How emotional are you getting by entertainment?

[FPAlpha]

So weird thought just propped up.

I am playing God of War on PC and apart from the Hack & Slash gameplay ( which is awesome) it also contains a truly great story about a Father and his estranged son on a journey to fulfill their wife's/mother's last wish.

I'm about halfway through the game and story and i don't want to spoil what happens but it got me a little choked up and brought up thoughts about my own relationship with my father.

I don't usually also get very emotional during movies or TV shows ( apart from excitement) but there's a small batch of movies that actually made me cry - Dances with Wolves, Schindler's List, LOTR - Fellowship of the Ring.

And then i have a friend and she is regularly crying when she sees emotional scenes in movies and shows, so these clearly do have an effect on us.

Where do you stand on this? Do you just watch/experience it or are you completely all in and get worked up? Or something in between like me?

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I'm not ashamed to admit that 'The Rainbow Connection' from 'The Muppet Movie' can cause me to shed a tear or two.

Same with 'Field of Dreams'. Even though I know the line is coming, 'Hey Dad? Want to have a catch?' Gets me every time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I cried like a baby during the first Pokémon movie.

There, I said it.

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[Admiral2]

I cry every time I watch Bill Murray's final speech in Scrooged.

 

[USS Firefly]

I almost cried when in "Braveheart when Wallace rides into his town just after his wife was killed.
At the end of the movie Philadelphia.
And when Wesley died in "Angel"

 

[Amaris]

So weird thought just propped up.

I am playing God of War on PC and apart from the Hack & Slash gameplay ( which is awesome) it also contains a truly great story about a Father and his estranged son on a journey to fulfill their wife's/mother's last wish.

I'm about halfway through the game and story and i don't want to spoil what happens but it got me a little choked up and brought up thoughts about my own relationship with my father.

I don't usually also get very emotional during movies or TV shows ( apart from excitement) but there's a small batch of movies that actually made me cry - Dances with Wolves, Schindler's List, LOTR - Fellowship of the Ring.

And then i have a friend and she is regularly crying when she sees emotional scenes in movies and shows, so these clearly do have an effect on us.

Where do you stand on this? Do you just watch/experience it or are you completely all in and get worked up? Or something in between like me?

I get right in it. A good story can have me crying, laughing, or wishing I could live in that story. Put it this way: I have cried watching the movie Cars, the TV series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and when reading so many novels. I become a part of whatever story I'm involved in, and if the storyteller does it right, I never forget that feeling any time the work is referenced.

 

[auntiehill]

If I'm alone watching TV or a movie, I'll sob like a baby over any story that moves me. If someone else is around, I try to keep it together--not always successfully.

The other night, hubby laughed at me because I was wiping tears away over an episode of "Dr. Pol."

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Deep Space 9 - The Visitor. "My sweet boy." Gets me every time.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

There are certain points I get a little emotional. Not to the point of actually crying but choked up a little.

Like, the point in Quickening where she finds out all her suffering cured her baby.

Or that scene in Breaking Bad where Walter Jr finds out what his father is, he comes by to fun away with them and is utterly rejected, then screams “What us wrong with you?! We’re a family!!” and runs off with the baby.

In the video game Xenogears, after thousands of years of two lovers being reincarnated and Elly heroically sacrificing herself, finally breaking the pattern and bringing her back alive.

 

[shapeshifter]

I cry every time I watch Bill Murray's final speech in Scrooged.

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[Admiral2]

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Curse you for toying with my emotions!

 

[1001001]

As I've gotten older, I've become a big ol' crybaby.

The other day, I came into the room while my wife was watching some medical show. The scene was a patient with a heart transplant from a doctor's dead wife. He asked the patient if he could bring his daughter in to listen to her mother's heart.



I don't even know what show it was or who these people were, but just that scene was enough to turn on the water works.

I'm okay with it.

 

[fireproof78]

I can cry at the drop of a hat. My wife really enjoys dramas, like "Call the Midwife." Last night she was watching one and it was a special needs child who had to struggle with figuring out that his mom had died. It hit me right where I live, working in mental health, and I just choked up and had to walk away.

I've always been sensitive but nowadays I have to be careful with what I watch because I will cry.

 

[shapeshifter]

A scene to melt the stoniest heart.

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Damn you Spielberg!

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I've been known to cry at some of those little short cartoons the Pokémon franchise is putting out from time to time. Sad cute animated shows = me crying.

 

[The Realist]

I almost never cry at real life -- funerals, that's basically it -- but I cry pretty often at entertainment. I welcome it when it happens. I figure that harmless emotional catharsis is part of what I'm paying for, and makes the experience more meaningful and memorable.

 

[Q2UnME]

I contend that if a person does not shed a tear or two during the first 10 minutes of Pixar's movie UP that they do not have a soul....

(*I balled like a blubbering baby ... talking snot bubbles and all.....)

 

[fireproof78]

I contend that if a person does not shed a tear or two during the first 10 minutes of Pixar's movie UP that they do not have a soul....

(*I balled like a blubbering baby ... talking snot bubbles and all.....)

My friend once said of UP that it will make you cry at the beginning from sadness and cry again at the end for happiness. She was not wrong.

The end of Monster's Inc. and Wreck It Ralph will do the same thing to me.

 

[FPAlpha]

A scene to melt the stoniest heart.

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Damn you Spielberg!

The first movie i ever saw in the theater as a kid - i can't imagine a better way to start a life long love of movies ( and yes - i cried back then as a kid and i'll cry today as a mid40s man).

 

[Velocity]

I avoid tearjerkers. My life is sad and I don't need anything else to move me to tears.