Do you cry at movies? Which ones have you cried at?

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

Answers

Armageddon. Gets me every time.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I cried at the end of Chasing Amy the first time I saw it... the last line just got to me. It's a great movie, folks; check it out.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

i admit it, i cried at titanic. buckets. i was a mess.

i'm really not much of a crier, though. mostly i just get vaguely sick-feeling and damp-eyed. (see lilies, dancer in the dark, etc.)

though for sheer emotional wreckage, i'd have to say that requiem for a dream wins for making me want to curl into a little ball and scream for my mommy afterward.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

i cry all the time during movies, it gets embarassing.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

God yeah, I'm really.. something. Sensitive? Wussy? Something. I've cried over hallmark commercials before, I'm that bad. Philadelphia had me blubbering all over myself. I'm getting all sad just thinking about that movie. Schindler's List is another one that makes me cry every time. And Platoon. And The Land Before Time [the first one].. and so many more.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I cried at the same part in the Lion King that you did. Who says cartoons can't be sad? I'm a crier. I've cried at so many movies, I've lost count.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

The Lion King (same part), Armageddon, Philadelphia, Stepmom, and....hmm. That's all I remember.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I cry all the time at movies! Some I remember are Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Beauty, Life is Beautiful, AfterLife, Hilary and Jackie (My mother and I sat there sobbing in the theatre) Saving Private Ryan, My Son the Fanatic, and about a million others. What I like is going to movies with guy friends who are willing to cry. Nothing cheers you up faster than seeing someone else cry! *L* Oh, American Beauty had me crying buckets too!
My sister and I started to cry during Titanic, but in one scene someone fell off the bow of the boat, and hit the propeller, and I guess we were in just a state of emotional overload, and we started laughing our heads off.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

Ah, I cried at The Land Before Time, too. The first one, not the seventeenth, or whatever they're up to now.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I totally cried at that too Katie :)

I cry at everything. I cry watching Dateline for god's sakes. I remember crying at American Tale. You know, with that little Feivel mouse guy. Cause he lost his family and all. Anyways, I always cry at romantic comedies.. While you were sleeping, Love affair, You've got mail... etc etc. I am such a sap.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

Depends on who I'm watching the movie with. If I'm with someone who's crying like a bastard then I can hold it in.. but if I'm by myself I cry like a baby. Really.. have you ever watched those reunion shows, or that Baby Story show on Lifetime... god... the kid pops out and I'm weeping.. happy tears of course. Shit.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I cry like a bastard at episodes of Pokémon and Digimon, and especially in the Pokémon movie when Ash died. Wah! hehe. When I was little, it was All Dogs Go To Heaven that did me in. My mom made fun of me for crying and I didn't cry at a movie or show ever again until about last year. hehe.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

Oh god, and My Girl! The first one. The funeral scene makes me sob uncontrollably.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I challenge anyone who says they don't cry at movies to rent or see the following:

Life Is Beautiful The Shawshank Redemption My Life Quills

These four stand out to me as the ones that made me completely lose my mind after having seen them. I also cry all the time at movies, even disney, even romantic comedies. But those four, I just don't know how anyone could see them and not freak out.

Incidentally, one that I can watch 17 times in a row and cry every single time is "It's A Wonderful Life." I know some people are desenstized by happy endings and think it's silly to cry at them, but I just can't help myself. When Harry says the line, "To my big brother George..." I just lose it. God I love that movie. Best. Movie. Ever.

-- Anonymous, February 10, 2001

Oh yeah! Life is Beautiful! And Schindler's List.

-- Anonymous, February 10, 2001

i didn't cry during quills...i was just severely disturbed. i got all misty eyed when they took out his you-know-what (trying not to completely spoil it). the two i remember crying the most over are the thin red line (i actually didn't cry during saving private ryan, i just couldn't talk for the next two hours after having seen it) and american beauty.

if it makes anyone feel better, when i was a kid, my mom had to stop the movie batteries not included because i was bawling so hard i couldn't breathe. i didn't even get to watch the end of it- just up to the point when the black man fixed the baby robotthing.

-- Anonymous, February 10, 2001

I forced a tear out at Titanic because I thought it'd make me look really senstive and thus, lead to bonzo sex.

Can't remember how successful it was, so I'm guessing it probably wasn't.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

Um, Philadelphia, the song, was written and sung by Bruce Springstein. Neil Young? What the fuck?

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

Alright. Well, I take that back. Neil Young also came out with a song entitled Philadelphia. My bad or something.

It's actually not bad, either.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

Carrie made me cry. It's that scene where she gets up to accept her Prom Queen title, and she looks all beautiful, they play that beautiful music, but you just know that it's all a sham, and she's going to end up covered in pig's blood. That was just wrong. Wrong and sad. Everyone else gets scared during that part ("oh, this is when she goes crazy"), but I wasn't scared at all. I cried and then felt better when she killed them all.

All of thre above. Seriously. Plus Babe. I was a sorry sight after seeing that. Also Milo And Otis, not so much because anything particularly sad happens, but just the thought of the kitten and the puppy not making it home gets to me. Every freakin time I watch it, this thought terrifies me.

TV, I'm just as bad: China Beach, The Wonder Years, Twin Peaks, Friends, even The Simpsons. I'mjust a wuss.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

I'm really not a big crier, and when I do cry it tends to be about things that affect me personally, not films and stuff. I didn't cry at 'Titanic'. Seriously. I gasped a bit, but that was all. The films I have cried at are: 'The Lion King'. Yeah. You can't not. 'City of Angels'. Same. The ending. Argh. 'Philadelphia'. Ditto to what everyone else said. 'Meet Joe Black'. I didn't want to, but I couldn't help it. Anthony Hopkins is goddamn brilliant in that film.

That's it. Yeah, I didn't cry at 'Life is Beautiful' either. Go figure.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

Well, I never used to cry at films when I was younger. The first one was probably Titanic but it was the bit when the old Rose was talking about "all I have left now are my memories," or something like that. I didn't cry at the sappy love plot. Forrest Gump - the bit when he has those braces on his legs and those bullies start chasing after him and he starts running and his legs got stronger or whatever? THAT got me. Saving Private Ryan - all of it. The bit with Giovanni Ribsi I think. oh, the first ever film I cried at was DEFINITELY Awakenings. I love that film. I cried at the stage production of the Lion King but not the disney cartoon. I cry at several XFiles episodes.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

No, never. I felt misty eyed during "Forest Gump" and "Life Is Beautiful" but no moisture emerged.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

Ahh!! I also cried at Saving Private Ryan... I just didn't remember until somebody else mentioned it. The same part. Ack, that nearly killed me.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001

Eric,

Did it work? Probably.

-- Anonymous, February 12, 2001

I don't cry at many movies but there have been a few: Sommersby, Somewhere in Time, Somekind of Wonderful, and the one that has made me cry every time I see it (which is weird cause to make me cry it usually has to catch me off guard) My Life. Bet you thought it was going to start with "som".

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

ooh... 'shawshank redemption'. 'armageddon'.

what about 'white squall'? anyone else seen that? disturbing movie, i tell you.

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

E.T. was the only movie I ever cried at. Oh yeah, and Benji. Alright, alright Life is Beautiful got me and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a little misty for me at the end. I almost cried for Wilson in Castaway. But then I thought... he's a ______ (don't want to give it away for those that haven't seen it.)

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

what makes a family...that cable movie with brooke shields. oh god, tears, tears, tears.

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

I pretty much never cry at movies, and when I have, it's not been because they were intended to provoke a tear-reaction (I don't cry during the scenes I'm supposed to, basically.) And I wouldn't cry if I was watching something in the movie theatre, not on purpose because I don't want to look wussy, I just wouldn't feel comfortable crying unless it was in my own home...alone. American Beauty is the only move I can think of that made me cry.

My dad cries at movies all the time though. ALL THE TIME. Heh.

-- Anonymous, February 17, 2001

Oh God I am such a sap. I cry at EVERYTHING ask anybody. Hell, I still cry at Romeo and Juliet and I have been reading that thing since I was 8.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Benji!! I used to love that movie...animal movies make me cry. Milo and Otis, The Incredible Journey, Old Yeller...*sniff*. Also, Titanic, Sense and Sensibility, and Philadelphia.

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001

Steel Magnolias, The Green Mile, Joy Luck Club, Boys on the Side

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2001

E.T. made me cry....

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001