Do you get emotional when watching films? If so what film makes you emotional?

Holly_Scope
Holly_Scope Posts: 5,099 Scope Online Community Coordinator
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I watched the Barbie movie last night, and I had quite a few tears throughout. Some happy, and some sad. It was the same when I watched John Davidson's movie, "I Swear" not long ago.

I wondered, does anybody else get emotional when watching films? And if so, is there any in particular?

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  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 9,010 Championing

    Yes I do

    Theres so many

    Uncle buck made me cry at the end

    Cry all the time on the ending

    And Legend with Tom Hardy

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    Yes i do kids animals i cry alot and i always suss film out within first 20 minutes of watching oh watership down and bambi and Dumbo as a kid roaring

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,099 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I love Uncle Buck @Strawberry1. Those films are definitely tear jerkers @Catherine21. Green Mile get's me too.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 1,010 Championing

    I broke my heart at the end of The Green Mile … cried when they carry the bobsleigh in Cool Runnings and even cried when I thought Diego was dead in Ice Age … too many more to mention

    This from a man who never cries at family funerals

  • onmylonesome
    onmylonesome Online Community Member Posts: 683 Empowering

    The Art Of Racing In The Rain

    Turner & Hooch

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 4,121 Championing

    Oooh

    Escape from Sobibor cry around six times at least through that. Several hundred escaped the German occupied nazi extermination camp after a mass revolt, true story, around 50 survived the war. Heartbreaking.

    Sound of Music.

    Babe

    Babe - Pig in the City

    Chitty chitty bang bang

    Titanic (think it was '97, husband said can you stop crying as we came out of cinema ha ha noooh 😪😪

    Green Mile

    Castaway when Wilson falls off the raft 😪😪

    Don't watch any that are very sad with animals. I think even Jungle Book is sad from memory.

  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 9,010 Championing

    I cried at a movie called Men of Honour

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,989 Championing

    Marley and me…gets me every time.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member Posts: 2,092 Pioneering

    The English Patient.

    The Shawshank Redemption

    Philomena

    All make me cry.

  • onmylonesome
    onmylonesome Online Community Member Posts: 683 Empowering
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    And me😥

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 1,096 Connected

    So many emotional films…. That bit in the original Dumbo where he meets his Mum in the Cage, to the "Baby of Mine" song, still makes me cry like a small child every time… And I still can't watch ET without sobbing my heart out, it's that bit where he "dies" on the Operating table, there's not a dry eye in the House.

    In fact most of the old school animated Disney films where the main character's Parent dies or something, so sad.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,099 Scope Online Community Coordinator
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    Same. Lion King when Simba's Dad dies makes me cry.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,229 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Another vote for Marley and Me 😭

    And The Land Before Time has always got me, every since I first watched it as a child. Even just hearing the music can set me off!

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,861 Championing

    Out of interest, why do people choose to watch emotional films? Isn't life emotional enough already?

    Personally I hate it, I never rewatch a film that made me emotional!

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,372 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists
    edited April 16

    I'm definetly getting more emotional with films as I'm getting older. I cry every single time I watch Wicked part 1🤣🤣

    But i do tend to avoid films that are known to be overly sad or emotional films too @OverlyAnxious, I much prefer light hearted or comedic films! What about you?

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,861 Championing

    Yes, I prefer light-hearted comedy myself now. Used to like action films but can't tolerate the stress & shock scenes in those any more.

  • Rural_lad
    Rural_lad Online Community Member Posts: 31 Contributor
    edited April 16

    Go for an oldie like "The Song of Bernadette" I guarantee that unless you have a heart of pure granite you'll be blubbing like a baby at the end.
    Just reading the plot on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Bernadette_%28film%29 gets me going.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing
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    Oh yes ET i was sobbing

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    Ive ordered this film for my dad many times over the years

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 4,121 Championing

    The Last Letter from your Lover 😪. Very good film.

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