what scene from a movie was so sad, that years later just thinking about it make you really cry?

Question

for me, the part in Pet Cemetary, where the dad shoots the dog, and the boy is holds the dog in his arm in the middle of the forest, while the dog is dying. Got a tissue anyone?

Answer 1

it has to be the scene in terms of endearment where debra winger's character ids dying from cancer and they bring her children in to say goodbye. i don't even have to se the whole movie. the same goes for beaches when the mom dies and they're playing the wind beneath my wings and they cut to after the funeral and cc asks the little girl who she wants to live with and as soon as the song starts i'm blubbering.

Answer 2

Towards the end of 'Grave of the Fireflies'...I have seen it once...though I own the dvd box set of the Ghibli Pictures....once is all I can handle for now.

The ending of Plague Dogs...probably the best animation not done by the Japanese. A British film about two dogs who escape from a research lab...who have been experimented on...and who make a bid for freedom. I have to write slowly so I do not trip the flood gates. Piece of bloody work. That too I have seen only once. And I own the DVD.

AI by Spielberg has several parts for me...when Monica prepares to drive away from the picnic site. I could only take that once.
When Monica's son comes back home and she is reading the story to her son...while David is across the room behind her...his place in the family and in her heart now usurped...and that look on his face.
And of course the end where David makes a request of the mecha and what he does after the mecha makes his dream come true.
I tried to watch the dvd a few weeks ago...and just could not do it.

I have a different take on AI than a lot of people do. For me Teddy is the secret star of the show. With the incredible lengths that David goes through to find love and insure that through this endeavor he is worthy of love...there is one thing that David misses completely. From the moment he meets Teddy... to the moment he gets his wish and finds closure/resolution...David misses the fact that there is one being whose love never wavers...whose commitment to David
is as perennial as the grass...whose love I believe is unconditional...and that is Teddy. The response to what David goes through on his Odyssey...is clearly shown in teddy's mannerisms, his face, what he says and doesn't say...his very
body language speaking volumes
For me, the horrifying part of AI comes through Teddy's role throughout the entire movie. He loves David, cares for his feelings the way an older brother would...tries to warn the naive robot who would be a boy... of the dangers all around him...and is promptly and systematically ignored by David.
Pure horror. David never returns his love...and this is the same bear that chose David over the little boy to whom he used to 'belong'...and followed him...literally...to the ends of the earth and through time to be at his side. This more so than all the previous examples of David this and David that...is what brings me to tears when I contemplate the accuracy of Spielberg painting a cautionary tale about loove/obsession. It's like looking for the ultimate love when indeed part of what you seek stands...and teddy stands tall make no mistake...right next to you. How more human can you get. I can't help but think of Narcissus and Echo when I am in the mood to wax the poetic. Nothing brings me closer to tears than the exploration of their relationship in the movie.
Jude Law alludes to this when he says "They made us too well..." Indeed.

Answer 3

The very last scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. (SPOILER) where Jack Nicolson's character comes back as a vegetable from the Lobotomy, and then the Indian picks up the water fountain and throws it through the window to escape.

It is definitely a must see movie.

Answer 4

Stepmom (the ending)
Mask (the ending when Rocky dies)
Bed of Roses (when Mary Stuart Masterson goes to try and win back Christian Slater)
Untamed Heart (the end)
Boys on the Side (the ending)

Answer 5

The end scene from the 'Color Purple' w/ Miss Celie and her family.

The final hospital scenes with Julia Roberts and Sally Fields in 'Steel Magnolias'.

Harry saying goodbye to his daughter via video screen in 'Armaggedon'.

And I always cry at the end of 'The Iron Giant', first from sadness and then happiness.

Answer 6

Okay maybe I'm the only one who really got worked up by it, but the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence really made me sad. The scene where he is sitting in the car praying to the blue fairy broke my heart. You just KNOW nothing is going to happen because its a statue but this little kid really believes in it and NOTHING good happens to the poor kid throughout the entire movie. I hated it because it was so sad and I will never watch it again.

Answer 7

I have no idea why I was crying but in two scenes in solaris #1 when clooney in the movie screams at the girl he is with then comes back to the house to find her dead and he crys and when it is the end of the movie and he is dying in the ship and he starts crying when he sees his friend's dead son but he doesn't see him dead he holds his hand as he dies (NOW I AM STARTING TO CRY) :.....(

Answer 8

I don't know any movie that emotionally struck me for a long time. However, I did get sad and emotional during some movies, but I don't recall myself crying. Maybe that's because I'm a guy.

The saddest movie I can think of now is Titanic.

Answer 9

The end of Saving Private Ryan, when Tom Hanks is telling Matt Damon to "Earn" the sacrifices made to save him

Answer 10

The last homecoming scene at Christmas time from "The Family Stone", when Sybil (Diane Keaton) has passed on and they end it with the photo of her pregnant with Amy!