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Oh bloody hell kids films. <sobs in to sleeve>

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SheWhoDaresGins · 17/02/2016 12:08

Just watched the Good Dinosaur all the way through for the first time and I am reduced to tears.

Why do the make them so emotional.
Monsters inc
Up
Toy story
The Croods
Inside out
Any bloody kids film reduces me to a puddle of snot and tears.

Brilliant films though Grin

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FixItUpChappie · 18/02/2016 04:48

Oh yes, that heartbreaking scene in Tangled where her parents look so, so sad lighting a lantern for her.....a punch right to the gut that one.

Tigresswoods · 18/02/2016 05:00

Harry Potter looking in that mirror of erised.

Wendy looking after the Lost Boys in Peter Pan.

Little kids need mums!!!

Juanbablo · 18/02/2016 05:54

Dd started sobbing whilst watching Box Trolls yesterday, when the baby is abandoned. It is pretty sad. My personal nemesis is the Lion King. Gets me every time!

sneepy · 18/02/2016 08:43

Why has nobody mentioned My Neighbor Totoro? The bit in the hospital where the mum is brushing the girls' hair gets me every time. Also the ending, nothing like a lost child being found to pull the heartstrings.

Terribleknitter · 18/02/2016 09:13

Grave of the fireflies. Jesus. DD1 asked to watch it as part of her Studio Ghibli marathon so I watched it first. She can watch that one when she's older and not living at home...
Bridge to Terabithia is beautiful but so haunting. I sobbed.

jdubb · 18/02/2016 10:40

Bambi, International Velvet, The Railway Children and both the Nanny McPhee films.

Smashie11 · 18/02/2016 11:04

Yes yes to all of the films mentioned so far but the one that is banned in our house is The Fox and the Hound! When she's taking Todd to dump him in the woods omg bawling like a baby. Anytime it's on the TV my sister always phones me to wind me up.

bikingintherain · 18/02/2016 11:14

My kids have never seen beyond the bit in the fox and the hound beyond where he goes and learns to be a hunting dog. As far as they're concerned it's a story about a dog and a hound becoming friends!

LaundryFairy · 18/02/2016 14:32

I couldn't watch Finding Nemo for about 4 years after DS was born. Couldn't get past the scene where the mother is eaten (in a bloody kids' film!?!?!) without sobbing uncontrollably.

LaundryFairy · 18/02/2016 14:35

My father once said to me that he was told the same thing as Bambi when his mother died - "Your mother can't be with you anymore" (he was aged 12 when she died). I cried so much when he told me. I'll never be able to get through Bambi.

cariadrose · 19/02/2016 11:16

Paddington is, to date, the saddest film I've ever seen. I watched it on a plane shortly after I'd been approved to adopt, and was just an absolute state the entire time.

(Immediately afterwards I watched Pride. Needless to say I was dehydrated by the time we touched down).

Mummagem33 · 19/02/2016 11:45

Dumbo-everytime!
Home Alone 1
Elf
An American Tail
My Girl!
I cried at Mary Poppins the other day
Can anyone remember the film Andre-about a seal!?
I cry at most films to be honest! Blush

Lillabet · 19/02/2016 11:52

Pretty much everything mentioned so far, although I haven't watched the bridge to terrabithia and after this thread I won't be!
I'll also add King Kong to the list; 30's Faye Wray incarnation had me bawling at a friend's house when I was about 6. It just seemed so bloody unfair that they'd taken this beautiful creature from its natural habitat and then when it didn't behave as they wanted it to they killed it! My friends parents were ConfusedHmmShock and rang my parents very concerned about how upset I was.
I have a list of films that are banned in this house: E.T., Bambi, King Kong, Homeward Bound because they're just too heartbreaking to watch. Although Up, Toy Story etc do make me weep they don't make my heart ache so I can watch them, even if I do actually require a full box of tissues. I've been worse since having children and when pregnant? Bloody adverts set me off!Confused

Sunnybitch · 19/02/2016 12:32

Anybody here seen Into the west?

Mischa123 · 19/02/2016 12:50

I don't understand, I cry at all sorts but the good dinosaur, nope, nothing

Julietee · 19/02/2016 12:55

My neighbour totoro always gets me. And Kiki's Delivery Service. And Spirited Away.

the Last Unicorn, anyone? When Molly Grue says, 'How could you come to me now?'

ChihuahuaChick · 19/02/2016 14:01

Did anyone else see The Mouse and His Child? It was about a pair of clockwork mice - father and son - attached at the hands so they danced in a circle together. They were "alive" like in Toy Story. I don't remember much of the movie, just this one bit where they get captured by these evil sewer rats who have enslaved a whole bunch of wind up toys to work pulling stuff round for them in chains. When the wind up toys would break too much to work, the rats would execute them by ripping them limb from limb into spare parts and at one point a clockwork donkey is crying "Please no, I can work I can work" as the rats advance on him then you can hear him scream as they start breaking him. Ugh. My younger sibs loved it and would watch the VHS over and over but that part made me feel a bit sick.Sad

SausageSmuggler · 19/02/2016 14:50

The end of Big Hero 6 really got me.
I'm glad others got teary at Tinkerbell and the Neverbeast. I blamed pg hormones for getting upset at that one!

OnceAMeerNotAlwaysAMeer · 19/02/2016 18:47

The Song of the Sea oh god oh god.

Bambi. Jeeze. like a knife to the heart.

Dumbo.

The Studio Ghibli stuff too. Do not dare watch Grave of the Fireflies.

I -read- Bridge to Terebithia when it first came out (thanks whoever pointed out that the name came from C S Lewis/the Bibile, now I know why I called it Terebinthia for years!).

The Good Dinosaur. FFS. The death was bad enough but the little human being re-united with his family ... oh fuck.

Yes, Tarka the Otter.

Watership Down. But so beautiful too. Like a lot of the films. It's the beauty of them that makes them hit you.

I lost my real mum young at 11, these films are just piercing.

vladthedisorganised · 19/02/2016 19:17

Aaargh Song of the Sea, DD loves it and it reminds me of my mum too. Flowers Once

PollyPurple · 19/02/2016 19:20

I cried quite a bit during Maleficant!

The 'true loves kiss' scene Sad

PollyPurple · 19/02/2016 19:21

I haven't let Ds watch Watership Down yet, as I know he'll be in bits!

PollyPurple · 19/02/2016 19:24

I've still got War Horse to watch but can't bring myself to watch it yet. In fact I've got the book too and can't even start reading it.

MrsHathaway · 19/02/2016 19:36

I'm sorry I watched War Horse. I'd choose to unwatch it if I could.

Ditto Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Fucking hell.

(And Valkyrie but that's definitely not a children's film.)

InQuiteAPickle · 19/02/2016 19:37

I had to pretend I had something in my eye when the DDs were watching Brother Bear yesterday. It's so sad - when we hear the story from Koda's side.

I found it sad when I took my nephew to watch it years ago but it's even worse now I have children.

I had a heart of stone before I had kids, now I blub at everything. I daren't watch My Girl. It was one of my favourite films as a child but I haven't watched it since I had children. I'd be a wreck!