S/O - movies that made you cry like a lunatic in public

Tofumonkey

or in private.

For me: Big Fish, Bicentennial Man, Up. At all 3 I'm inconsolable. One was on a plane. Humiliating. 

gblake

Up, the Help and Marley and Me. Boo hoo, ugly crying movies.

wise_rita

The first two minutes of Love Actually, with Hugh Grant narrating about people on 9/11 making calls of love, not calls of hate while showing people greeting their loved ones at Heathrow arrivals gate.

dulcemariamar1

Up. I was crying like crazy. Actually, I cried through the whole movie. That is not a kids movie at all.

myblueangel19

My Girl and Titanic.

dorothyinAus

Before I saw Dead Poet's Society, I never cried at movies.  After DPS, the slightest tug of heartstrings or emotional manipulation and I'm a bawling mess.

Tofumonkey

Have you guys not seen Big Fish??????

BlushingMama

Have you seen the movie Last Dance with Sharon Stone... I blub everytime I see that movie and its an old movie.

aMrsin09

My Life (Micheal Keaton/Nicole Kidman)

P.S. I Love you (Gerard Butler and a chick)

Schindler's List

There are more, but these take the cake.

Tofumonkey

Spoiler alert. 

Oh my god, it's one of my favourite movies but I don't think I can ever bring myself to watch it again. I'm nearly in tears right now just thinking about it.

It's about a guy whose dad died, but he never really respected his dad because his dad's stories about his life were all fantastic and he never believed them to be true. They were about so many amazing things like circus people and experiences but the son never believed him. Anyway, in the end the movie is about the son going through his dad's stuff and you hear about the stories as he goes and then at the end at his funeral (I'm not writing very well right now because I'm now a bawling effing mess just thinking about it) all of the people from the stories are there and it's just the happiest moment in a movie ever, ever, ever and it's just wonderful.

So anyway, I first saw this movie on a plane flying through China with Paul and his mother years and years ago and the movie just like, totally captured me from the very beginning, and then it started to get sad and I started to cry - but then I started to audibly sob and gasp for breath in my seat. Then I started sobbing so hard that I was nearly hyperventilating. Paul was beside himself with embarrassment. Other passengers were getting nervous and asking if I was okay. I barely spoke Chinese at that point so just waved them off, glued to the screen and bawling like a lunatic, my shoulders were heaving and I was gasping for breath.

Then the movie hit its' climax and I fecking lost it and threw my head back and just bawled audibly and without abandon - baaaaa ha ha ha ha. I wailed to Paul that I couldn't believe that this was happening. He looked at me like WTF is WRONG with you! and looked like he wanted to disappear and die in his seat. His mother couldn't take the embarrassment and took off to the bathroom - as the only three foreigners on the plane it was obvious that we were together.

Finally, all of the flight attendants came over to see what medical treatment I needed but I was crying to hard and just too distraught to coherently reassure them that I was okay and in frustration and in my devastated emotional state I loudly wailed to them "The DVD is so happy!"

Everyone on the plane had been silently watching this exchange and burst out laughing at that point, even the flight attendants and Paul. They went and got me some tissue and I sat there whimpering about the movie for the rest of the flight.

Now if we're at home and any type of ad for Big Fish comes on Paul lunges to turn off the TV. 

azure_azure

I love Big Fish, not sure if I cried though. 

I cried all through Two Brothers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338512/ 
luckily not in public.  

Tofumonkey

aMrsin09:

My Life (Micheal Keaton/Nicole Kidman)

P.S. I Love you (Gerard Butler and a chick)

Schindler's List

There are more, but these take the cake.

Oh, I saw PS I love you. I didn't handle it very well. 

BlushingMama

I don't just cry at movies though, this TV advert always made cry. My mom used to call it 'my ad' and used to switch off the TV when it came on in SA.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1RsdRN5Qjg

oneslybookworm

I avoid movies that are even remotely sad like the plague, but every so often one sneaks in.  The obvious one for me is "Schindler's List", but a few others are "The Notebook" and "Day in a Life".

SPOILER ALERT:  Day in a Life/Life in a Day (I can never remember the damn title) is a Discovery channel documentary about people all over the world during a single 24-hour day.  Great movie, fantastic idea...UNTIL THEY EFFING SLAUGHTER A COW in the middle of the movie!  Yeah...basically, I was a bawling hot mess from that point on to the end of the movie, and I didn't eat beef for months.

Tofumonkey

azure_azure:

I love Big Fish, not sure if I cried though. 

I cried all through Two Brothers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338512/ 
luckily not in public.  

How could you not have cried at Big Fish? His dad just had led this incredible life with all of these incredible people and just did things so differently and nobody believed him when he was old, and it all turned out to be true. Oh god, here I go again. It's just such a great movie. 

aMrsin09

Tofu - Do not watch My Life.  Just don't do it to yourself.

I just remembered it may be too close to an "art imitating life" type deal.  No good can from it.

Tofumonkey

LOL. thanks for the heads up!

wise_rita

I saw Big Fish and it didn't evoke such a strong reaction!  Holy man, Tofu!

Tofumonkey

Meh, I guess people react to different things very differently.

I never enjoyed Titanic and thought that the only redeeming part was when the guy pings off the propeller. 

myblueangel19

I love Big Fish and have seen it several times....never once cried though.

Tofumonkey

myblueangel19:

I love Big Fish and have seen it several times....never once cried though.

I'm absolutely shocked by this you guys. 

aMrsin09

Tofumonkey:

How could you not have cried at Big Fish? His dad just had led this incredible life with all of these incredible people and just did things so differently and nobody believed him when he was old, and it all turned out to be true. Oh god, here I go again. It's just such a great movie. 

See now, I saw the movie and I took the ending a bit differently.  

I saw it as more of a his dad's imagination was vivid and with him right up to the end.  And his dad's stories were so much a part of him that the stories were still present even though the dad had died.

gblake

I watched Big Fish, it has Ewan MacGregor in it, right? I don't remember ugly crying at it. Im sorry your story is so freaking funny.

Tofumonkey

aMrsin09:

Tofumonkey:

How could you not have cried at Big Fish? His dad just had led this incredible life with all of these incredible people and just did things so differently and nobody believed him when he was old, and it all turned out to be true. Oh god, here I go again. It's just such a great movie. 

See now, I saw the movie and I took the ending a bit differently.  

I saw it as more of a his dad's imagination was vivid and with him right up to the end.  And his dad's stories were so much a part of him that the stories were still present even though the dad had died.

I'll admit, you very well may be right. But when I watched it I was just such a complete mess that I'm probably not remembering it properly. Or I'm not very observant, because I thought that the werewolf guy in it in the end turned out to be real. And something with Danny Devito. 

LadyMadrid08

I cry a lot, but the movie that had me crying the hardest was The Other Woman. So, so sad! Also, Pay it Forward.

Tofumonkey

aMrsin09:

Tofumonkey:

How could you not have cried at Big Fish? His dad just had led this incredible life with all of these incredible people and just did things so differently and nobody believed him when he was old, and it all turned out to be true. Oh god, here I go again. It's just such a great movie. 

See now, I saw the movie and I took the ending a bit differently.  

I saw it as more of a his dad's imagination was vivid and with him right up to the end.  And his dad's stories were so much a part of him that the stories were still present even though the dad had died.

I kind of feel like you just told me that there is no Easter Bunny. 

aMrsin09

I think it was "Step Mom" that also had me sobbing.

 

aMrsin09

Tofumonkey:

aMrsin09:

Tofumonkey:

How could you not have cried at Big Fish? His dad just had led this incredible life with all of these incredible people and just did things so differently and nobody believed him when he was old, and it all turned out to be true. Oh god, here I go again. It's just such a great movie. 

See now, I saw the movie and I took the ending a bit differently.  

I saw it as more of a his dad's imagination was vivid and with him right up to the end.  And his dad's stories were so much a part of him that the stories were still present even though the dad had died.

I kind of feel like you just told me that there is no Easter Bunny. 

 

Oh No.  I'm sorry.

But we still have Santa. That old dude ROCKS! 

ctgirlingermany

I am a movie blubberer.  So many movies make me cry, its horrible.  Even worse, if I have seen a movie and know what's going to happen.  Embarassingly, Disney movies kill me. 
I cannot watch the beginning of Finding Nemo.

I cried my eyes out on an airplane watching Up.  DH was more than slightly embarassed with that one.

There, you all know something about me that I don't like to admit!

Val

Dead Poets Society still has the ability to make me cry though I must have seen it 37 times.

Pay It Forward got me into a blubbering mess.

Whoever said Up wasn't for kids, OMG, so right! I actually got pissed off at this movie for being so flipping sad.

I also shed a tear here & there at Love Actually and plenty other movies at the happy/uplifting bits.

NLfoodie

I Big Fish, and cried the first time I saw it.

Mr. Holland's Opus

Beaches

Brokeback Mountain (just a few tears)

My Sister's Keeper

And a few recent movies I jsut can't exactly recall, but DH lauged at me for crying.