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

[jackthezipper]

The end of Jeff who lives at home.

 

[Adnams Drinker]

Jesus - just reading this thread and thinking about some of these is enough to have me welling up ... I'm a real emotional lightweight when it comes to films!

If I had to pick one it would be Gladiator - the bit that finishes me is when Maximus is lying on the ground, drifting in and out of consciousness seeing his wife and son in the afterlife, then the Emperor's sister says to him "Go to them ..." - God, that sequence absolutely rips me to shreds. Everything about it, the dialogue, the visuals and the music - that film has such a powerful soundtrack.

Oh, and as the owner of three adorable dogs, no way in hell am I EVER watching Marly & Me!

 

[IIDeathCubeKII]

Oh, and as the owner of three adorable dogs, no way in hell am I EVER watching Marly & Me!

By the end you are just glad something died in that awful film.

You made me remember The Fly 2 though. I used to cry as a kid when they experiment on the kids dog and turn it into a moaning flap of skin.

 

[valve90210]

Watching through Buffy there are sevearl very moving moments which is probably part of why it was so succesful as it really had the whole gamut of emotion running through it.

Off the top of my head, as well as The Body as you mentioned I can think of (can't remember episode names off hand):

1) Series 2, when Willow has just managed to restore Angel's soul but the gateway to hell has opened and Buffy has to kill him to close it.

2) Series 5 when Buffy dies at the end

3) Series 7 when Anya dies and Xander learns of her death.


Film wise, there are a few that have had me with 2 springing to mind immediately

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fountain

 

[Thunderbolt]

Killing Fields

 

[Pestilence]

You made me remember The Fly 2 though. I used to cry as a kid when they experiment on the kids dog and turn it into a moaning flap of skin.

That was probably one of the earliest films to ever make me openly blub as a kid. That poor dog.

 

[Stevio]

Watching through Buffy there are sevearl very moving moments which is probably part of why it was so succesful as it really had the whole gamut of emotion running through it.

Off the top of my head, as well as The Body as you mentioned I can think of (can't remember episode names off hand):

1) Series 2, when Willow has just managed to restore Angel's soul but the gateway to hell has opened and Buffy has to kill him to close it.

2) Series 5 when Buffy dies at the end

3) Series 7 when Anya dies and Xander learns of her death.

I couldn't watch The Body for years, it utterly destroyed me the first time I saw it.

The one that always gets me is the episode where Dawn thinks she might be a potential. Xander's speech at the end gets me blubbing every time.

I may be welling up a little bit even thinking about it now.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Marley and Me was tosh.

If it made you cry then you have under-developed emotional responses and clearly need to experience a bit more real life.

 

[Richdog]

Marley and Me was tosh.

If it made you cry then you have under-developed emotional responses and clearly need to experience a bit more real life.

I know a couple of very normal people who saw it and got emotional (including me), so maybe you're the one with the emotional responsiveness of a tinned sardine.

 

[Van Hellseek]

maybe you're the one with the emotional responsiveness of a tinned sardine.

For not going to pieces over a poorly acted cheese-fest of a movie about a fictional dog?

Yeah, I guess I must be a robot.

 

[Kohaashi]

'The Fountain' towards the end is pretty sad :'(

 

[Vonhelmet]

I know a couple of very normal people who saw it and got emotional (including me), so maybe you're the one with the emotional responsiveness of a tinned sardine.

Maybe this is a "dog person" thing.

I'm totally not arsed about dogs, so I doubt it'd bother me.

 

[justalex81]

i challenge anyone to watch lorenzo's oil and not get emotional.

 

[Richdog]

Maybe this is a "dog person" thing.

I'm totally not arsed about dogs, so I doubt it'd bother me.

I'm not a 'dog person' either, and I harbour strong doubts that you have to be to enjoy the movie. But that's why opinions are opinions.

 

[smyth]

Groundhog day, the scene with the old man made me well up a bit earlier.

 

[unwashed potato!]

now is good, is also a bit of a tear jerker. i can't imagine watching a film like this if i had a daughter.

 

[KautoStar]

The killing fields - ending is pretty emotional but the bit telling you what happened after is devastating.

Band of Brothers - where they tell you what did after the war

Soldier Soldier - Tony wiltons death, I'm wellin up now just typing about it.

M*A*S*H - No matter how many time I watch it Henry Blakes death gets me.

 

[Last Kronin]

1 film that had me a bit teary eyed was a japanese vamp film called moon child, now-a-days anything with ppl dying from cancer has me bubbling up as my father passed away recently from that and i was his carer and had to watch him succumb to that disease.

 

[Uncle Petey]

This short film about a man and his dog turns me into a mess

Haven't watched that because when I clicked to watch it on youtube, I saw the title and a few comments and started welling up before I even got a chance to press play.

Sad, but true.

For not going to pieces over a poorly acted cheese-fest of a movie about a fictional dog?

Yeah, I guess I must be a robot.

Haven't seen the film myself, but Marley isn't a fictional dog. It's based (probably quite loosely) on a book written by Marley's owners.
I have one of Cesar Milan's (the dog whisperer) books here and there's a chapter where he talks about being mates with the real life owners of Marley and how he helped them to raise their next dog properly and how to learn from their mistakes so it didn't end up being an uncontrollable nutter like the last one.

Yes, you may have guessed that I'm a dog person by now
If you met my dog, you would be too. She's converted many a hardheart.

When her time comes, I'll probably have a breakdown or something...

 

[neoboy]

Band of Brothers got really emotional for me in the bit where they start telling you the fate of the soldiers after the war.

Remember Bridge to Terabithia catching me totally off guard when I was watching it with my little sister, she was in bits and I really wasn't far behind!