The movie, The Hurt Locker, chokes me up when SFC James is getting off the plane at the end. It's tough to find people as passionate about their job as him but I know an NCO that is alot like him.
I can't believe no one mentioned "Ladder 49". That and Saving Private Ryan are about the only ones for me.
At least most of you have the privacy of your own homes and might maybe get caught by a girlfriend/wife, worst case scenario. Try being in a room with 30 high school kids and getting caught while watching the end of Saving Private Ryan in a ww2 history class. That's exactly what happened to some kid in mine. Of course there was no way in hell I was about to admit that I might have had some bad allergies the first time I watched it too. Instead I just heckled him along with the rest of the class to hide my own insecurities about the fact that I did the same exact thing. Ahhhh goood ol' highschool............
The only movie that's brought me to tears as an adult is Antwon Fischer. When the door opens to his family waiting for him in the dining room I can't contain it, just too much.
Not a movie, but you included event in the focus so I believe this qualifies. I was at Jack Murphy stadium (fuck you; I will never refer to it otherwise. If the company didn’t pony up money to build it, then fuck them.) for the first home Chargers game after 9/11 with my roommate and his folks. His dad is a retired firefighter and we have all known each other since kindergarten. When they brought the field sized American flag out, had a Marine sing God Bless America with a trained eagle flying around the stadium I lost it. I swear to Christ his dad was the first person in that stadium to stand up. I watched one of the strongest men I have ever had the privilege to know unapologetically cry like a baby through the whole thing. When it was over he hugged the both of us without saying a word. He then yelled for beer and hotdogs and started swearing at John Kitna. (Fuckin’ Bengals fan.) I will never forget that day & I still get something in my eye when I think about it.
A couple of months ago, they aired a ceremony on TV, recognizing Minnesota Twins players as the All-Metrodome team, seeing as they're moving to a new stadium. Anyway, when they showed highlights of Kirby Puckett, I lost it. Just hearing the announcer scream, "Kirrrbeeee Puuckett!"...Man, that was tough...
hmm so many. I am a softie at heart. Even though it is hokey, and about Notre Dame, Rudy is an automatic. This is a TV commercial I remember, and that I posted about on the old board. I am sure most of the Canadians on the board will understand the reference to Dieppe, for the others look it up. When I was young I was a member of a Reserve army unit that was one of the Regiments that landed at Dieppe, and took the heaviest casualties. Talking to the survivors was a sobering experience.
Saving Private Ryan made me weep like an infant. Then again, so do onions. I heard the trick is not to form an emotional bond.
The ending of Bad Santa always got me because he's such a terrible person through the whole movie, but in the end he is willing to die to get the kid his gift.
I cry like a little bitch every time I see Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon. It's an HBO movie about Kevin Bacon's character escorting a fallen Marine home. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtmiLdzzgGE
Yeah, that's probably the most badass thing I have ever seen. I know this isn't in the league of what we've been talking about, but if you're a fan of the Rocky movies then you love this scene in Rocky IV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eij5IGNNcc
The Pursuit of Happiness is one of the saddest movies I have ever watched. When the little boy loses his Captain America and they just keep running. I can hardly write about it. I also agree with the last 10 minutes of Six Feet Under and the Jimmy V. speach. Brokeback Mountain is kinda sad when she keeps the shirt.....
Like many of you, something always gets caught in my eye when I watch Rudy. However, there is one commercial, without fail, makes me tear up and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Thank god somebody finally mentioned this. It is the closest I have ever come to bawling over a movie. Russel Crowe did a phenominal job and even the part where he makes it all the way home to find his family dead and hanging was a real tearjerker. Also, not a movie or even a TV show, but Stephen King's "Wizard and Glass" actually did make me cry despite knowing the outcome for the ENTIRE book. Not what I expected from King.
The last fight scene in green street hooligans, always brings a tear, if you haven't seen it, you have to, if you have seen it you will know the scene I'm talking about
Anything involving a service member coming home to a waiting family. That, and the ASPCA commercial where Sarah McLaughlin sings "In The Arms of an Angel". God, I just cry like a baby, and cuddle with my dog every time.
If you don't cry at this, you have no soul. Actually, Father-Son shit in almost any movie can make me well up unexpectedly. Not enough to actually cry, but just that little sting and a quick blink.
In college I earned a reputation for being a cold, distant bastard for showing virtually no emotion towards any film I watched with housemates and friends. Practically every night (after the student loans were spent in the first three weeks of each semester) became a film night, sometimes following a theme. I enjoyed many of the films we watched, but just couldn't, "connect" with them. There were several uncomfortable evenings spent with the rest of the room bawling like children after being told Father Christmas isn't real, while I sat there trying to understand why. That said, there are two scenes that make me very uncomfortable and I have to excuse myself from the room, and one of them couldn't paint a better picture of me as a blubbering child. Its been done thousands of times in television, film, literature, song, etc. Its one of the most cliched stories around and yet this particular version for some reason sets off my Hay Fever (peculiarly showing up only when watching this epsiode of Due South, or the next scene mentioned) without fail. I know it was stated not to mention Rocky. However the scene where Rocky discusses how hard life is with his son in Rocky Balboa gets to me every time. I had the exact same exchange with my father several years ago. I'll have to agree with Roy's, "Tears in the Rain" parting words in Blade Runner. It doesn't shake tears for me, but its an amazing speech.