only one movie ever and sadly it was Click :(

Despite the fact the book was written by American, Arthur Golden, it's very good. But the movie was made for averange American who has little knowledge about the world outside US or his/hers state. I know that was stereotypical thinking.

i totally agree.

I didn't like the movie adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha. The book is great, but the movie is very americanized for me.

"La Vie en Rose" What a story!!
"Memoirs of a Geisha"

Kimberly wrote: "I am new to the group so I hope it's okay to post! :-)
"

by all means, post at will!

hey there Kimberly ... welcome! ... post away ... you're in good company - 'cos most seem to tear up at the flicks ... Somersby - there's a tearful blast from the past

I am new to the group so I hope it's okay to post! :-)

I bawled while watching Titanic in the theater. (I know I'm sad...)

On DVD:
Moulin Rouge
Sommersby
Passengers (cried at the end)
and umpteen others

sadly only click

Ahuva wrote: "Lots of movies, but the last one was "My sister's keeper""

It was quite good.

Lots of movies, but the last one was "My sister's keeper"

Sam wrote: "Phillip wrote: i watched yasujiro ozu's late spring (1949) last night..."

is this on our list pg?"

it is now!

Phillip wrote: i watched yasujiro ozu's late spring (1949) last night..."

is this on our list pg?

I cried watching Incendiery on the weekend - practically the whole way through ...

Jardley wrote: One film that always gets me, its so intense is Ponette. I start crying way before the tough moments come."

I looked "Ponette" up. Wow. I am going to reserve that at the library. I will watch it prepared with a box of tissues.

nice one!

i watched yasujiro ozu's late spring (1949) last night, a story of a relationship between a father and daughter not long after the war (it is another of ozu's "family must get daughter married" chronicles, but very different in tone from works like early summer). the last 20 minutes always brings on the tears. and the final shot of the father alone in his apartment: wow. one of ozu's masterpieces, me thinks. and setsuko hara is so young in it, amazing to see her "grow up" in his films. one of his late films (late autumn) features her as a mother marrying her daughter...a reversal of late spring in many ways.

Just finished watching a flawed, but good, Indian movie called A Peck on the Cheek that made me cry--and I'm not an easy cry. Since most movies with subtitles go straight to the art house theaters for about 15 minutes I'd like to mention it. It seems to have won a slew of awards as well.

First, the flaws. The movie needs more exposition in the beginning, it got preachy at a couple points, it needs tighter editing to make a more cohesive story line.

The good: The movie got the mother-daughter relationship spot on. The whole "I love you, I need you, I hate because I need you, I don't want to be like you" angst of a daughter was pitch perfect. The parents are the dream parents we longed for as children; loving, sensitive, intelligent, handsome and well-off.

The story revolves around an adopted daughter's journey to find her birth mother; a journey that is essential to understanding how good people make difficult decisions under tragic circumstances. I need a kleenex now.

Mawgojzeta wrote: "My son (14 or so at the time) got so upset watching HOTEL RWANDA (I was, too) that we had to stop the movie twice for what he called "the get it together minute". Great movie. The other movie (Da..."

aww haha the get it together minute. Hotel Rwanda was very emotional
One film that always gets me, its so intense is Ponette. I start crying way before the tough moments come.

Thanks, Mawgojzeta.

My son (14 or so at the time) got so upset watching HOTEL RWANDA (I was, too) that we had to stop the movie twice for what he called "the get it together minute". Great movie. The other movie (Dancy and Hurt) is called SHOOTING DOGS.

Drupadi wrote: "movies that made me cry:
Hotel Rwanda
A walk to Remember
cinema Paradiso
and many more


"

I forgot about this film entirely. I remember that it woke me up a little to the rest of the world.

There's another film (not quite as good) about the Rwandan genocide, with Hugh Dancy and John Hurt in it. I can't remember the name... :S

movies that made me cry:
Hotel Rwanda
A walk to Remember
cinema Paradiso
and many more

lol............

pee wee's big adventure

+ Dances With Wolves (when the wolf dies)

Me too!

I don't cry easily at films or books but there have been a few.

+ A Little Princess (I was really young and it got to me, that her daddy was [supposedly:] dead and she was all alone in the world.
+ Anne Frank, an older version.
+ Dances With Wolves (when the wolf dies)
+ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

I can't think of any more.

just watched transformers 2. cried.

Oh jeez, Disney films are NOTORIOUS tear-jerkers. I cried my way through Bambi, Dumbo, Oliver and Co., The Lion King, and even through Lady & the Tramp and Aristocats. It's just not fair using fuzzy little animals.

oh my god theres no way i can name them all so ill go with the ones that made me cry the most
Pearl Harbour
Moulin Rouge
Awakenings
Patch Adams

Disney films
The Lion King

My sister's keeper

Hallmark (we used to get that channel earlier) original movies always make me cry so much, I have stopped watching them. :)

Gene in message 319,..lists Pirates ..Carribbean World's End.. yeah it made me cry, I didn't expect the story to end that way. I like the way Orlando Bloom's character says "It depends on the one day" in such a heavy emotional kind of way cos I think he gets like one day to be on shore. Is it cos he is dead or is it normal sailor stuff? It was such an exciting idea in the first part, and the movies just got really boring.

What are you kidding me? I'm pre-menopausal. EVERYTHING makes me cry! :)

Little Miss Sunshine and Welcome to the Dollhouse! mostly Little Miss Sunshine. when the kid realizes he's color blind oh my god i had a break down with him. also Juno and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Adventureland made me cry (for some reason??). Sunshine Cleaning. Kite Runner. i'll cry for anything.. these are only recent movies, cuz i only started getting moved so much recently. and now i'm crying at every. single. thing.

oh yeah and R. Crumb too which is just about the cartoonist Crumb. some of the people in his life are so depressing! and you're shown everything about them, completely bare, no sympathy. Oh and Withnail and I which i've seen a ton of times never makes me cry until the last scene, when Withnail is standing in the rain and he does the "what a piece of work is a man" speech from hamlet. My Big Fat Greek wedding does too.

My most recent two...

1. Troy
2. Legends of the Fall

p.s. i love you KILLS me. and although i thought the movie was horrible and the book is a million times better, i still sobbed during marley and me. i have an old dog, so it just gets to me.

Maryanne wrote: "I cried when I saw P.S. I love you "

Oh, yeah- that one really got me going, too.

I cried when I saw P.S. I love you Maryanne

Most recent sniffles -- Milk (trigger: the astounding shot of the candlelight vigil)

Most violent sobs -- Dancer in the Dark (trigger: the very end, just relentless)

Favorite tears -- The Shawshank Redemption (trigger: the meaningful beach shot that was such a hopefully bright and simple contrast to the rest of the story)

First cry that I can remember -- Dances with Wolves (trigger: watching Murphy Brown's painter, Robert Pastorelli, get scalped)

I dont usually get emotionally involved but there have only been three movies that have made me cry and those are The Notebook( I thought it was so sad how she didnt remember him), and paulie( when paulie is being taken away from the little girl), and Edward scissorhands( I know its strange but the fact that she loved him and just gave him up to save his life).

I cried when I saw West Side Story, Little Women,
Gone with the Wind. I cry easily mkaryanne

"At Night" (the Denmark film) made me cry.

Very few films can, but this one made me use a few tissues.

Just watched Freak the Mighty. Loved it. I cried at the end when the Big Boy lost his only friend.
Aloha Maryanne

I like Colbert and Ive read The Bluest Eye, that's recommendation enough.

The original I think was Claudette Colbert- it deals a lot with the issue of passing and is referenced in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye- there is plot line about a black maid with a mixed race daughter named Pecola. I felt both versions were worth a look and fit nicely in this thread if you know what I mean.

Yeah, Far From Heaven was great. I like Todd Haynes' work. Safe (also with Julianne Moore) still baffles me...in a good way.

I've seen two of the Sirk films, the other one with Wyman and Hudson (can't remember the title...was it All That Heaven Allows?) and the one with Lauren Bacall. I started to watch the Hudson/Wyman version of MO, but believe it or not, it just felt so wooden after watching the earlier effort that I turned it off.

I know I have seen Imitation of Life but I can't seem to remember it.

I didnt realize MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION was a remake as well(Ive only seen the Rock Hudson version); was always fond of both versions of IMITATION OF LIFE. Also Todd Haynes did a wonderful job recreating the Sirk aesthetic with his film FAR FROM HEAVEN.

i dont think that i have ever actually cried because of a movie
but The Green Mile almost got me!

i remember these two movies makes me cry almost in every scene!
- The Kite's Runner
- The Pursuit of Happiness

oh...kinda forget! i was crying too at the end when i watched Jerry Maguire and Sweet November :D

James wrote: "Click - the Adam Sandler movie - which was supposed to be a COMEDY had me crying buckets at the end..."

I rented it the other day. I kept waiting - when am I going to cry? When? And then it happened...that scene... and I cried buckets, too.

Here are a few that make me cry:

The Mask (with Cher)- When she trys to wake him up for school

The Green Mile- When they electricute Jon

The Family Stone- When the family recieves their gift

Crash- The car crash/ when he is shooting and the girl get in the way

A Walk to Remember - When they get married

Stepmom - When they are discussing the future wedding

I will continue to look for Old Joy, I didn't see it on my most recent trip to the video store. Thanks for the tip!