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There are movies that hurt, but in a good way. These movies stay with us for years to come. Yet everytime we watch them we cry yet again.
These are some that instantly come to mind.
The black hole- death of bob.
Star Trek the motion picture- when Kirk and Scotty show us the new rebuilt enterprise for the first time.
Field of dreams - while the whole movie is well done the end just kills me.
Titanic.
Galaxy quest- the beginning of this movie hurts.
The wraith- car movie totally but the end hurts.
Batteries not included- few spots on this one that requires tissues.
The sixth sense - yeah it hurts at the end.
These movies are ones that have meaning for me.
Are there others probably, don’t get me wrong fifty first dates, family man, are all touching but they don’t hurt.
The end of cheers, mash. These also hurt.
Why do I bring this up? Photographic memory means I play scenes in my head over and over again. My recall sucks but I do have one.
Spend three days with the end of field of dreams playing in your head again and again. Which has extra meaning for me cause my dad died a few years ago and Father’s Day is around.
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huggles, hon
I know what you mean about stuff that sticks with you.
For me, Apollo 13 ...
I remember Apollo 13 when it was Current Events ...
Apollo 13 was very badly, almost fatally, crippled by an explosion in the Service Module. They lost most of both their oxygen and power supplies.
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They had to get their re-entry angle exactly right ...
Too 'steep' would incinerate them ...
Too 'shallow' and they would skip like a stone on water. No hope of recovery.
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry (https://www.msichicago.org) has the Aurora 7 and Apollo 8 (both crewed) capsules. Both show burn marks on their ablative heat shields ... MSI also has the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander Module, used for training.
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While watching the Apollo 13 movie, I had a candy box in my hand. I clenched down on it, and could not release my hand for the entire duration of the re-entry ... And I >knew< they came home. (And the scene where one of the Wives accidentally drops her Wedding Band down the shower drain ...)
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We are going back. Perhaps even in my lifetime. But then, I am older than >everything< humans have put in orbit ...
Artemis-I (un-crewed) has completed her Lunar Orbital test mission.
Artemis-II will be crewed.
Artemis-III will carry humans to land on, and return from, the Moon.
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
"I am not a gun!"
The self-sacrifice of the title character at the end of THE IRON GIANT was always achingly bittersweet to me; when the mammoth alien Weapon of Mass Destruction overcomes his programming and proves to be more human and more noble than a lot of the film's human characters...
Another heartbreaking scene that still haunts me half a century later was Edward G Robinson's state-assisted suicide at the end of SOYLENT GREEN. An old man who remembered a time before the world had turned to absolute dystopian shit, and didn't want to live anymore after he'd found what depths the human race had sunk to just to survive. To me the sweet bond of friendship between him and Charlton Heston's character shows men at their best. Their love for each other was the best thing in either of their hopeless + miserable lives.
And in television, the episode DUET from the first season of Deep Space 9 never fails to make me sob buckets; when the monstrously boastful unrepentant space-Nazi (Cardassian) war criminal proves to be not at all what he seems. (These 2 excerpts overlap a bit but they tell the complete story better than either does by itself. The continuation of the 1st begins at 1:30 in the 2nd:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8AaLFuGLlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2dBhj8sOM&t=107s
It's one of the most powerfully poignant episodes of any STAR TREK series; and was my first hint that DS9 would become my absolute favorite Trek show.
I'm sure as soon as I post this I'll think of some much better examples (Magnolia? Million Dollar Baby? Bambi vs. Godzilla?), but that's it for now from just off the top of my head...
~hugs, Veronica
"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU
Personal
Caution: Like me, you might find some or all these scenes hitting too close to home!
It often gets personal for me when direction and writing and music and acting all come together to reach in and pull at my heartstrings. Here are just a few of the scenes like that!
Towards the end of The Sixth Sense when Cole tells his mom that her dead mother told him that she DID see her perform. Toni Collette was brilliant.
Soylent Green – I cannot hear Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony without crying; recalling the scene Laika described.
At the end of Spartacus, when he’s dying on the roadside cross and his wife shows him his son and says that their son will grow up free.
In ET, when he taps Eliot’s forehead and says, “I’ll be right here!”
At the end of Ben Hur when he tells Esther, “I felt his voice take the sword out of my hand.”
In Turner and Hooch, when Hooch takes a bullet and dies saving Scott’s life; only to cry happy tears during the epilogue over learning Emily’s dog had her and Hooch’s puppies!
Learning that Danny’s wife died in an accident on Blue Bloods.
Nomi’s and Amanita’s wedding in Sense8
Elle Fanning as Alice weeping over the home movies of Joe’s late mom in Super 8.
Maria singing I Must Have Done Something Good to the Baron inThe Sound of Music.
Margaret Houlihan’s vulnerability in the M*A*S*H tv episode where she breaks down after talking with Hawkeye about the puppy that got hit by a Jeep and died.
Melinda Dillon weeping tears of wonder and glee over seeing the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind!
Shadow the Golden Retriever saying that he was worried about Peter the whole time the pets were in peril in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
Oh, and the cartoon short of Godzilla traipsing over the countryside; crushing tanks and cannons while lalala-ing Akira Ifukube's theme from the original Gojira from 1954! (Yes, it's a real animated short on YouTube, but I only cry because I'm laughing so hard!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPQYS1iuRU
Love, Andrea Lena
A >lot< of M. A. S. H. episodes ...
The episode where a "med-evac" helicopter pilot was about to be court-martialed for bringing in a wounded soldier more than day after the battle.
The wounded man woke up in time to tell the Superior Officers that enemy gunfire had wrecked the chopper's cooling system.. The chopper pilot knew this, and walked ahead 600 yards to find a landing spot, came back, flew those 600 yards (max time/distance before engine over-heat).
Over and over and over ...
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The hair on my arms went up. I'm convinced that >was real<.
it wasn't made up by "some writers in the back room".
So, yeah, I'm a nerd
The end of Armageddon is a shot through the heart with a Howitzer; leaves me crying every time.
Other movies/scenes that get are, to name a few:
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - Bubbles final scene
Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan - Spock's sacrifice
The MCU - So many moments; Groot saves the Guardians, Tony Stark's Sacrifice, etc. The one that always gets to me though, is Peter Parker's goodbye - "Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good."
There are just so many to choose from
Hugs,
Diana
Endgame
I love you 3000
Pepper saying goodbye to Tony
AND
When Hawkeye wishes he could let Natasha know they won and Wanda says, "She knows... they both know..."
Love, Andrea Lena
What about
Traditional weepies like, 84 Charing Cross Road, Shadowlands, The Wild Geese, when Richard Burton has to tell Richard Harris' son that he has died, and sometimes I cry with happiness in the romcoms when the boy gets his girl or vice versa. I've always been a crier and since my stroke anything can set me off, but I thoroughly enjoy myself and often feel better after a good weep as long as the only witness is my cat.
Books also set me off and so do some of the stories I've read here and on another site and it all started when I was 9 and in standard three, and I cried when Prince Llewellyn kills his wolfhound thinking it has savaged his baby on to discover it had fought with a wolf to protect the boy, or when I read Black Beauty and cried when Ginger died, or Watership Down when Hazel dies. I suppose I am serial weeper and I don't care a toss.
Angharad
Shadowlands
Joss Ackland/Claire Bloom AND Anthony Hopkins/Debra Winger versions.
A cat not only provides a safe witness but also a consoling confidant.
My late wife and I always cried when Roddy MacDowell calls out for his dying Poppa in How Green Was My Valley.
You already know how tears are often cleansing.
Love, Andrea Lena
My two cents
I agree a good cry can be quite a cleansing and good thing.
First on my list is the final scene in Gladiator with Connie Nielsen stooped over his body. I think it gets me even more watching it knowing what is about to happen.
While this may seem weird, Chariots of Fire always is an emotional movie for me. The opening scene and music often start me weeping. :DD
DeeDee
Well
I wanna be Connie Nielsen when i grow up!
Love, Andrea Lena
Hmmm
You have that Connie Nielsen look...
DeeDee