I was woken up during my nap this afternoon by my sister saying that she had seen the new trailer for The Lovely Bones, a book turned movie that I’ve been waiting since 2007 to watch. So I watched it and I didn’t like it that much. But that won’t stop me from going to the movies to watch it because One: It’s directed by Peter Jackson and I cannot sit through LOTR… I feel like I’m stabbing my country in the back. This can be my compensation. Two: I still want to see it…
Those are the only reasons that I want to see it.
Just out of interest I watched the trailer for The Notebook. I have yet to see The Notebook because the one time that I could watch it I was too scared that I would cry so I only watched the first 20mins. By the end of the trailer I was tearing up, like enough for tears to come down my face. AND THAT IS WHY I CAN’T WATCH THE NOTEBOOK! I’m sure it’s a great movie but I hate the fact that you fall in love with the characters and their story and then something happens to make me cry like that… and it has a sad ending (I know this because I got my sister to tell me what happens). But you like the story anyway because it’s so sad…
I watched Titanic when I was 7 and it made me cry so much… and pretty much every time I watched it I cried… until recently I think… It was that bit where Rose is on the raft, Jack’s already dead and she has to try and get help…
Oh yeah we decided to watch Finding Neverland one time because Martina said that she liked it, and it was sad… and that she cried when she watched it… and she did… but not as much as me. I was actually sobbing as though the children she left behind were actually not going to have a mother… which is rather embarrassing in front of your friends who obviously didn’t find Kate Winslet’s death as sad. (Sorry if I just ruined the ending). I cried even more than Vanessa (who happens to tear up a lot during these kinds of movies).
The only Disney movie I’ve ever cried during and the one I’ve failed to watch properly despite us having it for like 13 years is The Fox and The Hound. The scene where the old lady has to release the fox back into the wild and where she’s reminiscing about the memories they shared, I stopped the video before began sobbing too hard to find the stop button.
So, will I cry in The Lovely Bones? I did tear up a tinsy winciest bit during the book. It is a VERY good book. So maybe? The last book that made me cry was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during Dumbledore’s death/funeral when I read it during the summer holidays (again). Crying makes reading quite difficult because the tears get in the way.
My most spontaneous cry was when the guy from Air Tahiti Nui said that we wouldn’t make the flight to Paris when we were stuck in L.A. last year. I think that made Lutonia and Genie very uncomfortable. Because usually you know when you’re going to cry, it kind of builds up or you know from what’s happening that you’d cry (like the death of a central character in a movie) but this hit me like outta nowhere. It was the weirdest-outta-nowhere-cry that I’ve ever experienced.
Songs have made me cry too… well one… Vitamin C’s Graduation. I was in Year 6 and was listening to it one day and it just made me tear up that everyone was going to intermediate and that primary (which was my life back then) was ending.
TV shows have made me cry. I remember this one episode of Gray’s Anatomy where the mum was terminally ill and she was giving like the last bits of advice to her demanding daughter and how much love she had for her even though she had been horrible throughout the episode and how the daughter was finally realising that her mum wasn’t going to make it… that made me cry. I remember that quite vividly. I’m pretty sure I’ve cried in other episodes of Gray’s…
People of course have made me cry… Mrs Brisden’s speech at prize-giving last year, I bawled like a baby… and then I had to take a picture with my All-Rounder’s trophy which is now on the school’s website… puffy-eyed and everything. Prize-giving was way more emotional than graduation because after graduation I was going clubbing for the first time so I wasn’t exactly in a nostalgic mood.
Believe it or not, a website has almost made me cry. www.mylifeisg.com is about how people’s lives are great and the some of the stuff posted is really touching…
Surprisingly, I wouldn’t say that I’m prone to crying.