I could tell that was going to happen when I got about 30 minutes into it the other night. I predicted it would get maudlin, and I would cry. I finished watching it last night. *sniffle* It did, and I did.
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But, at the risk of ruining my recommendations for years to come, Disney's Treasure Planet gets me every time I watch it, too.
quote:Now, you listen to me, James Hawkins. You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course. Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes you get the chance to really test the cut of your sails, and show what you're made of! Well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day.
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Normally I'm not a crier. I didn't shed a single tear when I read The Doomsday Book, even though my best friend said it made him cry and my wife said it was one of the saddest things she ever read.
But The Time Travelers Wife mad eme cry... twice
SPOILER ALERT . .. ...
Once when they sat down to watch the events of Sept 11. I guess it hit me partially because I live in NY for so long and was personally affected by the actual events and partially because I didn't notice the date when reading the book so I was wondering what he was buying a TV for... and then got the suprise
And once when he died. I knew it was coming and didn't think it'd affect me that way but it did anyway.
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The Lost Boys Where the Red Fern Grows Little Women Harry Potter #4, when Mrs. Weasley hugs Harry and he realized that he'd never been hugged with love like that before.
AND...*deep breath*
Dragonlance, Legends trilogy. Oh my stars, I BAWLED when Raistlin...you know the part. I cried for two days. I was fourteen, but still.
There are so many - I cry at fiction all the time.
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I cried like a baby at the end of Dead Poets' Society. Ron had to hold me for a long time before I could even talk. It wasn't the death part, but the actual ending, which was sort of uplifting.
I am a sap. Beaches also got me, but I was young and had no idea it was going to be sad. Duh. Sniffled at Shawshank Redemption, too.
Books? When I got to a certain point in A Tale of Two Cities I put it down because I knew I couldn't read it where people could see me cry. Whenever I get to the end of LotR (books) I cry like a silly person because there isn't any more. I cried over Hoom in Worthing Saga, after I got over the gut-punched sickness of it all. I cried atthe end of Lost Boys, but I'm not sure if that counts because I was severely post-partum depressed at the time and cried a lot for no reason. But I'll count it.
On the somewhat embarrassed side, I cried at the end of Latter Days, even though it was kind of cliche and not all that great... We're not just dots... *sniffle* Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Yeah, I can't remember the last one, but that's because it happens so often. I cry at fiction all the time. I also laugh out loud at books, which, believe it or not, gets more weird looks than crying. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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I'm a big sappy cryer... I cry with certain commercials.
I too have not been able to re-read The Lost Boys. I read it about 6 or 7 years ago and still can't pick it up and read it again. I think its the only OSC book I haven't read at least twice. My husband hasn't even read it once since it made me cry so much he is a little afraid to read it... he's a big cryer too.
I cried when Boon died in Lost, and the last half of the season finale.
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I read Lost Boys whenever I need a good cry but am having a hard time getting it, because I know that last line will do it for me.
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I'm a big cryer, but after watching Grave of the Fireflies a couple of times to show it to friends, I now cry the moment it starts, so I can't show it to people anymore.
I also sometimes cry over episodes of Law & Order SVU, which I'm just now getting into.
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ketchupqueen - yes laughing loudly while reading a book in a public place does get you lots of weird looks - probably more so than quietly crying (I imagine if you wailed and tore at your clothes and hair then that kind of crying would get the same - that was my Lost Boys crying).
This summer I was reading one of the Georgia books at the beach and laughing like a loon - I had to stop because other people were looking at me like I was one of the "elderly mad". If you female Hatracker don't know this books the first is called Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. They are British and vair - vair funny. :0
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I tend to tear up a bit over fiction where characters show courage and wisdom (and esp. when that is acknowledged by others).
Parts of Pratchett's _A Hat Full of Sky_ put a lump in my throat. So have parts of A Song of Ice and Fire (Jon Snow especially seems to get to me).
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quote:Originally posted by Icarus: I think one of the stories in Folk of the Fringe really got to me. The one about the little boy in the closet?
You are not alone there...that story made me cry for a solid 30 minutes. Part of it was the fact that at the time my little brother and sister where the same age as the two that got put in the closet, and when I thought of them...I couldn't help but cry quite unlike I had ever had before.
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Yep. Beaches. Amazing that no matter how many times I've seen that movie, I still burst into tears at the end. As a matter of fact, even hearing the song, "The Wind Beneath My Wings" chokes me up.
Speaking of songs that invoke emotion...I did a little bit of searching, then downloading after watching the last episode of Six Feet Under and that last song is called "Breathe" by Sia. Just in case some of you wanted to know.
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I cry all the time at movies - it's why I often go alone. I'm not exactly what one might call an emotional person in the light of day, so when I do let loose, it's fairly... different.
The short list of the visual media kind:
The end of The Last Samurai Return of the King (This actually goes beyond crying; it's more like all-out bawling) Big Fish Amadeus Finding Neverland The Pianist (Also all-out bawling - when he sits down and plays in that house... ) And secretly, so secretly, BSG. And I've been known to tear up at various Treks (of all generations)
And as far as literary fiction...
A Song of Fire and Ice. All the fracking time. Ender's Game (It's odd, but it's always a different part) The Green Mile (Oh, was that a bad day) Silver on the Tree (the last in The Dark is Rising series) And I think I remember crying at Little Women...
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Lost Boys, Honolulu Airport, 1995 (the ONLY time) Oh, and "The Boy With No Shoes", William Horwood, but it's not fiction, it's autobigraphical
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I dont know who sings it but it is a beautiful song..."Dance with my Father again." I was driving to school one day and cried like a baby when I heard it!
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Butterfly Kisses always makes me cry, too. But just out of shame and sadness. I loathe that song more than any other.
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quote:Originally posted by dean: I'm a big cryer, but after watching Grave of the Fireflies a couple of times to show it to friends, I now cry the moment it starts, so I can't show it to people anymore.
I have not actually seen Grave of the Fireflies. But when I was living in the dorms some friends watched it and I happened to be out in the hall when it got over. Kip's dorm room opens and out shuffle three fun-and-games college guys looking like somebody just shot their entire families. They weren't actually crying, but looked so emotionally dead and depressed. None of them would talk about it at all until the next day. That was when I decided I didn't need to see that movie.
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Film: "Testament", maybe it was being a parent. Nothing else is even close.
Television: TNG "The Inner Light" it just gets to me on a species level or something.
Novel: There are lot of them that bring a tear to the eye including, the last chapters of "The Return of the King."
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