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Does this movie make any grown men cry?


I haven't seen this film, but I heard that in the end, the whole audience was in tears! Is it really that sad?

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There's really no way for someone to actually answer your question since ever movie goer will be different.

I'm a female and I guess one can consider I am fully grown and it didn't make me cry at the end of the movie. I did get teary-eyed during a few parts of the movie--but no, the ending did not make me cry.

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RIP Daisy

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I have to agree that it depends on the person e.g. I was laughing and almost choked during a few parts of the movie.

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...And I've got to agree with you there. My friend and I found quite a few scenes funny, and apparently so did the other people in the movies.

Right off the top of my head, when he stuck the sign on the cooler door. I forget what it said exactly, something along the lines of: Keep your damn food and drinks out of my fridge." Dunno, but that just struck me as funny.

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RIP Daisy

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Yes!! It was "Keep your damn food and drink out of my refridgerator". Funny, but it happens quite often.

I was mostly laughing at Stonehills behavior, statements and character development. Also, I find the scene at the beginning where they forgot to buy a backup generator, quite funny. Something similar happened to one of my ex-supervisors and he ran with his stuff on ice in a sealed foam box to a different lab at the end of the street during summer. ;)

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I found that scene funny, too. I didn't even see that coming, the big blast out the door and all that yelling. I couldn't help, but laugh.

Of course in the case of your ex-supervisor, that might not be the most fun of times--but sure as hell funny.

I liked the doc's expression when he was chasing after the daughter. She found such amusement in that--but his expression towards the end of that bit was priceless.

All around good times.

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RIP Daisy

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It made me cry, but keep in mind that movies like Bio-Dome make me cry, too.


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I think you'd have to be fairly average and blind of the real world if this made you cry!

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I can't say I can guess how that makes sense to you.


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The part where the parent from Atlanta was talking to the company researchers about his kid was very well done. The movie overall isn't that sad, it is not like nonstop tearjerker.

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