# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![queenquimarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@queenquimarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/queenquimarie)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/181 "2008-07-16T21:02:06Z")
For RETURN OF THE KING I actually started crying when Pippin’s on the horse with Gandalf and he looks down at Merry and says “We’ll see each other again, won’t we?” and Merry just looks at him with the most genuine expression of the unknown and I just friggin bawl and it just gets worse and worse as the movie goes on and then I’m drowning in tears by the time the song Into the West starts. ---
**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 16, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/182 "2008-07-16T21:09:34Z")
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja] Most of mine have been mentioned – Return of the King in particular I cry throughout most of, with noisy racking sobs when Gandalf is telling Pippin what he has to look forward to after he dies. A good friend of mine from college who I’d seen all the movies with on opening night died not long after the movie was out and we sang Into the West at his funeral, and THAT song and Rainbow Connection don’t just turn on the waterworks, they break the valve. [/QUOTE] Wow - that must have been really beautiful. That song definitely works as a funeral song. I think at mine I’d like “The breaking of the fellowship” played, mainly for the choir boy bit: \*When the cold of winter comes, starless night will cover day in the veiling of the sun we will walk in bitter lands But in dreams I can hear your name and in dreams we will meet again When the seas and mountains fall and we come to end of days in the dark I hear a call calling me there I will go there and back again\* ---
**Author:** ![gnagtcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@gnagtcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnagtcha)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/183 "2008-07-16T23:54:47Z")
Wuthering Heights=ten hanky tearjerker and that was when I was like 13 or 14…AND I’M A GUY FER CHRIST SAKES! ---
**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 17, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/184 "2008-07-17T00:01:06Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] I saw that in the theatre, and while it was one of my very favorite Disney cartoons ever, I didn’t even mist up at that, nor even when Lewis goes to check out his original mother. Dry-eyed, happy, blah blah blah. Then they showed the title card, with the quotation, that ends the movie, and that was it for me. [/QUOTE] My son and I saw that in 3D in the theater…it was incredible. Best 3D movie i have ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/185 "2008-07-17T00:28:33Z")
Not blub, but shed a manly tear during the Two Tower: “Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red dawn!” And later when Gandalf is charging down that hill and the sun breaks out behind him. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/186 "2008-07-17T02:59:07Z")
If you are 40 something and a man, I _know_ you cried when you were watching the Dirty Dozen and the Jim Brown character got killed. I mean jeeze, he’s an NFL running back and all he needed to do was run across that freaken courtyard. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/187 "2008-07-17T03:12:21Z")
[QUOTE=chacoguy420] If you are 40 something and a man, I _know_ you cried when you were watching the Dirty Dozen and the Jim Brown character got killed. I mean jeeze, he’s an NFL running back and all he needed to do was run across that freaken courtyard. ☹ [/QUOTE] I’m a girl and I remember wailing “nonononoNONONO NOOOOOOO!” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/188 "2008-07-17T16:16:08Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] It’s been mentioned several times, photopat! 🙂 Oh, and I don’t cry at the end of Mulan because I have daddy issues … I just miss my (deceased) dad, I guess. I know he was proud of me. Chiming in on The Sixth Sense … I think one of the reasons that movie is so good is the portrayal of the mother. I forget her name, but the actress (I believe she’s Australian?) who plays her is absolutely marvelous. Her relationship with the son is the heart of that movie and I identified with her every minute of the way. And then, the end, with the mention of her own mother … gah! Like many here, I’m tearing up just thinking about it. [/QUOTE] Toni Collette, who is marvelous in everything she appears in. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961/189 "2008-07-18T02:33:17Z")
I don’t think anyone has mentioned _The Umbrellas of Cherbourg_ (1964) yet. I don’t want to spoil the ending for anyone who has not seen this wonderful film, but I can tell you that in Roger Ebert’s review of a 2003 documentary called _Cinemania_, about a group of friends in New York City who basically spend their days watching movies: “One stumbled out of _The Umbrellas of Cherbourg_ and walked for blocks in the rain, weeping.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-blub/455961.md?page=9)