What's your favourite chick flick/Disney/tear jerk-er movie??

xoaudhep

Anybody have any personal favorites for when they're curled up on the couch?

I love Homeward Bound-makes me bawl like a baby everytime! And I love 50 First Dates for when I wanna see something simple, nice and easy to watch

What do you guys like?

Evonatron

For the first time I watched Marley and Me last week,and I had a few tears its such a good film!

Sex and the City the first one always gets me at the wedding scene, other than that its an easy watch whilst doing the ironing or something.

The Princess Bride

Not a chick Flick, but I absolutely love "The Princess Bride"-
a happily ever after story with a difference and enough humour to suit everyone's tastes:)

Kiera

The Lion King. Best movie EVER

gaeilgebeo

The Notebook = one of the best love stories ever. Gets me every time.

Crouching tiger is something of a tear jerker for me

Don't really have any chick flick favourites at all...

gargleblaster

Thelma and Louise, The Color Purple and Steel Magnolias are some of my favorites. Also Somewhere in Time.

As far as Disney, I loved Mulan, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Wall-E, Up, The Incredibles... the list goes on and on.



And ok ok, I will admit it, I also love the Twilight movies.

Piglet85

msthe80s wrote: »

Not a chick Flick, but I absolutely love "The Princess Bride"-
a happily ever after story with a difference and enough humour to suit everyone's tastes:)

This is my favourite film ever!

Disney-wise, another vote for The Lion King, although I love most of them really. I'm not usually one for chick-flicks but did bawl my eyes out at The Notebook. And I have to admit to being a Pretty Woman fan, embarassing and all as that is! :pac:

metrovelvet

bluewolf wrote: »

Crouching tiger is something of a tear jerker for me

Don't really have any chick flick favourites at all...

I woke up during the credits.

Toy Story 3 made me cry. [What is happenning to me?]

Midnight Cowboy

Io non ho paura" -cry so much cant even see the credits

Same for Cinema Paradiso

Titanic. I think its a crap movie but someone dear and lost [died] to me was in it and everytime the ship goes down the hurt comes back up.

sambuka41

Serendipity and Beauty and Beast :D

gargleblaster

Just wanted to add two of my favorite movies - House of Flying Daggers and The Remains of the Day. They're most definitely tear jerkers for me at least.

LittleBook

My OH and I watch a lo-ot of films.

One day I decided to introduce him to The Hairdresser's Husband, a French film I'd watched and loved in my yoot.

As the film concluded I started to cry. I cried for about 20 minutes and couldn't stop. It got to the point where I left the room and went to the bathroom to continue and he's seen me cry a gazillion times.

The film was heart-breaking and dealt with a theme I find truly difficult ... lost or wasted love.

What I found interesting is the visceral reaction I had to the film the second time I watched it. Before I just thought it was a beautiful film, the second time I had an idea of what the loss meant.

floutingmaxims

Favourite Disney movie has to be Lady and the Tramp!
A Walk to Remember is my favourite chick flick though. Its a real tearjerker

Malari

There are very few films I would watch more than once.

I love The Princess Bride, but it doesn't make me cry. King Kong made me cry (animal cruelty...can't take it :pac:) but I wouldn't watch it again for that very reason.

Oh and I found the scene in The Road where

the father takes back ALL the stuff from the man who stole from them

just appalling. That REALLY upset me. But again. Not a viewing experience I ever want to repeat.

Merrick

I don't really like chick flicks and very rarely cry at movies but I tend to get something in my eye when I watch The Lion King. I've been crying over Mufasa since I was 6 years old, I'm hardly going to stop now!

Malari wrote:

Oh and I found the scene in The Road where ...

I hated that part too. I found it pretty hard to watch but not as upsetting as certain other parts of that film.

Rubberlegs

From childhood I can remember Who will Love my Children and The Champ, and another really old one called The Yearling,( pretty sure it had a bit where a kid's deer was killed), as movies that had me bawling.
Bambi is a real Disney tearjerker.
In more recent years Pearl Harbour, The Notebook and The Bucket List have brought a lump to my throat..

krudler

gaeilgebeo wrote: »

The Notebook = one of the best love stories ever. Gets me every time.

Gonna get flack for this but I hate that movie, its so contrived and manipulative. "go out with me or I'll drop myself off this ferris wheel" thats not romantic, its psychotic.

I vote for the episode of Futurama where Fry's dog is waiting for him outside the pizza parlour, you'd want to have a heart of stone not to find that sad.

Kiera

73Cat wrote: »

From childhood I can remember Who will Love my Children and The Champ, and another really old one called The Yearling,( pretty sure it had a bit where a kid's deer was killed), as movies that had me bawling.
Bambi is a real Disney tearjerker.
In more recent years Pearl Harbour, The Notebook and The Bucket List have brought a lump to my throat..

Only saw The Champ a few weeks ago and i cried like a baby. Such a good movie.

Salty

The Lion King is getting another vote from me. One of the best Disney films there is. Along with Bambi, The Lady and the Tramp, and Dumbo.

Toy Story 3 made me very teary, as did The Notebook, and Pearl Harbour.

I love Four Weddings and a Funeral, the funeral bit in particular always brings a tear to my eye.

Also, the part in The Green Mile when

the French prisoner is being electrocuted and it goes horribly wrong because of that pr*ck of a guard doesn't bother with the sponge. And when Mr. Bojangles is killed.

gargleblaster

krudler wrote: »

Gonna get flack for this but I hate that movie, its so contrived and manipulative. "go out with me or I'll drop myself off this ferris wheel" thats not romantic, its psychotic.

So true, but that stuff is shockingly common in movies. Cracked recently featured a nice list of examples.

squeakyduck

Titanic gets me every time (the scene where the captain goes down with the ship, he kind of looks like my dad )

Toy story 3 also made me cry.

Stand by me and My girl always get me too.

Das Kitty

I like a good soppy film. A couple I keep going back to are While You Were Sleeping (brilliant comedic performance from Sandra Bullock) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There's something about the deconstruction of the relationship that's just heartbreaking. It's a good catalyst to think back on the early days of a relationship and why you got together in the first place.

A few Christmas films too but I'll leave them til closer the time

I'm with krudler on Futurama - I get misty every time.

southsiderosie

Anytime Steel Magnolias is on when I'm flipping channels I stop to watch it - my favorite chick flick of all time.

In college, my roommate and I used to watch The English Patient while eating brownie ice cream sundaes and dreaming about having a passionate affair with a mysterious foreigner who has an apartment in an ancient city with a lovely claw-foot tub big enough for two.

Any scene involving the sisters in The Color Purple makes me bawl like a baby.

metrovelvet

English patient is a three hour long perfume ad.

southsiderosie

metrovelvet wrote: »

English patient is a three hour long perfume ad.

Haha, I never thought about it that way, but it's true!

I would kill for those leather jackets and that Cairo apartment.

nicechick!

Well!! What seems to come out regularly at some stage for all us girls is ''he's just not that into you'' oh the drama, the tears and the reality that yes ''he's just not that into us/me''

Vinta81

Pretty Woman

Sleeping Beauty

Tear Jerker - Notebook and pretty much anything and everything i'm a saddo.

Deedsie

metrovelvet wrote: »

English patient is a three hour long perfume ad.

You dont have to be English, but you have to be patient....

krudler

I often wonder was the next thing Richard Gere bought her in Pretty Woman an STD test? :pac:

The Big Red Button

Mulan. In my opinion, one of the best Disney movies, right up there with The Lion King, and so few people have seen it!

My Girl. I've never watched it and not cried. Same with The Notebook.

Dirty Dancing never gets old, neither does Moulin Rouge.

gargleblaster

I love the music in Mulan. Oh, and Hercules, too.


Also, since Disney is now the distributor for The Nightmare Before Christmas, I'll throw that in, as it's also one of my favorites. It also has excellent music.

Add anything by Miyazaki to that list as well, for the same reason.

MissFlitworth

krudler wrote: »

I vote for the episode of Futurama where Fry's dog is waiting for him outside the pizza parlour

I can't watch that. Saw it with my flatmate once and we both turned around to each other at the end, tears & snot running down faces, going 'what...the...fuck did matt groening do that to us for?'

Favourite disney flick is Aladdin, just because I have extremely happy memories of going to see it at Christmas with all my family when it came out & then spending the summer after it came out on video (remember the days when stuff came out on video something like 2 years after being in the 'movies'?!) watching it with my brother & sister till we were word perfect!

It's not really a chick flick but Waitress is my go to romantic/ladies movie. I can't get enough of it. I've even made a couple of the pies out of it

Caitlinn

My favourite Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast. As for chick flicks I like Love Actually.

MarthaMyDear

I love Pride and Prejudice the one with Keira Knightly!

And Breakfast at Tiffanys! My all time favourite!

Da Shins Kelly

The Lion King really upset me as a child, and it's still quite powerful now as an adult.

Wall-E is very poignant. It's so relevant, and a very profound children's movie. Pixar have really raised the bar with this movie, in my opinion. It's the best movie they've ever made in terms of sheer artistic quality (both animation, plot and message).

Lia_lia

I strongly dislike most of those kinda films tbh.

Bambi was grand.

(I actually study animation in college )

LittleBook

southsiderosie wrote: »

Anytime Steel Magnolias is on when I'm flipping channels I stop to watch it - my favorite chick flick of all time.

Sweet jebus, the "laughter through tears" scene at the cemetery ... I sometimes actually feel like I'm in the film because I'm doing exactly what they women are doing ... bawling my eyes out then laughing my ass off. It's incredible.

MissFlitworth wrote: »

It's not really a chick flick but Waitress is my go to romantic/ladies movie. I can't get enough of it. I've even made a couple of the pies out of it

Waitress is one of the best chick flicks I've seen in recent years and very noteworthy as it's one of the few films I've ever seen where the woman ends up

single and happy

And the pies ....! :pac:

rainbow kirby

About the closest I get to chick flicks would be the Miyazaki movies. Spirited Away is definitely in my all-time top movies list.

g'em

I'm not a huge chick flick fan - but I do have An Officer and a Gentleman in my DVD collection. Absolutely brilliant. And speaking of Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment will get me crying every time.

Catari Jaguar

I'm not one for chick flicks... but Love Actually is one of my faves. Love British comedies.

Ah, no one has said Mamma Mia! That's the ultimate feel good fluff!

The film's that I properly cry at, in a tears rolling down my cheeks, gulping, shaking way are:

A Walk to Remember

Atonement

Edward Scissorhands (Just because he's... special, the scene where he's trying to eat peas kills me)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (had read the book prior so was in bits before the scenes even played)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In America ("Say Goodbye to Frankie, Dad" )

The Green Mile

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (most of Studio Ghibli well me up because of the beauty and whimsical innocence but the sacrifice and purity in that just broke me like "Why can the world be such an uncaring, selfish place!" )

Catari Jaguar

krudler wrote: »

Gonna get flack for this but I hate that movie, its so contrived and manipulative. "go out with me or I'll drop myself off this ferris wheel" thats not romantic, its psychotic.

I hate that film.

From cracked.com. Funny stuff

While Noah hangs around on the Ferris wheel, he takes the chance to ask Allie out once more. Again she says no, because the act of determinedly climbing the scaffolding of a carnival ride is something a crazy murderer would do, and as we all know those types of people do not make good boyfriends. And so after understandably rejecting the stranger who has been continually harassing her and her date, this happens:

Noah drops an arm and very strongly implies that if she continues to reject him, he will let go of the Ferris wheel and kill himself. We'd like to point out that threatening suicide is categorized as Level IV domestic abuse by the Marine Corps, which is on par with "significant use of non-accidental physical force." So Noah inflicts significant emotional damage to a girl he just met, just so she'll go to the movies with him.

"You know what, buddy? You're kind of an asshole."

Even when Allie succumbs to Noah's psychotic antics, he feels like he hasn't traumatized her enough. So he feigns ignorance and makes her tearfully shout out that she wants to go out with him. Finally, when Noah is done mentally torturing her, he gets a smug smile on his face and calmly agrees to take her out on a date, as if she'd been the one pestering him in the first place.

plinkyplanky

It's got to be Mulan!

newbee22

My favourite Disney film is Beauty and the Beast.
I love chickflicks! The Notebook, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Armagedden.
I watched Marley and Me for the first time last week, I read the book a few years ago, cried and cried! So finally plucked up the courage to watch the film...I cried again!! And I'm not even a dog person!

krudler

newbee22 wrote: »

My favourite Disney film is Beauty and the Beast.
I love chickflicks! The Notebook, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Armagedden.
I watched Marley and Me for the first time last week, I read the book a few years ago, cried and cried! So finally plucked up the courage to watch the film...I cried again!! And I'm not even a dog person!

Armageddon is NOT a chick flick, despite Ben Afflecks woeful acting in it :pac:

mariebeth

krudler wrote: »

Armageddon is NOT a chick flick, despite Ben Afflecks woeful acting in it :pac:

Ah, it kind of is though, the whole blockbuster love story - I actually can't think of any male friends that this film appeals to.

Armageddon gets me every single time, even though I know the movie off by heart, the music, the imagery, the love story, the father-daughter story line, it all just gets me every time & I'm blubbering like a baby by the end of it. It's definitely one of my favourite films because for me it has everything: action, humour, love, sadness, great music...hmmm...think I might watch it tonight!

Pearl Harbour is another one that gets me every time as well, as does Titanic & Romeo & Juliet. (Anyone noticing a trend here?)


Favourite Disney film would be Beauty & The Beast, it's just a beautiful film.

Chick Flick would be '50 First Dates' - it's just such a cute, funny film and I love Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler.

Oh and PS I love You gets to me as well

I will admit to being the ultimate chick flick fan, I don't care that the storylines have been done a hundred times over, and it's nearly always the same premise of girl likes boy, then one does something stupid & they hate each other but still miss each other, then one does a big gesture & they get back together, I still always enjoy them and see them for what they are: pure entertaining fluff, with usually a good looking man to ogle for a couple hours.

LenaClaire

One that I love and my husband hates is Return to Me. I cried every time I watched that... hmmm... might need to watch it again soon.

Justask

My Favourite Disney Movie is 'The fox and the Hound'

Chick flick is either '10 things I hate about you' or 'The Holiday'

The Sweeper

Have to agree on "I waited for you, Fry".

Funnily enough, apparently the plotline for that episode originally had Fry's mom instead of his dog, Seymour. They scrapped it, with the idea that the concept of Fry's mom waiting for his return would be too upsetting for the audience.

I get that, but seriously?

Seriously you didn't think Jurassic Bark would be sad with Seymour waiting for Fry outside the Pizzeria for 12 years???

Das Kitty

The Sweeper wrote: »

Have to agree on "I waited for you, Fry".

Funnily enough, apparently the plotline for that episode originally had Fry's mom instead of his dog, Seymour. They scrapped it, with the idea that the concept of Fry's mom waiting for his return would be too upsetting for the audience.

I get that, but seriously?

Seriously you didn't think Jurassic Bark would be sad with Seymour waiting for Fry outside the Pizzeria for 12 years???

Not as sad and close to the bone as a parent waiting for their missing child their entire life, never knowing what happened to them.

LittleBook

The Sweeper wrote: »

Funnily enough, apparently the plotline for that episode originally had Fry's mom instead of his dog, Seymour. They scrapped it, with the idea that the concept of Fry's mom waiting for his return would be too upsetting for the audience.

Or they realised that Seymour waiting for Fry for 12 years was more believeable than Fry's mother waiting for him.

Maple

It really depends on my mood to be honest. First time I watched The Notebook/Titanic, I nearly had to be hospitalised for dehydration, the second time I watched them I thought they were the naffest things ever. Although I do still think the kiss scene in The Notebook was tremendous. Love his passion, she however, I could happily drown.

I do LOVE Love Actually tho, that's a failsafe good mood maker for me and you know the scene where Laura Linney chooses her brother? Makes me cry and hormone dependent can have me ranting at the screen.

Disney film and cartoons, hmmmm....The Lion King is upthere, Monsters Inc, thought Up was overrated although the opening sequence was touching. Have you seen Tangled? Thought that was great.

I think it's scenes in movies that get me really, or how I relate to them, for example I had a little weep at Love & Other Drugs but still came out laughing my ass off at how absolutely brutal a movie it was.

I did cry at the Hunchback of NotreDame tho. I still haven't lived it down.