Kermode Uncut: The Tracks Of Your Tears

[MrTomVprosser]

The ending of Brokeback Mountain, it destroys me each time. Also the ending of Schindler's List, "I could have got more". That line shows just how much each individual human life meant to him. The other, The Shawshank Redemption, Brookes, SPOILER! when he commits suicide. That scene always gets me.

[ardbastard1]

The beginning of Up, is heartwrenchingly sad. Also, most recently Tilda Swinton's brilliant melancholic portrayal as a quiet, eager to please woman who loses everything meaningful in her life due to the psychotic, ambiguous actions of her malevolent, hatefilled son in We Need To Talk About Kevin, broke my heart. SPOILER ALERT: I already knew that Kevin shoots up the school, but when she got home & discovered he had also killed her husband & daughter, it really got to me.

[darthmiike]

"ingloruous basterds" ,at the death of a once great film director

before that "caravan of courage"

"the warriors" death of cyrus 

[raitt75]

The final scene in 'The Straight Story' where Richard Farnsworth and Harry Dean Stanton look up to the stars like they used to.

Probably Harry Dean Stantons shortest and maybe best performance.

[CaptainWeetch1]

the elephant man :'(

[LordTrilby]

Mark has got to be one of the easiest people, man, woman or child, to make cry.

[BuNgLelove69]

Watership Down - The black rabbit at the end... Starting to bubble thinking about it now

The Green Mile - 1st time I watched it, during most of the last half, the 2nd time i watched...as soon as i heard 'that' song.

Short Circuit - alright I was young, but i really thought Johnny 5 was dead!

Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan - When Spook 'dies', still makes me a little teary, but gets a special mention as i got really drunk one night and ended up watching it with my sister and we both blarred! :)

[arieger82]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles - the ending gets to me.

[henrygale77]

Gran Torino makes me cry (unashamedly), theres also obvious ones like It's a Wonderful Life, Stand By Me, Good Will Hunting and Up.

I think i cried at American Beauty, but that was more to do with I was overwhelmed by how perfect and beautiful the film was

[Sevlech]

Also a lot of the emotional sad moments for me are mostly pulled by the music. Take Tim Burton's Batman Returns. Hit & miss film, but The Penguin's/Oswald's death is made just by Danny Elfman's music (even bypassing the guys in Penguin suits)

[Sevlech]

The Land Before Time (1 and ONLY 1)

But it's not Littlefoot's mother dying. It's the scene afterwards when he finds his mother's shadow on the cliff side, the music makes that scene. You could also say the sequels are a reason to cry too.

[lordtufty]

@Sevlech I loved the sequels (2-6) when I was a child... the first was my least favourite

[excrutiated]

the first 15 min of pixars up!

[woofalot13]

the moment i feel i think a film is deliberately trying to evoke tears i turn off .

[cbak12sg]

Apart from the obvious ones (Field of Dreams, It's A Wonderful Life, Toy Story 3), the ending of The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) gets me every time. It takes place in a bookshop...

[MrVinushka]

Lilya 4-Ever didn't make me cry - it made me a very angry kind of sad, if that makes any sense.

[frogtastic1000]

kermode please do a blog of your 20 favourite horror films (not including the exorcist)

[MadameMao1]

Dr K

stop the plot spoliers !!!!

[MrSyrett]

....also Sideways - the broken character of Miles in general. Touching ending

[MrSyrett]

When the wind blows.

[englishredcoat]

ET - at the end :-(

Top gun - when goose dies

Shane

Watership down

[georginiou]

Thanks for the spoiler on Tell No One!

[SethHesio]

Wait a minute... "Happy as a sandbag"? Never heard that expression before.

[ec123456789able]

No one mentioned Titanic, lol.

[thebobsterjones]

@ec123456789able that's because it's terrible....no offence if you liked that movie but most people regard it as utter rubbish

[ec123456789able]

@thebobsterjones I don't really like it or dislike it, but it is often referred to as the stereotypical tear jerker :P

[lordtufty]

lotr

[frogtastic1000]

@lordtufty cry with 9 hours of boredom?

[lordtufty]

@frogtastic1000 no. Over 9 hours of transcendental bliss

[frogtastic1000]

@lordtufty lotr has some of the worst acting ever lol

[lordtufty]

@frogtastic1000 I wouldn't say that... who in particular?

[AHALambda101]

toy story 3

I was the first to leave that screen as I was crying so much :(

[CraigSips]

Cant handle seeing grown men cry (when done right). Muppets Christmas Carol... seriously.

I dont care about horses though, half way through War Horse a charcter says "calm down, it aint a dog"... exactly.

[21stCenturyCat]

For me it was Watership Down... I was 10. Even now I'm scared to go back to the film in case I get affected in the same way...

[21stCenturyCat]

While watching this my girlfriend mentioned she'd seen the live action version of ''Graves of the Fireflys" and it was indeed a tear jerker. She also cried when (plot spoiler) the dog bought it in "I Am Legend"

[qwertyuiopdan1]

Does Kermode ever read the youtube comments? He never seems to..

[HarrisJamesBen]

The 2 that come to mind:

1. The Truman Show (his signing off)

2. Inception (Ending + Zimmer = :') )

[frogtastic1000]

@HarrisJamesBen inception made you cry with boredom?

[Needham90]

@frogtastic1000 DIE.

[HarrisJamesBen]

@frogtastic1000 Errm nope.

[projectcyclops]

Slightly annoyed by the 'Tell No One' plot spoiler there, hadn't got around to seeing it yet. Oh well, interesting responses overall. I just cried watching 'Trust' which is quite an emotional rollercoaster.

[theGanj]

Just watched Empire of the Sun on TV and I cried at few scenes.

[qwertyuiopdan1]

@theGanj Misread that as "Men behind the sun". Can see why you'd cry at men behind the sun.

[Needham90]

United 93, with the crescendo of violins at the inevitable end.

[Needham90]

The ending of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

[mayer8356]

@Needham90 Can't believe I forgot that! Casey Affleck is brilliant, and the Cave/Ellis score is just phenomenal.

[RichieG]

I know it's really corny but Marley & Me. The ending had tears streaming down my cheeks and when I got home I hugged my dog so tight I didn't want to let him go. Only ever watched it once I don't think I could go through it again. And the end of Gladiator always brings a lump in my throat.

[Rockstarsean]

Mark, you do know that Anvil are a real band, right? Trust me, I've met them (they're so sweet and down to earth).

[winters0123]

Wall-E, at the love story and at how worryingly accurate I think it is as a prediction for our future. I agree about Requiem for a Dream, but I think i was too emotionally destroyed to actually cry. I keep meaning to watch it again but haven't yet... Lost in Translation makes me very melancholic but I don't cry. I almost do, but not quite. It's probably my favourite film.

[fanboydee]

Abbie Cornish was in Sucker Punch too. I could cry about that.

[TheNoodle97]

the road

[TomjDavies13]

I am sorry dear doctor to correct you but that conversation about women cry at an affair to remember and men cry at the dirty dozen was in sleepless in Seattle not in when Harry Met Sally. No Dumbo or Turner and hooch!

[90mv]

believe it or not i haven't cried at a film

[tintinisfat]

The Iron Giant gets me every time.

[iwanabbilly]

The Man From Nowhere, after he saves the little girl at the end. Love that film

[duophonix]

the last scene from Midnight cowboy. On the bus....where he holds his friend (don't want to give a spoiler)

[ThatIzzyGirl]

I didn't cry at "The Grave For The Fireflies" but I've never felt so emotionally drained after a film, bar Requiem For A Dream. I wanted to crawl into a hole I was so upset. Changeling, on the other hand; I sobbed at six separate points in that film, full on bawling.

[frogtastic1000]

@ThatIzzyGirl just watched grave for the fireflies and its not that sad tbh...

[harrypmay]

The Elephant Man

[frogtastic1000]

@harrypmay yeah that's a pretty good movie

[quark6766]

Ellen Burstyns monologue in Requiem for a dream. Gets me every time.

[MrOoogly]

Sidney Poitiers' Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is a sad film.

[phantomdoodler]

Synecdoche NY, really got to me. I don't know why. A lot of my friends found it cold, but I got the opposite out of it. The scene where he meets his dying daughter and the petal tattoo falls off of her arm was heartbreaking for me.

[Kretek]

Many great movie out there. But I must say "The Fountain". My eyes was sweating so much when I watched this movie first time. And final speech of Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator". In my opinion one of the most powerfull monologues in movie history.

[kellybernard]

Three words: I am Spartacus

[shawndimery]

Sideways for me.

[MrDenham]

ET used to make me bawl twice. First when he appears out of fear then. when it seems like he's going to die

[trooperJac]

I cry like a girl at practically anything, the reunion of the friends in Shawshank gets me every time. The Railway Children is the one that really kills me. I had never seen that movie until a few years ago but that scene on the platform is a killer.

I will look out for 'Grave of the Fireflies'.

[enilenif]

Also, it's Sleepless in Seattle, not when Harry met Sally (I mean I've never watched WHMS but I doubt it's in 2 Meg Ryan films)

[enilenif]

You were talking about gremlins just as I was answering a crossword clue "what appears when you feed a Mogwai after midnight". Enjoyed the coincidence

[simonh505]

I had a tear in my eye for Warrior on more than one occasion, I was shocked by how good it was. Also Blue Valentine, it was a shotgun blast to the chest.

[DarkCROWgaming]

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind

[stuigi99]

Infernal Affairs

[Vindog76]

I'm a grown man who blubs like a schoolgirl at Watership Down.

[sabalos]

@Vindog76 Me too! If tears born of hysterical fear count, at least.

[frogtastic1000]

the fact that the rachael character in bladerunner thinks she is human and not a replicant is quite sad and also rutger hauer's final speech before he dies....sniff sniff

[AEF091]

And what about the final scene in Straight Story by David Lynch, where the Richard Farnsworths character, finally meets his brother who has suffered a stroke, who he fell out with a long time ago, after an incredible journey across the deserted american plains.

[aeropagitica]

The origin of the final quotation from 'The Apartment' is Cervantes' 'Quixote'; "Digo: 'paciencia, y barajar.'", which translates to; "I say: 'Patience, and play cards.'".

[fxcw85]

The final scene in Paths of Glory gets me every time. Even talking about it causes me to well up.

[AEF091]

Shawshank Redemption.

[clearbrian]

Emma Thompson in Wit - when her old professor friend arrives from England finds her near comatose in pain with cancer and says nothing but reads out the Beatrix Potter tale till she falls asleep then leaves without saying goodbye. If you dont cry youre evil!! ;)

[sadako24]

I'm surprised the japanese horror film Dark Water didn't get a mention. It always reduces me to tears.

[DSQueenie]

Aw man I wish i'd seen tis and left a comment! I'll put it here. I cry at alot of films but one film stands out.

The Incredibles, the scene where when he thinks his family has died and the one MR Incredible explains to his wife why he wants to fight alone really hit get me. That feeling of fear that your family might be hurt because of you is a big fear.

[DarthDacre]

Lost in Translation every time. Not exactly a scenario I can relate directly to, but it's the hopefulness of the tale. And the beautiful cinematography helps.

[guywholikesvids]

The beginning of UP made me weep uncontrollably

[TheCrowebar123]

HowardBealeGoneMad is my account; that speech came as a shock to me, let me tell you :O