I was thingink about this earlier: what films provoke me; draw me in so well that I feel an emotional attacemnt to the characters and or their plights? So I'm curious to know what films get to the rest of you? -which ones got you really rallied? What was it that got you there? You don;t have to go into uber detail, but I'd like to hear some specifics, so I can see if I felt the same about that (part/s) of a film for the same reasons. Also, so I can try and understand what about a film emotes someone, that didn't emote me.

One of my favorite films, and one that pretty much always make me weap is Leon. When, having disguised himself as an injured SWAT member, Leon walks towards the light (towards the beginning of the film, when Leon opens the door for Matilda and we see this from behind her knowing she is saved) and though I know Stansfield is right behind him with a gun I feel so much want in me at that moment that he makes it, then *flash*, and I know, and *sway* and Leon is really going down. This is where the tears stream.

Though no actual crying takes place, manly welling up of the tear-ducts happened to me at the end of Big Fish, The Green Mile and Finding Neverland. And, to a lesser extent, American Beauty. SPOILER ALERT: In all of those films, it's that one of the characters dies, but it's never an entirely sad death. The guy in big fish is finally accepted by his son, and gets to turn into a nice big catfish. The woman in finding neverland finds neverland, Kevin Spacey has such a wonderfully content smile on his face, knowing his daughter is happy, and the green mile guy never wanted to live with his 'gift'. It's not too sad, it's just the right amount of sad

I'm pathetic, I cry at anything - I was doing my washing up the other day and one of my flatmates was watching Home & Away, I've never watched it and I wasn't really even listening to it then but I started crying at it.
I have stupid tear ducts, I really wish that it took more to make me cry so that it feels special when I do.
The ones that really, really make me cry are Big Fish and Garden State (when he comes back).

Of Mice and Men.

I don't really cry at films but when I watched The Pianist I was so almost crying. Schindler's List also puts me on the brink.

I couldn't agree more with Big Fish. It makes me cry everytime I see it.

Also The Secret Garden and A Little Princess make me cry, just the way you can completely imagine what it's like to be the character and so you end up feeling emotions for them.

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. Every god damn time.

I cried my eyes out when I watched a French film called La Huitieme Jour. So, so sad.

I also cried when I watched An Inconvinient Truth- I'm not quite sure why, though. Perhaps dispair.

The Green Mile made me sad...so do a few episodes of things I watch on TV...mostly when a main character I like dies...

Not quite on the same theme, but toward the end of The Amber Spyglass (the book by Phillip Pullman), I was welling up a little too...

Man, that got me both time I read it. If we're including books, then Audrey Niffenegger's The Time-Traveler's Wife had another wonderfully sad ending.

I was supposed to cry at Pan's Labyrinth. I know I was. All the stone-hearted girls and boys who I am friends with wept buckets. All the mean old film critics did, too. But I didn't. It just didn't make me feel that sad. (although I nearly jumped out of my seat with adrenaline during the Mr. Pale chase scene).

Big Fish is hell of sad when the main character is struggling with tears to tell his dad the final story, but I am usually OK by the time the scene shifts. To some degree I try not to cry in movies--it makes me feel like the movie has won, or that I'm being manipulated. But that's my crazy brain talking.

I watched Amile on Monday and I felt the exactsame way... to the point I was thinking "something is wrong... why am I not crying? tearduct cancer?" I was kinda welling up, but not a tear was shed.

I normally don't cry at movies, but I cried when I watched Finding Neverland. I also told my sister she was dead inside because she didn't.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made me well up a little when I watched it the second time. The first time I was rather too smooshed up against strangers to get very emotional about anything.

that book is really sad... i will aways wonder about how will is going to explain the panther that follws him around. that book started sad, and ended sad... i liked the golden compass better.


thats not really a give away.

the notebook makes my fiencee cry when he watches it... but most of these movies are right on track with what makes me cry.

That is when I cried.

There is now a list of things I hate, due to that character. It includes:

The sink in Wytu's bathroom as the taps and plug make the same face
Jesus statues- the one with his hands showing the holes from the nails, facing upwards

(The Jesus statue had me running away down the street with Wytu following in tears of laughter. He couldn't quite believe I was THAT scared of Jesus.)

I cry whenever I watch The Passion of the Christ and Chasing Amy. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm certain there are more out there that have made me shed some tears.

EDIT: I got choked up during one scene in SLC Punk. I won't spoil it, but if you've seen it you can probably figure it out.

I cry all the time at films and books and music and pretty much anything else...ones that really get me going are The Notebook, Gladiator, Love Actually (kinda unusal, I guess, but the funeral...and then the soppy bits...) and, although I haven't seen it I know it will, The Deer Hunter...I'm such an emotional person *shakes head*

LOL, I use to cry at like every movie or show I saw (excluding crazy comedies).
I dunno. The most recent I can think of is...Requiem for a Dream. (I almost mad it through, but that last chilling scene, I just couldn't hold it in any longer! LOL!

My friend cries at movies a lot too, but mainly when I show her the many movies in which Jared Leto dies in! LOL!

I cry at lots of stuff, and I just got back from the cinema (I feel so sophisticated saying that) after seeing Bridge to Terabithia. OK, spoilers now...




I actually went to this movie knowing that a. it was depressing and b. the little girl dies. So I was pretty sure I was gonna cry. I didn't see it coming, and then it happened, and I was wondering why I wasn't crying... and then the little dog he gave her jumps up against the window when they go to her parents' house, and then I cried, and cried some more, and then some more. And then on and off again during the rest of the movie, which was probably 20 min. So sad. The people that I saw it with said it was too depressing to redeem itself. Don't know about that, but yeah, depressing.

I don't usually cry at movies (I think it's something to do with the fact that I'm usually with lots of other people, and I don't like to cry around other people), but lots of books make me cry. Notably and recently, Of Mice and Men, The Amber Spyglass, and Stranger In a Strange Land. I have read that last one a total of four times, and every single time it has made me cry.

I cry every time I read 1984. The feeling of dispair you get after reading it is so intense and you just feel like there is NOTHING you can do about anything.

You know, although I'm far too manly to cry at that, I am overwhelmed with dispair. I'd forgotten about that. Very good book.

Oh, and the other night, I nearly cried after reading Der Vorleser, but I sucked it up.

As for films, I know I've cried at some when I was younger. Will get back to y'all.

Despair! Despair! I wasn't going to correct it, but Wytu got it wrong, and now I'm worried. What have you done to him, Daria?

/spam

I gon made him fick!

I dont generally cry at movies though a few books have made me cry; watership down, the vampire armand, the time travellers wife.