# Movies that make you blub **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961 "2008-07-10T11:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deflagration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@Deflagration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deflagration)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/1 "2008-07-10T11:04:33Z")
I’m a strong, middle aged, father of two. And yet, I can’t watch Toy Story 2 without a tear in my eye when Jessie has her montage “When She Loved Me”. I can understand my reaction to the final reveal in “It’s a wonderful life”. In my mind allowable. But a pixar movie… Hmmm… Discuss… ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/2 "2008-07-10T12:07:02Z")
Quite a few: When Enis found and hugged Jack’s shirt in Brokeback Mountain. The end of the “perfect day” in AI. The scene in Return of the King where everyone kneels to the four hobbits. The final scene in Edward Scissorhands with the ice statues. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/3 "2008-07-10T12:35:43Z")
How about the end of **The Iron Giant**? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/4 "2008-07-10T12:37:30Z")
_Legends Of The Fall._ ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/5 "2008-07-10T12:44:19Z")
The Bridge To Terabithia was the last film to bring a tear to my eyes. And I always choke a little watching ET! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/6 "2008-07-10T13:32:09Z")
The ending of _Ghost_ and also what \*\* Illuminatiprimus\*\* said about _Brokeback_ ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/7 "2008-07-10T13:33:58Z")
Cinema Paradiso. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/8 "2008-07-10T13:37:16Z")
I’m not ashamed to admit I got misty during a couple parts of _WAL-E_. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/9 "2008-07-10T13:48:45Z")
I just re-watched “Million Dollar Baby” and was shattered for an hour or so afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/10 "2008-07-10T13:51:21Z")
_Snoopy Come Home_. I can’t watch it without blubbering like a little girl. Well, I am a girl, but movies don’t normally make me cry. _Life as a House_ also made be bawl. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/11 "2008-07-10T14:02:47Z")
I think it has something to do with having kids. After I had mine I started to get blubbery and as time goes on it just gets worse. I recently found myself talking about some heroic sporting act and could feel my voice beginning to quiver. I blub at the drop of a hat in movies. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/12 "2008-07-10T14:10:14Z")
What can I say, I’m a sentimental guy. I second the scenes mentioned from _Toy Story 2_ and _A.I._. I was also deeply moved by the climactic scenes in _Iron Giant_ (_I go. You stay. No following…_, and how he murmers _Superman…_ to himself and quietly shutters his eyes just before impact), but not to tears. It was more a different kind of wrenching. I will admit it, yes, I sniffled at the end of _Titanic_. And _The English Patient_. I blubbered like a little boy when I first saw _Dumbo_ (as a little boy) and they take him away from his mama, who cradles him with her trunk through the bars of her cage. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/13 "2008-07-10T15:02:03Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] I was also deeply moved by the climactic scenes in _Iron Giant_ (_I go. You stay. No following…_, and how he murmers _Superman…_ to himself and quietly shutters his eyes just before impact), but not to tears. It was more a different kind of wrenching. [/QUOTE] My wife never got to that scene, having fled the room in tears earlier, refusing to return until the DVD was ejected from the machine. It was a reaction to the injustice of the storyline, I think, but I’m at a loss as to why it affected her so much more than a lot of other movies. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/14 "2008-07-10T15:19:59Z")
Toy Story 2, the Jessie scene (I have yet to meet anyone over the age of about 15 who didn’t get at least a \*little \*bit misty at that one) The end of Titanic This one’s obscure, but in a movie called _Allegro Non Troppo_ (which is kind of a European answer to _Fantasia_–animated vignettes set to classical music) there’s one with a little cat wandering around an abandoned house in a bombed-out city, visualizing his former life with his family. I’d forgotten about it until somebody on Fark reminded me a couple of weeks ago, so I watched it again and it still makes me cry. I can’t seem to get YouTube to work right now, but it’s [here](http://youtube.com/watch?v=D3Blm2qWduY) . ---
**Author:** ![Sanity\_Challenged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sanity\_Challenged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanity_Challenged)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/15 "2008-07-10T15:22:31Z")
I have my share of legitimate blub triggers, but also one that’s kind of embarassing: The Goonies. It’s not the movie itself but a strong emotional association to one _really_ good day that the movie was in the background of. So if you think you have a hard time keeping up your manly visage during the legitimate tear jerkers, just imagine trying to look cool when the sight of Mikey, Mouth, Chunk, and Data get the waterworks going. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/16 "2008-07-10T15:45:22Z")
The last five minutes of Breakfast at Tiffany’s does it for me every time. I don’t even need to see the whole movie. But I blub during Hallmark commercials. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/17 "2008-07-10T15:45:31Z")
Another vote for **Dumbo**. I can’t listen to “Baby Be Mine” without bawling like a baby. I also get weepy in **Black Beauty** when Beauty talks about seeing Ginger after her death and remembering what a beautiful, proud mare she once was and how horrible she looks now. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/18 "2008-07-10T15:46:59Z")
**Terms of Endearment** gets me every damn time. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/19 "2008-07-10T15:48:19Z")
Another vote for **Dumbo**. I can’t listen to “Baby Be Mine” without bawling like a baby. I also get weepy in **Black Beauty** when Beauty talks about seeing Ginger after her death and remembering what a beautiful, proud mare she once was. One more—Spock’s funeral scene in ST3. I’m okay through it until Scotty breaks out “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes. When I saw the movie on opening night, there was not a dry eye in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Whiteknight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whiteknight/32/4962_2.png) [@Whiteknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiteknight)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/20 "2008-07-10T15:53:12Z")
As others have said, end of Titanic and Jessie’s scene in TS2. Titanic holds a special place in my heart since I saw it on opening day as an angsty 16 year old. Even though I look back and think that I was an idiot at the time, I still can’t hear the music without it having an emotional effect. I’d also add Boromir’s death scene in FOTR when Merry and Pippin charge forward to confront the approaching Uruk Hai. There’s something about desperate hope and courage in the face of insurmountable adversity that really gets me emotionally. The scene in Crash when the shop owner fires his gun in rage. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961.md?page=2)