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Okay, ganked this meme idea from [livejournal.com profile] ms_scarletibis 

The idea is to list the tv/movie moments that have made you cry. Now, since if we're talking a few tears, it might be easier to list the ones that *haven't* made me cry, i'll limit myself to the gut-wrenching, shoulders shaking, quietly sobbing so my family doesn't think i'm *too* emotionally unstable moments :P hehe

In no particular order :P :

1. The Passion of the Christ -- There are no words. I was in tears almost the whole way through, sobbing my eyes out.
2. Buffy episode "The Body". The whole thing. Heart-wrenching, beautiful work on all counts.
3. "The Notebook". Oh. My. God. When I realized what was going on, toward the end, gaaaaaaah, just overwhelming, sobbing tears that broke me. :P
4. Schindler's List -- the kind of emotional agony where you have to stop the tape for a little while because it's just so overwhelmingly emotional, and you just *can't* take any more right then.
5. House, episode "Wilson's Heart" -- OMG, from the moment House agreed to risk his life for Amber, until the end of the episode, I was a wreck. Sobs, tears, snot, the whole messy shebang. :P
6. Dakota Fanning's amazing performance in "I Am Sam" -- gaaaaah, I bawled my eyes out... a heartbreaking movie
7. The Other Sister -- when she gives the speech at the end to her mom, about accepting her and letting her be happy as she is, because she knows she'll never be any more... so amazingly profound and beautiful and tragic all at the same time :)
8. The Green Mile -- execution scene at the end... I cried and cried, it was so unfair that he had to die...
9. Forrest Gump -- I cried for Jenny, so many times throughout that movie, from the time she hid in the cornfield from her daddy, to when she threw the rocks at her house because of what happened there, and then when she finally let Forrest love her and died with him by her side.
10. Fred's death in Wesley's arms, and the entire afternoon that led up to it, in Angel, episode "A Hole in the World"
Okay, I'm sure there are others, but these are the top ten I could think of. Feel free to comment if you share any of these tear-worthy moments, or with some of your own :P Please keep the game going and feel free to repost this meme with your own choices on your journals :P

*hugs*
DoS

Date: 2008-10-11 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladycat713.livejournal.com
The Color Purple always manages to get me.By the time the movie is over you're an emotional wreck.When the sister of Whoopi's character starts yelling her name and they run towards each other I start crying.According to my sister , it also gets to my BIL.She said the first time he saw the movie he was sniffling into a couch pillow. And neither one of us cries easily.

Date: 2008-10-11 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
awwww, i actually never saw that one... i probably should, it's kind of a new classic, isn't it? :P

Date: 2008-10-11 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimrae1977.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'm a crier, too. :)
PotC was a full box of Kleenex movie. "Glory" is another box of Kleenex movie.
"The Body" and "A Hole In the World" - yes, yes. And any time Spike tears up onscreen.
The House episode!
I'm sure I had tears in Forrest Gump, too, just been a while since I watched.

Date: 2008-10-11 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
yeah, i bawl so easily, and for me it was the themes of child abuse and the trauma that followed the character of Jenny throughout her life that touched me more than anything else... and the fact that she thought she knew what she needed in a man, and she also thought that forrest's limited mentality automatically ruled him out for her, but in the end, it was that simple love that was able to see her through her darkest time, and she didn't need someone who was smart or talented or anything like that -- all she needed was someone to love her :)

okay, i'm gonna bawl right here :P lol

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Date: 2008-10-11 07:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] californiaquail.livejournal.com
I have watched little television in the last 10 years. So most of my TV viewing is House and before that Frasier and I think Star Trek TNG. I watched Dawson's Creek, but I don't think it ever moved me that deeply. I haven't been to the theater much either.

1. The Green Mile. I can't help it. The execution scene as well as a number of others that I can't think of just now. The acting in that film was so intensely superb, down to even the cameos. I am reminded that SK writes a beautiful story and not just horror. Stand By Me is another example of this.

2. Steel Magnolias. I am anti-chick movie and still catch myself watching this, maybe because it's based on a play and it has that theatre sort of feel to it. I know how it ends. I still cry. And I don't even like Julia Roberts. Actually, I'll tie that with Terms of Endearment. It's a double, Shirley Maclaine special.

3. Titanic. Pretty much the last hour or so. Just watching so much death and knowing that it could have been avoided, makes me sick. Little things, like the old couple laying in bed and the musicians refusing to stop playing, are what make the film.

4. Star Trek 2. I cry every time Spock dies, even though I know they will bring him back in the next movie- unlike Data, which I am still bitter about. Kirk-Spock-Bones is my original OTP. Not slash, just very, very good buddies.

5. The season 4 two part finale of House, of course. I have watched it about 5 times now. I have cried every time. Moments that really get me are the scene where they come and tell Amber goodbye, Kutner's sheepish expression, Taub kissing her forehead, the scene where Taub hops into the bed with his wife, where House is reaching out and stretching to hold Amber's hand and can't, and the moment where House asks Wilson 'you want me to risk my life...'

6. House Training. The scene where Foreman hold's Lupe's hand while she dies, coupled with the song that is playing. This is a tie with the scene in 97 seconds where House contemplates sticking the knife in the socket. Blame Alanis, who is singing.

7. Poltergeist. This will sound lame, but the scene where the mom is going to the other side and has a rope tied around his waist -the husband is holding the rope and she says "don't let go" and he says "never" and then they kiss and she goes in. It makes me cry every time. Also the girl who played the daughter was the same age as me and a local girl. She died at the age of 14 from intestinal failure.

8. There's this episode of Frasier, can't remember which, where Martin is going back to work for the first time after being shot on the job as a cop. He's a security guard and his sons are both neurotic, so they are freaking out about it. Before he leaves, he kisses them both on the cheek and it's just the sweetest thing ever, especially for Martin who is a rather reserved and masculine type of guy. I think I loved that show mostly for the whole father/son/trio.

9. In The Gloaming. Obviously, wan, decrepit RSL in a wheelchair is depressing all by itself. The part where he says "I want to go home" is the saddest.

10. American Beauty. The scene where Kevin Spacey's character's life is flashing before his eyes and he's watching his daughter grow up in a matter of seconds, gets me every time.

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Date: 2008-10-11 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
ooooh, steel magnolias and titanic!!! forgot those... both made me cry so hard... especially that bit with the old couple in the bed, and the mom tucking her kids in to sleep *sobs*

and you're right about SK... he's a phenomenal writer... ever read "The Stand"? Don't rent the movie, the movie was made for TV and it's a piece of crap :P lol... but the book is *amazing* get the unabridged version, too, it's just stephen king's masterwork, imho, and it's more than a horror story... it's epic :)

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Date: 2008-10-11 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] californiaquail.livejournal.com
I actually thought The Stand was fairly decent, by comparison to many other SK films where he completely disregards the original novel while writing the script. I mean, most of his movies, I don't even know why he bothers, so much information is omitted that there's no way the viewer can understand what's happening.

The Stand is a great book.

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Date: 2008-10-11 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
yeah, i mean, i watched the whole movie :P lol... it wasn't soooo stupid that i had to turn it off or anything... i just thought it was rather cheesy...

and maybe it's like... when a writer does just *such* an amazing job of creating their characters, that you get a mental image of what they look and sound like in your head, and then the actors chosen for the movie are *nothing* like it? hehe... maybe that's it for me... *shrugs*

i would seriously list the stand as among my top 10 books of all time i think :P

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Date: 2008-10-11 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] californiaquail.livejournal.com
It was cheesy, especially the ending. I didn't picture the "hand of God" being like...so cartoony.

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Date: 2008-10-11 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
lolol i know!!! that was one of the main things for me, the effects were lousy... and i should give a little leeway, cause it was made a long time ago, can't expect modern effects in an 80s made-for-tv movie :P hehe

Date: 2008-10-11 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swirlsofblue.livejournal.com
I'm usually quite reserved when it comes to crying in front of others, but if I'm watching a film on my own I often find tears rolling down my cheeks. Last thing I cried at tv/films was probably 'Wilson's Heart'. I haven't seen the film 'The green mile' but I've read the book, and it was awesome.

I will sometimes cry at very silly things in films eg; 'cars' 'juno' and 'finding nemo'

Date: 2008-10-11 08:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
yeah, the movie was awesome, too, hon... honestly, a lot of stephen king adaptations to film aren't the greatest, i've found, but the green mile is *amazing*.... soooo wonderful, but how could it not be, with Tom Hanks as star? hehehe.... oooh, also david morse (tritter) is in it, though he plays an actual decent guy, and made me like him as much in the movie as i hated him in house :P hehe... soo, really good actor... you should sooooo go rent it :)

Date: 2008-10-11 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com
I almost never cry at movies or TV but I did cry at three things, "Wilson's Heart", the last ep of M*A*S*H and when they took Oscar Wilde to prison (Stephen Fry was so good in that!!) My mom is the total opposite of me in that regard. I have seen her cry at Pepsi commercials and Laverne and Shirley. I am not exaggerating.

Date: 2008-10-11 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
lol.. your mom and i would get along :P i cry so easily in movies it's ridiculous :P hehe

Date: 2008-10-11 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 2cbetter2.livejournal.com
1- The Passion of the Christ: The entire movie pretty much hurts to watch because it is so graphic and brutal. I have only have ever watched it once.
2- Anne of Green Gables: The part where Matthew dies is one that makes me cry every time I have ever watched it
3- The Green Mile: I don't cry just at John Coffey's execution but also at the scene he heals the warden's wife of her brain tumor
4- The Return of the King: There are a few scenes that make me cry but the last 30 minutes is nothing but a cryfest, specially the Grey Havens scene
5- Jack and Sydney's goodbye scene in the last episode of Alias. This upset me so much I've never been able to watch it since it aired.
6- The goodbye between the Doctor and Rose in Doctor Who Season 2 finale “Doomsday”. I've watched it dozens of times and this scene has never lost its power for me.
7- Anna and the King: Three scenes that get to me was the scene the King's daughter dies; the execution scene of Tuptim and her love; finally I cry during the finale scene where Anna and the King dance together one last time but it's mainly what they say to each right before they dance that gets me because they clearly had fallen in love with one another
8- Finding Neverland: Without a question the last few scenes with Sylvia get to me and then the very last scene between J.M. Barrie and Peter. Freddie Highmore truly acted his heart out I thought and stole the show under from Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.
9- Umm I cried at the end of Spider-man 3 but absolutely loved this movie along with the other two movies.
10- Many of Danielle Steel's TV movies make me cry but especially Zoya, Fine Things, The Ring, or Remembrance

And yes I cried when I watched Wilson's Heart because the ending is just so heartbreaking.

Date: 2008-10-11 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
wow, you brought up several i'd missed that were also very emotional for me, Anne of Green Gables, Matthew's deaath.... gaaaaah, very sad, made me bawl... and return of the king... and finding neverland, among my favorite Johnny Depp movies :P

Date: 2008-10-11 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 2cbetter2.livejournal.com
Yeah I love Anne of Green Gables and never fail to cry when Matthew dies - and several of his scenes with Anne make me get teary too. I think he loved her from the moment he saw her.

Oh Return of the King, I cried thoughout but the last 30 minutes or so are just wonderful even if you do cry a lot.

Finding Neverland is definitely on my list of favorite Johnny Depp movies. I remember when I first saw it I thought it was one of the best movies I had seen in a long time. It's certainly one of the most touching.

Date: 2008-10-11 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taricalmcacil.livejournal.com
Hmm for me, it would go like this:


1. "LotR: Fellowship of the ring"- Boromir's death. The slow mo killed me.
2. "LotR: Fellowship of the Ring"- Gandalf's death. Once again, the slow mo, combined with Boromir dragging half carrying Frodo out of Moria.
3. "The Lion King"- Mufasa's death, combined with Scar's evilness, and Simba trying to wake him up...
4. "Schindler's List"- it little things, like the girl with the red coat, the raining ash, etc.
5. "Shawshank Redemption"- The part when they were reading Brooks' letter...horrible.
6. "Star Trek: Nemesis"- Data sacrificing his life for Picard, followed by Before singing Blue Skies...I had to steal my Dad's handkerchief in the theatre...
7. "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron"- I always cry at the part when he's locked in the train and has basically given up hope. The music that's playing doesn't help either (Sound the Bugle, by Brian Adams).

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of any right now.

Date: 2008-10-11 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
awwww, yeah, LOTR had me in tears multiple times :) as for disney movies, i actually bawl every time i see dumbo :P hehehe... seriously!! i can't stand it when they keep him away from his mom!! :( :P

Date: 2008-10-11 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 2cbetter2.livejournal.com
Oh you know what part of Dumbo that gets me is when Timothy takes him to see his mama while she's locked up. Between the music and just how sad it is to see him having to settle for his mama's trunk for short lived comfort I bawl every time I watch that part.

Date: 2008-10-11 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
yes!! that's exactly the part that breaks my heart every time!!! sooooooo sad!!! i just love it, though :P

Date: 2008-10-11 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 2cbetter2.livejournal.com
I thought so as that part is so heartbreaking. Shoot I got teary just writing those couple sentences about it.

LOL, I think I know why you've changed your default icon to that one. I imagine it has something to do with our conversation last night lol.

Date: 2008-10-11 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
hehe... yeah, i was getting tired of looking at the one i've had up there for so long... it's beautiful, and i love it, but it's quite solemn looking, and i wanted something a bit more fun, so this one works well :) hehehe

Date: 2008-10-11 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com
I would list mine, but nobody watches the movies I do and they'd just sit there going "huh?"

I completely agree with you about Schindler's List. That movie breaks my heart.


Gabrielle

Date: 2008-10-11 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamsofspike.livejournal.com
lol... i thought that about some of my choices :) *hugs*

and yeah, Schindler's list is kind of in a class by itself

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