Crying when you watch movies

[ABSTRUSE]

I made the mistake of watching "For the Boys" this weekend.

Yes, I actually wept.

 

[shereads]

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!

I cry when I learn that Kevin Kostner is making another movie. Can't someone stop him? (Okay, I loved Dances w/Wolves and Field of Dreams.)

With apologies to C Q, I cried during Deep Impact but only when I realized some of the cast would survive.

For torrential boo-hoos, "Out of Africa" is unstoppable. I have personally ended droughts by watching Out of Africa.

 

[Guest]

I cry at the ballet, the symphony and opera, but not at movies. I can be moved emotionally by a film but not enough to cry. I also rarely laugh outloud during a film, no matter how funny I find it.

However, truly great Beauty moves me more than anything to tears. The most profound instances are when I do not know I am weeping until I become conscious of the tears falling off my face. A scene or just a shot in a great film can do that, but it's the beauty, not the sentimentality that is the cause.

Perdita

 

[shereads]

When Bobby Simone died.

Stop that.

The Jimmy Smits/Bobby death and the Bald-Guy-on-ER death are tied for heart-breaking TV character deaths. (Bald Guy's embittered teenaged daughter had told him that she didn't remember him singing her to sleep with "Over the Rainbow" when she was a little girl, or have any good memories of him. When he lost consciousness, she gave him her headset with an upbeat cover of the song. He was listening to it when he died.)

Anyone have a Kleenex?

 

[Guest]

Sher, I'm so relieved. I thought you meant the ER short misogynist bald guy everyone hated.

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Sher, I'm so relieved. I thought you meant the ER short misogynist bald guy everyone hated.

Perdita

I cried over him too. The helicopter irony was too much.

 

[Marsipanne]

What's really bad is when you watch a movie and you know there are meant to be tearjerking scenes but you feel like laughing instead. That's what happened today when I watched Van Helsing.

 

[The Mutt]

I cried over him too. The helicopter irony was too much.

I thought they should have given him a better 'death scream', something like, "That's not fair!" or "Oh fuck me!" or perhaps just a whispered, "perfect."

"Lissen up, ya wimps. Der's only one movie it's okay fer guys to cry at. When Jim Brown dies in Dirty Dozen. I was friggin bawlin."

 

[cloudy]

Stop that.

The Jimmy Smits/Bobby death and the Bald-Guy-on-ER death are tied for heart-breaking TV character deaths. (Bald Guy's embittered teenaged daughter had told him that she didn't remember him singing her to sleep with "Over the Rainbow" when she was a little girl, or have any good memories of him. When he lost consciousness, she gave him her headset with an upbeat cover of the song. He was listening to it when he died.)

Anyone have a Kleenex?

Shit! I'll just about start crying just thinking about it.....

 

[matriarch]

Perdy, I agree. Opera can leave me a limp, wet rag, symphonies can tear my heart out through my mouth. (I think I've covered this effect enough in my music threads).

Many, many films can deprive me of speech for some moments, due to the strange lump that appears in my throat. I think in the last years, the one that truly left me speechless and with tears trickling down my cheeks was 'Boys on the Side'.

Final moments from the film.

Mat

 

[Clare Quilty]

"Lissen up, ya wimps. Der's only one movie it's okay fer guys to cry at. When Jim Brown dies in Dirty Dozen. I was friggin bawlin."

I am inclined to doubt the veracity of that statement. The quinessential movie at which supposedly macho men are given leave to cry, is Brian's Song.

Fortunately, at just a hair under 2.0 meters tall, I've never felt obligated to abide by this oppressive rule. In keeping with the theme of ancient football players, I invoke the Rosie Greer/ Alex Karas "It's Alright (for guys over 6' 4" and 200 pounds) to Cry" rule.

My unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality notwithstanding, I am inexorably driven to tears by gay themed films such as...

• Torch Song Trilogy
• The Crying Game
• Camp
• Ma Vie En Rose
• Six Degrees of Separation
• Philadelphia
• As Good As It Gets
• Boys Don't Cry

Don't even get me started on the subject of how queer I am for the Broadway musical, RENT. The soundtrack even makes me tear-up.

 

[Guest]

Quilty, do you also do needlepoint?

Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I cry when they cancel proper TV-programs to show idiotic sport programs.

 

[Guest]

There are times when I wish I could still cry. But, I cried myself out years ago. Now I have two tears left. They keep my eyes moist. If I should ever shed them, my eyes would dry up and I would go blind.

 

[SnoopDog]

There are times when I wish I could still cry. But, I cried myself out years ago. Now I have two tears left. They keep my eyes moist. If I should ever shed them, my eyes would dry up and I would go blind.

I'm sorry to hear that you've shed a lot of tears in the past but I want to say, what you just wrote was absolutely brilliant.

Snoopy

 

[SnoopDog]

I made up my mind and those are some of the movies I remeber crying while watching:

- American Beauty
- Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King (yeah, ok, I'm a nerd)
- Love Actually
- Signs (I know, sounds weird, but at the end all the music, and Mel Gibson's despair)

and most of all

- Rain Man (the way Raymond cared about his brother in the end)

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry to hear that you've shed a lot of tears in the past but I want to say, what you just wrote was absolutely brilliant.

Snoopy

I'd love to be able to take full credit, but it's actually paraphrased from one of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. But when I read it many years ago I identified with the statement very strongly.

I have often said, "Men have a limited number of tears, so they are stored in his heart, safe and protected from depletion from most things. So, a man cries only when he loses something dear to him. When his tears are gone, his heart dries up and he is no more."

 

[SnoopDog]

I'd love to be able to take full credit, but it's actually paraphrased from one of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. But when I read it many years ago I identified with the statement very strongly.

I have often said, "Men have a limited number of tears, so they are stored in his heart, safe and protected from depletion from most things. So, a man cries only when he loses something dear to him. When his tears are gone, his heart dries up and he is no more."

Either way, it was great and touched me. I'll have to remember it.
Thnx.

Snoopy

 

[rgraham666]

Only two movies have ever moved me to tears.

The first All Quiet on The Western Front and The Mission.

I haven't watched either since the first time, too heartwrenching. I'm not sure I could handle another dose.

 

[SnoopDog]

Only two movies have ever moved me to tears.

The first All Quiet on The Western Front and The Mission.

I haven't watched either since the first time, too heartwrenching. I'm not sure I could handle another dose.

Never heard of The Mission', what's it about ?

Snoopy

 

[rgraham666]

The Mission is about a Jesuit mission in Brazil in the 18th century.

It stars Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. And the soundtrack by Morricone is one of the most beautiful I've ever heard.

If a person is not crying at the end of it, they're probably a psychopath.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

The Mission is about a Jesuit mission in Brazil in the 18th century.

It stars Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. And the soundtrack by Morricone is one of the most beautiful I've ever heard.

If a person is not crying at the end of it, they're probably a psychopath.

I loved that movie, it was brilliant. Did you ever see "At Play in the Fields of our Lord"?

I like "Heaven and Earth's" soundtrack, but my favorite is the one from The Last Emporer.

 

[SnoopDog]

The Mission is about a Jesuit mission in Brazil in the 18th century.

It stars Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. And the soundtrack by Morricone is one of the most beautiful I've ever heard.

If a person is not crying at the end of it, they're probably a psychopath.

ARE YOU KIDDING ???? DeNiro, Irons and MORRICONE ??? I gotta watch this !!!!!! Thnx for the info.

Snoopy

 

[Clare Quilty]

I'd love to be able to take full credit, but it's actually paraphrased from one of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. But when I read it many years ago I identified with the statement very strongly.

I have often said, "Men have a limited number of tears, so they are stored in his heart, safe and protected from depletion from most things. So, a man cries only when he loses something dear to him. When his tears are gone, his heart dries up and he is no more."

I read most of those novels when I was a kid. However, the series just kept dragging on and on and I abandoned it after "Ogre, Ogre."

 

[Belegon]

As a member of the "I wear my heart on my sleeve and if you don't like it I'll beat the fuck out of you" version of the macho shithead, I allow myself to cry at certain times.

I personally do classify movies as one of those times. Mostly it is family/love relationship triggers that do it. First one that came to mind was the end of "Field of Dreams".

"Hey Dad...You wanna have a catch?"

Moments of triumph after tribulation often get me easier.