Poll: Crying at movies? Acceptable?

[Evilsanta]

Yes it is ok to cry at movies and a theaters.

Shindler's List always gets me.

 

[Joshroom]

I've shed a few tears during movies. I usually find that its at moments of intense lonliness or loss that get me. End of moulin rouge, any film involving a dog not knowing its owner has died or something, the pokemon movie when Ash almost dies...wait a minute. Forget I said that last one.

 

[xc00l n3rdx]

I think it's great for men and women to cry over a film

The Champ makes me blubber like a baby at the end and also A Walk To Remember gets me every time :'(

You did blubber at the champ lol and you'll never get me crying to a movie unless something tragic happnes to ninja mort in it HAHAHA!

nothing bad is EVER going to happen to ninja mort!!!

 

[Not-here-anymore]

If you didn't cry at the end of Toy Story 3 you have no soul.

Yay! I have a soul! Also cried at the furnace scene...
Oh, and within the first ten minutes of Up... Damn you Pixar, you and you emotionally moving films!

And Marley and Me, despite the immense predictability of the ending.

I'd say crying at films is perfectly acceptable, and shows that you're capable of empathy. But my view might be a little biased, due to my tendency to cry like a little girl.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

The first film I remember watching at the cinema, and crying while watching, was the first Pokémon movie

Spoiler

When Ash dies from double beam attack sacrifice

Sure, I was just a kid, but still...
It is fine for anyone to cry at the movies. Absolutely anyone, irrespective of sex, gender, age, etc.

 

[Fuselage]

Toy Story 3. Ending.
All I need to say.

 

[shinigamisparda]

I've just watched 'What Dreams May Come' and i cried at least twice. It was an extremely moving movie and i heartily recommend it to everyone.

So i'm just wondering what you guys think about people crying at films, and if there's any films that make you cry, and why?

Oh, man are you kidding me? I'm a total sap. I still cry at Disney movies, for God's sake.

Still, one movie than made me bawl my eyes out more times than I can count was the chinese film Bodyguards and Assassins. It's a drama but also an action film.

Spoiler

There are about nine or so well fleshed out characters, and by the movie's end all but two of them are dead, all of them heroically sacrificing themselves.

 

[fullbleed]

I hate the notion that men must be made of steel and not be alowed to cry at anything, crying is one of the greatest emotions that humans being have, it can represent something joyus and wonderful or something truly terrible in equal measure.
I love that makes me cry, I'm not afraid to admit it.
Films based on true stories or real life seem to have even greater effect on me. Something like Restrepo, or Diving bell and the Butterfly, or Waltz with Bashir. Waltz with Bashir never fails to make me cry at that pivotal moment at the end, when it suddenly switches from animation to actual news footage and shows the bodies piled up in the streets and the women crying.

i'm sorry if this sounds trollish but crying is not an emotion it is the reaction of the body to great sadness like in remembrance day ceremonies and they play that damn song while showing a power-point of the soldiers who died young in wars gets to me every single time

Ok yes it's a way of expressing emotion atleast, that's what I really should have said.

 

[Ben Jackson]

Crying depends for me. I don't think it's bad to cry in public, but it's a bit awkward when you're the onlyo one in the group who's crying.
I was watching up with my mum and my dad. We were all sat on the couch eating dominos pizza. We then started laughing our heads off at the one part and then started crying at how said the part of the film was...we all cryed at the same time. Me and my mum were choking on our pizza, while our dad was crying with us, then he started laughing at us choking... what a *****

 

[Korten12]

The first film I remember watching at the cinema, and crying while watching, was the first Pokémon movie

Spoiler

When Ash dies from double beam attack sacrifice

Sure, I was just a kid, but still...
It is fine for anyone to cry at the movies. Absolutely anyone, irrespective of sex, gender, age, etc.

I used to feel sad at that part but now I laugh so hard, the movie, now that I realized it, is sooo OVER DRAMATIC!

 

[Ara69]

I cried when picachu tried to ress Ash.. sad pet moments always break me..

 

[Yukichin]

Why wouldn't it be? If something hits you emotionally, go ahead and cry; it doesn't matter. If you think people shouldn't cry, imo, you're an ass, to be quite hoenst.

 

[Whitenail]

Hold on, do you mean at the cinema or just at movies in general?

I can think of three occasions where a film has made me cry, only two of which were at the cinema (those two were Gran Torino and Toy Story 3, the other film was the good, the bad and the ugly) and frankly I think it's the mark of an excellent film, especially considering they have only two to three hours to establish a scenario so saddening that were reduced to tears (then again Toy Story 3 was lucky because it had over ten years worth of nostalgia to work with).

 

[The Wooster]

That was a profound moment of beauty in an otherwise emotionally vapid film.

 

[ExileNZ]

Crying at the movies shouldn't be a statement about people, it should be a statement about the movie.

I rarely if ever cry at films (and God forbid if I ever do it in a theatre) but I feel impressed if a movie actually manages to make me want to cry.

Or get a bit weepy-eyed.

Like a girl.

 

[niege]

I cried infront of my whole class due to us watching The Green Mile when both Del and John sat in ol' sparky. and i am that guy who is more likely to get angry and i am big strong and so on so they mocked me a while for it but what did i care.

 

[Sir_Auron_the_Badass]

I proudly admit that I (a man) openly cry a truly heart-warming/tear-jerking scenes in movies, books, games, etc. Thing is though, I get a ton of bullshit from some of my friends that I should never be that way, and "man up". Sure, I like many "manly", action-packed movies and games as well (especially God of War), but why cant I have both of these sides in my personality?

I don't get how or why that terrible generalization that men shouldn't cry came to be. Many young boys hear about these so called rules of men, and try to emulate them to a point that it's not even funny. The thought sickens me because I was one of the very few boys back in elementary school that actually openly expressed feelings outside of the "I'm a tough guy, so I get to be a jerk as much as I want" attitude, and I got ridiculed by many of the boys AND girls because of it. I doubt I'm the only one here that has been through this kind of thing before; for those who have had the pleasure of being spared from this, it can be quite traumatizing.

 

[jaketheripper]

if there's any films that make you cry, and why?

i watched wristcutters: a love story, the other night. the only movie that has ever caused me to shed a tear.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

I was a real hard nut in my youth, never cried at anything not even close family members funerals. Then I had something of a breakdown in my mid twenties. (Attempted suicide and all the fun that entails) It tripped some kind of switch in me as these days I regularly well up at anything that has even a slight hint of being emotional. It can get bloody annoying when I'm with other people as I'm trying so hard not to cry it makes me ill, but when I'm alone I regularly have to mop my face.

I remember the first time it happened to me. I was watching "The Defiant Ones" on tv and It came to an emotional scene between Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis I had to very quickly run to the toilet, I was in there for a good half an hour crying for a lifetime.

To be honest as much as it annoys me I'm a little happier with the person I am now that I can cry.

Still haven't been able to watch "The Defiant Ones" since though.

 

[Weaver]

You should be happy if a movie makes you cry because it's actually accomplished making you FEEL something. Anyways, yes it's okay for anyone to cry at am ovie!