OK men of the Lounge...Do you ever get weepy over movies or songs?

[JanMichael]

We just finished the Woody Guthrie documentary "This Machine Kills Fascists" and when the credits rolled and "This Land" (Or some other song I don't care, it was Woody singin') played I got all goofy...Damn! What a story, one that should be kept alive, any way possible.

"Dr. Zhivago" does it to me too. Same with "To Sir With Love".

They simply bring out the tears.

So what makes you all goofy and sorta wet around the face?

PS~ I should add that Stephanie (Thtwudbeme) was totally supportive and resisted comment other that that she understood...


PSS~ If you deny this exhibition of emotion I will have to hunt you down and gentily explain how self-repressed you are until you cry.

PSS~ For Freeper visiters I can only say "get a life".

[Aristus]

1. The final scene from L.A. Story, where the highway traffic sign

begins to bagpipe "Amazing Grace" while flashing the road reminder "Condition Clear". If you have scene the movie, you'll understand why that scene makes me weepy. If you haven't seen it, you're probably scratching your head over that description. Just see the movie.

[JanMichael]

2. I've seen it and I get it.

It's one of my top 20 movies. A generally decent flick.

[RetroLounge]

3. The movie Closer

The credits ran and I heard that Damien Rice song (Blower's Daughter) for the first time and it hit so hard I cried. The PERFECT ending credits song...

RL

[JanMichael]

6. I remember the trailers but I missed it.

But the fact that it had a certain emotional effect is cool. What's it about again, I forget.

[RetroLounge]

9. The movie is about fucked up relationships

and dying marriages. Disturbing, and all too appropos...



RL

[Hissyspit]

4. Of course. Juliana Hatfield's Christmas song "Make It Home"

opened the floodgates a few weeks ago. I hadn't heard it in a while.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Oh man, "Schindler's List" at the end, when the survivors place stones

on Schindler's grave marker...:cry:

Oh, and sometimes Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" gets me too.

[JanMichael]

8. Sounds like you're something like me...A gusher...

Don't worry the good chicks dig it. OK, maybe they "dig it" but they understand! The really cool ones like Stephanie even resist the urge to mock!

[Zomby Woof]

7. When Gus dies in 'Lonesome Dove'

And for songs, "Searching For A Heart" by Warren Zevon.

[JanMichael]

10. Ok....I'll give you and Steph that one, it was a heart breaker.

Gus is a perfectly developed character, seriously, I'm not a Lonesome Dove nut like you and Steph but man Gus is one of my idols.

[Hissyspit]

11. I did cry when that happened, too. Forgotten all about that.

Robert Duvall was great.

[Hissyspit]

12. And you know it's not cheap sentimentality if it makes me tear up.

Because I'm pretty cynical.

[Redstone]

13. No.

Redstone

[ALago1]

14. Movies don't do much for me emotionally...

Music however is a different story. I'm very sensitive to it and can get all kinds of gushy and weepy if the right piece is playing. I think it's so weird that organized sound can affect me more than visual images and a coherent story.