quote: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.
I am so relieved I'm not the only one. I detest most cheesy American flicks, but for some reason Mandy Moore made me bawl my eyes out!
And Lilo and Stitch was bad because I was watching it on the plane... and I have issues with being protective of my little sisters... and yeah, it was pretty sappy.
I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned Shadowlands yet. Oh, man. The movie was bad enough, but I saw the play, and I couldn't stop crying even a half hour after it was over.
And although it's one of my favorite movies ever, Return to Me makes me cry when David Duchovny is sitting in front of his front door, telling the dog that she's not coming home, and then starts sobbing.
And of course I lose it every time I see Little Women, not when Beth dies, but later when Jo is looking through her trunk. Awful.
All of the above are good cries, because they resolve themselves, but there are some that make me cry in a disturbed sort of sadness. Hope Floats was one of these, during the scene where the little girl wants to go with her Daddy and he's packing up and leaving and she's just sobbing. I can't handle the painful sobbing and how she keeps screaming "Daddy! Daddy!" - it's just a little too much, psychologically.
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I totally agree with you about Shadowlands. I read the novelization of the movie first, and bawled for about a day and a half. That movie just tugs at me.
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Okay, like I mentioned in the other thread, we watched Grave of the Fireflies last night, and my wife couldn't stop crying for about 18 hours. Literally. Her eyes were so swollen that she could barely see out of them, and she almost couldn't go to school.
But there's another I wanted to mention. I just got done watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on the new DVD box set. It had been a while since I saw it, and I forgot how choked up I get at the way the father-son dynamic is handled. Namely the following two scenes:
1) Indiana Jones goes off the edge of the cliff in the tank, then comes back up and joins everyone looking off the side for him. It's an old joke, and always played for laughs. When his father turns around and, rather than the standard double-take "whaaaaa...?" reaction, just hugs him like he never thought he'd see him again... it gets to me.
2) The most powerful scene in the entire movie, at the end, just after Elsa dies trying to reach the Grail. When Henry Jones sees his son reaching for the Grail, the object of his entire life's work, and he realizes that getting the Grail may cost his son his life, so he tells him to let it go. I won't say I cried, but I'm always very moved by that scene. It's an amazing thing to find in an action-adventure film.
I kind of hope that Indiana Jones IV never gets made, because I can't see how they could possibly top The Last Crusade.
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Gandhi One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Man Who Wasn't There Kundun (Well it didn't, but it came close enough) Requim for a Dream Pi came much closer than it really should've Godfather Part II with Fredo in the boat..
Wow, now I feel like a cry-baby. Though I don't actually full out sob, but tears definitly come to my eyes...
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I cry from laughter everytime I see Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Dumb and Dumber. But I rarely have any "sad tears." Um...I think I might have got a little teary-eyed the first time I saw Return of the Jedi, and Mr. Vader died right after joining the flipside of the force (but I was four, so give me a break).
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I just finished a movie I cry at, so I thought I'd mention it. The Oh My Goddess movie always makes me cry... ;_;
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This is funny, I can remember crying at a lot of movies, and I remember the sentiments, such as in Annie's post.
quote: And of course I lose it every time I see Little Women, not when Beth dies, but later when Jo is looking through her trunk. Awful.
It seems like it's often not the death of a loved one that makes you cry, but afterwards, when you're forced to remember them or rummage through their things. The funny thing is, as much as I want to...at 2am on halloween night, I can't recall a single specific movie that made me cry. Man, what's wrong with my brain.
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Everything makes me cry. But the weird one I have to mention is when I first saw Honey I Shrunk the Kids, at the part when the ant saves them, I ran from the room bawling and buried myself in the couch for the rest of the movie.
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It's funny, this thread remembers me that before I met Vincent I rarely cried watching movies (except Cyrano de Bergerac and Philadelphia ) But after we went together I became a real crier-watching-movies. Lilo and Stitch , the first Harry Potter , Monster inc (the part when Sully thinks Booh is dead), movies which before would have make me smile make me cry. And I don't even talk about movies that would have make me cry before... Strange how love transforms you...
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Adding to the list: Ayelar, JaneX, MyrddinFyre plus me.
I cry at any sad movies, some tv commercials too. I've been getting more teary lately so my list would mostly consist of recent movies. Or it might be that my memory of tearjerker movies doesn't extend past a few years.
I've never seen flashdance. I have to rent that and the movie Time Bandits. Not that I expect Time Bandits to make anyone cry.
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A Walk to Remember definately made me cry. I'd love to watch it again but I'm not ready to cry that much right now.
Somewhere in Time still makes me cry even though I've seen it many, many times.
There are so many... I cry easily. Too much stuffed down emotions resurfacing I guess. I need a good cry but the problem is stopping Posts: 1132 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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But Kirk, we all saw you cry IN a movie. Though that was pretty tough of you to not give your secret pain to the laughing Vulcan.
By the way, I cried at the beginning of Generations last time I saw it.
Also the beginning of Tarzan, when the baby gorilla gets eaten by the leopard.
And I cry during only the preview of Lilo and Stitch. Tia Carrera's voice should be a controlled substance.
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Did you ever see this? It's a small bit from a piece by Starhawk, in Dreaming the Dark. (Note - this is not my usual type of reading. A professor in graduate school exposed me to this.)
As I recall, she prefaces this with talking about the longing that everyone carries within them:
quote: Community
by Starhawk, 'Dreaming in the Dark'
Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
That particular scene in Lilo and Stitch caused a little "catch in the throat" and I remembered this.
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quote: I cry any sad movies, some tv commercials too.
Yes! The first time I saw that CVS photo thinggy commercial...The one where the little boy shows his grandmother that picture and says, "Gramma, can you still do this?"...
Old people make me cry.
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These are the movies I have cried watching, some of these are very old though, so I may have been only seven or eight.
The Lion King- from where mufasa dies onwards Titanic- um. Like all the second half. ( I should have never seen that in the cinema...) Gone With the Wind Goodbye Mr. Chips The Two Towers
And a lot of movies with suppressed tears. (I forget specifically which ones) When watching with other people, I tend to disconnect myself from the movie, so I suppress tears...
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There is only one movie I have ever cried in. And I bawled and screamed like a baby. The movie The Little Princess made me cry. I don't know why all I rember was crying my eyes out and yelling at the characters on screen.
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Movies: -the M*A*S*H episode "sometimes you see the bullet" (or is it hear?) -Now & Then, the scene with Sam and Teeny in the treehouse when Teeny gives her the bracelet -Little Women (the good version) when Beth dies -The Lion King, when Mufasa dies, of course
Books: -Red Prophet, pretty much through-out -The Firebrand, during the fall of Troy (i was so ashamed i cried over that book since i hate it and it was written really badly) -Ender's Shadow, happy tears at the end -Firesong, at the end -Walk Two Moons, at the end and others
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I'm a sucker for a romantic comedy - I even cried in While you were Sleeping
But the movies that have made me bawl so much my eyes are sore for the next 24 hours...
Braveheart Life is Beautiful (I know they've both been mentioned a lot, but I figure they deserve another mention!)
And one film about the Spanish Revolution - I can't remember the name of it for the life of me but it was very good and very very sad.
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But, while your trying to curse me for not having a soul, it makes me cry that people are bored enough to do these, and I am bored enough to go to them at least once a day.
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ok, unless i skimmed a little too quickly, it seems like i'm the only one who cries at triumph/overcoming odds:
rudy mighty ducks 2 glory amistad a league of their own remember the titans
I cry during the olympics, especially after watching a feature on a specific athlete who's had an especially rough time and who goes on the win the gold.
i have to limit my intake of oprah because, with the exception of the one with nick lachey and jessica simpson, she makes me cry.
when i was a kid charlotte's web got me every time. i haven't watched it in close to twenty years for that reason. the green mile and pay it forward get me, too, but i still watch them every chance i get.
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Fellowship of the Ring Two Towers soon to be Return of the king Forrest Gump Cast Away Any other serious Tom Hanks movie (including The 'Burbs heh) Braveheart The Patriot The last Star Trek The Next Generation episode. When Qui-Gon died!!!!! ****spoilers****
When Data died! When Wolverine CRIED about Jean dying!
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I never tear up at movies, but god help me if that last scene in Braveheart -- not Wallace's torture scene, though that definitely set me up for the bawl -- the scene where the Scottish patriots charge the English, goddamn if I didn't cry like a baby all through the credits. Thank god the first time I saw it wasn't with a date.
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I cry all of the time at movies. Overcoming the odds, somebody dying, reconciliations. It's horrible and wonderful.
I cried during "Rugrats Gone Wild". *blush* Well, the children were lost! And the parents were worried! And then they found the children and they were all relieved! And the grownups who were mad at Tommy's dad apologized to him~!
*sniff*
I watched it with my five year old in the theater, and he very sweetly took my hand and said, "Don't cry, mommy, it's just a movie."
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West Side Story always gets me. Even more so than Zefferelli's R & J. Other than that, I don't really cry at movies. Oh, and Apollo 13. I love that movie.
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The first time I saw The Pianist I cried. Correction: bawled. It was so bad, in fact, that I was clutching the armrests to keep myself from sobbing out loud. I hadn't cried like that in years. Oh, and it was my birthday.
Crying at movies depends a lot on my mood at the time. So sometimes I'll cry at the end of Gladiator, sometimes at the end of Amadeus, sometimes at Jedi, Saving Ryan's Privates, and so on and so forth.
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I hardly ever see movies, and when I do, I never cry.
But watching Edward Scissorhands...I just couldn't keep it in. The flashbacks, especially. I can't really explain why, but I think it had to do with the soundtrack. Whenever I listen to the theme I just get all depressed, and doubly so for watching the movie.
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When I was a kid I cried while watching Snoopy Come Home. I really felt bad for Charlie Brown. Unfortunately I have never lived this down, and the worst part is this is the only movie I can remember tearing up over. I'm such a weenie!
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I never cry at movies, either, but I do tear up sometimes. They just dry up before they roll down my face. The one movie experience that stands out that way is Dead Poet's Society, which I saw in the theater with my younger brother. We were both tough-guy teenagers, but that last "Captain, My Captain" scene got both of us. Afterward, we stood around outside the theater with moist eyes giving each other sheepish looks.
I saw My Life (Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman) with two other guys from the dorms in college. They were both bawling when we came out, and I just didn't get it.
Another one that gets the eyes glistening is The Mission (Jeremy Irons, Robert DeNiro).
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I think I might be a lost case. *sniffle* The only movies mentioned on this thread that I didn't cry at are ones I haven't seen. O_o
No one mentioned Phenomenon, which gets me every time.
But most-tissues-required-for-shortest-film has got to be the Wonderworks adaptation of Bradbury's "All Summer In One Day." 30 minutes. Many many MANY tissues. And every time I watch it, I cry harder.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh! Can we do television, too? Because the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer KILLS me. When Spike sings "Let me Rest in Peace". *sniffle* Even when I listen to the soundtrack, it chokes me up a little.
Yes, I am a chickie.
Also: I refuse to watch We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, or any of those military movies, because I accidentally watched part of Hamburger Hill once (Chuck was watching it in the living room and I was half-listening) and it turned me into a blubbering mess. It doesn't help that Chuck is in the Army.
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