Gets Me Every Damned Time

[Gary Gibson]

I cannot even think about scenes of self-sacrifice in movies without getting a little choked up. Whenever someone places themselves in harm's way to save his buddies, loved ones or innocents and knowing full well he's likely to meet a violent end for doing so, it's all I can do to keep back the (manly) tears.

Am I the only one?

[Raskolnikov]

Me too. Especially if it's a guy doing so for his wife/kids. Don't know why. It even happens with just plain old revenge scenes, whether or not the guy's death is imminent.

[Nauticus]

Yes, I choked up a little in the beginning of Star Trek. Really unexpected.

[JCavin]

The scene in I Am Legend where he kills his dog is probably one of the saddest things i've ever seen. I cried. I won't watch it again either.

Although he isn't sacrificing "himself", per say, he is sacrificing his best and only friend to relieve him from pain and misery.

I'm choking up just thinking about.

You can kill people all day long and I won't usually bat an eyelash. You kill a dog and I turn into a teenage girl watching The Notebook for the first time.

[Kate]

The scene in I Am Legend where he kills his dog is probably one of the saddest things i've ever seen. I cried. I won't watch it again either.


Well, damn. "I Am Legend" was on my mental list of movies to rent, but I don't think I can watch it now. That scene would wreck me. :(

Not sure whether to thank you for the warning, or not....

-Kate

[Gary Gibson]

Well, damn. "I Am Legend" was on my mental list of movies to rent, but I don't think I can watch it now. That scene would wreck me. :(

Not sure whether to thank you for the warning, or not....

-Kate

That scene still wrecks me. The F/X and monsters didn't do much for me; the source novel was better in most ways; but the profound loneliness and loss were well done. Will Smith is to be commended.

And I'm with J about dogs. It's not that I don't flinch at the notion of human suffering...but dogs! Let's face it: they're pretty much better than people. Even a "bad" dog is usually that way because of abuse from wicked people.

[tnumrych]

What gets me is that Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial with all the sad pets. Never get to tears but damn near. Call me fucked up but things involving animals hit me in that "spot" much more than human centric movies/scenes.

[Webbie]

I don't get too choked up during movies because I'm usually day dreaming and miss the emotional parts. I do get choked up just about any time I try to sing along with the national anthem. At sporting events, like football games, I can never make it through the whole song. I always think about those who have fallen and sacrificed for the love of this country and I eventually have to skip some of the words due to the lump in my throat. I have a lot of respect for the folks who can sing that song in front of 60K+ people...even the ones who completely forget the words. I'm getting a little weepy just typing this...well, that thought and the bourbon.

[Kate]

What gets me is that Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial with all the sad pets.

Oh my god, those animals have the saddest eyes I've ever seen. Always chokes me up, and makes me want to bring all those dogs & cats home.

-Kate

[anchor]

What gets me is that Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial with all the sad pets. Never get to tears but damn near. Call me fucked up but things involving animals hit me in that "spot" much more than human centric movies/scenes.

holy shit, one of the saddest things ever. and could they run that shit any more often than they did on xmas day? damn..

[BryanM]

Those commercials do make me almost break my hand or snap my spine from lunging at the remote for the mute button everytime the first note drops.

It's as bad as those "life" (death) insurance commercials they'd air while I watched Matlock as a nine year old: "HEY LITTLE KID YOU'RE GOING TO DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE"

Thanks for making me feel powerless and impotent, TV.

[Bootsy]

The Hurt Locker.

Holler if you hear me.

[famendoza]

The movie the Iron Giant, scene where he has to stop the nuclear missile from destroying the town.

[Bootsy]

The movie the Iron Giant, scene where he has to stop the nuclear missile from destroying the town.

Little known fact: that was a live-action sequence with Vin Diesel in a suit of armor. He died for your sins, but rose again from the dead to make Chronicles of Riddick.

[ZKP]

My woman made me watch Bride Wars. I cried before the movie. Does that count?

[JCavin]

My woman made me watch Bride Wars. I cried before the movie. Does that count?

Hah, nope.

Yeah, that damn animal commercial with the "Arms of the Angel" song is so fucking sad. My wife cries every time she sees it. She makes me turn it every time. Which is good because i'd not be long behind her. Just don't want to tell her that.

Dogs are the worst for me. Cats mean nothing to me. Nothing. I don't like them at all and i'm highly allergic. Not a good combination.

But animals in general tug at my heart strings. I think it's just because they are so defenseless and dependent on us to take care of them. And then you see them die or mistreated, or whatever.

That damn animal rescue show on Animal Planet!? Good lord! I watched one episode and I had to leave the room. I watched them cut like 20# of matted fur off a fucking Shih Tzu! The matted fur weighed 2x what the dog weighed! Fuck those people. Seriously. What assholes.

Then there are also those fucking commercials with the old guy in like Africa, or wherever, and he's trying to guilt you into sending a few cents a week to some impoverished kid while they look at the camera like it's gonna feed them. Seriously, dude, I bet those kids are so fucking excited when those camera crews show up 'cause you know they're hoping to get food, water, clothes, ANYTHING that they can. So fucking sad and I always feel like shit when I turn it.

One last thing. The Pixar movie "Up." Really, really sad. The end didn't even make me feel better because I spent the first half of the movie feeling so bad for him, then the kid, and then the frickin' dog. They aren't even real and I felt bad. Thanks Pixar. You've accomplished your goal of making me feel like I have a period.

[matclone]

The last scene in A Brief Encounter (1946?), in the railway station, when the time, place and meaning of the scene all comes together.

Lefty Frizzell singing "That's the Way Love Goes" or "Mom and Dad's Waltz"

[rtzptut]

Sophie's Choice came to mind first. I did not cry, was simply no-noise-came-out-of-me horrified and that was before I had four kids. Saw it once do not ever have to see it again. Meryl Streep was so good in that movie. Scene where she sacrifices one kid to save the other in a death camp. Unbelievable the shit the Natzis did. I thoroughly enjoyed Brad Pitt's rampant shooting, ballbat beating, complete with scalping Natzi killin' in Inglorious Basterds. And I don't even like Brad Pitt except for of course Fight Club.

Despite the fact that I am a girl - chick flicks, hate 'em I feel for you man.

Self sacrifice scenes that did choke me up:
Armageddon - Bruce Willis
Mission to Mars where Tim Robbins is drifting away in space and takes his helmet off so they won't come after him.
And the new Star Trek movie was indeed sad in the beginning.

Had to put my own dog (formerly an unwanted puppy) down the day before Thanksgiving. Raised from scratch, his Momma is a little crazy and Daddy from the house next door was a complete viscious bastard Pit. My dog's genes did him in, in the end.
Meri regularly tried to rip the throats out of strange dogs and my most notibly neighbor's dogs who really did deserve it. He was sweet as pie to us but had to be walked with not only a pinch collar but muzzled as well. Last infraction was going to get me sued or homeowners cancelled, police were called. His beat up little face from his last big battle and his confused sad eyes haunt me daily. I keep seeing him as he went to sleep looking at me like WTF Mom? I hope it stops soon.
I have one other rescue Pit from Katrina who is nice for the most part. Another rescue Pit I had got sick and I spent a grand on her before giving up. The vet people in their condolence card said she was so sweeeeeet. They did not see her while well. She was a terror too, mean as a snake. Hard on your heart to try to save these dogs and give them a home - much worse than sad eyes on the TV.
Rescue cats are now forever banished outside due to rescue Pit's propensity to try to eat them. But they seem fine, nice and furry with thier outside living fur coats on - just like a horse puts on a winter coat. They replaced my 18 year old cat that the pits probably killed. No one will admit anything...

If any of you are thinking about buying a purebread Pit, - the world needs no more encouragemnt to breed these dogs. Get a rescue instead.

[skinny99]

Alright I am an asshole! Most things don't bother me at all! But the end of Brians's Song! That is some tough shit!

[AXB]

I teared up a bit during the last Rocky film, when he was racking squats backwards.

[banthafodder]

One last thing. The Pixar movie "Up." Really, really sad. The end didn't even make me feel better because I spent the first half of the movie feeling so bad for him, then the kid, and then the frickin' dog. They aren't even real and I felt bad. Thanks Pixar. You've accomplished your goal of making me feel like I have a period.

The montage near the beginning of Up kills me every time. It's close enough to my wife's and my own life (to date, except for the part where they lose the baby, but that just makes it even worse) that it hits way too close to home, and I lose it.

[Flying Fox]

Do you guys know the Simpsons episode "Old Money", where Grampa Simpsons inherits a lot of money. In the end, he decides to spend it on his retirement home.

"Come on in. Dignity's on me, friends."

Gets to me every time :'(

[BCS]

Up is the saddest movie I have ever seen. I will never watch it again.

[Kate]

Up is the saddest movie I have ever seen. I will never watch it again.

But, but, but... what about the dog turning his head, mid-sentence, and saying "Squirrel!"? That part of the trailer still cracks me up.

(Although, pretty much any movie or TV show that deals with loss will turn me into a puddle on the floor, at least during the relevant scenes. Guess it's a good thing that I'm also easily amused by such things as talking dogs, chasing squirrels.)

[Kate]

OK, here's an alternative to that horribly sad ASPCA commercial; I just saw this today (video, not a commercial):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGODurRfVv4
"Surf dog Ricochet's inspirational video highlighting her journey from birth, to service dog training, to turning disappointment into a joyful new direction, to surfing with quadriplegic surfer, Patrick Ivison, to fundraising for charitable causes."

Just try watching this video without reaching for a hanky. Go ahead. I dare ya. :)

(Not a sad video at all. Just amazing, in all the best ways.)

-Kate

[78704]

Eight Below. Walked into a Disney Movie expecting something on the order of Snow Dogs; oops.

[kreszentia]

The last scene in A Brief Encounter (1946?)

Lefty Frizzell singing "That's the Way Love Goes" or "Mom and Dad's Waltz"

this +1.

[TempestTenor]

Alright how about this shit? This is the intro video to Zone 66, one of the best DOS shareware games EVAR. I am filled with teary vengeance whenever I watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13uJYwsC8A

[Alyion]

You know the movie Terminator 2? Right at the end when he goes into the molten metal? I used to cry my eyes out as a kid.

I decided to watch the film again a few weeks back (im 21 now) and I was thinking watching the last 20 mins

"heh, I remember I used to cry at the end of this film well I guess now with me be-"

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/7061/suterm.jpg (http://img705.imageshack.us/i/suterm.jpg/)

"................."

BWWWAAAAAAH!

I swear like a goddamn baby right there.

Thank god I was watching it alone

[mcsquared]

If anyone's seen the end of "Gran Torino", that's a pretty sad ending. That character is one of my favorites in any movie I've ever seen.

Oh, and "The Wrestler", too. Didn't make me cry, but was damn sure depressing.

[JayvH]

Self sacrifice scenes that did choke me up:
Armageddon - Bruce Willis
Really? That was pretty cheesy IMHO.

Not many films get me that emotional but the end of "Paths of Glory" always does his job: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yVoxUQ7Q8

[BryanM]

I swear like a goddamn baby right there. There, there. We can go to the pet store and buy a new robot assassin.

[Gaucho]

Right on Jay, "Paths of Glory" is an absolute classic: "I apologize, sir, for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man. And you can go to hell before I apologize to you now or ever again!"

[gordonrumble]

The part in Deep Impact where the astronaut is blind and talking to his wife and baby and they don't know he's blind and he's about to kill himself to save earth... that's pretty sad. Or at least it would be sad, if I wasn't an unfeeling bastard.

[sfhoser]

We Were Soldiers.

every time.

[Cmanuel]

There are multiple parts in band of brothers that tears me up.

The final scene in glory is pretty tear jerking as well.


Oh and has anyone seen (or read) The Road? That movie goes beyond tear jerker!!!! It rips your soul out.