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?
In a different movie, it might’ve. For me, Titanic didn’t make that kind of connection.
That’s what I was thinking when I submitted that post. I’m not a Burton fan, but that was a very good movie.
I’m all for liberated masculinity but I don’t think anybody has actually said it’s not OK for guys to cry at a movie.
I’ll cry at any movie I want. ‘Big Fish’ comes first to mind. Some TV, too. ‘Sleeping in Light’ was a good one, as was Buffy’s prom. I’ll wallop anyone who has a problem with that and ten like 'em too. I had a lot of time and emotion invested in Babylon 5. I think the scoring is a factor in all this for me.
‘Iron Giant’ didn’t do anything for me. It was a good movie, but that’s all it was.
I have a friend who insists that he cried when the Enterprise blew up in Search For Spock. I suppose that may have been true then, but I don’t see anyone doing it now or doing it when Troi wrapped Enterprise E around a tree in Generations.
Watching Music Choice, Chris Daughtery cries at “Up”.
I cried during Moulin Rouge, but I have a pretty good defense:
I’m gay.
I was in a gay bar.
I was so drunk I don’t even remember what the movie was about much less what made me blubber up. Did a dog die or something, 'cause that would have done it. Half the other guys were crying too, so it may have just been a weird sympathetic cry response.
Really? I thought it was undeniably clear things had reached the point that nobody could deny that the ship was soon going to be at the bottom of the Atlantic. Guggenheim left this message “Tell my wife, if it should happen that my secretary and I both go down, tell her I played the game out straight to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.”
Quote for comment.
See above.
I didn’t take that seriously. See his previous post about crying during Titanic, Armageddon, and sort of the Karate Kid remake.
Another vote for Toy Story 3. Seriously, what’s that about? It’s a couple of toys - how did they do it? The music, the little girl, Andy’s speech, they all work perfectly together.
Saw it three times, cried three times.
A real man cries when he damn well wants to and you can take my man card when you pry from my cold dead hands.
That said, I do tear up when Marianne is almost dead in Sense and Sensibility and when the new Blues Mobile dies near the end of The Blues Brothers. Several scenes during The Best Years of Our Lives but especially at the end when you see hundreds of B-17’s being dismantled for scrap metal.
City Lights, Bambi, The Lion King, I could go on and on.
Anyone else cry at the end of Stardust? That one really got to me.
Am I the only guy that cried during Harry & the Hendersons? Because it tore me up when I was about 13 .
I like Crash less and less as time goes on, but I have cried multiple times when…
it appears like the locksmith’s daughter is about to get shot.
The last scene of “A Very Long Engagement.”
Jeebus, I’m weepy just thinking about that episode. You had to go and bring it up, didn’t you?
Some that make me lose it every time:
The Green Mile
Bridge to Terabithia
The Sand Pebbles
Requiem For A Dream
The Wrestler
I don’t just limit myself to fiction, either. Amongst the documentaries that cause things to get in my eyes are:
Mad Hot Ballroom
Brother’s Keeper
We Jam Econo
The Filth And The Fury
Sometimes it isn’t even that something is very, very sad; it’s that the sadness is a part of something that’s also so beautiful, it hurts to try and keep it all inside, so I don’t even bother. You know, like at the end of American Beauty.
Quick story: a friend of mine who’s a modern day hippie showed up at my place unannounced one day, and was startled when I answered the door sobbing. I told him I was fine, I was just watching this movie about the Sex Pistols. He couldn’t imagine what I could possibly be so upset over. Turned out he knew nothing about the Sex Pistols except that they were a raunchy punk rock band from the '70s. I started the movie over, and when we got to the part I had been watching when he knocked, he was crying. If you haven’t seen the film, the part where Jon Lydon talks about the circumstances surrounding the addiction and death of his friend, Sid Vicious, is unbelievably moving. It will forever erase them as mere caricatures in your perception.
ETA: Yeah, that beginning sequence in Up was a tearjerker alright.
“Million Dollar Baby”
Frankie Dunn: [to Maggie] All right. I’m gonna disconnect your air machine, then you’re gonna go to sleep. Then I’ll give you a shot, and you’ll… stay asleep. “Mo Chuisle” means “My darling, my blood.”
“The Wrath of Khan” got to me a little bit also.
“Don’t grieve, Admiral. It was logical. The needs of the many…”
“Outweigh the needs of the few.”
“Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?”
"I have been and always shall be your friend. "
Kirk: We are gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. But it should be noted that this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most… human.
Anyone who doesn’t cry at the end of MDB isn’t a person I want to know or be around.
Good call. I got teary for two reasons. One, I have a niece that was about the age the character to which you refer was at the time the movie came out, and Two, because that girl looked JUST LIKE my niece.
I insist on watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” with my husband every Christmas, and every time he “gets something in his eye” at the end.
Toy Story 3 kicked my butt. Apparently that’s a movie that a makes men cry.