Extreme Emotional Reactions from Media (Especially if You're not Prone to Them)

The Batlord · 02-15-2015, 01:03 PM

After all the whining I've been doing in TV thread about the Dexter series finale, I've become curious what else has elicited such emotional responses from people (e.g. from TV, movies, books, music, paintings, etc). Shedding a tear or two doesn't count. If we're talking tears, then you have to have been seriously crying. But I'm also talking about profound rage, actually triggering legitimate depressive/bi-polar cycles, even positive, life-affirming experiences. And you know, etc. All are welcome, but I'm especially interested in responses by those not usually prone to getting emotional over that kind of thing.

Nothing like last night, but when I was a kid I of course had those videos that I would watch over and over again, and one of them was The Land Before Time. Mufasa's death in The Lion King didn't have **** on Littlefoot's mother dying. That killed my every time when I was a tyke. If you can get through this scene without getting choked up even now, then you're a robot.

WWWP · 02-15-2015, 01:31 PM

This one tears me apart every time

bob. · 02-15-2015, 01:41 PM

as i slowly transition into my forth decade.....i cry at everything.

**Frownland** · 02-15-2015, 01:43 PM

Interstellar made me cry like a little bitch.

bob. · 02-15-2015, 01:48 PM

tears of anger right?

Overcast · 02-15-2015, 01:50 PM

I find it sadder that the little girl who voiced Ducky was murdered by her father in a double murder-suicide at 10 years old.

The finale of The Walking Dead Season 1 by Telltale games had me pretty teared up. It's a game but has a lot of TV show qualities.

**Frownland** · 02-15-2015, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

tears of anger right?

It had its flaws, but I still liked it quite a bit.

Spoiler for sploier:

Zyrada · 02-15-2015, 01:56 PM

I binged the Battlestar Galactica reboot a few years ago.

It's not a show you wanna binge if you're prone to existential crises.

The Batlord · 02-15-2015, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

It had its flaws, but I still liked it quite a bit.

Spoiler for sploier:

Yes. I knew the tears were coming too, even before they met.

WWWP · 02-15-2015, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Overcast

I find it sadder that the little girl who voiced Ducky was murdered by her father in a double murder-suicide at 10 years old.

The finale of The Walking Dead Season 1 by Telltale games had me pretty teared up. It's a game but has a lot of TV show qualities.

On that slant, the opening of Last of Us got me and my former roommates pretty hard.

02-15-2015, 01:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	as i slowly transition into my forth decade.....i cry at everything. __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-15-2015, 01:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Interstellar made me cry like a little bitch. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-15-2015, 01:48 PM	#5 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	tears of anger right? __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-15-2015, 01:56 PM	#8 (permalink)
Zyrada Avant-Gardener Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Inside your navel gazing back at you Posts: 163	I binged the Battlestar Galactica reboot a few years ago. It's not a show you wanna binge if you're prone to existential crises. __________________ dietdeathdrink.flac.fm

02-15-2015, 01:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
Overcast . Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: . Posts: 1,531	I find it sadder that the little girl who voiced Ducky was murdered by her father in a double murder-suicide at 10 years old. The finale of The Walking Dead Season 1 by Telltale games had me pretty teared up. It's a game but has a lot of TV show qualities.