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Crying?

posted 19 years ago by little-miss-chocolate
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I know this isn't related to 'The Secret Garden', but you seem a friendly bunch on this board, and I hope you don't mind.

I just wanted to know which films people have cried watching. I cry all the time when I'm watching TV (it's when people are dying or permanently leaving that it gets to me), and I was wondering if I was the only one who did. I am now going to try and list the films and TV show that I have cried while watching.

Troy
Henry VIII
Doctor Who (Episode - Father's Day)
Doctor Who (Episode - The Parting of the Ways)
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Gone With the Wind
The Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King

I will probably remember some more, but that's all I can think of right now.

Therapy is expensive, but bubblewrap is free!

[–] Beldarius 18 years ago

I've cried while watching these films:

The Secret Garden (duh)
LOTR
Hidalgo
Dungeons & Dragons (in the end I started crying when they all turned into red flashes of light and set off towards the heavens... I know some of you say it's a bad film, but I just loved the end... Justin Whalin had that emotion so visible on his face)
Black Beauty (especially when Black's beloved was dead on the wagon)
Transformers The Movie (Yeah, I loved that film... I seriously cried when my favorite Autobots died in the shuttle scene, and of course, the bodies of Wheeljack and Windcharger were too much for me, and I cried again... Windy was my favorite Minibot, and Wheeljack was my favorite Autobot)
Oliver Twist (in the end when Dodger gets caught and the police takes him away... I seriously loved that character and that old English slang... and I'm talking about the Disney version with Elijah Wood and Richard Dreyfuss)
Balto (throughout the whole movie! Especially the credits song made me cry... 'Reach for the light and capture a star. Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.' Sigh...)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (when the guy who was voiced by Alec Baldwin gets caught in the damn energy surge! ... that scene was heartbreaking... I would've wanted the girl and him to stay together... I mean, the guy's last words to the girl were 'I love you' and then the energy surge gets him and turns him into an energy spirit)
Most of the episodes of Saint Seiya ...That show is tear-inducing. Who couldn't cry when a young man is crying after he found out his brother wasn't a traitor and that he had sacrificed his life to save a little baby from execution? Or when a young man wounds his own eyes to save his friends from being eternally turned to stone? Or gives half of his own blood away to help his friend? ...Or... well... most of the death-, sacrificing- and crying-scenes made me cry while watching this. I'm so depressed that I have only 52 of the 114 episodes... I hope someone would fansub the rest of the Sanctuary saga, and the Asgard and Poseidon sagas...

If I remember anything else, I'll edit this message.

[–] the_skwejmeister 18 years ago

I cry in so many films...
Here are a *few*:

The Secret Garden (when Colin touches his father's face)
A Little Princess (I cried throughout!)
Whale Rider
Moulin Rouge (The ending)
The Lord of the Rings - in all three. (When Gandalf falls off the cliff, when Aragorn falls off the cliff...Grey Havens...the crowning of Aragorn...basically, throughout!)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (When Bailey dies)
FInding Neverland (At the end)
Rabbit Proof Fence (Throughout)
King Arthur
The Neverending Story
The Lion King
Bambi
Dumbo
The Jungle Book
Chocolat (At the end)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (At the end, the reading of the letter...)
Madeline
...Jeez, that's a lot of films. And I'm sure there are more!
Oh yeah, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
Au Revoir les Enfants
Heidi
The Corpse Bride made me teary!
Big Fish
The Railway Children
Ten Things I Hate About You

I probably cry in just about every film that there is! Yeah, I'm a wimp...but I don't care, it makes good viewing if it can move you like that!

*Slap* Not sure I deserved that...

[–] i_is_ishy 18 years ago

i cry during:

the secret garden

land before time, when littlefoot's mum dies

(don't laugh) scooby doo, when shaggy and scooby are about the be sacraficed and they say that they are best friends. i ALWAYS cry during that. i am tearing now...

[–] rachy666 18 years ago

I always cry at:

Troy
LOTR (all of them)
Secret Garden
A Little Princess
GHOST (iv started to tear at unchained melody!)
Finding Neverland

Cant think of any more i tend to cry at books more anyway i know thats sad but i live them more that movies but generally anything when somebody dies and theres sad music on

"Between the Worlds of Man and Makebelive"

[–] ByronicMadam 18 years ago

The Secret Garden (kind of a given, I guess)
My Girl (doesn’t everyone cry at that?)
The Elephant Man (fantastic movie, but very difficult to watch without a box of tissues)
The Joy Luck Club (I dare you to watch this movie without crying. It’s not humanly possible – even my dad cries at the ending)
The Man without a Face (poignant ending; very bittersweet)
The Land Before Time (yeah, I know…crying at a cartoon. Pathetic. But seriously, this movie deeply traumatised me when I was a kid…I still haven’t recovered)

[–] ianlouisiana 18 years ago

I'm an old man but I cry at the movies,but only since I got old.I go to a concert and hear beautiful music and I cry,but only since Igot old.Before that I was tough.Maybe getting old is good.
I cried at "The secret garden" on tv yesterday afternoon.I felt better.Maybe crying is good.

"Either this man's dead or my watch has stopped".

[–] Goth_Hobbit 18 years ago

I've cried during only two movies, althoguh the circumstances of one are slightly embarrassing. I cried during Titanic when I first saw it (I was 8 and very sensitive). I also saw LotR:RotK 5 times in theatres, and I cried during each one.

1 sugar plum fairy, two sugar plum fairy...

[–] alicat_ie 18 years ago

Oh my goodness, so many to name!

In fact, I'm not even going to try name any of them cause the list would go on forever, i cant help bawling at movies! I hate other people being unhappy!

But, on the topic of The Secret Garden, I just got it for Christmas on dvd and am watching it right now, I havent seen it in years!

Ali xxx

[–] littlelottelethermindwan 18 years ago

A Little Princess
Troy
The Pianist
Big Fish
Phantom of The Opera (the musical, Lon Chaney's version, Burt Lancaster version... pretty much all of them :-p )
Terms of Endearment
Titanic
Hook
Pearl Harbor
Finding Neverland
Songcather
Beaches
Tuck Everlasting
Black Beauty
Harry Potter (Chamber, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet)
My Fair Lady
Roman Holiday

About a million others I can't think of right now... I love when a good movie makes you cry!!

[–] stefkate14 15 years ago

To be honest, The Secret Garden is the only movie that has made me cry lol.

But if I still believe you love me, maybe I'll survive...

[–] bexb1103 18 years ago

Ever since third grade, I've cried at the end of Homeward Bound. I mean, c'mon, Peter thinks Shadow is dead and then Shadow limps up the hill and the music and Peter turns and sees him and runs to him and ahhh.... it kills me every time.
Others include:
The Green Mile (the whole Del part)
RENT (Tom eulogizing Angel)
Forest Gump (When he talks to the grave)
And sadly, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I was so embaressed when I started tearring up at the death and Harry's sobbing over his body. I'm gonna be a mess during the next two HP movies.

[–] TheRedComa 18 years ago

A very interesting subject. I'd like to add a point. I felt my heart drop when, perhaps around the very middle of the movie, when Mary was having a dream about her younger self finding her mother through a garden. The scene does show the mother, beckoning to the young toddler with her arms open wide, but then quickly runs away and leaves her. It then shows the poor thing slowly breaking into the most genuine cry, that helpless sob that only children as young and innocent as the child used for the scene can do. I find it even more sad because the filmmakers probably had no other choice but to do something deliberately to make the child cry. I can't watch things like that. The same thing happens in the movie E.T. with Drew Barrymore (more adorable then than nowadays). I guess children crying does it for me.

[–] crippo1 18 years ago

- Secret Garden
- Titanic
- Deep Impact
- Armageddon
- The Notebook
- Green Mile
- Lion King
- Cruel Intentions
- Moulin Rouge
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Beautiful Mind

[–] coolbluegreen 17 years ago

SPOILER ALERTS FOR ET and Brokeback Mountain. I sob in ET (I can't even write about this scene without choking up) when Elliot's mother grabs him and runs out of the bathroom while he is reaching for ET and ET reaches for him, screaming from the floor. That is devastating, to see ET abandoned and terrified and alone. And then when he dies -- forget it. And then when he is resurrected. I remember watching this with a boyfriend when I was about 12 or 13 and both of us trying not to cry in front of the other. I cry at the end of Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet and at the end of Titanic and I cried so hard at the end of Brokeback Mountain that I had to hide in the back of the theater and wait for people to leave. I also cry at the scene when Jack and Ennis kiss after not seeing each other for years and Ennis's wife witnesses that -- people laugh at that scene and I never know why. Oh, and Parenthood. God, I used to cry cathartic tears at the end of that movie, the same cathartic tears of joy that Mary Steenburgen's character Karen cries.

[–] Iconoclast321 (375) 3 years ago

It could have been something as simple as having the mother put the child down and walk away for a moment.

[–] whitehawk417 18 years ago

I cried during the trailer, "Eight Below", before the watching of another movie. This movie won't even be out until Feb. 17, 2006. Crazy, huh!!! Yah, I'm not a crier! (as my best friend would say). :)

"My life is better than the movies" ......

[–] darlingdaisydear 18 years ago

Most of the movies I've cried at are already listed, but I'm surprised no one has said My Girl yet. I cry every time I watch it, when Vada starts crying & asks where Thomas's glasses are, saying that he can't see without them. Now that's a tearjerker.

[–] The_Lady_Yuki 18 years ago

It's kind of strange...but I will only cry at movies if other people in the audience are crying. I was disturbed by the boat-sinking sequence in Titanic, but it wasn't really enough to make me cry until Jack died (and I knew he was going to die beforehand, so I wasn't crying out of shock.) Same thing with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I'd read the book long before then, but I still came close to crying when Cedric died because my mom was right next to me crying.

The only exception to this (and I'm suprised no one has said this) is Simon Birch. I wasn't too impressed with most of the movie, but man oh man at the end did I cry. I mean here's this kid just saved all his classmates from a frozen watery grave and he's in the hospital and he's so small and his best friend is begging for him not to die and ...just...*sniffle*

On a side note, if you all want to see a movie that will probably have you crying yourselves to sleep, I'd recommend Grave Of The Fireflies, (Hotaru no Haka) It's an anime about two kids trying to survive during World War 2 in Japan. I haven't seen it myself, but I hear it's a massive tear-jerker.

If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on my cat

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