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esquiress · Marc Jacobs

what gets you every time?

ico · Dooney & Bourke

You know the movie "Cinema Paradiso"?

Well, every time I see the last scene (when he watches all the cut kisses) I start crying like a baby, no matter if I watched that scene 20 times. My sisters just look at me, nod their head and say "you are such an idiot!"

Elle · Hermes

Pretty much any cheesy TV show, TV movie, or commercial gets me. It's quite embarassing as you can imagine, so I've taken to yawning alot and saying that it makes my eyes water

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crystal · Kate Spade

LMonet wrote:

Pretty much any cheesy TV show, TV movie, or commercial gets me. It's quite embarassing as you can imagine, so I've taken to yawning alot and saying that it makes my eyes water !

same here, if it's on a screen, you can pretty much guarantee it'll make me cry! i'll have to try that yawning technique!! specifically though, grey's anatomy gets me EVERY TIME!!

Collette · Chanel

Dead Poets Society

Ugh the scene where they all get on their desks "oh Captain my Captain" so moving!

And Beaches, pretty much I cry from the opening credits!

-- Edited by Collette at 10:59, 2005-11-30

luckylily · Gucci

Oh god, there's so much that gets to me, pretty much any touching family or friend moment. If it involves an animal, I'll lose my mind.

"Field of Dreams" really puts me over the edge. I'll cry from the opening credits until 20 minutes after it is over.

Christine · Coach

Certain Christmas songs (I don't know why, I'm not religious at all), the end of the movie Ghost, and like luckylily, anything that involves animals.....I'm a big sap lately!

ETA: This is bad -- sometimes at the end of home makeover shows like HGTV's Debbie Travis' Facelift, when they completely surprise the homeowner and the homeowner starts to cry.....I will well up too.

-- Edited by Christine at 12:23, 2005-11-30

Maddie · Coach

Parents' reactions to children dying. I think this is the saddest thing ever. I can't imagine anything worse than losing a child. I pretty much cried through all of In America. Oh and Steel Magnolias!

In the right context I will also cry over lost love, urequited love, etc. I almost cried during the previews for Brokedown Mountain and I'm sure I'll cry when I see it. The idea of them being perfect for each other but just not being able to be together kills me.

I have also recently started crying on planes. I think its because they remind me of my ex. Which is just so ridiculous. But I've cried the past three times I've been on planes. And I'm really not a crier.

Also, that Tracy Chapman song The Promise. I'm so cheesy.

-- Edited by Maddie at 13:00, 2005-11-30

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

Titanic (all those people that died out there), and some REALLY sweet commercials, I can be VERY emotional at times.

cc · Marc Jacobs

I can't think of anything specific right now, it so often depends on my state of mind, but for some reason I frequently tear up at the end of that show Without a Trace. It's so bizarre because I'm not the type to get really emotionally involved with shows like this but there's something about the way that show is written with the big buildup and the tension and then finally finding the person (dead or alive) at the end that really gets to me sometimes.

Maddie wrote:

I have also recently started crying on planes. I think its because they remind me of my ex. Which is just so ridiculous. But I've cried the past three times I've been on planes. And I'm really not a crier.

Maddie there was actually a piece on "This American Life" last year about the phenemonon of people crying on airplanes. I'm prone to doing this too and always thought it was just because I'm kind of afraid of flying and I usually travel alone but when my sister and I went to Japan she watched The Notebook and was totally tearing and she is not a cryer at all and she normally hates sappy stuff. I was talking to my friend about it and he linked me to the radio piece.
Edit: here it is in case you want to hear it. It's towards the end of the file.

-- Edited by cc at 14:07, 2005-11-30

jen · Kate Spade

The show 'animal cops.' The movie Hamlet. hmmm...I'll think of more.

sfcaligirl · Dooney & Bourke

if i see an elderly person cry, i'm gone. the tears just won't stop!

also, extreme home makeover really gets me. i've had to turn it off before- if i'm already in an emotional mood (or if i'm PMSing), i can't watch that show at all.

eta: i always cry when i go to hospitals and nursing homes- especially nursing homes. my grandfather was in one for a while before he died and i would cry as soon as i left his room and all the way home. i tend to cry in hospitals, except if i'm visiting a newborn baby or something. i think the hospital crying is more anxiety-induced though. i hate hospitals!!

-- Edited by sfcaligirl at 14:52, 2005-11-30

bumblebee · Coach

this is a really cheesy one, but the "bring him home" song from near the end of "les miserables." i've seen it a bunch of times in the theater, and i lose it every time, especially if the jean valjean has a great voice--just openly sobbing in my seat--it's very embarrassing. i will also cry if i hear it on the soundtrack or playing somewhere (like an elevator). it's like a pavlovian response, i think.

the other one that gets me is "taps," which is in a lot of military/war movies and usually played on horns or bugles. it's so chilling. my granddad had a naval officer's funeral, and that was absolutely the worst, most heartbreaking part. i'll never be able to not cry at that music again.

laken1 · Hermes

I can't watch those St. Jude commercial about sick kids that are on right now. And I can't watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Basically if realy people do good for other people that deserve it, it makes me cry like a baby.

But really anything. My DH laughs at me because he said I'm probably the only person that cries over Battlestar Galatica! (bastet - you watch too, right? back me up here!)

-- Edited by laken1 at 15:26, 2005-11-30

lynnie · Chanel

SO MUCh...but i was just thinking the other day about how Mr. Holland's Opus gets me every time. I absolutely love that movie.

Collette · Chanel

laken1 wrote:

I can't watch those St. Jude commercial about sick kids that are on right now.

Those commercials get me too, I bawl. But that's because my sister was treated at St. Jude when she had cancer as a child. I'm tearing up now thinking about that hospital.

laken1 · Hermes

Collette wrote:

laken1 wrote:
I can't watch those St. Jude commercial about sick kids that are on right now.
Those commercials get me too, I bawl. But that's because my sister was treated at St. Jude when she had cancer as a child. I'm tearing up now thinking about that hospital.

I

them. I used to do a lot of volunteer / fund raising for them...we were just talking about how I miss it.

-- Edited by laken1 at 18:39, 2005-11-30

atlgirl · Gucci

That stupid VW commercial. Gah! I have a love-hate relationship with that thing.

Beaches...another guaranteed tear-jerker. And that scene in Terms of Endearment (though I haven't seen it in years) where Shirley Maclaine just sobs and sobs and sobs...breaks my damn heart.

My husband is always snickering at me because I'll cry over anything - CSI, Without a Trace, sometimes odd stuff just moves me, or the music is so poignant during a certain scene that I just lose it. It's quite shameful.

BargainQueen · Marc Jacobs

When Jennifer Aniston's character in Bruce Almighty is praying for God to make the pain of loving someone who cheated you go away. I've been there done that & everytime I see it I just lose it. My husband thinks I'm crazy.

ETA: Those Sylvan Learning commercials get me all the time too.

-- Edited by BargainQueen at 18:38, 2005-11-30

halleybird · Hermes

This is embarrassing, but the movie "Racing Stripes" made me bawl by eyes out.

That "we're for puppies" commercial (I think it's Purina?) and that Folgers Christmas commercial (where the guy comes home and makes coffee for his parents) make me really misty-eyed.