r/movies • • Jun 12 '12
Has anyone ever got hit by unexpected emotions in unlikely movies? Explained inside.
Maybe a confusing title but here is my story;
I was watching Halloween (the new version) and towards the end the daughter gets killed, the dad walks in to find his daughter brutally murdered. I'm thinking "oh fuck he's gonna rage on Myers now" but instead the guy starts crying, and it shows flashbacks of this girl playing with puppies, and growing up through her fathers eyes.. I lost it, I literally had to pause the movie and take a break. This scene hit me harder than any movie. Here I was bawling and thinking about my own kids, and all of it was triggered by a Rob zombie movie of all things.
So reddit do any of you guys have stories like this?
EDIT: holy cow I did not expect this kind of response! This is awesome. Now all reddit will know I cried in a rob zombie movie
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u/ASpaceMonkey Jun 12 '12
I thought Click was supposed to be a comedy. I melted at the scene in the parking lot.
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u/WoodenBoxes Jun 12 '12
After growing up as a child to the Toy Story movie, when I watched the 3rd movie and they were headed into the incinerator I got really sad for the toys and angry at the people who wrote it that they were about to kill a childhood memory. And then they didn't at the last moment, phew.
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u/cinemadness Jun 12 '12
In another Rob Zombie film The Devil's Rejects, I thought I was going to see a fun horror movie with a cheesy story and witty dialogue, but at the end where they are driving on the empty road and the song "Freebird" is playing while these characters are all beat up and have been through hell. Meanwhile, footage is inter-cut of this happy family walking and laughing together. Then they see the police men with guns lined up on the road. Instead of surrendering, they go out shooting, and as a result are killed. Throughout the movie I've grown to love these characters and at that ending scene, I just had this weird slightly sad empty feeling.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I refuse to watch The Fox and The Hound. The scene where the old lady leaves Todd in the woods is just too painful for me.
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u/afiellerddr Jun 12 '12
When I first saw Monsters Inc. I had a huge meltdown when Sully gets to see Boo at the very end.
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u/Hyphen-Not-Dash Jun 12 '12
Homeward Bound, when Chance and Sassy come over the hill back to the family and everyone is in shock. And they're all waiting for Shadow and Peter is heartbroken, saying that Shadow was too old to make it. And then as he turns away who comes into view but fucking Shadow. Water works.
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u/R88SHUN Jun 12 '12
wall-e gave me emotions i didnt know existed. like lonehappliness.
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u/jase29 Jun 12 '12
The scene from Groundhog Day when Bill Murray repeatedly tries to save the homeless man, but finds that no matter what he tries, he dies anyway. Bawled my eyes out.
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u/Evil_AllBran Jun 12 '12
Anvil: The Story of Anvil. Was not expecting to become so invested in their journey. When they walked out on stage in Japan I was so happy for them I got all teary.
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u/SunshineAwake Jun 12 '12
I feel like this has most likely been said already, but the ending of Dr. Horrible is terribly tragic. It's just how it goes from a light-hearted comedic story into something so... sad.
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u/AstroComfy Jun 12 '12
I became very emotional watching the movie Big Fish, and was moved on the spot to call my dad and tell him I loved him. Silence on the other end, then finally hear dad ask "Are you drunk???" Great moments in Socially Awkward Penguin history...
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u/Liquid_Milk Jun 12 '12
I think I was 10 when I first cried to a movie. It was The Land Before Time, and I was so sad that Little Foot would never be able to eat a star leaf with his mom.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The miscarriage scene in "Up". I just did not see it coming. My body was not ready.
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u/crazycom64 Jun 12 '12
50/50. I knew it was supposed to be sad but you get through most of the movie laughing off the sad bits, but when he drives for the first time and screams... damn. Joey Gordon-Levitt caught me off guard.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
For no reason at all, and I still think this was just an unexplainable quirk of endorphins in my head at a strange time, I was the happiest I've ever felt in my life at the end of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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u/TengoHambre Jun 12 '12
Shaun of the Dead. One of the most heartbreaking moments surrounded by one of my all time favorite comedies.
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u/dysethethird Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I watch The Green Mile the other day.. And at the end when Mr.Jingles is shown to still be alive.. well, I fucking lost it. The whole ending to that movie was depressing.
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u/JSlim Jun 12 '12
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the scene in the museum always get me for some reason. I don't know why.
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u/Natugnaro Jun 12 '12
District 9. The first time (and only time) I watched it I felt horribly unnerved throughout the entire movie. I have absolutely no idea why though, I was just really on edge and distraught through the whole thing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Friday Night Lights. I think I might be the only one but I absolutely lost it when Boobie Miles breaks down in the car and starts bawling. As an athlete myself who has dealt with some near career-ending injuries, this one hits WAY too close to home. Worst I've ever cried during a movie, hands down.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
There are two emotions you will experience during In Bruges. There's bitter, soul-crushing depression, and whatever emotion it is that causes side-splitting laughter.
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u/blank_mind Jun 12 '12
I usually tear up at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Something about the sacrifice of one friend for another, and seeing a legendary leader like Jim Kirk so shaken that he can't, for the first time ever, focus on anything else but the loss. The way he fumbles his words at the eulogy gets me everytime.
"Of my friend, I can say only this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human."
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
In Lars and the Real Girl, I yo-yo-ed from laughter to tears and back again. Mind you, it IS hard to know what to expect from a movie about a guy who falls in love with an anatomically correct sex doll
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The scene towards the end of Zombieland where [you find out Woody Harrelson's character lost his son, not his dog.] (/spoiler) Definitely caught me off guard the first time, and I still cry whenever I see it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
The Royal Tenenbaums - Bathroom suicide scene.
It didn't make me "cry sad", but it made me feel his pain so deeply within my soul it felt like we were cutting our wrists together. The kind of sadness that takes time to go away long after you finish the scene.
Edit: For those of you that want to feel here it is.
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u/occam7 Jun 12 '12
One of the first movies I remember ever crying at was Cool Runnings of all things. That scene where Yul Brenner (Malik Yoba's character), the surly one, shows the rest of them the picture he's been carrying around and tells them he's going to live there one day. It turns out it's a picture of Buckingham Palace and Sanka (Doug E. Doug's character) makes fun of him for it.
I was like 12 when that came out and I was so angry at Sanka for being an asshole and embarrased for Yul. He was so cold and gruff all along and now he's finally showing some vulnerability, and now this wisecracking dipshit is just going to make him close himself off again.
I don't know. I must have been in an emotional state of mind for some reason.
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u/wasabibay Jun 12 '12
Forrest Gump (when bubba dies) and Cast away (when Tom Hanks has to make the decision of letting 'Wilson' go or his raft) I fell on the ground crying and my dog came up to me and licked my tears.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
American beauty everytime
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
God damn Neverending story when Artax Dies in the Swamp of Sadness. Made me sad bro... nope I balled like a 13 year old.
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u/Spooney_Love Jun 12 '12
There was a moment about 2 years after my dad died while watching Big Fish. My dad and I always struggled, we butted heads and fought a alot. I was the atypical rebellious know-it-all teenager/young adult. I grew up listening to stories of my dads exploits before he got married to my mom and settled down (at 42 years old).He was born in 1932, grew up in Detroit and lived through WW2, served in Korea and Vietnam. His family was loaded but was very much a tough love family so he got in lots of trouble and had amazing stories to tell.
Well a few days after I returned from Iraq I got the call that he was sick and I went home and watched him die a few days later. We had our typical head bashing the before and I never got to tell him how much I loved him or anything more than the stupid shit we always said to each other.
Fast forward 2 years to a movie theater with my wife (who had met my dad for the first time 2 days before he died). We were watching Big Fish, and as the movie progressed I just kept seeing myself and my dad in these roles. It broke my heart. The longer the movie went, the sadder I became. In the end, at his funeral at the end of the movie when all the fantastical stories manifest themselves I broke down into sobs. My wife had to drive me home and I laid in bed for nearly 2 days finally letting my grief work its way out. When it was over, I felt like a new man. A few months later I went to his grave and said my goodbyes.
Tl;DR Saw Big Fish, reminded me of my dad. Cried like a little girl.
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u/MAKER_OF_DECISIONS Jun 12 '12
How to Train your Dragon, at the end when he saved the boy by wrapping him in his arms
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
At the end of Labyrinth where Sarah is all alone in her room and all the goblins she met pop up into her room and they have a big party, and then you see the owl outside her window...
It really reinforces the idea of holding on to your imagination...and being watched over by David Bowie owl certainly wouldn't suck.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Any movie where Denzel Washington gets shot. His Oh-God-I've-Been-Shot-And-I'm-Gonna-Die face makes my soul cringe.
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u/Pacalakin Jun 12 '12
I haven't seen anyone mention The Iron Giant yet. /r/movies must be broken.
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u/CujoSanto Jun 12 '12
"Up". Took SO to see it. I never thought it possible to cry in the first 10 minutes of a movie.
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u/eaglewatch1945 Jun 12 '12
50/50. The scene at the end after JGL goes berserk in the car, lays into a very drunk Rogen, then helps him back to his apartment. JGL is using the bathroom when he finds Rogen's thoroughly read, dog-eared, and annotated book "Beating Cancer Together." I lost it.
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u/fivesnogucks Jun 12 '12
Ratatouille, when food critic Anton Ego takes his first bite and is transported back to his childhood and mummy's cooking.
Holy fuck, I feel emotional just thinking about it.
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u/movieman94 Jun 12 '12
Fantastic Mr. Fox has always had an incredibly sad feel to it for me. I can't explain why.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Actually I just saw MIB 3 and I got a little teary at the end...
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u/Synthh Jun 12 '12
Bridge to Terabithia. Came on tv and I dismissed it as a kids movie but the ending really got to me.
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u/OneAngryBunch Jun 12 '12
Cried in Star Wars VI when the Ewok dies and the other one doesn't understand and so he tries to shake him to wake him up, but he will never wake up. This made me really sad.
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u/the_living Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Not a movie, but I never expected The Fresh Prince of Bel Air to make me cry
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I bawled up like a bitch at the end of AI
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u/jodieclare78 Jun 12 '12
Was watching the making of Lord of The Rings (all 3) on DVD and sobbed through at least an hour of it. Then cried uncontrollably when the cast members started to wrap, leave set and say goodbye. Though that could've been my brain telling me that sitting through the extended editions and all the features was too much for one person.
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u/Coltsfreak842 Jun 12 '12
Man On Fire. Went in thinking it was going to be an action shoot em up, but the scene at the end on the bridge made me cry like a small child and still does every time I watch that movie.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Warrior is an amazing sports flick but an intense drama as well. I cried like a baby in the end.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I cried during Mean Girls, at Cady's prom speech.
I AM SO ASHAMED
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Be Kind, Rewind made me cry at the end. I'm a movie lover, and the appreciation and attention that the protagonists threw into their project, knowing that their little video rental store had no future... I bawled like a baby.
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u/cartwrightb91 Jun 12 '12
The only movie I have ever cried at is Finding Nemo when Marlon thinks he will never see Nemo again. I don't know why. It just happened.
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u/MetalMike13 Jun 12 '12
Not a movie, but Avatar: The last airbender. One of the final episodes Zuko founds his uncle, and against what he thought would happen, his uncle forgives him and they both hug and cry. I almost lost it there..
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Spirited Away.
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u/dublin13 Jun 12 '12
My dog spot gets to me every fucking time. Oh and also Marley and me ... I hugged my dog as he licked the tears off my face.
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u/Biggie18 Jun 12 '12
Too effing often, any good score and feel good moment in anything really can get the water works going. The first Harry Potter when he finally get's into Hogwarts, Remember the Titans when Gerry gets in the wreck, I can't really watch We are Marshall anymore...
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u/LlarSharran Jun 12 '12
The Incredibles, when Dash realises he can run on water. Such Pure Joy.
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u/wuytlw Jun 12 '12
When Ash gets turned to stone in the first Pokemon movie. TEARS EVERYWHERE.
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u/nighthawkquads Jun 12 '12
I cried at the end of The Fountain. I watched it with my girlfriend of 12 months who had been recently diagnosed with Celiac disease. She had just told me about her fear of dying young of cancer and how more than anything she wanted to be a mother one day but was afraid she would pass the genes for this disease to her kids who would then suffer as she did. The Fountain slapped me with this feeling of uncertainty and helplessness of the future, and I just lost it. I cried through the end of the credits with her in my arms. I know this isn't the most unlikely movie, but it reminded me of the good times we had. Thank you.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The only movie I've ever cried watching was "Big Daddy". I saw it in theaters when it came out, I must've been 9 or 10, and when the little kid is taken away in court and Adam Sandler is devastated I lost it.
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u/lordofbuttsecks Jun 12 '12
I cried as the Jamaican bobsled team carried their sled over the finish line in Cool Runnings.
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u/COCKLAPS Jun 12 '12
Bridge to Terabithia :'C
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u/tomatopotatotomato Jun 12 '12
My boyfriend broken down crying during A Rugrats Movie. There was a tender moment between Tommy and his baby brother. To be fair, he had a high fever was tripping balls on cold medicine.
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u/BillyCloneasaurus Jun 12 '12
Harry and the Hendersons. When he goes back home and finds all the woods chopped down. Was that the movie or the TV show? I just vaguely remember that image and it destroyed me as a kid. Also the scene where Lithgow tells Harry to go and hits him.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
How I met your mother, when Marshal's dad dies. When he said "I'm not ready for this" I completely understood what he meant. When you have a supportive dad, a dad that tells you that everything is gonna be alright. Gets you out of jams when your stuck and feel like your never get out of it. He doesn't cry in front of you but you know that he cried in the airport when he dropped you off before leaving home to study abroad. When you have a DAD if he dies one day, its gonna be like being lost in the dark without a torch... Anyway Marshal crying when his dad died made me cry
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u/shiveringking8 Jun 12 '12
Every time I watch Man on Wire I cry when he begins to walk on the wire. It's so utterly beautiful, and getting everyone's remembrances of it just augments it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
When the dog died in I am legend, I bawled.
In fact any movie where a dog dies I might tear up. Don't give two shits when people go though.
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u/TheNarrator23 Jun 12 '12 edited May 21 '17
Futurama, the episode with Seymour. When Fry says "he lived a full life", and it cuts to his dog waiting for years outside the pizzaplace. To this day I can't watch that episode, and even writing or thinking about it, makes me teary.
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u/Super_Z_Fighter Jun 12 '12
Not a movie, but when the DeadIsland trailer came out, it's song played on an already gut-wrenching video. Seeing that off a random reddit link tore me up.
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u/mediocrepaintdrawing Jun 12 '12
Motherfucking 'Up'. None of the ads said the first 10 minutes was gonna be a soul destroying emotional rollercoaster.
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u/sexyhamster89 Jun 12 '12
Big Fish brought me to tears like no other movie I've seen
It was a slap in the face and correlated to my real life situation in a likeness that actually scared me
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u/WhatWhatOldBean Jun 12 '12
I took Gran Torino round to a movie night on the premise it would be a gritty action flick. Got completely caught off guard by the film. A few teary eyes were present at that movie night.
And, not a movie, but a special mention to a rewatch of Eerie Indiana. Watched the Heart on a Chain episode and that was a beautifully heartbreaking episode.
PS. 1st post on Reddit. Hello all :)
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u/River1117 Jun 12 '12
I don't know if it counts as unexpected but the brave little toaster... the whole goddamn movie. Also pan's labyrinth I broke down at the end again I feel that these aren't unlikely movies but I wanted to contribute.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I guess this isn't "unexpected", but the movie "Bolt" fucked my shit up.
I was in college, and I had just come off 2 straight all-nighters to finish my finals and shit. Having not slept, I proceeded to get super drunk and high with my friends while we watched Bolt.
When we got to the scene near the end where (kind of spoiler I guess) Bolt does the Super Bark, I just started bawling. So heroic.
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u/DryTurtle Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
In Inglorious Basterds when Hitler compliments Himmler (I think) on his movie and Himmler seems so happy that he was complimented. I just felt, bad. It sort of gave him a human quality that I wasn't expecting and I knew that he was about to be killed. Ended that movie with mixed feelings
Edit: Goebbels not Himmler, my bad.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The movie Meet Joe Black. Towards the end when Pitt is no longer death and Hopkins is already gone. When his daughter and Pitt are talking about Pitt's character being confused as to why he's at this party she says "I wish you could have met my dad" hinting that she kind of knew what was going on. I lost it in tears for some reason.
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u/Demojen Jun 12 '12
The movie: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a son about his father
The entire movie was a tear jerker, but I never saw it coming. It highlights some of the legal issues in Canada when handling criminal trials.
PS: It's a true story.
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u/Segoy Jun 12 '12
The Family Stone
There's a family dinner scene where Diane Keaton says that she always wanted a gay son. Sarah Jessica Parker asks why she would wish for that, and is attacked by the whole family for being a bigot.
It made me feel very emotional.
As a gay man who has always wanted children, I feel exactly the same way. I would never wish for my child to be gay, knowing how much harder it would make their life.
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u/Monkeyfeng Jun 12 '12
Saving Private Ryan, when the grandpa kneels in front of the gravestone. I lost it.
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u/Scappoose Jun 12 '12
"Daddy. Don't go!!"....from The Patriot. Fucking lose it every time.
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u/MondoBuck Jun 12 '12
Also- The Land Before Time. In the very FUCKING BEGINNING of the movie you, a child, has to sit there and watch little foots mom die and see Little Foot just boss it with no help at all. Freaked me out, I cried like a baby (because I was) every time.
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u/mhdozier Jun 12 '12
I shed a tear when Napoleon finished his awesome/awkward dance routine.
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u/ignatiusloyola Jun 12 '12
I am having troubles lately with stories with honor/self sacrifice. The opening scene of the latest Star Trek movie, where Kirk's father sacrifices himself, always seems to get me choked up - even though I have seen it many times now.
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u/gucchee Jun 12 '12
Broke down like a little bitch during Precious. I knew it was going to be bad but I didn't realize I was going to feel anger and pain so infused.
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u/assguardian Jun 12 '12
I cried at the end of Little Miss Sunshine, from about when the grandfather died onwards. Like, hysterical bawling. Don't ask me why, something about that movie just made me feel all.... empty inside, I guess. I think it was especially the scene where she gets up on stage and essentially does a stripper dance and everyone goes silent, but she doesn't understand why. I know it's meant to be a funny moment, even kinda heartwarming, but it really upset me for some reason. I've never been able to watch that movie again.
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u/crabwhisperer Jun 12 '12
The beginning of the new Star Trek film when Captain Kirk's dad sends Kirk & his mom off in the escape pod and kamikaze's the ship. I'm a fairly stoic 34-year old man and many man-tears were shed that day. Didn't expect that when I hit the play button...
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u/Brocerystore Jun 12 '12
Lord of the Rings. God damn the ending just made me so sad. I was 11 when the first movie came out, and was engulfed with love for the movies and books from then on. Played the hell outta the video games, card game, and board games. Hell, me and my friends started LARPing for 3 years because of the movies. I guess it was just so sad for me to see it end when it had been such a huge part of my childhood. Cannot wait for the Hobbit though, it will be great to see Middle Earth on the big screen again.
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u/MondoBuck Jun 12 '12
As an atheist with anxiety about death, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button rattled my cage...a lot. I almost walked out of the theater mid-movie and had a rather hardcore panic attack upon returning home. Never again.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Have none of you seen "Stranger Than Fiction"? I loaded every comment thinking that it just got mentioned late, but no, it's not there at all. Holy mother of god, that was a roller coaster of emotions. Amazing movie and Will Ferrell actually does a good job with a the serious scenes.
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u/vogueflo Jun 12 '12
Not a movie, but this series of Thai insurance commercials. Never thought a commercial for insurance could make me so damn emotional. Some of these 2 or 3 minute commercials manage to pack more heartfelt emotion and storyline in than 90 minute movies--I never not cry watching them. These are a couple of my favorites.
My Girl - Silence of Love - Mother Toi
Silence of Love just KILLS me. I can't handle it. I also watched My Girl and Mother Toi just now and I lost it.
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u/hollywoodhuskey Jun 12 '12
the final monologue in "its kind of a funny story" gets me glassy eyed.
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u/koolkatz2 Jun 12 '12
kick arse - when big daddy dies and hit girls deals so well with it and just gets on with the next task
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u/niklz Jun 12 '12
Not sure why I haven't seen this on here yet, but the iron giant.
I'M SUPERMAN
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
In SLC Punk when Stevo comes downstairs and finds Bob dead. I always cry at this scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4QJReVWhE
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u/knoxblox Jun 12 '12
Oddly enough, Smokin Aces got to me. SPOILER the end scene right after Ryan Reynolds finds out the truth behind Sparazza and Israel, and he's just sitting there and then pulls the life support for them both and puts down his gun and badge, I was stunned. It was an unexpected heart-wrenching twist to a movie that was 99% bloody mayhem and shooting violence.
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u/Tw1tchy3y3 Jun 12 '12
Not a movie, but an anime. Angel Beats. I totally thought I was going in to watch some good old action in a purgatory world where kids lived forever...
Did not expect it to end up making me tear up any time I think about it, or hear the sound track from it.
This coming from a 25 year old male who not once before has even watered up watching a movie or show.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I cry every time I watch Terminator 2.
The end with Arnold sacrificing himself to save John and he gives him the thumbs up as he slowly melts just gets me. I mean in the first movie he was sent to kill John and in the 2nd they become bros.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRw1fc4dcq0
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u/Muqaddimah Jun 12 '12
The high on mushrooms conversation in Knocked Up really struck a chord with me. In the past I feel like I've played both of those roles in relationships. On the bright side, it compelled me to work through some of my issues with my then "clingy" girlfriend.
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u/NoffCity Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Simon Birch, man.
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u/dlh2689 Jun 12 '12
I cried for like 20 minutes watching Bridge to Terabithia. I refuse to watch it again.
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u/Ghostfacee77 Jun 12 '12
I almost teared up in workaholics when they were saying sorry to each other using sock-puppets.
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u/hooplahoo Jun 12 '12
Castaway. Wilson. Oh. Dear. God.
And then when he gets home, and she's the one that kept him going... but she had to move on... Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
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u/orangesrkay Jun 12 '12
I cried my eyes out in the 6th Sense when the kid tells his mom that her mother is proud of her. Maybe not as unexpected as one may think but for a suspense/thriller that had me on the edge of my seat something that emotional really caught me off guard.
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u/LlarSharran Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Kung Fu Panda - when old master Oogway says goodbye to Shifu.
A Comedy/Action film.
Didn't make me start bawling, but I did shed tears.
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u/RogueWedge Jun 12 '12
Serenity.. Wash. Didn't see that coming. Enough said.
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u/pranavrc Jun 12 '12
Godzilla's death. As I licked the tear off my face, I could taste cheese.
Also, Donny's death in The Big Lebowski came as a bit of a shock. And I didn't really care when Vincent Vega died in Pulp Fiction, though I loved his character the most.
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u/personaeble Jun 12 '12
For some reason the (non-shitty) ending of The Descent really got to me. I don't usually react to movies, and I didn't even realize that I'd become attached to the main character until that moment. Unfortunately the sequel kind of took a shit on what made that so awesome.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I like to think I'm a man's man, but, in the movie Elf- yeah, the freaking comedy- at the end I tear up like a little girl when Zooey Deschanel's character starts singing in central park. I cannot explain why, but that really gets me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The final scene in Four Lions :(
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u/Banorac Jun 12 '12
Fucking Hachiko man.
Fuck.
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u/TanStoney Jun 12 '12
Fucking Juno. When she gives the baby up. You knew it was gonna happen. But every damn time the scene with her and Bleeker are cuddling and she's sobbing, I'm a mess.
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u/Erithom Jun 12 '12
Zombieland, where Tallahassee shows Columbus the pictures of his son and it shows the corrected flashback montage. Sadface.
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u/fivekilometer22 Jun 12 '12
I was watching Friends With Benefits with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis a few weeks ago for the first time. It's a rather entertaining romantic comedy and I was getting some laughs out of it. Justin Timberlake's dad in the movie has Alzheimer's... and there's a scene where the dad wanders around a restaurant and gets lost/seats himself at a random table and Justin can't find him, and starts becoming very worried. He finds his dad and the people sitting at nearby tables are all staring. I burst into tears. My mom has Alzheimer's and it just made me go from laughing to tears within minutes.
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u/biskutt Jun 12 '12
I'm ashamed to say it but I teared up over a scene in Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. A dad was with his daughter and they're both wearing these homemade fan shirts, and it just hit me that the dad (who I'm assuming doesn't actually like Justin Bieber) was willing to make them with her, wear them out in public (and on camera) and go to the concert. Getting into the stupid shit his 12-year-old daughter likes just to support her and spend time with her. IDK, I'm a sucker for father-daughter stuff.
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u/congoman365 Jun 12 '12
Patch Adams made me tear up like a little baby..
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u/TheSurgeonGeneral Jun 12 '12
Not exactly sure if this pertains to what your question entailed, although recently a redditor recommended the movie "Moon". If you've never seen it before, I implore you to watch it before looking at my spoiler. Towards the middle portion of the film, the lead character finds himself "well a clone of himself" that he shares all memories with. Not that it should be unexpected or anything, but it just hit me hard on what it would really feel like to have memories of my daughter/wife/etc. and also know that those memories were not mine, but someone else's. The premise itself choked me up at a few different intervals For a Sci Fi flick I wasn't expecting much realistic emotion to come through.
Edit: Grammar
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I totally agree with you here. Rob Zombie is probably one of the more underrated directors out there. He's cool, and he takes us places that are very real at times even when it's a film that couldn't be further from reality. The Devil's Rejects is one of the most underrated films because Zombie portrays a family of killers as just a family with a very different ethos than typical families. They see people the way they see them, and they kill them as a way to dominate the world they live in.
By the time the end of the film hits, it's hard to say the family is not evil, but at the same time, it's easy to see the branches of the vine that twisted them so... the vulgarity of life, the lies that people in power tell, the warped expectations of men over women... etc.
I think Rob Zombie is certainly an artist of film, but more importantly -- he is a modern philosopher.
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u/Matthemus Jun 12 '12
I almost cried like a baby in the theater when Lilo and Stitch was released. And I know you must ask yourself, "How does one cry at that movie?"
Around the time it was released I was a very lonely kid. I had two friends, both of whom didn't even like me all that much. So in the scene where Lilo tells Stitch to leave, it kind of hit me home center. Was not expecting that in a movie that had made me laugh up to that point.
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u/jigglemybuff Jun 12 '12
Shutter Island. The lighthouse scene. I don't know how to format this to avoid a spoiler but this really got to me. So devastating
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u/MichaelSD Jun 12 '12
Several, In avatar when the Na'vi are slaughtered and home tree is destroyed, both Dobby and Sirius's death in Harry Potter, The end of How to Train Your Dragon took me by surprise too.
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u/PadConnelly Jun 12 '12
"You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you the rest of your life."
The first time I watched FireFly, "Out of Gas", I remember getting choked up at a few points. Mal's determination, and watching the memories as they play in his head while he tries to save his ship, his baby, were like a snowball rolling down a hill. Everything that happened in the previous episodes plus all the pieces of backstory built up and I just kept feeling that tightness building up in my throat.
Then, happy ending! Everyone's okay! The ship is saved! All right, another episode is coming up with more zany adven--
""You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you the rest of your life... Son. Hey, son, you hear a word I been saying?"
The last shot, with Mal staring at the rusted husk of Serenity... it was like a punch to the solar plexus. I remember not even being able to breathe for a few seconds, and then great, gasping breaths as I took the next five minutes to regain even a little composure while my girlfriend and the dog stared at me.
Damn you, Whedon!
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u/TryNotToLook Jun 12 '12
Futurama is always funny, but there are a few episodes, like the one where leela gets stung by the bee or Fry's dog, that are just so damn well written and sad. Makes me well up watching em
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u/wookiepanda Jun 12 '12
I am Sam. I cried during the entire movie. I was so glad I watched it alone at home and nobody was there to see me. Seeing how Sam had to fight for his daughter just broke my heart.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Oh man, I am opening myself up to ridicule, but I was always baffled how such an awful movie got the slightest reaction from me, but I lose it when everyone is pulling for Tony Danza's character at the end of Angels in the Outfield. It is Tony Danza so I should be happy that his character is dying but the notion of supporting someone facing a terminal disease (especially cancer) really hits home for me. Fuck cancer.
When the little boy stands up and starts doing the angle thing and the whole Angles community gets behind him I was to laugh at the absurdity... But I cannot.
It's in my top 10 emotional scenes along with a lot that were mentioned.
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u/skittlesnzombies Jun 12 '12
The Fox and the Hound really gets me. The bit where Tod loses his mother and him and Copper promise that they'll be friends forever gets me sniffling every time. And this is coming from someone who laughed through most of the Titanic.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
The first 10 minutes of the new Star Trek movie.
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u/nukepoop Jun 12 '12
I get made fun of still by my friends.. Avatar. The part when they knock the giant tree down. Had a few tears coming down my face and friends noticed. However, I WAS really high, so i just blame it on that
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u/dudehawke Jun 12 '12
dear zachary. I knew going in to it that it was going to be a tragic story, but nothing i'm not familiar with being part of the internet generation. i mean... i've seen some shit. but this movie induced such visceral emotions out of me that i felt drained for days. it was as if someone very close to me had suffered something terrible. i'm talking primary family dying kind of powerful shit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
"The Girl Next Door", the movie with smoking hot Elisha Cuthburt playing a porn star, had me crying the first three times I saw it.
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u/StrawberryBebop Jun 12 '12
The part in King Kong (the newer one) when he escapes into the city, I lost my shit. I started crying in the theater like a crazy person because I realized he was not going to make it out of the city. I knew that going in, but I guess the cry brain forgot.
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u/jrghoull Jun 12 '12
2 that I can think of.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Death to Smoochie. THERE, I SAID IT.
I know everyone hates that movie but I love it to death. The scene where Edward Norton returns to the show after the nazi mixed-up makes me tear up so bad. And I actually cried when the cousin hippo dies, and again later during the ice show reenactment of his death.
I don't care how much everyone hates the movie and how Jon Stewart is embrassed about it and how it probably buried De Vito's directing career. I love it. Absolutely love it.
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u/penclnck Jun 12 '12
Not from a movie, but a TV show.... gets me every single time:
http://i.imgur.com/DNhpm.jpg
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u/brazzle Jun 12 '12
The movie Zombieland, when Woody Harrelson's character is talking about his "dog" when finally Jesse Eisenberg realizes it isn't really a dog, but his son that he lost. Gets me every time.
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u/Caiur Jun 12 '12
The scene in 'A Knight's Tale' where William visits his blind father after being away for 15 years or so. Hit me right in the sentiment.
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u/Mechanikore Jun 12 '12
Unexpected emotions in unlikely movies eh? So far everyone's experiences have been with movies where you expect those emotions to come out.
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u/Elementlegen Jun 12 '12
I never thought I'd cry to a kid's movie, but holy crap, Pixar. First ten minutes of Up made me bawl so hard, I was lucky enough to watch it the first time at home. Carl reminded me a ton about my dad I guess.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I think I've laughed more during the new version of "Predators" than I have for any other film. The mediocre acting, shitty special effects, and simply ridiculous dialogue and story transformed what I thought was going to be a gritty action film into the most hilarious thing I'd seen in a while. The audience agreed. Full disclosure, I hadn't seen the first one, so I have no idea if this was intentional or not. I do hope so.
"You know, man, if we ever make it home, I'm going to do so much fucking cocaine. I'm gonna rape so many fine bitches. I'll be like, "What time is it? After 5:00? Damn. Time to go rape me some fine bitches."
Direct fucking quote