>>to see them with tears in their eyes at a movie was too funny!
That’s my wife’s reaction when I cry, and it ticks me off.
Oh, trust me, I didn’t ruin the fragile moment by actually laughing out loud at them! I found it sort of touching that it meant so much to them. I mean, heck, different things have different meanings to men and women. We all know that. I have no problem with men expressing emotion, even if it’s over something that usually doesn’t get to me all that much. (But I do have to admit that most of the sports moments listed above did bring a tear to MY eye too. And also the first time the Broncos won the Super Bowl!)
…and I didn’t mean to lash out at you. That was for my
wife.
Anyway, Cal Ripken’s 2131st game did it to me. The news
that Charles Schulz had died. I’m embarrassed to say the
end of ‘Field of Dreams.’ When my wife started crying at
her grandmother’s funeral.
And some others I’m sure…
The ending of “Life is Beautiful” didn’t get me nearly as much as the part when he gets his son on the loudspeaker. Big, huge, gollups of tears at that point.
Watched “The Power of One” last night. Have to say the concert gets me each time.
Reading “Where the Red Fern Grows”. Damn.
Two All Star Game moments: Last year with Teddy Ballgame, and this year with Andres Gallaraga. bwwwwwaaaaaaa
Oh come on. Everybody knows that all you men cry at the end of Field of Dreams. I have this one from a very reliable source.
Never cried at a sports event.
Did cry when my p’s and my best friend died.
Prior to a few years ago, I had never cried at a movie. Yes, I remember a truly successful double date when my buddy and I were cracking jokes throughout Deer Hunter. No, I did not need to call her back. Mrs. D always called me an insensitive clod. Subhuman.
Meanwhile, she would go all weepy when Bambi’s mom caught it. And my eldest daughter also gets the waterworks going. With the right movie, she and her mom can easily go through a half box of kleenex. Well, a couple of years ago I found myself getting all misty at parts of really sappy movies when everything ends up okay. Like when the kid walks at the end of The Secret Garden.
And in terms of books, my sister gave me “I’ll Love You Forever.” If you have kids, and read that without crying, you are a beast.
>>“I’ll Love You Forever.” If you have kids, and read that without crying, you are a beast.
Is that the book where the kid is all grown up and carrying
his very old mother around at the end? Guess I’m a beast.
It just makes me feel creepy.
On the other hand, a kid’s book called “Bob and Jack - A
Boy and His Yak” gets to me sometimes.
Oh yeah, it definitely has its creepy element - like when she packs up the ladder on top of her car for nighttime breaking and entering…
My sister gave me the book and her husband guaranteed I’d cry. I was sure he was wrong. Never ever had come close to crying over any book or movie. But I did.
Oh, and when I call you a beast, I mean it in a good way.
Alright, here I go for the Woosie Award. I admit I got choked up at . . . at . . .
The Rugrats Mother’s Day Special.
You see, Chuckie’s mom died when he was an infant, and he only has these dreams of a nice lady. When he discovers a box of photos in his father’s closet, he gets excited that there’s pictures of “the nice lady” from his dreams. In the end the Dad finally does what he’s been putting off for so long - he sits down with his kid and the pictures and they talk about his mom.
The kids sat in front of the TV as usual, but my wife and I sat behind them shooting each other teary looks. Dumb animated babies . . .
Sports and tragic events have never made me cry. For some reason, movies often make me tear up.
The end of West Side Story always gets me. Ditto ET and Braveheart.
I cried when my uncle died last year, even though I hadn’t seen him since I was a child.
I cried when Jerry Garcia died.
I cried hearing the National Anthem played in a bar in Seoul and everyone there(it was full of US military) sang along. It was a very powerful moment for me.
I cried at Die Valkure during the duet between Wotan and Brunhilde. It was a highly emotional farewell between father and daughter and it just got me.
Hell yes. I always break down when Brunhilde begs Wotan not to allow her to be freed by any ordinary mortal, and the Siegfried motif explodes in the trombone section. Gives me the shivers every goddamned time.
MR
Spock’s death in Star Trek II, as he gives his life for his friends and for his crew. Gets me every time.
Were they crying because the film was so touching and moving, or because they realized they had just shelled out good money to see a Kevin Costner film that took up 2 hours of their lives that they will never get back?
BTW, Yes, I cried at the end of Field of Dreams too. And the end of ET. And Captains Courageous with Spencer Tracey. And when my father was in the hospital for heart surgery.
I cry a lot I guess. But my excuse is I have chronic depression. The rest of you are all just pansy-boys. 
I’ve been avoiding this thread because it makes me feel very vulnerable.
First of all, I am the man of iron emotions. I am human, and generally cry at things like funerals or heart-breaking personal disasters. But never at sporting events. And never at movies.
Okay, okay, I admitted in another thread that Kevin Bacon’s performance in Murder in the First made me cry. I’ll give you that one. And only that one. As far as you know.
There may have been one or two others, but I truly can’t recall.
Alright, fine! I cried at the end of Titanic. Are you happy now?
Nothing much new to contribute… I’ve definitely cried at funerals of grandparents. The most I’ve cried recently was when I finally had to end a nonhealthy relationship and thus really hurt someone I cared about. And there are a lot of movies and generally moving moments of shared history (ie, the Chinese guy in front of the line of tanks) (and yes, some sports moments as well) that will cause me to tear up, though not openly bawl.
(The two movies not yet mentioned that always do me in:
Titanic and (one of the most overlooked movies of all time) The Iron Giant “Suuupppeeerrrmmmaaaaan”)
(Oh, and the part of Rent that’s not on the soundtrack where all of the characters come out one by one and say how much Angel meant to them)
Upon the untimely death of my closest childhood friend July 31, 2000 after a courageous fight with cancer.
Let’s see, last 5 years…[li]Saving Private Ryan - The reading of the “Lincoln letter,” the scene where the mother collapses on her porch, and the ending all got me.[/li][li]Speaking of WWII, I got a little misty over Coldfire’s tribute to WWII veterans on this very Board.[/li][li]Lost an Aunt to brain cancer a few years back. Watching her downhill slide was rough.[/li][li]A good friend of mine had a baby and then almost immediately lost her husband to cancer this year. That got me.[/li][li]Muhammed Ali with the torch at the Olympics.[/li]Death of Jimmy Stewart. (Even though at his age, you couldn’t call it a tragedy, I felt the loss.)
i get choked up fairly routinely watching mash. it was a damn funny show, but it’s black comedy in many many instances. i remember one episode where it somehow went out that hawkeye was dead, and he was going to use that as his ticket home. (i’m pretty sure this was the episode.) and he goes on about how trapper went home and the war didn’t end, and how henry was killed and it wasn’t over… then there was one where hot lips wanted to create a time capsule, and there was a big hoo-ha about it, and hawk and bj finally gave in and made serious contributions. they put in radar’s teddy bear for all the people that came over as boys and went home as men, and a fishing lure of col. blake’s for all the boys that didn’t get to go home. jesus, I’m getting misty eyed just typing this.
also–the very end of schindler’s list, where all the people that he saved put a stone around the edge of his tombstone. makes me cry every time. someone mentioned braveheart. I don’t think i’ve ever cried during it, but when he’s being tortured and he looks out and sees his dead wife in the crowd… and that look on her face… damn. there were a few moments in the new fantasia movie that really got me, too… the ones that come to mind were in the raphsody in blue segment, and particularly in the firebird suite segment. i hope they re-release that or put it on video soon. i’d really like to see it again.
When my step mom was taken from us by cancer, much much too young, this was hard to stop crying after.
But when a close friend lost a young child, hearts broke, period.
nederlander, that MAS*H episode with the time capsule is my all time favorite. Very, very sad.
And if you haven’t seen Fantasia 2000 on an IMAX screen, you need to.