Movies that made you cry

Brian's Song. But in general, I am not a weeper.

I can certainly understand Up, though that didn’t make me cry. I have a hard time crying ‘irl’, as it were, at actual life events. I can’t cry at funerals or when I get injured, I didn’t cry at any point around my very serious surgery back in the day, etc. For the longest time, I felt like I couldn’t cry at all.

Then at some point about seven years ago, I found myself crying at some select films. To this day I can’t really cry to/at anything else, so I guess that’s part of why film is so important/therapeutic for me. I still cry pretty rarely, but more often now, especially in the last few years. The ones I can recall crying intensely at (the first time I saw them at least) were I, Tonya, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (I felt rather disproportionately bad for Willoughby), and Killers of the Flower Moon (can’t explain why I cried). There must be more, but I can’t think of them.

I also cried at one point when watching Mr Robot (). I think there’s a certain theme (?) (that sounds odd but also about right) to what makes me cry these days; I tend to feel bad for villains, antiheroes, all sorts of characters few people ‘empathise’ with and I find myself crying because I feel bad for them while realising this isn’t a perspective most people have any patience for, and that I’m probably ‘in the wrong’ and this is all counter-productive.

Then again, my therapist tells me I’m holding in so much stress that it has to come out somehow, so it could just be that. *laughs maniacally*

Yeah the scene in Little Women 94 with Claire Danes, powerful stuff!

I forgot about The Fountain. The soundtrack alone will break me! Particularly the track, "Death is the Road to Awe" near the end.


FINISH IT!

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The SpongeBob SquarePants movie. 1&3.

God I am so weird..

If it includes the names places and events and the likeness of those around you, then it could make you cry. Especially if it mocks you, but even if it didnt and it was all good stuff anyone would get upset over the fact some weirdo is watching them from the shadows and making movies about them. So in that sense, a movie could make you cry without you even seeing it.

Suspiria, Babe, and Year of the Dog.

I don't remember every film that has made me cry but the two that jump to mind first and foremost when trying to think of qualifying films are Pan's Labyrinth and Inside Out, both during the ending and both prompted some very ugly crying.

A movie I would have never expected to make me cry is BlackBerry.

Many but especially that moment in Rain Man when Charlie and Raymond touch heads.

And Lion King The Stampede gets me every time!

I don't believe any film has made me cry.

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One time my brother and I were play fighting and I flew off the couch and smacked my face onto a VHS tape and it hurt so much that I cried. But that was a long time ago in 1990.

As a kid there were a few: E.T, C.H.O.M.P.S, Watership Down and The Champ jump to mind but as an adult the closest I've come to tearing up is Hachi.

You're a heartless bastard!




















and in good company

Do Tarantino's attempts at acting cause you to cry?

Nope more like this