I don't get emotional whilst watching films, but....

First movie I ever cried at was The Lion King when it first came out in 1994. Mufasa getting killed by Scar. Painful. I was 14 at the time.

Fast forward to 2008. My brother (who is 7yrs younger than me) told me to watch The Pursuit Of Happyness. It wasn't until the last 5mins of the movie that I had Niagara Falls coming out of my eyes. But it was inevitable due to the amount of epic emotion that movie displayed.

Since then, I have gotten really soft in my old age (ok I am 32 but still). I purposely try to avoid heavily emotional movies for this reason. However, movies like Armageddon haven reduced me to tears (I cried 6 times during that movie when I watched it on DVD a couple years back and never cried before that).

The new Star Trek by JJ Abrams, I have seen at the cinema a couple of times and yet never cried once. I watched it on blu-ray for the first time when it came out, cried at the beginning and at the end.

Plenty of Disney/Pixar movies have got me welled up, especially WALL-E and Toy Story 3.

Interestingly, only TWO superhero movies have made me cry. The first being Superman The Movie (which I got to watch in its original 1978 format back in 2010 for the first time in a cinema here in Newcastle), try and guess what the 2nd one is. And it is fairly recent. And it might surprise you ;)
 
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The green mile had me watery eyed, but to be honest i don't normally get teary at films, instead i look forward to epic music that makes the hairs on my arms stand on end...that's when i really get into a film (transformers always does it! lol)
 
Pighardia said:
The Spirit?

I cried watching Watchmen, as I knew I wouldn't get the time back
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Lol. Nope. It was actually The Amazing Spider-Man. Even I was very surprised at that movie. The bit where I cried was when the dude who's kid was previously saved by Spider-Man, got his mates to assist Spidey with their cranes.
 
I remember watching Marley and Me on a flight home from holiday. I kept having to look away as though I could see something out of the window at 2am just so people wouldn't think I was about to cry. I just kept imagining my own dog and it was awful :( Hachi got me big time too.

I think The Notebook also got me towards the end as well. That is a lovely film.

As I've got older I've certainly become soppier with things like that though.
 
I normally don't cry ever at a film - it's something I've never been able to do, despite feeling all the emotions and a lump in my throat etc.

Here are some of the ones I can remember that do this and to some degree, still do:

  • Saving Private Ryan (whole part after the beach landing where they discover Ryan's brothers are all dead except for one, and they send his mother the news, and the general gives that brilliant speech. Other moments are at the end mostly all from Tom Hanks. Terrific actor.)
  • Gladiator (Pretty much the whole film.)
  • Terminator 2 (At the end. Arnie's best film by far.)
  • Lost In Translation (When Bill Murray whispers into Scarlett Johansson's ear.)
  • Lion King (I was really young when I saw it, but I can always remember the emotion I felt seeing it for the first time)
  • Toy Story ("This isn't flying, this is falling with style!" and the music that follows... Brilliant moment of joy!)
  • Cast Away ("Wilson!")
  • Superman (Speech from Marlon Brando to baby Superman before he sends him to Earth - "The son becomes the father and the father the son")
  • Con Air ("I'm gonna save the ******* day")
  • Return of the Jedi (Vader and Luke lightsaber fight)
Not all these are sad emotional feelings, but just pure moments of joy. There are probably tons more, like the Rocky films etc but too many to list hehe.
 
stoofa said:
Ok, so I'm a grown man of 36 who can get emotional when the right moment occurs - death of a loved one, birth of a child etc.
Very rarely do I find myself showing any kind of emotion when watching a film, especially in the cinema.
I did find the very ending of Forest Gump emotional - the realisation that this simple man was in fact too good for the love of his life and not vice-versa.

So I find it hard to admit that the last 10 minutes of "Seeking a friend for the end of the world" had such a similar effect on me.
I kept on going over those minutes on the drive home and then again the following day.
A film that will be very much overlooked at the time of the Block Busters - but a very emotional cinema moment for me.
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hmmmm I'll need to go see. i can be pretty susceptible to certain subjects :(
will balance it out with seeing TED tonight :p
 
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asim18 said:
Titanic... when the band starts playing their last tune. :(

When they all say goodbye and start walking away, one of them stays and starts playing alone, and then they all realise there's nowhere to go, walk back and join in.
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A scene copied exactly from 'A Night to Remember'
 
Hachi was hard going at the end

Life is Beautiful is probably the most delightful yet tragically sad films i've ever seen, would highly recommend
 
BenjiSayers said:
I challenge anyone to watch the start of the Pixar film 'Up!' and not have their heart strings tugged. I don't know what it is about pixar films but they like having some sort of sad part in them that really gets to you. They had the same kind of thing in Wall:E for example.
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I agree about Pixar. Toy Story 3 too! The ending was not really sad but still had me crying.
 
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The Mission, music (Ennio Morricone) in conjuction with the movie was perfect and really emotional.

Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai ending.

Loads more but too depressing to talk about.
 
BigDannyO said:
Like a few others here I tend to get very emotional watching films.

The opening sequence of Up! is in my opinion an absolute masterpiece in cinematic storytelling, and says more about life, love, loss and death in ten minutes than any other film I can think of.

Continuing the Pixar theme, in Toy Story 3 in the incinerator, they all just accept what's about to happen because there's nothing they can do about it. :(



A well written story about life. Utterly infuriates me though...

The guy comes this to ruining his marriage and family, but realises his mistake before it's too late. As some sort of atonement he smiles at the picture of his loved ones, knowing where his heart lies, and that he is now on a different path from the one where the film started, ready to continue the rest of his life.

Then get's his brains blown out.

The overriding impression the film gives me is that life is, ultimately, pointless. No matter what mistakes you make in life and how you deal with them, you die anyway and that's that.

Really doesn't sit well with me, but I guess that was the intention.
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There are so many themes in American Beauty.

Right now that is my opinion on life, that it is pointless, then yes that's probably why it resonates through me.
 
Toy story 3 was emotional in the incinerator and when I Andy donates the toys to that little girl. It's the way it makes you feel about growing up.

Up was sad as hell at the start too :-(

Tv shows often get me. First series of misfits when Kelly is watching videos of Nathan was emotional.
 
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