Things that make me cry

[only_more_so]

Well, aside from severe pain, I don't think I've cried since reading Bridge to Terabithia in the fifth grade. Well, there was one time, but I was really drunk and... Well, I not quite that ready to share.

But recently I downloaded a song by Flyleaf that came close called Supernatural. It really blind sided me too, since it just came up in the mix while I was walking to the subway.

Beethoven's 9th also gets to me. To move to the other end of the spectrum.

Although, I'm also a sucker for the Star Spangled Banner, particularly at the Olympics. More the instrumental versions, because too many singers ham it up which seems to rob it of its poignancy.

The end of Casablanca always gets to me too. I've seen it dozens of times, but the airport scene always gets me. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance had a couple of tear jerker scenes. So did the Great Escape. Basically they all had scenes where the hero did what he thought was right even though it happened at a great personal/emotional cost.

The ending of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I still can't hear We Have All the Time in The World without remembering that scene.

Since this is a writing site, I should include a book: The Count of Monte Cristo. The ending especially gets to me. And of course, the ending of Bridge to Terabithia, not just the really sad part, but also where he makes the bridge.

 

[ChilledVodkaIV]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Tressel

 

[impressive]

Pachelbel's Canon in D. Gets me every damned time. It's so sad and hopeful at the same time.

 

[keeblercrumb]

Pachelbel's Canon in D. Gets me every damned time. It's so sad and hopeful at the same time.

"Old Yeller"

-KC

 

[keeblercrumb]

"Old Yeller"

-KC

And it pisses me off.

-KC

 

[S-Des]

I don't cry, but the video of Eric Clapton doing Tears In Heaven solo or Bob Carlisle doing Butterfly Kisses is about as close as I get.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Seeing anything in a cage makes me cry.

The last scene of Mulholland Dr. makes me cry.

When Judy Garland sings "Somewhere over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz, I cry.

 

[SpicyPepper]

Books:
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Movies:
The Neverending Story (only the first one) when Artax dies in the swamps of sadness...
Disco Pigs
Titanic (I'm so lame..)

I've cried at so many movies, but I think these one's were more powerful cries...

 

[only_more_so]

"Old Yeller"

-KC

I've never actually seen that one, or read it. But I've always heard it provokes strong reaction.

For some reason I just remembered the scene in As Good as it Gets when Jack Nicholson's character is playing sad music on his piano when his neighbor comes back from the hospital and takes back his dog. He starts laughing (and crying) "Over a stupid dog."

 

[starrkers]

"Tears in Heaven" gets me.

Also "Russians" by Sting - the maniacs at the wheel went so damned close.

 

[shereads]

I cry over:

Brahms 3rd Symphony

The news

Hurt and/or neglected animals, infants and elderly people

Missing my dog

Remembering my dad

My mother's tears

Pavorotti's Nessun Dorma

The way the world seems empty at 3 a.m.

Leaving the Decaying Jungle Compound

Moments of excruciating joy

Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street

Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey
Nowhere in the suburbs
In the cold light of day
There in the midst of it so alive and alone
Words support like bone

Dreaming of mercy street
Wear your inside out
Dreaming of mercy
In your daddy's arms again

http://www.jango.com/play/Peter+Gabriel/Mercy+Street

 

[JagFarlane]

The scene in The Patriot when Mel Gibsons character is about to leave his kids again to go fight...and the daughter that wouldn't talk to him comes running up, crying, begging him not to go

 

[slyc_willie]

I've always been a passionate/emotional guy, so it's no wonder that quite a few things have made me cry now and then as I've watched/heard/read them.

Bette Midler's version of The Rose. Always gets me, always will. I could be playing poker, smokin' stogies, and trading fart jokes with 'the boys,' but if that song came on, I'd turn to blubbering jelly.

The scene in 'Cousins,' when Ted Danson asks Isabella Rossellini to dance, she politely refuses, and then he says, "Well, then how about spending the rest of your lfie with me?" Damn, I love that movie. The love theme from the movie also touches a sappy, romantic nerve in me, too.

Recently, there have been a couple of newer songs that pull my heart strings. 'One Thing' by Finger Eleven. There's something about that song, not just the words, but the way the lead singer puts just enough pain into the words to really hammer the point home. But it's a good cry that I get from that one. Another song is, I think, Chasing Cars (according to Google). It comes on the radio here once in a while, always when my love and I are together. I like the way we just stare at each other and mouth the words.

 

[shereads]

"Old Yeller"

-KC

Oh yes. And The Yearling, book and film.

Shereads' Law of Dead Literary Pets: If a book or film is referred to as a "coming of age" story, and if the cover art/promotional art features a lovable animal, that animal will get a bullet. Guaranteed. (See: Steinbeck's The Red Pony.)

 

[neonlyte]

Oh yes. And The Yearling, book and film.

Shereads' Law of Dead Literary Pets: If a book or film is referred to as a "coming of age" story, and if the cover art/promotional art features a lovable animal, that animal is will get a bullet. Guaranteed. (See: Steinbeck's The Red Pony.)

Is that the condensed edition of Dead Literary Poets?

 

[shereads]

Is that the condensed edition of Dead Literary Poets?

One of my best crying-movies is Dead Poets Society. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

One of my best crying-movies is Dead Poets Society. Thanks for reminding me.

me as well, and i cry at the end of the Last of the Mohicans, Beaches and when i get really really angry i tend to burst into tears as a release.

 

[SpicyPepper]

One of my best crying-movies is Dead Poets Society. Thanks for reminding me.

I can't believe I forgot that one! Man, I was an absolute reck at the end of THAT one!

 

[rgraham666]

This one makes me weepy. Song of Bernadette.

 

[only_more_so]

One of my best crying-movies is Dead Poets Society. Thanks for reminding me.

Yeah, that was a doozy.

I was just flipping through the channels and caught the end of The Professional a.k.a. Leon. Where he sends her away, and then almost makes it out...

 

[Emperor_Nero]

Several things on the list can get me started ... especially the end of Casablanca.

But to add to the list -- Brian's Song always seems to set me off

 

[shereads]

I can't believe I forgot that one! Man, I was an absolute reck at the end of THAT one!

Oh, captain my captain.

 

[shereads]

Several things on the list can get me started ... especially the end of Casablanca.

But to add to the list -- Brian's Song always seems to set me off

Researchers studying tears used to use "Brian's Song" when they needed to make grown men weep.

 

[shereads]

This line from the movie Babe

"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

 

[S-Des]

"Tears in Heaven" gets me.

It's not just the sad song, but it's realizing that every time he sings it, he's saying goodbye to his son. That is just painfully poignant.

For movies, I'd say Return To Me is about the saddest I've seen (yet very romantic in a quirky way). What a beautiful way to look at life.....