Seriously. I had a movie cry from childhood that was the gold standard for “Are you kidding me?” when it came to crying, but I may have outdone myself.
The childhood film was “Son of Godzilla”. (If you’ve ever seen it, it’s very sad when the baby godzilla is crying for his mommy in the snow…)
But recently I was sitting here sobbing as I watched…wait for it…the Adam Sandler movie “Click!” If you’ve seen it, you know my tears were not entirely unwarranted, it’s not like I was crying at…I dunno, 'Caddyshack", but still.
Last night I was watching the last episode of “The Civil War”, you know, the Ken Burns documentary. And I started to cry at the point where Lincoln’s assassination is GOING to happen, and I just cried harder all the way through, including Ken Burns’ post-film comments.
Wait a minute…maybe I AM mentally ill…
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(It’s all about my feelings about life and death, which have always been very close to the surface but I find are even closer as I age and I experience more loss. I’m also just a very unfiltered, emotionally available person in every way, and films tap that very, very easily. When I get into a hard core cry around a film, it stops being about hte film itself and morphs into tears over a larger thing… with “Platoon” I kept crying for an hour because war itself is so incredibly sad and fucked up, with “Amistad” I wept for an hour afterward thinking about the horrors of slavery. If it’s not attached to some Big Issue, I just think about my father who is aging, my mother who died last year, my friend who killed himself, my dog who died, my sister… whomever. Loss, death, separation…add some music and I’m toast.
I bawled my way through Revenge of the Sith-does that count? Especially during the Obi-Wan/Anakin duel.
Oh, and at the end of Return of the Jedi. Or during Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when:
Hermione comes running back into the room, and her and Harry start hugging, and then she and Ron just kind of look at each other, blush, and then shake hands. Hell, I can’t even listen to the freaking soundtrack, without crying.
OK, Stoid…don’t watch The Bucket List then. I saw it Friday night, it’s a fantastic film, and both me and my boyfriend cried (although he will tell you he was choking on a piece of watermelon).
I also cried during The Civil War, the first time I saw this.
I the last two times I remember crying were during musical numbers: “Wise Up” from Magnolia and “By a Waterfall” from Footlight Parade (the first time I’d seen it on a big screen).
In Born in East L.A., there’s a little boy who steals a piece of fruit from a fruitstand, and his mom makes him give it back. It was awfully sad at the time.
This sounds very interesting but for the life of me I can’t understand what she is saying enough to follow the story in the poem. About all I could glean was that some soldier died. Can someone summarize?
I just read the wikipedia page about it and it mentioned this as one of the list items: “and going on lion safari in Africa”… it sounds like a movie I’d like to see, but I want to know ahead of time: do they hunt lions or just go to see them? Is a lion killed? Because if so then I don’t want to see the movie–otherwise I will probably add it to my Netflix queue. (I have such an emotional reaction to animal cruelty/animal death/the concept of hunting that I will be crying for days, and generally try to avoid going through that. Same goes for children being hurt or dying in movies.)
Don’t feel bad. My emotions are waaaaay too close to the surface.
I LOL at things other people merely smile distractedly at.
And I cry.
When other people are crying, I cry.
When a child gets hurt, I cry.
When it’s been a sucky day, I cry.
When I’m getting all hormonal (granted, I’ve had a hysterectomy now, so that’s less common), I cry.
When I sympathize or empathize with someone, I cry.
When I’m angry, I cry.
I don’t open threads where parents or other close relatives have died, when my own kids are around. Why? I know I’ll cry.
But recently I was sitting here sobbing as I watched…wait for it…the Adam Sandler movie “Click!” If you’ve seen it, you know my tears were not entirely unwarranted, it’s not like I was crying at…I dunno, 'Caddyshack", but still./QUOTE]
Oh, Stoid, honey, I cried myself into a sinus infection the first time I saw that movie. My son bought it and likes to put it on and laugh at me.
Meanwhile, why should you feel bad about crying at “Click”? It’s a really sad movie, what with Sandler not caring about the Fonz and all.
I cried loud, loud sobs in the movie theater at “I Am Legend”.
When Forest Gump met his son, little Haley Joel Osmont , and asked if he was smart I almost had to go to the hospital each time I saw it.
And one time, when I was a grown woman, I watched the episode where Pebbles is born and Fred is so proud and happy and cried my eyes out. I had seen it a number of times before, but still cried, and, no I wasn’t pregnant or a new mom myself.
I get teary at the most stupid of reasons at movies and it is damn embarrassing. I haven’t seen Bucket List, but I’d hazard to guess that the safari is a photo safari, which is probably what 98% of safaris are these days. We passed through game parks where it was possible to shoot an animal, but I never met a person who actually did it.
It’s really expensive to go and shoot animals, and lions in particular are an endangered species. Here’s an article on costs for shooting animals. When I was in Namibia, the ranch we stayed on you could sign up and kill a zebra, but it was damn expensive (the logistics are pretty difficult).
[article on costs for shooting animals. When I was in Namibia, the ranch we stayed on you could sign up and kill a zebra, but it was damn expensive (the logistics are pretty difficult).
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Jesus H. Christ, don’t read it if you are a weeper and a nightmare haver! I think the intent was good, but not for those of us that can’t sleep after reading sad, dreadful things we can’t fix. And heaven knows, I have enough animals without worrying about taking in lions.
Hell, I’m still mad at Walt Disney for Ol’ Yeller. I cried for a year after watching it.
