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Topic: Are Tear jerkers are becoming extinct?

I don't know if I agree with Mo on this.  I think tear jerkers still exist, but they just don't get the attention, hype, backing, and marketing the other blockbusters do.

Also, I don't think movies being made mostly for young men is anything new.  I think it has been that way for awhile.  I can't say that I am not happy about being in that category for which movies are made, but I really get angry when those movies that are supposedly made for someone like me, and they are embarrassingly awful.

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  • From: Kent, England
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Re: Are Tear jerkers are becoming extinct?

Maybe in the US. The one I remember most is My Girl and that was literally decades ago.

They're certainly not extinct in Korea. I don't usually cry in movies these days but I've seen some romantic comedies from out of Korea that have had me balling. To be honest, I think I'm getting teary just thinking about a scene or two.

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Re: Are Tear jerkers are becoming extinct?

Wasn't Marley & Me a tear-jerker? And that one where the black kid is abducted by Sandra Bullock and forced to play football despite his blindness? And everyone goes "Roo-dee! Roo-dee! Roo-dee!" Or whatever. I didn't see it.

I agree that disease-of-the-week movies are out of style, tho.

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  • From: Wisconsin
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Re: Are Tear jerkers are becoming extinct?

Zarban wrote:

Wasn't Marley & Me a tear-jerker? And that one where the black kid is abducted by Sandra Bullock and forced to play football despite his blindness? And everyone goes "Roo-dee! Roo-dee! Roo-dee!" Or whatever. I didn't see it.

I agree that disease-of-the-week movies are out of style, tho.

I think Marley & Me is a great example of a modern tear-jerker, and wasn't that movie pretty successful?

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  • Registered: 2011-05-23
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Re: Are Tear jerkers are becoming extinct?

I don't know I watched Sex and the City 2 and was brought to tears...

Oh, you mean tears of sadness and not tears of pain. Hmmm...I think they are less common than they were. Wasn't Water for Elephants supposed to be sad? I know Love and Other Drugs was supposed to be a love story fused with depression but instead of sadness it filled me rage. God that movie sucked. (aside from Hathaway's bits, they were lovely)

Titanic was a pretty genuine tear jerker. Wall-E was sad towards the end as well.

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