Does anyone else cry every time?

My sister told me that I would cry, but I did not believe her. Thought that she was just exaggerating. At the end, I found myself not just crying but weeping THICK buckets of tears! Scary!! Movies rarely do that to me! I wonder HOW they made it so emotional, it is almost as though without a doubt you WILL cry. Deep stuff!

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Same here. That just can't be helped! I mean, how could it be humanly possible to reach Wind Beneath My Wings without it...?!? It starts when Hillary first lands in the hospital, because you can tell there's something bad going on. And from there, it doesn't let up, ever--partly because the movie (and books, which I equally loved) doesn't just try to make you sad for the hell of it. This is one of the most magical stories I've ever seen portrayed. The entire film is a huuuuge roller coaster of up-and-down emotions, from overwhelming joy to unbearable pain. The characters are so real and developed that you genuinely, truly feel for them, and can't stand that Hillary doesn't get to go on with her best friend and daughter. So many details of their lives are so realistic, and poignant, and tragic, or beautiful...and everything about the whole production is perfect. Music, sets, cast, everything. It's incredible; one of those stories that never leaves you.

It's just...it's almost like a form of self-torture to watch a movie like this, because you know what it's gonna do, but...it's sort of a good kind of torture. Worth it, at least.



...DANGIT!!! No wonder this movie is called "Beaches"...it sure is a cruel beeetch!! One of those movies you can't watch without weeping over the unbearable unfairness of a character's death. x__x And how Victoria at the end, watching CC perform, looks like her mom watching her when they first met...D'OH GAWD I CAN'T TAKE IT. And it's the same song she's singing as well...only, as a kid, her rendition was spunky and optimistic and up-tempo, and she wore a wild fishnet-and-feather-boa getup. As an adult, she's giving a classy and much-anticipated concert in a velvet dress, and the song is slow, sad, soulful. It's perfect for what she's just gone through--the loss of her lifelong best friend much, much too soon. Now she truly understands the lyrics and is feeling them, rather than merely singing them.

It's just kind of enraging, too, though. Like, WHY? How in he!! did Hillary contract viral cardiomyopathy?? How did some random, stupid, pointless virus come out of nowhere and start killing her slowly? It's too horrible. She was so young, with so much to live for. She should be able to continue raising her daughter and having fun with her best friend for many decades. Now, she has to rely on CC and HER long memory to keep Victoria strong, and Hillary alive in her heart forever. ;__;
(On that note, with regard to Hillary's desperation to remember her mother's hands...I don't think that was because she was afraid that if they had similar hands, then Victoria would probably end up dying young as well due to hereditary problems. I mean, I suppose there could be a congenital weakness or predisposition that lent her to contract this viral condition...but what I got from that was simply that she fears fading away and being forgotten. That CC will become Victoria's new mother, and eventually her daughter won't even be able to recall the most basic details of her, such as the appearance of her hands. She hated not being able to remember her own mother's.)

I like you, Um. I like largeness...

I'm sure I'm in the minority but...never. It's one of a handful of tear-jerkers that angers me.

God you can have Megan Fox...Give us back Vivien Leigh

I cry every single time.


"What happens to a dream deferred?"

I still cry every single time I watch it. I just bought the DVD, got it today, and I plan to watch it even though I know I'll be bawling my eyes out by the end of it.

Common sense. So rare, it's like a superpower.

i fall to pieces when i watch it! i watched it on a plane once and was sobbing uncontrollably. the stewardesses had to console me and give me tissues.

Oh definately!!! You're not alone gal...I've seen it so many times...is my all time fave film and my hubby calls me the "Ice Queen" when it comes to movies as it takes a really good heart wrencher of a film to make me sob...but oh..Beaches..every time i watch it im a blubbering wreck come the end :-) Xx