Manly Men can cry at Movies

[Rack Em]

This scene from Death Wish II always chokes me up.

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[magogian]

I'll well up at just about any portrayal of great sacrifice, bravery, or kindness.

Same.

 

[magogian]

USA! USA! USA!

So, two world titles?

 

[FearTheBeard]

Even after seeing it before the ending of Warrior still gets to me. I definitely recommend that movie even if youre not a big fan of MMA

 

[WestCoast]

Dennis cried throughout Hope Floats and Steel Magnolias.

Neil cried during Ghostbusters.

Michael cried at the end of Victor Victoria. Nothing like a good cross dressing movie.

 

[Folsteam_Ahead]

the ending to life aquatic gets me every time..."i wonder if it remembers me"...goddamn tear jerker

 

[blueNDgold44]

Random bump but went and saw Lone Survivor tonight...balled like a little girl

 

[IrishLion]

I missed this thread, so I'll put one of the chick flicks out there:

PS I Love You.

Damn you Gerard Butler Character.

 

[Norcal Irish]

End of Jaws 4.....I remember thinking I will never get these two hours back.

 

[ulukinatme]

I not one to ever weep, but for whatever reason when I'm watching a movie a few water droplets will fall as the violins start playing during a climactic scene. Typically it's scenes that have some tragedy or bravery involving a father and a kid, those have hit me hard the last few years. Certainly parents returning home from service to their kids, those almost always get me. Armageddon is a good one too, it never got me when I first saw it in high school, but now it does and it almost seems silly given the movie itself. Heres a few others:

Homeward Bound, the scene at the end when the old dog limps up the hill. Probably a really stupid scene since it's a movie with talking animals, but I remember my father shedding some tears when he took us to see that movie when we were little. I think it hit closer to home for me years later as I had a dog just like that and the boy that was his owner was a lot like me at a younger age.

Someone mentioned Click on the last page. It was just on TV, this was another one that I thought was stupid, but couldn't help a few tears falling at the end. It's somewhat of a painful reminder for fathers that may spend too much time balancing work and other aspects in their life, while their kids quickly grow up before you know it. It's the age old tale of "Cat's in the Cradle" in modern form. Theres a great lesson there for new parents, and one that's sometimes hard to do anything about.

Rocky was just on AMC, and for the life of me I'm not sure exactly why, but I was a bit misty at the end. No tears, just misty. I'd like to say it's the underdog story and seeing Rocky achieve his dream of going the distance, but I'm starting to think that movies have programmed a Pavlovian Response for me to tear up when I hear violins. Rocky II will get me too at the end when he's sitting in the ring and says "...But most of all, I wanna thank God. (crying now) ...With the exception of my kid being born... this is the greatest night, in the history of my life!" and of course we get the "Yo Adrian, I did it!" as he holds the belt up, which almost brings me to laugh a bit.

As far as sports movies, it's all violins again. Rudy certainly gets me as they hoist him on their shoulders and we see the old groundskeeper and Rudy's family cheering. Karate Kid gets me too, as soon as the violins come in at the end. Damn the violins! I think it really might be a Pavlovian Response after all.

 

[ACamp1900]

Field of Dreams and Rudy... Seen both at least a dozen times, cry every time.

 

[NCND]

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

 

[twig21]

Having two daughters, Father of the Bride makes me lose it when Steve Martin shoots baskets with his daughter the night before she gets married, and Rudy when he opens his acceptance letter.

 

[ACamp1900]

Having two daughters, Father of the Bride makes me lose it when Steve Martin shoots baskets with his daughter the night before she gets married, and Rudy when he opens his acceptance letter.

I would call FotB a chick flick no?? If so, that was a real good for a chick flick. Always liked that one, and yeah the father/daughter thing there hits me too.

 

[wizards8507]

Okay, you guys are gonna make me be the one to say it?

As movies go, Rudy is a pretty bad one. I still watch it every year on the Friday before the first game, but it's poorly acted and way beyond cheeseballs.

 

[ACamp1900]

 

[Emcee77]

I cry at the end of Friday Night Lights every time. When Billingsley's dad takes his championship ring off and puts it on his son's finger ... I'm tearing up just thinking about it now.

 

[Emcee77]

Okay, you guys are gonna make me be the one to say it?

As movies go, Rudy is a pretty bad one. I still watch it every year on the Friday before the first game, but it's poorly acted and way beyond cheeseballs.

I really dislike watching Rudy because my rector at ND, a contemporary of Rudy's, said he was a really shitty guy. I'm sure you guys all know that the movie takes a lot of creative license.

Also I find watching the movie an incredibly disorienting experience since I became familiar with the campus and learned that the parts of campus that are meant to be Holy Cross aren't. "Why is Rudy receiving mail at O'Shag? How did he get from O'Shag to Moreau Seminary so fast?"

But in spite of all that -- I cry every time he opens that letter ...

 

[blueNDgold44]

I cry at the end of Friday Night Lights every time. When Billingsley's dad takes his championship ring off and puts it on his son's finger ... I'm tearing up just thinking about it now.

Just watched this again the other night. The part you mentioned and when Preacher man goes off at half time of the state championship game give me chills every time.

Oh and when Boobie breaks down with his uncle after clearing out his locker I usually lose it...and by usually I mean 99.9% of the time.

 

[ACamp1900]

Just watched this again the other night. The part you mentioned and when Preacher man goes off at half time of the state championship game give me chills every time.

Oh and when Boobie breaks down with his uncle after clearing out his locker I usually lose it...and by usually I mean 99.9% of the time.

This was the standout point for me... and when Boobie loses it about his future.

 

[blueNDgold44]

This was the standout point for me... and when Boobie loses it about his future.

Agreed, that usually gets the water works going for me.

 

[bigedefense]

Random bump but went and saw Lone Survivor tonight...balled like a little girl

I went to watch it when I came out and I cried to the point of snubbing! I just finished reading the book and I think I cried more reading the book than I did watching the movie! I guess because I had saw and interview and Walberg said that he hadn't and wasn't going to read the book because he didn't want it to interfere with the script. The book was Marcus Luttrell's own words....and man, they are powerful! I thought I was done with the tears after his buddies are all dead, but in reading the book, the home vigil is SO much more powerful. If you guys haven't read it, I suggest you pick up a copy. Its a little long at times because Luttrell is replaying everything word for word. However, hang on because the action quickly picks up every time the reading seems to get slow and repetitive.


Side note here: I was reading one afternoon while I was on the porcelain throne and my wife walks in and there I am, sitting on the toilet, pants down to my ankles, holding my phone (I use the iPhone's iBoook), crying like a baby!

 

[woolybug25]

Side note here: I was reading one afternoon while I was on the porcelain throne and my wife walks in and there I am, sitting on the toilet, pants down to my ankles, holding my phone (I use the iPhone's iBoook), crying like a baby!

I hate it when that happens. lol

 

[bigedefense]

I would challenge any American to watch or read Lone Survivor and not cry. I mean cry, not get misty eyed, CRY. That movie is POWERFUL. I'm telling you, it moved me when I saw it on film and it moved me when I read it. It moved me to the point that I went to a local restaurant and talked to my buddy that owns it. I gave him a couple hundred dollars and told him that I would give him more later for any active Vets meal. I told him that I had just read the book and he needed to watch the movie and he would see what I was talking about. HAHA! He watched it and the next day on his sign out front it read, "ALL ACTIVE MILITARY EAT FREE AND RETIRED EAT FOR HALF PRICE".

 

[IrishinTN]

Sadly events in my teen years have repressed my ability to cry however, the Passion of the Christ is the exception that proves this rule.

 

[blueNDgold44]

I would challenge any American to watch or read Lone Survivor and not cry. I mean cry, not get misty eyed, CRY. That movie is POWERFUL. I'm telling you, it moved me when I saw it on film and it moved me when I read it. It moved me to the point that I went to a local restaurant and talked to my buddy that owns it. I gave him a couple hundred dollars and told him that I would give him more later for any active Vets meal. I told him that I had just read the book and he needed to watch the movie and he would see what I was talking about. HAHA! He watched it and the next day on his sign out front it read, "ALL ACTIVE MILITARY EAT FREE AND RETIRED EAT FOR HALF PRICE".

That is amazing, it really is a moving movie.

 

[IrishLion]

Usually I if I ever cry at a movie it'll happen once and never again but Field of Dreams turns me into a baby every damn time. Here's a couple others for me:
Saving Private Ryan - "earn this"
Braveheart- "fought like warrior poets"
It's a Wonderful Life - "richest man in town"
Iron Giant - the end
UP- you know EXACTLY what part I'm talking about

Quick tangent...why does Disney either kill someone off or have a character who has experienced family loss? (not always, but A LOT of times its true)

Found this a few minutes ago while procrastinating at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4EP4fUcGCo

Thought it was appropriate after reading through this thread earlier.

I forgot about the Iron Giant. What a fantastic film, and an even better ending.

 

[connor_in]

I not one to ever weep, but for whatever reason when I'm watching a movie a few water droplets will fall as the violins start playing during a climactic scene. Typically it's scenes that have some tragedy or bravery involving a father and a kid, those have hit me hard the last few years. Certainly parents returning home from service to their kids, those almost always get me. Armageddon is a good one too, it never got me when I first saw it in high school, but now it does and it almost seems silly given the movie itself. Heres a few others:

Homeward Bound, the scene at the end when the old dog limps up the hill. Probably a really stupid scene since it's a movie with talking animals, but I remember my father shedding some tears when he took us to see that movie when we were little. I think it hit closer to home for me years later as I had a dog just like that and the boy that was his owner was a lot like me at a younger age.

Someone mentioned Click on the last page. It was just on TV, this was another one that I thought was stupid, but couldn't help a few tears falling at the end. It's somewhat of a painful reminder for fathers that may spend too much time balancing work and other aspects in their life, while their kids quickly grow up before you know it. It's the age old tale of "Cat's in the Cradle" in modern form. Theres a great lesson there for new parents, and one that's sometimes hard to do anything about.

Rocky was just on AMC, and for the life of me I'm not sure exactly why, but I was a bit misty at the end. No tears, just misty. I'd like to say it's the underdog story and seeing Rocky achieve his dream of going the distance, but I'm starting to think that movies have programmed a Pavlovian Response for me to tear up when I hear violins. Rocky II will get me too at the end when he's sitting in the ring and says "...But most of all, I wanna thank God. (crying now) ...With the exception of my kid being born... this is the greatest night, in the history of my life!" and of course we get the "Yo Adrian, I did it!" as he holds the belt up, which almost brings me to laugh a bit.

As far as sports movies, it's all violins again. Rudy certainly gets me as they hoist him on their shoulders and we see the old groundskeeper and Rudy's family cheering. Karate Kid gets me too, as soon as the violins come in at the end. Damn the violins! I think it really might be a Pavlovian Response after all.

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[Buster Bluth]

That's the point though, Spielberg has said that scene was meant to be a metaphor for the US's late entry into WWII. (Notice it's a Jewish guy dying.) So Upham is America. Y U HATE AMERICA?

Whoa. Mind blown. That scene is always so tough to watch.

Paths of Glory (1957 Stanley Kubrick) is the most recent movie I've cried during. The last scene, holy mackerel...

 

[tussin]

When I was 15 I bought tickets to Million Dollar Baby because I heard it was a "good boxing movie." Let's just say waterworks ensued.