So spill the beans about your waterworks.
Which three movies BROKE YOU UP the most. Come on, don't be shy. Which three movies did a number on you and put you in seepy weepy teardom - if you have to go back to childhood that's cool.
For me I would say:
The Wizard of Oz (still!)
Shadowlands
Meet Joe Black (the remake)
Addendum: it was only after watching Baloo's death scene for the tenth time with Whit that I finally stopped crying over that movie as well. Free at last.
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E.T., Brian's Song (the first movie I remember crying over--probably a Sunday night movie feature on CBS--before cable), and recently Juno. Couldn't figure out why the middle school kids behind me were laughing. It was NOT funny. But a good movie.
1. The Pride of the Yankees (1942).
So thoroughly weepy and sad, they even named the disease after Lou Gehrig. "Brian's Song" can't hold a candle to this one.
2. Casablanca (1942). The most patriotic moment in French history is when Victor Laszlo leads the disparate patrons at Rick's in singing La Marseille. I've seen the movie 100 times and still tear up.
Vive la France!
3. Old Yeller (1957). To quote Bill Marray in Stripes,
"Nobody cried when Old Yeller
got shot? I'm sure. I cried my eyes out."
Chellpenz, I thought you once told me Porky's made you cry.
Greg, let me sing a little song for you ...
"Here Yellar, come back Yellar, best doggone dog in the West."
I still half remember the song and was also devastated by that movie. Along with Sounder, Where the Red Fern Grows, sniff. All those boy/dog movies.
Just a few days ago, "Body of War." Especially when the gold star mother says to the paralyzed veteran, "I'm so glad you're alive." It's a documentary, by the way, and, since it's about the Iraq war and its consequences, nobody is going to see it.
"They Were Expendable," every time I see it.
Chaplin's "City Lights"
ET as well & Philadelphia, but can't think of a third. I tend to cry more now when I see charity than separation.
I have to add two; don't know how I could have overlooked them in the first place
Leo McCarey's "Make Way for Tomorrow," the ultimate family tear-jerker, and you don't feel used afterwards.
King Vidor's "Stella Dallas," with the immortal Barbara Stanwyck.
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