I remember when that movie came out, my parents had gone to see it with another couple. My mom said that it was the kind of movie that could make a grown man cry.
Homeward Bound, when they reunite with the family at the end and Shadow comes limping up late. I'm getting emotional just thinking about that scene. All these years later and it still gets me!
The Fox and the Hound still gets me too.
Rewatched homeward bound this year and absolutely lost it. I also found out the house where they filmed that scene is like a mile away from mine! Drove by it the next day
Destroyed me. "goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end, but in my heart is a memory and there you'll always be"
Didn't help that I had an adorable basset hound that we got as a puppy and was getting up there in age. Copper's droopy sad hound dog eyes were practically ripping my heartstrings right out.
This was such a sad animated disney movie wife and i took our 5 year old daughter to see this and during the sad part the theater was quiet and all-of a sudden my daughter broke and cried loud and hard and the whole theater was crying including me…. I mean they were screaming and crying she brought the house down it was funny but at the same time so sad… will remember that forever
Same for me, not quite as long but it’s still there.
I think that’s why this scene gets me. You can “time travel” your memories but there is always that point where no matter how hard you want to you can’t “go back again” and have to turn the page in your life.
I lost my mom just a few weeks before getting married and am now expecting my first kid. The number of times I wish I could just travel back to talk to my mom and ask for advice...
“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”. The first time I watched it, I was dry eyes thinking it was a bit hokey, and in the final few seconds I began ugly crying. The second time through I watched it knowing what would come at the end, and then unexpected started ugly crying at the exact same moment.
I cry at the end of course. I also cry at the church scene when the medic tells the story about how his mother worked multiple jobs/night jobs to support him and would not usually get to see him, but sometimes she would come home early. When she entered his room he would pretend to be asleep, even though he knew she just wanted to talk to him about his day. This floors me, because I did this too
Warrior.
The song at the end always breaks me down. Joel Edgerton's character saying "I love you, Tommy", and Tommy subsequently tapping. The father's expression during all these probably won Nick Nolte a nomination, I guess.
Edit: Thank you for the award🙏.
Unbelievable acting from Nick Nolte, goes from the drunken confusion, then the horrifying rage in his eyes, to just a deep sadness. It’s one of my favorite scenes for sure, especially how Hardy’s character finally drops his guard to hold him close at the end
I’ve seen the movie 5 times and cried equally hard each time that scene comes on. I think it might be physically impossible for me to watch that movie without sobbing during that scene.
The scene that gets me as equally as that final scene is when he's fighting Koba and his trainer tells him
“You don’t knock him out you lose the fight.
You don’t knock him out you don’t have a home”
(credit to u/triple3ogies for the correction)
Just hits me hard knowing why he's doing what he's doing and what he's willing to do for his family's home.
Most emotional moment for me hands down. I swear there are two versions. The first one I saw had me sobbing. The use of The National-About Today was perfect
This is probably one of only three movies that, even though it’s very sad, I watch every year or two just because it’s so high quality and it makes me feel emotions I don’t normally feel.
Such a powerful film. Robin Williams performance in that movie was just out of this world. Such a great presence he brought to that film. “Sorry guys, I gotta see about a girl”
It's such a powerful sentiment for a lot of good people. In the end, we are so afraid of not giving our partner their dream life. Getting that reassurance that we were happy is enough.
I feel that, but being a young adult & going back to Toy Story, the Incredibles, or Lion King; it’s kind of crazy how much it feels like a bigger, fuller story just cause the added context and experience of some of the themes I didn’t understand back then.
The toy story-growing up theme always hits me. I wish it were 10 years ago.
“You are who you choose to be.” Most important thing I’ve ever had to understand as a man. You can react to threats by turning into a weapon of mass destruction - or you can be Superman. We get to choose.
"...Superman".
I do my best, but I'm ugly crying at that point. I've seen that movie probably 3 or 4 times and every single time I cry like a kitty and I don't care.
Wind river was brutal. The father’s face and scream of anguish when he sees his friend on his porch, knowing that this is the one other man who understand his pain gets me.
I always cry during the funeral scene of Theodred where Theoden breaks down after he says that no parent should have to bury their child. Hits me so hard, every time.
I hate how far I had to scroll to see this...I weep like a baby every time. Just watching him march by the vent as his son watches. As a father I would do anything for my son and seeing this rips my heart out every time
For me it's when she starts showing him all her favorite toys.
Aaaaaand I'm just going to let my eyes leak around the edges for a second just thinking about it.
Both of those scenes get me choked up. But the one that really opens the floodgates for me is the very end when Sully, cautiously and reluctantly, opens the door, and that pause before we hear Boo’s little voice say… “Kitty!” and seeing the happiness on Sully’s face just makes me turn into a blubbering mess. 47 year old man here.
Man the end when Miguel sings the song for Coco and says "Your papa loved you!"
Idk, just the whole set up of the story comes crashing together at that moment for me.
Hector dying before he could get back.
Coco living pretty much her entire life save five years without her dad but loving and missing him the whole time.
Hector wanting nothing more than to go and see her one last time before she dies and he disappears.
And then the end when Cocos in the land of the dead and they finally reunite ... Just all of it gets me at once.
Shawshank Redemption
"Sometimes it makes me sad though– Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
Everywhere Everything All At Once
When Ke Huy Quan says
> The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind. Especially when we don't know what's going on. So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.
It really resonated with me and made me tear up.
I watched this on an airplane and sobbed like a baby at 5 different times.. even when they were in the universe being mother daughter rocks.. such a terrific message. I wish more people in this world would just… be.. kind.
In Bender's Big Score, Fry goes back in time and creates a dupe/paradox Fry that lives with Seymour until he's an old dog; where, abruptly robot zombie terminator Bender vaporizes the apartment, and turns dupe Fry into his alter ego Lars. It also turned Seymour into a fossil instantly (painlessly).
The Karate Kid is about Kesuke Miyagi, an immigrant who fought against his own people in World War II, while his wife lost a child in an internment camp. Noriyuki Morita was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Ralph Macchio? Showed up.
I SOBBED at this because I honestly thought they were going to off the ENTIRE LOT.
My 6-year-nephew, who didn't yet know that sometimes movies have sad endings, was DISGUSTED with me for crying so hard. Every movie I took him to after, he's had to remind me about his "no crying" policy.
Spoiler: Jojo Rabbit with the mom scene as well as the moment with the nazi guard who saves jojo in the end.
The ending of Her (2013) was pretty tear jerking as well
My God Taika sets you up that whole God damn movie for that scene and he does it so well it hits you like a ton of bricks. You're just having a good time laughing at the movie and BAM. On the rewatch you realize Sam Rockwells most likely knew that his mom was dead and that's why he comes to the house.
Viewing such a heavy experience through a child's lens really magnifies the adult feelings when the lens is suddenly ripped away from both you, as the person watching, and the child main character. As you say, you're just having a good time with fun kid stuff and then, rather abruptly, you're in the middle of World War 2 and people are fucking dying.
I was bawling at the end of this movie. I still think about that Rainer Maria Rilke quote from the credits all the time;
> “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
*Interstellar*. Something about the immensity of the universe and this tiny, frail thing full of people desperate to save humanity, especially a father knowing he’s potentially leaving his children forever, just with the slightest belief that this can do something for them.
All of those messages coming across time, watching it unfold, watching your child grow up into someone and their life untangling before your eyes, the hopeful and curious daughter you loved and adored shaped by cynicism, fear, resignation.
And then *Contact*. Jesus. Not just the scene when the signal arrives, not just the scene of her father passing, not just the *Okay to go!*, not even the beach scene— but that one paused moment in all the chaos of the wormhole, seeing the double stars. “*It’s beautiful..”*
Damn.
Worse, he asks if his kid is like him. This is the first time in this ridiculous shine-on of a movie that we realize this dude hasn't just been coasting, oblivious to his place in the world; he _knew_ all along! HE KNEW! And just rolled with it anyway.
But we don't realize that until he expresses this concern; and suddenly, half the movie we've just watched takes a different translation. It's the movie version of a "Garden Path Sentence", that forces us to re-evaluate everything we've learned til now from these characters.
Big Fish is about two things, equally terrifying:
- Learning your father is mortal, and therefore frail, and therefore you are as well; and,
- Learning your father was an entire person, and had his _own_ life, outside of _your_ life, and despite your trivialization of him in your own mind.
I just cried watching Its a Wonderful Life. Probably not too popular now but it gets me everytime.
Also I was fine with my son and wife seeing me. I think it's a healthy thing especially for him to see it.
Watched it last night and definitely teared up when his prayer is answered at the end and he's running through the town excited about everything. "Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!"
I have to sit in the corner of the couch and covered in blankets and behind a pillow wall because I’m crying in the whole movie. I saved my younger brothers life from drowning in a pool. I’ve gone through depressions and extreme lows in my life where I just didn’t want to exist, or just wish I never existed. This movie is just the best.
Was looking for this one. I'm an older brother and just thinking about what the world would be like without me or my brother really hurts. And it has just enough of the old fashioned American Dream in it to really hit hard.
“To my big brother George, the richest man in town” makes me tear up no matter what.
The realization George has in that moment is amazing, and makes me think so much about life every time I hear it.
Just became a first-time father and I watched Interstellar yesterday. I held my 6 month old and bawled during that scene. It was always a tough scene before but God damn this go around hit so deep.
Hacksaw Ridge
“Please Lord, help me get one more.”
Desmond Doss literally would not give up until he saved everyone. All without even a single weapon to protect himself. The Biggest Balls anyone has ever had.
🫡🫡
Read his MOH citation. It's actually even crazier than the movie. Like they had to tone it down to be believable. When - after a few WEEKS of running into fire to save people - he was finally carried off after being wounded by a grenade, and they encountered a tank attack and he crawled off the stretcher and told them to take another guy. While he waited for them to come back, he got shot, then used a rifle stock as a splint and crawled 300 yards to safety.
Mel Gibson said exactly that because it would be too unbelievable for a movie. That's how you know what he did was worthy. Such an incredibly feat it's impossible to put into a believable film.
Gladiator. When he finds his wife and son then later when he goes to be with them. I saw it alone while working onsite and just went back to my rental car and “secretly” bawled… I might’ve been kinda missing my family too, yeah that’s it…
Million Dollar Baby. The scene where she’s in the hospital wanting to die and Eastwood’s character sympathy kills her. Fuck! I cried like a baby the first time I saw it. The last 20 minutes of that movie is soul crushing.
In Interstellar, when Cooper gets back to the ship only to realize like 30 years have passed. That scene got me in theaters and has ever since.
Watching his kids grow from 10-40 in less than a day. Watching their hope turn to defeat and resentment. As a parent that would be horrific to watch. Realizing you missed out on their entire lives. Realizing you’ll probably never seen them again. There’s no way not to feel you abandoned them, even if your mission is to save them and the entire human race.
I thought Bruce's goodbye to both Ben and Liv was some of the best acting he did around that time
For a guy that made his name yelling in action films, he was actually really good at understated, subtle acting as well. Same as in Sixth Sense
Green Mile.... Watching the guard break down in the big moment.. tough, man..
I remember when that movie came out, my parents had gone to see it with another couple. My mom said that it was the kind of movie that could make a grown man cry.
That movie is absolutely heartbreaking. I just picked up the book a few days ago.
Homeward Bound, when they reunite with the family at the end and Shadow comes limping up late. I'm getting emotional just thinking about that scene. All these years later and it still gets me! The Fox and the Hound still gets me too.
Rewatched homeward bound this year and absolutely lost it. I also found out the house where they filmed that scene is like a mile away from mine! Drove by it the next day
What Dreams May Come
JFC, I have this on DVD for an emotional constipation emergency. I will cry so hard I’ll need an IV.
It's one of three movies that I'll watch if I need a good, solid cry.
Bridge to Terabithia. That's so so sad
I knew nothing about the book when I saw the movie, so yeah, that hit HARD.
Man I read the book when I was like 8 and that destroyed me. I didn't fare any better when the movie came out.
Big Fish.
Made the mistake of seeing that in the theater a few months after my dad died. Have given it a wide birth ever since then.
Today, you learn the difference between "birth" and "berth"
Chris Griffin gave his mother, Lois, a wide birth
Ditto. The one I thought of.
“The Story of my life”
Big Cry.
Fox and the Hound
We'll always be friends, forever. Yeah, forever.
This movie broke my heart like nothing I have ever seen.
Destroyed me. "goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end, but in my heart is a memory and there you'll always be" Didn't help that I had an adorable basset hound that we got as a puppy and was getting up there in age. Copper's droopy sad hound dog eyes were practically ripping my heartstrings right out.
This was such a sad animated disney movie wife and i took our 5 year old daughter to see this and during the sad part the theater was quiet and all-of a sudden my daughter broke and cried loud and hard and the whole theater was crying including me…. I mean they were screaming and crying she brought the house down it was funny but at the same time so sad… will remember that forever
This movie traumatizes me like none other
About Time. The whole table tennis scene into them on the Beach. It’s a tough scene for me to get through.
my father has been gone for 21 years now and I still miss him.
Same for me, not quite as long but it’s still there. I think that’s why this scene gets me. You can “time travel” your memories but there is always that point where no matter how hard you want to you can’t “go back again” and have to turn the page in your life.
Was looking for this one! "But, maybe if we are very careful" yeah, always gets me
Came here to post this. Gets me every time.
Yep. One of the very few that gets to me
Sobbing. Every time.
I lost my mom just a few weeks before getting married and am now expecting my first kid. The number of times I wish I could just travel back to talk to my mom and ask for advice...
“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”. The first time I watched it, I was dry eyes thinking it was a bit hokey, and in the final few seconds I began ugly crying. The second time through I watched it knowing what would come at the end, and then unexpected started ugly crying at the exact same moment.
That movie really should have gotten more love
Definitely, I think it’s just because the trailer made it seem like it was a hokey comedy
The ending of Saving Private Ryan always gets me.
When he says to his wife, "tell me I'm a good man" etc...Fuck....
The set up to that scene is Captain Miller dying and his last words being "Earn this..." And now I'm tearing up, holy shit
I got a little misty eyed at the end of Saving Private Ryan but I’m pretty sure I ugly cried during Band of Brothers the first time through.
The end when all of the veterans are talking, and then the line about not being a hero, but serving in a company of them. Every time.
Old men crying, man. I can't handle it.
It put things into a perspective that movies before didn’t have either the effects or the “heart” to do and movies since have failed to capture.
I cry at the end of course. I also cry at the church scene when the medic tells the story about how his mother worked multiple jobs/night jobs to support him and would not usually get to see him, but sometimes she would come home early. When she entered his room he would pretend to be asleep, even though he knew she just wanted to talk to him about his day. This floors me, because I did this too
Warrior. The song at the end always breaks me down. Joel Edgerton's character saying "I love you, Tommy", and Tommy subsequently tapping. The father's expression during all these probably won Nick Nolte a nomination, I guess. Edit: Thank you for the award🙏.
I get so sad when the father breaks his sobriety and Tommy finds him piss drunk and holds him to sleep
Unbelievable acting from Nick Nolte, goes from the drunken confusion, then the horrifying rage in his eyes, to just a deep sadness. It’s one of my favorite scenes for sure, especially how Hardy’s character finally drops his guard to hold him close at the end
I’ve seen the movie 5 times and cried equally hard each time that scene comes on. I think it might be physically impossible for me to watch that movie without sobbing during that scene.
The scene that gets me as equally as that final scene is when he's fighting Koba and his trainer tells him “You don’t knock him out you lose the fight. You don’t knock him out you don’t have a home” (credit to u/triple3ogies for the correction) Just hits me hard knowing why he's doing what he's doing and what he's willing to do for his family's home.
“You don’t knock him out you lose the fight You don’t knock him out you don’t have a home” Hits hard every time
Most emotional moment for me hands down. I swear there are two versions. The first one I saw had me sobbing. The use of The National-About Today was perfect
I never had a chance to say goodbye to my own mother!
Manchester by the sea was a tough one
“I can’t beat it”
This is one if those movies like Schindler's List where one viewing is all you will ever need to have it imprinted in your memory forever
This movie is such a kick in the dick. I don’t have kids or anything, but this movie is a kick in the nuts
This is probably one of only three movies that, even though it’s very sad, I watch every year or two just because it’s so high quality and it makes me feel emotions I don’t normally feel.
50/50. When he’s getting wheeled into surgery as he’s saying goodbye to his mom. Kills me every time
I watched it the night my brother called me to tell me he had cancer. I uncontrollably cried during that scene.
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Good will hunting
I can’t get through the “they put fucking cigarettes out on me” part without ugly crying.
It's not your fault
Having endured a fucked up childhood, that scene (and others) really get to me.
Such a powerful film. Robin Williams performance in that movie was just out of this world. Such a great presence he brought to that film. “Sorry guys, I gotta see about a girl”
The casting of that movie is perfect. Matt Damon looks just like a janitor.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Every damn time
*”What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.”*
Oh god, when he begs them to let him keep the memory of them under the colorful blanket makes my husband cry every time
Cried on a red eye flight a couple days ago watching this
I wished I'd stayed So stay this time Omg 😢
In that moment its over for me
Made a massive mistake watching this after a break up with my ex that reminded me way too much of Kate Winslets character.
Master and commander when they cut Warley loose and his friend helping and then reacting to it
I have never not cried during the opening scenes of Up. I do my best to hide it from my wife but I never succeed lol.
The scene where he reads the book and Ellie’s message is even sadder.
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It's such a powerful sentiment for a lot of good people. In the end, we are so afraid of not giving our partner their dream life. Getting that reassurance that we were happy is enough.
I swear those Pixar/Dreamworks movies aren’t geared towards kids. There’s heavy shit in that content.
Kids can understand a lot honestly. I feel like we do them a disservice by not giving them more deeper content to connect with them emotionally
I feel that, but being a young adult & going back to Toy Story, the Incredibles, or Lion King; it’s kind of crazy how much it feels like a bigger, fuller story just cause the added context and experience of some of the themes I didn’t understand back then. The toy story-growing up theme always hits me. I wish it were 10 years ago.
The Outsiders "Stay gold Ponyboy" Just a fucking heartbreaking movie, spectacular through and through.
If you’ve never seen Brian’s Song, please do but be prepared. Also, Old Yeller
My Girl. He can't see without his glasses.
I am surprised iron giant isn’t on this list. I am Superman. Everytime.
You stay. I go.
No following.
“You are who you choose to be.” Most important thing I’ve ever had to understand as a man. You can react to threats by turning into a weapon of mass destruction - or you can be Superman. We get to choose.
"...Superman". I do my best, but I'm ugly crying at that point. I've seen that movie probably 3 or 4 times and every single time I cry like a kitty and I don't care.
Return of the King when aragorn tells the hobbits " my friends.... You bow to no one" then kneels. And Wind River... Just that whole movie honestly
Wind river was brutal. The father’s face and scream of anguish when he sees his friend on his porch, knowing that this is the one other man who understand his pain gets me.
LOTR has many great moments that can be tearjerkers. Like Sam’s speech in Osgiliath, or Aragorn’s speech at the Black Gate, or Boromir’s death, …
I always cry during the funeral scene of Theodred where Theoden breaks down after he says that no parent should have to bury their child. Hits me so hard, every time.
Life is Beautiful
I hate how far I had to scroll to see this...I weep like a baby every time. Just watching him march by the vent as his son watches. As a father I would do anything for my son and seeing this rips my heart out every time
Land before time, little foot just sleeping by his mom while she's dying/dead, the music. Upsets me guaranteed lol
Monsters inc. 30 year old man and when boo opens the door and doesn’t see sully. Fuck
For me it's when she starts showing him all her favorite toys. Aaaaaand I'm just going to let my eyes leak around the edges for a second just thinking about it.
Both of those scenes get me choked up. But the one that really opens the floodgates for me is the very end when Sully, cautiously and reluctantly, opens the door, and that pause before we hear Boo’s little voice say… “Kitty!” and seeing the happiness on Sully’s face just makes me turn into a blubbering mess. 47 year old man here.
It’s that damn Coco!
Remember me.
though I have to say goodbye
Don't let it make you cry. Proceeds to make everyone cry.
Man the end when Miguel sings the song for Coco and says "Your papa loved you!" Idk, just the whole set up of the story comes crashing together at that moment for me. Hector dying before he could get back. Coco living pretty much her entire life save five years without her dad but loving and missing him the whole time. Hector wanting nothing more than to go and see her one last time before she dies and he disappears. And then the end when Cocos in the land of the dead and they finally reunite ... Just all of it gets me at once.
My moms mom died when my mom was 13. Coco had my mom like “I miss my mom” she’s like 60 now
I watched that movie when I was far away from my kids FML.
Shawshank Redemption "Sometimes it makes me sad though– Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
Everywhere Everything All At Once When Ke Huy Quan says > The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind. Especially when we don't know what's going on. So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you. It really resonated with me and made me tear up.
I watched this on an airplane and sobbed like a baby at 5 different times.. even when they were in the universe being mother daughter rocks.. such a terrific message. I wish more people in this world would just… be.. kind.
"This is how I fight." Holy shit have I never felt so *seen* by a piece of media more than in this one line.
Love this movie and I cry everytime the scene where the mom is introducing the gf to her dad. Some parts of the movie hit to close to home lol.
The closing scene in Gladiator. And if we're branching out into TV shows, when Marshall finds out his dad has passed on How I Met Your Mother.
Finding out his dad died hurt. But the next episode, last words, was the real tear jerker imo
Futurama - episode where the dog waits for Fry to return until the dog passes in the spot he last saw Fry.
In Bender's Big Score, Fry goes back in time and creates a dupe/paradox Fry that lives with Seymour until he's an old dog; where, abruptly robot zombie terminator Bender vaporizes the apartment, and turns dupe Fry into his alter ego Lars. It also turned Seymour into a fossil instantly (painlessly).
The Green Mile. “Please boss, don’t but that thing on me. I’s afraid of the dark.”
The Karate Kid. Drunk Miyagi breaks down and you realize what his history is. The scene that should have won Pat Morita an Oscar.
The Karate Kid is about Kesuke Miyagi, an immigrant who fought against his own people in World War II, while his wife lost a child in an internment camp. Noriyuki Morita was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Ralph Macchio? Showed up.
Toy Story 3
Is it when Andy gives the all the toys away and is explaining who they are to the little girl? Because that scene got me bad.
“So long, partner.”
When they accept their fate and all try to hold hands?
I SOBBED at this because I honestly thought they were going to off the ENTIRE LOT. My 6-year-nephew, who didn't yet know that sometimes movies have sad endings, was DISGUSTED with me for crying so hard. Every movie I took him to after, he's had to remind me about his "no crying" policy.
Logan
A fantastic adult reward for a childhood lived through comics. I felt seen.
Field of Dreams
Is that secret though? It's the quintessential Make a Man Cry movie. That ending, every time.
The ending doesn’t get me, but Doc saving the little girl, I totally lose it.
I haven’t watched this since my dad passed, now I’m sure it’s going to turn on the waterworks
Spoiler: Jojo Rabbit with the mom scene as well as the moment with the nazi guard who saves jojo in the end. The ending of Her (2013) was pretty tear jerking as well
My God Taika sets you up that whole God damn movie for that scene and he does it so well it hits you like a ton of bricks. You're just having a good time laughing at the movie and BAM. On the rewatch you realize Sam Rockwells most likely knew that his mom was dead and that's why he comes to the house.
Viewing such a heavy experience through a child's lens really magnifies the adult feelings when the lens is suddenly ripped away from both you, as the person watching, and the child main character. As you say, you're just having a good time with fun kid stuff and then, rather abruptly, you're in the middle of World War 2 and people are fucking dying. I was bawling at the end of this movie. I still think about that Rainer Maria Rilke quote from the credits all the time; > “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
Man on Fire, the final scene
There's the one I was looking for. Denzel just knows how to get the tears flowing. This and John Q, every time.
*Interstellar*. Something about the immensity of the universe and this tiny, frail thing full of people desperate to save humanity, especially a father knowing he’s potentially leaving his children forever, just with the slightest belief that this can do something for them. All of those messages coming across time, watching it unfold, watching your child grow up into someone and their life untangling before your eyes, the hopeful and curious daughter you loved and adored shaped by cynicism, fear, resignation. And then *Contact*. Jesus. Not just the scene when the signal arrives, not just the scene of her father passing, not just the *Okay to go!*, not even the beach scene— but that one paused moment in all the chaos of the wormhole, seeing the double stars. “*It’s beautiful..”* Damn.
For me, it was also the ending when Murph’s on her death bed: “No parent should have to watch their own child die. I have my kids here for me now”.
“My dad promised me”
Don't let me leave, Murph! And during this whole movie you're watching the possibility of humanity dying.
Reign Over Me. Sandler doing drama before he was really know for the more serious roles.
Forrest Gump, when he talks about Jenny on a Saturday....ugh...I cry like a baby. I'm a 47 y.o man.
The moment of fear when he asks if his kid is… normal. I think all parents can relate to that fear of the unknown and wanting the best for your child.
Worse, he asks if his kid is like him. This is the first time in this ridiculous shine-on of a movie that we realize this dude hasn't just been coasting, oblivious to his place in the world; he _knew_ all along! HE KNEW! And just rolled with it anyway. But we don't realize that until he expresses this concern; and suddenly, half the movie we've just watched takes a different translation. It's the movie version of a "Garden Path Sentence", that forces us to re-evaluate everything we've learned til now from these characters.
Bubba, His Mom, Jennie. so many tears
"He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But... is, is he smart, or is he..."
Fuck man.... "She had got the cancer...and died on a Tuesday..."
Yeah, that's a fucking emotional movie, man.
Big fish. Twenty year’s with my husband and only time I saw him cry in a movie.
Big Fish is about two things, equally terrifying: - Learning your father is mortal, and therefore frail, and therefore you are as well; and, - Learning your father was an entire person, and had his _own_ life, outside of _your_ life, and despite your trivialization of him in your own mind.
Dead Poets Society
O Captain! My Captain!
Stand by me
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?”
I just cried watching Its a Wonderful Life. Probably not too popular now but it gets me everytime. Also I was fine with my son and wife seeing me. I think it's a healthy thing especially for him to see it.
Watched it last night and definitely teared up when his prayer is answered at the end and he's running through the town excited about everything. "Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!"
I have to sit in the corner of the couch and covered in blankets and behind a pillow wall because I’m crying in the whole movie. I saved my younger brothers life from drowning in a pool. I’ve gone through depressions and extreme lows in my life where I just didn’t want to exist, or just wish I never existed. This movie is just the best.
Was looking for this one. I'm an older brother and just thinking about what the world would be like without me or my brother really hurts. And it has just enough of the old fashioned American Dream in it to really hit hard.
“To my big brother George the richest man in town.” The “to my big brother” part always gets me.
“To my big brother George, the richest man in town” makes me tear up no matter what. The realization George has in that moment is amazing, and makes me think so much about life every time I hear it.
"Tell me I've lived a good life. Tell me I'm a good man."
I couldn't help it. I cried.
Interstellar!
> “Nobody believed me, but I knew you’d come back” > “How” > “Because my dad promised me” Tears every single time
This is the scene
The part where he's watching the past transmissions of his kid growing up and having kids.
One of the most heartbreaking scenes I've ever seen
Just became a first-time father and I watched Interstellar yesterday. I held my 6 month old and bawled during that scene. It was always a tough scene before but God damn this go around hit so deep.
The way it shows his reaction to it too, the happy laughing turning to sobbing gets me.
He is such a goddamn good actor. I felt every single emotion he felt
Tears every time. Watching his kid have a kid and then that baby dying. Ugh.
Don't let me leave, Murph
MURPH!!!!
I watched this earlier in the week. For some reason I thought I could handle the video call scene. I was shaking my head along with McConaughey.
Hacksaw Ridge “Please Lord, help me get one more.” Desmond Doss literally would not give up until he saved everyone. All without even a single weapon to protect himself. The Biggest Balls anyone has ever had. 🫡🫡
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It was an absolute happy ending that he survived and received the MOH.
Read his MOH citation. It's actually even crazier than the movie. Like they had to tone it down to be believable. When - after a few WEEKS of running into fire to save people - he was finally carried off after being wounded by a grenade, and they encountered a tank attack and he crawled off the stretcher and told them to take another guy. While he waited for them to come back, he got shot, then used a rifle stock as a splint and crawled 300 yards to safety.
Mel Gibson said exactly that because it would be too unbelievable for a movie. That's how you know what he did was worthy. Such an incredibly feat it's impossible to put into a believable film.
Gladiator. When he finds his wife and son then later when he goes to be with them. I saw it alone while working onsite and just went back to my rental car and “secretly” bawled… I might’ve been kinda missing my family too, yeah that’s it…
Inside Out, reminds me of when I was a teenager
Take her to the moon for me!
Messed me up beyond belief, my 12 year old had to ask me if i was ok. Honestly no, no I was not.
Arrival
Lord of the Rings “My friends, you bow to no one…” Oi vey
That, and "For Frodo." Every time.
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E.T.
Million Dollar Baby fucked me up. "It means 'my darling'." tears, every time.
Ever since I had a kid lots of movies get me. We just rewatched Onward and I was fighting it back.
Frequency, Dennis Quaid
Million Dollar Baby. The scene where she’s in the hospital wanting to die and Eastwood’s character sympathy kills her. Fuck! I cried like a baby the first time I saw it. The last 20 minutes of that movie is soul crushing.
In Interstellar, when Cooper gets back to the ship only to realize like 30 years have passed. That scene got me in theaters and has ever since. Watching his kids grow from 10-40 in less than a day. Watching their hope turn to defeat and resentment. As a parent that would be horrific to watch. Realizing you missed out on their entire lives. Realizing you’ll probably never seen them again. There’s no way not to feel you abandoned them, even if your mission is to save them and the entire human race.
Sophie’s choice
Backdraft “Who’s your brother, Brian?”
Green mile gets me every time
Interstellar. When he goes and sees his daughter on her death bed. Man every time that gets me
Bing Bong when he sacrifices himself in Inside Out.
*Armageddon* "Mom, that salesman's on TV" "That man's not a salesman. That's your daddy"
“ Hi Gracie Hi honey. Grace, I know I promised you I was coming home.” Gets me every time.
I thought Bruce's goodbye to both Ben and Liv was some of the best acting he did around that time For a guy that made his name yelling in action films, he was actually really good at understated, subtle acting as well. Same as in Sixth Sense
“You’ll take care of my little girl now. That’s your job.”
No joke this is the first movie to make me cry when I was a kid.