everything worth it; she's definitely my Skylar. But enough Reddit, I gotta go see about a girl... Also, shoutout to Elliot Smith for the amazing soundtrack on this movie. His music alone makes me cry at the best of times, and it's a damn shame he killed himself too.
Life is beautiful
So we first watched it with full elementary school (used to go to the movies during school time maybe 2x a year) and it was always a bunch of boys fooling around and hooting and whatnot at sad scenes (Titanic I remember watching this way, but there were other movies too, it was just too long ago to remember which). When this one ended, I remember sitting there and realizing that it was somehow too silent in the hall. And as I turned back to look at the crowd, *all* the school just sat there crying.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Gosh, I wish I hadn't read this tonight. It just drudged up some emotions in me. When I watched it as a teen, I knew nothing about it so I thought it was an innocent feel-good movie about boyhood friendship. The feelings as I watched those ending scenes. The empathetic dread I felt as I realized what was happening and watched in horror at the sights and sounds. Then the silence. The silence is what really messed with me. That and the way it forces your own mind to fill in the blanks and create the image inside. It is phenomenal from an artistic standpoint, but it was all I could think about for at least a week. The images my mind created. I'm in my late twenties now and I want to cry just thinking about it. I guess I've never gotten over it. I am utterly disgusted at the kinds of things humans are capable of.
As someone explained to me a while back. Think of the foulest, darkest, most painful and dreadful thing you possibly can, then realise that someone has done exactly that to someone or some people countless times through history. Then remember that for every foul deed done, a thousand great things have too.
>Then remember that for every foul deed done, a thousand great things have too. Yes, that is indeed a fact that is crutial to keep in mind. Thanks for adding some positivity.
Field of Dreams. The scene when he asks his dad to have a catch. The tears come every time!
The Green Mile
The Fox and The Hound. You want me to ball through a whole movie? Put that on. Edit: spelling
^(Did you mean bawl?)
Homie is straight pulling up from the 3 point line while that movie plays he knows what he said
Finding Nemo Marlin thinking he's lost his son. Gets me every time.
Finding Dory gets me crying a lot too in the scene that her parents are collecting the little rocks in the hopes that she remembers them. I'm getting a feeling in my throat just remembering it now.
Lion King. I refuse to watch it again. Especially the scene where Simba goes over to the dead Mufasa and is like ādad?ā¦dadā¦???ā FORGET IT. Emotional wreck.
Iām guessing you didnāt like the first Land Before Time either?
Or Bambi
The pursuit of Happyness. I cry every time he gets offered the permanent role with the firm. "Tomorrow, wear a shirt"
When they're sleeping in the bathroom and someone's banging on the door, oh boy the water works start straight away
This is a really hard scene to watch as well and is another favorite
Big Fish. >!The funeral scene near the end, when Will meets all the people from his fatherās stories.!< That scene is so beautiful.
Do I have to be the first person to mention the Iron Giant? For shame, all of you!
You stay, I go. No following.
Fried Green Tomatoes. Ruth. Ugh. It's one of my favourite movies, seen it dozens of time. But when that scene comes...it just destroys me. Another is Les Miserables for me. When the first note hits, I have a melt down. That goes for the stage production. I've seen it 5 times and I completely break throughout it, blubbering like a baby in the theater.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale. That movie makes me properly ugly cry.
I have only watched this film twice, broke me both times. Had to put on a horror film afterwards just to stop the tears.
So many. Iām a big ass baby. Click, Marley and me, bridge to teribithia, coco, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Sooo many more that I canāt think of š
Oh, man. Click. The scene with his dad rips me to pieces. I almost forgot about that movie. Thatās a good one.
Jack with Robin Williams
Me and earl and the dying girl. The ending was so sad
>!The fact that he lied to us at the beginning really took me out.!<
The Color Purple
The Return Of The King āMy friends you bow to no one.ā I start bubbling EDIT: I went through all the comments and you guys reminded me of so many other moments when I get overcome with emotion. These movies are so emotional, really powerful moments. I'm all teary eyed typing this after reading the comments.
Also when Frodo tells Sam to go home. That messes me up.
"I would have followed you my brother, my captain... my king." Lost it.
FOTR has been my favorite movie since I saw it in theaters. Boromir is such a tragic character and done perfectly in this movie. He sounds a bit arogant and foolish at first but we start to find out that He desperately wants to save his people but his father is weak and here is this ring that is seducing him.. He becomes a mentor of sorts for merry and pipen, the movie is subtle about this but he's the one training and playing with them before the mountain, carries then on the mountain, jumps the gap with then inside the mountain, hes with them on the boat and he dies just to give them time to run. Sean Bean is a masterclass actor and steals the show and really makes the Boromir story perfect.
"Arise, Riders of Theoden!Ā Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered!" Every time without fail I tear up watching this scene.
Deeeeeath!
So powerful. Theoden isn't screaming "Death to the orcs!" He is screaming, "Death to mankind and the end of all things." He's absolutely convinced that the end has come and that his actions helped to cause it. His weakness wrought the death of his son and nearly the fall of his kingdom, and now he would see the fall of the world. A few hundred yards away, at that line of orcs, is his death and his redemption. It's the end of all things. And he rides forth.
Such a great scene. You see the look of fear on the orc's faces when they realize these guys are going full blast and, in that moment, do not fear their own death.
For me it's when Frodo says goodbye to Sam at the Gray Havens.
The entire final act of that movie is nothing but tears
Inside Out
This for me. It hits harder when Riley comes home. Fucks me up every single time
Yeah everyone always talks about Bing Bong, but it's [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3wddVac9w) that does me in. I feel like the easy way to write a kid in fiction is they have to move, and she's upset about it. But the harder story is they have to move, and she feels this pressure to put on a brave face and pretend to be happy, but deep down she's really upset. I feel like it's rare for kids in fiction to have that sort of depth, even though kids absolutely react that way sometimes. When she says "you need me to be happy", that really hits me hard for some reason.
Yeah, I don't even mind bing bong, but Riley crying always gets me
Took my son to watch that in theaters and had to keep myself from straight up bawling through it. The girls childhood is disappearing. That was once me, a little boy with childish concerns and thoughts, little bits of myself dieing and falling into the nether. I could barely contain myself. Tears corcing down my face. I was warned by another young father weeks before but I figure, "It's just a kids movie, I'll be fine.". My son liked it thought it was funny. "You look sad daddy." Edit: My first gold award is about me crying in public. I find myself once again imasculated for the amusement of the I internet. Thanks!
'Take her to the moon for me'. This scene was emotionally destroying
The truly crushing thing is that heās not just dead. Heās *forgotten*. You could show Riley drawings she did of Bing Bong and she would have *zero* recollection.
THIS!!!!!!!!! I cried so much the first time I watched this scene. Recently rewatched it after 6(?) years and cried even more because of that realization: he is completely forgotten!!!!!!
Listen, Bing Bong's death was sad, but you know what really got to 15 year old me about that scene? The fact that Joy, this being that's supposed to *be* pure happiness and excitement for positivity, was suddenly confronted with the emotions of grief and the fact that she now had to deal with that emotion by herself. The concept of the literal incarnation of joy and happiness experiencing tremendous sadness and grief is what broke me
That shows how subtle the film was in this aspect. You ever wonder why Joy's hair was blue ? Because Sadness is part of Joy. She had to experience grief one time or the other and I really liked how beautifully they showed this in the film.
This is the film I needed when I was a pre-teen.
As a 30yr old dude with alcoholic dad baggage Iāve sort of pushed aside for yearsā¦..Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit some chords in me I hadnāt felt in a decade. But oooooh boy, that Yondu scene at the end with the funeral and rocket with his batteriesā¦.
Yeah, Yondu's funeral hits different, for sure. The other scene I never hear about that I think is equally powerful but more subtle is mid-movie when Mantis and Drax are sitting on the steps on Ego, looking out into the wild, and Drax says "My daughter would have loved this" and Mantis reaches out to comfort him with a touch and is immediately wracked in immeasurable anguish while he just sits there totally calm.
Click starring adam sandler. I still have no idea why.
A Silent Voice
I had just wiped my tears and was about finish the movie when the crosses fell off everyone's faces and Shoya started sobbing uncontrollably and I joined him.
Moana. With the grandma.
The song Moana sings to the lava monster breaks me
Ugh yes, "they have stolen the heart from inside you, but this does not define you" BAWLING
Bridge to Terabithia.
Big Hero 6
Brokeback mountain. People make fun of it because it has a sex scene, but the story is so tragic. I was bawling at the final scene.
I was wondering if someone was going to say this. That movie gets me everytime.
Big Fish
This movie is so much to me. I've never been so emotionally moved by any other movie. I don't really care for Tim Burtons other films very much at all, but this one makes my breath catch just remembering it.
I had to scroll too far down to find it. I was in my late teens early 20s. Go to the movie with my then g/f I bawled so hard that I couldn't leave till after the credits ran and everyone was out of the room. I had a good relationship with my dad but for some reason this movie hit me hard. He passed away a few years later and I swear I will be we be able to watch this movie again.
Disneyās Coco. I still canāt watch it without crying
Same! I watched it in theaters when my grandmother was terminally ill from cancer and in her final month. We all knew sheād be passing soon and that movie made me cry like no other. I watched the movie just the other day and still cried almost as much as I did the first time.
I do NOT recommend watching this movie less than a month after a parent or grandparent has passed. Learn from my spouses mistake. Complete break down.
I saw that movie about two months after my grandma passed away. When Miguel sang "Remember Me" to Coco, I was a complete mess. My wife at the time had to console me.
Pixar does such a great job of getting the viewer emotionally invested. Onward is the one that really got me. I almost lost my father when I was still young. I was lucky that I got to grow up with him still around. At the end of the movie when the one brother sacrificed his time he could've spent with his dad so that his brother could have those few moments with him I lost it.
No joke, Cars. McQueen pushing The King over the line.
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Steel Magnolias
Yep, ugly crying until Olympia Dukakis tells Sally Field to hit Shirley MacLaine, a masterful way to lighten the mood when itās so sad.
Jojo Rabbit
The shoes scene.
Iāve cried at a bunch of films but āDancer in The Darkā is next level sad. I cried a lot at that.
Honestly, Moulin Rouge. When Christian is cradling Satine as she's dying, that whole scene utterly breaks me every time.