So I decided to see if I was yet again a strange guy...

The fact is, I'm a really emotional guy. Oh, I almost never cry for me, you know. I keep it most of it bottled inside unfortunately. Not that I want to, I just have a really hard time letting my personal feelings out. But I disgress.

The thing is, I'm the kind of guy who gets easily involved in any fantasy world. I'm especially a sucker for characters dying or sacrificing everything for the cause. I guess like Edington, I'm a romantic. And it's always worse when I'm really tired after a work shift. In those cases, tears roll down just *thinking* about a particulary sad movie scene.

Here are some examples:

Warning! Spoilers for a variety of shows and books!

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Cowboy Bebop (Anime): When Spike dies at the end and the final "Blue" theme plays, I always start crying and I just can't stop myself.

Gladiator: Well, I'm really not proud of that one since the tears are a bit forced out of you, but when Maximum dies at the end, with the music playing while he goes back to his family in the afterlife, well I still cry even after seeing it 5 times.

Lord Of The Rings (Book): I don't know why, but the last part of "The Return of the King" when Frodo leaves Middle-Earth and then in the Epilogue when the rest of the party of the ring leaves for the Immortal Lands of the West, I can't help but shed a few tears, since it's almost as if they were quietly dying in a way. I really get hooked up to characters like that after a few books.

Cyrano de Bergerac (French movie): Ah, the death of Cyrano, it just keeps on going and going and going. And it's just so beautiful the way he talks while his strengh leaves him...

Star Wars: A New Hope: Well, not crying, but when Luke looks at the double sunset at the beginning, with the classic theme playing in the background, well, I personally think it's the most moving moment in the entire trilogy.

La Guerre des Tuques (A small film from Quebec, my home!): Basically a kids movie where two gangs of kids fight it out in winter with snowballs and a snow fort. In the end, the dog from one of the kids gets burried alive by the crumbling fort and all the kids remai silent. It made me cry when I was a kid, and I think it would still if I were to watch it again...

Grave of the Fireflies (Anime): THE most moving japanese anime movie ever. Heck, the most moving movie ever. Just the opening music alone had me crying for 5 minutes, and the end is just the most powerful ending on screen ever. A very intense war movie about two kids forced to fend for themselves during WWII in japan.

the end of "Pay it Forward."

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Crying is one of the body's few tools of self maintenance, crying releases endorphins and other "joy" hormones, as do laughing (if it's sincere and not forced).
It also works as a psychological therapy to help mend stuff that you haven't gotten over, it's just plain healthy. Bottling things up is never good.

It doesn't have to be a sorrowful occasion to have to cry, stress often causes it as well, as the endorphins can smooth over the damage that prolonged stress (ie bad adrenaline) can do to you.

DS9"The Visitor" is strong stuff, and the TNG one where Picard lives a whole lifetime in that probe, gets the flute and plays it alone, in his quarters, that gets me right now, by thinking about it. I have that MP3 as well, I'll play it for a while now.

Has anyone here heard Pachelbel's "Canon"? That's perfect when you're feeling happy and moved, like after any of these movies/episodes listed in this thread.

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Originally posted by Mr. Christopher:
I tell ya, I cried a river when they blew up B5... *sniff*

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About a year later, I'd gotten him to watch the entire series (which was a slog at first, but after Babylon Squared, he became a bit more interested, and after Crysalis, a lot more. By Coming of Shadows, he was begging for episodes). Anyway, THAT time, when he watched Sleeping in Light, his eyes did well up. As did mine, even on the third time.

ST II: Spock's death (I was only 12 though. Still, even though at that time I'd hardly seen any TOS, it was still very moving. Especially Kirk's speech.)

B5: Endgame, Sleeping in Light. I think Between the Darkness and the Light (Ivonova, almost dead, talking to Sheridan).

All Good Things. The Sixth Sense. The Green Mile (I've started crying at films more and more).

The one that got me most was Buffy: Becoming. Starting from when Angel gets his soul returned, right through to the end. It's still Buffy's (the show's) best moment. That music "Close your eyes", really gets to me, even now. Doyle's death in Angel was pretty good too. not so much the death, but the video played at the end.