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To ask you for the scenes in films that always make you blub?

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MaybeIWillFuckOffThen · 09/08/2022 11:57

I've just been reduced to a puddle by the bit in Hunger Games where Katniss volunteers for Prim - you can feel both their panic for each other and it just gets me! gulp Reminds me of the bit in Empire of the Sun when Jamie is separated from his parents in the mob 😭 I feel like this sort of scene hits me harder since having my kids.

Call me bonkers but i love a good film cry, I find it really cathartic. So hit me! Any scene from any film that makes you ugly cry :)

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AclowncalledAlice · 09/08/2022 17:46

John Coffey's execution scene in The Green Mile. Everybody knew he was innocent but it still went ahead. Neither me nor DP can watch that without blubbing like babies.

CaptHolt · 09/08/2022 17:49

The opening scene to City of Angels
Every damn time Sad

SteveHarringtonsChestHair · 09/08/2022 18:07

Dogscanbefallguysforallmannerofthings · 09/08/2022 13:24

The ending of Lion, where the actual man, not actor, is filmed finding his birth mother. In fact just about the whole film.

Just about all of ‘For Sama’ but that’s non-fiction.

I came on to say the whole of Lion too. Especially the real bits at the end. Amazing film.

For me it was Incendiary. it absolutely broke me.

whenindoubtgotothelibrary · 09/08/2022 18:12

The ending of the original Railway Children film (Jenny Agutter) gets me every time.

Agree about Lion too - it's such an astonishing story.

SteveHarringtonsChestHair · 09/08/2022 18:12

EarringsandLipstick · 09/08/2022 16:06

I'm better now but the first few times I watched 'Inside Out', I was a mess.

All her memories crumbling, and Bing Bong ...💔

When I first watched it in the cinema, my DC were smaller; I disgraced myself by crying uncontrollably - people were looking at me, a man a few seats in couldn't stop laughing at me. I was distraught. I just kept thinking of my own DC and how I tried to give them certain memories & experiences but they could all be lost ...

I was just a mess.

Inside Out is one of my favourite films ever. Love it. I think if you get it you get it, but to some adults they don’t see how deep it really is! I identify a little too readily with Sadness - XP used to moan that I could taint even the happiest memories with sadness by pointing out something he’d totally forgotten about. He was a mix of Joy and Anger and I was Sadness and the purple one - anxiety?!

spanktastic · 09/08/2022 18:13

The horse whisperer when the truck hits the horses and the lion king when mufasa dies.

Newyearnewname20 · 09/08/2022 18:13

2ndMrsdeWinter · 09/08/2022 12:08

Homeward Bound: the part where Peter has accepted Shadow’s death. Moments later, Shadow comes hobbling over the hill and into his human’s arms.

It has me sobbing every time.

Me toooo!!! Oh my goodness it absolutely sets me off.

Also, the bit in Lion King (the original cartoon) where Mufasa has been killed and Simba is trying to wake him up 😣

DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms · 09/08/2022 18:14

Haven't RTFT as I will cry.
But in Homeward Bound when the boy is about to give up but the old, limp dog comes staggering over the top of the hill.

TheWernethWife · 09/08/2022 18:17

Fml1980

I love the Colour Purple as well, the ending turns me into a blubbering wreck

DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms · 09/08/2022 18:20

Not films but if you want a good cry, try these:

FMSucks · 09/08/2022 18:20

I get more upset about injustice in a movie than anything else, so movies where people are treated awfully or are just born into awfulness eg The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler’s List, 12 Years a Slave. I watched Straight Outta Compton recently and to see how the police treated the young men in Compton was so sad.

DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms · 09/08/2022 18:20

The middle one is the wee adopted girl saying to her new mum "when I saw you, my heart fell in love with you"

Ticksallboxes · 09/08/2022 18:21

A bit obvious (and probably already mentioned) but the final scene in Titanic when elderly Rose drops her necklace into the sea and goes to bed, then the camera pans over the photos of her life achievements that she's assembled in her cabin, so you know she's going to die.

Then you're brought along the deck of the Titanic wreck as it comes to life again and all the people who died are waiting to greet her, with Jack at the top of the stairs.

I had to go to the cinema toilets to cry afterwards and sobbing was coming from every cubicle. I've never seen anything like it since!

melisma · 09/08/2022 18:24

Oh God I SOBBED at Green Mile.

Equally wept into my pillow all night after Brooks' death in the Shawshank Redemption.

Melancholia and the utter panic of Charlotte Gainsbourg's character really got me after becoming a parent.

The most full on crying I've ever done is at the end of Big Fish though - the son carrying his father, as all the important people in his life line the way and are applauding him for a life well lived. Setting me off again now <breathe>

Ticksallboxes · 09/08/2022 18:31

DillonPanthersTexas · 09/08/2022 12:43

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Chief sees McMurphy being returned to his bed. He greets him, elated that McMurphy had kept his promise not to escape without him, but notices McMurphy is unresponsive and physically limp, and discovers lobotomy scars on his forehead. Chief tearfully hugs McMurphy and says, "You're coming with me," before smothering him to death with a pillow. He then lifts the hydrotherapy console off the floor, smashes it through the window gates, and escapes alone, all while the remaining inmates, having been woken up by the glass breaking noise, watch and cheer him on.

This is the scene that gets my DH every time 😢

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 18:34

Tiny Tim passing away but specifically in the Muppets' Christmas Carol. Amazing how Michael Caine and a puppet frog sell the grief but oh my god. "It's all right, children. Life is made up of meetings and partings." Gaaaaah.

My brother lost a good friend and I said to him "you know what Kermit says in Muppets' Christmas Carol? 'Life is...'" and he finished the quote. Gorgeous lovely film. Also I'm now crying.

DameHelena · 09/08/2022 18:35

MsFannySqueers · 09/08/2022 17:19

As as a PP mentioned Old Yeller I watched that tearjerker as a child. Funnily enough was just talking to DH about that film the other day. My other tearjerker is Kes that poor lad losing his kestrel.

Oh Christ I cannot watch Kes. SOOO upsetting.

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 18:36

DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms · 09/08/2022 18:14

Haven't RTFT as I will cry.
But in Homeward Bound when the boy is about to give up but the old, limp dog comes staggering over the top of the hill.

Occasionally I think of the music in that scene and well up!! "Oh Peter! I worried about you so!"

This thread is giving me hysterics, I need a tissue.

Lansonmaid · 09/08/2022 18:36

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 09/08/2022 13:11

The end of Gallipoli is heartbreaking.

It is - you know it's not going to end well for Archie but you are willing Frank to run faster....

Also:-

Schindlers list - probably too many scenes to mention...but the liquidation of the ghetto gets me every time

The death of Topthorn in War Horse

The end of The Mission where the Jesuit mission is wiped out.

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 18:43

Oh God @Lansonmaid Topthorn's death kills me. The stage show is even worse (seen it multiple times and each time I have full blown snotty sobs at poor old Topthorn dying). The German soldier who looks after them being heartbroken gets me right in the chest too.

Actually War Horse is full of them for me... The grandfather trying to buy Joey at the end with the implication that his granddaughter is dead. The calvary charging at the machine gun nest and then it cuts to horses without riders galloping forwards. The two young German soldiers who get shot for cowardice when you've been given hope that they're going to escape and live. The alcoholic dad being revealed as a war hero who hides his medals and doesn't want to talk about it.

War Horse has a LOT to answer for.

LadySilence · 09/08/2022 18:44

The end of the imitation game, just the absolute shame of the way Alan Turing was treated after everything he did

DameHelena · 09/08/2022 18:45

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 18:43

Oh God @Lansonmaid Topthorn's death kills me. The stage show is even worse (seen it multiple times and each time I have full blown snotty sobs at poor old Topthorn dying). The German soldier who looks after them being heartbroken gets me right in the chest too.

Actually War Horse is full of them for me... The grandfather trying to buy Joey at the end with the implication that his granddaughter is dead. The calvary charging at the machine gun nest and then it cuts to horses without riders galloping forwards. The two young German soldiers who get shot for cowardice when you've been given hope that they're going to escape and live. The alcoholic dad being revealed as a war hero who hides his medals and doesn't want to talk about it.

War Horse has a LOT to answer for.

I saw War Horse on stage and I was in bits as son as Joey came on as a foal at the start Grin

DameHelena · 09/08/2022 18:45

*as soon

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 18:47

DameHelena · 09/08/2022 18:45

I saw War Horse on stage and I was in bits as son as Joey came on as a foal at the start Grin

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Hahaha me too! The fourth time I saw it (I know), my friend was like are you OK?! I was all, "yeah... he's just really cute :("

Newyearnewname20 · 09/08/2022 18:53

Me too!

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