When did I become so soppy?

[mattp]

Years ago, my sister and I used to mock our mum for crying at the TV.

Last weekend I watched The Shawshank Redemption with ruth_sedina and elvenforrest and it made me weepy.
Last night I watched my favourite episode of ST:TNG (The Inner Light) and it too made me shed a tear.

Somewhere along the line I changed. I can't work out when it first started happening, but I think it's fairly recent. What films, TV or music have a similar effect on you?

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[tabatha-yeddap.livejournal.com]

A beautiful mind - it gets me everytime I watch it. I even know the bits where it 'gets' me and prepare myself but it makes no difference.
The Green Mile is another one

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I love The Green Mile too. It's one of my favourite films. The saddest part, for me, is the section where Edgecomb is talking with Coffey about killing someone with such healing powers:

Paul Edgecomb: On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That is was my job? My job?
John Coffey: You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you, but you oughta quit on it now. Because I want it over and done. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time. Can you understand?
Paul Edgecomb: Yes, John. I think I can.

[angeoverhere.livejournal.com]

Edward Scissorhands always, always makes me weep. Lovely film.

[paul.livejournal.com]

Forest Gump, when he realises he has a kid and then Jenny dies.

And the end of the Green Mile like Sam. Shawshank sometimes too, great film.

[kibe.livejournal.com]

Forest Gump got me too. I remember my friends at uni mocking me when we watched it once...

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

Lots, including: Charlotte's Web, Bambi, in fact I cry at most films. :-)

[emmy-mallow.livejournal.com]

I recently watched 'The House of Sand and Fog' at which I cried like a baby.
'Donnie Darko' always makes me cry.

Buckets and buckets at 'Return of the King' though - just buckets.

[karen2205]

Pollyanna.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

The end of Labyrinth - the 'Should you need us...' bit. Makes me blub like a baby every time!

[lyra.livejournal.com]

the last film I cried through was the notebook. how embarrassing :D
that's a typical cry girly film.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

If I'm in the right (or wrong, depending on your PoV) mood, pretty much any film or TV emotionally charged can make me cry.
Songs tend to lose the power after a while, but "Flowers in Winter" by Fascinating Aida can still do it.

[diffrentcolours]

Most recently, The Bill...

[therainbowqueen.livejournal.com]

Forrest Gump makes me cry a LOT (when Muh'Jenny dies mainly) And also Shawshank & The Green Mile (as others have mentioned) have had me shed a tear or two.

Ponnette (French film about little girl grieving and pining for her mother and desperately trying to get her back or see her one last time)which is obviously sad, but the little girl actress does such an amazing job and is so very believable, it doesn't really seem to be scripted at all.

(song) Puff The Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul & Mary.
"Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave, so Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave." GAH! *gnash, wail, weep*

(books) Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (can't say why, would spoil the book) and The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Ablom (about a man who dies and 5 people whose lives he has affected significantly on Earth meet him in "Heaven") - it's a pretty crap book except when he meets a little girl he has no idea who she is, and she tells him, when he was a soldier and escaped from a POW camp and he and his troop burned the place down, she was scared of them and was hiding in a shed and was burned alive. :(

[tax.livejournal.com]

That film does me in :(

[trixiehiggins.livejournal.com]

Yes, Shawshank makes me cry. As well as Amelie. But my number one tear jerker is E.T. When he was laying in the creek so sad and alone and cold it tore me to bits everytime.

[earwigmc.livejournal.com]

oh, there's lots that moves me to tears...

wrt films - the terminator & terminator 2, requiem for a dream, torch song trilogy... are a few. generally something involving and tapping into profound loss.

wrt music, that can be different, it moves me in different ways - the emotional response may be passion and elation as well as sadness.

and then there's also association...

[mhw.livejournal.com]

No films or TV. I see TV once in a blue moon, and then I don't pay attention to it. But there are films – not many – that do affect me emotionally, though not to tears. The closing minutes of Prospero's Books, for example, are so ecstatic that I can hardly bear to breathe when I watch them.

Music definitely does affect me, more than I could list here. But I have to be in the appropriate mood, or it doesn't work. There's some Nyman, for example, that if I'm in the right mood will reduce me to a wet blob; other times, I can understand why the music should be affecting, but I perceive it only intellectually.

And I don't think it's a matter of being soppy. A lot of art is deliberately contrived to work on the emotions. The fact that it moves you is a tribute to the skill of the maker, not a reflection on you.

[kibe.livejournal.com]

Everything. Pretty much. :)

The Crow made me bawl buckets when I first watched it.

I even cry at the Simpsons, when it's too adorably cute. Especially the Homer and Lisa sweet storylines... I'm not sure why that is.

Loads of music makes me cry. Most really soppy love songs, especially when associated with sad bits of films.