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GoFenris wrote:
Sorry, this is a rumor. There is only ONE ending. The only difference between the two films is one scene in which the US Navy fires off some missiles somewhere in the middle of the film. That's it. The visual, burned into my six year old retina, was clear even if the narration doesn't imply a winner. BTW I am a dai-kaiju nut and own both versions.

Actually, there's 11 minutes of differences(the Japanese version is 11 minutes longer), including a different earthquake scene(originally from the Mysterians) in the American version.

Fallen668 wrote:Voices of A Distant Star.

QFT

The only time in my adult life when a film nearly moved me to tears was when I was watching real footage of a nun (I think in Calcutta) who was hugging a boy, he looked about 10 and so skinny that I wondered how he could be alive. But the what really hit it home was the subtitle informing us that this orphan hadn't been hugged in his life. This bony shell of a boy was looking at the nun with what I can only describe as utter awe and reverence, he couldn't believe what was happening.

Teh_K42 wrote:The only time in my adult life when a film nearly moved me to tears was when I was watching real footage of a nun (I think in Calcutta) who was hugging a boy, he looked about 10 and so skinny that I wondered how he could be alive. But the what really hit it home was the subtitle informing us that this orphan hadn't been hugged in his life. This bony shell of a boy was looking at the nun with what I can only describe as utter awe and reverence, he couldn't believe what was happening.

That post just hit me in the gut.....I'm starting to well up....I'm verklempht.................

GG

I was pretty touched by that post too...

Until I saw generalgrog type verklempht. That kinda threw me off.

Brokeback Mountain. I'm not gay, so to some extent I sympathised with the plight of the two men but couldn't really feel their situation as if it were my own. But there is a scene near the end where Jake Gyllenhal's mother gives a jacket to Heath Ledger - there is so much emotion and confusion in that one short second... in a single look they tell the whole story of a mother who doesn't and can't understand her son but loves him anyway. It's powerful stuff about the relationship between mother and son, it really is.

Other than that, like everyone else said the first fifteen minutes of Up! are pretty emotional. And Fry's dog in Futurama.

And I remember when I was but a wee tyke and Optimus got killed in the animated movie. That was intense.

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:Wall-E and Up!

Yeah, yeah, Pixar films, by my god, if you didn't find the beginning of Up harrowing then you have no soul!

I'm there with you, DLS. Pixar really goes for the gut, don't they? There's always like one scene of pure overwhelming emotion in each film. Seriously, I cried out a contact lens while watching Up.

Don't forget that whole "My owner abandons me when she grows up" scene from Toy Story 2.

Platuan4th wrote:

GoFenris wrote:
Sorry, this is a rumor. There is only ONE ending. The only difference between the two films is one scene in which the US Navy fires off some missiles somewhere in the middle of the film. That's it. The visual, burned into my six year old retina, was clear even if the narration doesn't imply a winner. BTW I am a dai-kaiju nut and own both versions.

Actually, there's 11 minutes of differences(the Japanese version is 11 minutes longer), including a different earthquake scene(originally from the Mysterians) in the American version.

I am shamed. I had forgotten about that.

Owain wrote:

Also, though it's not a movie a lot of moments in M*A*S*H have gotten me choked up.

But there IS a film for MASH.

"Cuz suicide is painless..."

oh i've left loads out. i will never watch watership down again because it makes me sad for weeks after. grave of the fireflys was soul destroying!
i cryed at the new Rambo...(those poor people!)
and Son of rambow
My neighbour totoro
the whole series of Nana
Dark crystal
Legend
i'm sure there are more but i must blank them out

+1 for Up and Fry's dog in that Futurama episode. To this day, I can't stand to watch that episode because of its ending, and I can't watch the movie Up (No matter how awesome it gets) without crying a little bit during the montage of Carl's life.

As for movies, I have to throw out a few more Anime movies. First off, the ending of Castle in the Sky had me tearing up. I was so hopeful throughout that entire movie that they would find and rebuild Laputa, then they were forced to destroy it to prevent it falling into the wrong hands. Another one was the ending of Fullmetal Alchemist: Conquerer of Shamballa. Such a sad ending, knowing that Ed and Winry can never be together because of the closed gateway between their world. I was happy that the two brothers were reunited, though.

Not sure if it counts as Anime, per se, but the ending of L: Change the WorLd. Heck, the entire movie was kind of dramatic, knowing that L was fated to die at the end, but I was almost in tears at the end when he just walked into the sunset before his death. Oddly enough, I also have to cite the ending of the anime Death Note, but for an entirely different character. As with Castle in the Sky, I was so hoping that the protagonist would win in the end, and Light would finally kill Near and the rest of the SPK to create his perfect world. Then that damn finale music starts playing as he runs away, and I just can't stop myself...

Another Anime feature, the ending of Cowboy Bebop. It just comes at you like a train, seeing I did not see it coming at all, and I was amazed they went through with an ending like that.

Oh, and for one last one, pretty much every Disney movie ever. Lion King - Mufasa's death (And Scar telling him it was his fault). Hercules - the Gospel Truth song after Hercules becomes mortal. Surprisingly enough, also in the newest movie, Princess and the Frog, when

Grave of the Fireflies, anime movie about the end of WWII. It´s depressing, I avoid this movie like the plague but my wife likes it and insists on watching it when it comes on TV.

M.

Oof. When I was a kid, I was a bit of a crier. Last Unicorn was probably first, then Dark Crystal. Old Yeller is a killer.

Then I went through a long period of macho, juvenile never crying. Except for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Because wow. And also Mystic River, which gets my vote for most gut-wrenching movie of all time.

Then I did my time in the Marine Corps, got married, had a daughter, grew up a bit... And now everything makes me cry. Passion of the Christ. Million Dollar Baby. That Coke commercial with Mean Joe Greene. Gran Torino. There have been others, and the next one is always just around the corner.

Might also add the movies:
-Ghost in the Shell: innocence
-Blood Diamond
-Boy in the striped pyjamas
-The series deathnote [i know its not a movie] but its so moving, i cried for a long time.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Return of the King, at the end when Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf leave for the Grey Havens and Sam gets left behind.

MANLY TEARS.

I cried from reading this . Out of laughter
( yes im serious )

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Fallen668 wrote:Voices of A Distant Star.

I honestly thought I was getting a different sort of thing out, what with giant machines and all.
Instead I got a 20 minute skit of a couple using mobile phones (of all things) to keep in contact.

Wouldn't it be easier to, I don't know, write a letter? Go through the official channels?

P.S. +1 for Wall-E

Yay for voices of a distant star!

Platuan4th wrote:I can't think of any movie that made me cry, as I tend to be a soulless platypus that eats little children and billy goats and who hides under a bridge. I am, in every sense of the word, a heartless troll.

Fixed.

sebster wrote:And Fry's dog in Futurama.

Oh god why did you have to bring that up.



Futuram is the only TV show that ever got me to tear up and did it not once, but twice. The other was the episode where he thought his brother stole his lucky 5 leaf clover.

Tribute to loyal dogs everywhere ( this pic is so sad too )

Ahtman wrote:

sebster wrote:And Fry's dog in Futurama.

Oh god why did you have to bring that up.



Futuram is the only TV show that ever got me to tear up and did it not once, but twice. The other was the episode where he thought his brother stole his lucky 5 leaf clover.

LunaHound wrote:Tribute to loyal dogs everywhere ( this pic is so sad too )

Ahtman wrote:

sebster wrote:And Fry's dog in Futurama.

Oh god why did you have to bring that up.



Futuram is the only TV show that ever got me to tear up and did it not once, but twice. The other was the episode where he thought his brother stole his lucky 5 leaf clover.

MANLY TEARS.

Emperors Faithful wrote:
MANLY TEARS.WERE SHED

xD

I watched 'Hunger' last night. I didn't cry, but it was pretty harrowing and very sad at the end.

Regarding the multiple posts concerning Fry's dog...

Did anyone see Bender's Big Score?



It is still a touching scene though (the one from Jurassic Bark).

Locclo wrote:
Another Anime feature, the ending of Cowboy Bebop. It just comes at you like a train, seeing

Spoiler:

Spike die.

I did not see it coming at all, and I was amazed they went through with an ending like that.

Actually, according to the series creator

Also, remember Men don't cry, we WEEP!

Thankyou FITZZ for almost understanding my pain. I've said it before and I'll say it again:

SAM!!! It's so sad, that dog was sooo cool!

Miguelsan wrote:Grave of the Fireflies, anime movie about the end of WWII. It´s depressing, I avoid this movie like the plague but my wife likes it and insists on watching it when it comes on TV.

M.

Aye, tbh I'm not sure I could watch that one again, I even cried when checking on Wiki afterwards it was based on a true story, and the comments the author made about writing it to deal with the pain he felt over losing his sister.

Ghibli films in general have their moments of making me blub lake a wee babe, along with Pixar I rate those two as the best animation studios in the world right now. Loads of their films combined have got me, Spirited Away, Totoro, Toy Story 2 (also the Jessie bit as mentioned above, having the beautiful Sarah McLachlan sing 'When she loved me' to accompany that scene hardly helped though) Up, Wall-E, Howl's Moving Castle, Only Yesterday to name a few.

I'm much more watery these days, seems to have got worse as I have aged and I feel nostalgia to things, as well my own children growing before my eyes. Many films have got me, Futurama a few times, the worst two being Fry's Dog, and Luck of the Fryish (his nephew.) I also get teary at the song montages of several Cold Case episodes.

Films which stick out as ones that get the old waterworks going inc,

Shawshank Redmeption (Crooks' bit in the middle, and Red heading for Mexico)
Saving Private Ryan (the end at the war memorial)
Shindlers List (placing stones on his grave)
Beaches (My wife won't even watch it anymore as its too draining, but it gets me at the end as well.)
Kung Fu Panda (Passing of Oogway, mainly because of the beautiful music that accompanies it.)

Seems I'm getting Soppy in my old age. (Well older, not quite old yet.)

I know it's not technically a movie, but I have to also bring up the ending of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. That scene at the end when Snake is saluting the Boss's grave always makes me tear up a bit. The final battle was extremely epic as well, with the final duel with the Boss in the cherry blossoms...

And if I'm bringing up games (Shut up, I'm doing it) I'm also going to have to say both Final Fantasy VI and VII. Specifically, the Opera scene with Maria (Her aria on the castle is a tear-jerker) and the one most people know, the scene in VII where Aerith dies, followed immediately by the boss battle with one of the Jenovas, Aerith's Theme playing in the background.

Props to Malf for mentioning Requiem for a Dream. I didn’t weep, but it was soul-blasting. I still haven’t seen Leaving Las Vegas; need to do that one of these days.

Oh, and yes, the ending of Jurassic Bark was a tearjerker.

Albatross wrote:I watched 'Hunger' last night. I didn't cry, but it was pretty harrowing and very sad at the end.

Is this the film about IRA political prisoners?I've heard it was very good but have yet to see it.

@FITZZ - See it mate - it's sublime. Beautifully shot and acted - but it IS a gruelling film to watch. It's VERY bleak, probably the bleakest film I've seen - and not a lot 'happens', if you follow me. It's kind of an art film, really.


But it is absolutley brilliant.