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So what sorts of Movie scenes/tv scenes make you cry like a sissy?

Discuss:

1. Movies that made you sob

2. Plotlines that get you EVERY time

3. Funny "Crying during a show" stories

The poll options:

1. Examples: Hunchback of Notre Dame stories, Elephant Man, Man Without a Face, or when the poor mother in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was mocked (not necessarily deformed, but one of those physically different things)

2. Examples: Forest Gump, Beaches, Maybe Titanic, Steel Magnolias, just about -any- chick flick, The Shadowlands, etc. Usually the love of the life, best friend, mother, daughter, or other dear one has a big sad death scene. Even sadder-- the reaction of some characters.

3. This is the option if you ball hysterically when you hear the music of Schindler's list, that Titanic song, half the score from Little Women, or the Green Mile. You were dry as a desert until those notes began to play---after the song you were wetter than the ocean.

4. Examples: You balled at the end of Gone with the Wind, didn't understand why "The Break Up" lived up to its name, sniffled at "The Way We Were", etc.

5. Let's face it, eviction is not a happy time. Those of us who wept at the end of Fiddler on the Roof, watched those all too accurate documentaries on Refugees, or those of us who watched "Roots" and realized those poor characters would never see Africa again but still some how wanted it all to be ok even though we know from history it wasn't.

6. Examples: Pursuit of Happyness, United 93, Titanic, Glory, Diary of Anne Frank, Nicholas & Alexandra, or Amadeus. Sometimes history is distorted, and sometimes there are fictitious characters thrown in there. But you get choked up when you realize the real tragedies (Holocaust, Civil War, Slavery, WWII and WWI, 911, assassination of the Romanov family) and you cannot help but feel for the rise and fall of people who once walked this Earth and even put a dent in history. You were composed, but when that "based on true story" hit, you were curled up with your tissues, a hopeless wreck.

1. Movies that made me sob: Forest Gump has always made be bawl-- seriously, it's ridiculous. I think when I was 10 and first saw the Lion King in Theaters I got teared up when Simba said "get up Dad". I also turned sissy in the following movies: Pursuit of Happyness, The Bucket List, I think the first time I saw Green Mile, Beaches simply because I was in a room full of crying women and it just got to me with all that sobbing, Finding Nemo, Roots, Amistad, Diary of Anne Frank (made for TV movie), and big box of puffs for The Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.

TV wise: I cried when they killed of Dixie on All My Children- simply because she had been poisoned, looked up at the love of her life, said "together forever" and then totally flatlined- not cool. I cried a few times during LOST with Charlie, the Desmond/Penny Storyline (an homage to the Odessy), When Jin and Sun said "Sa Lang Hye/I love you" season one, and of course when Hurly and Libby were hooking up. I think I cried during the Anime Weiss Kreuz anytime they played Beautiful Alone and it wasn't the end credits-- because that always meant one of the best characters was offed.

2. Plotlines- Death scenes are really hit or miss with me. I hate the contrite death scene that is just thrown in for dramatic flair. It's the bitter sweet culmination of life death scenes that bring out the sissy in me. I think my biggest soft spot is for the Underdogs and the Misfits. I think we all have a lonely part of ourselves that has felt "outside" at some point-- some more than others.

3. Simply put, my friends and I decided to watch Beaches (right after Deuce Bigalow, Male Jigalow no less!). Well of course when wind beneath my wings starts playing my friend Chanel (our rock, the strong one) begins crying. Then Rachel starts crying, and then Ruby starts crying. So what does Manda/Antonia do-- CRY! It was funny.

I guess I need to see that! Downside is I'll have to wait to watch it with friends.

Oh yeah! I think that one got to me too!! I just remembered (and this is so embarrassing)-- When the main character lost Wilson in Cast Away.... I actually cried redface It had to be the saddest loss of inanimate object ever.

I think a cartoon (not feature length) once got me close to crying-- it was the show "Hey Arnold". It was the episode where they explained why Helga was the way she was (how she was neglected, very smart, and her obsession with Arnold). It had to be one of the most cerebral episodes of a cartoon ever. I really, really wish I could get that episode on DVD. It's living proof that cartoons are more than anvils on heads.