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Usivius wrote:top 3 off the top of my head for me are:

- City Lights
- Fearless (Jeff Bridges)
- Being There


(and always at the end...)
dude! i had to check this thread again when i saw you'd posted cause i figured you'd name one, Usivius, that i would definitely agree with and there it is, one of the most powerful movies i've ever seen!!

Fearless!!! omg, two words, Rosie Perez!!
total tearjerker!! :thumbsup:
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heh, thanks Luci.
Yah, I think we talked about this before: the scene witht he toolbox in the back of the car. Wow. Shivers. First her breakdown and then when Bridges freaks out and realizes shes 'gone'... shivers...

But the one that brings me tears every time is the end:
I'm ALIVE!
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bloodguard bob wrote:I don't know if anybody has seen Tampopo or Akira Kurusawa's Dreams but those are the only flics that'll make me cry every time.
Curious...both being Japanese and all.
I've made a few attempts at Dreams but can't seem to stay awake during it. I find that movies that are all dreamlike through the whole thing make my mind want to go to that state.

I love Tampopo, but haven't seen it for a while. Stupid Netflix doesn't have it, and I've got it saved if they ever get it again. But my memory of Tampopo is that it is hilarious, and not really a tearjerker. I'm trying to think what might be sad in it. It's about trying to make the perfect ramen, right?
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Cagliostro wrote: I'm trying to think what might be sad in it. It's about trying to make the perfect ramen, right?
You know how there are many sub plots throughout the movie?
Tearjerker #1. the camera follows the guy who seems to be running for his life
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and gets home to see his wife is gravely ill yet she cooks the family one last meal before she dies
Tj #2. When the gangster gets shot
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and tells his girlfriend about the sweetpotato sausages.
Tj #3. Towards the end when they drink down all the stock and Nobuko Miyamoto starts to cry.
I don't know if it's great acting, I do know it's great storytelling. But I think a big part for me is I relate to the culinary aspect of the movie so much that the stories in Tampopo have a strong effect on me.
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Well, for a Happy Tear Jerker, for me the end of "Defending Your Life" gets me everytime. "Let him go".
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Just saw a list that ranked Untamed Heart as #9--what a great movie (and yes I did cry)!
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Here's the Top 25:

1. Terms of Endearment
2. Bambi
3. Sophie's Choice
4. An Affair to Remember
5. It's a Wonderful Life
6. Brokeback Mountain
7. Brian's Song
8. E.T.
9. Ghost
10. Field of Dreams
11. The Notebook
12. Old Yeller
13. Brief Encounter
14. Kramer vs. Kramer
15. Life is Beautiful
16. Titanic
17. Glory
18. Love Story
19. Ordinary People
20. Stella Dallas
21. Steel Magnolias
22. Longtime Companion
23. The Joy Luck Club
24. Charly
25. Goodbye Mr. Chips
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WHAT!! No Beaches on either list!!!??? That's supposed to be to the #1 girly-tearjerker of all time. I cryed during Charly I'll proudly say...and no I didn't see or cry during Brokeback Mt. :P
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no Biko? (Cry Freedom) :cry:


for some reason Against All Odds pops into mind, too..... :?
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Nope...my 12 year old tear-jerker movie didn't make the list...
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Menolly wrote:Nope...my 12 year old tear-jerker movie didn't make the list...

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? :o
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Hmmmm. No Against All Odds or Out of the Past.

Good to see ToE at #1.
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BAMBI- oh dear lord, when he's running through the forest searching for Filene.....gah. Must go sob now....
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Menolly wrote:Nope...my 12 year old tear-jerker movie didn't make the list...
Well? What is it?
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Y'all are going to laugh at my naive, sheltered 12 year old self...

But I came home from the theater, closed my bedroom door and sobbed.

I can't even bring myself to admit it, so...

From the opening theme song:

Now the Valley
cried with anger
"Mount your horses
Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain people
So they claimed their just reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure
on the mountain
dark and red
turned the stone and looked beneath it...

...Peace on Earth was all it said.

I knew y'all would laugh at me...

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OMG!!!! 8O Billy Jack!!!! How could we forget that one?


One Tin Soldier makes me cry to this day...... :cry:
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So you're not going to laugh at me?

<hopeful teary smile>

...wishing I could find video of the opening animated sequence...
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For some reason Field of Dreams makes me tear up a little.
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Menolly wrote:So you're not going to laugh at me?

<hopeful teary smile>

...wishing I could find video of the opening animated sequence...
laugh at you? :huh: you're talking to a guy who cried himself to sleep listening to Wildfire on the radio as a kid, heh.... :lol:

Billy Jack has affected me and my whole outlook on life from the day I saw it. I think it was my first real exposure to self-sacrifice, and "doing the right thing" no matter what the cost. The movie seems kinda skewed and even a little silly looking back on it from here and now, but it still remains an integral block in the foundation of my character to this day......especially the "one tin soldier rides away" line.......the utter solitude of the utterly righteous......

I read alot of HCA as a kid, too.... ;)
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The end of It's a Wonderful Life gets me every time.

Field of Dreams is up there too.
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