Movies That Made You Cry!

[Dalton]

For whatever reason 50/50 just didn't connect with me emotionally.  But at WIT with Emma Thompson I was a wreck.

[Hawkboy]

One thing I'll remember from my childhood (well, late childhood, I guess) was the series finale of FAMILY TIES, specifically the part where the mom is at a school play for their youngest child but then imagines Alex standing up on stage basically saying, "You have to let me go, you have to let me move to New York" or wherever Alex was going.  My mom started bawling at this, to the point that she had to leave the room.  I think that was the first time I'd ever seen someone have that emotional of a reaction to something.

I haven't seen the finale since it aired, but for some reason, the following still sticks in my mind to this day:

"We can walk on hot coals,
and have ninjas fight us,
but be sure not to get
Gingivitis."

[Luke Erik]

For whatever reason 50/50 just didn't connect with me emotionally. 

Did you grow up near a Nuclear Plant or something?

50/50 didn't connect with me either, at all.

[SaveALemming]

Not a movie, but Red Dwarf: Back to Earth actually made me cry. Twice. Red Dwarf should never make anyone cry.... Oh and the second book did too. Alot.

I think my favorite emotional moment in It's A Wonderful Life is actually a little earlier on, right before George starts contemplating killing himself: When he's at home and has just completely shut out everyone in his family and is just silently sitting in a chair, one of his sons comes up to him wearing a Santa mask and growling. At first George ignores him, then without warning he grabs the boy and embraces him. Damn. Just typing that gets to me.

[Ian Larsen]

I think my favorite emotional moment in It's A Wonderful Life is actually a little earlier on, right before George starts contemplating killing himself: When he's at home and has just completely shut out everyone in his family and is just silently sitting in a chair, one of his sons comes up to him wearing a Santa mask and growling. At first George ignores him, then without warning he grabs the boy and embraces him. Damn. Just typing that gets to me.

Yeah, and it's remarkable how long that sequence is, too.  Maybe 7 or 10 minutes or something, and Stewart balances so much rage and restraint throughout, trying to contain himself.  When he goes to the stairs and that old piece of the bannister comes off again, and he would clearly like to throw it across the room and smash something, but he resignedly places it back and goes upstairs.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

Nah, right after Murphy tells Clarence he thinks he's slime, Clarence pins Murphy's arm down, blows off his right hand, then his arm gets blown off. There's never a "no, please stop" gesture. Or are you talking about when Robocop is getting the oil beaten out of him and has flashbacks of his wife?

I want to say it's when Robocop is gunned down by the other cops, in the OCP parking garage,  but it could also be at the end when Red Foreman is wailing on him.   Or a false memory altogether.

Close enough.

http://zombiealienrobot.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-my-heart-behaves-some-thoughts-on.html



' His hand raised behind him is a display of vulnerability.  It is a plea for compassion.  Leave a machine running long enough and it will eventually wear itself down.  They do not possess a self-preservation instinct.  Even the more sophisticated robots that are programmed with an awareness of themselves and their environment cannot ask for mercy when faced with death—only the living do. '

[Steve Lilley]

That's one of my favorite shots ever.