Speaking of Movies - which scenes really get you.......

[Anonymous]

Gotta say I really hate tearjerkers, so most of the scenes mentioned so far are just not my cuppa cuppa. But, for some reason just this morning I was thinking about the scene in early in "Castaway" when Tom Hanks goes to Helen Hunt's office and finds her in the copy room. They start dancing to the "ka-chung ka-chung" sound the copy maching makes. Sweet. Also, Harrison Ford and Kelly what's-'er-name dancing to "Don't Know Much About History" on the car radio in "Witness". Guess I'm just a sucker for a slow dance.

Other than that, I find the most memorable scenes movie scenes to be howlingly funny set pieces from comedies: the football scene in
"MASH", the wedding crashing scene in "Working Girl" and Joan Cusack rushing to make a deadline in "Broadcast News".

[Anonymous]

Basically during the entire second half of 'Dancer in the Dark' I was sobbing. Also the ending scenes of 'Boys Don't Cry.'

Now that I have kids I would never watch these movies. Also, when Pans Labryinth came out I loved it, but I would never watch it now. Frankly life is painful enough for me without watching children in pain. Most recently, my husband and I had to turn off 'The Road' about 1/2 hour in.

[Anonymous]

Speaking of Steel Magnolia's, how about that scene where Julia Roberts is in the coma, and Sally Fields is sitting by her bed, holding her, rocking her, and humming to her. Jeeeeesus, I had to leave the freaking room on that one.

Pretty much any Disney/Pixar movie that has a sappy scene, I get watery (Tangled poster, I get you...that scene made me cry too!). I even get upset when Nemo gets fishnapped. Seriously. Or how about in the second Toy Story, when the cowgirl doll is singing her song about how her former owner used to love her, and then gave her away?

Lastly, and this is completely different from any of the others, but the last scene in Braveheart (pretty much from when he starts getting tortured through the end credits) DESTROYS me. It doesn't matter if I've literally just started watching it 30 seconds before that scene. When I saw it in the movie theater, I had a headache from trying not to sob out loud...but lost it anyway when the red-headed guy throws the sword (the music gets me most of all, I think).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Terms of Endearment, when Debra Winger is in her hospital bed, saying goodbye to her sons. I actually can't even watch that scene any more. Just thinking about it makes me want to sob. And while I thought Stepmom was a crappy movie, there's a scene there too where I totally lose it, when Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts are talking about the daughter on her wedding day, and Susan Sarandon says her biggest fear is that the daughter won't be thinking of her. I seriously should never watch a movie that involves a dying mother, I really can't handle it.

My mom told me the same thing before I had kids. I was like, ok, it's sad, but not THAT sad. Now that I have kids, I can't watch that movie at all. Especially that scene. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it right now.

[Anonymous]

At the end of "Green Card," when Andie McDowell is waiting for Gerard Depardieu in the Cafe Africa, and she sees him and is so happy, and then she sees the INS agent and the way she screams, "No!" just rips me apart every single time.

[Anonymous]

I had tears streaming down my face when we went to see Toy Story 3. So bad that my kid said "Mommy, why are you crying?" so loud the whole theater could hear.

I also cry at the end of Babe - I love that movie.

I'm such a sap - it's beyond embarrasing. I was crying during the royal wedding and the kiddo called me on it then, too. I was just so happy that William was allowed to marry a girl he actually loves.

[Anonymous]

Re: Braveheart: like PP I couldn't handle the last scenes in film and had to wait for DH in lobby. Also , the scene when he comes home and his family has been killed!!!!!!

"SOphie's choice". Need I say more?
The shot of the little girls red coat in "Schindler's
List"
Basically all Holocost films.....
Didn't see "Sara's Key" because I read the book and the image haunts me. I wouldn't be able to handle.....

[Anonymous]

The Color Purple when she sees her grown kids near the end of the movie. I sobbed.

[Anonymous]

Hands down the Terms of Endearment scene.

[Anonymous]

Sophie's Choice - the obvious scene
The Color Purple - when Danny Glover is making Nellie leave
Terms of Endearment - when she's saying goodbye to her kids (cannot watch that now at all)

I didn't even watch Life is Beautiful because I knew I couldn't handle it.

[Anonymous]

Sophie's Choice - Dear god, that one made me not want to have more than 1 kid. Seriously, I sitll sometimes think about the horror of that scene.

[Anonymous]

Sophie's Choice still haunts me, I have a boy and a girl..

Also, One True Thing with Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and William Hurt, the whole movie really, because of how she devalues her mom because she is a homemaker.

agree about Working Girl, I have watched that movie a million times but it just fascinates me, how it's really about class differences and how hard it is to beat that.

also, there's an old John Travolta movie, "A Civil Action", where he's a lawyer against a chemical company and a little boy dies in the car on the way to the hospital of some long-term respitory illness. Still messes with my brain, saw it too soon after having my first kid.

Also, for sad every time, Erin Brocovich and all the descriptions of ailments.

[Anonymous]

Also Titantic, when the mother tucks her children into their beds as the water rises in the stateroom.

Ugh. That's right, isn't it? I could only watch it one time.

I don't ever want to watch Sophie's Choice, the concept is too heartbreaking and real. Like a PP said, anything Holocaust related.

[Anonymous]

The end of the Anne of Green Gables series when gilbert says, in response to Anne saying she might have to break a slate over Gilbert's head like she did when they were kids, "

I'm more libel to break one over yours, Carrots (and he carresses the hair behind her ears--whoa!!!!!)

Also, when Matthew dies, that had me bawling.

[Anonymous]

For me the part in Steel Magnolias that kills me is when Sally Field found Julia Roberts passed out in the diabetic coma at her house and her little boy was crying. Jeez I'm starting to tear up reading this thread. I cry about everything. I agree with one PP about Life is Beautiful, can't ever watch that again. Can't ever watch Pan's Labyrinth again either, even though I loved it. I've seen The King and I many times but I'll never watch the end of it again.