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To ask what movie scene never fails to make you cry even after numerous watches

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CherryChasingDotMuncher · 06/10/2017 11:22

I’m watching Moana with the kids today, for the billionth time (I don’t mind as I love the film) and no matter how hard I try I always cry at the scene where the grandma tells Moana to go and find Maui, then she’s dies and her spirit fish swims into the sea and above Moana. You’d think I would be immune to it by now, but no!

What makes you cry every time?

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SparklyMagpie · 06/10/2017 12:35

Dippingmytoesin yes of course you're right! I'm full of a cold an sleep deprived, you know when you have one of those moments where a spelling doesn't look right?

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Raahh · 06/10/2017 12:36

And just hearing the theme tune to 'The Polar Express' makes me cry.

I love Josh Groban. Blush. I'm a sucker for Christmas films.

TeasmaidTeasmade · 06/10/2017 12:36

All of the above and more.
The last film I saw at the cinema was Dunkirk, my son recommended it. I asked if there were any sad bits, he replied with a No.
Well I managed to leave said cinema with a runny nose, and red blotches to my face!!
I also cried at Sully.
Proper soppy me!!!

ByAllMeansMoveAtAGlacialPace · 06/10/2017 12:37

Definitely Shelby's funeral in Steel Magnolias. Sally Field screaming 'I want to know why!'

splendidisolation · 06/10/2017 12:37

All of watership down

Ooogetyooo · 06/10/2017 12:37

The end of Toy Story 3 - it's the whole thing about a child's younger years being left behind, just so poignant and sweet.
Lion - the scene where the little boy wakes up in the railway carriage and it slowly dawns on him he's lost and the train isn't going to stop and he's all alone. In fact any scene from that film will make you cry, I was exhausted by the time it ended. Beautiful film. Just gut wrenching to watch.

sparechange · 06/10/2017 12:37

The opening sequence of Up
Marley and Me, when Marley rests his head on her knee after her MC (welling up just thinking about that)
Tyrannosaur when he kicks his dog, and then again when Olivia Coleman's husband comes home

Ivydalegirl · 06/10/2017 12:38

Red Dragon does it for me. Ralph Fiennes as the tooth fairy, his back story makes him the saddest serial killer I have ever seen, I actually feel sorry for him! He is fantastic in it.

ShowMePotatoSalad · 06/10/2017 12:39

Oh God I've just remembered the ending to Ghost...

user1485342611 · 06/10/2017 12:40

The end of The Railway Children where Bobbie sees her father appearing through the smoke at the train station.

NurseButtercup · 06/10/2017 12:41

Steel Magnolias near the end when the character Julia Roberts plays dies.

The Notebook - too many scenes to list, I just sit with a box of tissues.

PseudoBadger · 06/10/2017 12:42

Philadelphia - “my sweet boy” and the home movie at the end

wowfudge · 06/10/2017 12:43

As previously mentioned, "Daddy, my Daddy" in The Railway Children.

CMOTDibbler · 06/10/2017 12:43

The first bit of Up makes me bawl too

Steel Magnolias where the women are at the cemetery - especially once I knew the writer wrote it based on his sisters story

TealStar · 06/10/2017 12:44

I cry at everything. I don't dare watch the last scene from Marley and Me again as it took me about a week to get over last time! 😭

londonrach · 06/10/2017 12:46

My girl when she comes down the stairs and the funeral is going on and she wants her playmate to play with her. Every time!!!

Willow2017 · 06/10/2017 12:47

All of the above

When Killi and Thorin die in the Hobbit. (And when Thorin hugs Bilbo after they are rescued by the eagles.)

When everyone kneels before the hobbits in LOTR.

Sally fields reaction iton the graveyard her daughter dying in Steel Magnolias then laughing hysterically at the next bit. "Hit this. Go ahead M'Lynn slap her"

ofshoes · 06/10/2017 12:47

Has anyone mentioned Bridge to Terabithia yet? Absolute bits every time

My wife and I we're also ruined by A Monster Calls recently, I know what was coming cause I'd already cried my heart out at the book but she wasn't at all prepared!

SumThucker · 06/10/2017 12:47

Hachi, when she sees him at the railway station.

Steel Magnolias, funeral scene and also when Sally Field goes to get Shelby's baby from her other Grandma.

My girl, glasses scene.

Beginning of Up.

My sister's keeper, when the little sister asks her if she'll wait for her, and when the dying girl tells her mum the waving on the bus story.

When Eliot is talking to ET in the hospital when he thinks he's died.

Lotsawobblybits · 06/10/2017 12:47

Goodness sat here with a right lump in the throat!

first 10 mins of UP- just thinking about it sets me off, I think it blindsided me the first time as I just didn't expect it- too close to home.
Terms of Endearment- where the children come in at the end to say goodbye.
Forrest Gump, Fried Green Tomatoes & Schindler List- all the way through
Love Story- At the end when he says "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Even bloody Armageddon- when that single tear slowly runs down Liv Tylers face.

TealStar · 06/10/2017 12:48

Muriel's wedding when the mum is left in tears.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape when the mum dies. That film was definitely Di Caprio's best work... it's the only film where I've been truly convinced by his character. not some smarmy jumped up cocky bore. Johnny Depp was truly amazing too.

SumThucker · 06/10/2017 12:48

And crikey yes, the home movie scene in Philadelphia makes me sob bad.

Veronicat · 06/10/2017 12:48

City of Angels when Meg Ryan dies.

Pleasedontdrawonyoursister · 06/10/2017 12:49

The bit in Armageddon where Bruce Willis shuts Ben Affleck in the space craft and stays on the meteor to die. He says 'I always thought of you as a son' and tells him to look after his daughter. OHMAGAAD i'm welling up...

CotswoldStrife · 06/10/2017 12:49

As already mentioned by PP, Truly Madly, Deeply is guaranteed to set me off as well as the start of Up.

Also the scene in Sleepless in Seattle when he is talking about his late wife on the radio and describes holding her hand 'and I just knew'.

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