Tear Jerker Films

Jules

Subtitled or dubbed Karl?

Black Swan

The Four Feathers (most recent)

Karl Hungus

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Brilliant film... If everyone was forced to watch this we might have fewer wars in this world.

It is indeed brilliant, and I'd agree with you, it's probably the furthest thing you could find from a gung-ho glorification of war type film. It's a pretty brutal and honest look at the effects of war, and it's just heart-rending.

Jules80 wrote: »

Subtitled or dubbed Karl?

The DVD has both options, but you'll be a philistine if you watch it dubbed.

faceman

Unfortunately ladies, im with KH and monkeyfudge on their choices.

more appealing to the ladies, Id also add to the list, "the english patient" and "lamb".

I still reckon "best of the best" is a top tear jerker movie. You help but not cry when eric roberts is trying to restrain his tears with that 8ft wide smile he half manages to make. "I offer myself as your brother" top stuff!

Oryx

If weve moved on to war film, Das Boot is one of the best I ever saw. I cant remember crying, but it really stayed with me.

Karl Hungus

faceman wrote: »

Unfortunately ladies, im with KH and monkeyfudge on their choices.

more appealing to the ladies, Id also add to the list, "the english patient" and "lamb".

I still reckon "best of the best" is a top tear jerker movie. You help but not cry when eric roberts is trying to restrain his tears with that 8ft wide smile he half manages to make. "I offer myself as your brother" top stuff!

How's that unfortunate?

I'll be honest with you, I wasn't all that gone on Best of the Best. It was good, but didn't really stir me that much.

KtK wrote: »

If weve moved on to war film, Das Boot is one of the best I ever saw. I cant remember crying, but it really stayed with me.

Moved onto war films? We're talking about tear jerking films, and if those films happen to be war, or drama, or sci-fi, or whatever else that jerks tears, then that's what we're on, innit?

By the way... The end of Terminator 2... *Sniffle*

metrovelvet

Gallipoli

fits

TheB wrote: »

E.T .... I start crying at the start because I know what happens at the end.. I don't watch it anymore.. it totally makes be depressed and ashamed to be human.. what they do to that lil alien... Oh god I'm starting with the sighing already.. :rolleyes:

LOL.

I'm the same. I love ET, but have a habit of bawling uncontrollably.

KtK wrote: »

If weve moved on to war film, Das Boot is one of the best I ever saw. I cant remember crying, but it really stayed with me.

Das Boot is a wonderful film. Really stayed with me too.

Karl Hungus

As great as Das Boot is, I have to say, I wasn't exactly moved to tears by it.

Piste

A Walk to Remember has me bawling every time, especially when she sings that song!

I'm a blubbering fool at Dumbo tho, it's so sad when he visits his mum and they holdtrunks through the bars of the cage Poor lamb


I honestly didn't think The Notebook was all that and a bag of chips though, we watched it in CSPE cos some girls were doing a project on something to do with old people and though I thought it was a sweet movie, it didn't have me crying or anything!

Love Actually too is a sweet movie, so Christmassy!

faceman

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I'll be honest with you, I wasn't all that gone on Best of the Best. It was good, but didn't really stir me that much.

truth be told, its an awful awful movie with some great comical eric roberts moments (although not as quoted or mimicked as much as "the pope of greenwich village" down the pub with mates!), however i do remember when i was 15 bawling my eyes out at the end! (I was big into martial arts back then!)

gidget

" What's Love Got to Do with It" when Tina Turner's character escapes after the final beating and is at the hotel check in desk pleading for help, just looking at that battered and bloodied face, could not for the life of me, hold back the tears.

"Steel Magnolias",

And I really hate to say it but " My Girl" when Vada goes up to the coffin in the funeral parlour. Thought i would have grown out of that as i hadn't seen it in years, but saw it a few months back and started crying again

Lemming

Jules80 wrote: »

That could be it they don't ring any bells, have seen empire of the sun and elephant man. Both made me cry.

But might just go and see if i can get my hands on the other two!

GO!!! Watch Grave of the Fireflies. Harrowing yet simply beautiful at the same time.

Quality

I thought I was going to be balling my eyes out watching atonement, It was very disappointing.

Jules

Quality wrote: »

I thought I was going to be balling my eyes out watching atonement, It was very disappointing.

Quailty.... you should hang your head in shame..... Mixing up pighead with the others.... SHAME ON YOU YOUNG LADY!!

Quality

Jules80 wrote: »

Quailty.... you should hang your head in shame..... Mixing up pighead with the others.... SHAME ON YOU YOUNG LADY!!

I know, I feel terrible, I apologised to him and all. I am banned from ah for a week....

That Pigman II wasnt very nice, I promise to be more considerate in future though and to research before I type.....

Jules

what did he say.... actually we will move this to the bar for better chats....


eh hem.. back on topic here people!

Nightwish

Men In Black...I couldnt stop the tears a-flowin' when Tommy Lee Jones got his memory erased

Quality

I remember being in tears reading ps i love you.

I am now dreading going to see the film.

Cry me a river...

nomorebadtown

Piste wrote: »

A Walk to Remember has me bawling every time, especially when she sings that song!

I'm a blubbering fool at Dumbo tho, it's so sad when he visits his mum and they holdtrunks through the bars of the cage Poor lamb

dumbo is totally and utterly heartbreaking to watch:(

Quality

Went into HMV to buy the notebook today, the girl at the counter told me to buy a box of tissues to accompany it...,

It better be good,.... Roll on Thursday.

Chinafoot

The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
In the Name of the Father
My Left Foot
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Awakenings
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Lord of the Rings Return of the King
E.T.
Most of the Disney Classics
Monsters Inc
Babe
Dirty Dancing
Steel Magnolias
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
Forrest Gump

I cry at most things though...

Quality

I was crying at x factor last night

Leons great aunt:o:o:o

stratospheres

I have to agree with people that said The Notebook!
It's so so good

Black Swan

Watched the recent remake of Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley on DVD and it drew a few tears.

Pyjamarama

All Dogs go to Heaven - bawl my eyes out every time!! Charlie ... sob!!!

Must watch the Notebook, I've heard such good things!!

RubyXI

The green mile. Only thing that ever nearly made me cry.

Femelade

girls , ye have to watch "reign over me"..excellent film, and wil definatly get the tears flowing.
also i always cry at the exact same moment on "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind"..and i've seen it alot!
Watched indecent proposal the other night..and i cried my little heart out.

Cokehead Mother

Pretty Woman: Why can't they just let her shop?

Fast_Mover

Quality wrote: »

I was crying at x factor last night
Leons great aunt:o:o:o

It was actually Rhydians greataunt.:)

The Notebook was only ok..didn't think it was anything great!!


*waits for the abuse*:o

Jules

You have no soul!!!

Na, im joking. Sometimes it just not for some people!!

Fast_Mover

Im a blubbering ejit at anything sad don't get me wrong but that film just didn't do it for me.

I remember after a night out myself and my friend went back to the guys house..there was about 5 of them and two of us. They decided to throw on a dvd while we drank some more...it was either 'The Notebook' or 'Shrek'...the lads all wanted the notebook!:eek: I was bored senseless!

Karl Hungus

Did anyone get around to seeing the films I've mentioned yet?

Fast_Mover

Brotherhood and Grave of the Fireflies is it?
No, have not done im afraid..Someday.:)

Lockstep

I don't tend to cry at movies since I became a big boy (like CHandler,I'm dead inside) although I used to cry at Darby O'Gill and the Little People when the coachman is taking him away (But I like Darby Daddy, why are they taking him)

Schindler's list moved me a lot.

This will sound sad but I've been feeling unchristmasy so I put on Miracle on 34th street, I felt like I wanted to cry:( It was such a moving movie.

faceman

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Did anyone get around to seeing the films I've mentioned yet?

your dedication is admirable KH, but as you know, unless its in the new release section in xtravision, most people dont venture beyond it.

Jules

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Did anyone get around to seeing the films I've mentioned yet?

Can't find them in xtravision... where would i get them?

faceman

Jules80 wrote: »

Can't find them in xtravision... where would i get them?

if you live in dublin, try Laser video store. You can rent from there. They have a store on georges st still (i think) and there is one in ranelagh. GReat video shop.

Jules

I live in Rathmines, so next stop Ranelagh!

faceman

If you are going to ranelagh via that road by the swan centre, keep going until you reach ranelagh village, swing a right and its up that road a bit on the right.

misswex

I watched Veronica Guerin for the first time the other week and I was absolutely in buckets of tears by the end of it. My OH couldn't believe how upset I was.

Other films I recall as being ones that I know I'm going to cry at:
Armageddon - when Bruce Willis character decides to stay behind and you see his poor daughter just sitting at the screens.
Titanic - not for the really badly scripted love story but the bits of truth they had in it, the band playing to the end, the old couple staying together, 3rd class being told they couldn't go up on deck etc

John Mason

misswex wrote: »

I
Titanic - not for the really badly scripted love story but the bits of truth they had in it, the band playing to the end, the old couple staying together, 3rd class being told they couldn't go up on deck etc

LOL i went to see this with an ex when it come out first, he was in floods of tears and i was just bored out of head, i laughed at him the whole way home and then told all his mates about it

RAFC

irishbird wrote: »

LOL i went to see this with an ex when it come out first, he was in floods of tears and i was just bored out of head, i laughed at him the whole way home and then told all his mates about it

That's the last time he'll bring you to the pictures

John Mason

RAFC wrote: »

That's the last time he'll bring you to the pictures

well he is married now, so i would hope not:D

RAFC

irishbird wrote: »

well he is married now, so i would hope not:D

oh! Good point :D:D

Catari Jaguar

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Did anyone get around to seeing the films I've mentioned yet?

I have Grave of the Fireflies but I'm too scared to watch it as it's mean't to be completely depressing..

Most Ghibli films make me cry though, just because of the innocent loveliness in them and the beauty.... Why can't the world be like that, dammit!?

Karl Hungus

Lil Kitten wrote: »

I have Grave of the Fireflies but I'm too scared to watch it as it's mean't to be completely depressing..

Most Ghibli films make me cry though, just because of the innocent loveliness in them and the beauty.... Why can't the world be like that, dammit!?

I agree with you there.

There's a wonderful magic to the films, I just love them. Although, it's true Grave of the Fireflies is quite depressing, and certainly a hell of a lot darker than anything Ghibli had ever done before or since.

But seriously, it is fantastic, so see it!

Quality

Just watched the notebook.......

Beautiful story,,,,,

I dont know whether it was the wine,,,, or pms, but i shed a few tears.....


Good choice girls..

WindSock

Just watching Love Actually on telly now, and I can't get over how much that young boy looks like Bambi.

Mr.Nice Guy

E. T.