Awwwwwwwwwwww Syd - I am one of those hard hearted. In all honesty I'm not - but as a child it was drummed into me that my 'lovely' sister was the softie and I was the hard nosed cow because I tried to hide my tears while I cried quietly. For some reason I feel the need to keep up that assigned persona.

 

I married a real softie ..............he cries at the drop of a hat .............I'm always saying - 'shall I bring a towel down from the bathroom?' Sad really as - I often feel like crying too but ...................i have my assigned role!

 

I'm not a disturbed/traumatised person because of this but it's interesting how our roles are defined from an early age. Although I'm the youngest - I'm the 'supposedly strong' member of the family.

E.T.

 

Schindler's List

 

Life Is Beautiful

 

Brokeback Mountain

 

And more recently - 'UP'. The first 5 minutes of this film are lethal and emotionally destructive!! Loved the whole thing though.

..... (Do I know, or am I related to you?) 

There are parts of this post that I identify with but shhhhh 

Siblings who would ave em?..

Oh, an American tale- feivel goes west. I cry like baby when he's singing "somewhere, out there.."

The Green Mile. When the guy says 'don't put me in the dark boss'  I cried like I had lost a loved one.

 

A.I. at the end when the aliens come down under the frozen water for him, I sobbed/cried/snotted to Mr Cinds "At least the aliens will love him"

 

Love Story..... my mother banned me from watching it because I got so upset as a teen.

I agree with rexi about the lion king And the boy with the striped pj's what gobsmacking both mr summer & I were shocked by it

I've seen 'Boy' in HMV on offer at two for a tenner and often thought about getting it as the company I used to work for showed it to the 'clientelle' at times and they were bowled over by it, so I'm now wondering........

  The Way We Were; A Star is Born......trying to remember which one my mum threatened to switch the tele of if I didn't stop sobbing, can't remember what it was!

I have'nt seen the film............but the book made me cry about the normality/ibnormality  that children live with..

Think I've remembered my childhood one

Gobsmacked that nobody has mentioned the most successful film of all time - Titanic.  It made me cry in several places...  Especially when the woman was frozen to death in the water with her wee bairn near the end.  (Or maybe this film is considered too mainstream and commercial and 'hyped' for some on here...and they're too 'cool' to admit liking it. 

 

I have to agree with the Green Mile; absolutely sobbed at this...  Most weepie film EVER.  But E.T. *never* made me cry: even though I first saw it when I was about 8 or 9... Even now it doesn't...  Most of the films on here never made me cry and some of them didnt really do much for me at all TBH...  A Wonderful Life was a good weepie... loved that...

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Going back up there

 

The Way We Were

 

Brokeback Mountain

 

 

Yep .............real tear jerkers.

Cries thinking about it.....

I hated A.I.    I thought I would like it, it came out just after Matrix....    I absolutely hated it, I really struggled to watch it.    I know the "kid" was supposed to be a machine, but he was still a kid...   it didn't make me cry, I just didn't cope well with any of it, from start to finish.

And me.  I thought A.I. was pretty average.  Started well, but lost me part way.  Like you; I found it hard to stay with it.

AI was started by one director and finished by another which was why it was so disjointed...it did start well and the first half was good. The second half was complete shite though.

I saw a film ages ago,about a wee girl who's mother was murdered and the evil guy near the end tried to kill the wee girl too.However the mothers "ghost" appears to save the wee girl and the bad guy goes over the cliff...feck knows what it was called,but it made me blub as the ghost mum "Hugs" the daughter.

EXACTLY what I though Croc.  I didn't know that about the directors though.

The film was originally developed by Stanley Kubrick, but he died. He had done preparatory work for the film for many years, but had delayed starting as he had intended the robotic boy to be played by an actual robot so was waiting for robotics to develop to the point that this was possible.

The film was directed by Stephen Spielberg as his tribute to Kubrick. The problem with the film is that Kubrick and Spielberg made very different films - Kubrick being almost clinically cold and a perfectionist, but Spielberg can be sentimental at times, and their styles are so different and couldn't match - just compare 2001 and ET to see what I mean.

 

I only went to see Titanic to watch the boat sink ... I was 16 at the time.....

And did it Rawky? Did it sink?

 

 

Like a brick...

and it took far too long (the film!)

OMG, spoiler!!!! 

 

Whoopsie!

Huh - won't bother watching it now then

 

I'm not cool.   I cried like a baby and on the way home even though the tears stopped I was still doing the sobby shuddery breath thing.

 

Truly, Madly, Deeply also has me a sobbing mess.

 

I know I shouldn't but...

  Last time I sympathise with you and your man flu! 

I'm not cool, either, but I was completely unmoved by Titanic.

 

A Night to Remember, however...      

 

 

What you talking about? No women sympathise with Man Flu.

Man Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest! 

Ahhh... but it's a well known fact that you've got a heart of stone     They don't call you Blizz'aaaaaaard for nothing

Lies!! 

 

cool runnings-that made me cry at the cinema

not cos i was emotional

but

i was a bit pissed at the late night showing and poked myself in the eye with the straw in my drink

Beaches and Love Story always make me blub....as did Lost in Translation, but just because I had wasted a couple of hours of my life watching it

I really must get off here and watch more stuff than I do. I've got loads of films that I've replaced from video to DVD that I still haven't seen yet 

Well, I'm not ashamed to admit that I have to wipe back the odd tear every so often in the cinema.

The most recent time was watching "The Way".

I agree with Katerina about "Up". The opening is just extraordinary, and works as a powerful, self-contained "short" in its own right. Another one that hit me hard was "Bridge to Terabithia". Don't let anyone fool you into dismissing these as "kid's" films...

 

One other film I do remember well is "Pieces of April". Because its plot revolves around Thanksgiving, it tends to be a lot better-known in the States than this side of the pond, but it still has some very moving moments, and as for the key scene near the end: well, let's just say the whole cinema was blubbing.  Quite a few reviewers have observed that you'll probably want to phone your Mum after watching...