I have nothing big against crying in movies really, it just doesn't usually happen. In fact, I've found generally that crying is like laughing that way - when you wouldn't mind it happening, it doesn't really happen, but when you absolutely cannot afford for it to happen, it does. I am constantly cracking up or tearing up at inappropriate moments.
There have only been a few moments in movies that have made me cry - it usually is accompanied by silence, or at least, quiet, in the movie. Or, what really gets me, is a character losing it and crying, and that's the only sound. The moment in "Dead Poets Society" when Neil's parents find him has done this for me (although strangely enough, only on rewatching - I didn't cry at all the first time). It's never all out sobbing, it's just an eyes-watering, chest-constricting feeling. One time I remember it happening quite clearly was actually in "Catch Me If You Can," in theatres. Odd, because that was overall, a comedy. But there's a moment when the main guy finds out that his father died - when all this time, he's been basically doing everything he did in hopes of getting his parents back together - and he' on a plane, and he locks himself in the bathroom. And yeah, the unexpected force of emotion just gutted me.
The moment in "Dead Poets Society" when Neil's parents find him has done this for me (although strangely enough, only on rewatching - I didn't cry at all the first time).
ME, TOO. I don't know why I didn't cry the first time, especially since I was going through a situation a lot like Neil's at the time and, I hate to admit, had thought about taking that way out more than once. But it didn't make me cry. Every time since then, though... :'(
There have only been a few moments in movies that have made me cry - it usually is accompanied by silence, or at least, quiet, in the movie. Or, what really gets me, is a character losing it and crying, and that's the only sound. The moment in "Dead Poets Society" when Neil's parents find him has done this for me (although strangely enough, only on rewatching - I didn't cry at all the first time). It's never all out sobbing, it's just an eyes-watering, chest-constricting feeling. One time I remember it happening quite clearly was actually in "Catch Me If You Can," in theatres. Odd, because that was overall, a comedy. But there's a moment when the main guy finds out that his father died - when all this time, he's been basically doing everything he did in hopes of getting his parents back together - and he' on a plane, and he locks himself in the bathroom. And yeah, the unexpected force of emotion just gutted me.
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ME, TOO. I don't know why I didn't cry the first time, especially since I was going through a situation a lot like Neil's at the time and, I hate to admit, had thought about taking that way out more than once. But it didn't make me cry. Every time since then, though... :'(
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