Crying at movies

[wring]

There's a couple of threads currently about crying at movies or tv shows and the like. On a rare occasion, I've choked up during one, usually 'cause something personal is going on right then (the military style funeral in Backdraft choked me up 'cause a good friend had recently committed suicide and had a military style funeral). But usually - I don't. And I don't like it when I do. I have friends who loves them a good tear jerker. I don't. Genetic freak that I am, how about you?

[severe delays]

Hmmm. I see no option for me. I like crying at films but I won't do it in public if I can help it. The only thing that's got me crying in public was a live performance of Blood Brothers. At home I do like a good cry over a film although sometimes it gets in the way of what's going on so I have to get it done with and then go back.

[Tamsen]

I don't care if I cry or not (and I'm female). I usually perfer not to cry in a movie theater. I don't care either way at home, although the spouse teases me about it. If a movie touches me enough to elicit that level of a reaction it usually means I liked the movie. It also means I'm prone to watching it (and crying) again.

[wring]

By "crying at movies", I meant more of "crying because of a movie" vs. "Being at the movie theater and crying".

[severe delays]

Heh, in the end I went with the meh option. Although it's nicely cathartic to cry at a film I wouldn't watch a film specifically because it was a weepy.

[threnody]

I like it when something appeals to my emotion enough for me to have a reaction in movies. Having said that I *do not* particularly like girly weepy movies. I am also quite emotional in real life, a song or a even simply a well phrased sentence can sometimes slay me.

[Jaglavak]

I may be just like Threnny.
But I wouldn't know.
I don't go to those kind of movies.

[maplekiwi]

I'm a weeper! As a child I wasn't allowed to watch Lassie because I got so upset!

[threnody]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

I may be just like Threnny.
But I wouldn't know.
I don't go to those kind of movies.

I KNEW YOU WERE MY TWIN!

[Anacanapuna]

I'm probably emotionally unbalanced, but I cry at a really good AT&T commercial. "Dancing With The Stars?" Oh, hell yeah, I shed a tear when Donny Osmond won! I blubbered like a bride's mother at the end of "Gran Torino," and you don't even want to be around when my wife pulls out "Sleepless In Seattle." I cry just thinking about the end of that movie.

[Khampelf]

I've been known lately to choke up at emotional scenes in movies, but I try not to.

[GoSmoke]

I'm an emotional basket case 24 hours a day. I cry over Kodak commercials.

I have cried during many movies.......Titanic had me practically sobbing out loud(and it still makes me cry, even though I have seen it hundreds of times), An Affair to Remember, Brian's Song...there are too many to list. Give me a movie where the dog dies and I am a sobbing wreck.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by threnody

I KNEW YOU WERE MY TWIN!

Busted!

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by GoSmoke

......Titanic had me practically sobbing out loud....

Well OK, yeah.
It wasn't easy watching that classic old steam liner slip down to her grave.

[AuntiePam]

Originally Posted by GoSmoke

I'm an emotional basket case 24 hours a day. I cry over Kodak commercials.

Me too! And Hallmark commercials, and I'll tear up at any ad showing a soldier hugging a kid, or walking through an airport, or doing just about anything.

I'm fine with crying in the theater -- I'm usually not the only one. The Color Purple, Schindler's List, E.T. -- all the standard tearjerkers -- and movies with dogs, even if the dog survives.

[Anacanapuna]

Originally Posted by GoSmoke

I'm an emotional basket case 24 hours a day. I cry over Kodak commercials.

I have cried during many movies.......Titanic had me practically sobbing out loud(and it still makes me cry, even though I have seen it hundreds of times), An Affair to Remember, Brian's Song...there are too many to list. Give me a movie where the dog dies and I am a sobbing wreck.

Y'know "Caddyshack?" That scene where Bill Murray tees off on the flowers? I cried for the flowers!

[GoSmoke]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Well OK, yeah.
It wasn't easy watching that classic old steam liner slip down to her grave.

I am ashamed to admit I cried because of the schmucky love story. God I hate it when Leonardo Di Caprio dies in a movie.

[Carolia]

One of my mom's favorite stories is how when I was little, I cried watching Rudolph because I was so upset about all of the other reindeer not letting poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games. I insisted that it just wasn't right, and I felt so bad for him because he was obviously so sad--they were mean old reindeer.

I'm only kind of better as an adult, but not much.

[IronHorse]

Love it, but only if I'm crying because it's sweet. If it's sad, and I actually cry, that means I was not expecting a sad movie, and, thus, I am disappointed.

Crying when I am sad usually only makes me feel worse.

[Monstera deliciosa]

I tend to avoid anything that is known or rumored to be a tearjerker, because frankly, I don't want to have my emotions manipulated like that. So I picked "female and hate it."

However, I don't mind finding a scene or a story unexpectedly moving, especially, when as IronHorse says, it is sweet or touching rather than sad.

[WormTheRed]

Don't hate it, but I've just never done it. Then again, I very rarely cry at all so that may have to do with it.

[cowgirl]

I cry all the time at movies, sitcoms, music ("Hallelujah"* by Leonard Cohen always gets me), commercials, etc, regardless of whether they actually make me feel sad or not. I even choke up when relating lyrics of songs that make me cry.

I have been known to cry when watching the news (e.g. natural disasters, war crimes) and certain newsmakers (e.g. Romeo Dallaire) who speak passionately about certain topics, but that doesn't bother me. If there's anything on TV worth crying about it's certainly that kind of stuff. I don't mind crying if I am actually feeling sad but why the fuck does hearing another insipid cover of Hallelujah at the end of a sitcom episode make me cry? That pisses me off because there's nothing I can do about it and I feel like I'm being emotionally manipulated by Hollywood producers.

* I think Leonard Cohen once asked people to stop covering that song, for the love of all that is holy, before it becomes unforgivably overplayed.**

** He should have made an exception for k.d. lang, whose performance of it at the olympics made me cry very happily. Nobody else needs to cover it now, thanks. She nailed it.

[Mako]

I hate it, but I do it.

I'm really not sure why. Sometimes a movie will touch a sore point and off I go. Like WormTheRed I don't cry often but when I do it's usually because of a film and they're usually really stupid ones.

[RedFury]

I neither love it or hate it; just something that happens. Often I might add.

[Illuminati Primus]

Ironically I cry more at movies and TV than I do for myself (yeah, working that through with my therapist...).

I think I'm in the same boat as others here, I like to be moved by something and if the emotion that is evoked is sadness then that's just as valid as laughter or excitement. One of the things I used to like about Six Feet Under so much was that it made you connect with the characters so much that you were really emotionally involved in their lives, and I frequently went from laughter to tears in the space of one episode. They were good tears though.

[Fromage A Trois]

I hate crying at movies. That doesn't mean that I don't, though - I just get annoyed at myself for doing so. MAN UP!!!

Most recently, I think it was the end of Milk that made me cry.

[Dazzling White Diamonds]

Like many others here, I hate crying at movies... but I do it during scenes that provoke an emotional response from me.

Hell, I teared up over the opening scene in Gladiator - it was so well done (IMO) that I couldn't stop the tears from springing into my eyes.

[wring]

See, I get pissed at the movie maker for fucking w/my emotions.

[Dread Pirate Jimbo]

I cried when Spock died in "Wrath of Khan." I also cried when George Kirk dies at the start of the new "Star Trek" movie. I have maintained for some time now that any man who can sit through "Brian's Song" without shedding a tear is a cold-hearted bastard.

As a general rule I don't appreciate being emotionally manipulated by movies and TV, but it does work sometimes.

[Salambo]

I don't like being manipulated into it. Touching or sweet, as mentioned above, fine, but it has to be a (at least reasonably) genuine moment.

I was MAD at the movie Up from the very beginning.

Major spoilers for Up:

As soon as they showed the spunky wife not being able to conceive - THIS during a time when my husband and I were trying to conceive (though at the time I watched it, I was probably already pregnant - so all the worse for me with the hormones going crazy) and here the husband is a quiet, gentle man who just loves her to pieces - they showed her sitting in that chair, letting the wind blow through her hair, and I sprang off of the sofa with tears in my eyes and started yelling at the TV - "HOW DARE YOU! SHE'S GOING TO DIE WITH NO CHILDREN AND HER DREAMS UNFULFILLED AND THE MAN IS GOING TO GET OLD AND GRUMPY AND HOW DARE YOU!" and I knew I wouldn't be able to watch the rest of the movie without tearing up. I was mad the whole way through it. Mad and crying. They'd show her picture and that old man's determination and I'd start all over again. I didn't like that movie AT ALL.

[GoSmoke]

I have a movie for all of you who are like me and cry at the drop of a hat.....Precious. I bawled my eyes out.