OT: MGoFeelingsball - Things that make you cry
Since there's nothing going on today I think is an original idea for an OT thread.
I've never been much of a crier, even as a kid. I can count on my hands the number of times I've shed tears as an adult, and when it has happened no one saw it. Not my wife or my kids.
So imagine my 16 year old daughter's surprise when she looked at the seat next to her in Hill Auditorium and saw her dad sobbing like a 3 year old that was just punched in the face and then told Santa wasn't real. She has never once seen me cry and I freaked her the fuck out by doing it.
So there it is. Handel's Messiah makes me cry like a little bitch.
What about you? A certain scene in a movie? A dog food commercial? Finding out that you were adopted? What makes MGoBloggers shed some tears?
March 24th, 2016 at 12:27 PM ^
I saw Neutral Milk Hotel about a year ago, and I broke down a cried during Oh Comely. Probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^
I bought my wife tickets to thier Seattle show for her birthday. A few days before the show, she says, "Eh, I don't think I want to stay out late. Plus, my friend's husband is a HUGE Neutral Milk Hotel fan. Do you mind if I just give the tickets to them?"
That was not a good week.
I feel the same way about Elliott Smith, in part because of the music itself and in part because of his sad experience with addiction. Oh, and along the lines of non-contemporary music (like Handel's "Messiah") I'd add "Amazing Grace."
Just Two-Headed Boy on the album did it for me. Especially knowing the story behind the whole record.
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March 24th, 2016 at 12:54 PM ^
Damn you Copper and Todd! I used to listen to that on a Fisher Price record player when I was 4 or 5 - I would cry everytime.
The end of Toy Story 3 also gets me.
I got a little misty when Matt Damon started crying in "The Martian," when he was finally just about to take off from Mars and try and connect with the ship. Not sure why, as I'm not a crier either...
March 24th, 2016 at 12:28 PM ^
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March 24th, 2016 at 12:51 PM ^
Agree with American Sniper. Regardless of what you think of the movie overall, that scene pushed me over the edge. I don't really "cry," but let's just say it might be a touch dusty and I might blink a bit.
Lone survivor too, I choked up when I was reading the part about Danny dying.
service-men/woman return home to surprise their kids at school, or their wives, etc. The sudden emotion in the context of a surprise return just gets me.
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March 24th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
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Some wise administrator decided to have a group showing -- it was like 4th - 6th graders, so a whole bunch of kids.
Towards the end of that movie, they were dragging uncontrollably sobbing girls out of there like it was a mash unit. It was a not a fun viewing experience.
Ripped my heart out as a ten year old. Also liked White Fang, Call of the Wild, Summer of the Monkeys and various others.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
Field of Dreams and Big Fish.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
It takes a big man to cry, and a bigger man to laugh at him.
Along the same lines, many of the Key & Peele skits, like this one....
March 25th, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^
But where do you get the Euro's for a gay gift? I feel as if that question was never fully explored in the skit.
And thanks for posting, that's one of my favorites.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:32 PM ^
Any version of the "The Little Match Girl" where the girl dies.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:54 PM ^
"The Little Match Girl" was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title of this thread.
The Little Match Girl is probably the saddest thing I ever have or ever will read, but most Hans Christian Andersen stories are pretty sad in general...
March 24th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
I was laying on my couch on a chill Sunday, and thought I'd check out ESPN to see what was going on - and noticed that they'd come out with an Austin Hatch documentary.
About twenty minutes later, I was a mess.
I love Sela Ward. Truely love her.
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife? Are you saying that I crushed her skull and that I shot her? How dare you!
March 24th, 2016 at 12:30 PM ^
I know it's just a dumb show, but damn man.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:30 PM ^
An American Tale. Saw that in the theater with my mom, that was a pretty sad one too.
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I laughed.
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March 24th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
Not sure how old you are, of course, but if you were old enough to watch Valvano's 1993 ESPY speech, which they show portions of in "Survive And Advance", I can almost guarantee your eyes would not be dry at the end of the speech. I remember watching it live, mere weeks before he passed, and I don't think there was a dry eye at the ceremony either. I think part of it was that you knew this great coach was basically at the end of a tragically short life, but it was a genuinely moving speech. It still moves me when I hear the portions highlighted in the 30 For 30.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^
The Tom Cruise / Jason Robards deathbed scene.
The last shot with Melora Walters flashing a brief hopeful look.
March 24th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^
is such a beautiful mess, and I mean that in the best possible way.
Agree. But it hooks me every time.
There's more about the movie's last shot in this YouTube vid that says most of what I thought about it: https://youtu.be/zyf8H3jagug. (Though it ignores Aimee Mann's contribution to the scene, which is a major part.)