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[Elle]

Awakenings. You walk away from that movie feeling like your dog got run over, or you totally missed out on free ice cream or something.

S'about a doctor who discovers a doseage of parkinson's medication affected comatose patients, and they wake up, some from over forty years of static sleep. They get to revisit life and...then

EVERYTHING GETS SO SAD AHH.

It's got Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams starring, and it's very good. But good in the sense that if you NEED to be depressed...

[BarbJacobs]

Awakenings. Ah yes. That one got me crying for a good three hours. That would go pretty high on an all time cry list. De Niro was phenomenal in that role.

Lots of things in movies make me cry though that maybe don't get to other folks. Not always sad things either.

The ending of Dances With Wolves always gets me-
"I am Wind in His Hair and I will always be your friend."
After they killed DWW's horse and his wolf...guh.

The scene in To Kill a Mockingbird when Atticus walks out of the courtroom and all of the people in the 'colored section' rise up and one of the men tells Scout to stand up because her 'father is passin'. It gets me every time.

The scene in Shindler's List when they hand him the ring.. and he suddenly wishes he had done more...gah!! That one can make me cry THINKING about it!! And knowing this was all real.

The end of Pursuit of Happyness- after all he went through...That was happy blubbering though.

I remember the end of Sparticus was pretty bad. Havent seen that in ages, but I remember crying pretty bad.

The Normandy scene in Private Ryan- OMG, it just ripped me to shreds. The boy looking for his arm. This was all real. It really happened.

But Sleepless in Seattle makes me cry too. Something about her finding that backpack and they play 'Mama's gonna buy you a Mockingbird" I dont know. It's manipulative mush, but it gets me.

And yes, when Dorothy tells the Scarecrow, "I think I'm going to miss you most of all" it STILL gets me. I've been watching that movie since I was two years old, and it STILL GETS ME!! WHats with that?!!!
See, I'm really quite sappy.

So much crying, so little time. ^_^' " ' ' ' ' '

I think the things that make us cry depend on who we are a lot of times- and what we long for or what we have experienced. Men often cry at different things than women, and I know I cry at differnt things now that Im a mom.

~B

[Ceridwen]

I still cry when Mufasa dies in Lion King. Oh yes I do.

Agree with Barbington about the ending of Dancing with Wolves. Actually, I always decide that the movie ends after Dunbar marries and everyone is happy. I`m a happy-ending kind of person. So much in fact that when we saw King Kong (the new one by Jackson) my brother paused the film when they were being happy on the ice in the park and told me that this was the end of the movie as far as me goes. Ehem....

I`m a Hagrid-type of person because I tend to have sympathy for the big creatures. I was very sympathetic towards Godzilla even when we saw that movie.

[Elle]

I agree. My dad mists up during Saving Private Ryan, when they're all at the cemetary...Granted, I did, too; BUT NOT AS BAD.

Oh man. Mufasa. ):

[Hagar]

The 3 hours of the beautiful Chinese movie called "Farewell My Concubinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F ... %28film%29"
It's about two boys that grow up in the Chinese opera... wonderful...
And of course horrible "Grave of the Fireflies"... So sad...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies

[KEZ]

Oh dear. Hmm.

Life is Beautiful makes me cry like a sissy. When the tank pulls up at the end and the kid thinks he's won, that is just the saddest thing I've ever seen. And he's so happy too!

Braveheart. 'nuff said.

I do believe the Land Before Time (the original) makes me cry, but I haven't seen it in forever. I still know the theme song though.

I know there a lot more, but yeah, Dances with Wolves definitely. Mostly older or foreign films. The American films produced today have almost no emotional content to me.

[Aerin]

Agree with Barb about the Wizard of Oz moment, and the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' moment

Also

Dead Poets Society - I watched that for English last year and cried in front of the whole class (i was the only one btw). My best friend was so disapointed she wasn't there to see it .

The Notebook - This was a very sad movie, I saw it with my mum, and my friend, and her mum and another friend and her mum, and then some of the mum's friends. Everyone cried in that movie.

Bridge to Terabithia - i saw this one with two friends, one of which is a guy who thought it was totally hilarious that i was crying. I thought it was sooo sad though!!

I'm the worst for crying in movies out of all my family and friends. I get teary at everything! I mean, Tarzan was on the other night and I cried in that!
Oh, and King Kong is another movie I cried in, at the end.
Unfortunately, a lot of these movies we get on DVD, so we watch them at night and i get great puffy eyes in the morning from crying

[Ceridwen]

I do believe the Land Before Time (the original) makes me cry, but I haven't seen it in forever. I still know the theme song though.

Land Before Time! I remember that so well! I was so sad when his mother died, and I felt so, sooo sorry for Little Foot. And then their adventures were so scary, those meateaters were really, really frightening me.

Oh, and on the subject of dinosaurs, not sure if anyone knows the movie I`m about to ramble about - but in one called We Are Back - I cried like a baby when the nice dinosaurs gave up their niceness and became wild and dangerous again to set two kids free (They had been given this odd sort of brain-cereal that well - gave them brains and personalities, thoughts and feelings and everything, and that`s what they gave up)

So basically, everything from kids-movies to documentaries can have me cry if the subject touched hits me.

[Hagar]

The Bridges of Madison County.
Oh man! like a baby!
I love Clint Eastwood, can we find him a role in "Xylia" the movie???

Mmm... maybe he can direct it... or play the bad guy- we haven't seen him yet, he might fit the job. I just hope he ain't green!

[Liria]

Gosh, I cry at lots of things. It's the ones that make me repeatedly cry that are unusual because I become somewhat desensitized over time.

I remember bawling like a child (well, I WAS a child) when Atreyu's horse Artax sank into the swamp of despair in The Neverending Story.

Speaking of 'Bridges' - Madison County got me, but so did Bridge to Terabithia. (And I knew it was coming. I remember reading the book in 3rd or 4th grade.)

I cry all the time at the end of Return of the King (usually at Arwen's return and at Frodo's goodbye).

Lots of Tom Hanks movies tear me up. The Green Mile most especially gets me.

Lots of romantic dramas (heart-wrenching stuff) get me: Untamed Heart, City of Angels, Meet Joe Black, The Notebook, Sweet November, Autumn in New York, A Walk to Remember, What Dreams May Come, etc..

Then there are just beautiful heart-felt dramas like: A Beautiful Mind, Mr. Holland's Opus, Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, Pay It Forward, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Fried Green Tomatoes, etc..

[Ceridwen]

Speaking of Tom Hanks - I saw Forest Gump today. *sniffle*

[Mira of the Avin]

Oh so many to put down...

I agree with Ceridwen about the death of Mufasa in the Lion King and add the almost death of the Beast in Beauty and the Beast...and I still cry every time at the end of King Kong

Life is Beautiful also makes me cry, I've never actual seen the english version of it though, just the Italian with subtitles...

hmm what else...

Oh! and end of the Return of the King with Frodo leaving... *sniffle*

Forest Gump and Castaway on the Tom Hanks movies too...

[Elle]

Ah frick, Land Before Time, when it was about the story and not the horrid musical numbers...that first one was a knockout. THOSE POOR DINOSAURS.

We're Back was...just too creepy for me to feel sad! XD

[Aegis]

I don't usually watch movies that are supposed to make me sad, however, I can remember one that really caught me off guard:

Click. I didn't expect such sad scenes in a comedy! From when he saw his autopilot self treating his sad father so poorly, to where he runs from the hospital bed, knowingly to his death, to tell his son "family comes first."
... In my opinion, those parts of the movie was very well written and acted.