Have I mentioned that I’m a crier? Maybe? Perhaps? Am I crying now? Who knows?
But the fact is, I’m a crier.
I didn’t use to be and I’m not quite sure when the shift happened but now I can cry at the drop of a hat. Seriously, I’m more emotional than I know what to do with it sometimes.
I mean when I was a kid I never cried. Maybe if I got hurt I cried, but watching a movie? Nothing. Seriously I watched The Lion King without shedding a tear (Matt still doesn’t believe this about me) and I made it through Bambi without sobbing. I’m not sure if it was because they were cartoons or because I hadn’t really matured or anything but those things breezed right over me.
These days I’m pretty sure anything could make me cry. And almost any movie can bring me to tears. It’s like the world knows I have to get some tears out to function on a daily basis.
However, last night it occurred to me the top movies to clear out my tear ducts. These are the movies that I probably should have tissue nearby or just admit defeat.
And the list goes something like this:
P.S. I Love You. Oh sweet actual mercy. This movie. Maybe it’s because I think I’d be so much like Holly if Matt died or just the fact that it is SO SAD. I don’t know. But I sob watching this movie. And yet I continue to watch it. Once I even started watching it and had to pause it, watch another movie and then come back to it. I mean, the sadness.
The Blind Side. Happy tears like no other in this movie. And just emotional tears. But when Michael gets his own bed and his room, I lose it. Every. Single. Time.
Titanic. No, it’s not the end that makes me cry. I cry every single freaking time when Rose is in a lifeboat looking up at Jack and then jumps back on the ship. And just. Ah. I’m getting teary now as I type this!
The Holiday. Even more happy tears. I LOVE this movie. So much. And every scene with Kate Winslet and Jack Black makes my heart flutter. And Cameron Diaz and Jude Law are just, adorable. And the end when everyone gets together and just, ah. Tears of happiness are inevitably streaming down my face.
Love Actually. More happy tears. All of the happy tears. When Samuel runs through the airport and Jamie is simultaneously in pursuit of Aurelia through Spain, then yeah, I’ve got a waterfall of tears happening over here. It’s just the happiest movie and I can’t wait for Christmastime so I can watch it more times than is deemed normal.
There’s so many more movies and even some TV show episodes (hello Grey’s Anatomy, stop making me get so emotional) that make me cry but these are the top. So if we ever watch any of these together, don’t judge. Or I can just hand you a tissue and we can cry it out together okay?
So tell me, what movies make you cry? Do we share any? Did you cry when you watched The Lion King?
happy weekend!
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I often joke with some of my best girl friends about crying because we’re all EXACTLY like this too. Don’t even get me started with PS I love you. When she lies down in their bed towards the beginning and calls her husbands’ voicemail over and over again just to hear his voice? IT GETS ME EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I’m teary eyed now. I love that movie SO much.
Haha, I’m so happy that you wrote this post. I am a sob machine!! Movies that make me sob: Forrest Gump, The Notebook, Rudy…the list goes on and on. And it’s not only movies…a particularly moving commercial, an emotional preview for a show. It reminds me of that scene in Mean Girls when they’re having the intervention and that girl that doesn’t even go to the school and makes her little speech, prompting her to say “I just have a lot of feelings!”
Just the beginning of Up.
Up!
I can’t believe Disney did that to me.
I am the same way. I don’t know when it changed. I used to think I was immune to it but now I cry at happy things, at sad things, anything with a dad and daughter, and mostly just in movies/tv shows. IRL I am not as emotional. I don’t know if I am trying to fill a void or my hormones have just gone haywire as i’ve gotten older. It is good to know I’m not alone. You and I should watch movies together!
PS I Love You makes me cry everytime. Yet I watch it everytime. P.S. Never watch Marley & Me. So damn sad.
The Lion King def made me cry. Forrest Gump too. Love Actually too .Definitely the Aurelia scenes.
I will always always always cry at Armageddon, Avatar, and Life As A House.
I cry at EXACTLY the same time in Titanic!!!
Up and Armageddon are the two that really stand out for me but I’m sure there are many more. I’m not too sure if I did cry at The Lion King, to be honest…it’s been ages since I’ve seen it. Maybe I’ll have to watch it again (all in the name of research of course!)
Yes- agree with whoever said UP.. even Gus let the tears flow during that 5 minute montage in the beginning. Also, Terms of Endearment? I caught it on a random Sunday afternoon on tv.. BALLED MY EYES OUT! And then there was this buzzfeed post: http://www.buzzfeed.com/lilyboo/things-that-will-make-you-cry-538l
I made it til #10, and then I let loose!!!!!
I am only a serious crier in movies and on TV. Literally, I am an emotional mess. Beasts of a Southern Wild? I could not stop crying, literally was chocking on my sobs.
While I haven’t seen it in FOREVER, I guarantee if I watched Fievel – An American Tail. I mean, who loses their mouse/kid like that!?
I’m scarred for life after watching that movie as a kid.
When I saw Titanic 3D, I cried when the music started playing in the opening credits. That movie just makes my heart hurt!
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