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2012/09/09 02:35:28
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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2012/09/09 02:51:12
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
Why shouldn't men cry? It don't hurt anyone. It's not like crying kills kittens or spawns Daemons.
Maybe yours don't.
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2012/09/09 02:55:11
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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2012/09/09 03:05:22
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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2012/09/09 03:21:48
Subject: Re:Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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
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2012/09/09 04:14:48
Subject: Re:Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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"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.
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2012/09/09 04:23:25
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
Cheesy and ahistoric as the movie is, the end of Braveheart. The moment he sees her in the crowd, of course.
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Mannahnin wrote: Cheesy and ahistoric as the movie is, the end of Braveheart. The moment he sees her in the crowd, of course.
Spoilers!
I'm kidding. For me the statute of spoilerization is the day the movie trailer is released.
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2012/09/09 05:32:17
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
I am a bit of a spoiler Nazi. But I figure for anyone who hasn't seen it, not specifying the he or the her will be vague enough.
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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.
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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.
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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.
2012/09/09 13:09:20
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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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.
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2012/09/09 17:04:03
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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2012/09/09 17:26:18
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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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.
2012/09/09 21:30:45
Subject: Re:Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
2012/09/09 21:47:16
Subject: Re:Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
I didn't cry but i came damn close. A very underrated movie.
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2012/09/10 02:39:48
Subject: Re:Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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2012/09/10 03:08:14
Subject: Oh no, its nothing, just something in my eye.
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.
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also, not to derail the thread, but speaking of epic kung fu movies, Ip Man has some amazing scenes.
Chasing Amy is definitely better than it gets credit for, though it is flawed (particularly the ending).
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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.
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