“I can’t carry it for you, Mr. Frodo…but I can carry you!”
Man-tears were excusable.
I said it was probably just me. For the record those are movies I had to watch with the Mrs.
Field of Dreams and Life is Beautiful are good ones to add on.
I cry at movies whenever the hell I feel like – which is often. I’m old enough to not give a damn what other people think about this.
I’ve cried at many of the movies that have been mentioned already on this thread.
I don’t cry at movies.I mean, they’re* movies*. Now if you leave the theater and find your car has been towed. . .
Guys are allowed to cry in Ferris Beuhler’s Day Off when they kill the Ferrari.
Have to bust out a new box of tissues.
If you tear up at For Love of the Game, you get a pass. Ditto for The Pride of the Yankees.
Man-tears are also excusable at the end of Benjamin Button, where infant Benjamin, at the end of his life, looks at Daisy, slowly closes his weary eyes, and dies. I completely lost it.
At the end of the Killing Fields.
Not a one.
I cried so much at the end of Schindler’s List, it was ridiculous. I cry at the episode of Futurama with Fry’s dog waiting outside the pizza place. Fuck, I’m tearing up right now.
Joe
Oldie but goodie clipfrom Sleepless in Seattle detailing men vs women and which movies we cry during.
Which is why The Notebook belongs on the list. When Gena Rowlands ends her two minutes of lucidity and we have to watch James Garner dissolving while the attendants get her sedated, how can you not?
I know now why you cry. But it’s something I can never do.
Does that scene make your friend cry?
Joe
The only movie where I truly cried in the theater was The Joy Luck Club.
Knowing my parents’ lived through WWII in China probably had a lot to do with that one. I remember leaving the theater an absolute wreck.
I have gotten choked up in other movies, but nothing to the level of The Joy Luck Club.
Oh Lord yes. We took my 6-year old and the theater was full of sniffling dads at the end.
My husband says:
Miracle (mostly the end where the announcer yells "Do you believe in miracles!!?)
My Life
Field of Dreams
Saving Private Ryan
Ok, I got teary at:
Toy Story 3
Old Yeller (but I was just a kid)
Awakenings
and maybe a few others I’m forgetting.
But The Notebook just put me in a seething rage. What a piece of crap movie that was! I was glad when they died, I just wish it had been more painful.
Seconded, and Grave of the Fireflies makes me cry like a baby every time. Dear Zachary wrecked me. I recommend not reading about it - just watch it, it’s excellent - but I wouldn’t make plans after.
Indeed. Old Yeller, perhaps. Up! is marginal. Everything else is not a guy movie.
My vote goes for The Great Escape: of course the scene where Blyth is shot after he and Hendley crash, and also the scene were Hilts crashes into the wire just short of Switzerland.
Stranger
This came out within a year or so of my father dying unexpectedly, and it still chokes me up to this day. My father and I weren’t estranged, per se, but there was a lot of distance between us that, had we both been more adult about, could have been a non-issue.
I saw it alone in the theater, and Philadelphia got to me, too.
Saving Private Ryan, the beginning, at Omaha.
I’m not religious by ANY stretch of the imagination, but the torture scenes in Passion of the Christ had me in tears. Not for the religious aspect, but just thinking of ANYONE having to endure that much punishment for, essentially, no real reason. That Jesus guy was a saint! I’d have been more like Peter Griffin.