Last time I got so much as a lump in my throat from watching an emotional piece of television was in LOST when
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Charlie died.
It's not something that happens very often, but I'm man enough to admit it when it does.
What was the last piece of TV (or film) that choked you up?
To put it into context I didn't even cry when my Grandad died. Not because I'm dead inside, more likely because I did all my crying at primary school.
hiding the huge spoiler to LOST. eric
[Edit] Ooops... hehe... well in my defence if you didn't already know that then you probably don't care anyway. ;)
I cried when I watched Click
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when he dies in the rain
Also in Donnie Darko.
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The ending is just so sad and when she gets run over and and and *bursts into tears again*
It was yesterday.
I was watching All or Nothing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286261/) by Mike Leigh. There's a part where Timothy Spall says to his partner/wife "You don't love me anymore?" and she can't answer him. The whole movie builds up to this moment and before I could compose myself tears were falling down my cheeks.
And I never cry at movies ;D
I'm writing half an essay about Secrets and Lies.
That was quite a sad one. Mike Leigh must be quite a depressing bloke to be around.
I can't say I cry when I watch tv. But I don't watch tv....
I'd like to move slightly to the right of topic to mention games, and them making people cry.
Now, I've never actually cried because of a game. But, I found the cutscene in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey where Zoë comforts her sister to be very, very touching. I honestly cannot think of many other games that have made me feel this way, although I recall the dialogues in Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn to be very touching during the points where you have the oppurtunity make her love your player. Why don't games make me feel this way?
Sorry to dodge your topic Stu, but I felt this was at least a little relevant. :)
Oh and hmmm.... Planescape Torment had some incredible writing in there (in my opinion), but I never did feel overly touched.
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
Actually, now that DG mentions Futurama, I remember the episode with the Truckstop Sandwich worms and how Fry plays the holoflute badly at the end. Made me go "Awwww".
And Scrubs. At a friend's house and it was on and I found some moments in that which made me go "awww" as well. I should watch tv more, perhaps...
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 24/02/2008 13:03:35
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
Mmmm... I ALMOST agree DG, but the tear didn' t really fall out of my eye. Does that count.
Anyway, the last time cried was watching TV, it was 1st of May, 1994. Wow... It' s been a long time since I cried for the last time.
It was not a show, I am not sure if that counts. If you see something REAL does it count as crying watching TV, or it is more like crying in front of a real event which was brought to you on TV?
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 24/02/2008 13:03:35
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
I agree. That's the saddest thing I've seen on TV. "The Luck of the Fryrish" is also sad, but not a tear jerker like Jurassic Bark is.
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 24/02/2008 13:03:35
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
A great and sad episode indeed.
I cry every little now and then, but probably never during shows and series like Lost (don't view it, or like it, for that matter), more likely during movies or documentaries.
Quote from: Stupot on Sun 24/02/2008 11:48:40
What was the last piece of TV (or film) that choked you up.
The time when my TV was broken and I couldn't watch...
Depends what you mean by "cry", I guess. Whilst I wouldn't say that any TV show can really make you bawl uncontrollably, there are quite a few tear-jerker moments in various programmes that can make a tear come to the eye if you're not careful.
But of course as men we have ways of dealing with these moments, such as subtley wiping the tear away before anyone turns the lights back on, blinking ferociously in the hope that it will retract into the eye, and making hilarious comments like "aww, how cute" to detract attention from what might otherwise be noticed.
A bunch of fags you are. :-*
Seriously though, I cry every now and then watching the telly, reading book/poem, listening to music, and this isn't really sheding tears, just crying inside so that it feels everywhere, you know. I'm just a romantic in a sense :) Especially Sweet Home Alabama made me feel really nice inside with the ending and all. I like happy endings, though a bad/sad ending must be very well put out/played for me to react in that way. It's hard to symphatize if you haven't formed a personal relationship to the person that whatever happens to.
I used to laugh at my sister whenever the likes of Helen Daniels or Jim Robinson died in Neighbours... It was my secret ploy to hide the fact that I was on the verge of booing my own eyes out.
Ben, on the Subject of Games... I know Aries' last moments in FF7 have caused grown men to sob for weeks.
maybe if i threw the tv at you hard enough you might cry
ET :'(
Quote from: Pumaman on Sun 24/02/2008 13:49:38
Depends what you mean by "cry", I guess. Whilst I wouldn't say that any TV show can really make you bawl uncontrollably, there are quite a few tear-jerker moments in various programmes that can make a tear come to the eye if you're not careful.
Indeed, until recently when people spoke of this phenomenon I thought it was the former, then someone brought it to my attention that people are mostly referring to tearing up, citing the silliness of weeping over a film.
Anyways, the last time for me was during I Am Legend
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The part where he was in the DVD store talking to all the mannequins caused we to well up a bit. I think it was supposed to be a comedic seen but I didn't see it that way. Odd since most people agree there are much sadder parts to the film.
Embarrassingly enough, I
have produced tears from television shows such as Buffy and Lost, but usually from situations where there is some mystery behind the emotion. The best example I can think of is in series one of Lost where Kate goes to visit her mother dying of cancer in hospital, and whom she had not scene in several years. When her mother realises who Kate is she becomes terrified and starts yelling for help, at that point viewers aren't sure why :'(
Quote from: Andail on Sun 24/02/2008 13:41:32
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 24/02/2008 13:03:35
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
A great and sad episode indeed.
True. XKCD was right when they said the end even made computers cry.
Nice one on the massive spoiler on the first line. ::)
Quote from: CaptainBinky on Sun 24/02/2008 15:26:37Nice one on the massive spoiler on the first line. ::)
That was my thought too as I just got the DVDs for season 3 :(
Television rarely makes me cry. In fact it rarely produces emotion for me. However, as oddly as it seems ... one Episode of [new] Battlestar Galactica
really got to me.
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The Galactica has returned to New Caprica ... Adama gives that incredible speech before the action. Then jumps Galactica into the atmo of New Caprica, launches his vipers, and then jumps out!
That was so brilliant and awe-inspiring that I actually found myself (with a tear in my eye) on my feet, hand in the air, and cheering. That's never happened to me before and it wasn't conscious ... it just happened.
Also...
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That same episode when the Galactica is surrounded by the 4 Cylon base-ships and is about to be destroyed when Pegasus returns and saves the day! That was just the dramatic part, but then Admiral Adama says, "thank you Lee..."
That totally choked me up given the [albeit not unique] relationship that they had developed between father and son over the first two seasons.
The only television that has really come close to producing emotion like that from me was Band of Brothers ... but that was a different kind of emotion. I love it when TV can have that effect on me ... that's when I know it's good writing (at least to me).
TV nope! Too random to keep in mind.
but movies, yes.
I vomited on 'Breaking the Waves' actually (1996, Lars von Trier), towards the ending scene in the boat. I just couldn't take it. I value vominting amazingly higher than "simply" crying.
And I cry a little bit on '101 Dalmatians' in the scene in the snow...
Oh...now if you were to ask if TV has ever made you vomit, then the question gets a bit easier to answer.
Anyways:
TV Shows That Have Made Me Vomit
7th Heaven
The Help
Just Deal
Cleopatra 2525
Gilmore Girls
most of Full House
SK8
My Super Sweet 16
:-X
For me, I think one of the best endings I've seen in recent years was the finale to Life On Mars. It managed to be both happy and sad, providing a satisfying conclusion without going over the top with sentimentality.
On the other hand, if I ever meet Spielberg, he's going to pay for War of the Worlds and AI.
I cry fairly easy in movies and watching TV, but the one that gets me the most is MASH. It always makes me cry, especially Hawk Eye's dear dad eps. Yeah, I'm a big softy.
Man, you people are such girls...
I don't think I've ever been moved to tears by anything. I might sit there, floored for a while, but never cried...
...and that doesn't surprise me in the least ;D
I cried a bit when in the episode in Full Metal Alchemist when Ishballan boys found out the reason
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there mother didn't try to rescue them was because she was blind, she did try to rescue them, but she couldn't see them
It may seem silly to say it NOW, as the show has become this ultra-macho USA-happy action-hero-a-plenty shootathon, but in the second season of 24 there were a couple of nice moments where you thought there might actually be a possibility that Jack Bauer might die, and they actually caused me to well up. Since then, however, the show has bene far too silly for me to have any emotional response whatsoever.
I looooove Lost, but the end of Season 3 is probably one of the only moments I have felt genuinely emotionally attached to a character. For a long time I was not invested in the characters at all, only interested in the mystery. That's changed now, but for a good while this caused me to have no emotional attachment to them.
Also: Futurama. YES. Jurassic Bark, Luck of the Fryish, but also The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings. The last few moments of that are really touching, although this was probably originally because I thought it would be the last Futurama I would ever see. The whole final sequence of it is genuis though, all through the opera up until the final shot..."I want to see how it ends..."
Video games? Hmmm. I felt a strong emotional attachment on my second (and subsequent) playing(s) of Grim Fandango. I even keep a file of quotes saved from it in My Documents and read through them occasionally. I don't know why, but I especially like the Moon poem and the poem that actually mentions the "Grim Fandango." They don't make me cry, but I feel something from it.
The end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 also tugged strongly at my heartstrings, though I won't spoil why. If you've played it you'll know.
Recently I have noticed how strongly comic books can access my emotional state as well, which may seem very silly (especially if you don't read them) but it's true. A couple of moments in "Y: The Last Man" (especially when A CERTAIN SOMETHING happens to A CERTAIN CHARACTER) really got me. Also: a book called "Pedro and Me," which is about a guy with AIDS, really got me. Also also: I recently read through the entire "Preacher" series and by gosh does that series pack an emotional punch.
Hmmm, has this post made me sound gay? Perhaps. I don't really cry at these things, maybe occasionally well up a bit, but I certainly know what is relevant emotionally - when the creator(s) have made me feel some sort of attachment with the characters.
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 24/02/2008 13:03:35
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
Yes! My sister's favorite episode, and it reduces her to tears every time she sees it.
EDIT: "The Luck of the Fryrish" is her second favorite. :P
Quote from: LimpingFish on Sun 24/02/2008 21:24:38
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 24/02/2008 13:03:35
Futurama: Jurassic Bark
Yes! My sister's favorite episode, and it reduces her to tears every time she sees it.
EDIT: "The Luck of the Fryrish" is her second favorite. :P
Oh yes, "Luck of the Fryish" that was areal special episode. I havn't seen 'Jurassic Bark' but yes, of all the futurama episodes I have seen, "Luck of the Fryish" was the closest to making me cry.
Quote from: [Cameron] on Sun 24/02/2008 18:11:40
I cry fairly easy in movies and watching TV, but the one that gets me the most is MASH. It always makes me cry, especially Hawk Eye's dear dad eps. Yeah, I'm a big softy.
Ah, MASH, heck yes. I cry every time I see the episode where Colonel Blake dies. I think death and loss in fiction is the thing that makes me cry the most often, hands down.
I am often moved by movies or games, and sometimes TV shows, but never really to the point of crying. There are those moments in Lost, 24 and Prison Break etc, but I think the most intense one -for a TV show- I experienced, was the season finale of Grey's Anatomy seasonnnn... 2 I think (I guess that makes me an even bigger queer ;)). But it was because I had watched all of season one and two on DVD over a few days, and the events combined with the music and the idea that I'd have to wait 6 months for the next season was pretty saddening. I was so attached to the characters by then it really felt like a goodbye.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot the Urusei Yatsura episode with the cherry tree blossom. It really made me feel something. Can't remember it that well, I should prolly get the episodes again and watch them :)
Quote from: lo_res_man on Sun 24/02/2008 20:43:56
I cried a bit when in the episode in Full Metal Alchemist when Ishballan boys found out the reason Spoiler
there mother didn't try to rescue them was because she was blind, she did try to rescue them, but she couldn't see them
Oh my god, I had forgotten all about that. Excuse me I...have something in my eye...
Quote from: Pumaman on Sun 24/02/2008 17:54:10
For me, I think one of the best endings I've seen in recent years was the finale to Life On Mars.
I couldn't agree more. It had an excellent ending.
And to answer the ultimate question: No, I don't recall ever crying while watching TV. TV, no. Movies, yes. One very good example is The Green Mile... don't watch without tissues. :'(
There was that episode of In the Night Garden where Iggle Piggle lost his blanket...
Another show that made me cry is Friends, but only ever stuff with Chandler. His stuff with Monica and his character developments always seemed the most real. Actually, a lot of other stuff in it made me cry, but mostly Chandler.
I always thought Chandler was the least real character.
I mean, come on, have you ever heard of a real person who's first name is Chandler?
Well, there's this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkU25navBM) (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/), 1937).
And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGfLAtiUi1A) (The Great Dictator (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/), 1940).
Quote from: EldKatt on Tue 26/02/2008 14:13:02
And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGfLAtiUi1A) (The Great Dictator (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/), 1940).
Yeah, his moustache makes me cry, too...
Ending to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid makes me go a little misty-eyed, and couple of other films. I can't remember getting particularly upset at any tv shows though.
When I was a little kid, I cried at the end of Old Yeller. That was so sad. I don't think I have seen that since. :'( :'(
I have watched something very recently that got to me: it was in episode 9 of Band of Brothers where they
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discover the concentration camp, and I somehow intensely realized at that exact moment that it isn't just a very well-made TV show but also a very accurate depiction of actual events
Oh yes, Band of Brothers is pretty hard hitting
Most ROCKY movies make me cry at the end when that music kicks in after the final round.
E.T.
Green Mile
Homeward Bound
A few episodes of ONLY FOOLS & HORSES too.
LOST has never made me cry.
"I am crying...because a PRUNE has died." Ken Davis
I am sorry, I have a real dislike of E.T.. If it's your thing, it's your thing, but it most assuridly is NOT my thing.
Movies that made me cry.
Titanic (Old couple dying in each others arms *sniff*)
Apollo 13 (They DID IT, THE ARE HOME!!! WooHOO!)
The Dish (For this brief moment in history, we were one.)
Sorry if this is not what the kind of TV this post is about but everytime I see kids suffering on the tele, like hospital docs or deseases that don't have a cure I just can't help and cry. I am a recent father and I was told that's why I do it.
Have one I clearly remember.
A sad, sad movie called "Bill" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082075/). imdb reports this as TV movie so I think it counts. Well, saw it on TV anyway, I think it was in 1989 or 1990 or so, during Soviet era when all Estonians secretly tuned their TV's to receive Finnish channels. You know, to get into touch with Western world. Our own media was under strict no-USA censorship, much like Russian media still is.
There was a moment where Bill realizes he's being left into mental institution again by his friend and... well, the face Mickey Rooney makes at this scene is best, most realistic and saddening acting I've ever witnessed.
Damn awesome movie.
Also, I recall some kind of very violence-heavy WWII series going on on Finnish tv that time. One time, it showed a large group of very naked people (jews maybe?) taken into warehouse, gassed, and buried into a ditch near railway. A naked pile of dead people. They don't do movies-series like this nowadays... And there was this girl who didn't die and was buried alive. This time I also cried, but I don't remember when that was or anything more about it. But these gory scenes seen in childhood donated to my chronic insomnia I suffer until today.
Right now, music in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion sometimes gets me all sensitive and crying. Don't know why. Especially the theme in intro video. Maybe it's simply too good. Ah, and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE) video shooks me up quite badly too.
Two stand out.
Saber Marionette J, before-last episode, when everything you've seen grow between the characters (for 24 episodes) is blown apart. I shed tears every single fucking time.
Doctor Who, David Tennant, episode "Doomsday". I bawled. And the most amazing part is, as a season ender, we were watching it with the lot of us. 6 grown men. Tears out the wazoo.
Crazy, I know :P
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but LOST has very nearly made cry again.
I've just seen the most recent episode, "The Constant" and at the end I was almost in tears. Not because it was particularly sad but just because it was the final release at the end of a stupidly intense 40 minutes. A great episode indeed. LOST remains the best show on television since the X Files.
Lost has *nearly* worked on me too.
That Locke-centric episode in first season where in the end, turns out that he was disabled before crash... music and scenes really build something... very sad and deep. Something that later seasons have lost by now and degraded the show into more ordinary and less deep soap opera. I still pirate every new episode... our TV shows third season yet and I'm not patient enough.
-slaps on forehead... it's time! Haven't seen the Constant yet!-
A lot of telly/cinema has given me the proverbial lump in the throat, but I don't think it's really true sadness more a complete welling of enthusiasm for a tv/film "moment" that has been done so perfectly it couldn't be done better.
For example: Azeem's speech near the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (aka the best film ever made) makes me want to leap up from the sofa every time and shout encouragement to the brooding Saracen:
Azeem: Join us, Join Robin Hood!!!!
Me: YEAH!!!!! *cries* f*** em up Azeem!!!!!.. (turning to who evers nearest in a triumphant weep) I bloody love this movie! :=
Sorry but I just remembered the following 5 videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU44zfNxg20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR5mZqeDNtg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOuHaTt2XUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkoRDFjBh44
and especially this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-K9V9qz6P4
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All from thai insurance, which seems ridiculous on it's own, but they are actually very well made!
At the end of EPIC MOVIE, i was so glad it ended.
That is one of the worst comedies i have ever seen, i think i laughed once.
edit: Benny & Joon made me sad, almost to the brink of tears, but not quite. Good movie though.
at Epic Movie. I laughed at the perfect Jack Sparrow Parody. Otherwise only Click and Donnie Darko has made me cry.
Friday the 13th films.
It was terrible the way they treated Jason.
He was only doing us a service by Killing stupid teens who didn't run to safety!
And making a statement about the dangers of unprotected sex in the middle of a spooky forest.
Quote from: RetroJay on Sat 08/03/2008 01:42:23
And making a statement about the dangers of unprotected sex in the middle of a spooky forest.
LOL. That would make a brilliant public awareness ad.
*couple is kissing in the forest*
"Got a condom?"
"No."
"Ah, forget it, we'll be grand..."
*hockey-mask wearing psycho pops up and stabs them both to death*
'This could be you.
Always wear a condom.'
The last thing that made my eyes water was watching the final episode of
Friends yesterday on DVD.
This probably doesn't count either, but I always tear up when I watch
Shaun of the Dead when:
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1. Shaun's step dad tells him that he's always loved and cared about him before he dies.
2. When Shaun and Ed say goodbye at the end.
--Snake
I seem to remember the ending of the episode of Futurama with the seven-leafed clover being quite touching.
There's this one episode of Scrubs that always gets me.
It's the one where J.D thinks he made a girl commit suicide, and her organs are donated to various people in the hospital. It turns out she had rabies, and the patients died. One of the patients was Dr. Cox's friend. It was oddly emotional, and incredibly well done.
And it had "How to Save a Life" by the Fray.