Okay, so you would think that since I'm slightly obsessed with fiction stories about other worlds that I get wayyyy too attached to I would've cried (real tears) at a movie/book/TV show/etc. within the past 4 years right?
Nope.
I've watched Doomsday from Doctor Who, I've seen all of Robin Hood BBC, watched my heart be brutally ripped out at the end of Merlin BBC, I've watched Narnia, Harry Potter, and even that one part in Star Trek that you think is going to happen, all with no tears. My eyes might water and I might feel sad, but I haven't cried (for real) since I saw this in 2010:
And this:
It's not really surprising that the absolute top of all adventure movies was the one to make me cry. Seriously though, I'm starting to wonder if there's something wrong with me or if Hollywood has just been slacking. I remember crying at movies when I was younger.
Remember this one?
I bawled my heart out.
I just watched Saving Mr. Banks. I went into it wanting to cry. Call me weird, but it's true. Needless to say, I got sad, my eyes watered, but I didn't cry. And I wanted to! Haha, Hi I'm weird.
So, w/o further ado:
~ Aloisa Quintal
"Dear Hollywood, I wish you would see the truth"
I had to read Bride to Terebirthia for school and dude I DIED I HATE THAT BOOK NEVER READING IT AGAIN THAT WAS A HEARTBREAKING ENDING
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But yeah. I totally understand.
Woah dude. Look at those typos. XD Bridge to Terabithia.
DeleteSeriously! It's a SUPER sad story! I kinda want to watch it again though... In a weird way.
DeleteI found this funnier than I should have. You poor thing. I'm so sorry that you're..... not sad enough?
ReplyDeleteI have a similar problem though. As I've said before, there are maybe five movies, two or three TV episodes, and exactly one book that have made me cry real tears. Those movies don't include any of the Lord of the Rings films, or any of the heartbreaking TV episodes you mentioned. In fact, the only movie that still manages to make me cry every time I watch it is Little Women. And then of course I was a sobbing, pathetic mess for most of Saving Mr. Banks (seriously, I think that movie made me cry more than every other movie and TV show I have ever watched combined; you're so tough).
I'd venture to guess that the entertainment industry's current problem is that it's become too predictable. Whenever you go to watch an episode of something penned by a certain someone called Moffat, you expect it to have its moments of sadness. You expect movies, even action movies like Star Trek Into Darkness and Thor: The Dark World, to try to shock you into sadness by killing off characters. And sure, there are plenty of people who are easily moved to tears who continue to weep when these events take place. But in order to move tougher viewers like you and me, film and television makers need to start going off-formula, pulling out some real surprises. Killing off the last character you'd expect them to. Focusing less on generating sorrow through death and maybe separating characters in some other way, sort of like Doomsday did.
Okay, I'm almost done, I promise. I've found that, with few exceptions, there are only two types of scenarios that make me cry: the first is helplessness in the face of inevitability, like little P. L. Travers having to watch a father she adored degenerate beyond all help without being able to do anything about it. The second one, and the one more likely to make me cry, is longing, especially nostalgic longing. Jesse missing Emily in Toy Story 2. Penny wishing somebody loved her in The Rescuers. Grown P. L. Travers being plagued by regret and a feeling that she failed her father by letting him die. This is what I mean by going off-formula: entertainers need to stop operating on the assumption that killing characters is the best way to illicit tears. I think that there are things far more heartbreaking than death.
So, yeah, sorry for kind of composing my own rambly blogpost. We should talk more about this sometime, in person. And I sincerely hope that you are brought to your knees weeping rivers of unstoppable tears by some movie or TV show sometime soon.
Postscript: While it failed to make me cry or even get choked up, I must agree with the above poster. Bridge to Terabithia was STUPIDLY depressing.
DeletePost Postscript: At one point in my ridiculously long comment, I used the word "illicit". The word I meant to use was "elicit", which has an entirely different meaning.
DeleteDanged homophones.
Haha, at least this was an interesting topic to you. I figured you were going to be like "Kaylee you're weird." and that's it. That makes sense though... Start surprising us people!
DeleteThe funny thing about BTT, is that I remember Josh Hutcherson bawling his heart out in a scene somewhere in there, but I think that if I watched it again I'd realize that I was the one bawling. Which is sorta why I want to see it again....
I think I am just a weepy personality. ;-D I've always cried at books and movies.
ReplyDeleteThat said, a lot of times it's not at characters dying. When characters die, it's more about the reactions of the ones left behind that get me. But man, I cry a lot. XD