Crying at the Movies

The first time I watched The Notebook, I didn't cry. The second time I watched it, I didn't cry. Does this make me a robot? No! The fact that I am made of metal makes me a robot, but that is another story.
I have only ever cried during three movies. 1) The Lion King. Of course I was four or five when I saw it, but Mufasa's death was still traumatic. Though I don't cry during this movie any more, I still get a little choked up and turn away from everyone I'm watching it with (usually just Laura, so who cares about sisters anyhow, just jokes bud). 2) My Girl. Anybody who didn't cry when Macaulay Culkin's character died and wasn't sad when the girl got the ring he went looking for (and ultimately died for) truly must have stone for a heart because that was very sad. Again, I was about 13 when I saw it. 3) The Passion of the Christ. I wasn't crying because he was dying (fourteen years of Midnight Mass had dulled me to the harshness of the idea of killing the son of God), I found that I couldn't watch someone be tortured. No matter how many times I told myself that Jim Caviezel wasn't actually being whipped and beaten, it was gory and it was hard to watch. That was the only time I cried in the theatre. The first two were in the privacy of my own home.
Now, my favourite movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, has come out in 3D and I desperately want to see it. I think I have hit the point of obsessed. I know most of the words to all the songs, the merchandise I own from it includes a t-shirt, a scarf, a wallet, a pen, a pin, two key chains, a purse and I can only imagine that since Christmas is rolling around soon, I will be adding many more items to my inventory. I also own the movie, but that is a given.
Another movie that tops my list is Romeo and Juliet (the newer one, not the one from the 60's). It may be because both Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are good actors, or that the story is so depressingly lovely that I like it, but it may also be because there is so much history in the story. Since the adaptation to a play (from someone else's poem - oh what a scandal!) in the 16th century, people have been reading, acting and studying the play for over 400 years. If the play doesn't impress you, the stats definitely should. It's my second favourite Shakespeare play (following Macbeth - yeah I actually liked it, go figure) and though some people didn't like how the movie was set in modern times with the original dialogue, I understood it and I liked it. There are so many movies that claim to be 'Romeo and Juliet classics' and true, they do demonstrate conflict by having people of different races, classes or religions (some people are just uptight) fall in love (the forbidden love), but some are just poorly written, poorly acted or poorly made and lose something along the way.
Oh well.
My family comes home from Mexico tonight! Finally I'll be able to call my sisters when my friends are busy and not have to resort to TV or daydreaming about playing the Sims 2. I'm such a loser.