Movies that made you cry that you thought wouldn't.

[Parasondox]

Hello Escapist,

Wasn't the title just straight forward. I need to be more creative cause I am too ill for this. Any way main pot. what are movies that made you cry but thought it wouldn't.

For me, one of them was The Perfect Storm. The ending, fuck me that ending got to me and worse thing is was that my father is a retired fisherman and I won't say any spoilers.

Another is Castaway "WILSON!! WILLSSSSOOOOOOOONNN!!! and that is all I will say cause many will know what I am talking about. Damn it that his best and only friend for over 4 years on that damn island *cue the tears and cry in a corner*

Armageddon... fuck you Aerosmith and that song!! God damn its so beautiful and... I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING *more tears*.

So please add your thoughts and personal experiences and lets have fun.

*Warning: Please add a spoiler alert in your post if needed*

 

[Lucyfer86]

Armageddon for me too, just couldn't hold my tears. Also, damn you Bruce Willis for being so awesome.

 

[JoJo]

The 1984 film version of Nineteen Eight Four, which surprised me because I thought much of the film was boring and having read the novel a while back, I already knew what the ending was going to be but that didn't stop it hitting me surprisingly hard... a combination of the music and empathising with Winston's struggle and his relationship with Julia I guess.

 

[Foolery]

Well, I teared up when Gandalf fell, fighting the Balrog, in the Fellowship of the Ring. Mostly I felt bad for the hobbits. LOTR has a few melancholy moments to it, honestly.

 

[Comocat]

Well, I teared up when Gandalf fell, fighting the Balrog, in the Fellowship of the Ring. Mostly I felt bad for the hobbits. LOTR has a few melancholy moments to it, honestly.

I teared up at LoTR mainly because it was such an amazing adaptation to one of my most favorite stories. The Ents marching on Isengard gets me every time, but seeing it in the theater for the first time was incredible.

Also the movie "Up". Who the hell gets teary 5 minutes into an animated feature? Great movie though.

 

[shrekfan246]

Marley & Me, mostly because it's sickly saccharine and predictable, and I'm not even a dog person. The end still got me hard.

Also, and one of my usual answers for these threads, A Muppet Christmas Carol. When Michael Caine goes with the Dementor of Christmas-Yet-To-Come and we see Kermit's house all solemn and quiet, the slow pan over to Tiny Tim's chair with the music playing almost always makes me tear up.

 

[Raikas]

Marley & Me, mostly because it's sickly saccharine and predictable, and I'm not even a dog person. The end still got me hard.

I was on a plane once where that was the in-flight movie - I think half the plane was getting weepy. The flight attendant came around with tissues at the end.

 

[Random Argument Man]

The last movie to get me teary was Silver Linings Playbook. Yeah, it sounds weird, but lately, i've been Mr.Anxiety. I'm having a few episodes of it lately and I can sort of connect with the main character. Granted, I don't have Bipolar disorder. Although, that feeling of having your mind going against you, but trying your hardest to get better and not succeeding is something that i've connected with the main character.

Although, life doesn't give you a Jennifer Lawrence to make it all better? (Wouldn't the world be better if we all had a Jennifer Lawrence) (Knock on wood for a celebrity to not go cocaine crazy)

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

The opening scene of the Lion King, where Rafiki holds little Simba up and all the animals and the music, It was just all so beautiful... (yeah that other scene made me cry also).

The first fifteen minutes of UP. If you've seen it, you probably know what I'm talking about.

The last five minutes of Toy Story 3

The entire duration of The Fox and the Hound.

 

[Barbas]

Empire of the Sun. When Jamie the protagonist meets his parents again in Hong Kong after the end of the war, he doesn't even recognise them at first:

Spoiler

You won't get a great deal out of parts of the scene (such as the suitcase) if you haven't seen the movie, though. The music is 'Suo Gan', a Welsh lullaby.

 

[Queen Michael]

This one, about a man who's reincarnated as a dog. Me, my little brother and Mom sat down to watch it when I was 12, and we expected it to be a fun little family movie. By the end of it, we were all in tears.

 

[Spaghetti]

The Last Unicorn. It had lots of stars on Netflix and I wanted to find out why Rankin/Bass animation was highly spoken of, as I'd never seen a Rankin/Bask film before.

The ending broke my fucking heart. It's got to be one of my favourite films now, but I don't think I'll ever be able to watch it again cus my heart won't be able to take it

 

[Elfgore]

The only movies that have made me cry are the stereotypical ones, Braveheart, Marley and Me, etc.

My Mom did cry when we went to see Peter Jackson's: King Kong. She said the ending was just so sad and he loved her. Me and my Dad gave her crap for it the rest of the night.

 

[shogunblade]

My Mom did cry when we went to see Peter Jackson's: King Kong. She said the ending was just so sad and he loved her. Me and my Dad gave her crap for it the rest of the night.

King Kong does it for me too, but only when he's fighting the T-Rexes. Something about her scream triggers something in my head and all I can do is start crying. Thinking about it right now is making me a little wispy eyed. The video game does the same thing to me too.

OT: Mary and Max, every time. I thought it was going to be moving and that I would respond to it the same way I did "Up", which wasn't like everybody I know who cried in the first five minutes. Needless to say, I didn't cry in the first Five Minutes of Mary and Max, but by the end, I was sobbing quietly. The ending was absolutely beautiful and I maintain that "Up" would have lost in the Academy Awards if "Mary and Max" had been a nominee.

Also:

A Scanner Darkly. I didn't know how I was going to feel, but I did become horribly depressed, almost to a single tear every time.
Harry and the Hendersons. I respond the same way I do to King Kong, expect there's not much screaming, but I get choked up every time I watch it. If I even hear it, I start crying, like Clockwork.
Wall-E. Wasn't expecting it, it was the first time I cried in a movie theater, and I sat in my truck when it was over and bawled my eyes out.
Monsters Inc. and Wreck-It Ralph are both one in the same to me, I didn't think I'd cry, but it hits me in just the right spot, little kids and happy endings, That's an easy target to me.

EDIT: Punch-Drunk Love and Fritz Lang's Metropolis are two others I forgot.

 

[Azahul]

Well, I went into Cloud Atlas without much expectation of crying or not, so it doesn't really count. What did surprise me was how much harder it's become to watch the scene towards the end with Sixsmith running up the stairs to Frobisher's room each time I rewatch it. I tear up every damned time.

 

[DalekJaas]

The Bridge to Terebithia got me good, I'd never heard of it, hired it out and watched it on a whim and damn, I've never seen anything sadder in my life. Did not see that ending coming at all.

 

[SanguiniusMagnificum]

Starts at 8:00 and ends at 8:45.

Yeah, I admit it, it's one of my guilty pleasures. I know that it's completely ahistorical, I know that it paints a class of opressive aristrocrats as a bunch of freedom-loving heroes but damn, that scene just makes me shed manly tears. Just seeing that whole army marching to their deaths accompanied by that epic Hans Zimmer soundtrack... yeah, that's powerful.

 

[FPLOON]

The first fifteen minutes of UP. If you've seen it, you probably know what I'm talking about.

The last five minutes of Toy Story 3

This..
I find it funny that before I saw the movie Up, I saw a parody of the first 15 minutes that made me laugh my ass off afterwards... But, seeing the original scene in its original context... GLOB DAMMIT! (That goes double for Toy Story 3, despite not knowing the ending going in anyway...)

Also, I want to add in 2011's The Muppets... (and it wasn't even crying due to nostalgia...) There was a scene in that movie, when I first saw it, that made me tear up into pending crying mode... Once that scene ending, I literally had to quickly wipe the tears from my eyes before my friend noticed... (I don't know why I did it, but it felt natural to do it...)

 

[KazeAizen]

Well I would say Toy Story 3 but that would be lying because I knew whole heartedly that they were going to pull something that would make me a blubbering idiot at the end.

Now a movie I didn't expect to make me cry was the recent Frozen. so yeah spoilers follow. Beginning and ending if you must have a general sense of where it happens.

Spoiler

The beginning. More specifically the "Do you want to build a snowman?" number. It shows the girls growing up after Elsa nearly killed Anna with her powers. You see how isolated Elsa has become and then out of nowhere or rather because Disney her parents die in a shipwreck. The funeral is briefly shown the following scene got me teary eyed. Both girls are grown and Anna is at Elsa's door with the final phrase she sings being "Do you want to build a snowman?" With a slight hint of a whimper or crying sound at the very end. The damn song even gets me on my freaking iPhone. Its a beautiful scene.

Man tears #2 happens near the end. Anna is freezing to death because Elsa had once again accidentally blasted Anna with her magic. Except this time it was her heart. The only way to melt the frozen heart as it were is through an act of true love. When Anna's initial plan fails and all hell is breaking loose Elsa whips up a furious blizzard having seen the damage she has done to Arandelle. (her powers go berserk under stress) The main cast wind up caught in the blizzard and out on the lake with Anna trying with all her might to find her "true love" so that she won't freeze. Honestly its the most pain I think I've seen a Disney princess in ever. Finally when Elsa is given the bad news that Anna has died from her magic she collapses in grief causing the storm to fade. All is visible. Anna can make a run for "true love's first kiss" to save her life but just a few yards away the villain of the story is about to behead her sister Elsa. She throws herself between Elsa and the blade just as she becomes completely Frozen, saving her sister at the cost of her own life. Honestly I was just blown away that Disney actually killed their newest princess on screen. Elsa weeps and clutches onto the Frozen statue of her sister. Its a really striking image and should be one of those iconic Disney moments like Rafiki holding up Simba. Seconds later though after they crush your heart Anna begins to unfreeze. She had broken the spell through an act of true love. Not a kiss from a prince but rather an act of true love for her sister. A very powerful scene and that beautiful yet haunting image of the Frozen Anna will be in my mind forever.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I didn't quite cry, but I came damn close watching...Wreck-It Ralph. Yeah, the video game cartoon.

Spoiler: WIW spoiler

Damn it, Sarah Silverman! When did you learn to act! Seriously, that scene where Ralph smashed up her cart...I've got sand in my eyes just thinking about it.