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Movies that Make You Cry
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I can't suspend belief enough at the movies for that. Well, not since I saw Old Yeller when I was a tyke.
Most recently - this was several months ago - it was the movie Yakuza from 1974 with Robert Mitchum and my namesake Brian Keith.
Talk about unexpected, I found it super enjoyable with some great action and violence.
I think because of that, the cathartic and tender moments near the end made for a surprising tearjerk moment. Not sad tears but sort of "wow I'm proud of this guy".
Talk about unexpected, I found it super enjoyable with some great action and violence.
I think because of that, the cathartic and tender moments near the end made for a surprising tearjerk moment. Not sad tears but sort of "wow I'm proud of this guy".
Bridge to Tarabithia. Damn that movie for making me feel feelings.
Blazing Saddles. I choke up every time I see that dang horse get knocked out.
But, seriously, I have cried during many episodes of The Chosen.
But, seriously, I have cried during many episodes of The Chosen.
It had been a few years since a movie last moved me to tears (which is a shame, because I love how cathartic a good cry can feel) but my dry spell was recently broken by Everything Everywhere All At Once.
If you’re not familiar, the movie is an absurd action-comedy about a Chinese laundromat owner thrust into a dimension-hopping adventure, but what it’s really about is gratitude for your life - the good parts and the not so good parts. The main character is focused on what she could have been besides a laundromat owner, and is a foil for her husband, who is grateful for what he has.
In one of the universes she visits, she is a famous actress and her husband is a very successful CEO, the two of them having never met in this timeline. She consoles him, saying that if they had been together, they would have spent their days worrying about taxes and laundry. His response made me bawl, not something I expected getting dragged into what I thought was just some dumb comedy.
Great movie, was so blindsided by it. It’s rare that a movie makes me cry, and much rarer that it comes as a surprise like that.
If you’re not familiar, the movie is an absurd action-comedy about a Chinese laundromat owner thrust into a dimension-hopping adventure, but what it’s really about is gratitude for your life - the good parts and the not so good parts. The main character is focused on what she could have been besides a laundromat owner, and is a foil for her husband, who is grateful for what he has.
In one of the universes she visits, she is a famous actress and her husband is a very successful CEO, the two of them having never met in this timeline. She consoles him, saying that if they had been together, they would have spent their days worrying about taxes and laundry. His response made me bawl, not something I expected getting dragged into what I thought was just some dumb comedy.
Great movie, was so blindsided by it. It’s rare that a movie makes me cry, and much rarer that it comes as a surprise like that.
The Electric Grandmother (1982), starring the late Maureen Stapleton. TV movie, yes, but I say it still qualifies. Based on a concept originally devised by Ray Bradbury, also made into a Twilight Zone episode, and 20 or so years later made into this.
When I was young it was “Where the Red Fern Grows”
Now that I’m an adult anything involving pepper spray
Now that I’m an adult anything involving pepper spray
When Bob conquers his paralyzing fear and actually goes sailing! Chokes me up every time.
For a serious answer, never literally "crying" ... but occasionally when a movie scene has sufficient impact and I'm in the right mood, it can get to me enough to sense my eyes watering a little.
The only example that comes to mind at the moment (for whatever reason) is in Million Dollar Baby when Clint shares those last moments with the Hilary Swank character and tells her what the nickname he gave her means before giving the fatal injection.
It's the context of the tragedy that's befallen this girl who has a heart of gold right when she's realizing her dream, and Clint's character having been disowned by his real daughter, has a sort of second chance at being a father with this girl and now this happens.
The only example that comes to mind at the moment (for whatever reason) is in Million Dollar Baby when Clint shares those last moments with the Hilary Swank character and tells her what the nickname he gave her means before giving the fatal injection.
It's the context of the tragedy that's befallen this girl who has a heart of gold right when she's realizing her dream, and Clint's character having been disowned by his real daughter, has a sort of second chance at being a father with this girl and now this happens.
If you can get through the ending of The Elephant Man without crying, you have a heart of stone.
Same goes for Au Hasard Balthazar. The sheep are grazing in the sun, the gentle clack of the bells, and Balthazar lays right down and dies. It's sadness is beyond compare.
Same goes for Au Hasard Balthazar. The sheep are grazing in the sun, the gentle clack of the bells, and Balthazar lays right down and dies. It's sadness is beyond compare.
Love million dollar baby, also one of my favorites, up there with grand triano
When I was a kid that book turned me into a puddle on the floor.
More then I can count. I am a big softy.
That movie was so painful to watch, I think I might cried.