Films that just make you end

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

War Horse is on now. I’d forgotten the last twenty minutes of this. I’m going to be a wreck.

[Guy Profumo]

All Quiet on the Western Front.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Eldest Roginette said "it would have been funny after all that if the horse had trod on a land mine as he walked it home". I should never have weaned her on films like Aliens and Platoon, in retrospect.

[Hot Pepsi]

War Horse is on now. I’d forgotten the last twenty minutes of this. I’m going to be a wreck.

I refuse to watch that because it sounds sad.

[Ray de Galles]

"make you end"?

[Toby Gymshorts]

Yeah. I mean, that's ambiguous, even as a charitable reading.

[MsD]

I have to check out Does the Dog Die.com before I watch most things. (Also good for horses, cats etc.)

[Amor de Cosmos]

Babe stupidly turned me into puddle each time I watched it.

[Hot Pepsi]

I have to check out Does the Dog Die.com before I watch most things. (Also good for horses, cats etc.)

Good tip.

[3 Colours Red]

Yeah. I mean, that's ambiguous, even as a charitable reading.

I thought it was going to be more "make you want to end it all" and was going to start mentioning the Star Wars prequels.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I have to check out Does the Dog Die.com before I watch most things. (Also good for horses, cats etc.)

You might want to give John Wick a swerve.

And one of the later episodes of Chernobyl.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I cried at the end of Monsters Inc.

[3 Colours Red]

I was one of those children who blubbed at that scene in E.T. where he's all pale, dying in that bed after the men in black have got him. It'd probably still set me off a bit now.

[gjw100]

The first time I watched it, the final (David's Last Day) scene of 'A.I.' left me with tears streaming down my face. Subsequent viewings have only succeeded in slightly moistening the eyes, but it still packs an emotional punch for me.
Often criticised as a typical piece of heart-tugging Spielberg audience manipulation, the finish was apparently shot pretty much as Kubrick originally intended.

[Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen]

The end of The Iron Giant gets me every time.
Cracking little film, too.

[Satchmo Distel]

A TV series rather than a film, but I think Roots was the first thing I ever saw that made me cry tears that came from empathy and anger rather than just childish tears as in Bambi, although I can still cry watching Bambi today.

Lion - the most beautiful performance by a child actor I've ever seen.

[tracteurgarcon]

Lion - the most beautiful performance by a child actor I've ever seen.

Oh my word, what an emotional film that is.

[Snake Plissken]

Pixar are the masters of this. The end of WALL-E and the opening 15 minutes of Up! (and the scene when he rereads the book and the page he could never get to).

[tracteurgarcon]

The first 10 minutes or so of "Up!" is possibly the best thing Pixar have done (and I say that as someone who loves the majority of their output) its such a shame that the rest of the film is generic kiddy animated adventure rubbish.

Has there ever been another film where the opening is just absolute head and shoulders above the rest of the movie?

[Snake Plissken]

The first five minutes of Elektra comes to mind.

[pebblethefish]

Has there ever been another film where the opening is just absolute head and shoulders above the rest of the movie?

Surely Saving Private Ryan wins that award?

[tracteurgarcon]

Surely Saving Private Ryan wins that award?

Possibly, was thinking there must be a good few Bond films where the opening sequence is the best bit of the film ("Die Another Day" springs to mind, the hovercraft sequence in the Korean DMZ is great, the rest of the film less so).

[Amor de Cosmos]

Surely Saving Private Ryan wins that award?

That would've been my first thought.

Others 2001: A Space Odyssey; New York, New York and Touch of Evil.

[Jah Womble]

28 Days Later.

Great opening sequence. The remainder was horsesh*t.

[Satchmo Distel]

Has there ever been another film where the opening is just absolute head and shoulders above the rest of the movie?

Touch of Evil (single tracking shot, 3 mins 20 secs)
Betty Blue (...)