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Have you ever had an unexpected emotional response to a movie?

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I am sat watching a film with my 4yr old (Wallace & Gromit - Curse of the Were-Rabbit), and I am reminded that this particular film very unexpectedly made me cry close to the end. I know why (and I'll tell you all once I have picked the best answer...), But I am just wondering whether you have ever been taken by surprise by an unexpected emotional reaction to a film?

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  1. lmao, the other night i was watching the devil's backbone. it was late at night and i was bored so i was so into it, at the ending i found myself tearing up, like when the old man who ran the orphanage died and when his ghost was seeing the kids leave the orphanage at the end. haha, now i saw this movie before so i was just surprised at myself that i would get emotional after the second time seeing it


  2. Yeah, actually. The first time a watched the end of the Titanic, I cried when he died, but the second time, i started laughing, and i couldn't stop. Eventually i was whooshed out of the room and told not to come back until i stopped laughing. That didn't happen until half an hour latter.

  3. I cried at the end of "Stranger Than Fiction". But it was a happy cry. The writer sacrificed her best work to save him so he'd finally be happy and not the person he was.

    I don't think too many people cry at "Frida", but maybe that's the artist in me. Her suffering was over, but she was gone. Her diary quote gets me: "I hope the exit is joyful - and I hope never to return."

    I'm still waiting for the day I don't cry when Tom Hanks loses Wilson in Cast Away. But that's not so unexpected.

  4. Yes.  In Good Will Hunting when Matt Damon and Robin Williams are face-to-face and Robin Williams begins telling Matt Damon that it isn't his fault over and over. . . I went into the ugly cry right in the middle of the move theater.  It was quite embarrassing!  And completely out of the blue.  People all around me started handing me tissues!  

  5. My Life starring Micheal Keaton,

    This film is one which really makes us sit back and evaluate our lives and our relationships with those we love.

    Michael Keaton turns in a superb performance as the career man who is struck down by terminal cancer while his wife is expecting their first child.

    The film then charts his efforts to make a video tape, for his unborn child, of his life and then discovers that it is not what it should be. With the help of a spiritual healer (Haing S. Ngor) and his wife (Nicole Kidman) he sets about trying to set things right with his family and his life.

    Although the ending at the after life is a little bit dreamy after the reality of the film, this is still a superb piece of movie making with winning performances from all the cast and a wonderful script.

    Definitely not a film to relax to of an evening, it is one of those films, like Philadelphia, that should be watched every now and again just to remind us that life is too short for arguments and should be cherished.


  6. when i saw the hulk movie and he said " hulk Smash!" i cheered unexpectedly. i guess i got caught in the moment.

  7. Yeah I have, heaps of times...lol I cant help it I love movies!

  8. yea  really weird  tho   during titanic i was laughing really hard. I know its messed up lol

  9. I've had two:

    At the end of Donnie Darko (which had a sad ending, but I usually can deal with that) I started to cry, because of the Mad World song that played while showing Frank and that chubby girl and other scenes.

    It isn't a movie, but in the episode Turn LEft of Doctor Who, when Donna's granddad said "work camps, that's what they called them last time" I started bawling like crazy. It was really embarrassing, since I was watching with my family :P

    My friend said that she burst out crying at the end of the Sixth Sense, and it was like the 4th time she saw it, so she knew what was coming.

  10. The ending to Requiem for Dream made me cry. I was unbelievably depressed through that montage of what was happening to everyone, but i was doing okay...until (spoilers) they showed ellen burstyn without her hair, all frazzled and fried, and the main theme started playing. I think what may have contributed was the fact my grandmother had the same thing happen to her, and she looked almost identical to ellen burstyn. I realized during the credits that i had big ole tears rolling down my face. I realized how great the movie was to illict such an emotional response.

  11. I don't usually get emotional at films - but two (rather recent) films unexpectedly triggered sadness in me:  The Hours and Cold Mountain.  I was surprised with how emotional both movies were.

  12. Totally! I started crying in the middle of this really boring (no offense) Lifetime movie my mom was watching. A woman was dying of cancer, and she was telling her kids. It was sad! I've cried several times in movies, I can tell you that. It's nothing to be ashamed of. =)

  13. the girl next door-How they treated that girl broke my heart and made me cry and cuss that lady out...How can kids and ppl be so heartless.

    ironic..is was based on true life events..and they all died from cancer and in jail.

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