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.
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?
The Fountain
My 7-year old self didn’t cry at that part, no.
cochrane started it! 
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.
Can’t tell you. It’s a secret.
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.
Breaking The Waves by Lars Von Trier
The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky (the father-daughter dance)
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.
I have it on good authority that Roddy Piper cried his eyes out during that movie.
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?
I mistook it for the playoffs.
Regards,
Shodan
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.
I also mist up when Justin Long’s character finds out that it’s all real. I’m really happy for him I suppose.
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.
I know now why you cry…but it is something I can never do.
I’m very sorry about what you had to go through with your father’s death, gaffa, but it’s Count Rugen.
“The Fisher King”
when Perry has emerged from his catatonia and asks Jack: “Can I miss her now?”
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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.