Am I the only one who crys watching tv or a movie?
 

I just watched LOST tonight and I cried because one of the characters died. I always catch myself crying at stuff like that. God forbid you take me to see a sad movie! When I went to see Titanic I cried like a baby both times I saw it in the theatre!! I won't watch Lassie Come Home (a personal favorite of mine) or Old Yeller cuz I know I'll cry. Tell me I'm not the only one!

I should really be putting this in the confessional thread, but every time I watch the movie 1776 (which I do every year around Independence Day), I get choked up during the song "Momma Look Sharp". Never fails.

Um, I cry during Disney ads. Like when the family didn't wait until the baby could walk and then the baby walked.....right into Mickey's arms (my daughter had that Gap outfit, too!). Or the little girl who waited her whole life to meet Mickey.......or the kid telling the people on the elevator that his sister was a souvenir.....or the proposal with the glass slipper......

And I've yet to make it through a Hallmark commercial without sobbing, especially when the guy with Down Syndrome gets his first apartment.....

Dammit. Now my eyes are watering....hmmm....must be the cat. Yeah, that's it. I'm suddenly allergic to the cat.

I'll admit to being a cries-like-a-three-year-old-girl guy at times. I've come to the conclusion that Extreme Makeover - Home Edition is actually a conspiracy by ABC to dehydrate me through my tear ducts. Every time the family comes home I turn into a sniffing, choking, Kleenex mangling mess.

Damn you Ty Pennington!!!!

Certain movies get to me too, though never the mushy romantic ones. Stories of human achievement are what open the floodgates the most for me. As embarrassing as it is to admit, Rudy was the first flik that made my eyes trickle. When the big guy on the sidelines starts clapping and chanting... then the crowd... then Rudy’s parents hear the entire stadium cheering their son......

:sniff: :sniff:

Damn you Sean Astin!!!

:D

The "It's not your fault, Will" scene in "Good Will Hunting" gets me every time. Surprisingly (to me, at least) was that "Beauty and the Beast" made me cry.

Nothing on tv can make me cry. Tv sucks ass.

There are, however, several songs that can get me bawling like a baby.

I cried last night too- it helped that I had spent the day feeling like a human pinata- but Lost got me last night too.

I cry at alot of things- Disney commercials, my home videos of our trips, movies...anything that hits some emotional button.

So, you are not alone.

Dumbo? Every single time.

Disneyland commercials are the worst (for getting all teary). Last year there was a commercial with a man sitting on a bench and I can't really remember what the voice over was saying but when the scene panned out he was sitting next to his little sister at Disneyland. Beautiful, I teared up every time.

Maybe this should go in the confessional thread but I used to tear up watching Milo and Otis. Lame I'm sure. Just the thought of the little guys getting lost and trying to find their way home killed me. Not to mention we had an orange kitty and a pug at the time.

C'mon Sac - you know you were crying on Nov 2, 2004 when you were watching TV.

Mercy. I'm such a crier.

Tom and I have been watching a lot of Queer Eye, and every time somebody makes a weepy declaration of love (which is a lot) I seem to get misty.

I first saw the commercial with the glass slipper proposal while in World of Disney in Orlando. It was on the big screen, and we looked up and watched because it was something other than the usual sing-along songs. When I realized what was inside the shoebox, the faucet started-- and I looked over at my dad, whose faucet was leaking, too!

The "you don't talk to me in that way anymore" commercial with the Donald Duck "I love you" is one of my very favorites. I miss it! Every time I couldn't help but have of those snicker-turns-into-all-out-sobbing moments.

Songs also get to me. It was the plan on Valentine's Day to be ironic and detatched (we wanted to separate romance from Hallmark so we'd celebrated earlier) but that got canned after I listened to somebody's emotional dedication of "A Dream is a Wish You Heart Makes" that morning. By the time we listened to Ben Folds' "The Luckiest" that night, I was a puddle of Heidi.

Hmm. All of these are related to Disney and/or love. Often both.

I'm a big baby when it comes to weepy moments in movies. Which is why I don't watch a lot of dramas. I end up getting annoyed that I'm such a wreck. You should've seen me watching Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in the theaters. I nearly drowned.

Those Disney commercials really do get to me, though I've yet to really tear up at them. The new ones about the "amazing 50th celebration", not so much. :rolleyes:

Ahhh...the Shoe Commercial...We were in a Disney store and the clerk made a point of making me watch it...and handed me a tissue when it was over! (nice Disney magic there...)

I'll cry at just about any sappy movie! Or TV show..doesn't matter...show me some sappiness...I'm reaching for the tissue!

Anything to do with animals ir peril or lost or reunited or let go in the wild gets me going. Whenever there is an animal in a film where something destressing happens, I'm always more worried about the animal than the humans. It started with Bambi and a recent viewing of Charlie the Lonesome Cougar confirmed I react the same as I did when I was 6.

I cried when North Carolina won the NCAA tournament on Monday night. Bawled like a baaaaaby!!! On my knees about a foot from the TV screen. So happy. I had been so tense....once I released my tension, the tears came. Partly because I remember the 1982 win like it was yesterday, and I remember every single thing about their 1993 win (on April 5th...my dad's bday).....and then I realize that those games were SO long ago.....and I'm so old now. :p

That tournament and UNC are so in my blood that I'm a TV zombie for weeks and then go through massive basketball withdrawals for a while.

But this year, for some reason, One Shining Moment did NOT make me cry. It usually does.

The Champ, Field of Dreams, The Passion of the Christ , and The Fox and the Hound are the only movies where I "lost it". Many other movies and TV commercials have, however, given me lumps in my throat :blush:

Ricky Schroeder....."Chaaamp!" Now I'm crying!!!

I cry reading, watching tv, and watching movies, probably more than I do crying about things in my own life. Sometimes it’s cathartic, like I’m crying about something in a film that could easily be applied to my own life, etc. But usually that’s why I’ll cry listening to song that moves me.

But if I’m really affected by what I’m reading or watching, I will sob. I mean, SOB. I have to be left alone. I can’t keep it in. This has happened:

1. Movies: The very end of The Fox and the Hound. (My brother lost it in Top Gun, when Goose died.), Edward Scissorhands (I can watch that without crying now, but I’ve seen it a billion times), The Elephant Man (sobbed for three hours after watching that one, but in my defense, I was raggin’ it big time), Awakenings, The Professional, and probably many more.

2. TV Shows: The Wonder Years, at least once during every single effin’ episode, I cried hard (but contained it in front of Heidi as best I could) at the end of LOST last night (mostly because of poor Jack and Shannon), many a Buffy episode had me on my knees with grief, and probably many more.

3. Books: The Lovely Bones, The Secret History, The Rats of Nihm all had me in hysterics. Fetal position hysterics.

4. Songs: Don't usually make me sob, but Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat gets me teary eyed sometimes, and Bowie's "tell my life I love her very much..." DAMMIT BOWIE!

Agh! The entire Buffy series gets me crying. I cried so much at the finale that my roommate came in from his room and asked me if I was ok. I was crying too hard and just pointed at the tv. I'm pretty sure he figured me for nuts.

Speaking of which, thinking about that finale is getting me all weepy!

OH & I cry when I read books too. Stephen King's "The Stand" had me crying so hard I had to put the book down for a few days.

I guess this is just a confessional type of week.

I used to only cry at one movie, and one movie alone. Pride of the Yankees "Today-ay-ay....."

But now I'm a reformed hardass, so I cry at a lot of things. Just last night, I got teary just thinking about Lilo and Stitch when Stitch says "I'm lost." Luckily, it was right before our Mass for the Pope, so people probably just chalked it up to me being a good little Catholic.

I have yet to see The Notebook, but when I read the book a few years ago, it was right during the time that my grandmother was dying from Alzheimer's, so I was bawling like a baby the whole time I was reading it.

I've cried during some of the intense episodes of The West Wing...I'm trying to think what else. I don't usually watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition but once I was at the gym and an episode was on and I started crying....then I turned bright red because I was so embarrassed that I was crying over it.

I have a friend who for the longest time refused to go to movies because she was afraid of crying in public. She has a kid now though, so she has to go to movies. I don't know if she's cried in any of them yet.

Aw, lady, why would you contain it? Why would I judge, I who cries sometimes during the DISNEYLAND FIREWORKS. They're fireworks, for pete's sake.

Besides, after all of the times we've sniffled over Everwood... the tears we shed at the end of Angel... the trailergasm we had while watching the Return of the King preview? (OK, that last one isn't crying, but it's embarassing nonetheless.) How could I possibly mock or judge the trickle of snot escaping your left nostril because life has begun as life just ended on Lost? How could I sleep at night?

I flat out bawled when Sarah McLachlan sang Angel (reminds me of my grandpa) and another song that reminds me of my uncle. Crying at concerts is a bit odd. It's so public and joyous....and then there's that weird 31 year old brunette bawling and boogering all over her taller thinner blonder tougher younger sister.

I cry during every. single. episode. of. E.R. Every one of them. It's my weekly nose cleansing exercise. It's riDICulous how that damn show makes me cry. Usually it's just a welling up of tears and some snot....other times....flat out bawling. My husband has never watched the show, but when I crawl into bed after ER and cuddle up to him, he always wakes enough to ask what it was that made me cry this time.....once I cried while telling him (when Carter's baby was stillborn).

I cry listening to the Wicked soundtrack. DAMN, I love that CD.

Sometimes I read Bridge to Terabithia, just so I can have an excuse to cry.

I cry during A Little Princess, thinking of the first time we saw it as a family and my tough little Cassidy tomboy cried.

I cry during certain scenes in Sex & the City, especially the final episode. Oh. Just thinking about the final episode makes me a little verklempt.

Oh thank goodness, I thought that was only me!!!

You know.... my mom always cried during fireworks and during patriotic songs and I thought it was odd.

I cry during fireworks now and I'll know I've officially turned into my mom when I start bawling during Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American."

God how I cried at the end of the Angel series. Especially Wes's death.

My ex used to mock me when I cried watching movies/tv. He would always say "it's just a movie/tv show!" & again I say to myself "no wonder we broke up"!

I try my damndest not to cry in front of other people. If I'm by myself, I'll get all weepy at the slightest thing. But if threre are people around, no way!

True that. I was thinking more along the lines of fictional type tv shows. But thanks for salting my wounds.

Here's a little something for you.

Oh, Sac! That is sooooo mean!




(LMAO)

I read Brideshead Revisted once a year without fail, and cry every time.

Movie-wise, nothing makes me cry like Shadowlands.

Ohh songs will do it to me, especially certain ones! Name one that gets you. Mine's "Amazing Grace" - the memory associated with that song always gets me.

This weekend, I cried during Because of Winn Dixie. Like twice. :rolleyes: And then during A Cinderella Story. And I bawled at the end of Friday Night Lights!



Therefore, I knew I was PMSing bigtime!!! :D

Me too...but I was crying at the start! I knew they didn't win..we lived it! That's where my Dad went to school...his team won state the year they went! Seeing that movie was like being in high school again...just paste me in and it was exactly like that.

I'll even confess to a certain moment at a party with a star player...but that's all I'm gonna say about that!!!!! :evil: :eek: :p

WTF??? I just popped in the new DVD of Bambi, brought up the "Walt's story meeting" feature, and burst into tears when Walt's voice came on. I know it's a voice-over guy, probably Corey Burton, but, WTF???

Harold and Maude, when the doctor tells Harold the bad news, and Harold loses it, while Cat Stevens punches your heart out.

Meet John Doe, when Barbara Stanwyck gives her teary-eyed "don't jump" speech.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when he hugs Charlie and gives him the Chocolate Factory.
(One thing that has always bugged me: Wonka pitched a fit when the fat kid fell in the chocolate river, but he seemed nonplussed when his Wonkavator smashed through the skylight in slow motion and showered the entire factory with enough broken glass to sustain a Whitesnake video, a Matrix sequel and a super badass leather-clad John Shaft window crash climax...unless it was candy glass, in which case it's all OK.)

The last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore show.

For a grotesque and fleeting moment in What's Opera, Doc, when Elmer experiences remorse.

When Cookie Monster shares his last cookie, because that is the ultimate sacrifice

The last verse of Born to Run.

When Tom Hanks can only stare at the moon he will never set foot upon in Apollo 13.