Sad Movies
I’m tired of contrary comments made about my hobby.
It’s my business if I spend my life all sad and sobby.
You think an action movie is what it’s all about
but that it is unusual to let emotions out
exorcising lost love and other sorts of woe
by exercising empathy in a picture show?
Give me a good sad movie that prompts my sobs and tears.
Better than holding all of your emotion in arrears,
then lashing out at cohorts with more violent means of censure
or expressing it vicariously watching action adventure.
Word prompts today are unusual, contrary, better, comments and hobby.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
The most I’ve ever sobbed through a movie is when we watched “Tomorrow Is Forever.” You, Mother, and I went through a box of Kleenex.
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I remember that so clearly. I think we went on sobbing now and then for hours after we saw it. That was in the old house. I think Dad came home and couldn’t figure out what was going on… or is that part a fabricated memory?
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Amen, Judy. It does serve well for catharsis.
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You bought the popcorn you get to choose the movie !
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Ha. A man with a clear view of the facts and ethics of movie-watching.
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A very valid point
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I wrote in my memoir about going to sad movies so I could “cry legitimately,” as if crying while sitting by yourself on a train going to the next place wasn’t “legitimate.”
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Yes.. After Bob died I cried but when our cat of 14 years drowned in our pool a few months after first my mother and then Bob died, I howled!!! I think I was howling for all three. It just piled up.
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To each his own, or her own, in this case. It’s not true, though, is it?
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True that I hate action/adventure movies but also, don’t like tear-jerkers, although there are many excellent ones. Enough tears in real life now. I prefer upbeat movies with character development and great dialogue, clever plots. As little violence and killing as possible.
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