The Florida Project and its Magic Kingdom ending.
Yes, cried over it in the cinema, then cried even more when describing it to someone afterwards.
There's a kitchen table scene in Moonlight that caught me completely unawares and I started just properly crying (so that other people heard and looked round) and basically had to deploy the sleeve throughout the rest of the film.
Still can't watch ET in a room with other people. I was 12 when it came out over here, absolutely smack bang in the middle of the target age group, and the build-up, the hype, the endless queuing, the fact that we didn't get in the first time we tried, the enormous, packed cinema, it all packed on the tension to the point where I was probably a nervous wreck before it even started. I had never wanted anything as badly in my life to that date as I had wanted to see ET.
― trishyb, Friday, 16 June 2023 13:58 (eleven months ago) link
Awwww! <3
I still have my original doll from 1982.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 16 June 2023 14:00 (eleven months ago) link
I saw The Flash last night and briefly broke down when Barry broke down and said goodbye to his mother for the last time, saying "I love you mom". really hit me when it wouldn't usually since dad has been so zoned out lately that he doesn't react to us when we visit, and we don't know why.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 June 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
wish I still had my ET plush. that thing was badass.
my husband brought his ET doll to that screening we went to :)
― donna rouge, Friday, 16 June 2023 18:10 (eleven months ago) link
not in sob category but I still like to respond "It was nothing like that, PENIS BREATH" to people.
the house party I watched it at as a kid erupted at that part (the kids, the adults were annoyed)
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 June 2023 18:18 (eleven months ago) link
I thought I'd mentioned the short Bao already, but I guess not! Anyway, that one turns on the waterworks for me.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 16 June 2023 18:37 (eleven months ago) link
https://letterboxd.com/film/celia/
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:27 (four months ago) link
Two scenes in The Return of the King
"You already did... Eowyn. My body is broken. You have to let me go. I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed."
"My friends, you bow to no one."
I get choked up typing those lines out.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 02:58 (four months ago) link
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood: the ending w Sharon talking to Rick through the intercom & then the slow pan up to overlook the garage & driveway the aerial shot as Sharon & Jay & Abigail & Frykowski come outside & the Maurice Jarre music is playingseen this movie like 10 times & i’m a mess everytime it makes me cry so much
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 03:12 (four months ago) link
xpost -- both solid. On our podcast we just did the film ROTK the other month and my cohost Oriana noted that the Theoden/Eowyn relationship as acted through the films is really remarkable. The film version of their parting isn't the books, but it absolutely works in its own right.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 03:36 (four months ago) link
the ending w Sharon talking to Rick through the intercom & then the slow pan up to overlook the garage & driveway the aerial shot as Sharon & Jay & Abigail & Frykowski come outside & the Maurice Jarre music is playing
Yeah. It's such a nice quiet 'what could have been.'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 03:37 (four months ago) link
VegemiteGrrl, have you seen Celia I assume you have as its an Aussie film? I don't want to create a spoiler for those who haven't seen it, but if you have, you will know exactly what I mean.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:30 (four months ago) link
Can't believe Make Way for Tomorrow isn't in this thread! Messed me up but good.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:44 (four months ago) link
cracking film.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:45 (four months ago) link
So Long, My Son
― thono, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:51 (four months ago) link
deleted post re lotr ppl can react how they like to peter jackson
sam and theoden prob the two /performances/ that can wrench a tear through gritted teeth tho
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:52 (four months ago) link
i know the thread title says great films and i am opening myself up to all manner of ridicule here
but when the little girl breaks and runs calling for her daddy in the patriot i got got
the fuckin patriot lads
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:55 (four months ago) link
there’s a couple of scenes in BROKER (2022) that just ended me
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 14:29 (four months ago) link
I've been trying to think of any movie that has made me cry and I finally remembered.
The Plague Dogs
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 15:59 (four months ago) link
I am pretty sure that I cried during my second viewing of Audrie and Daisy too.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:01 (four months ago) link
Which I think qualifies as a great documentary because it does not hold back and tells the grim stories of these two young women unflinchingly. And they have both died from suicide. ;_; to infinity
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:02 (four months ago) link
One that particularly struck me recently was Okja. Just describing the final scenes to people got me emotional !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:18 (four months ago) link
River Phoenix's campfire scene in My Own Private Idaho ("I really wanna kiss you, man").
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:26 (four months ago) link