I cry from movies, especially on places noone else cries. I even cried from Bruce Almighty, but Disneys the Lion King didn't even make my eyes water. Belive me, I'm a lot wierder than any of you! And yes I did cry at the end of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The poor thing didn't even get a name!

But a movie that really made me cry was an italian movie, the good life or something like that. A true story about a jewish father and his little son in a nazi prisoner camp and how he uses all his strenght to the very end of his life to protects his son from the awful truth, making him think its a game, if he just keeps away from the soliders, don't cry, don't complain about being hungry, they'll win and get a price. people don't die, they go home because they are out of the game, they don't make soap out of jews, people just say stuff like that to make you give up and go home.. I'm not explaining it well but I cried buckets and rivers at the end.

There was no need to show piles of dead bodies here, we all know what happend in these camps. We know they made lamp shades from the skin and pillows from the hair.. We know what the father is hiding from his son to keep him alive and to keep his spirit up. It was so beautiful and so sad..

Yes, i have seen that movie too. La vita ’ bella it's called in Italian. Good movie, it won an Oscar too - Roberto Benigni is a fine actor.

Me and the bro always get abit teary eyed when ol' Optimus Prime dies in Transformers The Movies. and thats the only time

I don't think that I have ever cried over any film.

That might stem from the fact that I don't watch many movies!

In "Its a Wonderful Life",when the angel gets it wings I was blubbering all over the place

The Pianist, Braveheart and Gladiator were pretty sad movies; they (and Sweet November) were the only ones that could squeeze a tear from my eyes!

Namarie!

I cried relentlessly most of the way through the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie
"What have they done? Why? Why would they do that to my beloved comics? Why?" *sniff sniff*

And I'm with Darous on the Optimus Prime thing.

Does count that I cried over how hot the guy in The Pianist was?

Tiatnic n Mighty Joe Young! Mighty Joe Young is worse tho! I had a box of tissues next to me n I used ALL of them! NO jokin!

A lot of movies make me cry. I cried a little but not very much when Boromir died in FotR. This is probably because I love that scene so much I don't find it sad anymore. When I was little, I could not watch Bambi because it made me cry too much and because it gave me nightmares. The movie of Little Women makes me cry too.
I have never seen The Pianist but I want to.

[Edited on 29/11/2003 by Samwisegamgee]

Got ALMOST the same feelings for LoTR....though it was more anger then sadness....a bit sadness though that some people think that the movies came first

I almost cried during TTT because I kept repeating, "Oh when will this end?"
In contrast, I loved movie FotR, and the music made me think it would end after the Council, and I was pleasantly surprised when it continued for more time. In TTT... I got bored as **** in some of the scenes, whereas seeing it on DVD brings out the better of theses scenes in my opinion. Like Treebeard and Merry / Pippin.

Ok, movies that make us cry? I would definately have to say The Two Towers. Call me crazy *crowd of people call out: You're Crazy* Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. NEwho, TTT is one of the only movies that make me cry. In what part you ask? When they kill my RPG character's father and my favorite character, Haldir. It sounds corny, I know. But I can't help it. I can't watch that part without crying. And the danged music doesn't help!!!!

I cry during most movies. (I know, I'm a s*cker.)

La Vie Est Belle is a beautiful movie. I cried during the entire thing. Same with White Oleander.

I haven't seen Schindler's List, but perhaps I should. I feel like a night of movies that makes me cry soon. Perhaps I can convince Mellie and DragonReach...

How can anyone cry at movies? They're not real. I don't understand it.

Actually, it's not the movie which makes a person cry. It's the person himself/herself which makes themselves cry. The movie's just a cover. That's generally right, but of course, sometimes there are exceptions. I don't get those people too.

It's the same when people cry when they read books. The stories and characters might not be real but when it's written well enough it can cause the reader to feel emotional, like a good movie can.

Someone called me?

Sounds like me, Eryan. I cannot remember the last time I got upset by something which did not personally effect me. When bad things happen elsewhere, I just find them interesting. Unless they actually happen to myself or someone I am close to, I tend not to feel any emotions.

I think it may be down to television. World news is just not real to me anymore. It shows up on the same screen as the films I watch and very rarely has any effect at all on my own life. Big events like September 22nd, Wars, the death of Princess Diana etc were just things I found interesting.... they were just too remote to be upsetting.

Like I said, I think I'm heartless in that respect. I wouldn't say I'm a psychopath though. To people I care about, I try to be a warm and generous person. Maybe I'm just too self-centered.

It's ridiculous, but after a week I still find tears running down my cheeks when I listen to Annie Lennox sing 'Into the West'. And that is without yet seeing the movie's heart-breaking ending to reinforce those visions of Legolas, Arwen, Sam, and Frodo, that the lyrics invoke in my imagination. Still Howard Shore's beautiful melody and accompaniment have had some bearing toward turning it into a tear-jerker that it is. Or am I just maudlin?

When I was a kid, I cried my eyes out in the cinema after watching 'Beaches'. Sounds so silly now, but it really hit me!

There is one Australian short film that makes me cry even to think about it and I can't remember the name! Set in 1920's, it is about a little girl who wanders off from her parents home in the middle of the outback. The parents are too prejudiced to enlist an aboriginal tracker for help with tragic consequences. The themesong "Such Small Bones" has haunted me ever since. I will never forget that movie as long as I live.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I do not feel emotions while watching movies, just that I don't find myself moved to tears by them. Scenes of heroism and sacrifice I do find quite moving, but not enough to cry over. Death scenes, however, very rarely do anything for me.
This is maybe the difference. I tend not to place myself inside the movie. I don't look at the dying jews in Schindlers List and think it could be my family. It would be a terrible choice to have to choose between two people you love knowing one was going to be killed, but that is not a thought I tend to dwell on. If it ever happened, I'd worry about it then. I try not to dwell on such things unnecessarily.

I think I'm just adept at diverting my emotions. Unless it really is something that's about to effect myself or my loved ones, I don't worry about it.

Returning to the questions of emotions evoked by movies or by real facts which do not concern us directly, it is fully possible to realize the horror of the situation without actually feeling strong emotions. I like very much to watch docymentary films on underwater life (coral reef and such). Coral reefs seem for me breathtakingly beautiful, real enchanted gardens. On one day I realised suddenly what is it what I adore so much. All these magical gardens are not starry blossoms, but hundreds and thousands of tiny mouths in waiting for prey. What a horror if we think about it! Yet, even remembering that, I can still find pleasure while watching coral reefs!

Forest Gump for sure!!! And all the lotr movies!!!

Howard Shore's music gets me every time espiecally The Breaking of the Fellowship song on the fotr soundtrack!! Even if I don't cry I still feel sad yet hopeful for the fellowship and sam and frodo and stuff!! I know I have problems!!

"weepy eye syndrome" thats what a friend and I call it

I cried most recently after watching MASK..blubbered like a babby at least twice during it, once when the girls father stopped her seeing him, and when he died and his mother stuck all the pins back in the map. I've watched that movie many tiems, it still moves me to tears.