According to Pearl & Dean, the film most guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye is Bambi.
I may sound heartless, but it's a cartoon. It's not even a real animal that had to get trained to play dead or act sad. I anthropomorphise cute animals with the best of them, but cartoon animals? No freaking way.
The top ten tearjerkers, as reported, is as follows:
- Bambi (1942)
- Ghost (1990)
- The Lion King (1994)
- E.T. (1982)
- Titanic (1997)
- Beaches (1998)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- Watership Down (1978)
- Boys Don't Cry (1999)
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
I've seen seven of the films listed above, and I have to say that they didn't make me well up at all. I'm not a heartless, cold, unfeeling person, I've been known to get sniffly if someone on screen starts crying - I am the sterotypical sympathetic crier. These are the films that get me every time.
- Big Fish (2003)
- What Dreams May Come (1998)
- Ever After (1998)
- Away From Her (2006)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Dead Poet's Society (1989)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Life is Beautiful (1997)
- The World According to Garp (1982)
- Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Which films make you cry, make the day a real sobfest, support economic growth by using loads of tissues?
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Spex
Date: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:53 AM GMT
There should be a new post about advertisements that make you cry!
RJI
Date: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:47 AM GMT
My own list of tearjerkers would have to include:
1. La Vie en Rose
2. American History X
3. Atonement
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. My Girl
6. Stand By Me
I'm struggling to think of others just now, but I know there are loads. Most recently I've been seen welling-up over the Pedigree Chum advert with the old dog that's left behind on the veranda whilst his perky puppy chum bounds off into the distance. So sad.
Spex
Date: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:28 PM GMT
Scribbles: Was it his fringe? Hehe.
Stephanie: I thought Boys Don't Cry was sad, but it didn't make _me_ cry...
Scribbles
Date: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:51 AM GMT
My friend's mum cried so much at Bambi that the whole family had to leave the cinema.
Embarrassingly, I cried at Terminator 2, the bit where Arnie has to melt himself at the end. Looking back I think I was just over-emotional because I was so in love with Edward Furlong.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly totally got me earlier this year. What a brilliant film.
Stephanie
Date: Wed Oct 15, 2008 09:01 AM GMT
I never saw Bambi, but I'd have to agree with Boys Don't Cry.
Would add Requiem for a Dream and Titanic!
