Things that make grown men well up.

[stephec]

You're a very bad man !

True though.

 

[Justified_Sinner]

Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" - the book upset me so much I haven't dared to see the film.

 

[AuroraSaab]

The start of both Finding Nemo and Up had me in tears, as does the bit in Inside Out where the childhood imaginary friend disappears. Actually most Pixar films tug at the heart strings at some point.

I cry quite easily at sad stuff in films or even the news. I like this happy Twitter account though and it has brought a tear to my eye a few times:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DudespostingWs

 

[Profpointy]

This made me cry when I saw it at the cinema aged 8 or whatever, and it still does in late middle age. It's a happy, if poignant scene really, but still very emotional


View: https://youtu.be/Ta1mzaqOp4Q


And the scene near the end of Cyrano de Bergerac where Cyrano is reading to Roxanne the letters she's received from her now long dead lover, then realises Cyrano had actually written them. She'd been in love with the man of words not the pretty boy all along, but Cyrano, for all his bravado, was too proud/shy/loyal-to-his-dead-friend to let on. An unbearably sad and moving scene. I was in tears at the cinema, and looking around whilst trying to appear stoic saw a lot of other chaps trying to look as if they'd not shed a tear. Maybe the saddest of all the tragic love stories, as happiness had been in their grasp all along. It's Depardue's finest performance, and the English subtitles were done by Anthony Burgess, of Clockwork Orange fame, and get this - the subtitles are in rhyming couplets.
I can't find the exact clip, not with subtitles anyway

 

[stephec]

Two Lancasters.
Not my photo, but I saw them at Great Gransden a few years ago.
If something sounds better than eight Merlins, I think I'd explode upon hearing it.

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I think there's only two left that are airworthy, one in Canada and the BBMF one.

We went there a few years ago and were lucky enough, after viewing the Lanc, at the end of the tour to chat to a former wireless operator who'd been shot down over France and ended up as a POW.

 

[Beebo]

Billy Elliot. The ending. The film misses out 15 years and we finally meet Billy as the lead in Swan Lake.
Walking to the stage like a boxer walking to the ring. His dad full of pride for his son who escaped the pits. 😭


View: https://youtu.be/989pUycUqAg

 

[TheDoctor]

I think there's only two left that are airworthy, one in Canada and the BBMF one.

There could be a third in a few years. NX611 'Just Jane' is four years into a ten year 'return to flight' programme. And the prospect of a dozen Merlins means I need to go and lie down.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Two Lancasters.
Not my photo, but I saw them at Great Gransden a few years ago.
If something sounds better than eight Merlins, I think I'd explode upon hearing it.

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Indeed!

I've been to the Lincolnshire Air Museum, and stood close to the wing-tip as all 4 Merlins are fired up
You FEEL it on your chest, as well as giving you a lump in your throat!!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The platform scene in The Railway Children , but only the original

When Jenny Agutter runs down the platform to her father as she sees him
"Daddy, My Daddy!!"

I can feel a moistness as l type that........


Not a flicker at the remake though, l think it made me yawn!


EDIT @ 12:10
I'm not the only one, looking at the comments...



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkHTT3dJL9E

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Watching XH558 take off from RAF Finningley on one of its last flights

(aka Robin Hood Airport, it was actually based there at one point)

 

[Cycleops]

The last scene from Platoon when Sgt Elias meets his end. Always gets me especially with that mournful haunting Samuel Barber music:

View: https://youtu.be/QEv3zzKyiFQ

 

[gbb]

Two Lancasters.
Not my photo, but I saw them at Great Gransden a few years ago.
If something sounds better than eight Merlins, I think I'd explode upon hearing it.

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That (those) and a Vulcan. Does me every time.

 

[gbb]

Watching XH558 take off from RAF Finningley on one of its last flights

(aka Robin Hood Airport, it was actually based there at one point)

My family history is steeped in the Vulcan and when i heard it was passing RAF Wittering on its very final flight i shot out in the car but i either missed it or it never actually passed there. Gutted, deeply, genuinely. My dad had passed and it seemed a bit of history he was so closely associated with passed as well.

 

[rockyroller]

reminds me of a time I was lying on the floor w/ my son, approx. 4 yrs old? playing legos by the back slider. at one point he looks up at me & says "I love you Daddy"

I think the most valuable thing we have, to give our children, is our time & attention

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This is how close you can get!!
(June 2004)