I'd go with the death of Boromir in LoTR as something that had me snuffling.
But then near the end of Monster Inc did so as well but in a much more obvious and manipulative fashion, but I was powerless to resist anyway :-).
Same again with Michelle Yeo and Chow Yung Fat saying goodbye at the end of Crouching Tiger.
Film-makers they're all bastards.
quote:Originally posted by Nelson Evergreen: American Beauty : the last few lines of the film have a very odd effect. ...
Yep. You're not alone on that one, Nelson. I love that movie and those last lines ("My grandmother's hands.. and how they were like paper") gets me everytime.
Braveheart: The last scene with Gibson on the evisceration table and his bride walks through the crowd.
In Cast Away, when Tom Hanks is sailing on the raft and Wilson is washed overboard. I was openly weeping at that, all the while telling myself, "It's just a goddamn volleyball! And besides, it didn't really die, it's just a movie!"
At the end of The Mission, when those kids float down the river in a canoe and pick up debris, it so horrifically futile for them. Again I was close to tears but much younger at the time.
The last episode of "M.A.S.H.". If the scenes of Hawkeye in the shrink ward aren't enough (in which he reveals that a woman on the bus smothered her own infant to risk enemy detection). What really got me was the bits with David Ogden Spears(sp?) teaching the Koreans how to play Mozart, only to see thier corpses lying in the back of an ox cart at the end.
The same goes the little girl with the red coat in "Schindler's List".
