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Line 79: ==S== * ''[[A Sad Movie]]'' is rather mean in that, at first, it makes you think the movie will be tragic (just look at the name!). But then the movie turns out to be a romantic comedy focusing the relationships between four pairs of people. The Tear Jerking comes at the very, very end when {{spoiler\|every single one of those four relationships end, at best, bittersweetly. And the movie does this to you just when you think it's all going to be a happy ending for everyone.}} * ''[[Salinui Chueok]]''. The whole damn thing, mixed with a confusing dose of intentional [[Narm]]: (don't try to say that you didn't giggle nervously when Kwang Ho {{spoiler\|ran onto the train tracks and died}}. * ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''. "Earn...This..." One of the few movies you may cry at while viewing, without losing any [[Manly Tears\|"guy points".]] The line, "Think about the poor bastard's ''mother,"'' when they're all bitching about why they have to rescue Ryan. The whole D-Day landing scene at the beginning. Often imitated, never duplicated, entirely tear-wrenching at the seeming futility of it all and the incredible, undeniable vision of death and hell on a beach. To be followed up by a series of brilliant scenes where Mrs. Ryan finally gets ''all three telegrams on the same day''. The imagery was just perfect - from the ceaseless typing of telegrams to the four stars on Mrs. Ryan's window. One for each son, three of whom were never coming home. But, in particular, the completely wordless scene in which Mrs. Ryan watches the car driving up the road, goes out to see what it's about, looks slightly uneasy when a senior army officer climbs out, but when he's followed by a priest, her legs just give way under her. Great acting, great cinema. * For some reason, scenes with people collapsing because of shock and grief always gets me. Always. When General Marshall says "...that you are the mother of ''five'' sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle." * That's actually a quote from a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a mother of five during the American Civil War, and it is the impetus for Marshall's orders to bring James Ryan home. ** {{spoiler\|Doc Wade's death}}. The sound of his crying out for his momma as he bleeds out is about as heartbreaking as it gets. * ''[[Saw]]'' has a lot of them, but John and Jill's relationship takes the cake. You see how he loved her before {{spoiler\|the death of Gideon, their unborn son and John's transition to Jigsaw}}. Just try watching {{spoiler\|Jill's miscarrage or the tape to Gideon without crying}}. Here's one that hit close to home for me and haunted me for a long time: {{spoiler\|Corbett Denlon asking for her mom in Saw V. Dear god...}} The death of {{spoiler\|Josh}} on the Carousel. He KNOWS he's gonna die since his boss's wasted his second choice of survivor ''before he could even [[Incredibly Lame Pun\|get a shot]] so he is finally honest with his employer, also forcing him to look him in the eyes and realize that his death, and all of the others who died up to that point is all his fault, and calling him out on his [[Men Are the Expendable Gender\|misandrist bias]]. Doubles as a [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]. * ''[[Schindler's List]]'' The girl in the red coat {{spoiler\|being carried off in a cart full of corpses}}. The biography of Oskar Schindler made me cry more than the movie... The gift of the ring at the end. And {{spoiler\|Oskar's [[Heroic BSOD]]}} right after ''kills me.'' ~~{{quote\|Schindler: I could have gotten more...}}~~ The end of the movie where some of the ''actual'' people, or members of their family, Schindler was able to save file past his ''actual'' grave to give their respects. It would be over the top melodrama if it just weren't so damn painful to know that these are real, flesh and blood people, people with friends and family, none of whom would be there except for Oskar. And then when it tells you that the Schindler Jews and their descendants outnumber the Jewish population of Poland...drive home the scale of the tragedy, why don't you? Two Nazi soldiers were holding a boy by his arms {{spoiler\|and another soldier shot the boy. And the scene where parents got to see their children being carried off for medical exams...}} A scene in the beginning shows a man with one arm missing coming up to thank Schindler for letting him work in the factory. He seems so pleased because he feels a sense of importance, a purpose even though he has only one arm. However, in a later scene, when the Nazi's stop the ghetto members from going to work to shovel the snow from the street. This moment isn't necessarily significant until {{spoiler\|you realize that the Nazis are trying to weed out the people who are physically infirm. The one armed man from earlier is then taken, while he tries to defend that he's important to the factory so that they won't shoot him}}. Just listen to the soundtrack- that alone is enough to bring tears to the eyes of many who have seen the movie. * ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' Scott is on the bus after breaking up with Knives, and then the song Teenage Dream (by T-Rex, not Kate Perry) starts playing. Scott comes across Knives after {{spoiler\|defeating the Katayanagi Twins}} and the song Anthems for a 17-Year-Old Girl briefly plays in the background as Knives says to him, "I just came to see your show..." ** Both the regular and alternate ending will make you cry, {{spoiler\|no matter which girl, Ramona or Knives, you wished Scott would get engaged with, seeing the other one depart alone will still be heart-braking}}. * In the ~~1970's~~1970s musical ''[[Scrooge]]'', Bob visiting Tim's grave, as the beautiful song Tim sung earlier eerily plays in the background, is enough to make the strongest man tear up. * ''[[Secondhand Lions]]''. Most of the second half of the movie is a massive [[Tear Jerker\|Tear Jerking]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], but the most heartbreaking part is the speech that Uncle Hub (played by an always-terrific Robert Duvall) gives to the protagonist. {{quote\|''Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.''}} ** Also, the death of Jasmine the lioness. * Jay Chou's movie ''[[Secret]]'' IS this. {{spoiler\|When Xiao Yu mistakes Xiang Lun to have moved on from her and suffers an asthma attack after returning to the past is probably just one of the movie's most heartbreaking scenes.}} * {{spoiler\|May's death}} in ''[[The Secret Life Ofof Bees]]''. A good deal of the parts concerning Lily's mother, too. * ''[[Selena]]'': [[Downer Ending\|The scene in the hospital where her family are told that she did not make it.]] The worst part about it, [[Foregone Conclusion\|you know it was coming since it happened in REAL LIFE]] as the movie is created as a tribute for the Tejano legend. Line 136 ⟶ 116: The last bit: "Get busy living ... or get busy dying. ''That's goddamn right.''" Pan up. SO WAS RED. ** When {{spoiler\|Tommy}} is murdered by Hadley and Norton. You see it coming a split-second before it happens, but it's still a shock. {{spoiler\|Tommy was dumb, surly, and a habitual criminal...and also friendly, outgoing, had a baby girl and was trying really hard to turn his life around for her sake and for his mentor, Andy's, and was going to provide evidence that Andy was innocent after all...and he was murdered for it.}} * The montage from ''[[She's Having a Baby]]''. It has tearjerker written all over it. Kevin Bacon sitting in the hospital waiting room, crying to himself as he thinks back to his time together with his wife.. John Hughes really knew how to tug at someone's heartsrings. * In ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'', when Capt. Brittles goes to inspect his troop for the last time due to his retirement and all the men are in their best uniforms and when they present him with the watch that they all chipped in to buy and Brittles puts on his glasses to read the sentiment "[[Lest We Forget]]." * The end of ''[[Shiri]]'': {{spoiler\|Hee's death is tear jerking, but the clincher is when Yu went to meet the real Myung-hyun in the mental institution}}. The beginning of the movie was no emotional picnic either. * John Cameron Mitchel's ''[[Shortbus]]'' may be famous for featuring explicit, non-simulated sex but good god it's an incredible emotional release. The entire ending sequence is a [[Heartwarming Moment]], [[Awesome Music]], and pure catharsis are rolled into one. They're happy tears, to be sure, but oh there's always a lot of them. * The segment in ''[[Short Circuit]] 2'' where the villains brutally attack Johnny 5 while he pleads for his life. Follow that up with a showing of Johnny's desperate attempts at survival (including stealing a car battery as an alternate power source and breaking into a Radio Shack so he and recovering [[Jerkass]] Fred would have the tools needed to repair him), and you've got yourself a segment that threatens to make you have a heart attack at how agonizing it is. ~~* ''[[Silent Running]]''. The ending... just the ''goddamned ending''... sob~~ * ''[[Sin City]]''. Specifically "The Hard Goodbye". Frank Miller's work is often criticized for a lack of humanity, of being filled with lousy people in a lousy town, and Sin City is built around that. However, the story of Marv fighting to avenge the death of the one woman named Goldie who gave him some love is very touching. Over the course of the story, Marv kills countless people, tortures many of them and kills one of the most powerful men in town. And he enjoys it. Given his violent tendencies and the comment that he'd be right at home on an ancient battlefield killing people, its possible to think that he's simply using Goldie's death to have some fun. But then, {{spoiler\|he is almost killed and is sentenced to death. Hours before his execution, he gets his only visitor in 18 months. It's Goldie's twin sister, Wendy, who aided Marv in the killings. But Marv has a mental illness and he gets confused. So when Wendy walks in the door, he thinks it's Goldie, and he says "I got them for you good, didn't I Goldie?". We are instantly reminded that he gave his life to avenge this one woman who he only knew for a couple hours. Cue the Manly Tears. Then he apologizes and says "Sorry, I got confused again." What does Wendy say? "You can call me Goldie." She spends the night with him. }} Two Tearjerkers in 30 seconds at the very end of the first story of what's seen as one of the most nihilistic, violent and heartless mainstream comics around. ** The ending of ''That Yellow Bastard''. "An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade. I love you, Nancy." ''BANG!'' * ''[[The Sixth Sense]]''. The movie is practically made of Tearjerker! Especially this exchange between Cole and his mother where he explains that his dead grandmother visits him sometimes: ~~{{quote\|Cole [[Meaningful Name\|Sear]]: She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... "Every day." What did you ask?~~ ~~Lynn Sear: Do... Do I make her proud? }}~~ * The 2005 version of ''[[War of the Worlds]]''. The characters are making their way through a valley, along with a few hundred other refugees. A fairly substantial group of soldiers trying to hold back the tripods tripods closing in on them while the refugees pass, despite the fact that their weapons do nothing. {{spoiler\|So they CHARGE}}. * The end of ''[[Sky Blue]]''. Poor Jay...