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 26th, 2007 at 21:35
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 22:27
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 22:38
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 23:04
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 23:23
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 06:00
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 08:15
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 08:16
57 Responses, who won the book?
September 27th, 2007 at 09:27
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 09:52
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
I rarely cry in real life. Though I cry a lot in movies and books.
September 27th, 2007 at 16:38
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 18:33
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 20:09
i cried watching 6-year-old, Britain’s Got Talent finalist Connie Talbot…does it count? :-P
September 27th, 2007 at 22:12
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 22:26
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 00:55
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 23:30
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 01:54
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 07:11
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 13:00
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 17:04
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.
April 9th, 2009 at 01:13
1. I am not a crybaby. If I really have to cry or else I will lose my sanity or kill someone, I prefer not having people see me do it. With people around, I just give them a straight, flat expression on my face. I am afraid to show my vulnerability. I don’t want others to take pity on me.
If the occasion requires it, I do cry to relieve myself of the physical pain that comes when you prevent crying from happening. I experience my facial muscles hurt and my chest just feels so heavy and thick.
2. I do cry when I watch movies, t.v. series, or read books that are good. Even the most harmless scenes trigger it. Memories associated with those scenes and over-analysis are, in my opinion, responsible for it. I sometimes find myself overdoing it. Even after the movie’s done, I am still dripping. My family finds it weird. I think I cry that much because I have a lame excuse to do it. I cried watching Casino Royale while much action is going on. My brother asked me why and I told him stupidly that people are shooting each other.