Those sad movies.........
 

I am such a sook when it comes to movies where a family member or a young person dies. <sigh>


Last night I hired a video called "A Walk to Remember" starring Mandy Moore and it had me blubbering like a baby at the end and for half an hour afterwards.

I usually avoid those sort of movies because I always get upset but this one slipped through LOL

i wonder if others have this same affliction .... real men don't cry, do they?

Don't know that film. Me thinks Grumble is having a bad week. You need a root or a beer or a rootbeer! How about a Pixies Group Hug?

Grumble,

the man who doesn't get a tear in the eye and a surge when the lovers re-unite

against all odds is hanging on too tight.

Emotions are good.

Awwwwwwwwwwwww!

*hug*

I try to avoid "chick flics" & other such movies that try to pull on the heartstrings like that, but sometimes one sucks you in when you're not expecting it.
I recall sitting in the theatre when "ET" was dying, & thinking to myself, "I'm not gonna cry now...(sniff)...it's just a mechanical alien dummy...(sniff)...I'm not gonna cry now...(sniff)..." Thank God Speilberg set up a quick laugh at that point & saved me...

"Real men don't cry, do they?"

Grumble, yes they do! The only kind of man I want in my life is one who isn't afraid or threatened by the idea of showing his emotions. If real women can cry, then real men can cry too! Cry away, and don't be embarassed.


I send you a big (((((HUG))))), too!

Grumble---Any man,that says a real man doesn't cry,is in my opinion,NOT a
real man! Irish :rolleyes:

Sure we do....cry that is.A couple of movies that left me soaked in my own tears is: Resurrection (1980) where Ellen Burstyn returns to life after a near fatal auto crash with the power to heal.At the end of the movie when she hugged a young boy dying of leukemia,knowing that he would be restored to health was just too much. I was whaling like a banshee.Another movie that did it for me was Gaby,A True Story (1987) The story of Gaby Brimmer who was born with cerebral palsy.There has been a lot of other movies that left me in an ocean of salt water.

Nothing has ever made me cry harder (well..unless you count Jungle Book when I was kid...when I thought Baloo was dead) than Saving Private Ryan. Damn..I was still crying out at the car. I felt like a goof. I just love movies in general. I love the way they suck you in and wrap you up in whatever emotion they're trying to express whether it's sadness...fear...sillyness... I love it all. :)

Grumble we are most certainly alike here. My kids even peek over at me during any particularly emotional part of a movie. They know I'll have tears streaming and whisper little giggles. I get teary eyed talking about many events that have meaning to me too. I just got home from the grocery store and had an extended conversation about my daughter's surgery several years back. The girl in video finally handed me a tissue. That's just how I am. I feel things and it shows. I don't think it makes us less manly it makes us more human.

Ayup... that one got me too! (Private Ryan that is... not the Jungle Book)... probably did not help that I was in a small town theatre with a bunch of older folk (all men as well) that were also taken by the film (judging by the age of the crew it was likely they were there). In any case, that film got me going good.

what can get to me even more, much more actually, than a heart-wrenching death scene is when i see kindness and protectiveness in a character on film. an example... i was sniffin back the tears in spiderman 2; that scene on the el when he was exhausted after stopping the train at the very last second and these hands just came from behind him and kept him from falling to his death. so sweet.

oh and grumble... i think as long as you don't eat quiche it's okay cry...one or the other, ya know? :jester:

Awww damn, and I like those damn little pies.

The last film that surprised me by really making me cry out loud in the middle of the cinema was 'Stepmom' with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.

I'll admit that it wasn't the best film ever, but the whole step family situation is something I can relate to all too well, and I found myself sitting in the cinema for a good 20 minutes after it finished sobbing unconsolably. Strangely enough not because Sarandon's character dies but because I felt sad that my own family have not got over their differences in the way that they managed to in the film.

Like you Grumble, I try to steer clear of the tear-jerker movies cause I cry so hard that I get a bad head-ache from it most of the time..... I usually enjoy action/adventure movies cause usually I'll only well-up a time or two in them ... :) , but I also love old movies and have to be careful what I'm watching, went to a theater one time that would just show old movies (charged $1 for admittance) ... An Affair to Remember .... was crying and sobbing so hard that I couldn't breathe! and it was not quiet sobbing either .... talk about embarrasing! :) ((((grumble))))

I had the exact same reaction about the movie (but thought it was pretty weak other than Sarandon's performance.)

Mystic River affected me like this recently. Tim Robbins (Sarandon's SO) was especially good.

Fzzy - I can so relate to how you felt about 'An Affair to Remember'......for me the most agonising part was when they left the ship and their S/Os were waiting for them so they didn't get to say goodbye properly.

Steph - I'm glad I'm not the only one who cried at Stepmom.....I felt really pathetic crying over it because as you say the film is pretty weak.....just goes to show how things affect you when they hit a personal note.

I cried at the end of Australian Big Brother. Oh dear!!! Pour me another chablis and cut me a slice of quiche.

Quality TV in Australia..... Not.

It will go on for awhile. The same with Australian Idol. Done to death!

I don't watch shows like big brother, very immoral and full of bad human behaviour so I am glad it's finished.

Must say that i like Australian Idol because Zi love music on TV and some talented young people get some recognition.

I recently saw Step mom on video but I did not get all that teary over it.
The acting was pretty ordinary in my mind.

We usually don't watch it,but last night,the convention coverage,was on almost,every channel,so my wife put in BBrother (5?).It was one of the crappiest shows,that I've ever seen.(I don't like reality type,shows,anyway)
(They are,anything but,reality)I hope. Irish
P.S. My $.02.

Shannon seems to be the one that is shown the most. Both BB and Idol are made by the same company out here.

"Old Yeller"....need I say more???

It's okay guys. Cry on!!!

I love a guy with such emotions!!!! :heart:

My favorite movie is Phenomenon--I cry every single time and hubby always says "why are you crying, you knew that was gonna happen, you've seen it 100 times"..........

Heck, I've seen the Disney cartoon movie Bambi "100s" of times; I still have to leave the room when Bambi's mother gets shot; it's just too painful for me to watch.

Oh, yes...and give me a man who shows his feelings like that any day...that's the best kind in my opinion.