Have any movies made you cry?

Cirvante wrote:Movies are so close to fantasy that sometimes I can relate to them just as much as I can relate to my fantasies (which are able to evoke emotions in me). Never cried because of a movie though, just felt sad. Examples that just popped into my mind are The last Samurai with Tom Cruise, when at the end all the samurai charged at the soldiers and got killed mercilessly, and Troy when Priam visited Achilles at night to get the maimed dead body of his son back.

Interesting choices, Cirvante. That Last Samurai film was surprisingly of high quality (for a Tom Cruise film). Ive cried at a few movies, but most memorable was My Dog Skip, starring Charlie Muniz and Kevin Bacon. It's about a dog - Skip - that runs away (from Muniz)... ... ...bla bla bla... ... ...he ecentually finds Skip again but there's a bit at the end when it seems that Skip will die, but then doesn't. It's heartbreaking.

Whalerider...

...sniff...

I wish I didn't cry at everything.

Let´s see. I cry even with songs The last movie I cried with, was a Spanish movie where the girl with cancer dies. h, no the last was Sea Inside (a Spanish movie).
I cried with Titanic, Braveheart, Million Dollars Baby, La Vitta est Bella.....so many.

1234321 wrote:I wish I didn't cry at everything.

Would you care to elaborate? What types of things do you cry at..?

Well, for some reason, I am quite emotional. I cry at a lot of movies and books, for example. The last movie was Love Me If You Dare a few days ago. I love that movie. But I never cry in front of people, and couldn't if I wanted to. Nor do I cry at (most) physical pain. A lot of the time it's just about... personal problems, like stress and fear and guilt and confusion and whatever else... I know people say it's fine to cry, but I still feel stupid for it. I don't know. I can't handle my emotions. They overwhelm me.

If you wanted specific situations in movies and so on that make me cry, one thing that really gets to me is really close relationships between people, really close friendships or whatever. It touches at feelings that I've had for a long time. And then there's all the normal stuff like people dying or whatever. And when other people are really upset... And yet I still laugh when people get serious watching sad things. A lot of sad things don't upset me though. I think the difference is simply whether or not I can relate.

Which reminds me, when someone (in real life) dies, whether I know them or not, I don't really care much at all. But when other people are upset about it, I can feel it a lot. But maybe that's just logical?

1234321 wrote:Which reminds me, when someone (in real life) dies, whether I know them or not, I don't really care much at all. But when other people are upset about it, I can feel it a lot. But maybe that's just logical?

Strangely enough I'm the exact same way. The only way I can explain is that - yes - it is a kind of logical way of thinking, but also that it shows we are kind/compasionate people. Like, the person who has died is simply gone, and logically we shouldn't feel sad for them. I mean, they have no thoughts anymore and cannot feel happiness or sadness. However, it is those who are still alive who will feel the loss, and therefore we focus on their sadness...?

'Let Him Have It' - the acting and everything ah! im so glad i wasnt in school the day my english class had to watch this film.. that would have been so embarrassing. But seriously it was very sad and based on a true story. highly recommend.
oh and 'Million Dollar Baby' - I dont think i cried cause i watched it with my family.. i might have left the room though i can't remember.

Chucky wrote:Like, the person who has died is simply gone, and logically we shouldn't feel sad for them. I mean, they have no thoughts anymore and cannot feel happiness or sadness. However, it is those who are still alive who will feel the loss, and therefore we focus on their sadness...?

Yes, that is exactly how I feel about it. And thousands and millions and billions of people have died and will continue to die for a long, long time, so why feel sad for just a few of them? I would feel sad if someone I really loved died, but that would only be because I missed them and I would feel the same simply if they moved away and I never saw them.

I have felt some kind of sadness when some relatives have died, but mostly because of the fact that I will never see them again and that feeling is really unsettling to me; not because I miss them as a person, but just that there is something different. I guess I have a problem with losing things. I used to have a really bad problem with not being able to throw things away, and sometimes still do.

I do hate when some people die though, because I feel so incredibly awkward around people who are close to people who have died. I can't stand funerals. When I had to go to my grandmother's funeral (a year ago this Saturday, actually), I actually cried because I felt so painfully awkward being surrounded by my grieving family and not even knowing how to act. That was one of the worst experiences I've ever had.

Sorry, I went a bit off-topic.

P.S. A little more on-topic, I thought I might add that I shed tears two or three times watching Glee when it was on a couple of hours ago.

To add to what I said earlier, I actually find it weird that I'm so emotional. For some reason, I don't feel it fits with the rest of my personality. Or it seems a bit like my logical side and emotional side avoid eachother, or otherwise simply disagree. That probably sounds stupid, but whatever.

The Passion of Jesus Christ by Mel Gibson has an scene where I can´t avoid crying. When the mother saw his son falling down, Fried Green Tomatoes, A Perfect World (Kevin Kostner).
I´m sometimes a bit masochist in the way I watch a movie to cry because this day I simply want to cry. Does it make sense?
@MurderFace: Why did you go to your bedroom at the end of Million Dollar Baby? I sometimes feel as a catharsic when I can cry. Are you a guy? Perhaps you feel more shame if you are.