welsh_gamer Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 With Valentines fast approaching, and it being a time when many girls sit down to watch a film and cry the night away, I ask what in Popular Culture has made you shed a tear, be it a Film, TV show, Game, Song or Book? The responses should be intresting, as the majority of users on this forum are men (or should that be boys I wonder). Here are some of mine @ 24 Season 2 When George Mason sacrificed his last few living hours to "defuse" the Nuclear Bomb. 24 Season 5 When poor Edgar died! His last words were Chloe!! Forrest Gump When his mother and girlfriend/wife dies. The Green Mile The ending of course! Classic tear-jerker. LOTR : ROTK When the king died and Gandalf and Frodo's goobye at the end. (I wasnt crying, just misty eyed here!) Schinder's List When the jews give Oskar the ring. And when the man with one arm is killed! The Elephant Man When he finally gets to go asleep, when he dies at the end. The music is also moving here. Elite Beat Agents The song/cutscenes where a young girl's father is killed in an accident. That's all I can think of, for now!
welsh_gamer Posted February 12, 2007 Author Posted February 12, 2007 Lol, you cried over 24! Yes i know! A tough action show made me cry! What does that prove? That I'm a little poof or a man with some emotion? lol I'm pretty open about crying over silly things.
Eenuh Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Grave of the fireflies. Everything. Very moving film. Made me cry too. But I cry at a lot of stuff. I've cried during Desperate Housewives even. Also movies like The Lion King and Bambi could make me cry (though I haven't watched them in a while). Basically, whenever I see someone crying, chances are big I'll cry too. ='3 For songs, The day after tomorrow by Saybia can make me cry when I'm in a sad mood. Or I miss you now from the Stereophonics. Lots of other songs too, but I just sorta have to be in a sad mood for it to happen. In books, the only one I really remember crying over was The Neverending Story (at least the first times I read it), when the horse dies. There's been more books, I just don't remember which ones. Basically, I cry a lot. Over almost anything. XD I've never cried during a videogame though I think. Interesting. =O
Tellyn Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Lol, you cried over 24! Sorry but I have to agree with him on those, both practically made me cry. It was the look on Edgar's face and the way he said Chloe, as if he expected her to save him.
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Lol, you cried over 24! It ain't funny, man. I was welling up in lots of places during Series/Season 1. I will post some more tearjerkers later. Seriously, I'm a big sissy. I need to compile a database for the amount of times I've cried over films.
Dan_Dare Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Brokeback Mountain. The last shot of that film just cracked me and I was crying for ages after. Utterly incredible emotion in that film
The3rdChildren Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Beware, super-spoilers and super long descriptions that may not be 110% accurate: The X Files In season 7 when we finally learn the fate of Mulder's sister and he reunites briefly with her is possibly the most tearjerking moment in the X Files. The scene is shot beautifully with some really sad music and I guess having watched the X Files for so many years it really did give a huge sense of Closure, just as the episode was titled. The End of Evangelion As the JSSDF infiltate NERV to seize control of the Evangelions by force Misato saves and escorts a broken Shinji to Eva-01. Unfortunately she is shot when some soldiers spot them but they escape to the cage lifts behind a sealed door. There she gives Shinji this incredibly upsetting/encouraging pep talk before the door behind him suddenly opens and he falls back into the lift with this look of sheer horror and she looks on smiling as the doors close shut. She then collapses in a pool of blood and the entire area detonates. Inside the lift Shinji looks down at his face and hand covered in Misato's blood and falls to his knees crying. Futurama Luck of the Fryrish. The best episode of Futurama is also the most upsetting. I remember being quite stunned after first watching this, mostly that a cartoon could make me feel so upset... but in a kinda feel good way. DragonBall GT - Episode 64 Yeah, so GT was shitty, but the final episode is just really amazingly sad for me and probably more so for people who'd watched the show growing up with Goku in Japan. After one final wish with the DragonBalls is made, Goku is instructed by Shenlong to come along with him and they both fly off. Goku then visits Piccolo in hell and shakes his hand and shares a really nice moment with Krillin on Kame Island, both times simply vanishing from sight. Up in the sky, Goku exclaims to Shenlong how he's really tired and lays down on his back and closes his eyes. The seven DragonBalls then pass into Goku as he drifts off to sleep and he and Shenlong fly off into the clouds and vanish. Decades later after Goku's death, a martial arts tournament Goku often fought in is being held, where a child closely resembling Goku is fighting another who closely resembles Vegeta. Pan, Goku's grandaughter is an old woman spectating in the crowd and during the fight thinks she spots Goku across from her, but he's gone in an instant. Goku, who was there all along, is then shown walking unnoticed through crowds of people as the series theme begins and the end credits recapping DragonBall, DragonBall Z and DragonBall GT plays. At the end, Goku lifts up into the air, gives a cheery salute to the viewer and along with Kintoun flies off into the sky.
Guest Stefkov Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Forrest Gump When his mother and girlfriend/wife dies. LOTR : ROTK When the king died and Gandalf and Frodo's goobye at the end. (I wasnt crying, just misty eyed here!) That's all I can think of, for now! I aggree with those two. The ending of ROTK made me puzzled but I also felt sorry and sad for them all.
Blackfox Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 I think the only one I've ever jerked a tear at was Forrest Gump when I was a wee nipper.. call me insenstive
DomJcg Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Futurama Luck of the Fryrish. The best episode of Futurama is also the most upsetting. I remember being quite stunned after first watching this, mostly that a cartoon could make me feel so upset... but in a kinda feel good way. not only that one but the ending of the dog one with the sad music really got to me
Tellyn Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers At Osgiliath where Sam prevents Frodo from giving himself up to the Nazgul, then comes up with his incredibly moving speech. (Copied from a scipt on the Internet.) SAM: It's me. It's your Sam. Don't you know your Sam? With gradual realisation Frodo sits back dropping Sting on the floor. He slumps back against a wall as Sam sits up FRODO: I can't do this, Sam. SAM: (getting to his feet) I know. It's all wrong. (he leans against a wall looking out at Osgiliath) By rights, we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. (he watches a Nazgul fly away) Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end.....because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was...... when so much bad had happened? Frodo sits panting, tears in his eyes. In Helms Deep the Uurk-hai are running away. Theoden raises his sword in joy. THEODEN: Victory! We have victory! SAM VOICEOVER: But in the end, it's only a passing thing...... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you......that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Gandalf kills another Uruk-hai and smiles. Aragorn pauses and smiles. The flood water continues to flow into the Isengard dungeons and Merry and Pippin look relieved. Saruman backs back into his tower SAM: Folk in those stories......had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going......because they were holding on to something. FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam? Sam turns to look at Frodo. Gollum looks on sadly. Sam lifts Frodo to his feet SAM: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.
Mr. Bananagrabber Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 I get easily emotional and involved in TV shows. I wont do Forrest Gump because it's already been done in this thread, but it really is a heart warming and breaking movie. Jesus, the end bit. When Trip goes to T'pols quarters with his arm in a sling and explains why their baby died. How it was Paxton's scientists fault for not creating her perfectly. And that he finds comfort in the fact that she wasn't doomed from the start, and Vulcans and Humans can have children in the future if they chose too. He tries not to cry, but fails, so T'pol holds his hand. Then we have an exterior shot of Enterprise orbiting Earth with some wonderful music playing and the series comes to an end. That's why ENT bashing annoys me. It went so much deeper than any other Trek. Do I really have to explain this one? Anyone who's seen it knows why.
Goron_3 Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Rocky Balboa was a very sad film. ooo and the song 'Gone away' by the Offspring. So sad...
Ashley Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 A film has never made me cry. TV has. Pretty much any time when Alyson Hannigan cries, its so heartbreaking because she is so nice and sweet (except that time she tried to destroy the world, I didn't cry then). And when Joyce died. When Keith rescues Veronica and she says "I knew you'd come, I knew you'd save me". On paper it sounds corny but its an emotional time. And then when Logan saves her a year later...actually I think it was the line "He caused the bus crash...he killed my father...he raped me!" And then recently there was a storyline involving someone slipping a girl an RU-486 (which induces a miscarriage) and it just made me cry because it reminded me of the night my roommate lost her baby. Probably other shows too. I got upset at episodes of Scrubs such as "My Old Lady" and "My Screw Up", but didn't cry. And I've been upset before now and been listening to emotional music and it just tipped me over the edge, but that was more due to feelings anyway, rather than the music as such.
Hero-of-Time Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Buffy [spoiler=]"Cant remember which season it was but it was when she just stabbed Angel and sent him to hell just as he regained his soul and looked her in the eyes." [spoiler=]"When buffy sacrificed herself to save Dawn at the end of the season." [spoiler=]"Where Spike sacrificed himself at the end of the series. Buffy looked at him and said she loved him but he knew she was lying and gave her a smile and replied " No you dont" before disappearing." Armageddon [spoiler=]"The whole Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis scene gets me everytime as does when he is talking to Liv Tyler over the monitor" Gladiator [spoiler=]"Basically the end when Maximus is dying and he can see himself walking in the fields before seeing his wie and kid." Probably alot more but I feel I have humiliated myself enough....for now.
MoogleViper Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 The Champ. Can't even remember it just vaguely remember a tear coming to my eye at the last scene.
AshMat Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 24 Season 1. The finale. The Truman show... LOTR:ROTK, the ending.
McMad Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 DragonBall GT - Episode 64 Yeah, so GT was shitty, but the final episode is just really amazingly sad for me and probably more so for people who'd watched the show growing up with Goku in Japan. After one final wish with the DragonBalls is made, Goku is instructed by Shenlong to come along with him and they both fly off. Goku then visits Piccolo in hell and shakes his hand and shares a really nice moment with Krillin on Kame Island, both times simply vanishing from sight. Up in the sky, Goku exclaims to Shenlong how he's really tired and lays down on his back and closes his eyes. The seven DragonBalls then pass into Goku as he drifts off to sleep and he and Shenlong fly off into the clouds and vanish. Decades later after Goku's death, a martial arts tournament Goku often fought in is being held, where a child closely resembling Goku is fighting another who closely resembles Vegeta. Pan, Goku's grandaughter is an old woman spectating in the crowd and during the fight thinks she spots Goku across from her, but he's gone in an instant. Goku, who was there all along, is then shown walking unnoticed through crowds of people as the series theme begins and the end credits recapping DragonBall, DragonBall Z and DragonBall GT plays. At the end, Goku lifts up into the air, gives a cheery salute to the viewer and along with Kintoun flies off into the sky. Thank God this got other people teary, I thought I was the only person affected by this. But anyway GT shouldn't have been made, Toriyama didn't really make it so I don't like to think of it as what happend after but more of a alternate reality, therefore I can still think of the ending of Z being more happy. [spoiler=]It's really pretty sad though to think that all the characters you know and love are all dead, but it is cool to see Goku with Nyoi-bo and Nimbus.
welsh_gamer Posted February 12, 2007 Author Posted February 12, 2007 Phew, I'm glad I'm not the only one who shed a tear at the end of Return of the King. I think one of the reasons I got emotional was because it was the last LOTR film, there was not going to be another one ever again...sniff...so saying goodbye to characters you care about is very hard! Also, I cried at Gladiator, and for sum biazzare reason Love Actually can;t remember what scene, but it had something to do with the young lad and Liam Neeson' character.
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Alright, I think I'm ready to do this. 24 Season 1: Some of the scenes between Senator Palmer and his son, especially after the break's the story about Ferragamo's murder. Other scenes between these two are so well acted. Towards the end, when Jack is about to "trade himself" for Kim (I think). And then jack breaks down, I found it hard not to cry at that. Gladiator: Same thing H-o-T said Armageddon: same as H-o-T. Also, I agree with the3rdchildren: The x-files bit with Mulder's sister bluddy made me bawl my eyes out. Stand by me: The scenes towards the end when they part ways. This film just reminds me about childhood and how it's true that you never have as good a friend/s as you do when you're young. The bit with the computer and the credits rolling really got to me. Lord Of The Rings: When Boromir dies... Also when you see the ship sailing at the end, and you realise that it really is the end. Sooo many more. Rocky I and II: Whe he's shouting in the ring at the end for Adrian. And when they embrace. In II, where he gets back up on the 10 count, and how the music kicks in. Just that whole scene, right towards the end. It sorta says to me "we did it, kid." Fucking incredible. Last night, I was reading The Amber Spyglass, and this bit just destroyed me: When Lyra has to leave Pan in order to get to the land of the dead. I kept waiting for something to happen, so that they would not be seperated, but it didn't, and you realise the harsh truth that she has to leave him behind. Castaway: When he loses Wilson. Seriously, any actor that can make you cry over a volleyball is one hell of an actor. Tom Hanks is amazing. The ending where he's at the crossroads and it just cuts. Such a bleak but incredible ending.
AshMat Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Towards the end, when Jack is about to "trade himself" for Kim (I think). And then jack breaks down, I found it hard not to cry at that. . I found it hard not to jump up and yell YES GO ON JACK, KILL THE FUCKERS!
welsh_gamer Posted February 12, 2007 Author Posted February 12, 2007 Castaway: When he loses Wilson. Seriously, any actor that can make you cry over a volleyball is one hell of an actor. Tom Hanks is amazing. The ending where he's at the crossroads and it just cuts. Such a bleak but incredible ending. LOL ye. I think I cried the first time I saw that, but now I think how stupid I was. My friend shouts Wilson, everytime she see's a FedEx van go by Most Tom Hanks films are tearjerkers now I think about it. I vaguely remember getting emotional in The Terminal, and my mum cried once at the end of Turner and Hooch.
Recommended Posts