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Glory: During the assault on the fort when Matthew Broderick is shot and Denzel Washington picks up the flag (something he said he would not do earlier, thx foreshadowing) and yells for everyone to move on, huge chills... followed by the best music in the movie while the regiment tries to take the fort, Andre Braugher with his war cry on top of the wall and getting mortally wounded, the cannons, then the slower music theme as Broderick and Washington's bodies fall into the mass grave on top of each other, by then I'm crying.
Dead Poets Society: Hey, for some reason this one gets me crying more than any other movie. At the end, when Ethan Hawke is trembling while Robin Williams packs his things, then can't hold back any longer and desperately apologizes, being berated by the headmaster, and when he stands on his desk with "Oh Captain My Captain," I lose it every time.
The Iron Giant: Gives me butterflies and my eyes well up... Hogarth says "I love you" as the giant flies up to save the town, "Su-per-man" and I'm choked up or crying.
I agree with A Beautiful Mind, the pens got me good, saw it by myself in theaters and I was sobbing like a baby.
That's about the extent of my crying history with movies. The movies that TRY too damn hard to be tear-jerkers (Steel Magnolias, that Walk to Remember bullshit I've heard people here talk about, etc.) never gets me. |