50 Greatest Tearjerkers? (SPOOOOOOILS)

[godardian]

So, EW just published its "50 Greatest Tearjerkers of All Time."

1. Terms of Endeartment
2. Bambi
3. Sophie's Choice
4. An Affair to Remember
5. It's A Wonderful Life
6. Longtime Companion
7. Brian's Song
8. E.T.
9. Ghost
10. Field of Dreams
11. Old Yeller
12. Brief Encounter
13. Kramer vs. Kramer
14. Life is Beautiful
15. Titanic
16. Glory
17. Love Story
18. Ordinary People
19. Stella Dallas
20. Steel Magnolias
21. Gallipoli
22. The Joy Luck Club
23. Charly
24. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
25. The Great Santini
26. The Deer Hunter
27. To Kill a Mockingbird
28. The Way We Were
29. Cocoon
30. Romeo and Juliet
31. West Side Story
32. Imitation of Life
33. Philadelphia
34. Jerry Maguire
35. The Wizard of Oz
36. The Yearling
37. The Iron Giant
38. The Champ
39. Umberto D.
40. Little Women
41. Now, Voyager
42. Sounder
43. Dead Poets Society
44. Truly, Madly, Deeply
45. Sense and Sensibility
46. The Sixth Sense
47. Moulin Rouge
48. Cinema Paradiso
49. Parenthood
50. Rudy



...I'd say about half of these selections are just sentimental without being moving, and wouldn't elicit a single drop from me.

It's nice to see things like Brief Encounter and Umberto D. on there, though.

And I do always, always weep when Debra Winger makes her little deathbed speech to her kids in Terms of Endearment. Probably manipulative as hell, but it works on me, because it seems so real and right there.

However, any list of tearjerkers that doesn't include Magnolia- my most tearjerking movie of all time, I mean I start crying a little way in and don't stop, it's emotionally exhausting- is pretty worthless.

Also conspicuously absent: Nights of Cabiria and The Last Picture Show. Memorable tears shed on my part when viewing those.

[classical gas]

#39 is the most deserving on the whole list.  that film gets me every time.

[classical gas]

sorry for the double post; but what about 'forrest gump' and 'leaving las vegas'.  you're right godardian, most of them are just sentimental.  and 'la strada' and 'nights of cabiria' should both be on there, as well as 'magnolia', there's more crying on that movie than any other.

[ono]

I was disappointed by Cinema Paradiso, Amelie didn't even make the list (which is a travesty), and West Side Story is an awful movie to start with.  Some of those other movies on the list are decent, but most of them are hardly tearjerkers.  I mean, I cried on an off throughout Amelie the first time I saw it.  They were tears of happiness; I had never seen anything like that film.  That shows one what a powerful movie is.  And none of these really come close.  And yeah, whe stuff like Magnolia doesn't make it and more manipulative mainstream fare does, you can pretty much tell where the list is coming from.

[Ravi]

To me the word "tearjerker" has the connotation of being a sappy, blatantly manipulative (even though all films are manipulative to some extent) films with little depth.  Calling E.T. a "tearjerker" is an insult IMO.

[Derek237]

Definatley agree with number 1. It's one out of only two movies that actually got me to jerk a tear outta my eye socket...

[Rudie Obias]

who the fuck cares?

[cine]

Grave of the Fireflies? Anyone? Where is this?

If this has The Sixth Sense and excludes even films like the Man in the Moon or even the Man ON the Moon.. I'm confused. When did more people cry over the SS over these films, or Forrest Gump, etc.

I think they should've revised their list.

[aclockworkjj]

i cried during shakespeare in love...god, I suck.

[ElPandaRoyal]

i cried during shakespeare in love...god, I suck.

Didn't cry in movies and definately never would on Shakespeare, but I was very close to crying in Dancer in The Dark, though.

[Ernie]

I was disappointed by Cinema Paradiso

Oh, as was I, it didn't affect me at all and it definitely should have.

The Elephant Man, Edward Scissorhands, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape? are my big three, I think at least one of them should have made it.

[Ravi]

I've never cried during a movie.  I really want to.

[SHAFTR]

Where is All Dogs Go To Heaven?

[Pedro]

cried during dancer in the dark.  no doubt about that.

[godardian]

I was disappointed by Cinema Paradiso

Oh, as was I, it didn't affect me at all and it definitely should have.

The Elephant Man, Edward Scissorhands, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape? are my big three, I think at least one of them should have made it.

No Cinema Paradiso for me, either. I also think the inclusion of Life is Beautiful is pretty ridiculous.

Elephant Man is definitely a weeper for me, too.

I can't imagine never crying at a movie. I cry at them regularly.