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I don't do much more than tear up when I read books, and I only cry a little during a few special songs. But the first time I saw Life is Beautiful I bawled like a baby and didn't stop until the next morning. Just the love that Roberto's character had...(shiver). The fact that it was a comedy made it even better for me. I was laughing right up until I started crying.
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Oh, God, yes, I cried so much when I watched Life Is Beautiful. I cry at a lot of movies lately...
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I'm sure I'll remember more later, but when I think of crying in movies, two always come to mind. Life Is Beautiful is indeed one of them. The other is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . Perhaps I shouldn't admit that. Shatner is such a ham actor. But ever since the first time I saw it, I always fall apart at Spock's funeral scene. Even now, as many times as I've seen Search for Spock , and as well as I know that he's not really dead, it still gets me. Seeing Spock slowly die for his friends, and seeing Kirk break down in his speech... "of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human ." One of the great moments in cinema.
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I don't remember the last time I actually cried at a movie. But The Two Towers (the scene where the twelve-year-old kids are putting on armor and getting ready to die) and Signs (when the dad regains his faith) almost brought me to tears.
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I didn't cry during Life is Beautiful. I always found it kind of chilling that he would endanger so many people for his son. I don't know why. Perhaps I just need to have some of my own to understand. Regardless, that movie didn't do it for me.
The original Little Mermaid, like I said on another thread. That did me in when I was little. I can't really think of any others. I don't really cry much I guess? I've been teary in some, but not flat outright crying.
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Might be a shorter list to name the movies that don't make me cry.
Seriously, I'm bad about crying in movies, even if they aren't "sad" movies. I've even been known to cry during the coming attractions. Oh, well. I'm not as bad as I used to be, at least.
The movie I probably cried most in was Romeo and Juliet (the 1968 version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli). I was in junior high when I saw it the first time and, of course, knew how it would end. I started crying when the Chorus started speaking at the beginning of the film and cried all the way through it. And all the way home, I think.
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One of the most powerful films I have ever seen is Testament. (Jane Alexander, Lukas Haas, William DeVane, Kevin Kostner, 1983) If this one doesn't make you cry nothing will.
I have, also, an emotional place in my heart for How Green Was My Valley, but that is the Welsh coming out in me.
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I don't completely break down, but movies can often bring me pretty close.
I seem to recall having mentioned this recently here somewhere but The Prince of Tides despite its serious flaws, affected me deeply.
Believe it or not, Catch Me If You Can misted me up. I must be the only one in the world who had this reaction . . . most people I hear mention it just say it was sweet (perhaps too much so). But for some reason, this movie really touched a nerve in me.
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Only movie that ever made me cry was Flowers for Algernon (the Hallmark version with Matthew Modine).
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Kevin Costner's daughter is lying still after falling from the bleachers - everyone is horrified into silence - and the young Moonlight Graham steps out of the crowd - and you know he is there to save her.
Devastatingly beautiful moment.
And later on, same film. Costner's not that great an actor, but "How about some catch?" makes me crumple up inside.
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I have yet to see Life is Beautiful. I will make it a point to watch it sometime soon though.
I have yet to cry in a movie, although the "My brother, My captain, My King" speech Boromir gave brought me close. But the closest I've ever been to crying in a movie was Gladiator (Russell Crowe...Well he's the only actor I can remember right now, getting late). But yeah, that's about it for me. -Silas
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quote:The ultimate tear jerker(although I never sob in movies, tears just come), was Simon Birch. I love that movie.
Try reading A Prayer for Owen Meany, the book Simon Birch is a pale, pale adaptation of. It's hard to adapt a John Irving novel, and if you read it, you'll see why. Light years beyond the film, in depth and power.
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i don't ever really bawl, and i don't usually get teary, so this is rather strange, but something about Amelie really got me. and the wierdest part is that it wasn't the intentionally melodramatic parts that got me, for instance i couldn't help myself during the opening credits, with the footage of her as a child playing with raspberries and making records out of icing. i about lost it watching her skip stones on the causeway.
i'm not sure what it was, maybe nostalgia for lost innocence or the music. strange...
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I cry every time I watch the movie Glory. Something about that film really gets to me.
I cried at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring when Sam refused to let Frodo go on alone. I knew it was coming -- I've read the books -- and I thought that scene might have actually been one of Peter Jackson's worst in the films so far, but I still wept like a baby.
I also cried at the end of Signs. Yeah, OK, so it may not have been all that great, but by golly, there's just something that touched me about Mel Gibson's character.
Finally, I may be the only person to have ever cried watching a Paul W.S. Anderson film (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil and the upcoming Alien vs. Predator film). I cried while watching Soldier because my girlfriend had just broken up with me. I think I would have cried watching any movie, but I just so happened to have been watching this one... Posts: 1295 | Registered: Jan 2003
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I cry a lot in movies. Sometimes single glistening tear in eye, sometimes tears streaming down face. Two that involved full-throttle sobs were Bent (the end, oh my goodness the end) and Lady Jane (for issues involving Patrick Stewart's character). Recently watched A Walk to Remember, cried for issues involving the guy's father. Cried a couple of times when Boromir dies in LOTR. Pay It Forward, though not for the reasons most people did. *thinks* And so on. Posts: 2762 | Registered: Sep 1999
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If I watch a movie alone and it's good, I'll bawl.
Shawshank Redemption Girl, Interrupted American History X The Power of One Life as a House Igby Goes Down A Beautiful Mind Lilo and Stitch Ordinary People Taps The Cure Hamlet The Great Santini
But, I only cry if I'm watching it alone. If anyone else is there, I'm fine. Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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A tear rolled down my cheek during a particular scene in Patch Adams that hit close to home because of what was going on in my life at the time.
...there have been movies that wrenched me or made me feel like crying, but I don't cry often or easily.
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I cry fairly often at movies, but I have NEVER been able to watch "Braveheart" without crying at Wallace's shout...
Whoever mentioned "Glory" is way cool-- one of the best movies ever and grossly underrated, IMO. The other Colonel threatening to take away the 54th and make them "contraband" is the scene that makes me cry... the end doesn't-- Shaw and Tripp just seem to belong together... it's all just fitting.
IRL, the person on whom Tripp (Denzel Washington) is based survived the battle and received the Medal of Honor for rallying the men and holding the flag up after having been shot.
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Saving Private Ryan Blackhawk Down The Crow Pretty Woman Moulin Rouge
I don't remember if I cried the first time I saw Braveheart or not, but I don't any more.
I have also teared up at several baseball movies, including The Pride of the Yankees, The Natural, and Field of Dreams.
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::sighs:: It's a long story but basically I don't even cry all that often period so it would have to be a heck of a tearjerker to get me bawling.
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I'll cry during movies at the drop of a hat. I'll cry during TV commercials, radio commercials, particularly touching songs, coming attractions, crap made-for-tv movies, kids cartoons, and the Cosby Show. You name it, it's probably made me cry.
Probably one of the most humiliating crying at a movie experiences, especially as a film student, was the degree to which AI made me bawl. We must have been in that theater 20 minutes after the credits started rolling as I tried to get a grip. Even though, as I cried, I was thinking about all of the problems with the film, I couldn't stop. Unbelieveable. Posts: 2220 | Registered: Jun 1999
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Movies can make me cry pretty easily too, although not so much anymore. I do love tear-jerkers. I think the one that made me cry the worst was When a Man Loves a Woman. I came out of the theater so incredibly drained from trying not to just start bawling right in the audience. Every. Single. Scene. was such a huge emotional ordeal.
Any movies where someone dies (in a sad way) will make me bawl, mainly because I have a brother and a sister who both died. I tend to try to stay away from movies where I know someone will die unless I'm in the mood for a good cry.
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I don't cry at movies. I don't know why. I can recognize sad moments, but I don't tend to tear up.
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I cried at Fellowship, only a little when Gandalf fell, and a lot at the departure of Boromir. I had not yet read the books when I first saw the movies.
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Here is my list of tearjerkers: Beaches Dead Man Walking Dead Poets Society Life Is Beautiful Message in a bottle Moonstruck Patch Adams Philadelphia Platoon Schindler's List Steel Magnolias (who doesn't cry in this one..)
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My mother died of the same thing that the mother in Beaches died of - it's the movie I use to tell people when they ask. Thing is, its getting old enough most people haven't heard of it, so the conversation seques into a movie review. *muses*
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The one that really does it for me is Awakenings . At least part of the reason the movie moves me so deeply is that I read the book the movie is based on, so I know that while the characters got shifted and altered somewhat, the essence of the actual events are very real.
The movie might have won some awards that year if Dances with Wolves hadn't dominated the public consciousness.
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I cry all the time at movies (and get mocked endlessly for it), but my two latest embarrassments have been Lilo and Stitch and A Walk to Remember.
Makes me feel lots better though that both of those have been mentioned already. (Thanks Lissande and Mackmillan )
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My wife had the misfortune of watching A Walk to Remember and Message in a Bottle one after the other.
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Did somebody mention Patch Adams? I cried in that movie too, but that wasn't due to sadness.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN IT, SKIP THE NEXT PARAGRAPH.
I thought the best moment was when he had the two giant women legs on the two sides of the door that the gynecologists (sp?) were supposed to enter.
Shawshank Redemption was another. I thought The Life and Death of Malcom X with Denzel Washington was another particulary sad movie.
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La Haine (Hate) made me bawl and Boys Don't Cry certainly choked me up. ET made me sob in fear when I was little, but I think I've gotten over that .
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To add a couple more Disney movies to my list, Bambie always made me cry from the time that I was a toddler, and The Lion King kills me... I just can't fathom how Scar could do that to his own brother!
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Green Mile. That's the only movie I've seen in the theaters during which I haven't been able to hold them back. Though I do still get misty at the aftermath scene in Top Gun, among others.
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Frank Darabont + Stephen King Prison story = great movie
If only The Green Mile had been up against Titanic instead of American Beauty.
Thinking of it... 1999 gave us Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, The Green Mile, and American Beauty... probably others I can't think of (I looked up Snatch and Memento, both 2000)
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Dead Poets Society Okay, so it was manipulative, but it wasn't the sad part that made me cry. It was the end when some of them stood up on their desks. I cried so hard, and kept crying. Ron held me all the way out into the parking lot and held me in the car, while I kept crying. Our conversation went something like this:
Me: Sorry for crying so much
Him: I thought it was kind of an uplifting ending...
Me: Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *sniff* I-it was. Waaaaaaaah! (pause) I'm sorry for crying so much.
Him: S'okay. It's kind of neat to have you cry and it not be my fault.
Shawshank Redemption also got me, a little. Life as a House got me, but I was mad that it got me, because ... I should have known.. And I DID know... and it STILL got me.
Radio Flyer . OMG, I'm such a goober.
Saving Private Ryan , but not for the reasons you think. I cried when Ryan, as an old man, collapsed in front of Tom Hanks' white cross. Because my granfather was at Iwo Jima, and, well, I just thought of him, and I cried.
Beaches is another six-hanky movie. (((Katharina)))
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I almost never get teary during a movie, but What Dreams May Come just about killed me, when Robin Williams is waving goodbye to his kids who drive off in the van. The narration is something like "That was the last time I saw them alive.." Geez that killed me. Also Star Trek:Nemesis at the end. If you've seen it you know what i mean. I recently saw The Legend of 1900 which is an excellent movie, which I recommend to everyone, but is also a tear-jerker. Posts: 84 | Registered: Feb 2003
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