Which movies have made you cry?

Dabprovin: We made it! Yeah On top of the world Ma!

The winner of my 'Movie-which-made-me-cry-the-most' award is
'Lady Sings The Blues' starring Diana Ross. I howled so loud I woke up my Mum.
Also:
The Champ
Who Will Love My Children (crape TV movie but sad)
Charlottes Web (the cartoon)

Oh a thousand other films-I'll cry at anything. Embarrasing though at the pictures and your sitting next to a gang of snotty schoolgirls with attitudes (and major chips on their shoulders - 13 going on 45)and they can't believe some 30 year old guy sitting next to them is getting emotional over 'Shrek'

Threads, Man Who Would Be King, others that I can't think of. Not the sentimental ones - I resist it when I feel they're trying to make me cry.

The last time I cried watching the TV was the night before last. But it wasn't a film. I watched a documentary about a doctor who operates on babies in the womb. He was really good and nice, but two of the three babies he was working on died. The camera was there when he told the parents. One baby died before being born, the other a couple of days afterwards. It was really sad

Ghost is one that comes to mind. I always have tears in my eyes for the scene at the end where Demi Moore's character gets to see Patrick Swayze's character just before he is wisked away to heaven. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen that movie, I always cry. Pearl Harbor made me cry as well because my father was stationed at Schofield Barracks which is next to Wheeler Army Airbase. He was 19 and had was 2 weeks out of bootcamp, he worked in the motor pool. Wheeler Army Airbase was one of the first to come under attack. He was in the barracks with a buddy and they ran for cover when the attacks began. My father saw his buddy killed that day. He ended up with what was then called Battle Fatigue (they would call it PSTD now) and was furloughed and then sent to Guam. When I saw the movie I was okay until they showed the attack, which like I said started at Wheeler Army Airbase, I started crying because I was thinking how frightened my father was that day, he was nothing more than a raw 19 year old farm boy from Iowa 2 weeks out of boot camp and ill-equipped to know how to handle the situation. He was only armed with a handgun which wasn't much defense against a Japanese Zero. The American pilots had difficulty in taking off because the planes were parked on the airfield wingtip to wingtip. After my father got home from the war for good, he never picked up a gun again, though he had been an avid hunter in the past. He just couldn't bear to touch a gun again, he said it brought back too many bad memories.

None.. I'm a senseless bastard!

Romeo and Juliet, Titanic, Armageddon, The Little Mermaid, Ghost the list goes on and on.

Who Will Love My Children? My SO has that on video at home. I hate those kind of TV movies but, for some unknown reason, she seems to like them. I'm not entirely sure, but I think she also has copies of "Give me back my baby, you bastard!" and "For God's sake, stop hitting my daughter's head with hammers!"

OK... confession time. Maybe I was just in an emotional mood at the time, but I bawled my eyes out when I watched "Untamed Heart" with Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. And I usually never EVER cry at movies. I was laughing at the end of Titanic.

I'm waiting for the release of "Oh, Mom just got married to a new Daddy - I can't for the life of me guess what happens next"

I came pretty close with The English Patient, and Dr. Zhivago.

Too many to recall. I think beauty and the beast was the first i recall. 'The man who fell to earth' was the only book to make me cry.
¥"as the roman empire fell.. just cause.. we were promised there would be other attacks.. you are not to use disproportionate force.. "

Many, but I can't name any since I don't remember any particular movies in this context.

Legends of the Fall, E.T, The Lion King and Meet Joe Black.

I don't recall any.

Funny, "The Man Who Fell To Earth" was one that I thought of, but I didn't think that laughing until tears came to my eyes is what the *survey creator* was looking for.

Oh my god, there are way too many to list.

Too many to list them all...
Armageddon, First Knight, My Life, Pay It Forward, Steel Magnolias, My Best Friend's Wedding, Beaches, Sweet November, A Walk in the Clouds, Bed of Roses, When A Man Loves A Woman, Days of Thunder, 8 Seconds, Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, Old Yeller, Dumbo, The Man in the Moon, and many many more.

*holds gun to your head*
Start somewhere Jemmy!

Lots of them.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"...scene with "Cat".
"Philadelphia"...end where they're showing the home movies of the kids, I couldn't pull myself together for hours.
"A.I."...which just has to show what a sentimental fool I am. GAWD how they milked that teddy bear at the end!

Oh my Gawd, is that true about those brats? I would never do that, you know

ET makes me sob like a sillyhead

I have never cried at a movie. I have a male friend who thinks it's weird for a female to never cry at sad movies. I don't think it's so weird, and I bet I'm not the only one.

I've never cried at a movie. I wanted to cry at Scary Movie whenever I learned I had wasted $6.50 and three hours of my time (three hours including getting to the theatre and back).

What me in the cinema watching 'Shrek' Yeah - but gangs of people get lippy especially if they awkward about themselves. I bet they wish they had the courage to let the tears fall down. (gosh that sounds like a song title or lyric)

"Let the tears fall down"
Duet by Dino and Phoebe

Going my own way
as I always do
but I happen to look your way
I can't help it with you

oh, baby, you're hurting inside
you've gotta let the tears fall down
your heart has been tried and tried
you've gotta let the tears fall down

I'm here for you, you know
I've never given such good advice
and you can't take another blow
just let me say, once, twice, thrice

You've gotta let the tears fall down
You've gotta let those tears fall down
tears fall down, tears fall down
it's all you've gotta do...


(I could do better but my ears are full of Whitney Houston)

Joy Luck Club

Queer Son (a scene where the mother joins her son at the Pride March)

Alive and Kicking (about dancers with AIDS - the finale scene is joyful and wrenching both - I watched it with a friend who has AIDS and our tears were just streaming)

Very few; "The Bicentennial Man" is the only one I can think of.

Um....disney movies, sappy romantic movies, movies with death, movies that are happy so you cry....I really can't remember names at the moment. My head is too filled with exam stuff.

I don't cry at movies.

???

Made me cry the most times - Brave Heart (9 1/2 times)
Most recently- A Beautiful Mind
But honestly, I cry at almost every movie I see!

The Perfect Storm, The Patriot, Pay It Forward, Saving Private Ryan, The Natural, Field Of Dreams, Titanic Town (not Titanic, that movie sucked), and a few others whose names escape me.

laughing to tears? it was the degeneration into alcoholism and the loss of purpose that got to me.

The scene where David Bowie is sitting in front of his enormous array of TV sets, with a maniacal grin, clicking the remote, while his "wife" stands between him and the TVs screaming at him hysterically with that southern drawl. I was the only one in the theater that thought it was funny, but I laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes.

You know i surround myself with multiple media channeling sources too. I was refering to the book. The movie had a different mood, just as the movie 'being there' totally reversed the metaphysical sentiment of the book, or 'blade runner' somewhat reversed the sentiments of 'do androids dream of electric sheep'.

Didn't read the book. Of the ones you mentioned, I've only read "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" and seen "Blade Runner". I saw the movie first, didn't get into reading Philip K. Dick until '84. I'd read quite a few before I got to that one, so I knew better than to expect it to be like the movie.

Kristal, don't you think that the movie is never better than the book? On very rare occasions, the movie is as good as the book, "A Clockwork Orange", "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas", "Planet Of The Apes".

i don't compare. they are different entities.
loathing: loved book, hated movie (but perhaps i'd think low of the book too now)
apes: never read
orange: both excellent
sheep runner: movie good, book better for different reasons.

What PK Dick have you read? Orwell wrote '84. Movie (sucked) appeared to have been written with '84 motives, like those movies 20 years backward claiming to reveal futuristic tech. I crack up thinking of the poor TV suckled fools that expect a phone trace takes at least a few seconds. today I was hearing on the radio about an art organization that monitors up to minute collective subconsciousness of the web. Tonights tv line up. 'The net' - 'NOW with Bill moyers' - 'Kings/Queens' - 'Americas funniest home videos' - 'washington' - 'the chamber' - etc. What a tangled web we weave.

lol Like I don't know who made this survey.Way to go dude!! You make me proud!!
**pats you on the back & gives you two thumds up**

Deep Impact
Armaggedon
Pay It Forward
Titanic...even tho we all know how it ended.
Ghost
Lion King
Beaches
An old black & white movie .....Imitation of Life.

nice.

Ernest goes to Jail
Biodome
Black Sheep
Dude, Where's My Car?

Oh, but seriously, Disney animated movies ALWAYS make me cry. When the dad lion dies in "The Lion King" I bawl like a baby. I know I've cried during The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, but I only saw each of them once, many many years ago, and can't remember them. I just know I hate Disney for manipulating my emotions.

I just saw a japanese animé 'Grave of the Fireflies' 1988 (english dub 1998 central park media). I was thinking during the movie that it wasn't effective emotionally, that I couldn't get into the charcters enough to cry for their situation. The tears hit me after the final credits started rolling. It was a very different genre. The subject was a boy orphaned by ww2 in japan watching over his little sister, forced to become a starving thieving hermit in the woods.

I've read most of Philip K. Dick's work. It is easier for me to list what I haven't read:

Beyond Lies The Wub (a collection of short stories)
The Book of Philip K. Dick (another collection of short stories)
Collected Stories Of Philip K. Dick (another collection)
Cosmic Puppets
Counter-Clock World
Crack In Space
Doctor Futurity
Handful Of Darkness (another collection)
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (another collection)
Lies Inc.
Variable Man And Other Stories (another collection)
Vulcan's Hammer
World Jones Made

Some of the above books were also published with different titles, I didn't bother listing the alternate titles.

Sole Surviver, Lorenzo's Oil

I just found a link of far reaching consequence http://www.adherents.com/lit/index.html , definitely food for artificial spirituality and the firemen.
I have a first edition of counter clock world from the collection of Zelazny's daughter i think (monica). I was considering sending it to you. (perhaps i'll consider a trade) It's not that good. I keep it around for magic purposes. How many books are written in which time flows backwards. Ah yes, the world wide wub fur, where text rewrites itself.
I've encountered a listing of nearly a couple hundred anthologies, I'm sure it's mostly duplicate stuff, heck, even different stories are duplicate stuff, it's like he couldn't recall if he wrote something or not, or shuffled stuff on the floor to see if a story came out. intergalactic pot healer, a scanner darkly, & do androids dream of electric sheep were my favorites. I haven't read much else on your list either. I read some collections, but alas I couldn't figure from searching which ones they had been.
Do you ever 'get' authors? that is to say, have a feel for the flavor and bounds of their reality, such that, like envisioning pink, having seen other colors in a pastel palette, you could envision the range of the flow, matter, civics, signicances, and other constructions of their universe? It allows one to move on to other authors of different genres as if, by tasting, you had grokked the authors complete works.

I'd like to read "Now Wait For Last Year" again. Many of the Philip K. Dick novels I bought years ago, I wound up lending out and not getting back. Some of them I have since replaced with the new "Vintage" editions. I haven't seen that one as yet. I did replace my three favourites: "UBIK", "A Scanner Darkly", and "The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch".

I've read a couple of his collected short stories: "The Best Of Philip K. Dick" and "The Golden Man". I also have "Now And Beyond" which includes his short story "The Turning Wheel". I agree that it would be difficult to get all of his short stories without a lot of duplication. It would be nice if one publisher would collect them all together into one book. I'm pretty sure no one has done that yet.

In response to your question at the end there, yes and no. I certainly wouldn't describe it in quite that way, but if I have been reading a lot of Philip K. Dick, I'll get to a point where it is like I start thinking with his words, or I almost feel like I could pick up where he left off. The only other author whom I've come even close to reading as extensively is Kurt Vonnegut Jr..

I'll bookmark your link and have a gander at it later...

Cheers!

I can't really remember... not many... I think I cried a bit at Lord of the Rings out of sheer joy and intensity... mostly because i'm a big nerd

I had a 1953 copy of the screenplay 'insignificance' (good movie) and am so disappointed that it 'disappeared'. It described 'soliflux', the nanotechnology of virulent genetic replacement therapy for matter. Not surprisingly, this technology didn't appear much in literature for half a century. People are fools to think nuclear science, that went from the periodical table to fusion in half a century, hasn't progressed in another half century with a thousand fold more specialists that were weaned on the product of prior generations. Vonnegut's ice-nine in cats cradle described a negative potential of that tech. Did you know his brother was employed attracting lightning storms for research in ionisation? I read a lot of him when younger too. and all the utopianist classics. Tom Robbins was fun. I grew up on Zenna Henderson, though those are rather primitive at this stage. Stranger in a strange land has much truth.
Ever read moorcock? He had a good mind for physics potential too.

How are you doing? You sound a little more scattered than usual.
(((HUG))) I read Stormbringer when I was about 13. That's probably not the sort of Moorcock you're talking about. I think I still have that copy kicking around here somewhere...I'm just cooking up some spaghetti, not that hungry really, but I have to eat...

Too many to mention. Even movie previews make me cry. You just have to get that sentimental music going and I start weeping. I'm pathetic.

Are you like me, often having to figure out if you're hungry, trying to remember if you've eaten already? When I find myself frequently wandering into the kitchen (I stopped stocking snacks years ago) I take that as sign (on good days) that I should make something to eat, and not just do another coffee/cig.
I was wondering if you'd pick up on the scattered. Didn't expect a wink though. such things make feel like i'm slacking in the awareness department.

Breaking the Waves. Last Night. Braveheart. Fellowship of the Ring, believe it or not. And when I was a kid, Pinocchio and Return of the Jedi (when Vader/Anakin died).

Last Night was such an awesome film! I wish more people would have the chance to see it.

also Cruel Intentions, Shakespeare in Love, The Lion King, Deep Impact

Food? I'm sometimes like that. It depends alot on what's going on in my life.

My "scattered" comment? I was concerned, but didn't want to sound like I was criticising. I thought maybe you were distracted...

Any movie where one loses the one they love (whether they win them back or not). I always cry when I see a movie like that.

A Beautiful Mind, American History X, SLC Punks, (The Velocity of Gary, It has some homosexuality but it's a wonderful movie. I never cried this hard over a movie)