My father doesen’t cry so I’m not allowed to either…ever.
Okay I lied, I had to put my dog down a few years ago and I cried like a baby in the vets office while she got the needle. I couldn’t believe my behavior in front of a stranger, I kept saying I was sorry to my dog over and over, it was too much. That’s why I’m not ready to get another dog.
Brians Song gets me pretty choked up but no tears, there is no crying in football!
Luther Vandross’ - Dance with my father
I swear to God, it’s just… oh…well I have to leave and find some tissue now. damnit.
I don’t remember ever actually crying as a result of a movie/tv show, but I get teary-eyed very easily and often from all the scenes mentioned previously.
I guess most of you have seen All Dogs Go to Heaven?
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
This is by FAR the saddest movie I have ever seen. It makes Schindler’s List seem like “Short Circuit 2” in comparison. It’s called “Hotaru no Haka” (Grave of the Fireflys), and was made by Studio Ghibli, who usually makes lighthearted animations like ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ and ‘Howls moving castle’. In an act which likely saw somebody fired, this film was actually a double feature with ‘Totoro’ when it came out (?!?!).
Grave Of The Fireflies - Is It Real? - YouTube [/quote]
So, what is happening here? I think I follow it but I am not sure…
I don’t ever cry except for like catastrophic life changing events (like when my dad died). But there are times I get sad where I wish I could cry but all that happens is that my eyes get watery followed by kind of a dead numb feeling. I never have understood crying over movies or songs (ok… I have to admit, first time I watched old yellar when i was a kid, I cried). I find that the older I get, the more it takes to emotionally move me, like I’m just kinda growing numb to the events that used to strike an emotional chord. I guess it’s normal…
Chapped lips make me cry
[quote]mmllcc wrote:
So, what is happening here? I think I follow it but I am not sure…[/quote]
It’s a compilation of different scenes from the movie. Basically, the story goes like this:
-Two kids enjoy comfortable life with family in Kobe
-Japan goes to war. The father gets drafted by the Navy. He gets killed in battle
-The mother gets hit with a firebomb, and suffers and agonizing and prolonged death
-The kids move in with their bitch aunt, who accuses them of freeloading and tries to sell them for bags of rice
-They run away and find a cave to live in. The only food they brought, the little girl’s fruit drops, slowly run out. Starvation sets in.
-The boy, trying to get something to eat, tries to steal some potatoes from a local farmer. The farmer nearly beats him to death.
-The little girl starts going delerious from hunger. The brother takes her to a doctor. The doctor diagnoses her with severe malnutrition. The brother begs the doctor for food. The doctor tells him to fuck off.
-After scrounging all day for something to eat, the boy returns to the cave and finds his sister eating balls of mud, thinking they were pounded rice balls. She falls asleep and doesn’t live through the night.
-The boy burns her in a funeral pyre and moves into Kobe station to die of starvation.
-Their ghosts reunite and look out over modern-day Kobe.
It’s an incredible film that I wouldn’t recommend watching. It WILL ruin your day. Making it even worse is that the film is based on a TRUE STORY (they found the diary of the boy), and quite accurately at that.
[quote]kross001 wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
Oh man,… about a month after I had to put my Siberian Huskey down (just shy of 14 years old), I was home alone on a Saturday night, had just recently broken up with a girl,… and I just sat on the floor of my living room, crying my f-in’ eyes out!
(and the whole time, I kept saying to myself “turn this off idiot!”)
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[quote]Sorry guy, but thats so sad its hysterical.
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No, its not. People sometimes go through what to them is a rough time and they breakdown. It happens to a lot of people.
I wasnt judging. I look back at my worst times and have to laugh at how fucked I was, cause, what the fuck else are you gonna do?
Check out this video. A stray cat in Turkey got hit by a car. Its friend is trying desparately to revive him. Most of the posts on this thread involve dogs, but cats are just as amazing as pets, and as DeNiro puts it in “Meet the Parents”…you have to earn their trust.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Check out this video. A stray cat in Turkey got hit by a car. Its friend is trying desparately to revive him. Most of the posts on this thread involve dogs, but cats are just as amazing as pets, and as DeNiro puts it in “Meet the Parents”…you have to earn their trust.
There’s NO FUCKING WAY that i’m watching that video.
What you have posted is enough for me to get a little emotional.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Check out this video. A stray cat in Turkey got hit by a car. Its friend is trying desparately to revive him. Most of the posts on this thread involve dogs, but cats are just as amazing as pets, and as DeNiro puts it in “Meet the Parents”…you have to earn their trust.
There’s NO FUCKING WAY that i’m watching that video.
What you have posted is enough for me to get a little emotional.[/quote]
You’re smarter than me. I watched it and now I’m sad. 
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
You’re smarter than me. I watched it and now I’m sad. :([/quote]
I’m not even a big fan of cats but that was brutally sad.
Holy crap,… yeah, no way I can click on that, animal tragedy bothers me more than human tragedy (sounds horrible, but actually pretty common)… I can’t even watch vids of my old pup without getting a little teary. My girl is very emotional, especially about animals. One day she was over, and I had to jump in the shower.
When I came out, she was at my computer, and had found some video of my old Husky, obviously on one of his ‘last’ days (my camera had broke, so I only have some video clips),… she was sitting there, watching, and just crying as she listened to the recording of me interacting with my ‘best friend’ of 14 years.
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[quote]Eli B wrote:
[quote]kross001 wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
Oh man,… about a month after I had to put my Siberian Huskey down (just shy of 14 years old), I was home alone on a Saturday night, had just recently broken up with a girl,… and I just sat on the floor of my living room, crying my f-in’ eyes out!
(and the whole time, I kept saying to myself “turn this off idiot!”)
S[/quote]
[quote]Sorry guy, but thats so sad its hysterical.
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No, its not. People sometimes go through what to them is a rough time and they breakdown. It happens to a lot of people.
I wasnt judging. I look back at my worst times and have to laugh at how fucked I was, cause, what the fuck else are you gonna do?
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Good point. I guess sometimes there is no other way to look at things except to go completely numb.
This one is great.
someone needs to edit the op to include-
spoiler alert- this thread will bum you out
Having to put my dog down on the day of my ten year wedding anniversary.
Last week I had to do an intervention on my sister who has gotten tangled up with Meth. Almost couldn’t read the letter I wrote through the tears. One of the most painful things I have ever done.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
Holy crap,… yeah, no way I can click on that, animal tragedy bothers me more than human tragedy (sounds horrible, but actually pretty common)… I can’t even watch vids of my old pup without getting a little teary. My girl is very emotional, especially about animals. One day she was over, and I had to jump in the shower.
When I came out, she was at my computer, and had found some video of my old Husky, obviously on one of his ‘last’ days (my camera had broke, so I only have some video clips),… she was sitting there, watching, and just crying as she listened to the recording of me interacting with my ‘best friend’ of 14 years.
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I’m with you. Animals get to me more than humans do.
I am Legend
Marley and Me
all those things.
As I have said in another thread, I have 2 Great Danes who are both 10ish now, which is old for them. I get a little teary-eyed right now just thinking that the end is near. Also, my cat that I have had since I was 5 or 6 that slept with me every night and gave me numerous scares b/c she liked to go on long adventures where I thought the worst had happened (1-2 week long adventures- she would eat like crazy, take off for a long time, and come back starved. weirdest but coolest thing ever), just passed away last year. THAT was incredibly hard.
I don’t normally get emotionally involved in shows but I don’t know if anyone had seen the end of the last season of Sons of Anarchy. When the one Irish guy kidnaps Jax’s son and takes off on the boat. Jax makes it to the end of the dock but just misses him. That feeling of rage and desperation got me pretty badly…
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
I don’t normally get emotionally involved in shows but I don’t know if anyone had seen the end of the last season of Sons of Anarchy. When the one Irish guy kidnaps Jax’s son and takes off on the boat. Jax makes it to the end of the dock but just misses him. That feeling of rage and desperation got me pretty badly…[/quote]
Yea - that was really rough. I mean - someone takes your child!? I have a 2 year old girl - my WORST fear is something happening to her. Ugh - I can’t even think about it…
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
I don’t normally get emotionally involved in shows but I don’t know if anyone had seen the end of the last season of Sons of Anarchy. When the one Irish guy kidnaps Jax’s son and takes off on the boat. Jax makes it to the end of the dock but just misses him. That feeling of rage and desperation got me pretty badly…[/quote]
Yea - that was really rough. I mean - someone takes your child!? I have a 2 year old girl - my WORST fear is something happening to her. Ugh - I can’t even think about it…[/quote]
I don’t even have a child but I still got hit with it. I guess it’s because I know I will have a child eventually. The amount of violence that went through my mind at the end of that scene startled me.