Comments on: Weeping Wednesday (Get out the tissues!)

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:20:00 +0000

@jgh2 I cry EVERY TIME I watch Dumbo. It’s just so sad! It’s the movie I thought of first.

I’m a huge crier at movies. I could go on for hours about the movies that make me cry. Return of the King should get special mention though, because upon the third watching of the extended edition (yeah, I was that woman) a friend asked me to count how many times I cried. Final total? 18 separate times. I’d start leaking, get myself together, and then leak some more. Ay that point it’s a dehydration risk!

By: Ohmysaintedaunt

Ohmysaintedaunt — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:36:09 +0000

oh, and Love! Valor! Compassion!

By: Feminizzle

Feminizzle — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:01:54 +0000

One of the most embarassing experiences was the movie Whip It, which I *loved.* I was so happy that it wasn’t a typical romance, coming-of-age story that I was crying happy tears at the end. Everyone looked at me like I was crazy. The Color Purple is the only film that gives me a guaranteed sob-fest every time. Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensibility makes me cry (the end, when she starts sobbing from happiness.) Anything military-related I can’t watch because my brother is in the army and I automatically associate the actors with him and the water works start. I also can’t stand violence in movies anymore. I just watched the first “Girl Who” movie and my manmate and I had to fast-forward through the rape scene. I don’t know if I can even watch the others because the violence was a little too much for me (but I was addicted to the books and didn’t get so worked up about them.)

By: melody

melody — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:11:27 +0000

Oh dude. Dancer in the Dark. I cried so hard, that I couldn’t breathe.

I also always cry during Lilo and Stitch.

By: evil fizz

evil fizz — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:19:06 +0000

Terms of Endearment was the first movie I sat through with tears pouring down my face. The opening sequence to Up was awful for me, but I was about 8 and a half months pregnant at the time. The stuff that gets me now aren’t films, but shots of people coming home to their families, especially ones with soldiers.

By: jess

jess — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:32:49 +0000

Brokeback Mountain, absolutely. Maybe especially because the happy scenes are so happy and there are so few of them.

By: jgh2

jgh2 — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:48:07 +0000

No one else cries during Dumbo????

By: PhDork

PhDork — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:47:15 +0000

A long time ago in another career, I worked on a production of Wit, so I watched in eleventy billion times in rehearsal and then eleventy billion more in production. And I wept endlessly. I can't even watch the Humane Society commercials. I hear Sarah McLachlan and I have to leave the room. And the third thing that guarantees tears, despite repeated viewings: The Color Purple. Happy crying, lump-in-throat crying, enraged crying, ugly-red-faced-snot-factory crying, all of it. I am one sensitive white lady, y'all.

By: Shadow Boxer

Shadow Boxer — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:13:55 +0000

I cry at pretty much every twenty minutes in What Dreams May Come, and the entire second half of Awakenings, so i don’t watch them anymore. Some of the ones mentioned here get me. The one that I found surprising was RED – the old guard CIA flick (Bruce Willis, Helen Mirrin, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman) – I teared up a couple of times and actually cried at one point. For a super smart, funny action flick, RED is the way to go. Helen Mirrin’s character is the one the super-assassins are all scared of!

The one scene that just breaks my heart is the end of Serenity. Not Wash, but Zoe’s reaction. Because here’s this kick ass woman, living and THRIVING in a man’s world, and the men around her know she can kick their asses but chooses not to, she can handle anything, and her being a woman is never a problem or even an issue. She’s so powerful and strong, and only ever shows emotion in that moment. And the next moment – “Wash ain’t coming.” Because as a woman in a man’s world, doing a man’s job, facing horror upon horror, she doesn’t have the luxury of a breakdown. And it seemed to me that she NEVER had the luxury of a breakdown until she connected with the Firefly crew. I’m glad there was a moment at the end for her to show her grief. I think I might be reading too much into that moment, but I always identified strongly with Zoe.

The most unusual cry at fiction I had was for a short story by Mercedes Lackey, “Winter Death”. It’s written as though you already know the protagonist’s history, and she’s suffered so much loss she won’t open up to anyone anymore. Every time I read that story I cry.

By: gogobooty

gogobooty — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:13:34 +0000

What ShinyObjects said!

“…and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning” <—-and on thru the end credits. Wah!

Once in high school we had to watch TKAM in two halves, over two days. Two days of copious weeping and then going out into the glare of the courtyard, with red eyes and a nose full of mocos. I'd already seen that movie several times by then, too.

I also have the score by Elmer Bernstein on CD & in my ipod!