What is our guaranteed tear jerker movie or scene?
What is our guaranteed tear jerker movie or scene?
What movie or scene from a movie (or show) makes your eyes misty?
The dad doing one last goofy march while his son watches, in Life os beautiful (1997)
The Iron Giant
Ibelin. Saw it in the cinema when it first came out, seemed like everybody in the audience was crying.
(It's about a kid with a degenerative disease who connected with people through an MMO.)
A dogs purpose
The sinking of the Going Merry. Oda made me cry for a boat, and I'm not even joking.
The ending of Watership Down. Can't even think about without getting misty.
Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. The whole movie is pretty emotional but the scene where Tom Cruise's character confronts his absentee father on his death bed absolutely destroys me.
One of my all time favorite movies, but I gotta be ready to full on cry if I want to watch it.
The movie 'About Time'. The ending tore me up.
First season of After Life by Ricky Gervais.
The scene after where Gervais' character realizes fully what he has done, especially to himself long term, is soul crushing. The i did the right thing, but for all of the right and wrong reasons look on his face is haunting. I think it is the 2nd episode.
A lot of the episodes open with him watching his wife telling him to enjoy life. Her sitting on the hospital bed, on her final days because of cancer.
Opening for “Up” not in the top comments?
"where do you think we are?"
The context is what makes this powerful. The buildup, the misdirection, the reveal.
This was Scrubs at its best. McGinley should have won an Emmy right there.
The opening scene of Hackers (1995). Poor kid can't use a touch tone telephone or computer until his 18th birthday.
That's like taking away Mozart's piano.
When Homer drives his mom to the middle of nowhere so she could meet up with some friends to escape the police and he just stays there even even after she’s long gone long enough for day to turn into night.
“You could never just do the expected, I was just an idea in a bog, But you sewed up your dream and we made quite a team, Jim and Kermit, a boy and his frog.”
- Tom Smith - A Boy and His Frog
The scene in Interstellar when he returns from the time dilation to watch like 40 years of updates he missed from his kids.
One that comes to mind is Mike from Better Call Saul: "I broke my boy. I broke my boy."
My obvious pick: "It's a terrible day for rain."
My niche pick: Patch Adams. The scene where he considers || jumping off the cliff ||
My IDGAF what you think pick: Avengers Endgame. "Hey, Pep" and "You can rest now."
Marley dying at the end of Marley and Me
A lot of seens in Logan with Professor X. His mental decline was a gut punch because I was watching my grandfather go through the same thing at the same time. His portrayal was spot on.
Happy with Stark's daughter on the porch talking about cheeseburgers. Such a small moment, but so genuine feeling.
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
-Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Been a while but probably the opening sequence of Up
"A toast to my big brother George, the richest man in town."
Alternatively:
"You are who you choose to be."
"Superman."
Ending of the Sixth Sense.
"Grandma says you asked her a question. She says to tell you the answer is 'every day', what was the question, momma?"
"Did I make you proud?"
Into the wild when he discovers that human existence isn't meant to be lived in isolation and then dies a few days later in total isolation.
The end of Saving Private Ryan always gets me as well.
Maes Hughes' big action moment in Full Metal Alchemist - either version.
Alternatively, the scene this music https://youtu.be/EL7e5XrzanA goes to (Ep 5 of Cowboy Bebop) - far more of a tear jerker for me than the final episode.
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it."
The last scene of the last episode of Six Feet Under.
So I don't get to the cinema much, but I got to see The Muppets when it came out (over a decade ago, good grief), and Kermit singing Pictures In My Head totally broke me.
Dunno whether it will work for anyone else, but like many of a certain age, I grew up with the original Muppet Show on TV and it hit too damn hard.
When Mufasa dies.
Silver Linings Playbook. A real tear jurker. The scene at the end.
General Waverly walks out in uniform to find his old unit waiting for him. (“White Christmas”)
The Christmas Dinner at the end of "Seven Fishes" Season 2 of The Bear. Cuts a little too much on the dotted line for me.
Paddington 2
definately honey, I blew everyone. Oh man especially that scener where.......oh wait. tear. tear jerker. my bad.
I found the entire concept, but especially the "happy ending" of Paulie to be tragic and extremely depressing to me.
My mother loved Beaches and Steel Magnolias but they always ruined my day. Then my mother died of cancer and they crossed into the unwatchable list.
Les Mis
for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJXiB5i_q0
The ending of that Scrubs episode with Brendan Fraser https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e__1KU7lg-4
The ending of Jurassic Bark https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBbKSFhw9A
Watching the music video for My Heart Will Go On
The ending of this Cold Case episode https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMc_RyGBjBE
The ending of Pan's Labyrinth
The music video for Hozier's Take Me To Church
The liberation of a concentration camp in Band Of Brothers
The Wild Robot if you're a parent.
When Pepper tells Tony he can rest.
The end of Onward
THIS scence from "Platoon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEv3zzKyiFQ
The music is adagio for strings which has to be the saddest most emotional score ever
Another one is the movie 'The Fountain' which is played excellently by Hugh Jackman.
the street performance scene in bocchi the rock, no matter what ill always start crying when i watch it
Toy Story 4. The scene where Woody says goodbye to the rest of the toys and goes off on his new adventure with Bo Peep. Gets me every time.
The original Toy Story was the first movie I remember seeing in a theatre so maybe there's some nostalgia contributing to that.
Ernest Goes to Camp, when the kids pick on him and reject him. He sings the song “All I Needed Was a Friend”. No joke, shit hits hard
John Q
Up
"It's not your fault" - Good Will Hunting
That part of airbud where he tries to push the dog away and abandon him. Sorry in advance.
"A dog's purpose" movie's main purpose was to be tear jerker.
The fault in our stars was so sad I wish I hadn't ever watched it. I hate that movie.
“You.. complete me.” -Jerry Maguire
It's not a movie, it's an old avertisement, and I guarantee you if it doesn't stir something in you, you're not human:
"I love you Daddy" -Clannad
Every time and even when I just think about it
So my sister bought me the wind rises... I went it watching it thinking it was another fun film... I called her after I finished and told her I was not mentally prepared for that.
Such a beautiful film though...
Martyrs
Wolf children