What movie or scene from a movie (or show) makes your eyes misty?

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    “where do you think we are?”

    The context is what makes this powerful. The buildup, the misdirection, the reveal.

    This was Scrubs at its best. McGinley should have won an Emmy right there.

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      Omg I held it together so well* during Coco until one of the final scenes when Hector picks up Coco and I absolutely lost it.

      *I cry at everything so “well” for me is probably not well for anyone else

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    First season of After Life by Ricky Gervais.

    The scene after where Gervais’ character realizes fully what he has done, especially to himself long term, is soul crushing. The i did the right thing, but for all of the right and wrong reasons look on his face is haunting. I think it is the 2nd episode.

    A lot of the episodes open with him watching his wife telling him to enjoy life. Her sitting on the hospital bed, on her final days because of cancer.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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      I hated gervais before this, i found his comedy delivery and style very grating but after watching this shoe and getting kicked in the guts every couple episodes i gave him another shot and dont mind him so much now. Show is a 10/10 if you want to sob silently with your partner.

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        5 days ago

        He can be eyerollingly obnoxious. And he is becoming more and more out of touch.

        He tends to have a heart and in the right place. His XFM auditions were the greatest proof of this.

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      The whole season was great (more than half of the guest actor and actress nominations came from the series), but that may have been the finest hour in television history.

      I don’t want to spoil the episode for anyone, but I’ll point out that my ultra-right parents changed their stance on a major social issue after watching it because it was just so beautiful.

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    Oh the scene/secquence? From Tim Burton’s “Big Fish” when he gets the dad back in the water. That was so wholesome but so sad at the same time.

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      6 days ago

      Came here for this. When he’s walking with his dad past all the people from his life smiling and saying goodbye, I always get serious feels. Had a little tremor just typing that out!

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    The opening scene of Hackers (1995). Poor kid can’t use a touch tone telephone or computer until his 18th birthday.

    That’s like taking away Mozart’s piano.

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    The Bob’s Burgers episode “The Amazing Rudy” (season 14, episode 2).

    Regular-sized Rudy goes out to eat with his divorced parents and their new significant others. It goes horribly wrong and he runs away to the Belchers’. I tear up a little bit even thinking of it because it isn’t played for laughs. I really feel for Rudy, just trying his hardest and putting way too much pressure on himself, and the way Louise steps up for her best friend is just so sweet.

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    Ibelin. Saw it in the cinema when it first came out, seemed like everybody in the audience was crying.

    (It’s about a kid with a degenerative disease who connected with people through an MMO.)