These two always get me teary-eyed without fail - in the case of 'Gladiator' it's mainly the music that does it ... I find the music moving in any case and it brings back memories of a particularly sad event in my life.
In the case of 'Titanic', again the music is evocative (apart from Celine Dion
) and I confess I'm a soppy romantic at heart.
Interesting that a couple have mentioned 'The Green Mile', which I watched on telly over Christmas - I had been warned it was a bit of a heart-string puller ... very good film, but I didn't find it particularly moving. Different strokes for different folks!
My 17-year marriage is in the process of breaking-up and in the interests of testing my recovering mental strength, I made myself watch 'Ghost' over the Christmas holiday, which was one of 'our' films and usually reduced both of us to a blubbering mess. Bad, bad move ... the last 5-10 minutes absolutely shredded me. The old romantic thing again ...
Oddly, I fully expect 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' to have a similar effect next time I see it - nothing in the least bit moving about it
per se, but it was the first film we saw together at the cinema and we always made a point of watching it if it was broadcast. Just the memories will be enough I think ...
EDIT: Coincidentally enough, the aforementioned 'Robin Hood' was on telly over the weekend - after the 'Ghost' experience over Christmas, I avoided watching it ...
Was thinking about this thread a few nights ago - I've definitely been more emotionally vulnerable since the break-up. I'll see certain things on telly now and just crumple - 6 months to a year previous and similar things would see me sat there stony-faced unable to see what the fuss was about. I'm hoping that more stable behaviour will return once we're divorced.
