Is it normal not to cry in movies when everyone else is?

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Last night I saw Les Miserables with a friend, and pretty much everyone in the theatre was crying during it, including my friend. I've always been pretty unemotional during movies, as in I rarely cry, and if I do it is probably because a dog died or something hahaha seriously but in Les Mis nothing even remotely made me feel like crying.
Am I weird? Does this make me a psychopath or something? I hadn't really noticed until now that things like this don't really affect me and people think I'm weird when like the whole room is sobbing and I'm just sitting there...

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  • Mando
    11 years ago

    Sure you're fine - you cold-hearted bastard! Hahaha - just kidding.

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  • redoctober
    11 years ago

    I cried at the very end of Braveheart because I am Scottish, proud etc.

    I also cried in the wuthering heights movie with ralph fines when he broke into Kathy's coffin room and the music and his tears made me cry.

    Was just very moving I suppose, but yeah its normal not to cry at movies.

    I think the only reason we cry is because we imagine our loved ones in the same position or some shit like that yo nigga yo yo yo

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  • Moneybagschest
    11 years ago

    I do not either.

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  • NotStrangeBird
    11 years ago

    I always cry at the end of Blazing Saddles when they accept the Irish into their community.

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  • NiceKitty
    11 years ago

    I have never cried straight up from a movie. If I cried during a movie, it wasn't the movie alone that made me cry. It would most likely be outside stimuli, and emotional thoughts/feelings lingering in brain to cause such a reaction to a movie.
    When I am in a normal state of mind, well semi-normal i guess I should say.. I don't cry, I don't really show much emotion at all, or I show the wrong emotion instead of an appropriate emotion.
    Don't worry, you're fine.
    =]

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    No word of a lie, but a friend just asked me not 5 minutes ago whether it was normal that she didn't feel like crying even once during Les Mis. I think it must be normal. Some people don't cry emotional tears at stuff which isn't "real". I don't either (although I came very close after watching something Nora showed me last night), and I'm sure Les Mis wouldn't be enough. I most definitely shed a tear or two when dogs die though, although only in real life :P

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  • nelly96
    11 years ago

    The only movie I ever remember crying over is The Green Mile. I have the same problem, I never cry over movies but in real life I'll cry if something as little as me getting yelled at happens. I think it's normal. Maybe it's because we don't get as engrossed in movies as other people do and thus can't get attached to the characters or feel their pain.

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  • Energy
    11 years ago

    Lol I'd never cry over a dog dying. And I only remember crying once, over some drama movie based on a true story.

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