Movies that make you cry?

[awesomefowl]

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So even pivotal and deeply human, heartfelt fictional stories do not stir basic human emotions in you? Man, they do me! I don't have to think a story is "real" to be moved by it.

Yeah, but I just don't cry...........I prefer books for pivotal and deeply human stories.

 

[pusskatkins]

I guess so, huh?
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[SilverPhoenix]

I am strange--I get moved by lots of movies and get wrapped up in storytelling all the time, but it's extremely rare for me to cry. I don't think I cried in any of the common "tearjerker" movies! And I tend to actively seek out sad movies, so it's all a bit odd.

The movie Fluke still makes me a little teary sometimes, though. I've seen in a thousand times, but the scene with the tombstone at the end just gets me for some reason. I don't think I properly cried, but I know I got teary at the end of Pan's Labyrinth.

The documentary Earthlings made me cry harder than any piece of media has made me cry, ever, but that's all real footage, so...

To be honest, what makes me cry more often than live action movies for some reason is anime. Maybe it's because they're longer and give me more time to get attached to the characters. Sometimes they trigger me just right and off I go. I bawled at a few particular scenes at the end of Dennou Coil, started crying at the end of Last Exile (I'm not even sure why on that one), cried after the credits rolled on Cowboy Bebop, got rather teary during Grave of the Fireflies, and I sometimes tear up in the ends of Wolf's Rain and Millennium Actress. I think an episode each of Natsume Yuujinchou and Mushishi got me seeing blurry, too.

There were a few Pokémon episodes and movies that made me tear up, as silly as that may seem to those who did not grow up with Pokémon.

 

[noodleroo]

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So even pivotal and deeply human, heartfelt fictional stories do not stir basic human emotions in you? Man, they do me! I don't have to think a story is "real" to be moved by it.

Yeah, but I just don't cry...........I prefer books for pivotal and deeply human stories.

awesomefowl; I think you are missing the point. Movies are another form of art. Art is SUPPOSED to make us feel....something; laugh, cry...something. We all know that music and painting's don't require that we react to them, but if they are really good, we do. Personally, I use books to learn stuff these days, and my job provides all the pivotal and deeply human stories that I can stand...

 

[gritsar]

To me, movies are modern times form of storytelling. In ancient times storytelling was done at community gatherings. Nowadays we hear the stories in theaters or in front of TV, but it's still storytelling.

 

[PippyChicken]

Oh && i -think- i cried during the little mermaid..

 

[HHandbasket]

Egg zactly, Gritsar!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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At our house, that movie ends when he leaves the tribe to go back for his journal. I CANNOT watch the part where they kill the horse....I even used to have a cat named Cisco, after the horse.

 

[Turkeyrangler]

Okay, here goes it. "Where the Red Fern Grows" and "Old Yeller" are a given. I agree with other posts, I can't watch the parts in "Dances with Wolves" where the horse and wolf are shot. "Marley and Me" messed me up too. I watched it without knowing anything about it after it was suggested by a friend at work..he dang near got punched the next day. People should warn you ya know. I caught a bit of flak on here over Christmas because I admitted that "It's a Wonder Life" makes me tear up..okay, maybe a bit more than that. Not sure what it is about that movie, but it has always done that to me since I was a kid. It just hits some cord in me that set me off, it helps that it does the same to my wife. One more that I haven't heard mentioned is "What Dreams May Come." The wife and I have done dog rescue and adoption since forever. If we go somewhere after we die and all our pets will be there with us we are going to be REALLY, REALLY busy...

Just so you know; long haired, tattooed Biker who has also worked as a wilderness guide here making these statements. Don't tell anyone, it will mess up my reputation....

 

[hencrazy]

The Fox and the Hound - I think it is mostly the music that gets me.