There has been a large number of movies which have made me cry the first time around - I'm such a sensitive soul - but have somewhat lost that power on repeated viewings when I know what's coming and can be better emotionally prepared, but
Jacob's Ladder is one of the few to have made me cry
every time I've seen it. There's something about that ending sequence that really gets to me. I just can't help it. The tears come thick and fast.
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Originally Posted by Cassini90125
Charlotte's Web really got to me when I was a kid, specifically the part at the end where Charlotte died. The book was just as moving. It's a rare thing to have both the book and the movie be that powerful.
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Seconded. I cry in both versions of the movie, and the book (I haven't read it in ages, but it was always one of my favourites as a kid). I actually find the ending in the animated version to be more powerful, even if the live action version's ending was closer to the book.
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Originally Posted by Sparky
"Goodbye May Seem Forever." I go every time. The song is lovely, but part of it is the fact that the lady abandons this poor domestically-raised animal in the wild to face a probable death. So un-Disneyesque, I know, but that's what I always think when I watch the scene. |
I've been known to let loose during
the Fox and the Hound myself, though it's a scene toward the end that really gets me going:
Spoiler Below When Tod, following the bear attack, is lying too battered and exhausted to defend himself, and Copper refuses to let Slade kill him. Then, after Slade backs down and Copper starts to follow him, he and Tod have that moment in which they acknowledge each other amiably for the final time, before setting off, their footprints each going down a different path. Symbolism doesn't get more obvious than that, and neither do tearjerkers. I'm aching for a fresh box of Kleenix just thinking about it.
And, please don't laugh, but I cried - long and hard - at the conclusion to Peter Jackson's
King Kong.