Last film that made you cry/choke up

[beeboo]

I think I tend to bawl at documentaries and stuff more than films.

Yeah my boyfriend won't let me watch that kind of stuff, he knows what it does to me.

Last thing I saw like that was a doc about teenagers with cancer. They were following the experience of a girl with what looked like a fairly uncomplicated tumour. They started the documentary with her sitting in the garden with her mum and the family cat talking about how she was trying to stay positive and looking forward to going to uni and being able to go out dancing again. Then totally unexpectedly 3/4 way through the film she died suddenly from a complication with her medication. And the ended the film back in the same garden with the mum sitting on her own with the cat and it the absence of her daughter just felt so huge, I cried my eyes out.


It's a bit weird really, vicariously experiencing other people's grief, for your own 'entertainment'

 

[Orang Utan]

I reckon he's pissed. He's going to regret admitting to having enjoyed LOTR tomorrow

i enjoyed them at the cinema, not so much at home - they drag a bit don't they?

 

[beeboo]

But it steers you straight to Cryville and leaves you on the church steps covered in snot feeling like you got mugged by Captain Contrived.

I felt exactly that way about Atonement.

 

[Orang Utan]

The boxing's pretty exciting. But it steers you straight to Cryville and leaves you on the church steps covered in snot feeling like you got mugged by Captain Contrived.

this is what i meant last night when talking about films like the truman show and shawshank.
being mugged ain't on. i prefer films to pickpocket me.

 

[Yetman]

Farrah Faucett documentary - I had to leave the room it was so sad. Came back half an hour later and the mrs was in tears.

 

[El Jefe]

this is what i meant last night when talking about films like the truman show and shawshank.
being mugged ain't on. i prefer films to pickpocket me.

best example of the mugging, in a film which in itself isn't that much of a mugger:

the scene in the Killing Fields when the camera pans across mounds of bodies and then Imagine comes on the soundtrack.

Just unecessary (and not just cos it's Imagine), manipulative and cowardly

 

[The Octagon]

This started happening to me very suddenly about 10 years ago. I found myself weaping to films like lost in space and star trek insurrection. Thank god I lived alone (or was that why?)

This has been my experience recently too. Now I think about it, I may have got all choked up when Data 'dies' in Star Trek: Nemesis

This may have also happened during Watchmen (a certain character's death near the end).

 

[Pieface]

Like Dead Man's Shoes Orang Utan?

THERE'S PROBABLY A SPOILER HERE!

Do you think twists like that are mugging or pickpocketing? I think when they change the way you watch the film like that and the mood gets shifted so completely it's difficult to say. Although the way that it's conducted nails it for me - vis a vis The Sixth Sense vs Dead Man's Shoes.

 

[butchersapron]

best example of the mugging, in a film which in itself isn't that much of a mugger:

the scene in the Killing Fields when the camera pans across mounds of bodies and then Imagine comes on the soundtrack.

Just unecessary (and not just cos it's Imagine), manipulative and cowardly

But pretty funny. Like that Big train sketch where the soundtrack bloke keeps suggesting innapropriate music - Rocking all over the World for a young mothers funeral for example.

 

[Balbi]

It's a bit weird really, vicariously experiencing other people's grief, for your own 'entertainment'

It's an entire genre at WHSmiths now

 

[Yossarian]

best example of the mugging, in a film which in itself isn't that much of a mugger:

the scene in the Killing Fields when the camera pans across mounds of bodies and then Imagine comes on the soundtrack.

Just unecessary (and not just cos it's Imagine), manipulative and cowardly

'Imagine' was used for the final scene where Pran and Schanberg are reunited, not for the scene with the mounds of bodies - easy mistake, since I realize that song makes you want to litter the landscape with corpses.

 

[Orang Utan]

Like Dead Man's Shoes Orang Utan?

THERE'S PROBABLY A SPOILER HERE!

Do you think twists like that are mugging or pickpocketing? I think when they change the way you watch the film like that and the mood gets shifted so completely it's difficult to say. Although the way that it's conducted nails it for me - vis a vis The Sixth Sense vs Dead Man's Shoes.

yes, i prefer to have my emotions assaulted with more guile than mere bludgeoning. i'm not sure dead man's shoes is a good example as it didn't make me weep.
eternal sunshine is maybe a better one.

 

[Pieface]

Actually yes - you don't expect yourself to care that much by the end.

 

[Pie 1]

Most recently it was the last couple of eps of Six Feet Under that had pretending I had a problem with my contact lens.

 

[Orang Utan]

Actually yes - you don't expect yourself to care that much by the end.

i didn't care for anyone by the end. it was pleasing that they all died.

 

[Orang Utan]

Most recently it was the last couple of eps of Six Feet Under that had pretending I had a problem with my contact lens.

the last one of all broke a weeping record for me - i was a mess. that was pretty manipulative but after six series with these characters, you cared for them all and didn't mind.

 

[El Jefe]

'Imagine' was used for the final scene where Pran and Schanberg are reunited, not for the scene with the mounds of bodies - easy mistake, since I realize that song makes you want to litter the landscape with corpses.

ah, my bad. Guess my memory conflated the two. But you get the gist of the sort of thing I mean, even if i made up the example

 

[foo]

i often cry at happy times in films, people joining in as one sticking together kinda thing. like the final stage scene in Little Miss Sunshine.

sob.

 

[Pieface]

I was talking about Eternal Sunshine OU - Not DMS.

 

[Orang Utan]

ah right! that film really got under my skin - haven't been able to watch it again

 

[Lemon Eddy]

this is what i meant last night when talking about films like the truman show and shawshank.
being mugged ain't on. i prefer films to pickpocket me.

Ach, sometimes a good emotional mugging is a wonderful thing. Best example I can think of is from tv, and an unexpectedly sombre sketch by Rowley Birkin

 

[Pie 1]

that was pretty manipulative but after 5 series with these characters, you cared for them all and didn't mind.

Yep.

 

[Sadken]

I've cried at the Simpsons a few times before.

 

[Balbi]

Ach, sometimes a good emotional mugging is a wonderful thing. Best example I can think of is from tv, and an unexpectedly sombre sketch by Rowley Birkin

 

[5t3IIa]

I've cried at the Simpsons a few times before.

I booed at the one when Bart sold his soul

 

[Mation]

The last time was during Iris. Cried first time I saw it and again when re-watching it recently. That scene when Jim Broadbent shouts.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This has been my experience recently too. Now I think about it, I may have got all choked up when Data 'dies' in Star Trek: Nemesis
.

I cried when data said "lock and load" in insurrection, that has to be worse.

 

[5t3IIa]

I cry at films where the oppressed rise up against their opressors. Things like occupied Norwegians singing their national anthem in the Nazi's faces. Never fails to give me an extremely uncomfortable feeling - a mixture of a swell of pride about humans and bravery and bare confusion becuase I'm being mugged on my own sofa.

 

[electrogirl]

I cried at a heartbreaking episode of 'What Not To Wear' once.

 

[5t3IIa]

I cried at a heartbreaking episode of 'What Not To Wear' once.

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