How emotional are you getting by entertainment?

[galleywest]

If a movie has animals in it and has a nostalgic tone at all I will cry. I watched My Dog Skip the other day and bawled. Just thinking about Mrs. Dumbo makes me cry. I cried during Black Beauty. I cried during the trailer for War Horse.

Almost anything else, I'm not so much a crier.

 

[Vanyel]

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....

Agreed.

There's also the end of West Side Story (1961) Maria holding a dying Tony in her arms and trying to sing "Somewhere."

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And, of course, the end of Old Yeller.

And when Mrs. Rosen (Shelley Winters) dies in the Poseidon Adventure.

 

[SithHappens]

I remember being very emotional watching project x with Matthew broderick, but then animal movies can often do it for me.

also an affair to remember when he realises she was the one who bought the painting

 

[dupersuper]

I can get misty, but my crying is generally on the inside.

 

[Vanyel]

I forgot, every time I saw the stage musical of Les Miserables, I do cry when Éponine sings "On My Own" and when she dies; and when Fantine dies.

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Hell, the whole musical gets to me. Fantine singing "I Dreamed a Dream." "A Heart full of Love" because of Éponine singing counter to Marius and Cosette' love song. Gavroche, a young boy, singing "Little People" while he dies on the barricade while he tries to collect ammunition off of fallen soldiers and students. Val Jean singing "Bring him Home", a prayer to God to protect Marius so Marius can return to Cosette and take care of her. Just everything in the musical.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

People who I work with wouldn't consider me to be an emotional person. But when it comes to entertainment, I'm an old softie.

The ending for Red Dead Redemption II had me depressed for over a week (I ended up getting the good ending).

The Kelvin sequence in Star Trek always choked me up, but on my last rewatch I noticed myself getting choked up on other scenes throughout the movie, like Spock Prime's goodbye to Kirk when he leaves Delta Vega, and Sarek explaining to Spock that he married Amanda because he loved her

 

[fireproof78]

The Kelvin sequence in Star Trek always choked me up

That scene is the best of Trek.

 

[publiusr]

A.I. got to me.

 

[1001001]

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 have said in the past that if you don't cry at Brian's Song and Field of Dreams, you're dead inside.

 

[Commander Troi]

When I was younger, I rarely cried or got emotional around others because of the bullying I endured as a kid for being "too emotional." I cried at the end of Star Trek II and VI, but was embarrassed about it.

In the last decade or so, Life broke my walls down and now I cry at a lot of things. And I stopped being embarrassed about it.

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

I love that speech SO much!

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

I think it's a perk.

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.....)

Hubby and I watched with another couple and their kid. The kid was the only one not crying - I think it's because it requires a little life (and death) experience she didn't have yet.

It was the first time I realized that "forever" really means "until someone dies." It changed my life.

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

***HUGS***

 

[Owain Taggart]

The most suicidal performance an actor could ever attempt is reimagining Gene Wilder.

Ok, I was genuinely confused by this reply as the reply was made in another thread. I hadn't posted in this thread before. You must have copied and pasted it by mistake? This was from the Police Squad thread.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Genuine emotional scenes get to me but with the ones that are more sappy and manipulative than genuine my aversion reaction to the bad writing takes precedence.

Sentimentality in movies only affects me when it’s earned.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I saw a commercial the other day and it took me a second to realize that the voice over was Jim Henson singing as Kermit the Frog. I didn't recognize the the song or which of the three Muppet movies it was from, but as soon as it clicked that it was Jim, I got misty eyed.

It was one of those, 'If there was one celebrity death you could go back and time and prevent, (John Lennon being first), Jim Henson would be a close second,' moments.

Just to sit there next to him on the plane and gently say, 'Hey, maybe you should go get that cough checked out'. Just thinking about where The Muppets would be today if Jim had lived gets me teary eyed.

 

[Mojochi]

I don't know wtf formula they got over there, but bloody Pixar has got my number. Wall-E, Toy Story, Up

That opening sequence of Up gets me more than the kid hiding in sewage from Schindler's List. How the hell is that even possible?

All that award worthy work Liam Neeson puts into his final "I could've got more" scene, & they can get me just as good with that dumb dog Dug telling Carl he was hiding under the porch because he loves him

That doesn't make any sense at all lol

 

[Owain Taggart]

Heh. It threw me for a loop

 

[Commander Troi]

I saw a commercial the other day and it took me a second to realize that the voice over was Jim Henson singing as Kermit the Frog. I didn't recognize the the song or which of the three Muppet movies it was from, but as soon as it clicked that it was Jim, I got misty eyed.

It was one of those, 'If there was one celebrity death you could go back and time and prevent, (John Lennon being first), Jim Henson would be a close second,' moments.

Just to sit there next to him on the plane and gently say, 'Hey, maybe you should go get that cough checked out'. Just thinking about where The Muppets would be today if Jim had lived gets me teary eyed.

So that is Jim. I thought so.

And I'm with you on those deaths. *hugs*

 

[Mojochi]

Yup. Rainbow Connection was beautiful when he was alive, & heartbreaking now that he's gone. Honestly, most of the career musicians I listen to have long since passed on, & yet I'd be hard pressed to think of any who's otherwise uplifting & lovely music or performance more hurts me when I hear it post-mortem. I think maybe Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World might be the only other one.

I think that list of songs that inspired me while they were alive, but kind of hurt now that they're gone would be ranked...
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Jim Henson - Rainbow Connection
Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow
Aretha Franklin - A Natural Woman
John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders
John Lennon - Imagine
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

& some day sooner than I'd like, Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Waters will round out that top 10 list too

 

[Owain Taggart]

Speaking of Rainbow Connection, there are so many great songs on both Sesame Street and the Muppet Show.
This one gets me every time:

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[JirinPanthosa]

Speaking of Rainbow Connection, there are so many great songs on both Sesame Street and the Muppet Show.
This one gets me every time:

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My mind just goes to the visual of a giant letter U bad touching Smokey Robinson.

 

[Owain Taggart]

My mind just goes to the visual of a giant letter U bad touching Smokey Robinson.

Not entirely sure what you're trying to say. Is it a Smokey Robinson cover?