Movies Get to Me

By now I'm sure everybody is well versed in the fact that I hate being forced to choose something when there isn't going to be a clear cut response. Today even less than most days. Plinky is asking 'What movie always makes you cry?'. Are you kidding me? Am I the only person who has difficulty answering this question?



Why do I have trouble answering this question? Every movie that is the least bit sad will make me cry.



Its strange really. I tend to be rather under-emotional about life. I simply don't care enough to be bothered in some instances, care a lot but am incapable of effectively expressing it in most other situations. The minor afflictions like somebody speaking harshly to me on an off day is far more likely to make me cry than death or significantly bad news.



As for other peoples feelings... Yes I am the awkward friend who sort of watches and maybe pats you in that detached and very unhelpful manner. I do try to avoid emotional outbursts of my friends because it makes me feel quite incompetent. And yet? For some random movie character, hell CARTOON character, I'll well up for the littlest thing.



So movies that make me cry. The list would be endless so I am simply going to pick a couple of recent ones or stand out successes (failures really I hate being sad for such a long period of time).

1. Toy Story 3. Was so sad, and interestingly not just at the end. I cried for both the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes of this one. This movie is not pitched at children. It is for the viewers of the first Toy Story and most significantly the kids who were the first Toy Story watchers. The ones who are the same age as the boy. Its very sweet... A little too sweet for my tear ducts.



2. All Disney Movies. It is pathetic. But the love scene or the family death scene of just about every Disney movie ever created has made me cry over the years. Something about cartoons gives me the disconnectedness to get that little bit too involved with the characters. Things like Bambi? The worst for it.



3. P.S. I Love you. No. I flat out refuse to ever watch this movie EVER again. I watched it the first time. That was a mistake. I have never had such a heart wrenching time in the cinema. I cried continuously. I am not good with the love/death combination.

Things like The Notebook as well? Nope. I simply don't watch them. The bitter in the bittersweet is too much for me to handle. You watch movies (at least I watch movies) to feel good. If you feel bad something is not right.



Basically most movies can make me cry at some point. However so long as my cheeks are dry by the end of it I'm not to bad for it. And so long as I manage to not have to make noise when I cry. the scene has been going that little bit too long when I have to take the drawn out I was crying and therefore not breathing breath... =) I love a happy movie instead.