Oh my. That poor kid has a whole lifetime ahead of her of doing this during movies. I didn't start crying at movies, and now pretty much anything even remotely emotional, until much later in life.
And it's the music. The right music is just killer for bringing on the tears.
@lisaviolet i saw it for the first time when i was 11 (when it premiered) and it's one of my favorite things ever that i don't watch because of crying.
The movies Up, The Fox and the Hound, and The Fault in Our Stars [they should be italicized, but I don't know how]. The song Wake Me up When September Ends. The "NCIS" Episode where McGee's dad dies. My children make it a running joke to make sure I have a stock of tissues...sigh, but all of the above are heartwrenching, IMHO.
I cry at everything and I don't know why. It's stupid, really. I understand why I get emotional about scenes that have animals, because I like animals much better than people, but as I've gotten older I've found that I cry at the most ridiculous stuff, whether it's actually upsetting or not. My husband makes fun of me for it.
@PurplePawprints I have been known to tear up thinking about a movie I saw in a high school sociology class about the experiment where baby monkeys were raised in isolation and then given the choice of a milk-giving wire mother figure or non-food giving soft mother figure, and they chose the soft one. I don't want to look it up because it will upset me. I am not a maternal woman by any stretch, but I still want to take care of those poor baby monkeys.
The song that makes me cry is the Christmas song where the cat and mouse are left out on a cold night and the cat cuddles the mouse to sleep, but the cat freezes to death.
@mikibell Yes, the one where the mother's in the hospital and the kid doesn't have enough money to pay for the shoes. I have to pull off to the side of the road for that one.
@Kevin I had never heard of or seen this before, and honestly I hope I forget it as soon as possible. I'll admit it, I'm now crying like a lost child. It's not only heartbreaking but it really makes me miss my own furry buddy who I said goodbye to last year. (And who I would never, ever leave outside in the cold.)
I tear up watching people dance in unison. Especially live, but it can be old movies, commercials, the opening credits to The Drew Carey Show, it just has to have people dancing in unison.
Music I haven't heard in ages that I used to listen to a lot. Last summer I discovered Amazon Prime Music had Tom Waits' early album The Heart of Saturday Night, which I literally had not listened to since 1987 or 1988 when the cassette started squeaking. I started it, and my eyes just filled up with tears, for no real reason. It was just overwhelming.
Also Lou Reed's Satellite of Love, but mainly when I'm premenstrual.
What makes me cry is when I'm driving to work listening to the ending theme of Star Strek First Contact. I like to make up sci fi movies in my head as I drive. During the emotional interlude in the middle, I imagine the sad part of my story and I'm always tearing up. The reprise of the march at the end always snaps me out of it though.
It is impossible for me to read The Giving Tree or The Velveteen Rabbit without crying red-faced snotty hiccup tears. Same with listening to songs "Holland, 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel and "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" as sung by June Tabor. There's bunches of books and poems and more songs that make me cry, but listing them would be too personal a sharing, y'know? Oh, and I totally ugly-cry at the Sagan Series videos. I also cry at perfect moments in nature. That moment when I'm alone and there's a breathtaking vista over a rise or a sudden sacred kind of silence in the middle of nowhere or the way the early morning mist is sifting through the trees in the valley or some shade of green fuzzing shadowed bare branches to something weird and magical or just whatever double rainbows all the way man. It's a "I am both nothing and everything at the same time" kind of existential answer I briefly fully grok in that moment. It's a really good kind of crying and I relish it.
@goldenthorn i tried reading the velveteen rabbit to my little brother when i was a teenager and started balling incontrollably. he thought i was crazy. probably because i couldn't get the words out because if he read it himself, even now as a tough marine, i'm pretty sure he'd cry too.
@goldenthorn 2nd the Giving Tree; my siblings and I gave a copy to my mother for Mother's day a couple years back. It says how we feel better than any words one could come up with.
I don't know if it would do it again, but I was glad no one was around to see me when I watched Marley & Me. But SPOILER ALERT we'd had to put our dog down only a year before and that brought back some tough memories.
The Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" will still bring some tears to my eyes, as will the song "I Will Wait For You" because of its appearance in that episode.
Today With Your Wife by Jonathan Coulton. When I sing along in the car, there's no way I can sing the line "Waved to your children" without breaking up.
The scene in Toy Story 3 when they all hold hands.
When I was in the room for this performance of Both Sides Now:
When She Loved Me sung by Sarah McLachlan in Toy Story 2.
After Travis Ishikawa hit the walk-off three-run home run to win the NLCS for the Giants and I started telling my wife about how, earlier that season, he had to be talked out of quitting baseball by a friend.
At the end of A League of Their Own when the women shown walking around the Hall of Fame exhibit are real former AAGPBL players.
What makes me cry is when an item sells out and everyone on the forum calls me an entitled whiner. The worst part is when people post the animated gifs of people clapping and giving thumbs up as my mascara runs down my cheeks.
@Michaelforman Just replying to myself because the fundamental nature of spacetime is unknown. Anyways, I don't wear mascara because I have a penis. That's not saying that people with penises can't wear mascara. It's just that my penis is really intolerant of makeup in general. That's something else to cry about, I suppose.
@Michaelforman Curse you, society! Curse you all to heck! A man oughtta be able to wear mascara if he wants, and without somebody looking at him funny!
Anything, absolutely anything, set to the right music. I once cried because of a documentary about the White House with patriotic music playing while they described the dry, boring, museum-like purpose of some of the rooms.
Also the show Modern Marvels makes me cry because it reminds me humans can be awesome.
And I don't mean just tear up... I mean balling my eyes out.
For 5 years I volunteered at the county animal shelter. It has a kill rate of over 75%. My goal was to help visitors choose a new pet. I managed to keep my emotions in check, even to the point I was able o help officers decide who lived and died on any particular day. Then one day I hit “The Wall.” Compassion burn out. I walked away from there and haven’t been back. Since then I cry almost any time I think about it, see something on TV that reminds me, or even think about what my own dogs suffered there before I adopted them. That combined with becoming an emotional old geezer is why I get Xanax in the pass around pack from my doctor.
@Misha227 Oh, and there was a song on a trucker album in the late seventies, about a sick boy who was stuck at home all the time and made friends with the truckers on the CB. His handle was Teddy Bear and the kid dies at the end and it's just awful. Plus about half of the other things mentioned here.
And when I get really mad.... So frustrating, when I want to tell someone what an asset they are, and I can't because I have to leave the room because I'm about to start bawling.
Over the years I've had a bunch of letters published in the paper; one a month for 4 years. They are all about the animal shelter and reading them is sure to tear up any animal lover. I'm really good at sob stories, especially true ones.
My wife and daughter make fun of me for crying during American Idol. I don't know why I do it. I don't cry over sad movies, or TV shows, or really, anything else. Just American Idol.
@1wally1 This past year we had to put 2 down. One we'd had for 19 years, my sweet little terrier, Teri. The other our 12 year old basenji. I'll always miss them and choke up thinking about them. Over my life time there have been a lot of pet losses and each one still hurts in different ways.
@1wally1 We lost my wife's cat in '97. I disliked him but it hurt anyway. Lost our two girls (canine) in '07 and '08... and our current late adoption is almost 13 so we don't know how much longer he'll be with us. Its hard, but they are so worth it.
Believe it or not, I got pretty teary during Interstellar. There is such a good thread on perspectives from both father and child, my son and I were like, "I... I just have something in my eye... let's get steak and talk football".
April 12th will be one year since I had to say goodbye to my cat. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday. I have his picture as my wallpaper on the computer at work. I turn on the monitor when I walk in every morning and at least once a week I have to take a moment and sit down as I shed some tears when I see his furry face. I just miss him, a lot. An awful lot.
Also, the end of the movie Big Fish where all the characters show up for the funeral. By that point in the movie my emotions are already on overload.
@Cinoclav I cannot listen to the Disney song "A Whole New World" because I always think of the pets we've said goodbye to being whole and healthy again.
@lisaviolet There have been many over the years, but this particular cat was something special. I'm forever grateful for having 20+ years with him. The thought of our pets being whole and healthy again gives me mixed emotions. As happy as I am at the thought of them being healthy and folicking around, it also make me yearn for those days when I could enjoy seeing that in person. If the world truly is right in the end, we really will have our furry little friends waiting for us when it's our time to go.
Oh, my this thread is making me tear up. I cry at the drop of a hat. Sometimes it is a song, sometimes it is a well done movie and of corse books! The movie I know I will always cry durring is "My Girl". When she runs down and insists on Thomas J must have his glassesI just loose it. Misting up thinking about it.
used to be nothing could bring up tears, but now, nearly anything emotional can make me well up like a dainty little flower.(and I'm basically Peter Griffin's bald twin with a goatee) it all started back when Buffy was on TV, the episode where her mom Died, it opened the flood gates, and I've not been able to close them since.
also this fucking song. I can't even get into the first bit without welling up a bit. - it's Billie Myers "Kiss the Rain" with the big speech in the Middle of Chasing Amy cut in -
I spent a lot of years keeping tears either unshed or very private. Bad things happened, but they were MY bad things and sharing an emotional response was entirely too risky.
Then my thyroid went bonkers, and now, even though the thyroid thing is medicated into submission, I cry a lot. When I don't want to. At stupid shit that isn't sad or overly happy, at things that are funny, when I'm upset, whatever. If someone is crying around me, I'm a desert, but otherwise...sigh.
@Mavyn Somewhat similar with me too. Thyroid plus age also, though; so I can't eliminate any variables for ya. I'd rather blame thyroid than age letting emotions get wussified...
"The Message" episode of "Firefly". The cast knew they had been cancelled, and this was the last episode filmed. The funeral at the end had extra oomph because of that.
Oh my. That poor kid has a whole lifetime ahead of her of doing this during movies. I didn't start crying at movies, and now pretty much anything even remotely emotional, until much later in life.
And it's the music. The right music is just killer for bringing on the tears.
@pitamuffin I know, right?
My husband will not watch Lonesome Dove, ever again. He said it's too sad.
@lisaviolet i saw it for the first time when i was 11 (when it premiered) and it's one of my favorite things ever that i don't watch because of crying.
Nothing. I am a rock. I am an island.
@hallmike I don't believe you.
@hallmike I've built wallllsss....
The Lion King gets me
The Irish song Mother Macree. It was my Mom's favorite and I sang it to her when she was dying. Haven't listened to it since.
The movies Up, The Fox and the Hound, and The Fault in Our Stars [they should be italicized, but I don't know how]. The song Wake Me up When September Ends. The "NCIS" Episode where McGee's dad dies. My children make it a running joke to make sure I have a stock of tissues...sigh, but all of the above are heartwrenching, IMHO.
@mikibell Put an asterisk before and after whatever you want italicized.
@mikibell Up and The Fox and the Hound are two movies that get me to tear up every single time.
I cry at everything and I don't know why. It's stupid, really. I understand why I get emotional about scenes that have animals, because I like animals much better than people, but as I've gotten older I've found that I cry at the most ridiculous stuff, whether it's actually upsetting or not. My husband makes fun of me for it.
@PurplePawprints I have been known to tear up thinking about a movie I saw in a high school sociology class about the experiment where baby monkeys were raised in isolation and then given the choice of a milk-giving wire mother figure or non-food giving soft mother figure, and they chose the soft one. I don't want to look it up because it will upset me. I am not a maternal woman by any stretch, but I still want to take care of those poor baby monkeys.
The song that makes me cry is the Christmas song where the cat and mouse are left out on a cold night and the cat cuddles the mouse to sleep, but the cat freezes to death.
Rudy also makes me cry.
@Kevin oh, you just reminded me of the Christmas somg about the child who wants to buy the mother shoes! Gets me everytime.
@Kevin um, i never heard this song, but thanks for making me cry just now.
@katylava
@Kevin i'm not watching that. i'm not a masochist.
@katylava Me, either.
Or cat. Or bird. Or deer. Or horse. Or..
@mikibell Yes, the one where the mother's in the hospital and the kid doesn't have enough money to pay for the shoes. I have to pull off to the side of the road for that one.
@Kevin I had never heard of or seen this before, and honestly I hope I forget it as soon as possible. I'll admit it, I'm now crying like a lost child. It's not only heartbreaking but it really makes me miss my own furry buddy who I said goodbye to last year. (And who I would never, ever leave outside in the cold.)
@Kevin what mean bastards...let the kitty freeze 😢😪😭😭😭
@hippiechik but the mouse would have died!
I tear up watching people dance in unison. Especially live, but it can be old movies, commercials, the opening credits to The Drew Carey Show, it just has to have people dancing in unison.
Music I haven't heard in ages that I used to listen to a lot. Last summer I discovered Amazon Prime Music had Tom Waits' early album The Heart of Saturday Night, which I literally had not listened to since 1987 or 1988 when the cassette started squeaking. I started it, and my eyes just filled up with tears, for no real reason. It was just overwhelming.
Also Lou Reed's Satellite of Love, but mainly when I'm premenstrual.
What makes me cry is when I'm driving to work listening to the ending theme of Star Strek First Contact. I like to make up sci fi movies in my head as I drive. During the emotional interlude in the middle, I imagine the sad part of my story and I'm always tearing up. The reprise of the march at the end always snaps me out of it though.
It is impossible for me to read The Giving Tree or The Velveteen Rabbit without crying red-faced snotty hiccup tears.
Same with listening to songs "Holland, 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel and "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" as sung by June Tabor.
There's bunches of books and poems and more songs that make me cry, but listing them would be too personal a sharing, y'know?
Oh, and I totally ugly-cry at the Sagan Series videos.
I also cry at perfect moments in nature. That moment when I'm alone and there's a breathtaking vista over a rise or a sudden sacred kind of silence in the middle of nowhere or the way the early morning mist is sifting through the trees in the valley or some shade of green fuzzing shadowed bare branches to something weird and magical or just whatever double rainbows all the way man. It's a "I am both nothing and everything at the same time" kind of existential answer I briefly fully grok in that moment. It's a really good kind of crying and I relish it.
@goldenthorn i tried reading the velveteen rabbit to my little brother when i was a teenager and started balling incontrollably. he thought i was crazy. probably because i couldn't get the words out because if he read it himself, even now as a tough marine, i'm pretty sure he'd cry too.
@goldenthorn 2nd the Giving Tree; my siblings and I gave a copy to my mother for Mother's day a couple years back. It says how we feel better than any words one could come up with.
I don't know if it would do it again, but I was glad no one was around to see me when I watched Marley & Me. But SPOILER ALERT we'd had to put our dog down only a year before and that brought back some tough memories.
The Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" will still bring some tears to my eyes, as will the song "I Will Wait For You" because of its appearance in that episode.
@jqubed Jurassic Bark still makes me angry. Once again the human proves unworthy of their dog's devotion
Bagpipes!. But not that Adele song.
Bad Santa makes me laugh so hard I cry. Every. Single. Time.
@Pavlov Bad Santa in 8 Minutes.
@Pavlov That's yearly tradition for my best pal and I since it came out. ("BadDER" unrated version of course!)
What makes me cry is when an item sells out and everyone on the forum calls me an entitled whiner. The worst part is when people post the animated gifs of people clapping and giving thumbs up as my mascara runs down my cheeks.
@Michaelforman Just replying to myself because the fundamental nature of spacetime is unknown. Anyways, I don't wear mascara because I have a penis. That's not saying that people with penises can't wear mascara. It's just that my penis is really intolerant of makeup in general. That's something else to cry about, I suppose.
@Michaelforman Curse you, society! Curse you all to heck! A man oughtta be able to wear mascara if he wants, and without somebody looking at him funny!
Anything, absolutely anything, set to the right music. I once cried because of a documentary about the White House with patriotic music playing while they described the dry, boring, museum-like purpose of some of the rooms.
Also the show Modern Marvels makes me cry because it reminds me humans can be awesome.
And I don't mean just tear up... I mean balling my eyes out.
Beaches (the movie)
and Tears in Heaven
For 5 years I volunteered at the county animal shelter. It has a kill rate of over 75%. My goal was to help visitors choose a new pet. I managed to keep my emotions in check, even to the point I was able o help officers decide who lived and died on any particular day. Then one day I hit “The Wall.” Compassion burn out. I walked away from there and haven’t been back. Since then I cry almost any time I think about it, see something on TV that reminds me, or even think about what my own dogs suffered there before I adopted them. That combined with becoming an emotional old geezer is why I get Xanax in the pass around pack from my doctor.
On a more serious note, How To Train Your Dragon 2 really got me.
@The_Baron me too!
@katylava I can't wait for the thrid one. Alos, Big Hero 6 was close.
@The_Baron
"He stopped loving her today. " I don't listen to it that often, but I cry every time.
@Misha227 Oh, and there was a song on a trucker album in the late seventies, about a sick boy who was stuck at home all the time and made friends with the truckers on the CB. His handle was Teddy Bear and the kid dies at the end and it's just awful. Plus about half of the other things mentioned here.
And when I get really mad.... So frustrating, when I want to tell someone what an asset they are, and I can't because I have to leave the room because I'm about to start bawling.
@Misha227 The only time I've karaoked, was this, but at my fave punk rock dive bar.
@mehjohnson I use to do old country for punk rock karaoke at the Star Bar in Atlanta. Lots of fun.
Over the years I've had a bunch of letters published in the paper; one a month for 4 years. They are all about the animal shelter and reading them is sure to tear up any animal lover. I'm really good at sob stories, especially true ones.
My wife and daughter make fun of me for crying during American Idol. I don't know why I do it. I don't cry over sad movies, or TV shows, or really, anything else. Just American Idol.
Having your dog of 12 years put to sleep......gut wrenching and have to go to bed for 24 hrs holding a tear stained pillow.
@1wally1 This past year we had to put 2 down. One we'd had for 19 years, my sweet little terrier, Teri. The other our 12 year old basenji. I'll always miss them and choke up thinking about them. Over my life time there have been a lot of pet losses and each one still hurts in different ways.
@1wally1 We lost my wife's cat in '97. I disliked him but it hurt anyway. Lost our two girls (canine) in '07 and '08... and our current late adoption is almost 13 so we don't know how much longer he'll be with us. Its hard, but they are so worth it.
Believe it or not, I got pretty teary during Interstellar. There is such a good thread on perspectives from both father and child, my son and I were like, "I... I just have something in my eye... let's get steak and talk football".
@ACraigL I had the same reaction.
April 12th will be one year since I had to say goodbye to my cat. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday. I have his picture as my wallpaper on the computer at work. I turn on the monitor when I walk in every morning and at least once a week I have to take a moment and sit down as I shed some tears when I see his furry face. I just miss him, a lot. An awful lot.
Also, the end of the movie Big Fish where all the characters show up for the funeral. By that point in the movie my emotions are already on overload.
@Cinoclav I cannot listen to the Disney song "A Whole New World" because I always think of the pets we've said goodbye to being whole and healthy again.
@lisaviolet There have been many over the years, but this particular cat was something special. I'm forever grateful for having 20+ years with him. The thought of our pets being whole and healthy again gives me mixed emotions. As happy as I am at the thought of them being healthy and folicking around, it also make me yearn for those days when I could enjoy seeing that in person. If the world truly is right in the end, we really will have our furry little friends waiting for us when it's our time to go.
@Cinoclav Reading your post brought tears to my eyes. I cry at other people's pet losses. I just want to hug them, and you.
@Teripie
Oh, my this thread is making me tear up. I cry at the drop of a hat. Sometimes it is a song, sometimes it is a well done movie and of corse books! The movie I know I will always cry durring is "My Girl". When she runs down and insists on Thomas J must have his glassesI just loose it. Misting up thinking about it.
every time...
used to be nothing could bring up tears, but now, nearly anything emotional can make me well up like a dainty little flower.(and I'm basically Peter Griffin's bald twin with a goatee) it all started back when Buffy was on TV, the episode where her mom Died, it opened the flood gates, and I've not been able to close them since.
also this fucking song. I can't even get into the first bit without welling up a bit. - it's Billie Myers "Kiss the Rain" with the big speech in the Middle of Chasing Amy cut in -
I spent a lot of years keeping tears either unshed or very private. Bad things happened, but they were MY bad things and sharing an emotional response was entirely too risky.
Then my thyroid went bonkers, and now, even though the thyroid thing is medicated into submission, I cry a lot. When I don't want to. At stupid shit that isn't sad or overly happy, at things that are funny, when I'm upset, whatever. If someone is crying around me, I'm a desert, but otherwise...sigh.
Is it an age thing? Can I pretend it is?
@Mavyn Somewhat similar with me too. Thyroid plus age also, though; so I can't eliminate any variables for ya. I'd rather blame thyroid than age letting emotions get wussified...
Is the obligatory Ole Yeller too passe now? You hardasses.
This is even worse/better.
@mehjohnson Because Hachiko was true...
@Barney Does it make Barney cry?
@Barney Or does Barney cheer up the thread?
@mehjohnson Happy purple!
@Barney Huppy Purple back! Cheer Up Suckers!
@Barney AIIIEEE!!! (falls into chasm at center of Death Star)
@PocketBrain Oops.
I cry like a pussy when Forest Gump's Mom and Jenny die. Bubba as well. Aw damn it, here I go...
When I read Where the Red Fern Grows in middle school for a summer book report, I had my first bawling moment. I still miss Old Dan and Little Ann.
And then reading Marley and Me through a waterfall coming from my eyes as an adult. I have a soft spot for dogs.
Amazing Grace on bagpipes. One played it at my folks services.
Any Studio Ghibli movie.
Men of Harlech:
And the movie version too (from Zulu).
Onions, until I learned to peel them under running water.
@rockblossom And : The final episode of Babylon 5 called "Sleeping in the Light" - which gets me every time. Best series finale ever.
"The Message" episode of "Firefly". The cast knew they had been cancelled, and this was the last episode filmed. The funeral at the end had extra oomph because of that.
A lot of you have mentioned things that also make me cry, I'm not afraid to admit that I cry at lots of stuff.
But this one...I can't even bring myself to attempt to read it again because I know I would break down.
@JonT I think I have this book memorized. I can't tell you how many times I have read it.