primitives discuss men crying at movies

[Jasonw560]

Yeah, I cry at chick flicks all the time, specially when Expendables 2 is playing in the next theater over.

QFT.

Can't wait for E2.

[movie buff]

I admit to crying at movies sometimes, not for movies I see in the theaters very often (Though a couple recent exceptions were the scene in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' when Harry sees Snape's memories in the Pensieve which had a moment that brought me to tears, and Rue's death in the 'Hunger Games' movie got one or two tears from me), but at times from films I watch at home (i.e. I have no problem admitting that the scene in 'Bride of Frankenstein' in which the creature befriends the old blind man has made me cry, mainly for the part when the blind man's praying over the creature). It doesn't mean you're a wuss, it means you have a strong sense of empathy, even if it's just for fictional characters.
For Frank's point about how people cry at fictional incidents in movies, but don't cry over real- life atrocities, a few possible reasons:
1. People often either aren't aware of such things that go on in real life, or at least don't realize quite how bad/ severe they are.
2. A good film causes people to learn about the characters, and become emotionally connected to them. Thus, though it's not real, the audience feels more sadness over the death of a beloved character they feel they've gotten to know than they do over the real- life deaths of people that they don't know.
3. Going along with the previous point, people see the deaths of characters in movies they watch; They do not see the deaths of real people overseas, they merely read or watch secondhand news stories about what happened.
4. Again going along with the second point, there's an old saying that I'm almost certainly going to butcher, "One death is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic." It's the same reason why more people got worked up over the lone shooting of Trayvon Martin (Justified though the shooting obviously was) than over the countless people who've been killed by gang violence.

[IassaFTots]

Armageddon gets me every time.  Every dang time. 

[zeitgeist]

Yep.

People?  Don't give a crap.

Yep, there is a youtube out there with a bunch of the classics, Old Yella, Where the Red Fern Grows, etc.  I would make Bohner look like a stoic watching most of those.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBOaN0KJ9xI[/youtube]

[dixierose]

I think the movie that I cried at the most was The Passion of the Christ. I was literally sobbing during his scouring scene.

Another movie that I remember brought me to tears was A Time to Kill.

[BEG]

I think the movie that I cried at the most was The Passion of the Christ. I was literally sobbing during his scouring scene.

Another movie that I remember brought me to tears was A Time to Kill.

Me too

[DefiantSix]

I will admit to getting a little misty in the key scenes of We Were Soldiers, Blackhawk Down, Braveheart, Gettysburg and Glory.

[Tucker]

I don't "cry" as in "boo-hoo", but I am not completely without heart.  I can muster a tear sometimes.

(Yes, Frank, it is silly to get so emotionally involved in an acted-out story, but sometimes it's just the human thing to do.)

I'm with you.

I've been known to drop a tear or two in movies such as when the flag is raised on "Sands of Iwo Jima" or "The Patriot". They are usually preceded by chills.

[franksolich]

  Broderick cried over those??  Pathetic. 

As for Dennimi, no wonder I always considered that DUmmie a female.

I did too, for the longest time.

And in my speculation, I probably misled others.

But damn, he writes as if a grasswire-aged older woman, although less addled than the pie-and-jam primitive.

It was a great shock to me, when I sought to mentor him in writing, to learn he's actually a middle-aged male.

Excresence happens.

[franksolich]

Being deaf you have to concentrate on reading the closed captions and trying to watch what is going on at the same time so you are not able to just let the movie take you out of yourself. Unlike a book where you are able to just let your self go into it since you are not distracted by trying to observe two things at once. At least that is what I think is going on there, I could be wrong.

Overall, correct, although I'd substitute "watching what is going on and trying to figure out what's going on, at the same time," as I don't mess with closed captioning.  (For reasons mentioned in a thread in the "Mind Numbing Stupidity" forum here, the thead about Mike Mellow or Mark Malloy or whatever his name is; I'm convinced Vlada Mitty writes the captions.)

I dunno how many movies I've watched from start-to-finish in my entire life; perhaps slightly only more than what I have fingers.  There's only three which I considered remarkable (although I was watching them under special circumstances, not as part of an audience in a theater).

Lawrence of Arabia has to be the greatest movie ever made.  Ingmar Bergman's black-and-white classic The Seventh Seal is perhaps the most realistic movie ever made.  And then there was Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn in Hot Spell, another black-and-white from the 1940s.

"Hot Spell" is a great movie for deaf people to watch; the body languages of Booth and Quinn were so expressive one didn't have to "hear" anything to know what was going on.  Damn, they were good.

I guess I can allege I saw Star Wars and some Steve Martin comedy from the early 1980s in their entirety too, but I was young and drunk and stoned.  All I "retain" of Star Wars was that bar-room scene with all those weird beasts and savages in it, which probably had something to do with my later perception of the primitives on Skins's island.

But generally, when it comes to the cinema scene, franksolich is w-a-a-a-a-y off-stage.

[ChuckJ]

I remember the first time I was "Overboard".  I teared-up when the kids were chasing the limo screaming, "Moms don't leave!"  

For me it was at the ending.

My 'emotions' were also stirred at bit at the beginning when she was in her sinsuit...I mean...swimsuit.

[Undies]

For me it was at the ending.

My 'emotions' were also stirred at bit at the beginning when she was in her sinsuit...I mean...swimsuit.

Yes, every guy wanted to lick the strawberry.

[dixierose]

Overall, correct, although I'd substitute "watching what is going on and trying to figure out what's going on, at the same time," as I don't mess with closed captioning.  (For reasons mentioned in a thread in the "Mind Numbing Stupidity" forum here, the thead about Mike Mellow or Mark Malloy or whatever his name is; I'm convinced Vlada Mitty writes the captions.)

I dunno how many movies I've watched from start-to-finish in my entire life; perhaps slightly only more than what I have fingers.  There's only three which I considered remarkable (although I was watching them under special circumstances, not as part of an audience in a theater).

Lawrence of Arabia has to be the greatest movie ever made.  Ingmar Bergman's black-and-white classic The Seventh Seal is perhaps the most realistic movie ever made.  And then there was Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn in Hot Spell, another black-and-white from the 1940s.

"Hot Spell" is a great movie for deaf people to watch; the body languages of Booth and Quinn were so expressive one didn't have to "hear" anything to know what was going on.  Damn, they were good.

I guess I can allege I saw Star Wars and some Steve Martin comedy from the early 1980s in their entirety too, but I was young and drunk and stoned.  All I "retain" of Star Wars was that bar-room scene with all those weird beasts and savages in it, which probably had something to do with my later perception of the primitives on Skins's island.

But generally, when it comes to the cinema scene, franksolich is w-a-a-a-a-y off-stage.

Have you tried to watch The Passion of the Christ? The actors speak in Aramaic (IIRC) and there are subtitles.

[Bodadh]

Have you tried to watch The Passion of the Christ? The actors speak in Aramaic (IIRC) and there are subtitles.

Never saw it. Read the book. 

I tend to avoid movies with subtitles for the reasons I stated before like the distraction, having to keep up with who said what and so forth. I would turn on the closed captioning on the TV from time to time because my brother is deaf and try to enjoy a show with just that. And like Frank said in MNS, they can be a little wonky.

[Delmar]

I think the movie that I cried at the most was The Passion of the Christ. I was literally sobbing during his scouring scene.

Another movie that I remember brought me to tears was A Time to Kill.

Have you seen For Greater Glory?  If the scourging scene in The Passion of the Christ made you sob, imagine about the same kind of torture inflicted on a little boy.  That had my eyes watering.

[GOBUCKS]

Two recent subtitled movies that I thought were excellent: "The Artist" and "Letters From Iwo Jima".

[dixierose]

Have you seen For Greater Glory?  If the scourging scene in The Passion of the Christ made you sob, imagine about the same kind of torture inflicted on a little boy.  That had my eyes watering.

I don't remember hearing about that movie. I just checked it out in IMDB, and I'll add it to my Netflix queue.

[Delmar]

I don't remember hearing about that movie. I just checked it out in IMDB, and I'll add it to my Netflix queue.

After reading your post I visited IMDB to check out the listing and I started crying just from watching the trailer.

[Chris_]

I usually get choked up once or twice a year and it usually happens on Memorial Day or Veterans Day. 

[Delmar]

Brian's Song is on netflix--the original and the remake.  I've only seen the original, it's a tear-jerker.

[Tucker]

I usually get choked up once or twice a year and it usually happens on Memorial Day or Veterans Day. 

Not from a movie but the one that I will always remember was my very first funeral with the Patriot Guard. The hearse comes in followed by the family of the fallen soldier. I was standing at the entrance of the funeral home. Behind me were over 100 other PGR members, all holding 5 X 7 American flags.

We stood there throughout the service. When it ended, the soldiers father wanted to tell each and every PGR how grateful he was. He shook every persons hand all while bawling like a newborn.

Grief and appreciation make for a strong emotional display.

[Bodadh]

Brian's Song is on netflix--the original and the remake.  I've only seen the original, it's a tear-jerker.

Someone did a remake of Brian's Song? Why?

[Undies]

Arrogance.  Vanity.  Greed.

Why "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" when "Willy Wonka" exists, for example.

[LC EFA]

Shrug.

I don't watch movies. Waste of valuable fishin' , drinkin' and shootin' time.