Sob Your Life Out

Marley & Me is killing everyone's soul. I haven't seen it, mostly because I haven't been to the movies in a long ass time (maybe The Dark Knight? I don't even remember). Everyone who has seen it says 'It's so good! OMG I cried!'. I know Marley dies. I read the last couple chapters in Target once. ("When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends." Thanks, Harry Burns, for now making me that neurotic.) I'll probably wait until it comes out on video so I can cry in the comfort of my own basement instead of at the theaters. In honor of Marley & Me, I summoned everyone from Bangs to a random customer at the restaurant to internet lists to come up with the granddaddy of all tearjerker movie lists. Of course, I probably forgot a few, but I worked pretty damn hard on this one. And it made me realize:
a) I'm a big baby;
b) so is everyone else;
c) my boyfriend claims he didn't cry at any of these. Either he's a liar or he has no soul;
d) I need to see more movies.

Consensus Tearjerkers By Pretty Much Everyone
-The Lion King
-The Notebook
-Steel Magnolias (extra points in my book for the whole kidney thing)
-Stepmom (it took me three separate times to get through this movie because I was sobbing so much I had to stop it)
-Titanic

Movies That Got Me & Other People, Too
-Boyz N the Hood
-Boys On the Side
-Brokeback Mountain
-Corrina, Corrina
-Finding Neverland
-Fluke
-Forrest Gump ('I love you, Jen-nay'...ugh.)
-Glory (long as fuck but the end is killer...literally.)
-Homeward Bound
-I Am Sam
-It's a Wonderful Life
-Jerry Maguire ('You complete me' gets me every time)
-Legends of the Fall
-The Little Mermaid
-Million Dollar Baby
-My Girl ('He needs his glasses!')
-My Life
-Remember the Titans (I saw this so many times in high school and every time, I was crying)
-Schindler's List
-Sex & The City: The Movie (when she's beating Big with the flowers, holy shit)
-Simon Birch
-Stop-Loss. (Good fucking movie, one of my new favorites, go see it.)
-Terms of Endearment (Holy shit, I cried so much during this one)
-Top Gun (when Goose peaces out)
-Wall-E
-When Harry Met Sally (that movie's got everything, hence why it's my favorite of all time)

Movies That Didn't Make Me Cry, But Others Did
-American History X
-Armageddon (as sad as it is, I was going 'Bruce Willis? Liv Tyler? Ben Affleck?' the whole time)
-Babe
-Crash
-The Deer Hunter (I was more depressed than sad. Fabulous movie, though.)
-Ghost
-Great Expectations
-The Green Mile
-John Q
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-La Bamba ('Ritchiiiiiiiiiie!')
-Mr. Holland's Opus
-Monsters, INC.
-Ordinary People
-The Other Sister
-Pearl Harbor
-Pinocchio
-The Prince of Tides
-Stand By Me
-The Wizard of Oz

Movies I Haven't Seen & Should Have Seen, But I Hear They're Pretty Rough
-An American Tail (Fievel, man, Fievel)
-Bambi (yeah, I know, I haven't seen it)
-Beaches
-Bridge to Terebithia (I don't think I'd cry at this one because I didn't like the book in fifth grade, in eighth grade or when I read it for my Literature for Children class.)
-Click
-E.T. (I know.)
-The Fox & The Hound
-Fried Green Tomatoes
-Imitation of Life
-Mask (the Cher one, not the Jim Carrey one)
-Pay It Forward
-Philadelphia
-The Polar Express
-Radio
-Saving Private Ryan
-The Shawshank Redemption (I've seen bits and pieces but never the whole thing)
-Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ('You're in a sorority and you haven't seen it?' I know.)
-The Ultimate Gift
-A Walk to Remember (I KNOW.)
-The Wedding Singer (I KNOW!)
-What Dreams May Come (my brother's favorite)

Guys Cry, Too.
-Braveheart
-Brian's Song (Of course.)
-Coach Carter
-Dead Poets Society
-Dead Presidents ('Everyone either goes to jail or dies. Worst ending ever.')
-Field of Dreams
-Gladiator
-Good Will Hunting
-Heat
-Independence Day (my brother in the theater, July 4th 1996, sobbing when the president's wife dies and no, he's never ever going to live it down...I honestly think she could be one of the reasons why he loves Battlestar Galactica so much)
-Life Is Beautiful
-My Dog Skip
-Old Yeller (again with the dogs?)
-Ratatouille (My dad cried at this and is probably the only person who did.)
-Rudy (A man consensus right here)