September 20, 2005

Tear-jerking

What movies make us weepy?

People get teary-eyed at movies for other reasons as well.

The reaction of men and women to different movies is a celluloid re-make of Women are Venus and Men are Astronauts (or whatever).

An internet survey, endorsed with the official, deeply researched and established scientific techniques that made Mark Latham's diaries so credible (Ho Ho Ho!), shows women and men weep at vastly different movies.

The top tearjerker for men is Schindler's List. Women rate it 13th. The top women's weepie is Ghost, the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore senseless salute to the supernatural, which is saved by having Unchained Melody as its theme.

I prefer the take of "Tom" in the "Your Say" section:

From: Tom
Comment: Only three movies have made me cry: 1) Gigli - if you werent in pain watching that you must have been asleep 2) Shazam - Shaq can not act, but he insists on trying and that makes me sad. 3) The Postman - Kevin Costner at his best in a post apocolyptic world where the postman (Costner) is the greatest source of inspiration. I cried that the apocolypse spared Costner. Big Brother makes me weepy too.

Right on.

Posted by Quentin George at September 20, 2005 05:28 PM
Comments

Gigli was very sad, yes. Excruciatingly painful...Just like every other dang film starring Ben Affleck.

Posted by: Jan at September 20, 2005 07:54 PM

Even the one where he acts with his teeth?

Posted by: Nisha at September 21, 2005 11:05 PM

Voices of a Distant star makes me cry, I must be a sucker for the sap.

Posted by: NotJimbo at September 22, 2005 02:26 PM

I cried tears of laughter at a point during Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business...

Burt Reynolds: I have a favour to ask.
Army dude: What's that, sir?
Burt Reynolds: I need you to die!
*shoots him*

Posted by: Leigh at September 22, 2005 05:47 PM

"The Office: Christmas Special" was the last TV thing to make me cry... it was just so sweet when ::SPOILER ALERT:: Dawn opened the box of pencils from Tim, while her deadbeat boyfriend snored in the taxi.

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Posted by: Aidan at September 28, 2005 06:33 PM