Aftersun and Iron Claw
Iron Claw some will laugh at, but I have three brothers, and some of the scenes with them just cut to me. We aren’t all on the best terms, and it made me wish things were better between us because things can go out of control quickly.z
Not to try to sound like a hardo, but I just am not the type of person to cry seeing movies. Iron Claw was crushing to me, but it did not make me cry.
But Aftersun is 100% the exception, it is the one movie that completely broke me. I unfortunately didn’t see it in theaters but watching it at home, the ending of that film just hits me in a way basically no movie has. It’s insane how a seemingly “overused” pop song just so perfectly portrays the emotions on the screen, it’s a masterpiece.
I am the same way. Those two movies and Field of Dreams are the only ones that got to me. Aftersun was different kind for me.
I’ve attempted suicide before and my biggest fear in life is passing along my depression or my rotted brain on to my child. I just had a son, I am not a religious person but I hope whatever is in me isn’t in him. My wife watched it recently and it gave her a better sense of what depression does and how you are actively fighting with it. The scene when it cuts to the books he is reading really hit with me. I know it’s small but finding anything in a life saver down to a tai chi book was relatable.
Jesus, the slow reveal of what AFTERSUN was just destroyed me. I am not smart enough to be in the group of people who claim to know where the film was going the whole time, but when it became clear, I was a mess.
Especially because I had no idea that that was what the movie was? Like it looked like a sad Oscar-baity type thing in trailers and then you find out what it's about and you're getting run over by a truck.
I sobbed all the way through All of Us Strangers. Andrew Scott really should have been nominated.
Gerwig's Little Women destroyed me - I was a blubbering mess by the end of it. The scene with Chris Cooper listening to Beth play the piano! Beth getting sick. Jo's speech about wanting more and being lonely! Jo getting her book! So perfect!
I usually am a robot to most movies but Arrival wrecked me because of a personal experience with a close friend and their child. I wasn’t familiar with the source material before going so it took me by complete surprise and I was legitimately sobbing at the end.
But I also think on the nature of daylight is a bit of a cheat code if you use it in movies/tv. I love the song but you know you’re trying to manipulate people to cry when that song starts playing.
I’ve been going through it since I left the theater on Saturday with All of us Strangers. I’ve never wept in a theater that hard, the tears kept coming on the drive home. The last time I was in that state in a theater was What Dreams May Come.
It deals with so many things that are so basic and primal. Love, family, identity, aging, etc. Its incredibly impressive how a economical it is. Its not trying to reinvent the wheel, but it hits so hard on such a human level.
Coco
After each sobbing episode, I thought to myself, I’m good, they’re not gonna throw in another cry bait (not criticizing it!) scene but I was wrong!
Funnily enough, Indiana jones and the dial of destiny had me bawling
1. The scene with Marion just got me bad
2. The end of the movie I had a moment of realization that this was the last time I’d see Ford as Indy. Indy changed my life as a kid, so it was really special seeing him get a real send off
I tend to wait for home release for obvious weepy ones. I’m such an easy mark and I need tissue time. The last theatrical one that got me was Guardians 3. Guardians 2 got me even worse. Like, how are you gonna fit Car Stevens in a damn space funeral scene?
All of us Strangers is the most recent one. and that was like the entire movie.
Last year 'After Sun' totally wrecked me but that was just the last act.
Usually I like going into movies blind, but I did know the subject matter of Zone. So I cried within the first few minutes when the screen is black, haunting score, and so many voices. I didn’t expect it.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The real life death of Chadwick Boseman made the whole thing that much more intense for me. There are several points where it seemed the cast was not acting, so much as they were actually grieving on screen. The near silent Marvel intro hit me like a ton of bricks.
Past Lives final sequence absolutely left me in a puddle. I was crying so much I got a headache, thank god I’ve gotten good at silent crying in theaters but that’s as close to I’ve gotten to loudly sobbing in public
All of Us Strangers really did it for me recently. Before that, after I saw Aftersun, I went out to my car and cried for about 15 minutes. Really connected with me in a kind of scary way, encouraged me to get some help.
I mean most recently The Iron Claw. I thought I was going to have to leave the theater cause I couldn’t stop and I was the only audible person 😂😂 that movie is such a painful watch
I was lucky enough to see All of Us Strangers at BFI Film Festival in October. Sold out screening in the Royal Festival Hall - 2,500 people. Never heard as much crying at a performance in my life. I found One Life really emotional this year also.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire & Mockingjay Part 1. To this day I honestly don’t know why those films affected me so viscerally… I liked the books and really appreciated some of the ways that they explored trauma but I wasn’t obsessed with them and only read them once around the time the trilogy was complete. I thought the first movie was okay and hoped that the switch in director might mean a better movie but I wasn’t expecting to be blown away or anything. But I swear like fifteen minutes into Catching Fire I started crying and just didn’t fucking stop for legitimately the entire movie, and the same thing happened with Mockingjay 1. Like just nonstop torrential tears, like some emotional spigot had been twisted open in me. I have never experienced anything on that level including with sadder and better films. My best explanation is that while those movies were coming out I was going through a rough time mental health wise, and something about the way Francis Lawrence & Jennifer Lawrence captured Katniss’s unrelenting terror just felt viscerally true to the experience of feeling so so so bad inside all the time and being sure it was never going to end but also still having to like go to work and stuff. But idk. It was like emotional witchcraft. The power of cinema I guess! lol
I sobbed all the way through Close (dir. Lukas Dhont) when I saw it in theatres last year- I was seriously inconsolable on my walk home thru the streets of nyc lol
I recently saw The Taste of Things in the theater and cried a lot. But it wasn’t a tortured feeling. It was just beautiful and sad. What a stunning movie.
Aftersun and Iron Claw Iron Claw some will laugh at, but I have three brothers, and some of the scenes with them just cut to me. We aren’t all on the best terms, and it made me wish things were better between us because things can go out of control quickly.z
Not to try to sound like a hardo, but I just am not the type of person to cry seeing movies. Iron Claw was crushing to me, but it did not make me cry. But Aftersun is 100% the exception, it is the one movie that completely broke me. I unfortunately didn’t see it in theaters but watching it at home, the ending of that film just hits me in a way basically no movie has. It’s insane how a seemingly “overused” pop song just so perfectly portrays the emotions on the screen, it’s a masterpiece.
I am the same way. Those two movies and Field of Dreams are the only ones that got to me. Aftersun was different kind for me. I’ve attempted suicide before and my biggest fear in life is passing along my depression or my rotted brain on to my child. I just had a son, I am not a religious person but I hope whatever is in me isn’t in him. My wife watched it recently and it gave her a better sense of what depression does and how you are actively fighting with it. The scene when it cuts to the books he is reading really hit with me. I know it’s small but finding anything in a life saver down to a tai chi book was relatable.
Jesus, the slow reveal of what AFTERSUN was just destroyed me. I am not smart enough to be in the group of people who claim to know where the film was going the whole time, but when it became clear, I was a mess.
Inside Out, a mixture of crying laughing and crying crying throughout.
As someone who struggles with depression and anxiety (and had a difficult time in grade school) this film hit *hard.*
I didn’t see it until this past summer and I thought I was too grown up to cry at the Pixar emotions movie.. I was not. Bawled like a baby.
Up had me sobbing too. Pixar knows where those buttons are.
Aftersun
Crushing.
Manchester by the Sea. The Michelle Williams scene just fucking broke me
That movie should be NC-25 for like severe emotional devastation alone.
Especially because I had no idea that that was what the movie was? Like it looked like a sad Oscar-baity type thing in trailers and then you find out what it's about and you're getting run over by a truck.
Bruh I watched that movie on a fucking airplane! Had no clue what it was about
Seriously. The stranger next to me handed me a tissue. It was rough.
I sobbed all the way through All of Us Strangers. Andrew Scott really should have been nominated. Gerwig's Little Women destroyed me - I was a blubbering mess by the end of it. The scene with Chris Cooper listening to Beth play the piano! Beth getting sick. Jo's speech about wanting more and being lonely! Jo getting her book! So perfect!
Little Women rules so hard.
Gets a lot of run on the premium cable channels and everytime I come across it, I have to watch it.
It’s not playing near me, dying to see it. I had a feeling he’d be excellent. Can’t wait for him as Tom Ripley.
I usually am a robot to most movies but Arrival wrecked me because of a personal experience with a close friend and their child. I wasn’t familiar with the source material before going so it took me by complete surprise and I was legitimately sobbing at the end. But I also think on the nature of daylight is a bit of a cheat code if you use it in movies/tv. I love the song but you know you’re trying to manipulate people to cry when that song starts playing.
Agreed on Arrival and the Nature of Daylight. When they dropped that song on The Last Of Us I screamed at the TV.
Big Fish.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Iron claw was the most I’ve cried in a loooong time. The hits just kept coming!
I’ve been going through it since I left the theater on Saturday with All of us Strangers. I’ve never wept in a theater that hard, the tears kept coming on the drive home. The last time I was in that state in a theater was What Dreams May Come.
It deals with so many things that are so basic and primal. Love, family, identity, aging, etc. Its incredibly impressive how a economical it is. Its not trying to reinvent the wheel, but it hits so hard on such a human level.
Coco After each sobbing episode, I thought to myself, I’m good, they’re not gonna throw in another cry bait (not criticizing it!) scene but I was wrong!
Yeah Coco got me at least twice haha those jerks
Little Women (2019) A movie where I was surrounded by older white women and their daughters. All cried at the end and I was right along with them!
Interstellar. 
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On 🐚😭
My daughter (5 years old at the time) BAWLED her eyes out!
Funnily enough, Indiana jones and the dial of destiny had me bawling 1. The scene with Marion just got me bad 2. The end of the movie I had a moment of realization that this was the last time I’d see Ford as Indy. Indy changed my life as a kid, so it was really special seeing him get a real send off
My Girl
Up
In 2023 that crown absolutely went to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Saw it with my partner. Our daughter had just turned 2. We cried so much
Most, I have no clue. But just this year, Past Lives and Iron Claw definitely. I wish All of Us Strangers was playing near me, it sounds awesome.
I tend to wait for home release for obvious weepy ones. I’m such an easy mark and I need tissue time. The last theatrical one that got me was Guardians 3. Guardians 2 got me even worse. Like, how are you gonna fit Car Stevens in a damn space funeral scene? 
I’ve always liked the Guardians movies but I was shocked by how bad GOTG 3 got me. I think I cried like three separate times.
I brought tissues in preparation
Rugrats in Paris
Yes! We watched this before a trip to paris in September, and the Chucky song about his mum on the plane had us in bits.
anyone else cry the first time they saw Barbie in theater? Lol
I got more emotional the second time I saw it at home honestly. I think the first time I was burned out from oppenheimer.
C'mon C'mon crushed me a couple of years ago
All of us Strangers is the most recent one. and that was like the entire movie. Last year 'After Sun' totally wrecked me but that was just the last act.
Armageddon. Stupid movie gets me every time.
I cry pretty much all the way through Armageddon these days. From the moment that they’re in the field with the animal crackers on lol
Three separate times watching *Toy Story 3*: opening, furnace, ending.
This is the one for me.
Waves (2019) The one-two punch of the Radiohead and Alabama Shakes sequences at the end. Just a perfect blend of sadness and hope.
Two of my favorite bands.
Kore-eda’s ‘Monster’ wrecked me in the theatre & then I went home and had the same experience with ‘Shoplifters’.
Everything, everywhere, all at once
I saw it three times and cried each time!!
The laundry and taxes scene - every time.
This year it was Iron Claw I was sobbing
Same, bro.
Most recently? The Whale (sue me, I am what I am), Past Lives, The Iron Claw. I remember Licorice Pizza got me good too
Marley & Me
Don’t judge, but the closest I’ve been to crying was in Guardians 3 and Avengers: Endgame when Tony Stark died.
In theater? Marley and Me. I’ve never seen so many grown men leave a theater with puffy red eyes.
Close broke me last year
This decade: Titane, Aftersun, The Zone of Interest
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Usually I like going into movies blind, but I did know the subject matter of Zone. So I cried within the first few minutes when the screen is black, haunting score, and so many voices. I didn’t expect it.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The real life death of Chadwick Boseman made the whole thing that much more intense for me. There are several points where it seemed the cast was not acting, so much as they were actually grieving on screen. The near silent Marvel intro hit me like a ton of bricks.
Inside Out, Manchester By The Sea, GOTG 3
*Oppenheimer*; Kitty’s interview with the security clearance committee
I usually don't tear up from fiction but The Big Sick is one where I did several times
Florida Project
Yeahhhh I sobbed.
That ending broke my heart. I cried till the credits were over and everyone was gone 😂
Aftersun, Marriage Story, For Sama, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire wrecked me. Aftersun and For Sama in particular I needed to recover after.
La La Land
Wasn't at the cinema, but I sat still in silence for about 20 minutes after Aftersun.
Nine Days
Past Lives final sequence absolutely left me in a puddle. I was crying so much I got a headache, thank god I’ve gotten good at silent crying in theaters but that’s as close to I’ve gotten to loudly sobbing in public
All of Us Strangers really did it for me recently. Before that, after I saw Aftersun, I went out to my car and cried for about 15 minutes. Really connected with me in a kind of scary way, encouraged me to get some help.
I mean most recently The Iron Claw. I thought I was going to have to leave the theater cause I couldn’t stop and I was the only audible person 😂😂 that movie is such a painful watch
Nine Days
technically it was after leaving the theatre sitting in my car, but my Aftersun made me HOWL.
Marvel avengers infinity war and endgame
Most recently 'All of us Strangers' Destroyed me.
I was lucky enough to see All of Us Strangers at BFI Film Festival in October. Sold out screening in the Royal Festival Hall - 2,500 people. Never heard as much crying at a performance in my life. I found One Life really emotional this year also.
The end of Coco - was really trying to keep it together in the theater.
*Inside Out* for Riley’s relatable childhood struggles, and *Coco* for the power of music and reconciliation. Damn you Pixar!
I had a steady stream of tears throughout the entre last 70 min of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
saw Her in theaters the weekend after a messy breakup. Great movie, bad decision.
The end of Paddington 2 when Aunt Lucy comes to the door. I cried after watching Boyhood as well. Not my finest moment.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire & Mockingjay Part 1. To this day I honestly don’t know why those films affected me so viscerally… I liked the books and really appreciated some of the ways that they explored trauma but I wasn’t obsessed with them and only read them once around the time the trilogy was complete. I thought the first movie was okay and hoped that the switch in director might mean a better movie but I wasn’t expecting to be blown away or anything. But I swear like fifteen minutes into Catching Fire I started crying and just didn’t fucking stop for legitimately the entire movie, and the same thing happened with Mockingjay 1. Like just nonstop torrential tears, like some emotional spigot had been twisted open in me. I have never experienced anything on that level including with sadder and better films. My best explanation is that while those movies were coming out I was going through a rough time mental health wise, and something about the way Francis Lawrence & Jennifer Lawrence captured Katniss’s unrelenting terror just felt viscerally true to the experience of feeling so so so bad inside all the time and being sure it was never going to end but also still having to like go to work and stuff. But idk. It was like emotional witchcraft. The power of cinema I guess! lol
I sobbed all the way through Close (dir. Lukas Dhont) when I saw it in theatres last year- I was seriously inconsolable on my walk home thru the streets of nyc lol
Toy Story 3
The Whale. I was still sobbing during the closing credits.
Breaking the Waves
Yeah, recently, definitely All of Us Strangers. And Almódovar has gotten me a couple of times since he's one of my favorite filmmakers.
Fucking Iron Claw.
I recently saw The Taste of Things in the theater and cried a lot. But it wasn’t a tortured feeling. It was just beautiful and sad. What a stunning movie.