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I've watched the Pacific a few times and can't think of that scene. 
 
Bizarrely one that sticks in my mind is an Adam Sandler comedy called "Click", glad I was by myself when I watched that. 
 
Aye that's a good shout. The scene in the street I assume? It goes from that kind of sadness to a teary happy ending (get the Kenneth pics to feck).
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6 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
9 hours ago, Grant228 said:
I've watched the Pacific a few times and can't think of that scene. 
 
Bizarrely one that sticks in my mind is an Adam Sandler comedy called "Click", glad I was by myself when I watched that. 
 

Aye that's a good shout. The scene in the street I assume? It goes from that kind of sadness to a teary happy ending (get the Kenneth pics to feck).

Aye, he comes out the hospital or whatever when it's pissing down. Gives the actor who played Sam from LOTR the finger. 

 

Right big lump in the throat. 

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I rewatched "Band Of Brothers" this week. The scenes in the camp during "Why We Fight" get me every single time I watch them. Doesn't matter that I know what's coming, I still can't prepare sob.png

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On 29/05/2020 at 14:35, yoda said:

I rewatched "Band Of Brothers" this week. The scenes in the camp during "Why We Fight" get me every single time I watch them. Doesn't matter that I know what's coming, I still can't prepare sob.png

The best thing ever shown on TV. Bastogne looked like hell on earth

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It's usually scenes portraying friendship for me. Reminiscing, nostalgia type stuff does it too. Toy Story type films are contenders in this field.

As mentioned on page one, I Am Legend always jumps out for me on this topic. I watched it on a plane, was going away with my pals. One of them was trying to get my attention during the dog scene and when I turned round noted that I was sobbing uncontrollably. I am not a dog person but that one broke me.

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On 29/05/2020 at 13:45, Grant228 said:

Aye, he comes out the hospital or whatever when it's pissing down. Gives the actor who played Sam from LOTR the finger. 

Right big lump in the throat. 

That actually sounds like a deleted scene from the end of Return of the King.

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On 29/05/2020 at 14:35, yoda said:

I rewatched "Band Of Brothers" this week. The scenes in the camp during "Why We Fight" get me every single time I watch them. Doesn't matter that I know what's coming, I still can't prepare sob.png

Band of Brothers is fantastic, incredible, one of the best things to come on TV imo. 

 

Why we fight is fantastic. 

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Why We Fight is brilliantly uncomfortable viewing but it doesn't really brings tears for me now. The part that always gets me is the very last episode where the real Dick Winters tells us about his grandson asking if he was a hero in the war and he responds "No, Grandad wasn't a hero. But he fought with heroes" (words to that effect) So humble.

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'Casablanca' was on the other day and even though I've seen it a gazillion times, I still got hooked in. This thread reminded me of how the 'Marseilles' scene always gets me.

Not only is it an emotional scene in itself, it becomes more poignant when you realise that many of the actors were themselves refugees from Nazi Germany It was also filmed in 1941, at a time when an allied victory was by no means certain.

Paul Heinreid (Victor Laszlo), and S.Z. Sakall (Carl the Waiter) were both Jews who escaped from Austria and Hungary respectively. Madeleine LeBeau (Yvonne, the bar-fly) fled Paris hours before the Germans arrived, along with her husband Marcel Dalio (Emile the croupier). Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, who played the German officer with whom Yvonne shares a scene earlier was a homosexual who escaped from Germany. Conrad Veidt (Major Strasser) was married to a Jew and always stated his ethnicity as "Juden" on official forms. A popular actor in Germany, he and his wife escaped in 1933 after learning of a plot to assassinate him for his anti-Nazi activities.

Helmut Dantine, the young man Rick helped in the Casino was an anti-Nazi youth leader in Austria and spent 3 months in a concentration camp. Another Austrian, Ludwig Stossel (the elderly gent leaving for America with his wife) was jailed several times. Almost everyone involved in the film was an immigrant and many left loved ones behind. There's a story that during filming of the flashback to Paris segment, one of the extras broke down because she'd been there when the Nazis marched in.

So when Yvonne's eyes fill with tears, I get a bit snurfly myself.

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Just remembered welling up a bit at the end of Desert Hearts.

Also had a long conversation with a (still closeted) work colleague about that film years ago which, with the benefit of hindsight, was clearly her trying to tip me the wink that she was gay. I could get a bit teary thinking about that too.

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On 01/06/2020 at 08:43, Bairnardo said:

It's usually scenes portraying friendship for me. Reminiscing, nostalgia type stuff does it too. Toy Story type films are contenders in this field.

As mentioned on page one, I Am Legend always jumps out for me on this topic. I watched it on a plane, was going away with my pals. One of them was trying to get my attention during the dog scene and when I turned round noted that I was sobbing uncontrollably. I am not a dog person but that one broke me.
 

The Kermode and Mayo film show call this AALS. Altitude adjusted lacrimosity syndrome. Loads of folk have written in over the years to say they’ve found themselves inexplicably blubbing at stuff they’ve watched on a plane. 

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bit in mad max beyond thunderdome when the plane is heading down the runway then the lorry with max appears overtaking it and you realise hes going to sacrifice himself to give them room to take off

the bit in the original "all quiet on the western front" when the line of german soldiers marches off and they start to turn and look at the camera and its all the ones who were killed

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Hmmm, some of these are due to my personal emotional attachments and others are just emotional in their own right.
In no set order:-
Dumbo (when his mum sings from inside the cage)

For the Boys (when Bette sings “In My Life”)

Up (no explanation needed)

Despicable Me (ken, 3 “stepdaughters” an that)

Inside out (no explanation needed)

Casablanca (Les Marseilles)

Les Miserables (Bring Him Home)

Field of Dreams (the whole damn thing especially just after my father died)

Wrath of Khan (“I have been, and always shall be, your friend”)

Brigadoon (the end when the village magically returns)

5 People You Meet in Heaven (most of the damn film tbqhwy)

The Shack (the waterfall scene)

That’s quite enough for now!

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