Those sad movies.........
 

I am such a sook when it comes to movies where a family member or a young person dies. <sigh>


Last night I hired a video called "A Walk to Remember" starring Mandy Moore and it had me blubbering like a baby at the end and for half an hour afterwards.

I usually avoid those sort of movies because I always get upset but this one slipped through LOL

i wonder if others have this same affliction .... real men don't cry, do they?

Don't know that film. Me thinks Grumble is having a bad week. You need a root or a beer or a rootbeer! How about a Pixies Group Hug?

Grumble,

the man who doesn't get a tear in the eye and a surge when the lovers re-unite

against all odds is hanging on too tight.

Emotions are good.

Awwwwwwwwwwwww!

*hug*

I try to avoid "chick flics" & other such movies that try to pull on the heartstrings like that, but sometimes one sucks you in when you're not expecting it.
I recall sitting in the theatre when "ET" was dying, & thinking to myself, "I'm not gonna cry now...(sniff)...it's just a mechanical alien dummy...(sniff)...I'm not gonna cry now...(sniff)..." Thank God Speilberg set up a quick laugh at that point & saved me...

"Real men don't cry, do they?"

Grumble, yes they do! The only kind of man I want in my life is one who isn't afraid or threatened by the idea of showing his emotions. If real women can cry, then real men can cry too! Cry away, and don't be embarassed.


I send you a big (((((HUG))))), too!

Grumble---Any man,that says a real man doesn't cry,is in my opinion,NOT a
real man! Irish :rolleyes:

Sure we do....cry that is.A couple of movies that left me soaked in my own tears is: Resurrection (1980) where Ellen Burstyn returns to life after a near fatal auto crash with the power to heal.At the end of the movie when she hugged a young boy dying of leukemia,knowing that he would be restored to health was just too much. I was whaling like a banshee.Another movie that did it for me was Gaby,A True Story (1987) The story of Gaby Brimmer who was born with cerebral palsy.There has been a lot of other movies that left me in an ocean of salt water.

Nothing has ever made me cry harder (well..unless you count Jungle Book when I was kid...when I thought Baloo was dead) than Saving Private Ryan. Damn..I was still crying out at the car. I felt like a goof. I just love movies in general. I love the way they suck you in and wrap you up in whatever emotion they're trying to express whether it's sadness...fear...sillyness... I love it all. :)

Grumble we are most certainly alike here. My kids even peek over at me during any particularly emotional part of a movie. They know I'll have tears streaming and whisper little giggles. I get teary eyed talking about many events that have meaning to me too. I just got home from the grocery store and had an extended conversation about my daughter's surgery several years back. The girl in video finally handed me a tissue. That's just how I am. I feel things and it shows. I don't think it makes us less manly it makes us more human.

Ayup... that one got me too! (Private Ryan that is... not the Jungle Book)... probably did not help that I was in a small town theatre with a bunch of older folk (all men as well) that were also taken by the film (judging by the age of the crew it was likely they were there). In any case, that film got me going good.

what can get to me even more, much more actually, than a heart-wrenching death scene is when i see kindness and protectiveness in a character on film. an example... i was sniffin back the tears in spiderman 2; that scene on the el when he was exhausted after stopping the train at the very last second and these hands just came from behind him and kept him from falling to his death. so sweet.

oh and grumble... i think as long as you don't eat quiche it's okay cry...one or the other, ya know? :jester:

Awww damn, and I like those damn little pies.

The last film that surprised me by really making me cry out loud in the middle of the cinema was 'Stepmom' with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.

I'll admit that it wasn't the best film ever, but the whole step family situation is something I can relate to all too well, and I found myself sitting in the cinema for a good 20 minutes after it finished sobbing unconsolably. Strangely enough not because Sarandon's character dies but because I felt sad that my own family have not got over their differences in the way that they managed to in the film.