OK, confessions time - ever cried at a movie?
As the Dweller population so far is 100% male, I could rightly expect this thread to go unanswered, us being macho manly men and all. But The Fortress Of Solitude is a place where we can open up, reveal our true selves, vent our spleens and, yes, save our souls.
So - crying during movies then. I'd love to be able to 'fess up and everything but, no bravado at all - I never have. Hell, I'd LOVE to be SO into a film that whatever's happening - the handsome lead dying, the couple splitting up, Godzilla triumphing over Mechagodzilla (well, maybe that's just me that gets moved by that) that I burst into tears. But dammit, its never happened.
I suppose I don't watch that many movies that tug at the heart strings, but any I have watched with The Wife, while she's sitting in the corner blubbing away (a la Titanic), I'm sitting like an emotionless, soul-less wretch. I suppose the closest I've ever got, and I remember thinking at the time "oh.. this is.. new" was with, of all things, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead. Yeah, I know. Maybe it was because it was late at night and I was alone, I dunno, but that part where Christopher Lloyd's character is saying he doesn't want to leave town and survive because he's lived his life and.... oh. Emotional.
So, OK, I flunk out of my opening question. Come on now - I'm The Curmudgeon, I don't go about weeping at movies like some lily-livered girl.
But YOU do, don't you...?
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Yeeesh, that Wolfman is a, er, beast when he gets going isn't he?
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Anyway - back to the topic at hand. Wolfman - I've not actually seen those two movies you're talking about, but I know Beaches is a classic tear-jerker. For 50 year old women. Honestly, man....
Man, that's ANOTHER movie I haven't seen. I think everyone cries at that one though, don't they?
Crying as a kid is fair enough, though. I mean, you cry at everything when you're a kid.
I think the Lion King is probably the only Disney film I haven't seen that I would actually watch. Everything else after that looks God-awful.
Hmmm... I've come damn close to crying on several occasions, mostly watching "Buffy"; not the movie, though. I was almost there at "Titanic" and 2 of the 3 LOTR films (one man I knew admitted to crying at "Return of the King" and was mad at me for not quite getting there). Hell, I'll even admit ("Godzilla vs. Destroyah" spoiler ahead if anyone cares) that when the big G melted down and there's that montage of great shots of him, I got a little misty eyed. But I honestly can't remember tears actually coming out of my eyes during a movie. Sorry. As far as I can tell, "The Lion King" is the last great animated Disney film. The rest seem to be empty, soulless cash-ins. Too bad I missed that spammer; flaming retards is as fun as troll-hunting.
Oh man - Godzilla vs Destroyah. If ever there was an opportunity to cry at a movie - THAT was it.
But YOU, Trashcanman, OUR Trashcanman, came close to tears at Titanic???
Words. They fail me.
Yes, yes, I am a bit embarrassed that for all my snide comments before, during, and after viewing "Titanic", the ending got to me. I've wished death upon Leonardo Da Caprio a hundred times before and since and the movie is bloated, sentimental to the point of unintentional comedy, and just plain overwrought; but I'll admit that James Cameron's cheese-fest got me that once. I've no excuses, it may be my lamest film-going moment EVER, but I doubt I'm alone there.
Actually, I've never once "wished death" upon Dicaprio. In fact, to cut it short - I think he's nothing short of superb.
When you think of the performance's he's put in, alongside the movies he's been in - I think he ranks up there among the modern greats. So hey - you won't get any Leo bashing from me.
Titanic, when all's said and done - was... sigh.. a good movie. Not something I would ever watch again, not something I would ever get passionate or enthusiastic about - but, you know - it did what it did and it did it well. Brilliantly, even.
We'll call your moment of weakness just that, Trashy. You were under a lot of pressure at the time, uh.. you had been having a lot of emotional issues, a moment of madness.. all that stuff.
Now don't you feel better for sharing?
Yeah, now that my shame is public knowledge, I feel that a great burden has been removed...or not. Dicaprio's not a bad actor at all; there's just something about the guy that irks me, like Matt Damon. Maybe it's that irrepressable all-american privileged whitebread vibe they give off. "Titanic" is a well made film, but like you said, I wouldn't bother watching it again. Cameron's a fantastic filmmaker who really knows how to draw you into the story and its' characters but in retrospect, I was thinking about how silly the elements of the story are, the whole cliche of the evil rich snobby guy's girl being stolen by the lawless scalawag, then there's that ubiquitous Celine Dion theme song, and that goofy shot of Leo shouting "I'm king of the world!" and I felt like I'd been had. Like "Top Gun" and "Independence Day" it's just one of those movies that gives the audience exactly what they want and expect to see at that moment in time at the cost of being totally cheesy and lame in hindsight. Not bad films when you look at it from a purely entertainment standpoint, but compared to the true classics like "Psycho", "Jaws", or "The Matrix" (yeah, I said it) with unlimited rewatchability (so I made up a word, don't act like you've never done it), history probably won't be as kind to these sort of one-shot blockbusters.
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