If anyone wants a “man challenge” to see if they can make it through a movie without crying, Dear Zachary is definitely the one to see.
It’s sadder than Grave of Fireflies, and that is the usual one that gets most people.
I did not cry at Marley & Me… I blubbered. The phrase “emotionally exhausted” comes to mind.
I always choke up when the sisters at the end say “We have a sister!”
Taking Chance. Especially the scene with the Army escort.
“Are you related to the deceased, Sergeant?”
“Yes Sir. He’s my brother.”
The Champ is the one that gets My Husband to blubbering.
I also didn’t watch the rest of Up because of the opening sequence, which struck a little too close to my own life. I’m glad I stuck it out, because the rest of the movie was pretty good, although I did get a little weepy at the scene near the end when he was looking through the scrapbook and turned the page.
And as much as I like James Garner, I decided after reading about The Notebook that there is no way I could ever watch it.
And if having an emotional reaction to something makes you less of a man, then I guess I’ll just have to live with that.
See, this one doesn’t make me cry. It makes me angry with the “leaders” who wrought devastation on their own people out of arrogance.
I think all of mine have been mentioned, and was definitely glad to see that other guys have cried at the end of Million Dollar Baby. I didn’t just cry for that, I was shoulder-heaving sobbing and sniffling and snotty. That one got me probably the worst. *Marley and Me *is another one, but my grandpa had just died, and I think the whole idea of losing someone who had always been there for you got me at the time. I’ve seen it since and didn’t have nearly the same reaction.
The episode of *Futurama *has already been mentioned. Field Of Dreams, Iron Giant, Benjamin Button, and Toy Story 3 all got me.
I didn’t cry for Dear Zachary, oddly enough. I think it shocked my emotions SO much that it prevented me from crying. Probably the most traumatic experience I’ve ever had watching a movie.
My Dog Skip was Jurassic Bark before Jurassic Bark. Another dog dies without his master tear jerker.
Haven’t seen Toy Story 3, but Jessie’s song in Toy Story 2 was a tear jerker for me. Truthfully I wasn’t too pleased to cry about it (damn you, Randy Newman!), but I couldn’t help myself.
The dog didn’t die in that one. Although that was certainly the emotional angle the filmakers intended to evoke.
Understandable. FWIW, I don’t think I cried when I saw Schindler’s List for the first time. I just remember being too shell-shocked and depressed to cry. I mean, it’s not that I didn’t know about the Holocaust before I saw the movie, but seeing it all play out on-screen was pretty brutal.
“They buried him out under the elm tree, they said. That wasn’t totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”
[spoiler]In the emotional scene in which it appeared as if Skip had died, he survived. He lived for many years later. He didn’t die until after his master had grown up and moved away.
“I almost lost old Skip that day. Even as he was sleeping on the operating table, he was still teaching me”
“I received a trans-atlantic call one day. “Skip died”, Daddy said.”
It’s not as if Skip had died onscreen, a la Old Yeller.
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All these mentions of Toy Story 3 have me worried about tomorrow’s Movie Night at the JohnT household…
Life is Beautiful. Wait until you are a father, and watch it again. I’ll get the mop.
I listed it in post #17.
You’re right though… being a parent puts you into the sobbing uncontrollably category.
I know, just thought it needed another vote.
Dear Zachary is much worse. Just kill yourself.
Yeah, I keep mentioning it over and over because I seriously don’t think anyone can make it through the movie without weeping. Maybe if you are expecting to weep, but unexpected weeping is impossible to avoid.
The manliest man I know cries at The Natural, and the scene in To Kill a Mockingbird in the courtroom when the preacher tells Jem “Stand up. Your father is passing.”
A League of Their Own:
“Mom…passed.”
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.
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And why the hell are we talking in spoilers?