Best if the old movie is made before 1990
Shawshank Redemption
Bicentennial Man
It’s a Wonderful Life, every time
Several plot points in that film are absolutely horrifying like the shopkeeper deafening him as a child
He was deafened by an ear infection after diving into a frozen pond to save his brother from drowning. Later he prevented Mr. Gower from accidentally poisoning a child when Gower was distracted by grief. I do believe Gower hit him during that sequence though, if that’s what you’re referring to. And yeah that last part is rough but sometimes life and history are unpleasant.
Ah yeah that was it. Has been a while!
Grave of the Fireflies is a good one and has been mentioned a few times already.
Fox and the Hound has several tear jerker moments, though most memorable for me is when Todd is returned to the forest.
Land Before Time was my first parent death in a film that I can remember. And unlike Bambi, this movie shows more of the consequences of losing a mother at that young of an age.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan always makes me cry. The death of Spock, the exchange between him and Kirk, it always kills me.
For me it is Shatner’s performance during the funeral. Any time Shatner’s acting gets made fun of I bring it up.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
- Don’t mind me turning to dust in my chair.
Not exactly “cry”, but Terminator 2 was very emotional for me. And it wasn’t just the ending, it was the theme song in conjunction with it. Even right before the movie, the whole opening sequence (before the events of the stories start) with the
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People just enjoying life and the nuke just going off, it was so… emotional… like very high stakes… such tragedy…
The depictions of the fires just slowly burning through everything…
All of this destruction is a version of the future that already happened, and the last hope for humanity is some kid that hasn’t even grown up yet…
Whenever the theme plays, the I feel like I’ve accended beyond the linear 3D plane and went into the 5D world and I can visualize the entire Terminator timeline. Its just this concept of time travel is so fascinting.
It’s tragedy, its genocide, and the small glimmer of hope, all contained in a single soundtrack. The spirit of the entire series (especially T2) is all described by this one single magnificient soundtrack.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
I think it holds up. But I’m biased because it’s on my top 5 movies of all time.
Great film. I hate to call it old. Even though I realize it is now.
Grave Of The Fireflies. Two children trying to survive in Japan during World War 2
Not before 1990 but when I watched Terminator 2 as a kid I cried when they lowered the t-850 it into the molten slag.
1990? Old? Get off my lawn!
Oh, don’t be coy. We can already smell the soil on you.
Old Yeller
If that movie doesn’t get you to shed a tear, you’re not human.
I’m a pretty hard-boiled tough guy by most standards, and I’m getting a little misty just thinking about it.
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. It’s been 22 years since release …
That is not an old movie. It’s not a recent movie, but it’s not an old movie.
22 years is old.
It’s relative.
Debatable. There are adults who weren’t even born back then.
Two decades is old. An 80s movie in the year 2000 was old.
I don’t agree. I watched tons of movies from the '80s in the 2000s and I didn’t really think of them as old. Certainly not recent, but not old old.
A 22 year old movie in the year 2000 would be from 1978, it’s a 70s movie!
Roughly the same gap between Star Wars: A New Hope coming out and Y2K happening.
Even talking about Y2K and AOL floppy disks sounds old and once again is roughly the same time span to today.
Almost none of these are old movies
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