I've Never Cried During a Movie (Spin off Riley's Question)

I wasn't a major crier till I had my son. I might have cried at a REALLY moving scene, but NOW? GEEZE!

Spoiler ALERT if you have NOT seen The Avengers, do not read the rest of this...
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I actually teared up when Hulk rescues Iron Man! Seriously!???? - Freakin hormones! LOL :)

Go see Les Miserables when it comes out next month and report back to us if you're still a 100% non-crying movie-goer!

I saw it in London's West End several years ago and cried like a baby! I think my husband even teared-up.

I can never watch Schindler's List again. That one almost sent M. over the edge! Have you seen that?

The only type of movies I cry at are animal ones. The people ones don't usually do M. in but let a dog die (Where the Red Fern Grows) or a horse win against all odds (Seabiscuit) & the tears start to trickle. Ughhh...annoying cause while it doesn't make M. coldhearted per se it does make it seem as though I care more about animals than people.

Wow..you can hold it together woman!!

I am with Christy Lee and the whole montage during Up...I cry every time. Toy Story 3 choked M. up at the end when all the toys were being given away. Heck..I even cried when I read the Toy Story 3 children's novel right before seeing the movie. I saw the movie, "Sarah's Key" recently and it tore M. up..like shaking and boo hooing. I was pathetic.

I don't easily cry either..J. when I watch these sappy,sweet cartoons and also historical fiction type movies that deal with distress and inhumanity.

I won't say you are heartless or coldhearted because you mention movies affecting you....but wow..you can hold it together. For M...I am a need a tissue type of gal.

Ooh...a stoic.

Nah...I even cried during the love/marriage/growing old montage in "UP." I mean, who cries during a CARTOON?!

Yeah, that's M..

Oh yeah...I also cried when the dog died in "I Am Legend." Good movie!

LOL I'm the opposite - I have always been a world champion crier. I remember watching an old version of Titanic when I was three at my grandparents' house and getting teary. I cry during most movies, even ones that aren't sad (Home Alone, MIB III, Madagascar). The Olympics are one big cry fest for M. - the victories, the defeats, the P&G commercials all prompt a sniffle and the wipe of an eye. Church songs get M. going too. I probably tear up at least once a day, every day - reading the news, hearing a song that reminds M. of something sad, watching a TV show, etc.

It's something that I used to try to cover up but J. about everyone who knows M. knows about this and teases M. kindly. Friends who are going to share big news in person will casually pass M. a tissue, my kids J. laugh and say "are you crying again?!" and my husband doesn't get it at all. I'm not depressed or anything, but I J. wear my emotions close to my surface.

That said, I do hold things together very well in real-life emergencies. If you have a crisis, come to M.. I might well up for a second, but can push that aside and get down to the business of figuring out what to do.

My boys are all pretty emotional too, but my step-daughter never cries about anything, ever. She feels sadness, but doesn't express it with tears.

It takes a lot to get M. to cry during a movie (although the UP montage was a close one) Have you watched simon birch? I did cry at that one. My sisters are huge criers so we watch something and they are always bawling I J. shake my head. She even cried when the dog died in I am legend.

That's impressive. I cry during Hallmark commercials, ASCPA fundraising commercials etc. Some movies I've watched multiple times and still cry each time. I think I cry more now that I'm a mom bc I worry so much for my kids so maybe some stage I've passed so wouldn't upset M., now I think "THAT COULD BE MY BABY DEALING WITH THAT SOMEDAY!!!" How about Brian's Song? Or Born Free? Do you cry if it's nonfiction?

I used to be the one that never cried during movies, and I didn't see why other people got so emotional. Until I had my first child. Stupid hormones ruined my non-crying streak. LOL

I never did either until I was pregnant with out first. I cried during Pokemon (Pikachu, I Need you). My husband and I still laugh over this.

LOL, yeah, the Up montage...I held it together but secretly was crying on the inside! Such a sweet story.
I am not a crier for the most part. My mom was. You could count on her sobbing every time that Christmas Ronald McDonald commercial came on, the one where they are ice skating and some kid falls on her bum and he helps her up! Mom would cry at dog food commercials and at church every week. Meanwhile I am more like my dad, where we do not show our emotions, ever.
The exceptions were when I found out my little brother had cancer (complete meltdown) and then a few weeks ago I watched that Anne Frank movie with my kids and could not stop crying, which was odd because I have read the book many times and knew the story. It really hit M. hard this time around, though.

Nah, you're not cold-hearted, J. different. My best girlfriend is the same way.

M., on the other hand - oh, my. Books, too. I was crying like a baby in Kohl's today, because they had the Velveteen Rabbit book in the books and plush for five dollars Kohl's Cares for Kids display, and of course I had to read it, and of course, I always cry...
I had to stop myself from buying it for the kids, because I know very well that I'll never be able to read it to them without crying...

I might go back and buy it anyway. It's for charity, after all.

I'm on the not until I had a child bandwagon. I never cried for ANY reason until I had a kid. And now that I'm flirting with the menopause it's getting even worse. And Patricia...Hulk... Iron Man...yeah M. too, all 4 times I've seen it. But my all time worst was when Snape died at the end of Harry Potter. I was sobbing and I mean nose running pathetic-ness in the theater.

I'm like Patricia ,
I was never really a crier until after I had my kids, I STILL tear up at those damn coffee commercials where the guy comes home for Christmas and surprises everyone first thing in the morning.

Awww gawd, I cry at J. the thought of a sad thing, news stories, commercials, movies, memories ... turn on the spigot, that's M.! I've always worn my heart on my sleeve. My family laughs at M.! So yeah, I never really "need" a good cry, I empty out those tear ducts on a regular basis, lol.

If my kids are watching with M., I tend to hold it in b/c they watch M. instead of the movie and it takes M. out of the moment.
But yep, I cry normally.

J. because you don't get caught up in it, doesn't make you coldhearted. It's a movie - whether its based on a true story or totally made up. It's not actually happening at that moment in time.

OMG, I almost ALWAYS cry at the end of Undercover Boss! Also, the movie Marley and M. brings the tears. I don't cry over sappy commercials, but some movies do start the water works!

Omg I cried my eyes out at the end of Bridge to Tarabithia. Old Yella as well. Watch those 2 and tell M. if you come out dry eye and then we will talk

I was a big mush even before I had DD, but now it's worse. Ahhhhh - hate myself. I swear I can cry at supermarket opening ceremonies. Commercials? Yep. Wizard of Oz - when prof marvel is "reading" the crystal ball for Dorothy and looking at the pictures from her basket - when Dorothy says "that's my Aunt Em" and he says "yes, her name is Emily". I could cry right now. I named DD Emily because I love that movie so much. The movie Beaches? Don't get M. started on a crying jag. DH only slightly wells up if there's a father/daughter scene where maybe the daughter is getting married. Gets him every time, but I swear the man has ice running through his veins when he doesn't cry during Beaches! Oh well, someone has to be strong.

PS - the Up montage - gets M. every time & it's bad. We named our dog Ellie too. Kills M. every time. DH thinks it's funny that I cry during a cartoon. Heartless.

I have only cried in the theater of one movie and that was Driving Miss Daisy when he was feeding her a bite of pie at the end of the movie. It was so sad she was old and going to die...

At home I cry each and every time I watch Heart and Souls when they are dying from the bus wreck and Penny starts crying for her kids and wanting to know what's going to happen to them if she leaves them.

I never used to cry during movies. Now I can watch Bambi and cry. My first pregnancy seems to have been the turning point.... Grrr...

Whatch the movie, "Letters to God". You will cry for sure! Lol. I'm the same way never once cried over a movie but Letter to God got M.. All three times I watched it. Lol. And it wasn't J. one part like 8 or 9 lil parts here and there! Spread allllllllllll over the movie so you can't use the somthings in my eye excuse lol.

Watch that then let us know! Lol.
Kimmie

All i can say is you are not strange or coldhearted and be grateful for it. I hate to cry in front of people has been a quirk of mine all my life and yet I get worse as I get older. I can't read to my kids without breaking out in tears and of course I try to cover it up. I can't watch a movie, tv show or even think about certain things without welling up and I hate it. I am so darn self conscious about it. I can even cry with the thought of something happy. Water works are not always a good thing. I wish I was more like you. But alas we are all built differently and so we are all okay J. the way we are but often the grass looks greener on the other side at least I think it does, LOL!

What???? I cry during everything. I can't relate to you :)

Worst movie for M. - Dances With Wolves... or The Outsiders.

Heck - I can cry during a sappy commercial.

I never used to, but the pregnancy/nursing hormone swings did a number on M.. My husband still makes fun of M. because I started crying while we were watching the walking dead because Sophia turned into a zombie and they had to shoot her.

Also I remember I was watching 16 and pregnant while I was pregnant with my daughter (luckily I was not 16) and the episode where Tyler and catelyn gave up their baby upset M. so much I had to turn it off.

I'm a total sap when it comes to movies, commercials, weddings, babies being born, baptisms! My kids and my husband all know it, too.

I can't even think about the movie Hope Floats without crying!!

My sister ~ I don't know that I have ever seen her cry. She gets teary eyed occasionally, but doesn't cry.

Let's see ... I cried when Bumblebee got "hurt/killed" in Transformers, during 76 trombones in The Other Sister, random commercials (especially Hallmark ones), Lifetime movies, a number of cartoons ... You get the picture. Who cries watching a movie marching band play "76 Trombones"!! Watch "The Other Sister" and maybe you will too. Most recently, I cried during a repeat episode of "Seventh Heaven" when a sweet dog died in her own time.

I agree with the others though ... Not cold-hearted, J. different and different is a good way to be!!

hee!
some people J. don't turn on waterworks.
i'm pretty sappy. there's a passage in 'the once and future king' (where beaumont dies) where i ALWAYS cry when i read it aloud. like clockwork.
when i taught king arthur to my teenage class i did it for 'em, sort of like a parlor trick. i think it disconcerted them<G>.
and what's REALLY weird is that i always do it at the finish line scene of 'cool runnings' too. always. like clockwork.
friggin' weird, i am.
:) khairete
S.

I am such a softie. I was always a big pile of mush and that has J. increased so much more since having kids. I have cried over so many movies. Now what is getting M. are commercials- especially the Carter's one where the little girl is talking about how the day she was born, that not only did she become the mom's but the mom became hers. I'm getting misty eyed J. typing this. Oh and that Subaru commercial with the dog that keeps getting older....I need help

Another vote for now that i'm a mom i cry at movies, still not as much s some people but more than i ever did before.

Since you shared, I'll admit, sad stories on the news don't get to M., people i know then yes strangers not really.

That was M. until my son. Now I boohoo at evvvvvverything, including commercials. I wouldn't say you're coldhearted for not crying at movies :)

I have never actually cried at a movie or song. I HAVE felt that facial tug you get J. BEFORE you well up with tears though.
1) Ransom (the Mel Gibson/Rene Russo movie where the son is kidnapped). The scene where Rene Russo is on the phone and she hears the gunshot and then throws up in the kitchen sink... yeah.. that part makes M. get that tight face, almost tears welling up. First time I saw that movie, my son was about 2 years old.

There are a few songs... the one that comes immediately to mind, because it is a current song, is the Miranda Lambert song: "Over You". My voice always cracks when I try to sing that, and I get sniffly. See, before I knew the story behind the song, I thought it was a young wife singing about a husband in the military who left after Christmas for an overseas tour, and was killed. Hurts my heart. Even though, I now know that it wasn't intended to be about a wife losing a husband, that is still how I perceive that song.

Oh.. and before I had kids... the idea of crying (or even ALMOST crying) at a movie or a song was absurd to M.. I J. didn't get it. Now... I have even almost welled up at that dumb Folgers Christmas commercial where the son sneaks in to his parents house early in the wee hours and sets up the coffee pot. And yes, the montage in "Up", too.

Jeepers! I can tear up if I utter an honest, heartfelt sentence. I wouldn't call you coldhearted. I'd call you 'not a sap' like M.! =)

I never used to cry until I suffered a brain injury and then shortly thereafter became a mom. Now I'm a big baby and will cry over commercials, no joke. I also become melancholy and cry if I happen to hear anything by Johnny Cash or smell true homemade German chocolate cake baking.

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I never used to cry until I suffered a brain injury and then shortly thereafter became a mom. Now I'm a big baby and will cry over commercials, no joke. I also become melancholy and cry if I happen to hear anything by Johnny Cash or smell true homemade German chocolate cake baking.