In Kevin Smith's Fatman on Batman podcast he starts to cry when talking about the end of TDKR, and also when referring to Good Will Hunting.
At the end of Royal Tennenbaum's when Ben Stiller's character finally opens up about the pain of his wife dieing. Might have teared up a bit in The Life Aquatic when that thing happens that comes out of nowhere*.
I think the only really uncontrollable crying was at the end of Schindler's List, after the narrative is over and they show the real life survivors and their descendents at Schindler's grave.
Out of all the "war" movies I have ever seen, the tiny 20 minute Vietnam chapter of Forrest Gump is the most realistic firefight scene I have yet to see in a movie. I have seen many, and no other so far captures the intensity and sudden adrenaline (and terror) of an ambush.
That chapter brings a lot of pride to me whenever I see it, and I do shed a few tears when I think about comparable experiences with friends. The actors in that movie put a lot of heart into that particular war scene, and I have a lot of respect for Hanks and Sinese.
Funny story, there was a guy in our company who looked like Lt Dan's twin. He took serious hell from me for our entire enlistment.
Brometheus wrote: Out of all the "war" movies I have ever seen, the tiny 20 minute Vietnam chapter of Forrest Gump is the most realistic firefight scene I have yet to see in a movie. I have seen many, and no other so far captures the intensity and sudden adrenaline (and terror) of an ambush.
My father, a Vietnam vet, never saw a movie about the war that he thought was worth a damn, but said that the 'Nam section in Forest Gump nailed it.
The ending of Big Fish.
Most of Gran Torino. Its like my Dad's on the big screen.
the ending of BSG where Adama is carting off his wife who is literally dying of cancer right then.
EDIT: yea Schindler's list got me too: specifically the candle scene.
Squigsquasher wrote: How dare you insult what I consider the greatest movie of all time...
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have you ever seen any of the movies its making fun of?
That movie, (with its star studded cast and huge budget)'s recurring joke, was a joke about the mentally handicapped. I will admit RD jr. was great it in, but that movie is awful
One of the few movies (especially ones that haven't been mentioned) that I will freely admit to "getting me" is the movie Rudy.
If you don't cry at any point in that movie, you aren't an American male.
Ohh, I should also throw out there the movie Harry Brown... Michael Caine is abso-fething-lutely brilliant in that movie, and it's just so creepy, and in some ways, painful to watch.
Forrest Gump is that one movie for me. Also, underneath hill 61 was a big one. At the end, when the kids trapped in the mine, and the CO makes the decision to blow the mine, instead of stopping everything, and despite all the effort, hill 61 was retaken in the end.
AI(the one about the robot boy from about 2004ish), Marley and Me, Forest Gump, Green Mile, Rudy, Second Hand Lions, I am Legend.
Those are just the ones that immediately come to mind. The full list is a lot longer.
I also have no problem admitting I shed Manly tears while seeing the Amazing Spiderman when the construction workers lined up the cranes so spidey could save the day.
The saddest movie I ever saw was Dancer in the Dark, with Bjork. I normally can weep a tear or two if a movie's sufficiently sad and well-done. But that one had me sobbing.
I don't know, most movies if they try can have me crying. Even things like Boromir dying always bring a tear to my eye. Then you've got ones like Horse Whisperer...jesus that is depressing.
Edit: didn't realise I swore, my bad
CT GAMER wrote: It would be easier for me to list movies that DIDNT make me cry...
Marley and me would have made me cry if I had seen it at the cinema. Tears shed for those lost dollars that I won't get back in a "I can't believe I shelled out good folding stuff for an Owen Wilson movie.".
I'm lucky, my wife shares my tastes in film, and wouldn't drag me along to see one if she can help it.
(Dog owner movies don't make me cry, no matter how the dog dies. It must be a dog-owner thing if it makes them cry.)
I've never owned a dog, and never wanted one. The neighbour's dogs are both sooks and attention-whores - although realistically, greyhounds should NOT be city dogs.).
The last movie that really made me cry was a documentary. Watched Senna and between the documentary and remembering watching that race when I was young really got to me.
I can't think of a movie right off the bat, but just a few days ago I showed my girlfired (a huge dog person) the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark." I'm deeply ambivelent about dogs, and it makes me tear up every. damn. time. We'd been together a year, and it was the first time she saw me like that.
The only real media that does that to me is the ending to the book "Flowers for Algernon" and the Fountains of Wayne song "Action Hero."
Polonius wrote: I can't think of a movie right off the bat, but just a few days ago I showed my girlfired (a huge dog person) the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark." I'm deeply ambivelent about dogs, and it makes me tear up every. damn. time. We'd been together a year, and it was the first time she saw me like that.
The only real media that does that to me is the ending to the book "Flowers for Algernon" and the Fountains of Wayne song "Action Hero."
Oh God thats such a good book
Also, UP and TS3, I shed a tear during the montage part of UP, and at the very end
Teared up when all the toys hold hands at the end
The only time a movie made me cry, might be a bit old for some of you, is the movie Shenandoah. Its about one mans family and how they deal with the american civil war. I wont go into details because I dont want to spoil it for anyone who may want to give it a look.
Call me old fashioned but no I don't think it's okay for men to cry in public, bar enormous personal tragedy (loss of a loved one or such). Certainly not at a film.
Call me old fashioned but no I don't think it's okay for men to cry in public, bar enormous personal tragedy (loss of a loved one or such). Certainly not at a film.
Call me old fashioned but no I don't think it's okay for men to cry in public, bar enormous personal tragedy (loss of a loved one or such). Certainly not at a film.
Why not?
Why shouldn't men cry? It don't hurt anyone. It's not like crying kills kittens or spawns Daemons.
Why shouldn't men cry? It don't hurt anyone. It's not like crying kills kittens or spawns Daemons.
Maybe yours don't.
The day I watched Tuesdays with Morrie and saw how
vulnerable Hank Azaria was when he tried to help his
former teacher spawned a legion that could envelop
the galaxy.
My right eye is very sensitive to bright light and tears up at the drop of a hat - regardless of emotional input.
I don't think any movie has caused me to tear up. I don't go see tragedies as a rule (of course, any movie with Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson is also a tragedy - or a crime against film - but that's beside the point).
The lady wife tears up when she watches "sad" movies. I don't. I prefer action movies.
Cried at Marley and Me. That was the only movie I cried during. Not even during the Lion King, which made my old karate instructor cry. He was a badass...til that movie. But yeah, only Marley made me cry. Up didn't make me cry. Toy Story 3 got me close-man, that was an emotional rollercoaster. By far, Pixar's most adult, twisted tale-it's not for children. It's...well, it's for those of us who were kids (even early teens) when the first TS came out, and we grew up with the story. It's for us. I guess movies don't really make me cry, but Marley and TS3 were the most emotional I've ever seen.
I watched this movie for the first time with my father. We've had a 'complicated' relationship, to say the least.
We were both crying and giving each other hugs by the end. One of the best movie ever. I cry everytime I see it.
The Audition (the french-canadian film, not the japanese gore fest) is the best tear-jerker, and an all-around great movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt0460401
I watched this movie for the first time with my father. We've had a 'complicated' relationship, to say the least.
We were both crying and giving each other hugs by the end. One of the best movie ever. I cry everytime I see it.
The Audition (the french-canadian film, not the japanese gore fest) is the best tear-jerker, and an all-around great movie.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0460401
Everytime I hear this I just have to say,
"Read the book."
That ending? He works on it throughout the book in-between
the vignettes. By book's end, you get the version you see in
the film.
There's a couple war movies that give me the manly tears.
But for actual crying Lion King and Gran Torino come to mind... I got emotional at the end of the last Harry Potter film, but that was more because I've been involved with that IP since I was like... ten, so that's a good decade and some change of my life closing out.
but for actual tears... the movie Taking Chance, an exact translation of the book of the same name starring made me cry like a bitch. It brought all the repressed emotions from standing as a member of a Marine Corps funeral detail for a year. I paused the movie and wept openly for a good fifteen to twenty minutes then wrote this. (it's a poem, skip it if you don't like them) The book Final Salute by Jim Sheeler had a similar effect.
Grave of the Fireflies was depressing as hell, but crying at that one was kind of expected.
Aside from that one, I have to say, honestly, Castle in the Sky. The whole movie is the two heroes searching for Laputa, and then at the very end they finally reach it only to find it under military control. With no other option, they choose to destroy the castle to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. It's kind of weird, thinking on it, but I always tear up a little bit watching as the credits roll and the castle is just slowly crumbling away.
I LOVE that movie, but yet nobody seems to have heard of it
Yup, that movie is fething incredible in so many ways. I also really like his movie "Fearless" I think that has one of the most badass fight scenes ever recorded. Where they fight in that wine house and just totally rip it apart with each other.
You can be stoic in general but be moved occasionally by effective art. It's cathartic and beneficial.
IME a lot of young guys (and some young women, too) have the kind of stoicism you're describing, before they grow up a bit and get emotionally invested in things like family. IME a lot of folks find themselves more able to get weepy over stuff as they get older.
Darth Vader's funeral at the end of Return of the Jedi. The music is just perfect. I think it's a testament to the quality of the original three Star Wars films that I could be moved in that way by the death of the character who had been the main villain for the first two parts of the trilogy.
Brooks' death in The Shawshank Redemption. It highlights exactly how punishing and cruel life imprisonment can be.
Mannahnin wrote: You can be stoic in general but be moved occasionally by effective art. It's cathartic and beneficial.
IME a lot of young guys (and some young women, too) have the kind of stoicism you're describing, before they grow up a bit and get emotionally invested in things like family. IME a lot of folks find themselves more able to get weepy over stuff as they get older.
I wouldn't say I was emotionally uneffected by art, it's just the crying side of it, showing others that weakness.
Having said that, I can't remember the last time I felt sad at a film I know there was a lot of fuss over Toy Story 3 allegedly being weepy but in retrospect that was just clever marketing.
Mannahnin wrote: You can be stoic in general but be moved occasionally by effective art. It's cathartic and beneficial.
IME a lot of young guys (and some young women, too) have the kind of stoicism you're describing, before they grow up a bit and get emotionally invested in things like family. IME a lot of folks find themselves more able to get weepy over stuff as they get older.
I wouldn't say I was emotionally uneffected by art, it's just the crying side of it, showing others that weakness.
I'm very careful not to cry in front of my 15 month old son. I know that he would seize the opportunity to kill me in my moment of weakness and claim my land and chattels as his own.
Does misty eyed count? Because I can't think of any movie that's made me literally have tears pouring down my eyes at least not since I was a small child, although I've read some books that still have that effect on me. The only other time I cry is when my eyes become so unbearably itchy
that the only way to stop the pain is to let the tears roll down my face.
Cheesecat wrote: Does misty eyed count? Because I can't think of any movie that's made me literally have tears pouring down my eyes at least not since I was a small child, although I've read some books that still have that effect on me. The only other time I cry is when my eyes become so unbearably itchy
that the only way to stop the pain is to let the tears roll down my face.
I think if a tear has left the vicinity of your eye socket, then it counts.
I LOVE that movie, but yet nobody seems to have heard of it
Yup, that movie is fething incredible in so many ways. I also really like his movie "Fearless" I think that has one of the most badass fight scenes ever recorded. Where they fight in that wine house and just totally rip it apart with each other.
Tiger's Claw!!
pfft, Cats Paw
also, not to derail the thread, but speaking of epic kung fu movies, Ip Man has some amazing scenes.
Locclo wrote: Grave of the Fireflies was depressing as hell, but crying at that one was kind of expected.
Aside from that one, I have to say, honestly, Castle in the Sky. The whole movie is the two heroes searching for Laputa, and then at the very end they finally reach it only to find it under military control. With no other option, they choose to destroy the castle to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. It's kind of weird, thinking on it, but I always tear up a little bit watching as the credits roll and the castle is just slowly crumbling away.
I've never seen Grave of the Fireflies and I don't know if I want to. Not because I think it looks bad (far from it) but because it looks so heart wrenching and depressing I might have to hang myself if I do, especially considering it was based on a true story.
The Mad Tanker wrote: World Trade Center got me, especially the scene where the two Marines find them.
That movie should of moved me but we watched it at school and as a result it was staggered over 4 or 5 weeks so didn't have the same punch but still a great movie
On reflection when I was younger I have some recollection of being upset at the Battle of Britain when the family dies in the church and in The Longest Day when the infantry finally take the town to find all the Para's that got caught and suffocated
Call me old fashioned but no I don't think it's okay for men to cry in public, bar enormous personal tragedy (loss of a loved one or such). Certainly not at a film.
real men have lots of guns and rum and aren't afraid to cry at a movie, as long as its not a chick flick.
Why shouldn't men cry? It don't hurt anyone. It's not like crying kills kittens or spawns Daemons.
It's just how I was raised, what my background is. Certain things are expected of men, stoicism is one of them.
Dude I was raised by a marine who was put in an orphanage to avoid starving to death. He thought his (literally) crazy brother (thank you Korea) was a wuss. But he still would cry at a movie.
Get over it. Your mileage may vary, but of course it would be wrong.
