The Waterworks Survey
I have this theory that I’m testing, and I need more evidence to back it up. Two questions:
Do you often cry in real life? (Iyakin ka ba? What’s your definition of a crybaby?)
Do you cry at the movies? Not just when the hero dies or proposes, but even at stuff that’s not supposed to be tear-inducing.
Please post your answers in Comments. At the end of the survey we’ll raffle off a copy of Twisted Flicks among the commenters.
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September 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
1. Crybaby - n. A person who finds any (oftentimes way too shallow) emotional stimulus a reason to shed tears (for the thinkers, these tears are unseen as they relate to internal pain) because his lacrymal ducts do not have efficient built-in floodgate control system. I am a crybaby generally in the figurative sense. Damn it, I am always crying in the inside. No matter where I go. No matter what I do. Even if I am singing upbeat tunes, my innards twitch in pain. At Sing-along bars, the Boom Shakalak is just my desperate attempt at assuring those I’m with that I am a fun person to hang out with.
2. Yes, I cry literally in movies, and what’s shameful about this is that each time I cry, I cry alone while my seatmates are not. I cry over a lot of things - beautiful, sad, haunting scenes, or metaphors…I don’t know. Damn it, seatmates find me weird. Well, why, I even cry while watching Wish Ko Lang!
September 25th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
i am not a cry baby but when i do, F n F (as in uhog and all!)…does it makes sense? in films, no naman, not unless there’s a touching scene or may nakakainis na emote ung artista, nagwawala tlaga ako!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
I think I’m a bit of a crybaby. I cry at the movies (and it doesn’t have to be a mushy one…there was a part in Transformers that made me cry), over talk shows… I even cry over mushy commercials. In real life, I often find my self on the brink of crying…and usually there’s no reason at all, I just feel like it. Funny thing is, by the time that I should be crying (when personal issues arise), by the time that I should be emotional, I really can’t shed a tear…I become stoic.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
yup i’m a cry baby, i cry over the silliest of things. i’m the only person i know who cried watching Sister Act 1 and 2. and do you know which part i bawl my eyes out? mostly during scenes where the nuns (SA1) and students (SA2) are singing in harmony. take note, no matter how many times i’ve watched these movies on HBO i still cry during the numbers! when i cry you won’t call it a pretty cry, tears rolling down my cheek, oh no, i go on what Oprah calls the ugly cry! as in with matching trembling chin and “hikbi”, like a toddler after throwing a big tantrum. i don’t know why i cry during those scenes, i mean the song’s aren’t really sad, it’s happy in fact, it’s about rejoicing.
imagine if i cry on those scenes, what more if there are death scenes, unrequited love, etc. etc.
silly? i know!
September 25th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I don’t cry often. Sometimes it gets irritating because when the situation calls for waterworks (funerals, high-strung emotional spats with friends, etc.) I can’t cry. But when I do cry, around once or twice a year, I can cry almost non-stop for days.
A crybaby is someone who cries at the drop of a hat. When he/she is affected by commercial movies, songs, minor personal drama, second-hand drama from the lives of others, etc. A crybaby loves to cry about almost anything and is not ashamed of it. Personally, I can’t stand them. I never have enough tissues with me.
I only cried in the movies on two occasions: (1) while watching the trailer of “I am Sam”, and (2) when Mary had flashbacks of a young Jesus in “Passion of the Christ”.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
a crybaby is someone who wails (whoa, exaggerated?) about the most shallow things, may it be a happy or sad moment, or even for no reason at all. and yes, i am guilty of being a crybaby. in the movies, i almost always end up crying.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I cry at the slightest provocation. I am definitely a crybaby. (Stress makes me cry. Although I make sure I deliver the output required of me, I don’t stop crying while doing my work.)
I cry at the movies. Watching The Incredibles, I cried when Elasto Girl woke up after falling from the plane and immediately thought of her children.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I rarely cry in real life.
i only cry when watching Dolphy in his drama movies. Nothing else.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
1. I hardly cry in real life. Crybaby — a person who, in between sobs, responds to “You’re such a crybaby!” with “So?”
2. I cry buckets in movies, from “Almost Famous” to “My Girl” but I try to hide it when I can. Though with “Magnifico” I gave up trying somwhere in the middle and just let myself go wiping my tears with my forearms in total abandon.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I’m a crybaby for all the wrong reasons. I cry when I feel like it, when nobody else is crying, and on random movie scenes and commercials.
Like Emmen Esse, there was one episode of Wish Ko Lang where I cried buckets of tears. A barrio lass runs away from her grandparents, went to Manila, became a prostitute, and had kids. She wrote to Wish Ko Lang so she can go back to her province. When she arrived, she hugged her grandmother and began to weep uncontrollably.
The grandmother blinked and said, “Sino ka iha?”
Later she met her grandfather, whom she also hugged. The grandfather looks at his wife and said, “Sino ‘to?”
“Apo daw natin.” the grandmother replied.
“Hindi sya yun!” the grandfather said, all the while the girl was clinging to him.
It killed me. I cried so hard for a long time I didn’t know why.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
1. I have allergic rhinitis so I wake up every morning clogged and groggy. And since the nasal passages are in some way connected to the eyes, I also wake up teary-eyed. So I cry a lot, in the technical sense.
The dictionary defines crying as shedding tears because of overwhelming emotion. In this sense, I seldom cry. My sincerest tears are reserved for distinctive and worthy people.
A crybaby regresses into a preschooler at the slightest provocation. Deliberate or not, he/she derives pleasure from it.
2. Once, a movie made me cry. But that was in high school and I was cheesy then. So if you ask me now, I have not cried watching a movie for a long while. But I am desperately seeking one that will make me.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
1. a cry baby, not really, but there are times when I’m vulnerable or during low moments that a single negative comment would launch a bunch of tears (hehehe, di daw cry baby eh)
2. yeah I cry when a character that I love would die in a movie, or a helpless situation where the characters can’t get out of or when it’s close or similar my to real life situation (nakakarealte daw, yiy!)
September 25th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
real life, hardly; i do cry, but i sometimes feel like i’m just forcing myself to. at the movies, yeah, a lot. i cried when the girl said - it is finished (i don’t know swedish) - in the seventh seal. i cried during that last supper scene in viridiana!! i don’t think i’m a crybaby, though.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
1. Yes, I cry, but I’m not a crybaby. A crybaby, imho, is someone who cries at the shallowest reasons. I think I cry when I’m too stressed, but not really when I’m sad, or when I have problems.
2. Yes. I cried while watching “The Lion King” when I was eight. And there were episodes of “Home Along Da Riles” that made me cry as a child (no, not because the jokes were corny). I guess to an extent, I’m a crybaby, if that means someone who cries at almost everything he/she watches.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
1. No, i do not often cry in real life. a crybaby is my nephew named Andrae who cries at anything that isn’t going his way (kinda irritating really).
2. The only movie I ever cried at (actually, just teary-eyed) was “The Pursuit f Happyness” starring Will Smith.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
1. I cry in real life, but not a lot. Actually, it may seem weird because I cry in seethingly shallow situations. I cried when I didn’t get the promotion. I cried when I lost my recently-bought phone. I cried when it was raining really hard and I was stuck in a “No loading, unloading” zone. I hardly cry when someone dear to me passed away. I don’t know, I think it’s just superficial.
2. Absolutely, I often cry in movies. I cried at the end scenes of Together Again. The violin piece is just so outstanding. I cried when Neo revived Trinity by pumping her heart. I cried when Satine died in Moulin Rouge, and she just delivered her last performance. I cried at the trailer of Ratatouille. It’s strange but I cry more often at the movies than with real life stuff.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I am not a crybaby but I cried (flood) when they didn’t gave me the right monetary incentive. (I mean I’ve been working like a dog, tapos dadaya-in ka lang) Right there in front of all our managers and team leads (waaaaa). Just by the thought of it makes me wallow in my tears…So, does this make me a candidate for the crybaby award? hehehe
When it comes to movies I cry at very (and I mean very) poignant scenes. Sa TV ads mas marami akong luha, remember McDo’s commercial showing an elderly couple, I think the sound track was oh so touching ( i forgot the title of the song). I really admire “growing old together” scenes… *sob sob
September 25th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I’m not a crybaby. I cry probably once a year at best, mostly when angry. When it happens, I won’t be able to stop the chest heaving for a few minutes.
Crybabies to me are uber-sensitive people of two kinds - those who seek attention and those who are prone to self-pity.
I did shed a tear or two over some movies though, particularly Bridges of Madison County and Bridge to Terabithia. Maybe I’m scared of bridges.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
1. a) no, i dont cry often in real life; in fact, women who cry hysterically makes me want to bitch-slap them to unconsciousness
b) Crybaby - the elementary school definition is someone who whines and cries for any little thing in order to get it or to get attention … my 3 yr old nephew often refers to his bratty cousin using this term
2. I do cry A LOT at the movies - regardless of whether or not the scene calls for waterworks… I cant watch Steel Magnolias without a box of tissues .. i even cry watching those Hallmark card commercials .. sad but true
September 26th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I rarely cry easily in real life. I laugh.
Yesterday I watched the ‘Autopsy’ episode of House and I got teary-eyed. Closest thing I get to bawling.
September 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
I’m going through a big personal crisis right now. I’d really want to cry, but I can’t even do that. So I guess I’m not a cryer.
The movies I can remember crying and the specific scenes:
River Phoenix leaving his family at that little greenbelt area at the end of Running On Empty
The last scene in Chasing Amy
The last scene in Big Fish
September 26th, 2007 at 1:11 am
1. I hate hate hate crying in front of people! (whether it’s family, friends, or strangers) …so i rarely do it. I’d rather wait til I’m in my room before I cry. I usually only cry when I’m really really really angry and I can’t do anything about it, and when it comes to family. Sometimes I wish I had a switch that can turn my tear glands on and off coz sometimes I don’t wanna cry, but then the more I suppress it the harder it is to keep from crying…and then before I know it there it is.
Crybabies are those people that cry over the littlest of things that makes you want to smack them instead of sympathize with them.
2. I NEVER cry over movies, books, tv shows, or what-nots. I do feel sad and get affected and all that stuff…but to actually shed a tear? No. Somehow, I just know (perhaps subconsciously?) that it’s not real life so I never reach that point of actually crying. When I was younger, when people said that a movie/book made them cry, I thought it was just an expression for being sad. I was surprised to find out that there are actual tears and until now, it surprises me when I hear that from my friends.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Not really,although once a month before or after my monthly period I have my so called weeping fits, I cry at the slightest things,that and the fact that (I believe) I am suffering from depression, not the “zoloft” kind but the obsessive-compulsive kind. As Justin E.H. Smith wrote (and I read courtesy of your blog) that “a depressive is a person who experience the world in a certain way.” enough said…. I will spare you the details of my life, maybe coincidence but your blog entry “what if its you?’ is somehow connected to your entry today,well, at least for me. I strongly believe that depression and distress go together, crying being the icing on the cake. Do I make sense? Guess I really have to consider medication. Anyway, personally, I think crybabies are depressed human beings (aren’t we all at some point?) regardless of our age, emotional disturbances or motion pictures being watched.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I don’t cry that much. Possible definition of crybaby - a whiner or a weakling.
There were 2 movies that made me misty-eyed: Immortal Beloved & The Lives of Others.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:16 am
No, I only cry when I need to. When I was in grade school I was a crybaby though. STC girls are mean. You should know.
I was bawling in PJ’s King Kong. The part where they were shooting him down. I was about the only person of any age to be crying, and the cinema was full of kids. New Yorkers are mean.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:40 am
Yes and yes.
Kakahiya sa sinehan.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:45 am
1. No, I’m not a crybaby. I ABHOR crybabies. For me, crying at the slightest provocation is a sign of low E.Q.
2. I’ve only cried twice or thrice at the movies, and they weren’t really hardcore crying. It was more like I just welled up inside, plus a tear or two. The few movies that made me tear up were Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring), The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, and Moulin Rouge.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:08 am
I don’t cry much often, but I do get in the mood at least once a month. With movies,I cry at everything that resembles what is sad about my life.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:09 am
I never cry in real life. Maybe because I haven’t really experienced anything big that most people cry about. I’ve never experienced a breakup, since I’ve never been in a relationship, and I think the reason behind this is I don’t believe in (bleechh…) love. The only big thing I’d experienced that should have made me cry was getting kicked out of school. But I didn’t even cry then. The last time I cried real hard in real life was during our high school retreat. But it was only because people around me were crying. And I cry easily if somebody else cries. I felt like I was watching this movie in which everyone was just hurt.
I cry easily at the movies. Jerry Maguire made me cry. Love Actually made me cry three times. Lost in Translation made me cry at that scene that most people would have ignored (the scene in bed where Scarlett and Bill were talking about life). Even TV makes me cry. Lost made me cry (especially at that Charlie-centric episode in which Charlie is supposed to die). Six Feet Under made me cry several times. Hell, even Oprah made me cry.
But in real life? I don’t really cry. Even if I’m depressed all the time.
Hey, do you watch Mad Men? In the pilot episode they said Love is nothing but created by the advertising people. There’s just so much truth in it that it made me laugh. Just imagine! People are just so into falling in and out love, sometimes killing for love, and in the end they were all a target demographic. Hahaha! I laugh a lot, though, in real life.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:53 am
1. No. I don’t cry much in real life - although, I do have my triggers.
2. No, I don’t typically cry at the movies. A Tim Horton’s commercial (a commercial!!) almost made me cry, though.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I cry when I see my mom crying. I cry when she is sad or feels hurt. But I cry only silent tears. I don’t like to make a show of my crying.
I cried watching Meryl Streep feeling so torn in Bridges over Madison County, Heath Ledger hugging his dead partner’s jacket in Brokeback Mountain. I Am Sam really had me sobbing. And there was Simon Birch. My gosh!
Wish Ko Lang most of the time tears my heart apart.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I cry
1. when I don’t get what I want.
2. just about anything when I’m tired
3. when I’m watching a movie alone–usually romantic movies cause those are the ones that depresses me the most
4. when I drink too much water
5. when there’s just no words to explain an overwhelming feeling
September 26th, 2007 at 9:42 am
i am a crybaby…i guess it comes to being more attuned to one’s feelings…
i remember crying when i saw the pics from the oklahoma city bombing in Time and Newsweek…
at the movies, i think i did cry during The Lakehouse scene when Sandra and Keanu were to finally meet…i did cry while watching this korean-japanese mini-drama series…
September 26th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Hmm…
1) I don’t cry OFTEN. Because, drama is something i suck at.
And my definition of a cry baby would be someone who’s overly sensitive about anything and would cry at a slightest provocation. Like he or she got a tear-duct sickness, or something.
2) For some weird reason, I only cry at movies if an animal dies in it, or tend to be abused in it. Movies that made me cry are Lion King, Beethoven, and the last, was the Chronicles of Narnia. I think, it’s basically about dogs and lions, regardless if it’s real or animated, i’m not really sure. So you can actually kill the lead or some human protagonists in any story, i wouldn’t even care at all.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I used to be a crybaby when i was bit younger and much in touch on my emotional state. But as you grow old and became more experienced. I cried less often.
Funny, that i easily cried on cheesy movie scenes, those typical chickflicks and when i am reminded of a situation from the past. Crying for me is being in touch with my hidden angst and wish it could have been things.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:19 am
i cry in real life. i might get a little teary eyed at movies… i’ll even cry when i win the copy of twisted flicks.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
1. I’m a pretty emotional person, but I rarely show it, as in VERY RARE, my girlfriend even jokes, telling me that I lack emotions (which hurts, only means that I don’t lack it).
I guess machismo gets in the way of expressing how I really feel, and most of time I try to be logical rather than get all hyped emotionally.
2. I get teary-eyed most of the time, especially when scenes get touchy or emotional, but no actual rolling down of rivers of tears.
So, do I get the the prize? :p
September 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
yeah i’m a big cry baby. i get teary eyed when the background song of a movie becomes slow. i don’t know why i’m like that but as far as i can remember i cried in movies houses and in front of the tv. even if i watched the movie several times, i will still cry. maybe because i sympathize with the story, what if i’m that person? huhuhuhuhu.
September 26th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
1. yes i’m somewhat a crybaby because i cry easily. in real life. :) that’s what crybabies are, people who cry easily even with the most mundane reasons.
2. in TV, yes. in books, almost. in theatre, once. in movies, yes. i even cry in mother-kid commercials. :)
September 26th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I cried at 6 over the death of Bambi’s mom. That’s about it. Now, touching moments just make me uncomfortable and queasy.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
1. No. I don’t cry easily but when I do it takes real effort to stop myself. A crybaby would cry at the slightest provocation.
2. No. I don’t easily cry at the movies. I would cry more easily when reading certain books, or watching CNN, or watching the state of our country at the news.
(I hope I win that book, I’m a Twisted fan.)
September 26th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
1. I don’t tend to cry much at real life at all. I feel like it is my duty to be strong in order to bear the pain of other people. I don’t feel that there is anything wrong with crying in terms of masculinity or anything of that nature, but I tend to channel pain more into fury than tears when it comes to real life issues and problems. I think it is how I want to perceive myself that drives me to this, because I know that I feel powerless to help people when they are hurting (especially emotionally), so I try to stand as still and strong as possible to be ready to do anything I can do.
2. I cry more at movies and books than at real life. I view them as my outlet. But not everything emotional in films or books provokes that response. Some instances which have made me cry are Beth dying in Little Women; Red Constantino’s description of Sadako Sasaki, the Hiroshima victim (this morning); reading Anne Frank’s diary; numerous Korean movies or television melodramas; the moment in the Japanese movie Shinobi, where the heroine puts her eyes out to convince the king to spare her fellow villagers. Romances with tinges of tragedy are usually what get me. Hollywood doesn’t produce that effect on me, mostly I find the connection with the characters and situations is tenuous at best.
I think I see the ones I love represented in the characters in fiction. Usually, if something happens to a female character, it triggers my emotions more acutely. I think I imagine the one I love in those guises and cry for the thought of that pain. I don’t really cry about fictional representations where a guy is in trouble so maybe it is a male macho-chauvinist-protective thing after all, but I hope not.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Oh, and a crybaby definition? Someone who cannot rationally face a situation and tries to escape answering either to themselves or to others by washing themselves away with tears. Needless to say, this response can be either because of natural inabilities or weasely low cunning.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Q1. Nope. Mapili ang mga tearducts ko sa mga pagkakataon na maaring maipamalas ang aking Urian-worthy hagulgol.
Crybaby– mga taong may balat-sibuyas na may in-born onion juice secretion ducts. Extreme cases exhibit whining-like grunts, icky mucuos and display of drama antics equivalent to the faculty of the Halili sisters.
Q2. Only when i’m alone and at home. Teary-eyed, no grunts, during touchy scenes accompanied with moving musical score.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
1 No. I don’t cry easily but when I do it takes real effort to stop myself. A crybaby would cry at the slightest provocation.
2. No. I don’t easily cry at the movies. I would cry more easily when reading certain books, or when watching about killings or atrocities, or watching about the state of our country in the news.
(I hope I win that book, I’m a Twisted fan)
September 26th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
1.a. I have phases. I usually cry a lot when i’m in love (though not necessarily because of the other half). I guess one is just susceptible to different emotions when one is in love so mas affected siya. Otherwise, I don’t usually cry, save for cases narrated in Answer no. 2.
1.b. a crybaby is someone who is iyakin na, whiny pa. Usually a crybaby turns up the waterworks either para makuha ang gusto niya or para magpapansin.
2. Yeah I cry at the movies especially at the standing ovation parts, e.g. when the people cheered mulan at the temple after the battle was won and when the crowd clapped for whoopi’s kids when they won the singing competition in sister act2. I find that moving.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I am a very emotional person so I do cry whenever I feel like crying (well its usually when I am alone and at night). A crybaby for me is someone who cries even for shallow reasons.
I cry at movies even at weird instances but I usually cry when no one is around. I easily get touched but when I am with someone I just cry in the inside.
I cry a lot but when no one is around. (I’m a closet crybaby)
September 26th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I hardly cry in real life. Even when I’m breaking up with someone, my tearducts just won’t cooperate.
But then again I cried during Rugrats the Movie. I don’t know why.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
crybaby - iyakin, uhugin (when u are iyakin, your nose gets runny), whiny, helpless,
yep, i cry. a lot. it’s like i have these phases. like i get so iyakin a week before my period and even after my period. i cry over lyrics of a song i really like or i cry over a blog entry which is done by someone i don’t even know at all - it was beautifully written. i cry at the movies - touching/moving parts; scenes that tug at our emotions. no matter how many times i’ve seen parent trap, i still cry over it - the part when lindsay lohan (the twin who grew up with her dad) hugged her mom for the 1st time, when she asked, “what is mother like?” i cry when i am angry. i cry when i am drunk/wasted. i cry when things & people get so frustrating. i cry over good reads (books). i cry when i am happy. i cried looking/watching at my 6year old boy holding a lighted candle during his nursery graduation rites, singing “we are the world.” i cry when i remember a special memory, like my dad.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I find it hard to cry when it matters - death in the family, someone I love leaving but I am such a crybaby (which I define as somebody whose tear ducts opens easily) watching tender scenes in movies or even while reading! Poignant moments would open the dam. I know I’ve cried in some scenes that would elicit “O, bakit mo iniiyakan yan?” but I can’t seem to think of one right now. Friends have commented about my ability to cry over a book but can’t seem to get emotions out of me when everyone in the room were crying buckets over the resignation of our manager and I love our manager dearly!
September 26th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
1. I cry but I’m not a crybaby. At least I don’t think so. I cry when I’m alone (or there’s no one I know around/ looking). I rarely cry when someone’s looking.
2. I cried listening to Paul Potts (youtube) and reading some (very, very few) books/poems. Oh, and cry for me means just tears welling up, sometimes a gushing flood. No sound. Ever.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
1. Not really a crybaby but I notice that when I’m really angry, I cry instead of blowing my fuse.
2. I cried at the end of Braveheart, when Mel G was about to be quartered, he looks at the crowd and sees his wife **singhot**. Also when I watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition, everytime Ty Pennington hollers “Bus driver, move that bus! and the family goes delirious, I get teary.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
i used to cry buckets when i was younger, when i felt like the world should be sorry for me because i had a dysfunctional home…i think i was around eight when i used to cry while singing, “always keep a little prayer in your pocket, and you’re sure to see the light…” and “ben, the two of us need look no more…” blecht. i was in high school when i got so high on religion i’d cry while praying. i don’t cry as much anymore, but sometimes when something really sad happens, the floodgates open, and i relish every tear, espeshly when i remember how long it has been since i cried really hard.
was i a crybaby? no. a crybaby is someone who cries just because he feels like it. a crybaby is someone you can’t talk sense into when he is crying. a crybaby is a whiner. and i never whined, even as a kid. i bore the world on my shoulders, which explains why i’m so jaded now, haha.
these movies made me cry:
awakenings - where robert de niro played a post-encephalitis patient who awoke from 20 years or so of catatonia
the passion of the christ - did mel gibson really have to show that scene when the boy jesus trips and mary picks him up?
click - my tears were flowing nonstop!
magnifico - need i say more?
brokeback mountain - i don’t know how to quit it, eff.
the wizard of oz - now i know i have a heart, because it’s breaking
i remember crying at some maalaala mo kaya episodes, too, and yes, some john lloyd cruz - bea alonzo soap. cheesy, cheesy. hah.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
1. I do cry in real life, especially when it involves family. But am no crybaby (someone who readily bawls/whines/complains for very little reason).
2. Yes, I do get teary-eyed when I watch movies/television shows and even books (the latest was this scene from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak).
September 26th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
1.) I seldom cry in real life. I’m not a crybaby. A crybaby is someone who sheds tears over anything for any reason whatsoever. Almost similar to that of a drama-queen/king, but with more floods.
2.) Aside from the usual tears in relation to loss (ie death of a loved one), I also cry when I’m angry, and getting angry is rare for me. I rarely cry, actually. And this applies to movies… only one movie made me cry. Fried Green Tomatoes.
Sorry, I really don’t cry much. :P
September 27th, 2007 at 6:00 am
1. crybaby–someone who cries with the slightest hint of pain, emotionally and/or physically..howling like theres no tomorrow and expecting you to symphatize though heavens couldve fallen over and you couldnt care less ( except if this entails a sudden announcement of state of calamity and work and school are suspended-yay!)
2. i once witnessed a relative gasp her last breath on her deathbed. everybody started clinging to the person next to them and shouted her name in various in incomprehensible tone when i suddenly blurted out ” when’s the funeral?”
am i a crybaby? you tell me.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:15 am
1.) I was a crybaby until 4 years old. I cry when I dont get my way, when hungry or when just plain tired. When I turned 5, I concluded that my crying did not get me anywhere, so I stopped. I rarely cry now.
2.) I cried at I am Sam. Teary-eyed sa Transformers because Optimus Prime’s voice brought back a lot of good childhood memories. That’s about it.
Now I pretend to yawn when I want to cry. Crying makes one look weak no?
September 27th, 2007 at 8:16 am
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September 27th, 2007 at 9:27 am
i don’t cry in real life that much… as in once a year crying over real life stuff is the maximum… i didn’t even cried when my granny died… that is if you don’t count crying in my dreams…
it’s different in the movies… there are scenes that make me miss a hreartbeat and squeeze some tears out of my eyes… though very seldom these days…
there’s this time when i was watching harry potter 5 the order of the phoenix, i can’t help but shed some tears when Neville, the tall boy who has a hard time casting spells, finally succeeded in casting his patronus… what an achievement… sniff, sniff…
i’m no crybaby… some may say that i cry over little things but that’s me… i’m wierd.. hehe..
September 27th, 2007 at 9:52 am
1. I cry in real life. It’s like pissing because it makes me feel better after I do it. But it is definitely better than pissing for some reasons. A crybaby cries over almost anything. I am not a crybaby. My friend is.
2. I cried in Ice Castles and ET. And a few other films. But not in every part. But my friend does.
She just loves crying. It has become a hobby.
September 27th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I rarely cry in real life. Though I cry a lot in movies and books.
September 27th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
1. not a cry baby.
2. the last time i cried was tuesday night while watching the correspondent’s episode on sspe. it was so sad… to lose someone you love through sspe.
September 27th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
i used to cry in movie houses. when the background music is starting to mellow tears would build up and slowly makes it way out of my eyes and i will sniffle a little.
then i watched titanic with my pregnant sister. the thing is, that was the first time we watched a movie together because we don’t get along that well.but for some unforeseen energy i think i need to be with her that time. she’s 6 months pregnant that time. i thought it’s the hormones.
no, not the hormones.
when leonardo di caprio and kate winslet held hands in that icy water and finally leonardo died of hypothermia (?) my sister wasn’t crying, she was making a scene like he did die in real life. i kept apologizing that she’s pregnant and its surge of hormones.
that was the last time we watched a movie together.
and i stopped crying in movies.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
i cried watching 6-year-old, Britain’s Got Talent finalist Connie Talbot…does it count? :-P
September 27th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
1.) A crybaby is a person who lets out his repressed emotions too much that he tends to become overly dramatic. In such cases, he’d get out of his room, trips on the mat, and sobs hysterically. But that is just me being sardonic.
I’ll cry when my life depends on it. I’ll cry if aliens abduct me and send me to some planet. I’ll cry if a doctor disects me, gets my innards and sells it to some patient who needs a donor. I’ll cry if Yasmien Kurdi quits being a crybaby and ends her acting job just for the heck of it (actually, it would be like tears of joy). But for the most part, I’m not a crybaby. Anyways, who still uses the term?
2.) I cried once when we were watching 1408 just recently. We were at the far end of the seat. Two raunchy men came clambering in our way to get through the middle part of our row. The other one stepped on my toe and it had really hurt. REALLY hurt. I was cursing furiously and then, I started crying. It’s as if my toe splinched itself or something. It was in the same scene where John Cusack was hugging her daughter. My mom was looking at me and patted my back. The movie ended and I was like shouting “WHY!? WHY!?”. The other guy who was in the front told me that the ending was all for the best.
I was weeping for my dead toe, brother.
I know I’m not of help with this survey of yours but hey, the toe still hurts.
September 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
One word of thought: Never sit beside a mongoose who thinks he looks horrendously like the lead character in the movie. You’d go home teary-eyed. :)
September 28th, 2007 at 12:55 am
you know what, this is exactly my problem. in ‘real life’, i hardly cry. but i’m not stiff naman. god knows how much i crave for passion. i just find it hard to let the tears come out, specially when the situation requires me to (i.e. friends pouring their heart out, or making up after a bad fight). i don’t know…i share the same feelings with them but i just CAN’T cry. and what’s actually weird is i usually have this impulse to laugh whenever i’m suppose to cry. swear! i don’t know why i’m doing the exact opposite!
on the other hand, i’m such a cry baby when it comes to movies. i can’t remember watching any movie that i didn’t cry. as you’ve said, even to movies that are not tear-inducing. i cried for bruce almighty and even 13 going on 30! that’s pretty weird right? just hearing a nice line gives me that lump in my throat. bah. i love passion. i lack passion. hmm.
so, good luck on your theory ha. hope it would be able explain why i’m like this.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Do you often cry in real life? (Iyakin ka ba? What’s your definition of a crybaby?)
-There are certain triggers that make me cry. When I hear about people who did something very noble- e.g. Nelson Mandela & Desmond Tutu in South Africa, the honest cabbie who gives back thousands of dollars a passenger left, things like that. Sometimes I cry when I feel very tired and frustrated and need emotional release. But I don’t consider myself iyakin. Iyakin for me is someone who is emotional in a cheesy, over-sentimental “Hallmark Card” sort of way.
Do you cry at the movies? Not just when the hero dies or proposes, but even at stuff that’s not supposed to be tear-inducing.
-Absolutely. Case in point, I recently viewed “Death at a Funeral,” and found myself crying over the most ludicrous scene. It was a trigger for something else, I surmise. I normally would not cry when copious tears are shed onscreen. The literal and overcooked (and any movie by Clint Eastwood) do not make me cry. The Danish film “Babette’s Feast” is one film that made me cry a lot- the delicate turns, the simplicity, the symbolism.
Cheers.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:54 am
Yes, I often cry in real life. Maybe I’m just the typical “mababaw ang luha”! I cry at mushy commercials, I cry whenever I hear of stories about Pinoys doing great things, I cry when I hear a very touching note about anything by someone being interviewd on TV and when I finally set my eyes on Boticelli’s masterpieces The Birth of Venus and La Primavera at Florence’s Uffizzi Gallery, I was sooo moved to tears that a friend had to pretend I wasn’t with her! And yes, I often cry at the movies (and yes, I’m pathetic!). Not just for the tear-inducing scenes but for the sheer greatness of acting abilities by actors: the trailer of Cate Blanchet’s The Golden Age never fails to make me cry; she’s just so effing good! Greg Kinear made me cry in As Good As It Gets. I could go on and on but I guess that would do…
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:11 am
oooh survey!
Question 1
No, I am not a crybaby. A crybaby is someone who does not know how to express any feelings of frustraion or disappointment but to cry. Especially, when they did not get what they want. Palagi na lang parang batang isang linggong pinangakuan basta pag nagpakabait sya, sa pagdating ng sabado, ay pupunta sa Jolibee tapos sa Mcdo dinala..
When I’m frustrated I sleep na lang plus mas gusto ko sa KFC.
Question 2
I do cry on half the movies that I have seen. Drama, action, comedy, even trailers. Even carttons- Nemo, The Incredibles, Meet the Robinsons, Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan. I get teary eyed with the trailer that comes along when we sang the national anthem during the last full show.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Me? A crybaby? my mom once asked me if im human coz my apathy from just about everything just drove her nuts.no one has ever made me cry.im a cold, calculating, unfeeling biatch.maybe i am yet to meet the person who’s gonna make me cry like a baby.sort of my karma.if ever i cry i dont let others see it.for me crying is a sign of weakness.and i dont want others to think im weak.because inside i really am.(get out)what amkes me cry?books and movies.
not the “pasan ko ang daigdig” type of movies.nakakaiyak ba ang schindler’s list? hotel rwanda? kasi naiyak ako dun.sobra.
October 10th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
A crybaby is someone who gets easily affected and is only able to release his/her emotions by crying. Not necessarily a weakling, just someone who cries too often.
No, I’m not a crybaby - I used to be though, but I had to train myself not to cry because: 1) after crying my eyes start hurting and I’m forced to sleep it off; and 2) I have chinky eyes and after a bucketful of tears they are reduced to mere slits or sometimes, a dot. Think I trained myself really well because now I can’t seem to cry when I’m sad. At most, I get teary-eyed.