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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 21/12/2012 3:19:54 PM

Rhubarb

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10. The Luck of the Fryish, Futurama, 2001

A cartoon, FFS!

Probably my fave episode - it runs the full spectrum of emotion. Jurrasic Bark is also devastating, but this one, yeah.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 21/12/2012 3:38:36 PM

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Good pick of Futurama - I wept in both that episode and the previously mentioned Jurassic Bark (which was just a really cruel episode).

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 21/12/2012 8:59:17 PM

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Futurama -

I really adore that show but it constantly slayed/slays me emotionally. This sums it up

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 21/12/2012 9:49:17 PM

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Great moment from Lost.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 9/1/2013 1:28:03 PM

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11. Tim and Dawn kiss, The Office Christmas Special, 2003

So wonderfully (under)played by both actors, and the fact that you see it coming for a few seconds before Tim finds out she's back is just...Jesus, I'm tearing up now. Actually, I start losing it when she opens her present in the car. Wonderful moment from a wonderful final episode.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 9/1/2013 1:44:10 PM

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12. Boromir just keeps on fighting, FotR, 2001

Although his dying words to Aragorn (brother, captain, king) are just as moving, it's just before that gets me misty eyed. Boromir after taking an arrow to the body, keeps fighting, takes another, keeps fighting; only the third arrow stops him. Using his dying breath to protect Merry and Pippin, showing that at heart that he's not a bad person. And then once Boromir has no more fight in him, the two Hobbits burst out of the bushes in a futile attempt to avenge their fallen comrade.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 9/1/2013 1:49:51 PM

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The Office is an amazing choice. From Tim's speech when Dawn leaves ("Life goes on..."), to her unwrapping the present, the brilliant use of Yazoo, and then the kiss... (damn it, now I'm tearing up...) yeah, I'm a big fan.

Boromir is also great, but I'd probably go for his dying speech.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 9/1/2013 2:06:18 PM

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Boromir

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 9/1/2013 10:20:00 PM

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Soem great choices here, but Dawn and Tim... wow. I was practically bawling the first time I saw it. Like what's already been said, when she opened the present was what tipped me over the edge. It's a perfect scene

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 1:35:50 AM

scarface666brooksy!!

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Boromir

Probably the most emotional I got during the trilogy.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 2:39:43 AM

Gimli The Dwarf

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Boromir Probably the most emotional I got during the trilogy.

Would be the most emotional for me as well if it weren't for The Black Gates through to the Grey Havens. Nothing else in film makes me cry like that sequence.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 8:40:35 AM

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Boromir Probably the most emotional I got during the trilogy.

Would be the most emotional for me as well if it weren't for The Black Gates through to the Grey Havens. Nothing else in film makes me cry like that sequence.

You're only making my desire to re-watch LOTR greater

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 10:28:31 AM

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Good. Go and watch them now!

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:04:55 AM

scarface666brooksy!!

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Good. Go and watch them now!

If only it was that simple

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:08:06 AM

Gimli The Dwarf

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You said 8 days ago you'd track them down! Get a move on

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:16:43 AM

scarface666brooksy!!

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Keeping track eh?

I will get to it eventually, once I make my way through the multitude of films I have to see first.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:20:05 AM

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Keeping track eh?

Of course. These things matter. I have a checklist of forumites who have yet to see The Hobbit and they'll soon start feeling my wrath!

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Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science!

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:26:20 AM

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Keeping track eh?

Of course. These things matter. I have a checklist of forumites who have yet to see The Hobbit and they'll soon start feeling my wrath!

I haven't seen it yet.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:32:16 AM

scarface666brooksy!!

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Keeping track eh?

Of course. These things matter. I have a checklist of forumites who have yet to see The Hobbit and they'll soon start feeling my wrath!

I can't take you seriously with a dancing Gillian Jacobs av.

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I haven't seen it yet.

Go see it in 2D.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:35:42 AM

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I will. Not a fan of 3D.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:38:29 AM

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I haven't seen it. My cinema-bound flatmates "jokingly" banned me from seeing it with them, in case I complained about all the walking and generally ruined it for them. They didn't enjoy it anyway.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 11:39:10 AM

scarface666brooksy!!

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I will. Not a fan of 3D.

To be fair, I considered going to see it in 48fps just to see what the fuss was about, then I thought, hey I could also watch other films. True story.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 1:42:10 PM

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Keeping track eh?

Of course. These things matter. I have a checklist of forumites who have yet to see The Hobbit and they'll soon start feeling my wrath!

I haven't seen it yet.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 4:09:22 PM

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I will. Not a fan of 3D.

To be fair, I considered going to see it in 48fps just to see what the fuss was about, then I thought, hey I could also watch other films. True story.

Gimli is now thinking,"there are other films?!"

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 10/1/2013 5:12:32 PM

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Nice thread with some good varity.

Not seen everything, but was very moved by The Buffy Episode, Never Let Me Go and of course the Office finale.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 15/1/2013 4:52:50 PM

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Futurama - I really adore that show but it constantly slayed/slays me emotionally. This sums it up

Something I've just noticed...why is Fry wearing a cap in this picture?

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 15/1/2013 9:12:08 PM

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It's a Scumbag Steve hat http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-steve

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 16/1/2013 12:44:06 PM

jcthefirst

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Yes, but why is Fry wearing one?

I MUST KNOW!

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 16/1/2013 1:28:52 PM

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Futurama is a scumbag because it says it's a comedy but makes you cry. I guess they put the hat on Fry because he is the lead character.

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RE: Top 25 Film and TV tearjerkers - 22/3/2013 10:54:55 PM

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Are you not continuing the list?

Anyway, I very VERY rarely cry at movies or TV, but the ending of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo absolutely kills me (the Fincher one, since it has the book's ending). Even when I just think about it, my stomach feels hollow and the tears slowly slide down. You've gotta love Lisbeth Salander (I have dreams about her all the time). So that would be the most heartbreaking for me.

When I was about 7 or 8, I was crying buckets when I watched Return Of The Jedi for the first time because I desperately wanted Vader's good side to return. It was unbelievable. Since then, a lump in my throat is pretty much the closest I'd get; with LOTR: ROTK, Schindler's List, A.I., Up etc. Walle came dangerously close in the scene where (SPOILER ALERT) you think his mind has been wiped clean (when that tape just plays static...oh my god).

But the first time that I properly cried at something like that since Return Of The Jedi was a little while before seeing Fincher's Dragon Tattoo. Now, this one's a TV show; 24 season 8...

BIG-TIME SPOILER HERE, PEOPLE!

....Renee's death. Ho. Ly. Shit. That just destroyed me. I was sitting there in utter shock for about 20 minutes and then this single, solitary tear rolled down my face. It was a hell of a moment.

So there you go, those are my all-time tear jerking moments. But to quote Hannibal Lecter, "If I think of anything else, I will let you knooooow."

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