Crying when you watch movies

[Marsipanne]

I've recently started a habit--crying when I watch movies. In the old days, I never cried when I watch movies. I was all macho 'I'm not going to weep like a girl (although I am one)' and didn't let a single tear fall. However, recently I've been weeping my way through a whole glut of movies/books. Hell, I cried when I was watching 13 going on 30 yesterday (when she goes home to her parents)!!! How bad can it get?! There are some movies everybody cries in, but there are some movies nobody is meant to cry in, and then I do. It's the same with reading books now. Get to emotional bit (be it happy, sad, depressing etc.), I start to weep.

I cry at bits which a) have some sort of relation to me or b) have something to do with loss of life/waste of life. I watched Dead Poets Society the other day and I was crying very badly when Neil Perry shot himself (oops, probably spoiled it for those who haven't seen it now.. sorry). I was reading the Crystal Singer stories yesterday and I got to the bit when it was revealed the Rimbol had died. Guh, that book is depressing, especially 'crystal line', when she starts forgetting everything and everybody. I mean, how could she forget so much about Lanzecki??? This is Lanzecki!!!!

Maybe I'm just on a strange emotional high at the moment. I know it isn't because of menstruation or anything, because at the moment it's the time when there's nothing going on (oestrogen is being released, but that's it--I follow the details of my menstrual cycle with great detail).

 

[shereads]

I watched Dead Poets Society the other day and I was crying very badly when Neil Perry shot himself

Neil Perry usually elicits a sniffle or two, but I never break down completely until the climactic scene. ("Oh captain, my captain.") In fact, I might cry now, just thinking about it. It's the bagpipes, combined with the noble gesture. Bagpipes are the WMD of emotional manipulation.

It's easier to cry over things I'm a bit detached from, like entertainment or the news, than to cry over personal things. Transference, I think the pop psychs call it. Maybe you're doing that too. It's harmless, isn't it? And don't you always feel better afterward?

I cry over movies and news stories about animals and abused children. I cry during a rare episode of ER or West Wing (the good West Wing, before the network suits got rid of the genius headwriter; especially Christmas episodes with homeless veterans' funerals. Duh.) I cry over the death of a familiar character, like Bald Guy in ER and Jimmy Smits in NYPD Blue.

Dead Poets Society is always good for an all-out sob-fest.

But if you really want to vent, watch American Beauty. Sometimes I watch the last seven minutes just to have a therapeautic cry.

Poor Neil Perry. Poor Lester Burnham.



Poor Jimmy Smits.



Poor Bald Guy from ER.

 

[Guest]

American Beauty is a wonderful film. It's one of those rarities that makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you happy, makes you sad and at some points, makes you feel downright angry. It's one of the few that I can, and do, watch over and over again.

I'm not a one for weepy films and rarely cry when watching films, but the one that *really* made me bawl, and I mean properly cry tears of extreme sadness, not merely weep, was Gorillas in the Mist. I've seen it once, right the way through, and I've never been able to bring myself to watch it again. There is one scene in that film (and if you've seen it, you know the one I mean), that shocked me and has remained imprinted on my mind ever since. The fact it's based on a true story had a lot to do with the effect it had on me.

Lou

 

[shereads]

American Beauty is a wonderful film. It's one of those rarities that makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you happy, makes you sad and at some points, makes you feel downright angry. It's one of the few that I can, and do, watch over and over again.

I'm not a one for weepy films and rarely cry when watching films, but the one that *really* made me bawl, and I mean properly cry tears of extreme sadness, not merely weep, was Gorillas in the Mist. I've seen it once, right the way through, and I've never been able to bring myself to watch it again. There is one scene in that film (and if you've seen it, you know the one I mean), that shocked me and has remained imprinted on my mind ever since. The fact it's based on a true story had a lot to do with the effect it had on me.

Lou

Yes. Gorillas are right up there with Lester Burnham.

 

[SnoopDog]

Being emotional while movies is something very few people can enjoy. It's just something for people who really LOVE the movies, like me.

It's something rarely found in Germany but often in the US.
US audiences cry, cheer, laugh, are scared, everything.

Though I rarely cry (with the execption of one or two movies) I often get VERY emotional while watching. I completely get lost in the story and feel with the characters.
It's something to be very happy about, believe me because this way movies can touch your heart and give you something that few other media can.

And I always pitty people who make fun of us 'emotional' people who get worked up and caught by films. It really is a gift.

Snoopy's hommage to movies.

 

[shereads]

Being emotional while movies is something very few people can enjoy. It's just something for people who really LOVE the movies, like me.

It's something rarely found in Germany but often in the US.
US audiences cry, cheer, laugh, are scared, everything.

Though I rarely cry (with the execption of one or two movies) I often get VERY emotional while watching. I completely get lost in the story and feel with the characters.
It's something to be very happy about, believe me because this way movies can touch your heart and give you something that few other media can.

And I always pitty people who make fun of us 'emotional' people who get worked up and caught by films. It really is a gift.

Snoopy's hommage to movies.

I cried when Charles Schultz died.

 

[Guest]

I cried when Charles Schultz died.

*snicker*

Sorry, Snoopy, reflex reaction.

Lou

 

[SnoopDog]

*snicker*

Sorry, Snoopy, reflex reaction.

Lou

Oh man, Katie, that cracked me up.

Thnx for that.

Snoopy,

 

[Clare Quilty]

I have always been moved to tears by touching moments in films. In fact, I only cry in real life when a family member dies, but when engrossed in a film, the slightest provocation will have me reaching for a tissue.

An unlikely example is "Deep Impact." When Beiderman decides not to enter the safety of the shelter with his family, and goes back for his girlfriend, I fall to pieces. Later when his girlfriend's father entrusts Beiderman with his infant daughter, knowing that he and his wife are going to die and that Beiderman so loves his elder daughter that he would die for her without a moment's hesitation, I cry like an eight year old girl with a skinned knee.

Another equally unlikely tear-jerker is the movie "Tombstone." When Wyatt Earp tells a dying Doc Holiday, "Thanks for always being there, Doc," I lose it.

The Chinese movies, "Happy Times", "The Road Home" and "Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl" all make me weep.

The French movie, "Ma Vie En Rose" always makes me cry.

Of late the biggest tear-jerker for me has been "Lost In Translation."

While I love "American Beauty," I find it more hopeful than anything else. I've never been close to tears watching this movie.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)" makes me weep at several points in the film, most notably when Lord Oberon makes his "Trip away make no stay, meet me all by light of day..." speech, when Bottom does his "It shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom" speech and When Robin does his "If we shadows have offended..." bit.

 

[Guest]

when i need to cry

and i want to cover it up.. ill watch a few movies that will have me sobbing asap

Terms of Endearment.. a good laugh along with huge crying jag..

Steel Magnolias.. fav part.. is in the cemetary.. Sally Fields.. "Why?!" damn.. it gets me every time.

Dances with Wolves.. (wind in his hair.. damn!) the whole premis of the end of an era.. the end of freedom.. makes me stammer

these are just a few movies that come to mind. ill cry with certain songs.. hell when i was pregnant i would cry at commercials. i will still cry when i read a sad book.. or laugh if its funny.. because to me.. when i read a book, its like watching a movie in my head.

the other day.. god maybe a month or so ago.. i was watching the news and they were showing the civil wars in africa.. the pure unadulterated hate tore at my heart. i dont understand it and it makes me so very sad. when they showed a man being held at the top of a bridge and how he was dropped.. and for what?.. there seemed to be no rhyme or reason.
it slammed home just how horrid the whole affair is. i have since stopped watching .. i just cant.

 

[doormouse]

I can't remember a movie I cried to, but I remember a story on here not too long ago.

It was in the incest section. It had a girl Melanie (can't remember the brother's name), and she died.

The author did it so well, I was a mess. I wish I remembered what it was called!!!

Going by the comments on it, I wasn't the only one that cried.

Anyone know the one I'm talking about?

Evicted?? Something like that.

 

[Carl East]

I'm probably a little too much like you Marsipanne, in that I get quite emotional over movies. In fact I could quite easily list a whole bunch of movies that reduce me to a wimp. lol

However, there is one movie that without fail will always make me cry at the climax and it's called 'Somewhere in Time,' when he sits in that chair facing the window and dies, and then sees his body as he rises up to the ceiling, and then joins his loved one in heaven.

A little bit like the end of Titanic really, in fact they must have copied that ending. The bastards!

Carl

 

[Marsipanne]

Oh captain, my captain.

Weep, definitely. Even Kill Bill Vol.2 made me cry!

 

[CharleyH]

How bad can it get?!

It could be worse. You could cry over long distance commercials, or Kevin Costner films. (sorry Vella - lol)

I, myself, have trouble watching 'City of Angels' and you will never, EVER see me pay to make a public fool of myself by attending a dramatic love story in a theatre. I do that in the privacy of my own home, thank you very much!

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Crying when you watch movies

It could be worse. You could cry over long distance commercials, or Kevin Costner films. (sorry Vella - lol)

I, myself, have trouble watching 'City of Angels' and you will never, EVER see me pay to make a public fool of myself by attending a dramatic love story in a theatre. I do that in the privacy of my own home, thank you very much!

sok charley.. its not him i drool over anyway.. wind in his hair.. i cant remember his name.. ack..

and it was the idea of the movie that moved me anyway. kevin should have stopped there.. seriously.. i agree

 

[Liar]

I blubber on occation.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

There aren't many that can make me cry, but there have been a few.

"Lonesome Dove" when Gus MacRay (Robert Duvall) dies. The diolouge between two lifelong friends gets me every time.

"Dances With Wolves" got me too, but it was mostly when his horse died (I know, I'm pathetic) although the ending got me too.

I also hate to admit it but I cried at the end of "Titanic".

 

[Guest]

There aren't many that can make me cry, but there have been a few.

"Lonesome Dove" when Gus MacRay (Robert Duvall) dies. The diolouge between two lifelong friends gets me every time.

"Dances With Wolves" got me too, but it was mostly when his horse died (I know, I'm pathetic) although the ending got me too.

I also hate to admit it but I cried at the end of "Titanic".

damn i wish i could say that titanic got to me..
but i was just so damn mad when she let go.. that bitch!.. just kidding..
not my fave movie.. but i see where youre coming from.

just a heads up.. i think that when a guy cries its pretty cool.

 

[Guest]

Ok, I'll admit, I also cried towards the end of Titanic, but not when flippin' Leo copped it.

I cried when they showed the scenes of the old couple in the bed as the water rushed in, and the Mum cuddling her two young children. Also, when the one lifeboat went back to the frozen bodies in the water and the camera cut to the woman holding the little baby.

Apart from that, it was the most predictable film I've ever seen. *groan*

Lou

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Ok, I'll admit, I also cried towards the end of Titanic, but not when flippin' Leo copped it.

I cried when they showed the scenes of the old couple in the bed as the water rushed in, and the Mum cuddling her two young children. Also, when the one lifeboat went back to the frozen bodies in the water and the camera cut to the woman holding the little baby.

Apart from that, it was the most predictable film I've ever seen. *groan*

Lou

Those are the scenes that got me too. Especially the old couple for some reason. Something about them lying there together as the as the water came in, patiently waiting for the end. Out of the whole movie that's the one brief scene that really stuck in my mind.

P.S. I didn't cry for flippin' Leo either.

 

[Carl East]

I blubber on occation.

You wimp.

Carl

 

[doormouse]

For Vella:

Dances With Wolves...



Dances with Wolves (1990)
Directed by
Kevin Costner

Writing credits (WGA)
Michael Blake (novel)
Michael Blake (screenplay)



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[doormouse]

Ahhh.... Rodney A. Grant DUH LOL

 

[Guest]

Ahhh.... Rodney A. Grant DUH LOL

mmmMMMMMmm
thanks DM.. (danger mouse*grin*)
now i have the name to go with that incredible bod.. rool:

 

[cloudy]

I watch NYPD like a fiend, and cry fairly often....

When Andy Jr. got killed.

When Bobby Simone died.

When Sylvia died.

Shall I go on?