Movies its ok for guys to cry at

After having seen Titanic, I was shuffling down the crowded theater aisle, heading for the exit. I overheard this conversation:

WOMAN: Honey, I could’ve sworn I heard you sniffling. Did this movie make you cry?

MAN: Well, yeah, a little. I thought Kate Winslet was gonna drown, and I was thinking “Aw, gee, what a pity. She had such nice boobs.”

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - when Richard Dreyfus gets surrounded by the aliens at the entrance to their ship. Pretty magical. sniff sniff

How many movies are there about women suffering and dying? If I saw one, I probably would cry over it.

Good lord yes. I rewatch movies all the time (most of my favorite movies get at least a watching every month) and yet I have not been able to go back and watch GotF since I first saw it four years ago. I have no trouble crying at movies (I have at one time or another cried at a good 75% of the movies mentioned here as well as others), but GotF was actually physically painful to watch.

Southwest Airlines? I saw that same movie on a flight from Los Angeles last October :slight_smile: I made it out unscathed, though.

Well, The Seventh Sign brought a tear to my eye when Demi sacrificed herself for the baby. Oddly enough She’s Having a Baby has a similar scene that also got me, when Kristy has complications during delivery.

Where the Red Fern Grows.

And, you can look here, too, for other ideas.

Almost forgot, for a non-chick getting offed flick: Pay it Forward

Nevermind that we’re talking movies here ;), we’re talking about a specific kind of movie. And if you must know, I cried my eyes out after the Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet, okay?

Everybody knows that beneath this cold hard exterior lies a heart of stone…But anyone who can watch the movie “Angus” and not cry has a heart harder than Mrs. Seenidog. And that takes some doing.

“Beaches”. I damn near cried at that movie. Which, for me, is pretty good.

Oh, and I almost forgot “Fried Green Tomatoes”. I may well have cried at that movie, but it was so long ago I can’t recall for sure… so, for brownie points, let’s just say that I did. :wink:

All three of my male housemates cried at The Lion King when we watched it last week.

The two movies I’ve cried at as an adult are **A River Runs Through It ** and Schindler’s List.

If I were a guy instead of a girly-girl it’d be Saving Private Ryan and Munich.

Seriously, when Eric Bana talks to his daughter for the first time…man. Any father has got to get a bit choked up at that.

The proper response to women or children suffering and/or dying is blind rage, not sniffles. Hurting chicks ‘n’ munchkins? Ma’am, that’s just wrong…

I stand corrected :smiley:

While it may not be ‘socially acceptable’ to cry at the dreck that was the Notebook, I have never met a man who managed to sit through it and not tear up.

Well played.

I sniffled at Return of the King during one of the endings. (Is it just me, or were there about seven places where that movie could have faded to black and gone with the credits?) I could see Gump or Private Ryan too.

Not only could the movie have ended several times before it did, it actually did fade to black on a few occasions. I wondered if Jackson was screwing with the audience.

“Don’t worry, I saw Lord of the Rings. I’m not going to end this 17 times.” – Harry Lockhart, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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