What's the movie that made you cry the most???

John Q.  The whole sick child, desperate parent thing.  I watched it w/ my ma and sister and we were all crying by the end.

Eight Below.  My uncle recommended it... I should have known better.

And I will NEVER watch Where the Red Fern Grows or Old Yeller again.

Except for the first one you may notice an animal trend.  Anyway, I avoid tearjerker movies when I have warning.  (For some reason, the same doesn't hold true for books.  I have some I read over and over.)

'Love Story', starring Ryan O'neal and Ali MacGraw.  This was when I was about twelve or thirteen.   I cried and cried when Ali's character died in the end.  And the music.... OMG, the music in itself is enough to cry over! LOL!  BTW, when I grew older, I read the original book (for which the movie was made) by Erich Segal, and found it almost as much of a tearjerker - minus the music, of course.

Also, I shed some tears over 'Titanic'.  Dumb, I know, but how could anyone not cry over seeing Leonardo DeCaprio frozen solid while Kate Winslet kept calling out his name pitifully? 

Jo, I think 'Where the Red Fern Grows' is super sad, too.  My DD cried over that one.

I think The Notebook

I found the ending to be a little sad but so beautiful

"The Notebook" is one of my FAVOURITE movies of all time.  Loved it.  I got emotional but I didn't really sob like mad. 

The movie that made me feel the most emotional, and made me break into tears... was "A League of their Own" (the struggles the women went through, and the breakdown in the relationship between the two sisters... whew)

Btw...  Natalie, the contest about "pretending to be someone's girlfriend" is over?  Hehe.  I held off on naming my choice on the eHarl forum because I didn't want my man picked up.  It was Jeffrey Dean Morgan if you were curious.  Mmmm.  That man just is so charming.  Every time I look at him I just think "sexy teddy bear" and want to offer to have his babies.   

ETA: Oh snap. I was just looking at your website because I was curious... and I saw you posted lots of the entries.  :)  Cool!  Mine even made it up: http://natalie-anderson.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-must-confess.html  Fun to see!

Oh god.  A Walk to Remember!  That made me sob like mad too.....  eeek!   *memories*  Cancer is such a sad thing.  And for the heroine to get married and die quietly like that...  and the hero to be a reformed man after knowing the heroine... and the hero staying so close to her father after her passing....  GOD I'm pretty much crying right now just remembering it.  *tears up* 

Another similar feeling...  was the Charlize Theron/ Keanu Reeves "November" movie.... where she's terminally ill and she wants him to leave remembering her how she was while she dies quietly (I can't understand how someone could choose to die alone and I don't know whether to see that choice as natural/unnatural or selfish/unselfish)

I have both copies of P&P.  I blogged with this once with Donna Alward, because if I'm not mistaken, she likes the Keira Knightly version better.  I like both versions because they're really very different from each other.  Just goes to show how one book can be interpreted in so many ways.  I think Keira's is more lively.  She was much more prone to laugh and have a good time than Jennifer Erle's interpretation.  Even the music was peppier.  OTOH, Firth's version was more detailed and, by far, more historically accurate.  Personally, I love them both, and so does my DH who is a history buff.  Yes, I found them both very emotional, though I've never actually cried. 

I think I have narrowed it down to two....

1. Terms of Endearment
2. Steele Magnolias

and maybe a 3rd just for the sheer depressingness of it, was:  House of Sand and Fog.  God, that movie was depressing.  I had a headache when I left the theater. 

The Lakehouse with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves

Anything where the dog dies .

I will never watch Old Yeller again--I remember throwing the book across my room as a kid when he had to shoot his dog.  But I was already crying when the dog saved the day with the wild boars.

Love, love, love Eight Below, but I still cry. 

To Kill a Mockingbird makes me cry in several places--some are sad tears, some are tears of "yes!" emotion.

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.  When Boromir charges up the hill to save his hobbit friends, knowing it's a suicide mission and he's sure to die, I cry.

How about Die Hard.  I cry near the end when Reginald VelJohnson (the black cop--hope I have his name right) pulls his gun and shoots the bad guy.

Ooh.  The Poseidon Adventure when Shelley Winters dies.

Glory.  The final charge at the end. 

I don't cry much during love stories, but then I think I'm braced for an emotional ride.  But dogs and action adventure?  I think things must catch me off guard.

Julie Miller 

OMG, I forgot all about that one, too!  It's an awesome movie that packs in so many important issues!  They actually stuck pretty close to the original book, too.  I have to say, I probably did shed a tear or two for that one!  It's very moving.  Lots of angry tears over the unfairness of the prejudice, and lots of tears for the mentally challenged man 'Boo' in the end.  And Atticus Finch always seemed so wise to me.  I would watch it again, definitely! 

My list of movies:

Blackhawk Down - Can't comment

Old Yeller - One of the great coming of age movies. Good book.

Where the Red Fern Grows - Another great coming of age movie. Good Book.

There are some others, but these are my top three.

Articfrog

"And they lived haply ever after."

Yes, I agree this is a good one, Natalie.  My six-year old DD cried a lot over it!  It is definitely a tearjerker!  And the movie sticks fairly close to the book too - which my big tough brother read when he was younger (for school) and bawled over.  Do you see a running theme here, Natalie?  Books made into movies?  H'm.  Just goes to show that a great author is usually behind even our best movies!  Give another big cheer for authors!  Yay!  *hand clap*  Whoo-hoo!  Okay, I'll calm down now..... <gg>

Jillyan, yeah, at first I thought Macfadyen's P&P character wasn't completely a 'Mr. Darcy'.  But then I realized that his more bashful version is quite smashing.  In fact, he's downright sweet and sexy.  I still like Colin Firth though.  I used to be madly in love with him....

This will be tough for me, as I try to avoid movies like this.  I mean, if I cry every time I see ET, and I know he doesn't die, how can I watch anything deeper?

With that said, some of my picks are already here:  Brian's Song, To Kill a Mockingbird, Steel Magnolias, Ghost, Dead Poet's Society.  What I'll add to that list is The Outsiders (I was 12 or 13 when this came out - cried reading it too),  Untamed Heart (yep, I was crying in the theaters) and The Sixth Sense.  I mean really, he's shot (sad), then hey he must be ok, then BAM - he's a ghost.  Hello?  And how about the little girl who's mom poisened her?  Definitely tears for me.

I'm sure someone will mention movies I forgot about.

I think the scene in Return of the King where you have the father sending Farmimir of to fight and then you see scenes with him eating, Merry(or is it Pippin) singing and Farmirir getting retreating because they are getting beaten gets me. With the three movies being so long there are quite a few tissue moments.

as I read these posts...I am reminded of many good films I forgot.

Old ones like Love Story and Brians Song (not to mention Old yeller and Bambi), to newer movies like Atonement.

The funny thing about Terms of Endearment, is that I took my roommates 11 year son (who had just come to stay with us), to see it.  After weeks of going to see 11 year old friendly movies (what ever else came out that year-83?) I decided it was my turn.

So we went to see TOE......half way through the movie i looked over at him, and he had his elbow on the armrest and his chin resting on his hand.  .....I whisper are you bored? he doesnt answer...I offer popcorn, and he glares at me and says "shhhh, I'm watching a movie!!"..

When the lights come up he tries to do the tough guy thing and pretend he wasnt crying (I have something in my eye).