Can TV make you cry?

OneDollar · Wed 27/02/2008 00:40:44

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.

Domino · Wed 27/02/2008 01:35:41

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. :'( :'(

Khris · Wed 27/02/2008 02:20:36

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

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OneDollar · Wed 27/02/2008 13:43:04

Oh yes, Band of Brothers is pretty hard hitting

DazJ · Wed 27/02/2008 17:19:57

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.

lo_res_man · Wed 27/02/2008 20:35:28

"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.)

miguel · Wed 27/02/2008 20:47:01

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.

InCreator · Sat 01/03/2008 01:15:39

Have one I clearly remember.

A sad, sad movie called "Bill". 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 video shooks me up quite badly too.

voh · Sat 01/03/2008 01:28:00

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

Stupot · Sat 01/03/2008 10:23:55

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.

InCreator · Sat 01/03/2008 10:31:56

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!-

Danruto · Sat 01/03/2008 13:31:39

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!

Nikolas · Fri 07/03/2008 00:47:18

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!

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Domino · Sat 08/03/2008 01:02:10

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.

Haddas · Sat 08/03/2008 01:03:34

at Epic Movie. I laughed at the perfect Jack Sparrow Parody. Otherwise only Click and Donnie Darko has made me cry.

RetroJay · Sat 08/03/2008 01:42:23

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.

Emerald · Sun 09/03/2008 13:49:29

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.'

Snake · Sun 09/03/2008 14:23:20

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.

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--Snake

Hammerite · Sun 09/03/2008 18:48:01

I seem to remember the ending of the episode of Futurama with the seven-leafed clover being quite touching.

deadsuperhero · Sun 09/03/2008 22:27:57

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.