Self Torture

[tripperfunster]

Ugh! Why do I do this to myself?

A couple of days ago I watched The Green Mile (again) and cried like a baby.
Tonight I watched Forest Gump and … yup, cried like a baby again.

Not exactly news-worthy or a spoiler alert, but holee shit, Tom Hanks is amazing. His ability to act like someone who is a very low IQ is pretty great bla bla bla, but his ability to REACT to things. To have two or more conflicting emotions and thoughts running through his head and have the ability to SHOW US all of the things that he's feeling. Guh.


What movies make you blubber?

For me, in no particular order (and what I can think of, off the top of my head:)

Up <--- fuck you Pixar. without lube!
Lion King. Just the beginning. I have no idea why the intro makes me cry, but it does. Every time.
So We Bought a Zoo. Oh god, I totes embarrassed my kids by blubbering though the entire film.


Okay, I know there are tons more, but that's all I can think of right now. If you have some nice, sappy recc's, I'd love to hear them!


Oh, btw, I saw Big Hero 6 last night and it was FUCKIN' AWESOME! Very, very highly recommend. Loved it.

Comments

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I like Forrest Gump a lot too but then i also like John Waters movies, which are about as far from Forrest Gump as you can get.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Serial mom. Made me cry because it was OMG SO BAD! ;)

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

i thought it was hilarious! I like his real freaky movies with Divine even better though.

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Aw, c'mon! Up is great . . . . after the first 8 minutes or so.

And then there's Toy Story 2 AND 3. The girl c'boy's song in 2 and the whole fucking movie for 3.

So, yeah, fuck you, PIXAR!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Up IS pretty great, but that first time, I was not expecting to cry in the first 10 minutes! It really surprised me.

Yeah, Jessie's song is pretty damn sad, and when the toys are all at the dump, about to be burned, and they all hold hands!! *sob*

[indybaggins.livejournal.com]

Pride! I saw it in the cinema last night and all four of us(!) were sobbing by the end of it. Wonderful movie, highly recommended!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds great (just read the IDMB page) I hadn't heard of it.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

OMG me too! Wasn't it a wonderful film? I loved it so much but oh boy, the ending killed me.

[tinkcph.livejournal.com]

Omg, I can usually find something to cry about in every movie. So embarrassing. But some big hitters, for me:

The Mighty, The Iron Giant, The Color Purple, Secondhand Lions.

And Stage Beauty, not so much a weepy movie, but highly recommended for effeminate Billy Crudup in Shakespearean drag, and the scene where Claire Danes tells him he has no idea what it's like to be a woman gives me chills every time. Man, she is so powerful in that scene.

[chibitoaster.livejournal.com]

Iron Giant always makes me cry, too!

And Life is Beautiful - the most wonderful movie I've ever seen that I can never see again.

[tinkcph.livejournal.com]

Yes, goodness, Life Is Beautiful! My heart never fully mended from that one...

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

OMG Iron Giant! Yes! Big, ugly cry, just thinking about it!

I've not heard of The Mighty or Secondhand lions. I will have to give them a try! Thanks!

And yes, I love Claire Danes too. Such an old soul for such a young woman!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Nearly all films make me cry.

I cried at Terminator 2, for heaven's sake.

I cry buckets at Spock's death scene in ST2, every...single...time...

If I don't cry at a film, then it hasn't been a real cinema visit, because the film hasn't engaged my emotions on any level.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Hee! That is so great!

I don't cry at EVERY film, but I do well up/get emotional at many.

Just curious: When did you cry at Terminator 2? Personally, I had a very emotional reaction, when Sarah Connor is running down the hallway, and T2 comes out of the elevator. The amazing level of terror that she must have been feeling, at seeing him there was overwhelming for me.

[sevs-girl72.livejournal.com]

"Up" is an emotional cruelty. I mean really, those first few minutes - brutal.

It may be odd, but Bruce Willis's speech to his daughter at the end of "Armageddon" does it to me every time.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I haven't watched that one for a while. I do remember liking it quite a bit when it first came out.

Oddly enough, I'm more likely to cry at the second viewing of a movie, than the first. I really don't know if I cried much or at all at the first time I saw The Green Mile, but I seriously ugly cried a couple of times when watching it this week. (and that must have been a third or fourth one, with years in-between.)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's the anticipation that does you in...

[synn.livejournal.com]

I really want to see Big Hero 6! : )


What movies make you blubber?
-'UP'
-When Simba's father dies, and again when he shows up later.
-Casper (live-action) - saddest movie ever. it's super cheesy and intended for kids too, which just makes it pathetic that the end always makes me cry.
-Rudy.


Also, any movie where the pet dies, gets left behind, or those films where two animals become friends over a long journey.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! I don't think I've seen the casper movie. It sounds really familiar, but I might have just seen the previews. Is it with Christina Ricci??

[synn.livejournal.com]

Yep, Christina Ricci and Bill pullman.

[coffee-n-cocoa.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I thought I was the only one who teared up at the beginning of The Lion King!

The Green Mile makes me sob every time, without fail. Ghost does the same thing. And Titanic.

And I generally avoid films starring animals, because they almost always die at the end and I know I'll be an emotional wreck.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Ghost! Yes! That one too.

I purposefully didn't put Marley and Me in my list, because honestly? It was basically manufactured to make people cry. It wasn't even that good, just a formula for bawling.

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

Rudy, yes! \O/. And Steel Magnolias, when Sally Fields loses it at the cemetery. And Unstrung Heroes, one of my favorite movies, the ending when the boy and his father are watching the 35 mm movies on the day of his mother's funeral.

Also Sophie's Choice and Schindler's 'list, although those are movies that you expect would make everyone cry. I also get a little misty at the end of 'The Natural' when Robert Redford is running the bases after the lights go out.

My husband says to add 'Sleepless in Seattle', the ending and he is not ashamed that he loves a chic flic (he made me tell you that), and as you're an animal lover, I'd have to add Frances Ford Coppola's 'The Black Stallion', when the boat sinks, and all the footage on the island while the boy is wooing the horse. Turner and Hootch, and the killer is 'My Dog Skip', both of them when the starring dog buys the farm. And the first half hour of 'Saving Private Ryan' is so bad I now have to skip it.

My work is done here.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of Unstrung heroes. I will have to check that out!

Oh God, I just loved The Black Stallion. Such a great movie!

OMG, I just thought of another. This was a made for TV movie with Merideth Baxter-Burney called Winnie. Holy shit, I balled through the entire thing. My roommate (at the time) thought I'd lost my marbles.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096448/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_62

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

I will have to check Winnie out. :)

I cry when...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

The Little Mermaid: The first time we see a merperson swim by and the moment when human Ariel breaks through the water and takes her first breath.

Beauty and the Beast: The Beast's transformation.

Finding Nemo: Nemo: "Dad! I can do this!" Marlin: "I...I...I know you can!" (Oh, god, I'm tearing up just typing it.)

City of Ember: I don't know why, but I burst into tears when the city's long-dormant mechanism starts up and we realize what all that s**t was for in the first place!

Strings: The ending. The funeral. Oh, god, I love that movie so much. I wish I could make everyone in the world see it.

The Thief of Bagdad: Abu's stealing the magic carpet and the wise old man hears him speaking to Allah, saying, "When the old man dies, he won't need a carpet to go to heaven; you'll take him by the hand, won't you, gentle and kind as he is," and the old man smiles and lets him take the carpet.

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (Rankin-Bass tv special): The Winter Warlock asks to have just a little magic and lights the trees in the forest grove, where Kris and Jessica are holding their wedding because no church will have them because they're outlaws. Bawling. Every. Time.

Re: I cry when...

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of City of Ember, and I love Tim Robbins and Bill Murray! Will have to check that out!

Frosty the snowman, when he's melting, but wants to stay to protect the little girl? Tears, every time.

Also, in Monsters Inc, when Mike fixes Boo's door, and Sully goes in, and all you hear is Boo's voice, all excited to see him. THE LOOK ON HIS GODDAMNED CARTOON FACE! I am tearing up just typing this.

Which Strings are you talking about? I googled it, and there seem to be quite a few movies with that title.

RE: Re: I cry when...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Strings, a simply gorgeous and sophisticated Danish film from 2004 with a Hamlet-esque plot in a world populated by marionettes. They aren't just human characters represented by marionettes, they are marionette characters--there's an entire mythos of anatomy, mortality, theology, etc. built around their world, and it's freakin' astonishing. It has a hell of an English dub cast, too (James MacAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Derek Jacobi).

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Made an utter pratt of myself bawling at the end of Pride (which is a very British film you probably won't get over in the US but if you get a chance to see it, do, because it's brilliant). Puccini makes me cry buckets - I went to see a film version of La Boheme and cried almost from the overture to the end.

Oh oh! Truly Madly Deeply with Alan Rickman. Such a good film but heartbreaking

[tealightwhimsy.livejournal.com]

I know it's been over a month but I just had to tell you how relieved I feel to not be the only one who,cries at the beginning of The Lion King!

Also Hatchi -- when he's old and walking down the railroad tracks (ugly blubbering)

And The Fighting Sullivan's, when the father salutes the water tower (my eyes are tearing up just reading about it

And Babe ("That'll do, pig")