Crying in Movies: Show me Your Tears

[allyndra]

On Saturday, we went to the video place and rented Holes (because my son just finished the book and adored it), Bridge to Terebithia (because he's been wanting to read the book), and Sydney White (because it was fluffy and had Danny Strong in it). We watched Holes and got started on Bridge to Terebithia, and it was all very nice. Then, Sunday morning, I awoke to find my son sobbing on the couch. He'd gotten up early and decided to finish Bridge to Terebithia without us, and he'd just gotten to the part where Leslie died. He hadn't ever seen a movie where a character he cared about, a sympathetic character who's given screen time to grow, died. Plus, she was just a kid, which I think hit him even harder.

Now, I cry in movies quite a bit, and so does my husband. I got to thinking, though, is that normal? Do y'all cry in films? If so, tell me:
1. Which movie do you love, even though it makes you cry?
2. Is there a movie you hate, but cry at anyway?

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[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

Hi. You have no idea who I am, but I surfed over here from nwhepcat's It's the Writers Stupid! Ficathon page...as I am always on the lookout for new-to-me writers. Then I was scrolling and saw this and I couldn't resist. I hope you don't mind indulging me and my list of movies that make me cry.

1. The Notebook - I saw this in the theater when it came out. I went with a friend and I think we had one tissue between us...and there was copious snot because we bawled our eyes out. I love that movie.

2. Bridges of Madison County - I read the book while I was living in the UK. I cried through the book; it just felt so vivid and real to me. Then I saw the movie, which I think was well done. I was glad they didn't try to make the characters younger than they were in the book, because I think that's why the book is so effective. And the scene where Meryl Streep's character is in the truck with her husband and Clint's character is standing in the pouring rain...omg. Bawled. It's something about having this interior life- a life that your children will never know anything about and about the sacrifices you make.

3. The Way We Were - I have so much love for this movie and I cry throughout but especially the very last scene where Hubble sees Katie across the street and runs over and they have this conversation and there is just so much love and history between them. And the song- I can't hear it without welling up.

4. Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. (The Clare Danes/Leo Di Caprio version was also well done, but...) I first saw this movie when I was in high school. A whole row of girls sat in the front row and just sobbed. The language, the beautiful lead actors- everything about it. I am a sucker for the whole star-crossed love thing and this is the epitome of that.

5. Big Fish - I was reluctant to see this movie...but it worked its considerable magic on me and the final scene when Billy Crudup carries his father into the water. Yep - bawled like a baby.

6. Legends of the Fall - was Brad Pitt ever prettier than he is in this film? And the whole story- the sweeping landscape and melodrama, the brothers torn apart by war and their choices and a woman. Just beautiful and sad.

7. Ghost - because I am a sucker for the big, epic love of all time. And that last scene between Patrick and Demi. Sob!

8. ET - come on...who can sit through that movie without crying?

9. Field of Dreams - that final scene when Kevin Costner gets to throw the ball with his dad. I'm wailing by then, of course, but...

10. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King- the trilogy was amazing, but the end- just made me so sad...partly because I would now have to part company with these characters I had grown to love so much and partly because...it's just so wah!

Honorable mention to: Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, Dr Zhivago, Mr. Holland's Opus, Dead Poet's Society, The Green Mile, Gladiator, The Little Princess (not the Shirley Temple version *g*) and The Secret Garden...and, you know, Grease makes me cry now. It came out the summer I was 17 and I saw it about 20 times in the theater...and now it makes me really nostalgic.

Movies that made me cry- but I felt manipulated the whole time: Stepmom (even though I am a huge Julia Roberts fan), A Walk to remember and Beaches.

As for TV shows- yep, I cry all the time:

My So-Called Life, Once and Again, Sisters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (usually the bits with B/A - I Will Remember You guts me every single time I re-watch, but also when Joyce died and when Oz left and when Oz came back and left again and The Gift...okay, I cried a lot during BtVS) and Ats (when Fred died, and Wes...), Grey's Anatomy, ER (when Mark Green died I was a MESS), Alias...I could go on, but clearly...

I am a big cry-baby.

I'm so sorry for hijacking your LJ...I need Kleenex.