Sad Movie Moments

[Henry88]

The 50's version of the fly right before his head is crushed he writes that he loves is wife on the chalkboard

godzilla falling into the volcano in godzilla 1985.

in alligator when madison  loses his partner to the monster,the way he says "no"  just pulls the hart strings.

[Darth Geek]

I love the way the werewolf guy says "thank you" in Monster Squad when he gets shot with the silver bullet.

[PsychoGoatee]

For Godzilla the big tearjerker for me is the end of Godzilla vs Destoroyah. We love ya Big G. 

Speaking of The Fly, the ending of the 80s version is pretty powerful too.

Hmmm there are so many, especially depending on mood and if you're into what the movie is going for. A lot of Hong Kong movies can be very melodramatic and sentimental, but if you're in the mood that's potent stuff. Like sad moments in Infernal Affairs, John Woo endings, A Moment of Romance (1990), etc.

The recent netflix series Stranger Things had several emotional moments, very cinematic show.

[Cyrusso]

Frodo's goodbye to the other Hobbits at the end of ROTK. It's hard to think of a scene that could get you more misty-eyed.

[Darth Geek]

The best emotional moment in LotR for me was Sam saying "I can't carry the ring for you, but I can carry you!"

[Pak-Man]

Well Pixar has been powered entirely by the tears of their audiences since Toy Story 2, and then there's the end of The Iron Giant.

[Darth Geek]

Well Pixar has been powered entirely by the tears of their audiences since Toy Story 2,

Oh dear God, yes.

I think their best is the end of INSIDE OUT, when she starts crying.

[Cyrusso]

For me there's a certain disconnect. I don't find myself as emotionally compelled as much by characters that were created in a computer as I am by real actors.

[Pak-Man]

Strangely, I'm the opposite. I can name a handful of live performances that have emotionally moved me, but cartoons/CGI characters cut right to my heart. I probably shouldn't get worked up watching a CG robot reboot its software, but darned if Wall*E didn't choke me right up.

[Cyrusso]

Strangely, I'm the opposite. I can name a handful of live performances that have emotionally moved me, but cartoons/CGI characters cut right to my heart. I probably shouldn't get worked up watching a CG robot reboot its software, but darned if Wall*E didn't choke me right up.

I don't mean to get too personal, but did you grow up watching a lot of animated films?

[Pak-Man]

Almost exclusively. It was hard to get me to watch anything live-action while I was growing up. Still is, actually.

[PsychoGoatee]

Anything can move me pretty much, but I'm also a big anime fan since middle school.

There's this one anime series in particular, called Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin, about a group of down on their luck teens who went to a horrible juve prison in 1955, and follows their life after they get out. It has so much epic emotional stuff, it got me practically every other episode.

[Cyrusso]

Almost exclusively. It was hard to get me to watch anything live-action while I was growing up. Still is, actually.

Have you ever watched Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood?

[Johnny Unusual]

The Coen Brothers are pretty detached in their style but I won't lie: the end of Raising Arizona always makes me well up.

EDIT: Though really, it's not "sad" so much as it is moving.

[Henry88]

The brief appearance by Jim Backus, wracked by Parkinson's Disease, in The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island. The rest of the cast is visibly moved when he appears, and some were crying. ◦ Everyone knew it would be one of his last performances, and after filming had finished on that brief scene, the entire cast and crew burst into a spontaneous round of applause for Jim Backus. And it gets worse. After he finished filming his scene, he turned to Dawn Wells and asked her, "Was I funny?" and she reassured him that he was.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/GilligansIsland

Jim Backusis was one of my favorites actors .