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Gemini Cricket 02-26-2007 06:48 PM

I cried 3 times in Brokeback. It stayed with me for days. Then again, Proulx's short story made me cry and things I read never, ever do that to me. (Except maybe for 'Harry Potter IV'.)

Billy Elliot made me cry twice as did Iwo Jima. I'm a weeper. :D

Gemini Cricket 02-26-2007 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis (Post 122534)
The Notebook was touchingly predictable, but I wouldn't use it as any litmus test.

The Notebook was a stinkfest. Bleh.
Terms of Endearment, Beaches, Life is Beautiful, Ghost, Fried Green Tomatoes... these are fine weepy films. :)

Strangler Lewis 02-26-2007 07:05 PM

I can't say I got weepy over Billy Elliot, but the father's shocked gasp at the end when he watches his son's leap stands out for me as the best movie moment about the transformative power of art.

€uroMeinke 02-26-2007 07:06 PM

I wept for Peter O'Toole in Venus

Not Afraid 02-26-2007 07:13 PM

Life is Beautiful was a good cry - but it hit mostly afterwards in the car.

Stan4dSteph 02-26-2007 08:56 PM

I sobbed during Braveheart when he is about to be beheaded and sees his dead wife walking in the crowd. I'm sure I'll be mocked for that one.

My other huge cry was Sean Connery's death scene in The Untouchables.

At the moment those are the two that come to mind.

Strangler Lewis 02-26-2007 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph (Post 122555)
. . . Sean Connery's death scene in The Untouchables.

At the moment those are the two that come to mind.

An Oscar-winning performance that was voted worst movie accent of all time, edging out Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

Gemini Cricket 02-26-2007 09:22 PM

I cried when Braveheart won Best Picture. I thought it was a homophobic POS.
;)

Mousey Girl 02-26-2007 09:22 PM

I do ok during most movies. If I know ahead of time I can avoid it. The things that really, really get to me are the deaths of children. For the last 10 years I can't handle seeing anything that involves the death of a child.

CoasterMatt 02-26-2007 09:24 PM

I laughed out loud when Jon Bon Jovi's character was shot in the movie "Cry Wolf", I got a really dirty look from Rose :D


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