π§ Courage check, me hearties:
What's the last movie / TV show you cried at?
Gonna be Godzilla Minus One for me. Sobbed like a weirdo at that freaking parachute.
What's it for you?
Oof. I felt that, just reading you describe it. Good trigger!
I haven't watched it yet, but know several people who cried at Godzilla Minus One.
My last cry was The Tunnel, a British and French remake of the Swedish/Danish show The Bridge. (Which was also remade as an American/Mexican series. All three are quite good.)
It was a character getting emotionally manipulated and betrayed.
I saw the Danish version, but I didn't know they remade it - let alone TWICE! Woo, what a gift of a comment. Thank you, Tyghe! I'm grateful for what your tears have yielded. π
The woman detective is such an interesting character, I enjoyed seeing the different interpretations.
I think when the show News Radio made up a story to explain Phil Hartman's death.
I re-watched it recently, and sensed the reverence and affection they felt for him, and their courage in carrying on.
Something so real intruding on something meant to be light and entertaining.
Not sure if I cried, but I definitely felt.
Hartman's death still twists at me at the slightest mention.
There's something about people known for so much laughter meeting with hard ends themselves that always weighs heavily on me.
That is a pointed site of feeling, Ceorl. Thank you for sharing.
@MLClark "What's the last movie / TV show you cried at?"
Funny you ask. I was sobbing on the sofa yesterday watching an episode of the original BSG, "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II." They find Kobol (which suspiciously looks like Egypt).
Just as I did 45 years ago, I sobbed because <redacted> got killed, leaving <redacted> and <redacted>.
<redcated> was killed a different way in the pilot movie, but it was edited out.
BSG 1.0 was unique for its time in that it allowed men to cry.
Kirk got pretty weepy when Spock might have been lost to the caves in "The Devil in the Dark"! There was a *lot* more effusive male emotion in other eras. Then things got weirdly stifled for a decade or three.
@MLClark The DVD had unused footage. One was generic filming of Muffit the robot daggit, which was actually Evie the chimp inside a dog suit.
At the end of the scene, Muffit waddles away, leaving a pile of screws, bolts, and washers. Someone off-screen says, "The daggit s*** on the carpet!" Lots of laughs in the background.
Ron Moore said there was no way he was going to put a daggit in BSG 2.0.
@MLClark
I don't remember, but I do know my trigger: somebody or a pet doing something selfless and courageous to help others.
Gets me every time.