# For those of us who don't cry. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198 "2002-12-03T12:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mirasol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mirasol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirasol)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/21 "2002-12-03T18:15:46Z")
What’s even worse, though, is when there’s a sappy sad scene and you’ve got a bad cold, and you really need to sniffle but don’t want to seem like you’re crying. This happened to me during Spiderman. Nothing in there warrants a real cry, but I was so stuffed up, I eventually did sniffle during a “sentimental” scene, and about 10 people turned to look at me. ---
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/22 "2002-12-03T18:38:42Z")
This one got to me, but that not saying much. However, I _was_ impressed that a roomful of my hubby’s buddies got teared up during **John Q**. His friend Wally told me it was “the kind of movie that causes a strange stinging sensation in the eyes.” ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/23 "2002-12-03T19:47:53Z")
Crying is for wimps. That being said, when Mulan goes back home to her dad and he says to her, “The greatest gift and honor is having you as a daughter.” I experience a little, uh, ocular condensation. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/24 "2002-12-03T20:06:13Z")
Film, shmilm. In **Les Miz** (the musical), when Fantine dies, and later on, when her ghost returns to the dying Valjean… F:Monsieur I bless your name V:I am ready Fantine F:Monsieur lay down your burden V:At the end of my days F:You’ve raised my child in love V:She’s the best of my life F:And you will be with God Oh, the waterworks… for movies, **Legomancer** is absolutely right about **The Iron Giant**. If I impregnated a woman today and then died, my one dying instruction for raising my children would be to show them **The Iron Giant** early and often. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/25 "2002-12-03T20:06:28Z")
In Armageddon, at the end, when the plane breaks off into the Missing Man formation. In Navy Seals when the chief gets shot. And, really this time, during Holden’s confession to Amy in the car in the rainstorm in Chasing Amy. I don’t cry, but it does choke me up. And I can’t friggin’ believe nobody has mentioned Old Yeller yet. That gets me crying like a sap every stinking time. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/26 "2002-12-03T20:13:29Z")
Oh, on another maybe I should be joking but I’m not note, Braveheart, during the pre-battle speech at Stirling. Off topic a moment, I just finished Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, and even though the speech at Stirling scenes is one of my all time favorites, I had to laugh out loud when one of TP’s characters shouted, “You can take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom.” “Carcer’s men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like the most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe. Vimes could see their lips moving as they tried to work it out.” Tee hee. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/27 "2002-12-03T20:29:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robertliguori \* > \*\*4 words or less: > Grave. > Of. > The. > Fireflies. > WAAAAHHHHH! \*\* Another one for _Grave of the Fireflies_. You know in the first five minutes that they both die and yet you spend the whole movie hoping that somehow they don’t. Not to mention everything else that happens in that movie. I bought it two years ago and have managed to watch it twice–once in English and once in Japanese. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/28 "2002-12-03T20:56:23Z")
Okay, here’s one that I choke up at every time, and I sear to God, I don’t know why. It’s not a tear jerker. It’s not heavily emotional. It’s not even _good_, but every time I see it, I get all verklempt: **Volcano**. I’m not even remotely kidding. No other movie affects me that strongly. **Bambi**? No problem. **Brian’s Song**? Piffle. **Love Story**? It is to laugh. But every time I see Los Angeles engulfed by magma, I get all teary. And I’ve long been on the opinion that being engulfed by magma would be the best possible thing that could happen to L.A. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/29 "2002-12-03T21:12:57Z")
Not a movie, but certain episodes of Buffy routinely get to me. Though little else on either the big or the small screen does. ---
**Author:** ![Brilharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Brilharma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brilharma)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/30 "2002-12-03T21:44:39Z")
Another vote for **LOTR**. I aslo knew it was coming. The end of **West Side Story** does it also. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/31 "2002-12-03T21:45:25Z")
**Crown Prince of Irony** , Have you ever seen **Bang the Drum Slowly**? Another sad/funny great baseball movie. ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/32 "2002-12-03T21:48:52Z")
The scene in **Renaissance Man** where the students are leaving the class kinda echoes parts of my life (all the effort I put in, not appreciated, etc.) always chokes me up. ---
**Author:** ![taichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@taichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taichi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/33 "2002-12-03T22:14:12Z")
It would seem that it takes a bit of cheese to get taichi to shed a few… Dumbo gets me every time- ALWAYS the scene where Mrs.Jumbo is locked up and Dumbo goes to see her and her trunk snakes out the window so that she can cradle him while singing. “Baby Mine”…\>siiigh…\< ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/34 "2002-12-03T22:18:25Z")
Sad things really never make me feel like crying. The things that make me feel less like not crying than usual(because I never cry 🙂 ) Are emotional battle scenes. Like Roberts speech at the end of Braveheart “You bled with Wallace, now will you bleed with me?”. ---
**Author:** ![taichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@taichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taichi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/35 "2002-12-03T22:23:03Z")
or maybe the Big V was James Potter’s brother and he was in love with Lily and turned to the dark side due to this unrequited love… wow this speculation can really carry one awaaaaayyyyy… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/36 "2002-12-04T00:30:59Z")
Three movies that always make me cry, and they’re all musicals: **Dancer in the Dark** : the whole last half hour **West Side Story** : the end and one that hasn’t been mentioned yet: **Hair** : twice – _Easy to Be Hard_ and the whole end section, from Berger going to Vietnam to the end. I also cried the whole last half hour of **Malcolm X** because I knew he was going to get killed. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/37 "2002-12-04T02:21:31Z")
I did get the sniffles once during the “I Will Go Sailing No More” song in _Toy Story_ when Buzz Lightyear realizes he is just a toy and can’t really fly. But I was already feeling kind of depressed when I started watching it. That’s my story anyway, and I’m sticking to it, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/38 "2002-12-04T02:35:07Z")
In _My Girl_ after McCauley Culkin dies from the bee stings and the girl runs to his coffin at the funeral and is sobbing. First time I ever cried in movie theater. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/39 "2002-12-04T03:30:25Z")
At the end of **Best of the Best** when Dae Han apologizes to Tommy for killing his brother. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/40 "2002-12-04T03:33:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vandal \* > \*\*At the end of **Best of the Best** when Dae Han apologizes to Tommy for killing his brother. \*\* HELL YA! I remember that movie-loved it!! Geez, and here I was, thinking that I was the only one who had even seen it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198.md?page=3)