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Hear Hear Major =D> .
Not even so much on its own terms but because the preview screening I was at had a lady who was the victim of a similar experience. There were lots of tears and I couldn't help but get a bit shellshocked by it all!
I don't remember any movie necessarily making me burst into tears (and the only Bond movie coming close is NTTD), but I have a few ones that I watch if I think some sentimentality is in order (and sometimes I do, since it is so rewarding. They sort of intermingle with my favourite feel-good movies (nothing wrong with that, if "emotional" is the criterion, I guess).
The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda dell' pianista sull' oceano), Giuseppe Tornatore, 1998. Probably my favourite movie ever...with one of Morricone's best scores.
Cinema Paradiso (or the extended version Nuovo Cinema Paradiso), also by Giuseppe Tornatore, ten years earlier...and also with one of Morricone's best scores.
(Some other Tornatore movies may also qualify regarding "emotions", that's definitely one of his strong suits...doesn't mean they are ultimately better than movies evoking fewer emotions from me.)
A banal addition: Sister Act (1992). I could watch that film every two days and feel elated every time when the nun choir sings "I Will Follow Him" etc. And I don't even believe in God.
There are a few others where I'm not so sure if it's just because they are sure to cheer me up by their humour (say Lubitsch or Wilder) or because they actually touch me emotionally. It's just a decision that I have to make. I have had Life is Beautiful on BD for ages but not watched it because I don't know how I would react to it. War Horse, in spite of having rested on my shelf for ten years or so, remains untouched, mainly because my wife doesn't want to see horses being killed in war. Just picking a humourous movie (or the umpteenth Bond film) mostly seems to be the safer bet.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Marley & Me
Hachi destroyed me. I've mentioned the story here before but I oversaw my college's film night program for a couple of years and this one was on the schedule one week. Not a single soul showed up but it was so damn emotional that I had to see it through to the end. It's a heartbreaking movie; melodramatic as hell but very sad.
It was a very melodramatic film, but there were tears were flowing at the end. I had to go and give my dog a big hug afterwards. We don't deserve them.
You and I both. We definitely don't deserve them.
Thanks for the warning. I now know why I haven't watched Hachi so far...and suppose that won't ever change.
I believe that I never cried longer than in this movie. I think, I cried the whole damn last half hour. The loyality and grieve of the dog combined with the music (I think some kind of piano sound) was too much to control my tears. I cried so much that I almost dehydrated
;)
And this was before I became a father and before we had a dog. I'm not sure if I would survive this movie now! Being a father changed my hormones and I get wet eyes in way too many movies...and now with the dog next to me on the couch...no, I don't think I can watch this one ever again (!)
Another movie I already cried as a young man was The Green Mile.
That's a good point; I remember the entire back half being packed with emotion, it's not like it's a depressing final five minutes and that's it. It stabs your heart for a long time before the credits roll.
(PS: For the benefit of Darabond, I liked Shawshank alright in comparison, though I don't see why it is in the IMDb top 50, much less in the top ten or what it used to be. But far better than that Green Mile wreck. Awful movie, the latter one.)
Though its not sad, the opposite in fact, its the way Jenny Agutter delivers the line "Daddy... my Daddy!"
Gets me every frickin time!
I only remember that it was a good movie but can't remember what the ending was and how touching it was...
The convicts in American prison movies are always the good guys...😁
Only that I was not talking about the convicts, but the Death Row staff (with a few baddies thrown in, but still). Happy normal all-American men just doing their jobs.
Well back when it was set it was probably a pretty standard job, even if it did involve killing folk. I remember one of the staff in the film was a nasty little sadist. But the rest were pretty normal family men who just happened to work on death row.
I prefer Stephen King's story to the overwrought film.
A film that really embraced the incredible heroism of that moment in history.
I must admit, I cry easily ;)
It's cheese, but it's good cheese...🤤