Before I begin this topic. Just wondering, since I have the word spoilers in the title, then it’s okay not to use the spoiler tag? Or should I still do that? Well, just to be on the safe side, I will.
No doubt women will be able to admit freely, but come on guys…you too have to suck it up and admit…
I’m male myself and I watched two movies last night that both made me get watery eyes.
The first was Patch Adams, which I still hadn’t seen.
The part where the old woman finally starts eating again only after fullfilling her goal of swimming in an entire pool full of noodles. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so wound up doing both at the same time.
The other movie, for some odd reason was Phone Booth.
Nearing the end when Colin makes that confession to all about how he was selfish and unfaithful and a taker. Just the emotion he had, and how he said it all.
So tell me, the last movie you saw that made you cry; what was it? Any particular scene? Any movies out there that get you every time?
Well I’m a male and I’ve NEVER cried for a movie. Deathbed scene? Totally dry eyes. Reunions? Nope. Last min confessions of love? Not even close. Miracle cure? Don’t make me laugh…but one theme that always gets me all choked up Noble Self Sacrifice ™ the Iron Giant has me on the edge of crying EVERY SINGLE TIME. Suuuupppppeeeerrrr Maaann
Band of Brothers has tons of such scenes nothing like seeing a man jump out of his fox hole to help his friend only to get his leg blown off as well.
Babylon 5 where the president is giving a speech to the people going out on the line to die (ok I’m a super geek)
One of the reasons I hate hate hated the plot of the game Freelancer was b/c every five mins someone was dying for your cause it loses all meaning if everyone is doing it.
The last time I remember crying at a film was Life is Beautiful. I was ok, till the end, the very end, one of the last lines of narration is “That is the gift my father gave to me” or something like that and then I just lost it. Cried for 5 minutes after that.
Other movies that get me: Iron Giant - If you’ve seen it, you probably know why
Captains Courageous, especially at the end when Spencer Tracy’s character is in the water, the ropes have sheared through his legs (maybe his body) and he chooses to drown so the little boy won’t see him like that.
I’m sure there’s more, I just can’t remember them right now.
Last one was A Walk to Remember… I’d never read the book and I saw the movie only when a friend brought it over and we had the tv in my room playing it.
I got so pissed off when it became obvious to me that she was gonna die. When she told him she had cancer. I mean it was supposed to be this movie about this bad kid turning his life around for the love of his life, and it was, but in my mind it wasn’t part of it that she was gonna die. They get to live happily ever after after all right? RIGHT!?
But I started crying right there and turned the movie off for half an hour before I could finish it. I also had to kick my bf of the time out of my room because I have this messed up thing about crying in front of guys. I just really really don’t like crying in front of guys. This is also why I don’t go to see chick flicks unless they have comedy or something. If they are obviously the sort of movie that sets out to make me cry I generally stay clear. I should’ve realized that with A Walk to Remember and same with City of Angels.
I absolutely hate ‘chick flicks’ for that. Making me cry I mean. well not making me but inciting the emotions within me to cause me to cry. I’d rather read a really good book that can make me cry. It’s a little more personal and I know I liked a book when I can sit there and laugh or cry with it.
Together. When they show how his dad found him the day he was abandoned. We have adopted two abandoned Chinese girls–there is no way I could watch that scene without drippin’!
Err…I’m a manly man [tm].
Well, actually, I cry at any film with a remotely touching scene, but you want the last movie…
Turn Left Turn Right
Right when the girl is all teary about how she’ll never see the violinist again, because they keep missing each other, and tells the doctor that they’re like two people who’ve lost their shadows…yeah.
When Amelie is daydreaming of Nino, imagining him walking into her apartment and running his finger over the hanging beads in the doorway to her kitchen, and then she’s startled to hear the beads rattle in real life…and she looks down and sees it was just her cat walking into the room, and she cries. I related to her character so much, and especially at that moment. (She’s much cuter than I am, though. )
I haven’t figured out how to make a “spoiler box” but since this movie is old I am sure everyone knows the ending…
In Titanic when Rose is out in the water with jack and she sees a rescue boat and then realizes Jack is dead and she has to peel his hands off hers <sniff>
This shouldn’t be a spolier, if you haven’t seen the movie it won’t give anything away- The courtroom scene in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, where Jem and Scout are up in the gallery with the black townspeople who are not allowed in the main part of the courtroom, and the Reverend (I think) tells Scout to "stand up, your father’s passin’ " SOB!
The grave scene from Forrest Gump always gets me little choked up. Same with Amelie (well, actually, not “always” since I’ve only seen it once).
I can think of only two movies I actually cried during, neither of which were all that good or had any personal connection. Weird eh? Anyhow, the HBO (I think) version of On the Beach and Star Trek:Generations when Kirk dies
I do not know how to make the spoiler box either.
But the scene that brought me closest to tears is at the end of Saving Private Ryan when he Ryan sees the grave of his friend and then turns to his mother and asks through tears in his eyes to reassure him that he lead a good life.
The last movie I saw that brough tears to my eyes was - I’m not kidding here - Lilo & Stitch. Yes, I cried over a Disney film.
See, it was the part where …
Stitch is about to head out the window the night before Lilo is going to be taken away. Lilo says, “I’ll always remember you, just like I remember everyone who’s left”
Well, I don’t cry much (read: at all) from movies or TV, but I can get a little bit of tear in my eye, or get choked up.
Actually, in the movie Angus, when,
His grandfather dies. He just kinda walks down the stairs, not saying anything, and you know what’s wrong. And then he goes to the park to where is grandfather played chess with his friend, and he simply lays the king down…so sad.
I also get teary eyed at the end of a Futurama episode, Jurrasic Bark. If you’ve seen it, you know why.
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