Rabbit Proof Fence
The Green Mile
… made me sad but my wife cry.
Ladder 49
Armageddon
Toy Story 3 got to me. Part nostalgia, part holy eff that’s a sad movie. Well not sad, but bittersweet. Or something.
Don’t watch and you’ll remain dry - at least for a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all these days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!!!
I refuse to watch anything with Mel Gibson in it.
^ are you a racist against Jewish racists?
Racist against all racist, antisemitic, misogynist, homophobic, alcoholic, fundamentalist catholic and overrated actors
Anybody here seen Sophie’s Choice?
I’ve never seen it, but I read the Wikipedia entry. Now that I have kids, I can’t imagine how terrible it must be to have to make a choice like that.
Dumbo … baby elephants’ life is so unfair.
Forrest Gump and Dumbo good shouts although I doubt Dumbo would have quite such an impact on me now as when I first saw it as a kid (haven’t seen that in over 20 years I’d say).
For Pixar movies, I’d have Up as number 1. Gotta beat Toy Story and Cars for me.
Also it’s a wonderful life. Great Christmas movie. Get’s me every time!
Pixar’s Up was very sad in the beginning. It’s one of those movies little kids probably won’t fully appreciate until they are older
Looks like we’ll be watcing The Notebook at the next AF meetup.
I teared up for
a) The Green Mile.
b) Big Fish (though it was the year after my father died, which resonated there)
c) another film (forgot the title) about a woman who has an affair with an old boyfriend, but who still loves her husband, even if the marriage is a little blah. They men compete for her attention, and then she dies of heart failure (she knew it was coming; they didn’t). It was very touching.
d) every once in a while, some film with a post-genocidal scene (WWII, African conflicts, Cambodia) really gets me, particularly if you come across the result and know some of the characters who have been killed, rather than watch it happen. “Everything is Illuminated” was one of them.
Thought it doesn’t make me actually cry, “Beautiful Girls” is a pretty sentimental movie for a guy.
Bambi
Land Before Time
Fievel Goes West
…and the Knicks/Pacers series.
Land before time, when his mom dies…and then when he see his shadow and thinks its her but then realizes its not her…damn…i need a tissue.
In the opening of Babe, Babe watches his mother being taken away and says in a little voice, “Goodbye, Momma.” I was not expecting that at all… 
The Lorax (mostly because it made my kid cry when they chopped down all the trees.) I had no idea I was a latent enviro but hey, what you gonna do? I just have to embrace my inner pansy.
It’s going to be tough to explain some Disney/Pixar movies to the kid - like mentioned above: Up (“where did the old woman go?”) or the beginning of Nemo (“what happened to Nemo’s mom?”)
When a dog dies it gets me. I love dogs.
I rolled out of the theater at Marley and Me - it was about to get me.
Other than that, you bitches are soft.
ETA: I also had shed a toy of jear at 32 minutes (fluff skipping, I don’t go that long) on the teen mom pron last night. This warrants a new discussion…
I knew I was forgetting something, but the comment about Babe reminded me.
In the 2009 remake of Star Trek, when James Kirk’s father has to sacrifice himself to protect everyone escaping, and he’s talking with his wife who is giving birth, I tear up. It gets me every time.
Another one that gets me, even though I’ve watched it countless times is in Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, when the guys are stuck in Helm’s deep against incredible odds and everyone is despairing, and suddenly all the Elves show up to fight along with them.
Theres another moment in The Return of the King that is almost as poignant to me but not quite. It’s when Denethor sends Faramir and his crew to retake the lost town outside of Mina’s Tirith and the guys just get cut to pieces. Just a senseless waste of brave souls.