Most heart-wrenching movies you have seen?

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-24 08:16pm

i cant remember the title. i was about 5 and saw this black and white movie which must have been from the 50s. anyway it was about a lynx. this lynx somehow starts hanging around with some park ranger and his son. the lynx was called lefty because he´d tend to make a left turn when he couldn´t decide where to go.
i think lefty gets shot in the end which was evelly sad back in the days...

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-24 08:44pm

"Snoopy Come Home". Poor Charlie Brown. Not only did he think he'd lost Snoopy forever, but none of his friends was even remotely sympathetic. Even Linus abandoned him. I cried my eyes out. I was 6, but still.

The Janitor · Post by **The Janitor** » 2003-02-24 08:46pm

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theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-02-24 08:48pm

Gotta be Old Yeller and Saving Private Ryan

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-02-24 08:54pm

RedImperator wrote:"Snoopy Come Home". Poor Charlie Brown. Not only did he think he'd lost Snoopy forever, but none of his friends was even remotely sympathetic. Even Linus abandoned him. I cried my eyes out. I was 6, but still.

Damn you, you beat me to it you son of a bitch!

ONLY movie that has ever made me cry.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-02-25 12:45am

That movie about the guy who has a gazillion kids, and his wife dies, so the US government think that a lone man can't raise kids so they take them away from him, and they are put in an orphanage and beaten the shit out of them while the father desperately tries to appeal and get them back until he finally find a woman and gets married again and the judge lets him have them back, except that something like 2 years have gone by and his sons all look like shit and become drug addicts and serial killers and stuff (ok I made that last part out, he just get them or what's left of them).

Phew.

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Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-25 02:06am

On the subject:

The Childhood Trauma Trilogy: Old Yeller, The Yearling, & Bambi....

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-02-25 02:35am

RedImperator wrote:"Snoopy Come Home". Poor Charlie Brown. Not only did he think he'd lost Snoopy forever, but none of his friends was even remotely sympathetic. Even Linus abandoned him. I cried my eyes out. I was 6, but still.

My sister and I weren't allowed to watch that the next year it was on; we cried for days after seeing it!

As an adult, the last charge in Glory reduced me to choking mass of tears. It all begins when Matthew Broderick slaps his horse away, and moves the drummer boys to the back of the line, knowing full well what is to come.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-02-25 03:01am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:On the subject:

The Childhood Trauma Trilogy: Old Yeller, The Yearling, & Bambi....

Don't forget Where the Red Fern Grows

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-25 03:03am

Shit, yeah, that's a bad one

Not to mention Harper Lee, but that comes later.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-02-25 03:20am

I thought the remake of King Kong was very sad at the end. Surprisingly the same ending in the original Kong didn't make me sad.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-25 03:32am

I must be a cold heartless bastard, because I never get emotiona at movies.

Some exceptions are Star Wars, when Vader says 'luke, I am your father' I get kinda 'whooa', and whenever the Imperial march plays I just wanna get up and march and generally blow shit up.

(Well, I'm no the only person who wants to do that.

) And in TTT, when those kids are getting ready for battle, you just kinda shiver. And when you see that huge Uruk-Hai army....shiver again baby.

And of course the last duel between Vader and Luke just gives you this big mix of feelings. And when the Rebels destroy the Death Star, and when Kenobi dies, and when the Rebels are smashed at Hoth...and...etc etc. What can I say? Star Wars is more emotionally gripping than The English Patient.

Never saw Saving Private Ryan, but I heard it's very good. Might have to rent it someday.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-25 03:46am

The Iron Giant. I cry ever single time I see it.

Most of the last act (when the Giant is in Alien Weapon mode), is enough to get me choked and tear up just by thinking about it. Particularly when the Giant goes into Weapon mode, recognises Hogarth (returning to normal), decides to sacrifice himself, says goodbye, and before he hits the missile.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-25 03:48am

While I'm thinking of it, I think Thirteen Days was a brilliant film. Some of the scenes where O'Donnell is walking the streets and you see people crowding into churches and everyone trying to reassure themselves and their families that it will be OK...

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2003-02-25 03:52am

Schindler's List.. my god you have to a heart that is blacker than any midnight to not feel something during that movie.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-25 03:56am

Grave of the Fireflies, too. I cried for more then five minutes after watching that.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-25 03:58am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Grave of the Fireflies, too. I cried for more then five minutes after watching that.

When I watched that with my Uni Anime society we were having issues getting the DVD to play properly, and as such it would only play in black and white. My god, even in black and white it was an amazing film, possibly moreso.

Its the only time I've seen a whole lecture theatre crying.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-02-25 04:02am

I remembered another one. Deep Impact. I don't know what others think, but to me it was way more than Armageddon. The part that sticks out in my mind the most was near the end with Denise Crosby's character walking along the beach.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-25 04:10am

I remember the one that got everyone in my college film class so bad.

after them dispairaging my love of Foriegn movies, I brought in Cyrano De Bergerac in French with English Subs.

Not a dry eye in the house because Cyrano never get's Roxxane, and Christian DIES!!!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-25 10:34am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Grave of the Fireflies, too. I cried for more then five minutes after watching that.

That's the movie about the two Japanese kids during the war who run off to live in a cave, right? That's the only anime I've ever seen. Very good war movie.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-02-25 10:48am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:The Iron Giant. I cry ever single time I see it.

Most of the last act (when the Giant is in Alien Weapon mode), is enough to get me choked and tear up just by thinking about it. Particularly when the Giant goes into Weapon mode, recognises Hogarth (returning to normal), decides to sacrifice himself, says goodbye, and before he hits the missile.

It's on TV this week where I live, must see it again, the book is fantastic too but I doubt the studio could have made the film the same as the book and get it right.

Other films were Macross Plus, Bambi, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Schindler's List, Bridge on the River Kwai and probably several others that I can't think of now.

Never really cry or anything, it just gets to me though.

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