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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 47590" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>The one I almost don't mind crying at is "The Color Purple" ... the end part where everything is coming together for her. I've seen it dozens of times, know every word by heart, and it still gets to me! When that car pulls into the driveway and she sees her sister after all those years and she is reunited with the children that were taken from her as babies ... I sit there blubbering like a fool! As soon as she sees their African robes blowing in the breeze and realizes that it's them, I start bawling! </p><p></p><p>And I allow myself to cry and carry on and get it all out at the cemetery scene in "Steel Magnolias" because I know it's going to lighten up pretty soon.</p><p></p><p>And I remember seeing "West Side Story" probably thirty times in the movie theaters when I was a teenager - the very ending when it suddenly gets very quiet and you can hear everybody in the theater sobbing!</p><p></p><p>But there were a few that were almost too much for me as a child, ones that bothered me days later. I remember going with my mom and my aunt to one of those palatial downtown movie theaters and seeing a re-issue of "Gone With The Wind". The part where the little girl died almost did me in too. And I'll never forget when my well-meaning grandparents hauled my brother and I off to the drive-in to see "Old Yeller"! It was a Disney movie! They thought they were doing a GOOD thing! They had no idea how incredibly sad it was! And NO, a litter of cute puppies at the end does NOT make up for having to watch a kid shoot his own dog! I cried for days! And in all these years I have never watched that movie again - and in our house, we still refer to sad movies as having "Old Yeller" endings!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 47590, member: 1883"] The one I almost don't mind crying at is "The Color Purple" ... the end part where everything is coming together for her. I've seen it dozens of times, know every word by heart, and it still gets to me! When that car pulls into the driveway and she sees her sister after all those years and she is reunited with the children that were taken from her as babies ... I sit there blubbering like a fool! As soon as she sees their African robes blowing in the breeze and realizes that it's them, I start bawling! And I allow myself to cry and carry on and get it all out at the cemetery scene in "Steel Magnolias" because I know it's going to lighten up pretty soon. And I remember seeing "West Side Story" probably thirty times in the movie theaters when I was a teenager - the very ending when it suddenly gets very quiet and you can hear everybody in the theater sobbing! But there were a few that were almost too much for me as a child, ones that bothered me days later. I remember going with my mom and my aunt to one of those palatial downtown movie theaters and seeing a re-issue of "Gone With The Wind". The part where the little girl died almost did me in too. And I'll never forget when my well-meaning grandparents hauled my brother and I off to the drive-in to see "Old Yeller"! It was a Disney movie! They thought they were doing a GOOD thing! They had no idea how incredibly sad it was! And NO, a litter of cute puppies at the end does NOT make up for having to watch a kid shoot his own dog! I cried for days! And in all these years I have never watched that movie again - and in our house, we still refer to sad movies as having "Old Yeller" endings! [/QUOTE]
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