What was the last movie that really hit you hard? Did it make you cry?

[elkym]

I know we're supposedly unfeeling machines-- Not a chance I'd believe it for a minute.

Just watched 'Saints and Soldiers.' Made me a little teary-eyed.

[TwoTubMan]

"The Professional". It went under my radar when it first came out, and I only discovered it recently. You go from sadness when Leon dies, to immediately cheering when he blows Stansfield to atoms.

[JRenn]

Bambi?


"KAPOW"... ...(silence)...

:eek: ---> :cry:

[mountain blues]

"The Professional". It went under my radar when it first came out, and I only discovered it recently. You go from sadness when Leon dies, to immediately cheering when he blows Stansfield to atoms.


The Professional is a great movie. A masterpiece.

The Last Samurai really got to me. There may be no more defining moment in modern history than the fall of the Samurai. I wept deeply.

Casino Royale oddly affected me deeply as well. The best Bond ever, and very visceral around all human emotions. Daniel Craig is gifted. I didn't weep as much as I was just really affected.

An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Lopez is the best recent movie to knock my socks off, though. I shouted, I wept, I just kept shaking my head in astonishment.

[re-animator]

I just recently watched meet joe black and it was something else...

[Option]

Kinda old ones, but Life Is Beautiful and Sling Blade killed me.

[phishmarisol]

Kinda old ones, but Life Is Beautiful and Sling Blade killed me.

Sling Blade is also the last movie I remember that made me cry when I watched it several months ago. I tend to cry more over music than movies, and never over books but when Karl tells the kid he loves him it's all over for me. I've been meaning to watch Life is Beautiful but I've heard it's devastating so I need to pick the right time to watch it I think.

[akihiro]

I very rarely get choked up during a movie.
Sad Movie.
It was a really sad movie.

[Zero]

I still haven't seen the entire movie. I catch pieces of Saving Private Ryan on cable every so often. Saw a big chunk recently. I mostly think Spielberg is cheeseball but I have to hand it to him when the thunderous tanks are rolling into that abandoned town. I mean, I really felt something omninous. The most frightening scene after that was the hand to hand combat in that small room, his buddy laying there dying, he fighting this German and slowly losing. Man, intense.

[StJimmy]

I get choked up at sad movies quite easily. I'm glad they play them in the dark. Don't need some kid saying out loud "Look mommy, that man is crying!"

Bicentennial Man.

I've also noticed that the background music plays a major part in getting some emotion out of me.

[epluribus]

Nothing quite weirds me out like Artificial Intelligence. And I keep watching it over again... :rolleyes:

Bicentennial Man made me think of it.

[GAD]

Nothing quite weirds me out like Artificial Intelligence. And I keep watching it over again... :rolleyes:


*Fabulous* movie. Sci Fi that makes you think. Not many scifi movies like that anymore.

GAD

[epluribus]

Big +1 on that...the closing sequence...wrenching. And the performances, esp Jude Law, great stuff.

--Ray

[denver.p]

A documetury called "Yellow Brick Road" had me weeping tears of joy and sorrow. Powerfully moving.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482641/

[auratnik]

Apocalypto by Mel Gibson

[FiveG]

Big Fish

I Am Legend

[rob2001]

Shawshank at the end when the two dudes are walking towards each other on the beach.

Feild of dreams when he's playing catch with his dad.

Dances with Wolves when they shoot the coyote.

Old Yeller.

[RockStarNick]

I just watched "I am Legend" lastnight. Seriously, Will Smith was PHENOMENAL in that. Really moved me, cuz it felt like a possibilty that it could be real.

Just watched Meet Joe Black for the 2nd time lastnight... inredible movie. I definitely cried my eyes out the first time I saw it.

[JMintzer]

Field of Dreams

Schindler's List

Saving Private Ryan


Jamie

[DiazDude]

Field of Dreams..who wouldn't want to have a catch with their Dad after they're gone.

[Kingbeegtrs]

Million Dollar Baby

[Lawn Jockey]

"Where The Red Fern Grows"

[Teleplayer]

Hotel Rwanda.

Just watched it on cable last night. Although I have traveled all over the world many times and seen some harrowing things, I could not even imagine what the people in that country went through.

And, to top it off, Don Cheadle's performance is stellar.

[mge80]

I can't go out to movies anymore. They all make me cry. Happy, sad...doesn't matter. So, I stay home and cry at commercials. Like Paul Vitti.

[Flavum]

It was a few years back, but The Pianist was emotionally crushing. I lost it at the end.

[humbuster]

Life Is A House.

Kevin Kline shoud have won the Oscar, but the film was overlooked by most folks.

[silverface63]

October Sky. The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes. Starring
Jake Gyllenhaal. The end of that movie really got me. I called my dad when it was on Encore and asked him to watch it. He called back when it was over. "You got me, son". Real tear jerker!!

[Midnight Lady]

For the very few of you here old enough to remember OLD YELLER.

I think I was 10 and I cried for three days.

[Frankee]

Schindler's List
Life Is Beautiful
A Sea Inside

[cottoneyedjoe]

I still haven't seen the entire movie. I catch pieces of Saving Private Ryan on cable every so often. Saw a big chunk recently. I mostly think Spielberg is cheeseball but I have to hand it to him when the thunderous tanks are rolling into that abandoned town. I mean, I really felt something omninous. The most frightening scene after that was the hand to hand combat in that small room, his buddy laying there dying, he fighting this German and slowly losing. Man, intense.


The sad thing about that scene is that I know lots of WWII vets that said that type of combat was commonplace in certain parts of Europe. Great movie. That scene affected me for a very, very long time after I saw it. It really bothered me.

"The Assasination of Jesse James" was another movie that affected me greatly. It took the legend out of Jesse and brought him to a human level. The way the scenes were laid out were amazing.

"Gettysburg". That movie only affects me because I was one of the reenactors in it. Also "Gods and Generals". Being on the field when we did Pickett's charge was probably one of the greatest things I have ever done. I will never forget how it looked when we came onto the field and there was 20,000 men on both sides. I was just one man. It made me realize how small I am compared to a war that lost thousands upon thousands. It put a real number in front of me.

"Walk The Line". Only affected me because I had the chance to sit down with Johnny and June in 2001. After hearing about Johnny's life first hand and then seeing it on the screen really hit home. Johnny was a great man, as was his wife, and I am lucky enough to say I got to spend a brief moment with a man that changed my life. Not because he was a star, but because we spoke about things that made me change my life. Johnny and June were human first, stars last.

[Dr Git]

I'm going to have to go with "Dark Knight" here, truly it was amazing....Oh my bad....

[justabubba]

Sophie's Choice

[v-verb]

I get moved but I don't shed tears...Atonement was really sad....

[Seditious]

The sad thing about that scene is that I know lots of WWII vets that said that type of combat was commonplace in certain parts of Europe. Great movie. That scene affected me for a very, very long time after I saw it. It really bothered me.

"The Assasination of Jesse James" was another movie that affected me greatly. It took the legend out of Jesse and brought him to a human level. The way the scenes were laid out were amazing.

"Gettysburg". That movie only affects me because I was one of the reenactors in it. Also "Gods and Generals". Being on the field when we did Pickett's charge was probably one of the greatest things I have ever done. I will never forget how it looked when we came onto the field and there was 20,000 men on both sides. I was just one man. It made me realize how small I am compared to a war that lost thousands upon thousands. It put a real number in front of me.

"Walk The Line". Only affected me because I had the chance to sit down with Johnny and June in 2001. After hearing about Johnny's life first hand and then seeing it on the screen really hit home. Johnny was a great man, as was his wife, and I am lucky enough to say I got to spend a brief moment with a man that changed my life. Not because he was a star, but because we spoke about things that made me change my life. Johnny and June were human first, stars last.

cool stories.
For me:
The Spitfire Grill
Apacalypto
Black Hawk Down
I Am Sam
Into the Wild
Dances With Wolves

Wow I'm a sap aren't I

[pbradt]

Good Will Hunting. I wasn't sexually abused but I had some of the worst parents imaginable and some of the things on me that are broken are not my fault.

[Motorhed]

I can't say any have hit me hard lately but here's some that I can think of that have hit me hard(just in the order they pop into my head)...

Ones that hit hard but in a good way....

The Elephant Man
Slingblade
Saving Private Ryan
Johnny Got His Gun
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Ones that hit hard in a bad way...

Jungle Holocaust(trust me, just don't watch this movie. Its the one that made me stop seeking out sicko movies which were an escape for me during a bad bout of depression)
AI(depressing as hell with no redeeming reason for it)



I know there are more but that's all that I can think of at the moment.

[Kingbeegtrs]

If you can watch the elephant man without crying you are an asshole.

[Droptop]

1. Dead Poet Society
2. Ordinary People
3. Zack and Mira: Make a Porno

[dharmafool]

Hotel Rwanda.

Just watched it on cable last night. Although I have traveled all over the world many times and seen some harrowing things, I could not even imagine what the people in that country went through.

And, to top it off, Don Cheadle's performance is stellar.

+100. Devastating. Then, "Million Voices" by Wyclef Jean cues in near the end of the film and I'm in a puddle.

[Born2Blues67]

I remember when i went to see" Schindler's List " when it first came out,
it was shot in glorious black & white. The scene in ? where the little girl
was walking down the street in her little red coat. Later on in the movie,
when the Nazis are retreating & burning the victim's bodies,you see the
dead girl in her red coat. And i just lost it. Tears were streaming down my face. To this day i find it hard to watch. How can anyone with any hu-
manity view this & not be affected?

[Teleplayer]

+100. Devastating. Then, "Million Voices" by Wyclef Jean cues in near the end of the film and I'm in a puddle.

Or the part where the van is driving, and the ride is real bumpy. Cheadle gets out of the van and looks around to see what is wrong with the road, only to realize that the ride is bumpy because the vehicle is rolling over dead bodies for as far as they eye can see.

[rob2001]

October Sky. The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes. Starring
Jake Gyllenhaal. The end of that movie really got me. I called my dad when it was on Encore and asked him to watch it. He called back when it was over. "You got me, son". Real tear jerker!!


That was a great movie. Not quite a "make me cry" movie for me but a great movie all around.

[shihanderek]

The older I get, the more like Dick Vermeil I get. It doesn't have to be a movie, could be a touching comercial that gets me going. Most recent? Saw Phenomenon last night on cable with John Travolta. Dude! :cry:

[teleamp]

"Old Yeller"

[rubbersoul]

There are scenes in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that get to me.

Since I was kid, though, I always got choked up, I mean, always, at King Kong.

[GuitarTone]

I think it was Adam Sandlers movie called 'Click'.

The scene with his father, I cant remember the detail right now, need to watch it again. :)
Anyway, I was in the middle of my divorce, went to see the movie on my own.

lol, I thought I was having a heart attack I cried so much.

I guess there's a reason I dig playing the blues. :)

[duckbunny]

Oh yes, "Field Of Dreams." Manipulative? Perhaps - but who wouldn't get choked up at the ending?
Another one that does it for me is "What Dreams May Come." I don't know why, but it gets me every time.
"The Fisher King " can kill me, too.

What is it about Robin Williams' dramatic roles?


Oh, and "AI" was, to me, astonishing.




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[mark norwine]

Million Dollar Baby

Me too. I never saw it coming....

[gwade]

As funny as it may sound, "The Mist" had an absolutely devastating conclusion. If you hate Hollywood formula movies, I'd recommend it.

"Million Dollar Baby" ran the gamut of emotions and really stuck with me.

A recent French horror film "Inside" had a neat little plot.

Did I mention that the best horror movies are coming out of France? Just my $0.02.

GW

[hansoloist]

There's a movie called Frequency with Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid that got to me. As a film it was alright, but there were some father son moments that absolutely leveled me. I'd lost my dad two years before, so it really hit home.

peace
-jeff

[Flying Panda]

Big Fish...

I'm not sure if it was the last movie that made me cry, but Big Fish is, to me, a masterpiece. Take a heartfelt love story, toss in the redemption of a soured father/son relationship, mix it up with Tim Burton's inherent wierdness & humor and throw in a little Jessica Lange....wow. One of my all-time faves.

[Weasel]

My Girl. It came out right about the timeI got divorced, got custody of my kids and my mom died. Tuff times for me back then.

[Aaron Cheney]

Big Fish and The Notebook both killed me. Dead Poet's Society also.

ac

[Mike Fleck]

Jumpin At The Boneyard

Tim Roth and Alexis Arquette.

[phoenix 7]

Million Dollar Baby

Ditto.

I'll admit that The English Patient really got to me too.

[Tbone135]

"The Passion"

and "Requiem for a Dream".

[s2amps]

Maybe 'Saving Private Ryan.' If not, maybe 'Braveheart.'

[Jazzydave]

All of those are great movies! The one movie that gets to me every time is Almost Famous. When they are on the bus and he says, "I have to get home!" and Penny Lane swoops her hand over his face and says, "You are home" it just hits my heart like a brick through a window.

I've always loved being out on the road and am definitely at home in the company of close friends and like-minded musicians/artists. My family doesn't understand it but I can never expect them to.

:band

[Motorhed]

I thought of another, Heavenly Creatures. Its a true story which makes it even more unnerving. It left me speechless for a few hours, it was a real kick in the head but in a good way. While I am a HUGE fan of his splatter flicks, I think this is the one that showed what Peter Jackson is truely capable of. I think it had alot to do with him being given the LOTR job. If you've not seen it, I highly recommend it.


Some mentioned I keep meaning to watch like Schindler's List, that one I've been meaning to watch for years but never seem to get around to it.

[neastguy]

mr. hollands opus

[rubbersoul]

I thought of another, Heavenly Creatures. Its a true story which makes it even more unnerving. It left me speechless for a few hours, it was a real kick in the head but in a good way. While I am a HUGE fan of his splatter flicks, I think this is the one that showed what Peter Jackson is truely capable of. I think it had alot to do with him being given the LOTR job. If you've not seen it, I highly recommend it.

Yes, you're absolutely right...this was an emotionally intense movie. The main scene, which I won't discuss and ruin the movie, was almost too hard to watch.

[hamstrat]

Saving Private Ryan- I made all the way through up to the last scene when the older Ryan is at the cemetery and asked if he has been a good man. Lost it right there. I couldn't get my dad to talk much about his experiences in WW2 just small pieces here and there. He once told me when he vacationed in France he couldn't go to Normandy and visit the cemetery after what he had been through. I understand that now.

Field of Dreams- can't handle the playing catch scene.

[Tbone135]

Speaking of "Heavenly Creatures", Jackson is working on a new splatter and hobbit free drama called "The Lovely Bones" that has a pretty interesting premise.

[ben_allison]

The Great Debaters.

The scene where they're going to a debate and run into a mob, lynching in progress, really hit me. I've seen photos – families in their Sunday best, gathered around a tree after church to see the black man get hanged and disfigured – but the scene in the movie was so intense. It just hit me, and stuck with/troubled me for a few days.

I can't imagine living in a world where you'd take your kids to see a man tortured, drawn and quartered. Racism I can understand; barbarism, I can't. That being said, I also can't believe that a mere 70 years on from that, in the same country, a black man is president elect! The world blows my mind sometimes.

[rattles]

I'm a very tender hearted person to start with so it doesn't take much to get the tears flowing during a really good movie.

Watched "The Notebook" again Sunday night and cried. First time I saw Titanic I walked out of the theatre bawling my eyes out. And if the truth be known, first time I watched "The Fox and The Hound" I cried. Yes, I know it's a Disney movie, but what can I say? I told you I was tender hearted! :p

[neastguy]

oh, i thought of another good one..

"made in heaven"

a sleeper film... but a good one

[daddyo]

Blood Diamonds. I was a little weepy.:(

[snorkey]

ANY good movie can make me cry! I'm just like Rattles...tender hearted.
The Sixth Sense the scene in the car where the kid is telling his mother his secret and goes into "grandma say's hi" and he goes on...well you know the rest, I completly loose it everytime I watch it!

[harryjmic]

Million Dollar Baby

[pfflam]

Yes, you're absolutely right...this was an emotionally intense movie. The main scene, which I won't discuss and ruin the movie, was almost too hard to watch.
If forgot that movie: Heavenly Creatures, that made me cry for sure, I saw it with a friend, not a very close friend, and he's English. We were stoic on the car as he drove me home . . I was living in the back of an art-gallery at the time (showering at the gym sorta thing) and had other reasons to cry, and when he dropped me off I went upstairs and bawled for an hour . . . the movie triggering a much needed flood.

Another movie that made me cry in the same way was Fearless with Jeff Bridges, about the airplane crash.

I cry easily at movies

My daughter is unbelievable, a smidgen of sad music and she is a wreck!!

[rattles]

ANY good movie can make me cry! I'm just like Rattles...tender hearted.
The Sixth Sense the scene in the car where the kid is telling his mother his secret and goes into "grandma say's hi" and he goes on...well you know the rest, I completly loose it everytime I watch it!


Glad to know I'm not the only one!!! ;)

[Motorhed]

Saving Private Ryan- I made all the way through up to the last scene when the older Ryan is at the cemetery and asked if he has been a good man. Lost it right there. I couldn't get my dad to talk much about his experiences in WW2 just small pieces here and there. He once told me when he vacationed in France he couldn't go to Normandy and visit the cemetery after what he had been through. I understand that now.

Field of Dreams- can't handle the playing catch scene.


I lost my grandfather a couple years before Private Ryan came out and it made me understand why he never spoke of his experiences in WWII. He was one that loved to tell stories but that was one subject that never came up. I asked him about it once when I was younger and learning about WWII in school, after seeing how uneasy he was about it I knew it was something best left be. I admit that I would still like to know but honestly, I think its something better left be. I think its one of those things where if he wanted it known, he would have told the stories but he didn't so I think its best to let that rest with him.

[pfflam]

Recently I watched Lioness on PBS, a documentary about women in Iraq and it made me cry big-time, one of the women is so torn up about what she did there, her character and background are so moving - its funny cause she is like a war-movie stereotype: she's from Arkansas, from a trailer-park, and was the best shot in the whole battalion because at home she would go shootin squirrels, anyway, they are not officially supposed to be in combat but are used to interrogate women and she ends up in a very heavy firefight and kills people using her skills . . . to watch how torn up she is about it is very heart-rending.

Another very very intense documentary is Shoah - impossible to not cry especially when the barber is telling about cutting his wife and daughter's hair before the gas chamber -utterly desolate!!

[elkym]

rattles... you're awesome.

You and my best friend-- he's a sucker for disney movies, too. (although I don't think he generally cries during them-- but he's still a sucker)

[kludge]

I was watching the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer this weekend, and there's the episode where Buffy's mother dies, and they have to arrange her funeral and such. It's crushing, and extremely real. Joss Whedon really captured the sense of loss and the sometimes-irrational reactions. And it's amplified by how well we know the characters by now.

[Motorhed]

If forgot that movie: Heavenly Creatures, that made me cry for sure, I saw it with a friend, not a very close friend, and he's English. We were stoic on the car as he drove me home . . I was living in the back of an art-gallery at the time (showering at the gym sorta thing) and had other reasons to cry, and when he dropped me off I went upstairs and bawled for an hour . . . the movie triggering a much needed flood.

Another movie that made me cry in the same way was Fearless with Jeff Bridges, about the airplane crash.

I cry easily at movies

My daughter is unbelievable, a smidgen of sad music and she is a wreck!!

I'm surprised Heavenly Creatures didn't make me cry actually. Like I said, I was speechless for a few hours and I think maybe it hit me so hard that no emotion could come out at all. Then after that I couldn't talk about it with anyone for a few days, it was just such a punch in the gut. (The one that did get me was The Elephant Man, during the famous "I am not an animal" scene, I lost it.)

Its one of those that I feel once was enough. There's part of me that would sort of like to see it again because in many ways, its a very beautiful movie. As wierd as it may sound, even the murder scene is beautiful in some wierd way. I feel wierd for saying that since it really happened but I don't think Peter Jackson ever meant any disrespect(I certainly don't mean any disrespect in saying that.), I don't think he put any kind of a spin on the story really. I think he said "here's what happened." and told the story, I didn't see it as showing them in a sympathetic light or as looking down upon them. That really doesn't happen much in this kind of story. I know there's dispute about the accuracy of what was told but I don't know that the TRUE story could ever be told, even from the women themselves without a spin and I understand that.

[FlyingDutchman]

Wow..lot of good ones listed here for making grown men cry. For me its definitely Of Mice and Men, Life is Beautiful and The Rookie..When Dennis Quaid gets called up from the minors and he calls his wife to tell her I get all teared. Great true story..

Kevin Costner movies hit me as well..The Perfect Game was a good one.

[hamstrat]

I lost my grandfather a couple years before Private Ryan came out and it made me understand why he never spoke of his experiences in WWII. He was one that loved to tell stories but that was one subject that never came up. I asked him about it once when I was younger and learning about WWII in school, after seeing how uneasy he was about it I knew it was something best left be. I admit that I would still like to know but honestly, I think its something better left be. I think its one of those things where if he wanted it known, he would have told the stories but he didn't so I think its best to let that rest with him.

One other note about my Dad who passed away this last summer: you couldn't say anything bad about the French people around him. I'm not sure what happened to him in France but he loved the people there and said they loved Americans. At least in Normandy. If anyone from France is reading this thanks for being so kind to my 19 year old Dad when he was fighting there. He thought we owed them from the Revolutionary War and I think they felt the same about all the G.I.s who lost their lives there.

[Lawn Jockey]

"Remember The Tight 'Uns"

[Dr Git]

Sorry to hear that. Your not alone though. My parents weren't the best either. Mostly because of ignorance, and my mom was a manic depressant. You move on though



Good Will Hunting. I wasn't sexually abused but I had some of the worst parents imaginable and some of the things on me that are broken are not my fault.

[Brian D]

Saving Private Ryan- I made all the way through up to the last scene when the older Ryan is at the cemetery and asked if he has been a good man. Lost it right there.Yep.

[Suproman77]

There are a few that really get me, but I think the last one was The Passion. I can't help, but cry during that one.

Oh yeah, Superman Returns made me tear up at the end. I'm a huge Superman fan and that was a very touching scene...also makes me miss Chris Reeve a lot.