# Crying At Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763 "2011-06-17T00:13:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/1 "2011-06-17T00:13:51Z")
When you see a movie (or TV show or even a record) have you cried? If so what is the movie, TV show or record that made you cry the most. I remember I was a wee little shaver and I cried at _Snoopy Come Home_, when he left and at his going away party he got bones. Of course I was seven 🙂 I also remember watching the wedding of Luke and Laura on _General Hospital_ it was on a TV at college and all the women watching it were crying. So what kind of movies, records or TV shows do you cry at? And what one made you cry the hardest? And for the record, I didn’t cry when Bambi’s mother was shot, but it WAS sad. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/2 "2011-06-17T00:26:20Z")
I sobbed so hard during _My Life_ in 1994 that I can’t believe they didn’t throw me out. My father was dying of cancer at the time. It was a spectacularly bad movie choice, but we hadn’t even looked at the poster. It was the next movie to start after we showed up at the theater, so we went. (My roommate was trying to cheer me up.) ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/3 "2011-06-17T00:41:01Z")
“A Matter of Life or Death” makes me tear up – I’m pretty jaded now, but that one still does it to me. I love David Niven, and Kim Hunter is a beautiful and prodigiously able foil. I think I might have shed a tear at “Benjamin Button,” even though I hated that flick. If you tell anyone, I will shed you like nobody’s business. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/4 "2011-06-17T00:46:00Z")
I cry when I watch Terminator 2. Or The Fly (with Jeff Goldblum). And The Iron Giant. And Rocky. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/5 "2011-06-17T00:50:42Z")
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who doesn’t cry at the end of _Million Dollar Baby_ isn’t anyone I want to be around. The end of [chapter 14 of Philip Pullman’s _The Subtle Knife_](http://www.freebooks4u.net/fantasticfiction/2010/118/6610.html) always gets me too, even tho I’ve read that book like 12 times now. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/6 "2011-06-17T00:56:18Z")
The only movie that I properly cried over was _Edward Scissorhands_. As a smart but awkward and frequently bullied 12-year-old, I strongly identified with the titular character. I took from the ending the message that people who see the world on a different level can’t ever be a part of normal society or experience human connection, because misunderstandings will invariably drive them out. I guess I figured I too was doomed to live alone on a mountain, slicing up bits of paper. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/7 "2011-06-17T01:12:17Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who doesn’t cry at the end of _Million Dollar Baby_ isn’t anyone I want to be around. Did not cry. So one of my favorite movies ever is “Wit” starring Emma Thompson, which is about as funny as a movie can get about a woman enduring cancer, and I was rather pleased when one of my professors offered up a(n optional) viewing of the film that included pizza. Favorite movie, pizza, fuck yeah. The film offered up, she said, one of the best readings of “Death Be Not Proud” she had ever seen, and this woman has literally written the book --several, actually-- on Donne. I actually agree with her. Whoever wrote the play (which was later translated into a film) was clearly a hardcore nerd, and made all of that endless harping over comma placement seem like it meant something. Anyway, so at one of the most touching scenes in the film, a room full of sappy English majors were crying into their vegetarian pizzas when I got a hilarious text message. Took all of the self control I had to not be the person laughing at the most inappropriate time. I felt like an asshole stifling my laughter while everyone else was sobbing and drying their eyes. Poorly timed text messages aside, I’m just not the crying type, during movies or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/8 "2011-06-17T01:20:58Z")
I cried a little at the end of _Brazil_. I get misty-eyed when I’m watching something great. It doesn’t even have to be sad. Overwhelmed by the experience, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/9 "2011-06-17T01:23:59Z")
8 posts and still no mention of _Brian’s Song_? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_McAwful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@Larry\_McAwful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_McAwful)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/10 "2011-06-17T01:28:16Z")
I watch _It’s a Wonderful Live_ every Christmas season, and I cry every time. I also cry at footage of Nazi rallies and anything to do with Nazis. Simulated stuff doesn’t do it for me–I didn’t cry at _Schindler’s List_. It has to be genuine, or my eyes are dry. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/11 "2011-06-17T01:33:41Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > The only movie that I properly cried over was _Edward Scissorhands_. As a smart but awkward and frequently bullied 12-year-old, I strongly identified with the titular character. I took from the ending the message that people who see the world on a different level can’t ever be a part of normal society or experience human connection, because misunderstandings will invariably drive them out. I guess I figured I too was doomed to live alone on a mountain, slicing up bits of paper. This always makes me cry, I watch it when I’m in the particular mood for a happy/sad mix. I cry at films on a fairly regular basis, not all the time, but at least once a month. Then again, I average watching at least one film a day. The last film I cried at was The Fighter, yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/12 "2011-06-17T01:45:08Z")
_A Walk to Remember._ This tubby bitch starts bawling like a little girl with a skinned knee and shit. And the movie that I lifted that line from, a little. The final scene where they meet again at Comicon always gets me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/13 "2011-06-17T01:52:25Z")
Without making a list or even trying to identify types of movies that affect me that way, I’ll just say that I cry often at effective movies. They don’t have to be tear jerkers, but as long as the story moves me, I will react by some measure of crying. I just thought of an example. Not the whole movie, for sure. But every time I see [Blade Runner - TEARS IN RAIN](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw) I get misty. Not every time brings a full set of tears, but I must have seen that at least 10 times and after a while, since you know what’s coming, the effect isn’t quite the same. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/14 "2011-06-17T01:55:43Z")
The last ten minutes of [Casshern](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk9fGI90qdM) always makes me sob. The ending takes us back to happens times in the characters’ lives. I cried like a baby during my initial theater viewing of the Joy Luck Club, but in subsequent viewings at home I’ve been able to contain myself a little better. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/15 "2011-06-17T01:58:59Z")
_Brokeback Mountain_. Seriously. To have lived that far in the closet must have been awful. We’ve come a long way, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/16 "2011-06-17T02:17:30Z")
Plenty of times. God, I cried last night at the end of _Super 8_. The movie that has made me cry the most was _Dancer In The Dark_ with Bjork. I was sobbing uncontrollably at the end. I didn’t stop for a long time. I was a wreck. The movie that has made me cry the most often is _The Color Purple_. I’ve probably seen it too many times now for it still to get me in the same way, but I’ve sobbed dozens of times watching that film. Even my dad cried at the end when we watched it together, and I have never seen him cry at any other movie. Or anything much at all. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/17 "2011-06-17T02:18:01Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > _Brokeback Mountain_. Seriously. I can top that. I choked up at the scene in _Latter Days_ when the waiter discovers that his Mormon lover is still alive. At least _Brokeback_ was a serious movie, as opposed to a ridiculously clichéd campfest. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/18 "2011-06-17T02:39:11Z")
“My friends! You bow to _no one_!” Gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/19 "2011-06-17T02:45:43Z")
I didn’t cry, but the end of “The Road” put a lump in my throat. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/20 "2011-06-17T04:52:15Z")
Oh hell yes I cry in movies. I am a weepy bitch. Pretty much any sad animal scene gets me- when Beucephelous died in ‘Alexander the Great’, I was a sobbing mess. ‘Homeward Bound’? I don’t even wanna talk about it. I am very emotional, and yeah, I cry, often. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763.md?page=2)