Are you someone who cries a lot? I am. Pretty much anythingmight get me in a weepy mood. TheNotebook? Check. City Lights? Check. The "toy boat" eBay commercial? Yes, indeed. Alright, so I cried watching 13 Going on 30, but I’venever before cried because of a movie trailer. Then I watched the trailers for August Rush (Nov. 21) and P.S., I Love You (Dec. 21).
First of all, Freddie Highmore playing a musicallygifted orphan is a sure way to tears with me. Also, I didn’t know the plot of P.S., I Love You when I decided to check out the trailer, and I paid the price for my ignorance. A dead husband helps his widow grieve via posthumous love letters — I didn’t stand a chance. Maybe these movies won’t be actually as sad as they seem in the promos, but I’mwilling to bet that I’ll cry if I watch them.
Do these trailers make you cry, PopWatchers? If not, which movietrailers have rendered you a sobbing mess? (Watch the August Rush trailer below, and the P.S., I Love You trailer after the jump.)
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The “Once” trailer got me and so did the movie. i think there’s just something in that music that touches me.
I thought the Once trailer was moving too. Also almost any of the Wes Anderson movie trailers. August Rush though? No. I snapped out of it as soon as I saw Robin Williams in Bono drag.
The A Mighty Heart trailer did it for me. Maybe that’s what scuppered its box office.
The trailer (and subsequently, the opening sequence) of “The Lion King” STILL makes me weepy
The trailer for “Brokeback Mountain” got to me. I don’t know if I actually cried though. I just thought the concept of the thing was so incredibly sad. When I saw the movie I didn’t cry though. But it was pretty upsetting.
The “Grace is Gone” trailer did it for me. I think it had something to do with John Cusack with granny eyeglasses.
I think the only trailer I ever really got teary about was for “Amazing Grace”. Something about the combination of a man’s long struggle against slavery and the writing of the song got to me. Twice! I never saw the movie, though.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Cv5P9H9qU
Trailers, commercials, all the same. Keep the tissues nearby!
I’m crying over how P.S. I Love You has been completely butchered!! Nothing like the book! Absurdity!
I feel like I’ve seen these two movies a few times before. Robin Williams mentoring an orphan. Can’t someone make him stop.
I got teary eyed when Terrance Howard says “This is your son,” in August Rush, but PS, I Love You? Man, did that bring out the water works!
The movie ended up being terrible, but every time “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” swelled up in the Moonlight Mile trailer, I was a wreck. A WRECK.
It was all dead fiancee, grieving parents, new love, hot Gyllenhaal, etc and I just couldn’t handle it, I guess. I must’ve seen it four or five times before other movies and cried every time.
the PS I LOVE YOU trailer makes me cry, too. but mainly about how god awful it is. hilary swank doing wacky comedy pratfalls? it brings a tear to my eye that this untalented actress has not 1 but 2 oscars.
I was at the movies with my mom when I saw the trailer for P.S. I Love You. I felt the tears coming and was trying to fight it (because, come on, it’s a movie trailer and it doesn’t take a lot for me to cry, but that was a low I’ve never hit before). I looked over at my mom and saw she was crying too, so all attempts to be strong were done.
So I’m touched, but not crying (save that for the movies). By the way, is it me, or did the announcer mispronounce Gerard Butler’s name? He actually said “Garrett” or “Jarrett”.
P.S. I love you made me laugh (in a good way…love me a chick flick). I didn’t get teary at all, and I cry when I read the damn phone book.
The trailer to “Green Mile.” I had just finished the series of novelettes and went to go see “Three Kings” with my mom and aunt. My aunt preceeded to call me a doofus.
Michael Keaton in “My Life”. I even watched it in a theater with a high school friend of mine. It did not help that I lost one of my grandmothers to cancer three years before this movie came out. Once the hospice bed was shown, I was in tears.
I cried when I saw the previews for Eight Below. Based on a true story killed me. The idea of leaving them behind killed me. And the fact that I knew some of them wouldn’t make it tore me up. I was sitting w/ my young nephew waiting for some cartoon movie to start & I had a hard time hiding my tears from him. Luckily, he was so in to the preview that he didn’t give me a second glance! Still haven’t seen the movie. I’m sure it would kill me if i did!
The Bucket List. Jack notices he has a granddaughter he never knew and you can see (no words are spoken) the regret on his face.
The GRACE IS GONE trailer recently did it for me. Damn you, John Cusack!
I cry at every thing imaginable, but strangely enough I can’t say that a movie trailer has ever made me cry. I just can’t get emotionally involved enough in them to start the waterworks. Though I can work up tears for a 30 second commercial. Hmm.
It really depends on the mood. None of these movie trailers made me cry, but I’m sure the movies themselves might. PS (the book) made me a little teary, so I can imagine the movie will do the same.
Hayley… ditto on your comment. I just remembered Moonlight Mile, and the part that broke me in it every time was when Dustin Hoffman says something to the effect of “Let me have this chance to tell you something I never got to tell my daughter.” That line used to create a ball of mess for me.
the pursuit of happyness had me balling!
the pursuit of happyness got me every time.
The first time I saw the “August Rush” promo in a theater, I swear I was wiping away literal tears. But then again, I am a massive movie-crier, I’ve been known to cry in “Finding Nemo” and “Casino Royale” (really). Still, there’s something about music in movies that seems to hit the waterworks button–I still turn the volume up every time the “August Rush” promo comes on, just to get that warm, fuzzy feeling
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Gotta agree with Shannon – The Lion King trailer featuring the movie’s opening sequence had me bawling, particularly that moment when they lift Simba up as the music crescendos. Dang. I also got quite teary during the trailer for The Namesake, when the father and son were talking in the car… *sniff* Also teared up during the United 93 trailer, for obvious reasons. That said, I cry at EVERYTHING. I cried at the end of Terminator 2. Yep, T2 made me cry. “I know now why you cry…” Thumbs up!
It is so odd that you mentioned this, because I just popped in my “Ocean’s 13″ DVD this morning while i was gettign ready for work (figured I’d check out the additional scene) and caught myself getting pretty damn emotional during the “P.S. I Love You” trailer.
I cried when I saw the trailer for “the story of us” with michelle pheifer. Turns out the movie was no where near as good as that trailer. With an Eric CLapton guitar score and all those clips of births and deaths, who wouldn’t cry?…
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Also, that trailer for “Martian Child” is a big tear jerker. I hear that the movie is also nowhere near as good as that trailer. Sometimes the marketing team is just better than the writer/director.