I though I was safe...

[smileyeagle1021]

OK... I'm one of those people who gets emotional during movies... I just get drawn in and they don't let go.
I figure I'm safe to turn on the History Channel at work... right... educational stuff... nothing can possibly be on there that's going to draw me in and get me emotional at work.
Nope... wrong... I turn there just in time to see the scene in Pearl Harbor when the Navy carrying the bombers to Japan gets attacked and they have to launch the bombers early... Smiley is drawn in hook line and sinker... and by the time the pilot who is the father to be dies I'm busy crying at work with my coworkers staring at me like I'm insane.
I was going to wait until I got home to watch Mr. Holland's Opus... but now that my coworkers think I'm insane anyway might as well watch it at work.

My name is Smiley... and I am... a movieholic

[Fenrus]

<snippy> I'm busy crying at work with my coworkers staring at me like I'm insane.

Wait... you're not insane? Woah... news to me!

My name is Smiley... and I am... a movieholic

You say that like it's a bad thing...

[RayvenQ]

Watch Feast, you'll get emotional, but probably laughing your ass off.

[Nyoibo]

I cried during Mr Hollands Opus.

[RootedPhoenix]

I'm pretty certain I did too. Still loved it.

[AdminAssistant]

Back in the dorm days, I had a roomie who liked sappy love movies. One day, she watched Pearl Harbor. She cried. I laughed. Can't handle blatant historical inaccuracies.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I almost never actually cry at movies. My college roommate cried at Cool Runnings.

[Shards]

I don't remember ever having cried at a movie. My mom does all the time, but me, I usually just cock my brow and ask if they really had to draw that scene out that long.

Then again, I'm the bastard who laughed during Saw. (At a friends birthday party. One of the more obvious and brutal deaths came, and somehow everyone else but me and the birthday boy jumped. Me and him were laughing our asses off.)

[Dreamstalker]

Back in the dorm days, I had a roomie who liked sappy love movies. One day, she watched Pearl Harbor. She cried. I laughed.

I did the same thing with The Twit and Titanic. When she inquired, I proceeded to tell her exactly what the errors were (I was somewhat known in my elementary afterschool group for being the biggest Titanic encyclopedia in the building...what can I say, I like historic disasters).

[AdminAssistant]

I just found it absolutely ridiculous that those two guys were going to single-handedly bring down the Japanese. Two guys who, by the way, are in love with the same nurse who is single-handedly saving all of the soldiers! Ridiculous

I mean, if you're going to do a war movie - do a WAR movie. You don't have to throw a lame love story in the middle of it. I can even handle all of the historical snafus in King Arthur - because they at least kept the Lancelot/Arthur/Guinivere thing WAAAYYYY on the back burner.

I can't, however, watch Shakespeare in Love. Mainly because I strongly believe that an illiterate actor and second-rate business man is not the greatest writer of the English language. Yeah, it's a good story. But how exactly did a man who never left English soil know so much about Italian novellas and Danish politics...hmmmm???

[protege]

I didn't cry during Titanic. In fact, I nearly fell *asleep* during it. Why? Well, after sitting in the theater for 3 freaking hours, with roughly *2* of those waiting for the end...what can I say? Sink the damn ship already

[Shards]

Agreed. First time I saw that movie, I was with my cousins, and they were all crying, but for the two other males, and the three of us were stealing glances at each other like 'is it over yet? Is it over yet? When is the damn ship going to sink?'

I'm not saying Titanic was a movie only women could enjoy, but... It kinda fell pretty squarely into the "Chick Flick" domain.

[Evil Queen]

My name is Smiley... and I am... a movieholic

Hi Smiley!

Hi, My name is EQ and I'm a movieholic. I cry at Mr Hollands Opus, too. I also cry at any movie that was originally a novel by Nicholas Sparks. I mean, COME ON! The Notebook?! Can you blame me?!? God help me, I cried when "Sam" (the dog) was killed in I am Legend and we'll not get NEAR Old Yeller or Where the Red Furn Grows.

Titanic, however, was the most boring piece of shit I'd ever seen.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I didn't cry during Titanic. In fact, I nearly fell *asleep* during it. Why? Well, after sitting in the theater for 3 freaking hours, with roughly *2* of those waiting for the end...what can I say? Sink the damn ship already

The day I saw Titanic in the theater, when we got out it was absolutely pouring, get-on-the-ark kind of rain...we lol'd.

[Shards]

Hi, My name is EQ and I'm a movieholic. I cry at Mr Hollands Opus, too. I also cry at any movie that was originally a novel by Nicholas Sparks. I mean, COME ON! The Notebook?! Can you blame me?!? God help me, I cried when "Sam" (the dog) was killed in I am Legend and we'll not get NEAR Old Yeller or Where the Red Furn Grows.

Darn you, EQ, you brought up my one weakness.

Every time I see a dog die in a movie I walk out. Every time. Did it in signs, did it in I am Legend, every time. I take the fastest possible path back to my puppy at home, and I play with him and pet/scratch him for an hour or two.