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Fucking hell, Pixar!!!!!! *MNHQ tweaked title*

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PosyPrettyToes · 28/05/2024 18:18

Just watched the first 15 minutes of Up! for the first time. I am a BROKEN WOMAN!! I didn’t think anything could be worse than Disney killing Bambi’s mum, and here it is. Please tell me I’m not the only one?!

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WearyAuldWumman · 28/05/2024 23:13

ZombieBoob · 28/05/2024 21:54

Dumbo does it for me. Just need to hear baby of mine and I'm a mess. Hits a bit too close to home for reasons I won't bore you with but it's the saddest moment in Disneys history for me

I cry every time at that scene...and I'm in my 60s!

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 28/05/2024 23:15

The Iron Giant is very sweet and tear jerking too. Smile

But yeah, 'Up' is very heart wrenching. 😢

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 28/05/2024 23:24

LindorDoubleChoc · 28/05/2024 20:57

Such a ridiculous over-dramatic thread title and OP over a film that was released 15 years ago. I do wish MN would grow up sometimes.

You seem very snappy this evening - have you had a bad day ?

AmelieTaylor · 28/05/2024 23:26

Up - major sob fest. Haven't watched it a second time.

I am very very emotional, i can cry at a butter advert.

but Inside out I just found incredibly boring. However, I think reading all these posts, I must have switched off as we sat down?! We'd gone to the cinema to see something else, but it was full, the child chose this...

Bambi/Dumbo haven't watched since the first time 50 years ago. Maybe one day...

Incakewetrust · 28/05/2024 23:27

I've never cried so much at the beginning of a movie before. It's heartbreaking.
The rest of the film is shit though 😂

Catsmere · 28/05/2024 23:31

UP didn’t really get me that way, perhaps because I was much older when I saw it. I mostly remember Squirrel! and the hilarious old dudes’ duel.

Toy Story hit harder, but I saw them much earlier.

SherrieElmer · 28/05/2024 23:35

If you feel down, watch When The Wind Blows to cheer yourself up.

2021x · 28/05/2024 23:45

I am clearly in the minority but I didn't cry at UP (or Bambi), which made me feel heartless at the time as I was working in Elderly care. I thought they have had a wonderful life with a person that they loved and that was amazing.

Coco on the other hand... gets me everytime.

Pieceofpurplesky · 28/05/2024 23:53

I saw it not long after I'd had a miscarriage. I am not sure what happened in the rest of the film as I sobbed through it.

PlumpHobbit · 29/05/2024 00:06

Yep I bawled my way through the opening part too

Toy story 3 the epilogue with Andy, the toys and Bonnie had me sobbing

Coco don't they bring the cat back to life at some point? Sobbed at that. Not pixar but I bawled my way through the snow dog on first and only viewing I can't bring myself to watch it again

It doesn't take much, DH was playing the last guardian game on the PlayStation and the end had me howling big ugly tears I think it shocked him!

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 29/05/2024 00:07

EnglishBluebell · 28/05/2024 21:28

I haven't seen it. Please can somebody briefly summarise the scene OP is talking about??

It's basically a montage of an old man's life, showing his youthful plans and how they didn't work out and many heartbreaks including not being able to have a family and being widowed. It's done very beautifully to music.

Catsmere · 29/05/2024 00:07

I cried at Bambi's mother's death, but then I was about seven when Mum took me to see it.

The one that really got me, though, was the deaths of Kimba's parents in Kimba the White Lion. Talk about a scarred childhood! Also why I never felt the need to see The Lion King.

PlumpHobbit · 29/05/2024 00:23

I also refuse to watch watership down, or read it, as I love bunnies and it looks completely and utterly traumatic

Marley and Me, I spend the first half laughing, the second in floods of tears from as soon as he says "you're getting old fella" the tears start and don't stop. I now just watch the first half and switch off before that part. Seen way too many much loved pets become old before the inevitable I can't watch it because I just see them

Time40 · 29/05/2024 00:28

Yes, the first 15 minutes of UP ... absolutely devastating. But then it gets annoying and very silly. I couldn't be bothered to watch it beyond about half way. But it's a great film, just for that 15 mins.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 29/05/2024 00:30

I knew DH was the one for me when I glanced sideways at him in the Imax 15 minutes in and saw tears sliding down from under his 3D goggles.

My favourite line in the film: "I was hiding under your porch because I love you."

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 29/05/2024 00:31

No one on this thread should read "The Plague Dogs" by Richard Adams. IT WILL END YOU.

Catsmere · 29/05/2024 00:35

God yes, The Plague Dogs was horrible. And I read Watership Down with no trouble.

noodlezoodle · 29/05/2024 02:32

PlumpHobbit · 29/05/2024 00:23

I also refuse to watch watership down, or read it, as I love bunnies and it looks completely and utterly traumatic

Marley and Me, I spend the first half laughing, the second in floods of tears from as soon as he says "you're getting old fella" the tears start and don't stop. I now just watch the first half and switch off before that part. Seen way too many much loved pets become old before the inevitable I can't watch it because I just see them

I went to see Marley and Me with a friend, but we had been warned in advance. When the lights came up, we were the only two in the cinema not crying great heaving sobs, just a bit of light weeping.

Tarkan · 29/05/2024 02:56

I'm not really one to cry at movies but I watched Toy Story 3 today. Not for the first time either so I knew what was coming and I had to wipe a few tears away. I was fine at the incinerator bit but it was Andy giving the toys to Bonnie and then driving off. Jessie's song in TS2 got me when I watched it last week as well.

Bing Bong had me properly sobbing though. My DC actually had to check I was ok. I think because they're late teens/early 20s now (and were both teens when I watched IO) all the growing up and moving on things get to me quite a bit. Both DC still live at home but I know it won't be forever and I am quite sentimental over their old toys and clothes etc. so those movie scenes must tap into that for me.

Stopsnowing · 29/05/2024 04:31

I loved the beginning of UP but it is a film within a film - almost like it had been conceived as a short. I don’t particularly like the rest of the film. My mum took me to see Bambi at the cinema when I was little. I still remember my shock and tears at the killing of his mother and have never watched it again or let my children watch it. Took DD and her friends to see Coco as a birthday treat. All the mums were crying, kids oblivious. Death u can take because you live on in our memories… until you don’t.

Soonenough · 29/05/2024 04:48

Haven't seen UP and now despite my curiousty don't want to risk it. I get upset at The Gentle Giant story by Oscar Wilde and the song Puff the Magic Dragon .

Danikm151 · 29/05/2024 07:20

My son wanted to watch Coco last night. He likes the the skeletons- I was bawling at Mama Coco because she reminds me so much of my Nan.

atriskacademic · 29/05/2024 07:25

When our first son was born, my husband had every 2nd Friday off. One Friday, when DS was approx. 6 weeks old, it was a rainy day and we settled down for a film in the afternoon, snuggling on the sofa. The film was "UP". My husband is still traumatised from the experience, and he wasn't even the hormonal one!

Kitkat2065 · 29/05/2024 07:34

Don't watch Coco either, that left my 6ft 4 barn door built, tattoo covered partner an ibbling wreck! He's only ever cried at the birth of our two children and the death of his grandfather

poppymango · 29/05/2024 07:39

PosyPrettyToes · 28/05/2024 18:18

Just watched the first 15 minutes of Up! for the first time. I am a BROKEN WOMAN!! I didn’t think anything could be worse than Disney killing Bambi’s mum, and here it is. Please tell me I’m not the only one?!

The opening of that film could have been released as a short and would have been a masterpiece. One of my favourite Disney/Pixar films!! Blubbering mess at the start and then laughing like a loon for the rest of it. Plus, Christopher Plummer! Dug! Kevin! I need to go and watch it again ❤