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What's Normal? - Have you ever cried watching a movie? (1 Viewer)

Have you ever cried watching a movie?

  • Yes

    Votes: 207 93.2%

  • No

    Votes: 15 6.8%
  • Total voters
    222
Of course. The first I remember was when watching "The Program" in the theater.

I cried at many other wonderful movies from that era, but that generally happened after the debut in theaters. Obviously, movies like Philadelphia and Shawshank are much better. But 14 year old me looking through the newspaper to see what's playing at the theater.....I picked "The Program" in a heartbeat.

And it's very emotional.
 
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I shed tears from time to time, but I remember completely bawling one time when I was maybe 11 or 12. It was the end of Elephant Man when John Merrick looks up at the painting of the boy quietly sleeping and slowly removes the pillows from his bed before he lays down to go to sleep. I was a complete wreck. Full on sobbing.
 
The last movie I cried at was just utterly ridiculous. It caught me off guard and I sprang a leak. When Liv Tyler put her hand on the monitor to touch the image of her dad Bruce Willis doing the same thing as he sacrificed himself for her (and Earth), unexpected tears :)

The movie Up in the opening montage would have gotten me after that, but thankfully my son lost it and I picked him up and said "I got him!" and ran him out of the theater.

Mr. Spock's "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one)" really got me back in the day.

Sacrifice and loss of child seem to be the triggers for me. If I know a movie has that element in it, I generally try to avoid. I know a ton of movies are really well done, but I really don't like crying.
 
Jayrod said:
I don't think anything ever got me more than this scene in a movie called "In America" about an immigrant family who had lost their young son, Frankie.
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That movie was one of the ones I thought of, too, but was going to have to look up the name until I saw your post.
Beginning of Up, end of Toy Story 3. Movies where kids die, where dogs die, where parents know they're going to die and realize they're going to miss out on their kids... scenes where kids leave their parents to go off to college (CODA got me a bit there).

Heck, I've cried reading a freakin' book - Where the Red Fern Grows. I mean I bawled, too. I have never seen the movie version of that one... no need.
 
jhib said:
Jayrod said:
I don't think anything ever got me more than this scene in a movie called "In America" about an immigrant family who had lost their young son, Frankie.
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That movie was one of the ones I thought of, too, but was going to have to look up the name until I saw your post.
Beginning of Up, end of Toy Story 3. Movies where kids die, where dogs die, where parents know they're going to die and realize they're going to miss out on their kids... scenes where kids leave their parents to go off to college (CODA got me a bit there).

Heck, I've cried reading a freakin' book - Where the Red Fern Grows. I mean I bawled, too. I have never seen the movie version of that one... no need.
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Red Fern was def few times I teared up as a youngster - only from book - tried to watch the movie and it was terrible. Surprised Hollywood hasnt tried to remake that one.
 
Kiddnets said:
jhib said:
Jayrod said:
I don't think anything ever got me more than this scene in a movie called "In America" about an immigrant family who had lost their young son, Frankie.
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That movie was one of the ones I thought of, too, but was going to have to look up the name until I saw your post.
Beginning of Up, end of Toy Story 3. Movies where kids die, where dogs die, where parents know they're going to die and realize they're going to miss out on their kids... scenes where kids leave their parents to go off to college (CODA got me a bit there).

Heck, I've cried reading a freakin' book - Where the Red Fern Grows. I mean I bawled, too. I have never seen the movie version of that one... no need.
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Red Fern was def few times I teared up as a youngster - only from book - tried to watch the movie and it was terrible. Surprised Hollywood hasnt tried to remake that one.
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Pretty sure that's the next Marvel movie.
 
Kiddnets said:
jhib said:
Jayrod said:
I don't think anything ever got me more than this scene in a movie called "In America" about an immigrant family who had lost their young son, Frankie.
Click to expand...

That movie was one of the ones I thought of, too, but was going to have to look up the name until I saw your post.
Beginning of Up, end of Toy Story 3. Movies where kids die, where dogs die, where parents know they're going to die and realize they're going to miss out on their kids... scenes where kids leave their parents to go off to college (CODA got me a bit there).

Heck, I've cried reading a freakin' book - Where the Red Fern Grows. I mean I bawled, too. I have never seen the movie version of that one... no need.
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Red Fern was def few times I teared up as a youngster - only from book - tried to watch the movie and it was terrible. Surprised Hollywood hasnt tried to remake that one.
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I never read it as a kid. Picked it up randomly sometime in my late 20s/early 30s.

My daughter's 5th grade teacher read it to their class. I talked to him about it afterwards and he told me how he loved to do that every year with his classes. First, the kids usually start off thinking they are "too old" to be read to, but they quickly get into the book and like the experience. And then by the end, there's something about 100% of the kids crying at one level or another, together with their teacher whose eyes would at the very least well up no matter how many times he had read it. No one making fun of each other or anything like that - just a communal experience. It's something my daughter (now in her 20s) doesn't think she'll ever forget.
 
I don't think I've straight-up sobbed but definitely had some tears happen. One that comes to mind was the last Star Wars. I think it was just pent up emotion about my youth, getting older, just loving the franchise and what it means to me.

And, while it's not a movie, I am pretty sure I cried at the end of the Friday Night Lights series.
 
Originally voted no, as could not remember a time… but just remembered the end of Fellini’s “The Nights of Cabiria.” Luckily, have the ability to change vote now.
 
I think my worst one ever was Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. I think I bawled nonstop for the last hour of the movie and could barely see the movie. I refuse to watch it again.
 
As others have mentioned, I’m also a victim of manopause. I even tear up when all the heroes who disappeared in “the blink” show up at the end of Infinity War, and Cap says “Avengers…assemble.”

I just watched it again, and it happened again.
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It’s f’n ridiculous
 
I don't cry as much since I stopped the drink.

Manchester By The Sea
Up

Those got me in the past ten-fifteen years. Manchester By The Sea wasn't even that good, IMO. Just ****in' sad. Up I would cry sober and all over again.

I used to cry at just about everything when I drank. Could be out of joy, out of sadness. You name it.

Also, guys, check your T levels. I'm serious that it could have something to do with your increased crying with age.

One thing that I do get now? I don't get misty when there's an emotionally manipulative score or part of a movie designed to make you feel emotion. It actually now angers me and insults my intelligence.
 
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First movie I cried during was Free Willy, I was 8 at the time. Seeing him leap the breakwater got the waterworks going. Same with Homeward Bound, I can’t watch that at all without thinking of my childhood dog. Where the Red Fern Grows, I knew what happened, didn’t make it any better. Made it worse, in fact!

Cried during the Passion of the Christ, as a believer I had read the Scriptures, but that movie put images to it.

Cried during Return of the King, when Rohan shows up at Minas Tirith.

Cried at the end of the first Santa Clause movie, when he and his son can’t go together.
 
msudaisy26 said:
I think my worst one ever was Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. I think I bawled nonstop for the last hour of the movie and could barely see the movie. I refuse to watch it again.
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This is one of my favorite "guilty pleasure" type movies but despite being a notorious crier, not sure if I ever cried during it.
 
I don't know what it is about planes, but I cry for every movie.

Aha: apoxia.

Why do I cry watching movies on planes?

The lower-than-normal air pressure in the cabin is known to induce mild hypoxia (reduced oxygen levels in the brain), which is associated with a raft of cognitive and emotional effects, including heightened negative moods and a diminished ability to handle stress
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Heck yes! Too many to mention.

Since I have lost 3 Yellow Labs the dog movies get me.

Remember the first time I saw "The Champ" with Jon Voight, that was a tear jerked ending.
 
I missed this one.

One that is guaranteed to start the waterworks for me is the ending of ET when he says "I'll... be... right... here".

Another is the last 10 minutes of the Six Feet Under finale.
 
I was almost outright weeping during a kids Disney movie in the theater with my two kids a few years ago called Inside Out. I don't remember much about it anymore, just that I had to dry my eyes and pull myself together when the theater lights came on lest someone notice.
 
jvdesigns2002 said:
Absolutely. I’m not sure I quite believe anybody that answers “no” to this question. I’ve certainly had tears in my eyes as an adult watching movies before, but I also sure as heck have had them as a child. The question states “ever”. The people answering “no” are claiming that they’ve never cried during a movie—even as a child? That just doesn’t seem probable at all.
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I assumed the intent was as an adult, so I voted no. I figure I cried at one or two when I was little though I can't remember specifics. I think maybe the Bambi forest fire scene at least, probably the mom getting killed too. That movie was rough.
 
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If Hachi or the Art of Racing in the Rain don't make you tear up then you are stone cold heartless. And yes I voted save my dog in the all time greatest FFA poll.
 
Oh I remember another one now: Pearl Harbor scene where the Japanese bomb away. I swear I must be a reincarnation of someone who died during that invasion because it just hits me HARD and I end up sobbing every time I see it.
 
Old Yeller for sure as a kid

Terms of Endearment as an adult. The scene where the kid visits with Debra Winger for the last time as she dies from cancer
 
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