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HappyKitty posted:The Little Match Girl Strangely, the part that really gets me is when she's swept up in the carriage. It's such a Disney fantasy moment, but so very, very not. Mine is Harvie Krumpet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyVS6HOFeo I'm pretty sure Adam Elliot has somehow scientifically discovered the precise distilled formula that makes you cry at movies.
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Hi, I am a massive wuss who cries over anything and everything. I've been listening to Muse's Exogenesis symphony lately, though. It always gets to me. Part 1 (Overture): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04QzovLe2JM&feature=related Part 2 (Cross-Pollination): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svu5lu_-6jQ&feature=related Part 3 (Redemption): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfMVkz4AH8 It is basically the story of how we hosed up Earth badly enough to make it uninhabitable, and a few people packed up some genes and left everything they knew to colonize a new world, promising not to repeat the mistakes of the past. There is something so heartbreakingly truthful in it. By the time I get to the lyrics in Redemption there is no hope for my manliness.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 07:18 |
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HappyKitty posted:The Little Match Girl Hans Christian Andersen is a sadistic bastard. The pre-Disney version of The Little Mermaid was a tearjerker. The Match Girl is worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 07:28 |
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:Hans Christian Andersen is a sadistic bastard. This is the same thing you quoted? All of the StoryCorps stuff is amazing, but this one gets me every loving time. Danny and Annie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfvuJr9164&feature=share
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 07:34 |
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Lord Yod posted:This is the same thing you quoted? Yeah. I totally spaced that. Derp. I offer the original Little Mermaid story as an apology. http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 07:45 |
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A lot of mine have been posted already, but this one has gotten me ever since I was a kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OK-bekVjM Henry Blake's death on M*A*S*H*.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 07:48 |
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JosefStalinator posted:How has noone posted the ending to Toy Story 3 yet? Closest I ever got in theatres. I'm firmly convinced that you're not a human being if you don't at least tear up at this scene.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 07:59 |
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I've never been a huge Sufjan Stevens fan, but Casimir Pulaski Day loving kills me every time. It's even worse when you know it's autobiographical- he wrote it for a former girlfriend who died of cancer. trilobite terror has a new favorite as of 18:36 on Dec 10, 2011 |
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This painting, Ivan the Terrible And His Son Ivan, 16 November 1581 also known as the Aftermath, Ivan has just killed his son in a fit of rage, the look of horror in his eye as he realises what he has done always get to me.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 08:53 |
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I was lucky enough to see a working drawing of it when the Picasso exhibit came to SAM last year. I've never been more moved by a work of art, my eyes welled up right there in the gallery full of people.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 10:36 |
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There is something about this rendition of Holst's Jupiter that gets to me. The music is incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B49N46I39Y
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 10:56 |
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Oh, this thread. Not only have I been teary-eyed and quiver-lipped for the past hour, but I've also been exposed to some great music and stories. My contribution: Have A Little Faith by John Hiatt. Such and honest an powerful love song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UkKTlzyLhQ The "international" version of Ben E. King's Stand By Me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVdCZk-JrjY The final scene of The 25th Hour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8elKC-DLS8 And this photo of one soldier comforting another during the Korean War.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 12:31 |
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Nothing gets me quite like the concentration camp scenes from Band of Brothers. The episode is aptly titled "Why We Fight". I've seen archival footage, but seeing it in colour with actors you got know through the series, makes it all too disturbingly real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89L20s-Zko&feature=related Don't read the comments.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 19:51 |
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I just got reminded of this, I remember it happening back then. Soccer player dies on the pitch, the reaction from his teammates is really heartwrenching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibeJDrxqiRc&feature=related The end of the video is a really dumb plug and kind of ruins it though.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 20:30 |
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The ending of Cowboy Bebop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE9NsrKzSq8 WHEEZY KISS A DUDE posted:Last Minutes With ODEN. This is a beautiful short.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 20:32 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzDoqGGs1IM This scene from Scrubs, 5th season. Movies/TV rarely move me a whole lot but this scene, god drat. For context: Several patients in the hospital needed transplants A-loving-SAP, and after one of JD's patients die from an assumed drug overdose, Dr. Cox thinks he's got the organs he needs. Unfortunately, after the transplants are done, it's discovered that JD's patient died of rabies, resulting in all of Dr. Cox's transplant patients dying. \/\/ oh god, that scene too Son of Thunderbeast has a new favorite as of 20:39 on Dec 9, 2011 |
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The end of "The Green Mile", where John Coffey is being strapped into the electric chair and he begs them not to put the hood over his head because he's afraid of the dark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbb1FCX6wM&feature=fvsr Tom Hanks' character breaking down in tears as he tells the guy to pull the switch kills me every time.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 20:36 |
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Dorothy's ending speech of "The Wizard of Oz". It's my favorite movie on Earth, and has been since I got the VHS tape of it at three. I cried hysterically then, and even when it comes on at Thanksgiving and Christmas every year, I'm right there on the couch, saying the words along with her, tears in my eyes. gently caress, I'm tearing up right the gently caress now thinking about it. From the day I saw it in theaters and every time after, I would cry at the end of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". I'd start tearing up when Aragorn realized that Arwen didn't go into the West because she wanted to stay with him, start crying as soon as every-loving-person in Minas Tirith bowed to the Hobbits and Aragorn says "My friends, you bow to no one."... and I'd be in hysterics when the Hobbits realize that Gandalf AND Frodo are going into the West with the remaining Elves. I also get a bit weepy when Tom Hanks (as Jim Lovell) shakes hands with the ACTUAL Jim Lovell at the end of the movie, and they do that little prologue where Tom Hanks kindly informs you that while Jack Swigart and Fred Haise got to go to the Moon finally, poor loving Jim NEVER loving GOT TO.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 21:22 |
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stphnbtchr posted:The ending of Cowboy Bebop This is an awesome scene but it wasn't that sad for me because it'd been pretty heavily foreshadowed. Spike dying was a foregone conclusion, IMHO. Faye's episode "Speak Like a Child" was and is the one episode that really tears me up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5XiKGlZrUY "Go me!"
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 23:23 |
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I can't find it on Youtube, but Lilo and Stitch (again) had a TV show where, of course, the other 625 and more experiments Jumbaa made all came crashing down to Earth. Some of Stitch's cousins could shoot lightning, some were chatterboxes....one deaged people to childhood. Seriously. Now the point of every episode is that Lilo and Stitch find the new experiment and try to find its 'place it belongs,' be it at a nursing home, a construction site, as a pet, etc. So they find this experiment that deages all the characters, minus Lilo, to toddlerhood or childhood. Once everyone gets turned back to normal, the question is where the hell this experiment can live, doing what it does, without bringing down the government on this thing (the re-aged characters admit that it was fun being a kid but you don't want to relive your life twice, etc). So where does the experiment end up? In the animal shelter. And the last scene in the episode is this experiment hiding, picking out a very old abandoned dog, and deaging it to a puppy, where it's playful and leaping around and gets adopted right away. And then the experiment repeats the process, over and over, giving all the old dogs a new chance.
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# ? Dec 10, 2011 04:58 |
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Jisae posted:Charles Bukowski's "Bluebird" I know this is first page, but that's not Bukowski reading, I believe that's Harry Dean Stanton, you can also hear Harry read on the documentary "Born into This" which I believe is on Netflix, it really is worth watching. [edit] From that documentary, "The Laughing Heart" as read by Tom Waits, which always gets me after a drink or two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1t6a0zCkQ Tony Bologna has a new favorite as of 07:52 on Dec 10, 2011 |
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:This is an awesome scene but it wasn't that sad for me because it'd been pretty heavily foreshadowed. Spike dying was a foregone conclusion, IMHO. Yeah, looking back it wasn't a shocker that Spike was gonna die, but I remember watching the scene where Spike is talking to Faye about his glass eye, and I always thought that was so sad.
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# ? Dec 10, 2011 10:34 |
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This is the best thread Sun Day A young boy and his sister, alone on a cold moon, experience light for their first time. When I first saw this I started sobbing. Probably even more sad if you have siblings.
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# ? Dec 10, 2011 13:30 |
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I got this link from the 'gently caress yes moments in music' thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_tIss1OhGM Sigur Ros - Ara Batur I am a huge music freak and dedicate pretty much all my spare time to discovering, writing and listening to music. While several songs move me immensely, never has a song made me openly weep, until I heard this. Several hours after listening to it I still feel frail. I can't even think of it without tearing up. I have never had an experience like this before. I feel like it was worth living just to hear this. Edit: I meant to link the one where you can see them record it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvB_UmmIzk Katina has a new favorite as of 15:12 on Dec 12, 2011 |
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Katina posted:I got this link from the 'gently caress yes moments in music' thread. Thank you for this.
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Katina posted:
Jesus. I don't even know what to say. Amazing. To contribute-this song is a bit long and might come off as meandering to most, but it really hits home for me. I had a girlfriend that I really loved, but we were having problems...a series of events led me to discover that she didn't love me anymore, and in fact was in love with someone else. I was listening to this song when it all came to light and really started to sink in...2:30 especially. Very bittersweet. You hand in mine-Explosions in the Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIK5FaC38w
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 06:01 |
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This graphic novel really got to me. There is a forward that reads: "Named after the dogs that tend to stare at the stars wistfully. Just as we all wish for something that we will never possess." I'm the sort of person who dreams constantly about things, people, places and experiences that will probably never be mine to hold, so the personal effect was strong for me. Bit of a funny story though: The first time I read this I was in a Barnes & Noble by myself. I was listening to music and as I continued to read, I came to a part of the book that was extremely emotional. The protagonist dies after forming a very close kinship with the dog. Not long after this, the dog dies as well. There is a beautiful few pages where what seems like an afterlife is shown. The owner and the dog are reunited, happier than ever. The dog is completely overjoyed to be in the arms of his owner and taken for a walk once again. At the moment when the dog and his owner are reunited, this song was playing on my ipod and hit the 2:18 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wJiweByng I've never had more difficulty holding back tears in public.
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 06:59 |
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Jeff Buckley's very saddest song. No, it's not "Hallelujah". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ygFXUe6k4
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 07:14 |
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And if that didn't do it, this should. Feist: The Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdTUvfOcG8c
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 07:36 |
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"Yeh Kya Jagah Hai Doston" ("What Is This Place, Friends?") from the 1981 Indian film Umrao Jaan. The main character was kidnapped as a child and sold into a brothel where she grew up as a high-class courtesan until becoming a refugee. She finds herself in a village that she later realizes is the one she was kidnapped from, but the people there are just "Oh hey a whore, how about you dance for us?" so she performs this song and oh god she just wants a place to call home and someone to love her for real I can't even think about this clip without tearing up, Rekha just nails it. quote:What is this place, friends? PERMACAV 50 has a new favorite as of 15:31 on Dec 12, 2011 |
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The first time I saw Joanna Newsom perform Emily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGX8pIPQXZ4 Wasn't this show, but the same tour, it was just, beautiful. Tears still start to form a bit everytime I get lost in this song. This one only made me cry the first time I saw it, but it's an amazing scene so I'll post it anyway: Pippin's song from Return of the King. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07tyg4JZWkA This guy is sending his son to his death, and disgustingly devouring his feast, all set to Pippin's heartbreaking song and the realization that he pledged his allegiance to mad man. Definitely my favourite scene of the trilogy, it even has Sloth! Also the original ending to Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYj9IJFhlg
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An observer posted:"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 23:26 |
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Getting the Gibdo mask in Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask This one gets me every time. Little girl, the music, the entire bleak world that is oblivious to the doom that is hovering over their heads.
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 23:48 |
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Katina posted:I got this link from the 'gently caress yes moments in music' thread. Holy poo poo. Thanks for this. I went in all full of bravado like "yeah I'm sure it's nice and all", around the six minute mark I just had to stop doing anything and close my eyes and try not to cry. I failed about a minute later. Genuinely amazing.
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# ? Dec 12, 2011 23:57 |
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Katina posted:I got this link from the 'gently caress yes moments in music' thread. The seven minute mark where the choir joins in literally took my breath away--the choir started and I gasped. Simply beautiful. Edit: And now I gave my husband the youtube link and he's listening to it in another room, and when the big crescendo started I could hear it, and... Sapphaholic has a new favorite as of 01:20 on Dec 13, 2011 |
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notsoape posted:
The first thing in this thread is the first thing I thought of. Completely wet-faced for this one. Also, god... drat this thread. I feel emotionally hijacked. Also, Mary and Max had me tearing up more than once. If you have netflix, check it out on streaming.
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# ? Dec 13, 2011 03:24 |
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I'm glad someone else mentioned Pippin's song from Return of the King. For me, all of Grave of the Fireflies kills me. I've only watched it once. I think that's all I can handle. Collective Soul's "The World I Know" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TLTjqUyog&ob=av2e This new David Attenborough clip of him reading "What a Wonderful World" over awesome nature scenes gets me. It's not a sad feeling, just...overwhelming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSo1MyWf8g
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# ? Dec 13, 2011 04:04 |
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I cant seem to find it, but there's a set of two picture where an older and younger brother are hugging before the older one is deployed, and the subsequent picture is the younger brother kissing the coffin of his older brother. Anyone have that? Incredibly sad picture
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# ? Dec 13, 2011 04:13 |
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CleverHans posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76kAivCb20 I have to second this one. It's a beautiful song and one of the few that can really make me mist up. Also, the ending of Big Fish really, really got me. I'm not even sure exactly why, but holy God I was crying at the end of that film.
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