Well what was it.
for me it was the ending to my dog skip.
Or the futurama ending to the one with the dog. That show is the reason I cant go to sleep without my dog next to me.
Know im crying. i got to hug my dog.

Forest Gump.
When he's in 'Nam and he runs back to find Bubba. *sniffle* And then Bubba asks what happened, and Forest says "You got shot, Bubba." *lips trembling*

"If I knew that was the last thing I'd get to say to Bubba, I'd have said sumthin' else."

La vita é bella.

Big Fish.

Donnie Darko.

And, obviously, the Lion King.

Destrado wrote:La vita é bella.

Big Fish.

Donnie Darko.

And, obviously, the Lion King.

Big Fish made me cry as well , both movies were amazing.
(fairy tale for grown ups? )

Elf.

When he's fighting Santa...it brings tears to my eyes.

HOW DARE YOU SANTA! HOW DARE YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES!

LunaHound wrote:
(fairy tale for grown ups? )

Without a shadow of a doubt.

In my opinion, one of Tim Burton's finest works.

Big Fish.

Who will love my children.

My dad always cries at the end of Field of Dreams.

I can't think of any movie that made me cry, as I tend to watch them from a certain distance (TV Tropes ruined my life). That said, movies that remind of events in my life:

Good Will Hunting
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

dogma wrote:My dad always cries at the end of Field of Dreams.

I can't think of any movie that made me cry, as I tend to be a souless platypus that eats little children and billy goats and who hides under a bridge. I am, in every sense of the word, a heartless monster.

Fixed it.

My ex-girlfriends would agree with you.

Uh, tears of anguish or or just being moved to tears?

Schindler's list.

King kong. Or anything with animal cruelty in it. I can watch all sorts of horrific stuff about humans and barely twitch and then a dog steps on a piece of glass and I'm sniffling. Even as a tiny kid, there's a clip in Towering Inferno (I think, or another disaster film) that shows a dog in it and for the rest of the film I'm stressing about the animal getting out and totally disinterested by the cast's struggle for survival.
I got annoyed about the treatment of the prawns in district 9 to the point of getting shifty in my seat because it was making me feel angry. I watched Tears of the Sun a few days later, showing atrocities in Nigeria and didn't bat an eyelid.

Dunno why really.

Schindler's List - not during the film but the afterward where you see the real people leaving stones on his grave.
Return of the Jedi - My mom said I cried when Darth Vader died

Big Fish almost did it, welled up a bit, but no tears.

Shawshank Redemption got me teary, I can't remember a particular moment though.


But most of all, without doubt, is DragonHeart. When the Dragon dies and his soul ascends before dispersing? You see the reflection in the peoples eyes and I start bawling.

Return of the King, at the end when Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf leave for the Grey Havens and Sam gets left behind.

MANLY TEARS.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Shawshank Redemption got me teary, I can't remember a particular moment though.

Great flick, I thought the beginning was sad.

Terminator,I cried when the Terminator was crushed in that factory.

...

When Leonaidas dies in 300.

Revenge of the Sith.

The scene where Anakin is confronted by Padme' on the volcano planet. That scene was pretty deep.

GG

I have to say that none of these movies made me cry...tears well in a few movies but a film would have to be supremely good to make me shed a tear.

Your best bet would be a film with cruelty to dogs in it...I'm a sucker for 'em.

Movies dont make me cry. In fact, men should not cry in front of other people ever, or eat their own hand's in embarrasment!

Emperors Faithful wrote:Shawshank Redemption got me teary, I can't remember a particular moment though.

When the little old guy who'd been released committed suicide because he couldn't cope on the outside, that was upsetting.

Voices of A Distant Star.

This one is Anime so Luna will probably be the only one who knows it. It pretty much is the only movie that has ever gotten that kind of reaction out of me. I am thinking because I was going through a long distance relationship at the time. then again the other 4 people I was watching it with were also all kind of sniffling after it because it is so sad.

Wall-E and Up!

Yeah, yeah, Pixar films, by my god, if you didn't find the beginning of Up harrowing then you have no soul!

I cried in the cinema when watching Super Mario Brothers...

Romeo and Juliet gets me a little bit. I'll admit it openly to, I love R&J.

dogma wrote:My ex-girlfriends would agree with you.

Ha!

My first serious relationship broke off because I decided I wasn’t in love with the girl. I was pretty much always calm when we had a disagreement, probably mostly because I wasn’t too emotionally invested. Anyway, we wound up chatting a year or so later, when she was dating someone else, and she commented on how well they got on. That he would fight with her when she was in a fighty mood, then they’d make up and it would be great. To which I responded “As opposed to me, with my heart of stone.” After a brief pause, she said “…Well, I was going to put it more nicely.”

That notwithstanding, I do weep at some movies.

Big Fish got a tear or two.
Schindler’s.
Up!
Grave of the Fireflies
The big winner, though, is Dancer in the Dark. I cried like a goddamn baby.

I'm sure there are others, but not ones I can recall right now.

I can recall being reduced to tears of rage and frustration when watching The Mission many many years ago as a teenager. Grr !

Marley and Me, and of coarse Old Yeller, oo and of recent The Blind Side was beautiful with sandra bullock and tim Mcgraw.

A few things make me well up/feel like I have been kicked in the nuts.

The funeral of Theodred in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

The final scene in Saving Private Ryan.

And for the ultimate sucker punch to the nutsack, I still can't watch Munich ever again. No matter how incredible the movie was, I can't take the drain of that movie ever again.

Altered_Soul wrote:
The funeral of Theodred in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

didn't he die to the witch king in number 3? or was that a different one. I thought Theodred was the king.

Empchild wrote:

Altered_Soul wrote:
The funeral of Theodred in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

didn't he die to the witch king in number 3? or was that a different one. I thought Theodred was the king.

Theoden is the King of Rohan, Theodred was his only son.

Anything with the Holocaust in it gets me a LITTLE choked up - especially in Band Of Brothers. They're making a new one! How awesome will that be? Can't wait.

But no, not really a crier when it comes to films.

my apologies then

EDIT:double post idiocy on my part - please remove, MODzilla.

Empchild wrote:my apologies then

Its ok, you leave me with a little pit in my stomach from realizing that I knew that off the top of my head...

Still, that funeral scene leaves me choked up. And then Eowyn starts singing, and I just lose it.

I can't recall ever crying in a movie, but for me it has to be,

I am Legend.

SAM!!!

My first cry at a movie was Finding Nemo and I was 18 at the time. When he swims off at the end then swims back and says "I love you dad" it was so unbearably sweet.

I can't think of any movie that made me cry, as I tend to be a soulless platypus that eats little children and billy goats and who hides under a bridge. I am, in every sense of the word, a heartless monster.

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:Wall-E and Up!

Yeah, yeah, Pixar films, by my god, if you didn't find the beginning of Up harrowing then you have no soul!

LOL both of these had me in tears! i cryed so hard at the beginning of UP the usher at the cinema brought me tissues! and when wall-E does hes sad eyes.....it just breaks my heart!


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Oh and Man on fire! i cryed at that too!

To add some cheer to the thread I cried for 99% of Titanic, though I did smile when Crapio went under for the last time and didn't come up.

Hmm, I have cried at the end of a few but for the life of me can't remember them now. I'll post again when I figure it out.

I didn't cry but the end of the green mile made me think " Well .. Sad Ending " and i felt a bit gutted . Just me i think though lol

Fallen668 wrote:Voices of A Distant Star.

I honestly thought I was getting a different sort of thing out, what with giant machines and all.
Instead I got a 20 minute skit of a couple using mobile phones (of all things) to keep in contact.

Wouldn't it be easier to, I don't know, write a letter? Go through the official channels?

P.S. +1 for Wall-E

Movies I will never watch again because they were emotionally draining:

1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Welcome to the Dollhouse
3. Requiem for a Dream

Movies that made me cry tears of sad

1. UP
2. Tuesdays with Morrie

There's probably more. I'll ask my wife. She keeps a scorecard somewhere.

I'm a big puss. I cry in any kinda sad movie, and my GF never does. Most recent one was Marley & Me. I coulda gone through a whole box o' kleenex.

One that gets me every time though is Lord of the Rings, when Boromir dies.

I don't cry while watching movies. I just sit there eating broken glass.

The Notebook. Watched it with my girlfriend, my eyes welled up. Mainly because thinking about the lives of those before me, regardless of how they died, brings about a great sadness in me.

Black Hawk Down. Especially right after the two Delta Force guys (their names escape me...) get killed.

Saving Private Ryan.

What can I say. I am a sucker for military movies; they're sure to cause my eyes to fill up. Probably because I really want to enlist... If I can watch these and still want to join up, that's good, right? Or is my male-teen invincibility feeling just taking over?

Oh, and +1 for the Theodred funeral in LoTR, and Eomer when he finds Eowyn on the Fields of Pelennor (sp?) for the first time. Damn.

Now I am thinking of more... I watched the Last Samurai a few years ago when I was 11 or 12, and I was bawling after the samurai's last charge was stopped by the Gatling Guns, and the main samurai kills himself and the last thing he sees are the blossoming cherry trees... Now that I think about it, I'm a puss...

Rico....

I don't cry while watching movies. I don't cry for a lot of things.

I don't get that emotionally invested in them. Like most things. I enjoy doing stuff, but I don't get passionate about hobbies or work or things in general and not even my father's death in front (he ruptured an artery and bled out into a lung) of me nor his funeral brought tears to my eyes.

Yes, some would see me as being cold and unfeeling (I score quite low on empathic responses) as a result. In my life I've usually been the one who has had to put stuff behind me and get stuff done. It's easy to compartmentalise or disassociate for me.

Been mentioned already, but those first 10 minutes of Up are a real throat choker.

Bambi. I still can't watch it that bit where his mother died. Heartbreaking

I dunno about crying, but a good war movie always hits me in the gut... Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, et cetera.

Another +1 for Theodred's funeral in Lord of the Rings.

Also, though it's not a movie a lot of moments in M*A*S*H have gotten me choked up.

I have no tears for this world. So no i'm much too much of a stoic to cry during a movie.

Just Dave wrote:I can't recall ever crying in a movie, but for me it has to be,

I am Legend.

SAM!!!

Even though I wasn't a big fan of the film,I had the same reaction.
It's bizzare,I can watch the most horrific things happen to people and not give an airbourne cotious what happens to them,but let an animal (especialy a dog) get hurt and I'm upset.
I think perhaps seeing "Old yella" as a child left some scars.

Most recent one was Marley & Me. I coulda gone through a whole box o' kleenex.

Urgh. I know Jennifer aniston is hot, but STILL.....


...That's a lot of spanks.

Albatross wrote:

Most recent one was Marley & Me. I coulda gone through a whole box o' kleenex.

Urgh. I know Jennifer aniston is hot, but STILL.....


...That's a lot of spanks.

Nice one

Godzilla vs. King Kong in the end when Godzilla didn't resurface and King Kong did and swam away. I was devastated! My world crumbled. I was like six, though.

Shawshank Redemption, the end is pair of watery eyes (happy, though).

GoFenris wrote:Godzilla vs. King Kong in the end when Godzilla didn't resurface and King Kong did and swam away. I was devastated! My world crumbled. I was like six, though.

Shawshank Redemption, the end is pair of watery eyes (happy, though).

Actaully it depends wich version of Godzilla vs King Kong your watching,the film had two endings,King Kong wins in the Americanized ending (which is the one you saw),Godzilla wins in the version wich played in japan,true story.

Champ, Legends of the Falls, Watership Down and Grave of the Fireflys.

FITZZ wrote:

GoFenris wrote:Godzilla vs. King Kong in the end when Godzilla didn't resurface and King Kong did and swam away. I was devastated! My world crumbled. I was like six, though.

Shawshank Redemption, the end is pair of watery eyes (happy, though).

Actaully it depends wich version of Godzilla vs King Kong your watching,the film had two endings,King Kong wins in the Americanized ending (which is the one you saw),Godzilla wins in the version wich played in japan,true story.

Sorry, this is a rumor. There is only ONE ending. The only difference between the two films is one scene in which the US Navy fires off some missiles somewhere in the middle of the film. That's it. The visual, burned into my six year old retina, was clear even if the narration doesn't imply a winner. BTW I am a dai-kaiju nut and own both versions.

GoFenris wrote:
Sorry, this is a rumor. There is only ONE ending. The only difference between the two films is one scene in which the US Navy fires off some missiles somewhere in the middle of the film. That's it. The visual, burned into my six year old retina, was clear even if the narration doesn't imply a winner. BTW I am a dai-kaiju nut and own both versions.

Actually, there's 11 minutes of differences(the Japanese version is 11 minutes longer), including a different earthquake scene(originally from the Mysterians) in the American version.

Fallen668 wrote:Voices of A Distant Star.

QFT

The only time in my adult life when a film nearly moved me to tears was when I was watching real footage of a nun (I think in Calcutta) who was hugging a boy, he looked about 10 and so skinny that I wondered how he could be alive. But the what really hit it home was the subtitle informing us that this orphan hadn't been hugged in his life. This bony shell of a boy was looking at the nun with what I can only describe as utter awe and reverence, he couldn't believe what was happening.

Teh_K42 wrote:The only time in my adult life when a film nearly moved me to tears was when I was watching real footage of a nun (I think in Calcutta) who was hugging a boy, he looked about 10 and so skinny that I wondered how he could be alive. But the what really hit it home was the subtitle informing us that this orphan hadn't been hugged in his life. This bony shell of a boy was looking at the nun with what I can only describe as utter awe and reverence, he couldn't believe what was happening.

That post just hit me in the gut.....I'm starting to well up....I'm verklempht.................

GG

I was pretty touched by that post too...

Until I saw generalgrog type verklempht. That kinda threw me off.

Brokeback Mountain. I'm not gay, so to some extent I sympathised with the plight of the two men but couldn't really feel their situation as if it were my own. But there is a scene near the end where Jake Gyllenhal's mother gives a jacket to Heath Ledger - there is so much emotion and confusion in that one short second... in a single look they tell the whole story of a mother who doesn't and can't understand her son but loves him anyway. It's powerful stuff about the relationship between mother and son, it really is.

Other than that, like everyone else said the first fifteen minutes of Up! are pretty emotional. And Fry's dog in Futurama.

And I remember when I was but a wee tyke and Optimus got killed in the animated movie. That was intense.

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:Wall-E and Up!

Yeah, yeah, Pixar films, by my god, if you didn't find the beginning of Up harrowing then you have no soul!

I'm there with you, DLS. Pixar really goes for the gut, don't they? There's always like one scene of pure overwhelming emotion in each film. Seriously, I cried out a contact lens while watching Up.

Don't forget that whole "My owner abandons me when she grows up" scene from Toy Story 2.

Platuan4th wrote:

GoFenris wrote:
Sorry, this is a rumor. There is only ONE ending. The only difference between the two films is one scene in which the US Navy fires off some missiles somewhere in the middle of the film. That's it. The visual, burned into my six year old retina, was clear even if the narration doesn't imply a winner. BTW I am a dai-kaiju nut and own both versions.

Actually, there's 11 minutes of differences(the Japanese version is 11 minutes longer), including a different earthquake scene(originally from the Mysterians) in the American version.

I am shamed. I had forgotten about that.

Owain wrote:

Also, though it's not a movie a lot of moments in M*A*S*H have gotten me choked up.

But there IS a film for MASH.

"Cuz suicide is painless..."

oh i've left loads out. i will never watch watership down again because it makes me sad for weeks after. grave of the fireflys was soul destroying!
i cryed at the new Rambo...(those poor people!)
and Son of rambow
My neighbour totoro
the whole series of Nana
Dark crystal
Legend
i'm sure there are more but i must blank them out

+1 for Up and Fry's dog in that Futurama episode. To this day, I can't stand to watch that episode because of its ending, and I can't watch the movie Up (No matter how awesome it gets) without crying a little bit during the montage of Carl's life.

As for movies, I have to throw out a few more Anime movies. First off, the ending of Castle in the Sky had me tearing up. I was so hopeful throughout that entire movie that they would find and rebuild Laputa, then they were forced to destroy it to prevent it falling into the wrong hands. Another one was the ending of Fullmetal Alchemist: Conquerer of Shamballa. Such a sad ending, knowing that Ed and Winry can never be together because of the closed gateway between their world. I was happy that the two brothers were reunited, though.

Not sure if it counts as Anime, per se, but the ending of L: Change the WorLd. Heck, the entire movie was kind of dramatic, knowing that L was fated to die at the end, but I was almost in tears at the end when he just walked into the sunset before his death. Oddly enough, I also have to cite the ending of the anime Death Note, but for an entirely different character. As with Castle in the Sky, I was so hoping that the protagonist would win in the end, and Light would finally kill Near and the rest of the SPK to create his perfect world. Then that damn finale music starts playing as he runs away, and I just can't stop myself...

Another Anime feature, the ending of Cowboy Bebop. It just comes at you like a train, seeing I did not see it coming at all, and I was amazed they went through with an ending like that.

Oh, and for one last one, pretty much every Disney movie ever. Lion King - Mufasa's death (And Scar telling him it was his fault). Hercules - the Gospel Truth song after Hercules becomes mortal. Surprisingly enough, also in the newest movie, Princess and the Frog, when

Grave of the Fireflies, anime movie about the end of WWII. It´s depressing, I avoid this movie like the plague but my wife likes it and insists on watching it when it comes on TV.

M.

Oof. When I was a kid, I was a bit of a crier. Last Unicorn was probably first, then Dark Crystal. Old Yeller is a killer.

Then I went through a long period of macho, juvenile never crying. Except for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Because wow. And also Mystic River, which gets my vote for most gut-wrenching movie of all time.

Then I did my time in the Marine Corps, got married, had a daughter, grew up a bit... And now everything makes me cry. Passion of the Christ. Million Dollar Baby. That Coke commercial with Mean Joe Greene. Gran Torino. There have been others, and the next one is always just around the corner.

Might also add the movies:
-Ghost in the Shell: innocence
-Blood Diamond
-Boy in the striped pyjamas
-The series deathnote [i know its not a movie] but its so moving, i cried for a long time.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Return of the King, at the end when Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf leave for the Grey Havens and Sam gets left behind.

MANLY TEARS.

I cried from reading this . Out of laughter
( yes im serious )

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Fallen668 wrote:Voices of A Distant Star.

I honestly thought I was getting a different sort of thing out, what with giant machines and all.
Instead I got a 20 minute skit of a couple using mobile phones (of all things) to keep in contact.

Wouldn't it be easier to, I don't know, write a letter? Go through the official channels?

P.S. +1 for Wall-E

Yay for voices of a distant star!

Platuan4th wrote:I can't think of any movie that made me cry, as I tend to be a soulless platypus that eats little children and billy goats and who hides under a bridge. I am, in every sense of the word, a heartless troll.

Fixed.

sebster wrote:And Fry's dog in Futurama.

Oh god why did you have to bring that up.



Futuram is the only TV show that ever got me to tear up and did it not once, but twice. The other was the episode where he thought his brother stole his lucky 5 leaf clover.

Tribute to loyal dogs everywhere ( this pic is so sad too )

Ahtman wrote:

sebster wrote:And Fry's dog in Futurama.

Oh god why did you have to bring that up.



Futuram is the only TV show that ever got me to tear up and did it not once, but twice. The other was the episode where he thought his brother stole his lucky 5 leaf clover.

LunaHound wrote:Tribute to loyal dogs everywhere ( this pic is so sad too )

Ahtman wrote:

sebster wrote:And Fry's dog in Futurama.

Oh god why did you have to bring that up.



Futuram is the only TV show that ever got me to tear up and did it not once, but twice. The other was the episode where he thought his brother stole his lucky 5 leaf clover.

MANLY TEARS.

Emperors Faithful wrote:
MANLY TEARS.WERE SHED

xD

I watched 'Hunger' last night. I didn't cry, but it was pretty harrowing and very sad at the end.

Regarding the multiple posts concerning Fry's dog...

Did anyone see Bender's Big Score?



It is still a touching scene though (the one from Jurassic Bark).

Locclo wrote:
Another Anime feature, the ending of Cowboy Bebop. It just comes at you like a train, seeing

Spoiler:

Spike die.

I did not see it coming at all, and I was amazed they went through with an ending like that.

Actually, according to the series creator

Also, remember Men don't cry, we WEEP!

Thankyou FITZZ for almost understanding my pain. I've said it before and I'll say it again:

SAM!!! It's so sad, that dog was sooo cool!

Miguelsan wrote:Grave of the Fireflies, anime movie about the end of WWII. It´s depressing, I avoid this movie like the plague but my wife likes it and insists on watching it when it comes on TV.

M.

Aye, tbh I'm not sure I could watch that one again, I even cried when checking on Wiki afterwards it was based on a true story, and the comments the author made about writing it to deal with the pain he felt over losing his sister.

Ghibli films in general have their moments of making me blub lake a wee babe, along with Pixar I rate those two as the best animation studios in the world right now. Loads of their films combined have got me, Spirited Away, Totoro, Toy Story 2 (also the Jessie bit as mentioned above, having the beautiful Sarah McLachlan sing 'When she loved me' to accompany that scene hardly helped though) Up, Wall-E, Howl's Moving Castle, Only Yesterday to name a few.

I'm much more watery these days, seems to have got worse as I have aged and I feel nostalgia to things, as well my own children growing before my eyes. Many films have got me, Futurama a few times, the worst two being Fry's Dog, and Luck of the Fryish (his nephew.) I also get teary at the song montages of several Cold Case episodes.

Films which stick out as ones that get the old waterworks going inc,

Shawshank Redmeption (Crooks' bit in the middle, and Red heading for Mexico)
Saving Private Ryan (the end at the war memorial)
Shindlers List (placing stones on his grave)
Beaches (My wife won't even watch it anymore as its too draining, but it gets me at the end as well.)
Kung Fu Panda (Passing of Oogway, mainly because of the beautiful music that accompanies it.)

Seems I'm getting Soppy in my old age. (Well older, not quite old yet.)

I know it's not technically a movie, but I have to also bring up the ending of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. That scene at the end when Snake is saluting the Boss's grave always makes me tear up a bit. The final battle was extremely epic as well, with the final duel with the Boss in the cherry blossoms...

And if I'm bringing up games (Shut up, I'm doing it) I'm also going to have to say both Final Fantasy VI and VII. Specifically, the Opera scene with Maria (Her aria on the castle is a tear-jerker) and the one most people know, the scene in VII where Aerith dies, followed immediately by the boss battle with one of the Jenovas, Aerith's Theme playing in the background.

Props to Malf for mentioning Requiem for a Dream. I didn’t weep, but it was soul-blasting. I still haven’t seen Leaving Las Vegas; need to do that one of these days.

Oh, and yes, the ending of Jurassic Bark was a tearjerker.

Albatross wrote:I watched 'Hunger' last night. I didn't cry, but it was pretty harrowing and very sad at the end.

Is this the film about IRA political prisoners?I've heard it was very good but have yet to see it.

@FITZZ - See it mate - it's sublime. Beautifully shot and acted - but it IS a gruelling film to watch. It's VERY bleak, probably the bleakest film I've seen - and not a lot 'happens', if you follow me. It's kind of an art film, really.


But it is absolutley brilliant.

Albatross wrote:@FITZZ - See it mate - it's sublime. Beautifully shot and acted - but it IS a gruelling film to watch. It's VERY bleak, probably the bleakest film I've seen - and not a lot 'happens', if you follow me. It's kind of an art film, really.


But it is absolutley brilliant.

My friends who told me about it described it almost exactly as you have,I will most definitely be seeing it soon.

Oh, man. When I was writing my post I totally forgot Bravo Two Zero. I don't know how that slipped my mind.

Forrest Gump. The ending makes me cry every time I see it.

I've never had a dog as a pet.
I've seen "old yeller" and it didn't make me tear up - many tears or girlyman crying. It died. Pets do that. It kinda went mad and all first, but rabies does that.

Fry's dog likewise.

I don't get the crying over dead pets thing.
I had a pet cat for 17 years. Even when I found his body one morning before work (stiff as a board) I didn't cry. I had him from a 3 week old kitten. He was a good cat, self reliant, proud, aloof - all good cat things. He died, I moved on.

That's because you had a cat.


Cats are parasites. Science has proved it.

Cats actually have been known to imitate the sounds that a human baby would make, just because those specific sounds trigger a natural emotional response(nurturing) in human beings.

Dogs are fuzzy, wuzzy, and cuddly.
Cats are evil, vicious, and almost as bad at sucking the life from you as my ex.

And that's why I have a dog.

In the case of Fry's dog, it isn't the pet aspect that makes it sad. Imagine it is a friend that never gave up hope that you would return if you disappeared, knowing full well you would never return.

That's the thing.

I don't think I can.

That kind of selfless devotion seems somewhat counterproductive to me. I'm sure there are creatures out there like this (it takes all kinds, right?) but I can't imagine them or even empathise without a common frame of reference and I can't see one.

What kind of friends do you have that you can't even think of one that would worry about you?

Kanluwen wrote:That's because you had a cat.


Cats are parasites. Science has proved it.

Cats actually have been known to imitate the sounds that a human baby would make, just because those specific sounds trigger a natural emotional response(nurturing) in human beings.

Dogs are fuzzy, wuzzy, and cuddly.
Cats are evil, vicious, and almost as bad at sucking the life from you as my ex.

And that's why I have a dog.

I have a friend with shirt that reads 'When you die your cat will eat you'. I have no idea if its true but its pretty funny.

Ahtman wrote:What kind of friends do you have that you can't even think of one that would worry about you?

I can count my close friends on one hand (I don't make friends easily). Several friends who would worry about me. They would even be concerned enough to intervene if necessary. We would do it for each other. It's not a selfless thing though. It's a group thing. We are more than the sum of us.

None who would simply wait for me. Hoping I come back.

Maybe they would, I don't know. I'm not really into the assigning of motives to their (potential) actions.
If I disappeared mysteriously, they would be concerned, but they wouldn't mope and wait for me. They would act, or move on.

We aren't ones for focussing on the negatives. It's done, get over it, move on.

We all share a common bond. We all found a friend's body after he killed himself (he lived upstairs from our local games store and worked in the shop).
He had arranged it so that no-one could stop him.

There was nothing we could do about it. He made his choice, we moved on.

There might also be the issue that most of my school friends had killed themselves before I was 19. Small wonder I don't make friends easily.

You remind of that scene in A Bug's Life where the main character, Flick, is trying to explain something to the younger ant, Dot:

Flick: Ok, now imagine this rock is a seed...
Dot: But it is a rock
Flick: Yes I know, but I want you to imagine it is a seed...
Dot: But it's a rock

I've not seen it.

malfred wrote:Movies I will never watch again because they were emotionally draining:
Requiem for a Dream

Yes, if you're in a good mood and you want to get rid of it just watch this movie.

As for tears, THe Last Samurai and The Last of the Mohicans.