Crying

[Dis]

Do you cry? I'll make a poll so you don't have to admit in front of other guys you cry.

I seem unable to cry. I can well up tears- I did just tonight watching a movie. But I can't actually produce tears that run down my cheek, or just all out cry. I try to cry, but seem unable to.

I'm not some wannabe macho person who pretends to act tough. I really wish I could cry. I miss being able to cry as a kid, and when you're done, everything is all better. I just want the pain to go away, but I can't cry it away as I could as a kid. . Even when my ex-girlfriend (whom I still had some feelings for apparantly) died, or even when my father died, I was unable to cry. I would like to, but I can't.

[connorkimbro]

I well up enough that tears run down my cheek, and I try to pretend that my contacts are bothering me. I wouldn't say that I cry to the point of sobbing though, not nearly.

I cry mostly at movies, but ALOT of movies. Among the list of movies that I cry at at some point in the movie are the following.
Fargo
Amelie (several parts of this movie)
Moulin Rouge
Apollo 13
Braveheart
that one movie where bruce willis goes to the meteor that is hurtling towards earth (i forget what it's called)
Angelas Ashes
Empire of the Sun
American History X
Minority Report
We Were Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
True Romance
The Professional
Pay it Forward
Life is Beautiful

and this is just out of the movies that I own. (plus one or two extra movies that i could remember)
I'm sure there are many others that would get me going, it doesn't take much, I'm really a pretty sensitive guy.

[Dis]

you cry at weird movies .

Fargo? Minority Report?

[connorkimbro]

Fargo when the cop finally has caught the bad guy, and she's talking to him while he's sitting in the back seat, and then right after when she talked to her husband and the contrast is there, that they have such a simple life, but they are happy. . .

Minority Report when the girl (the bald girl) is telling the parents about her visions of their son that had died . . . REALLY sad, that part. . .

[orange]

I usually cry twice a year or so, and when I do it's ****ing awful...like 6 hours straight. I'm a real mess if I ever reach that point. Just had a breakdown last month actually...not fun at all...you feel pretty good afterwards though.

[Dis]

yeah I forget about that one scene in Minority Report. but Stephen Spielberg movies in general don't do much to me emotionally. Well except for Saving Private Ryan. But even the intro to that movie didn't cause me to well up or anything. I think that is mainly because it was at the beginning and I didn't get an opportunity to know and love the characters. Other war movies do me in worse- including the one I just watched tonight (last samurai)- with those gatling guns opening up. I felt like I wanted to cry, but of course I couldn't. But I did well up a little.

[connorkimbro]

oh, also AI. . . another Speilburg movie for ya.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Apollo 13? Braveheart?

You do cry at wierd movies .

[Dis]

I watched parts of that. I still haven't had a chance to watch the whole thing. The parts I did see looked interesting. I hope HBO shows that movie again. I need to see it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's pretty decent, but it goes on for about a half-hour too long in many people's opinion. Would have been amazing if it ended half an hour less.

[connorkimbro]

apollo 13 - this one is especially ackward, because it's not a movie many people cry at. but the scene at the end, when they're plunging back down to earth, and nobody knows for sure if the heat shield is cracked or not, and more time passes than is supposed to pass, but then they come through and the shutes open up and the whole control room starts cheering and shaking hands, and it shows picture of the family, and his son in school. . . that part really gets me. Also, when the little boy says the line "mommy, your squishing me" that part makes me laugh, but since i'm crying, it's always a laugh that makes it obvious that i'm crying too . . .

Braveheart: at the end, when he's being cut open, and he looks out into the crowd, and sees the vision of that girl in the crowd, just that moment makes me cry . . .

[Dis]

it's been a while since I seen that one. It would seem that it wouldn't be emotional since I knew they would survive. But I do remember my heart being tugged a little at some point in that sequence. I think it was in relation to the relatives on the ground- you could relate to their anguish and fear.

[connorkimbro]

of course, i knew they would survive too, but it's still emotional in a very heroic, relief, happiness sort of way.

[orange]

wow connor, you're just a big softy

[connorkimbro]

yes, i know.