Favorite tear-jerker..,

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Allegra said:
I cry at the ends of sappy Christmas movies like It’s a Wonderful Life.
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I love old sappy Christmas movies, but I never thought of them as tearjerkers. They kind of take you through the full range of emotions. I do cry at the scene where George yells at Uncle Billy and he breaks down with his squirrel climbing on him. Poor ol’ Uncle Billy.
 
LeafByNiggle said:
The first 10 minutes of “Up”.
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OMG, yes!

“Hey, sweetheart, let’s go see this colorful Pixar film about balloons and dogs and an old man and little boy – it’ll but cute and awesome!”

And then they hit us over the head with The Saddest Pixar Moment Ever. 😭

I didn’t stop crying for the next 20 minutes. 😠

If anyone else is a Pixar fan – and seriously, if you aren’t, WHY aren’t you? – I really enjoyed this rundown of the Top Ten Saddest Moments in Pixar films. I cried just watching the list. :cry:

 
…then I will have to add Amy Poehlar’s portrayal of Joy in the Memory Dump (the death of Bing-Bong). And the last 10 minutes of Wall-E.
 
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I’d also have to go with the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life.
 
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It’s a Wonderful Life – I haven’t seen that in years, but there are a few places that would make me teary, either with sadness or just appreciating the beauty of the moment (like when Mary offers up their honeymoon money to save the Building and Loan).

Maybe I should grab some tissues and watch that movie again. 🤔
 
To me, having such a tearjerker scene in the first 10 minutes of a movie marketed as a fun adventure for kids counts as manipulative. It might still be a fine movie, but it should have been presented as what it was.

I think it’s mostly the adults who would cry over it though. Kids would just see it as background to the story. So to me it was an attempt to tell a story that would grab all age groups.

I’m not much of a Pixar fan apart from Toy Story though. The characters are shaped funny. I prefer realistic human body shapes in my animation. Toy Story gets away with it because it’s mostly all toys.
 
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“Inside Out” made me cry. As did the even better Japanese animated movie “Your Name”.

I lol’d at myself for crying at Inside out but hey, I’m man enough to admit it.
 
I saw that movie with my my 5-year-old son and 76-year-old mom at the time.

It was incredible how differently each of us summarized the movie, each from our own place in life – my mom as a widow, me as a single mom, my son as a dog-lover.
 
I think the way it was presented, most really young kids would really not understand most of it, which is why it goes so quickly. I actually thought it was really well done. The vast majority of the movie is more or less what was presented. The montage at the beginning just sets up the background story really quickly.
 
The Fox and the Hound. I can’t even watch it anymore… the last time I cried through the whole thing in anticipation.
 
I cried like a big baby at the scene in Toy Story when Buzz Lightyear found our he was “only” a toy…

But then the next scene where he’s wearing a frilly apron and getting drunk on Darjeeling with the dolls made me laugh.
“Years of Academy training wasted!”
 
I get teary when George visits Mary and Sam Wainright calls. And then George tells Mary all the things he doesn’t want from life. And then they kiss.

That’s my favorite screen kiss. ❤️❤️
 
LeafByNiggle said:
The first 10 minutes of “Up”.
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I actually found it a bit odd when I heard that this was the point of the film that everyone teared up at. Personally, I found him looking through the scrapbook to be among Pixar’s most tearjerker moments.
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I cried like a big baby at the scene in Toy Story when Buzz Lightyear found our he was “only” a toy…
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When I was a kid, I never found Toy Story that moving. It was just a sort of funny movie that got a bit old from overwatching on my family’s part. When I came back to it within the last couple years, though, I absolutely fell in love with it all over again, and part of that was due to finding the character arcs a bit more touching. I still think the second movie is the best of the trilogy, but the first at least now ranks among my favorite Pixar films.
 
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LeafByNiggle:
The first 10 minutes of “Up”.
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I actually found it a bit odd when I heard that this was the point of the film that everyone teared up at. Personally, I found him looking through the scrapbook to be among Pixar’s most tearjerker moments.
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Yes, that too. And when you go back and look at the hospital scene you can see on the nightstand the roll of tape and materials Ellie used in making those additions to the scrapbook.
 
:cry: I love Robert Patrick! He’s my favorite actor!

And speaking of Robert Patrick–I nominate his movie, Bridge to Terabithia (the newer one) as my favorite tear-jerker. At the end, when Mr. Patrick was consoling his son over the death of his best friend, EVERYONE in the theater was crying, including my husband and all the other men! The only one NOT crying was me–and after the movie, my husband said, “You were too busy drooling over Robert Patrick to cry!”

Seriously, though, that is a very touching scene well-done by both adult and child actor, and just thinking of it makes me weepy.
 
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