# Movies guys are allowed to cry at **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064 "2011-03-09T17:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/101 "2011-03-10T23:35:26Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I am a grown man, & I can cry at whatever I want. It takes a big man to cry…but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.😃 It’s ok to cry at the end of Braveheart. Some men might get something in their eye at the end of Gangs of New York. > [@Marley23](#): > > I didn’t take that seriously. See his previous post about crying during Titanic, Armageddon, and sort of the Karate Kid remake. Not even during the scene when the President is giving the big speech and the mom tells the kid that the “salesman” (Will Patton) he met before who is now on tv walking to the launch pad is actually his father? ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/102 "2011-03-10T23:35:35Z")
The Fountain ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/103 "2011-03-10T23:36:57Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Not even during the scene when the President is giving the big speech and the mom tells the kid that the “salesman” (Will Patton) he met before who is now on tv walking to the launch pad is actually his father? My 7-year old self didn’t cry at that part, no. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/104 "2011-03-11T00:11:09Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Which is exactly what happened in Jurassic Bark- you never see it die on screen either. So everything **fiddlesticks** said was accurate. It was a dog dying without his master. > > Edit: > > And why the hell are we talking in spoilers? cochrane started it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/105 "2011-03-11T02:07:26Z")
I heard about the documentary Dear Zachary and knowing what I know about it, I refuse to watch it. I’m afraid it would haunt me for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/106 "2011-03-11T11:39:29Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > And why the hell are we talking in spoilers? Can’t tell you. It’s a secret.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/107 "2011-03-11T13:05:12Z")
**Leaving Las Vegas -** only because I watched it extremely hung over one Sunday morning and it was painful watching Nicholas Cage drink the whole movie. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/108 "2011-03-11T13:09:25Z")
_Breaking The Waves_ by Lars Von Trier _The Wrestler_ by Darren Aronofsky (the father-daughter dance) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/109 "2011-03-11T21:00:49Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > **Leaving Las Vegas -** only because I watched it extremely hung over one Sunday morning and it was painful watching Nicholas Cage drink the whole movie. You used a word too many. I think you meant to say “it was painful watching Nicolas Cage the whole movie.” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/110 "2011-03-11T21:10:22Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > You used a word too many. I think you meant to say “it was painful watching Nicolas Cage the whole movie.” I cried throughout The Wicker Man. Mosty from laughing so hard. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/111 "2011-03-11T21:15:35Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > _The Wrestler_ by Darren Aronofsky (the father-daughter dance) I have it on good authority that Roddy Piper cried his eyes out during that movie. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/112 "2011-03-11T21:20:51Z")
I know that a lot of guys cry when they watch _Field of Dreams_, but I don’t know why. I saw it once and thought it was awful. Why do you cry? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/113 "2011-03-11T21:37:35Z")
I mistook it for the playoffs. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/114 "2011-03-11T21:50:38Z")
Among other things, depictions of old people - especially ones contemplating/facing their mortality, or loss, or the horrible burdens some of them have borne for _decades_ - get to me. Saving Private Ryan: the fearfully agitated, elderly Ryan shuffling toward Miller’s grave at the beginning of the movie - and then at the end, asking his wife to reassure him that he’s led a good life worthy of the sacrifices portrayed in the movie. Titanic: The old couple, laying in their bed together, waiting for the water to take them - not just to death, but to the depths of the ocean, never to be seen again. The elderly Rose (particularly at the end of the movie) also got to me. One of the odd ones that makes me cry is The Princess Bride. So many deep feelings in those characters - The grandfather’s love for his grandson (shown at the end, when he agrees to read the book again tomorrow, “as you wish”); Inigo’s lifelong pursuit of revenge, appearing to end in tragic failure _twice_ before ultimately succeeding; and of course the love story between Wesley and Buttercup. All sorts of adventure, with a perfect “happily ever after” ending. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/115 "2011-03-11T22:29:05Z")
> [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > As silly as that movie is (in a good way!), there’s one part I can think of giving anyone a crying pass for. Was it the part where Alex says the “By Grabthar’s Hammer…” line _for real_? I also mist up when Justin Long’s character finds out that it’s all real. I’m really happy for him I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/116 "2011-03-12T03:05:54Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Inigo’s lifelong pursuit of revenge, appearing to end in tragic failure _twice_ before ultimately succeeding… His pursuit of revenge was ennobled by the last thing Count Rugo heard: “I want my father back, you son of a bitch!” I can’t even _type_ those words without sobbing a bit. Inigo’s revenge was the righteous anger of a son whose father was slaughtered in front of him. It is possible that it affects me especially deeply because my dad died of lung cancer when I was 16. I’m 50 now, and if he had never smoked, there is a reasonable chance that he would still be alive. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/117 "2011-03-16T02:37:31Z")
I know now why you cry…but it is something I can never do. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/118 "2011-03-16T05:16:16Z")
I’m very sorry about what you had to go through with your father’s death, **gaffa** , but it’s Count _Rugen_. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/119 "2011-03-16T06:39:12Z")
“The Fisher King” when Perry has emerged from his catatonia and asks Jack: “Can I miss her now?” . ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064/120 "2011-03-16T08:37:00Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > His pursuit of revenge was ennobled by the last thing Count Rugo heard: “I want my father back, you son of a bitch!” I can’t even _type_ those words without sobbing a bit. Inigo’s revenge was the righteous anger of a son whose father was slaughtered in front of him. Goddamn it I was just about to post this! My throat always gets lumpy at that part for some reason. My dad is still alive so I don’t know why it affects me so much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-guys-are-allowed-to-cry-at/574064.md?page=7)