Blah blah blah. All Quiet on the Western Front didn’t just make me cry. It made me cry some much that I couldn’t cry any more, and so I just got a headache. What’ve you got for that?
“I’m not strong enough…”
Yeah, that gets me too.
So many. Where to begin?
Okay, fine, I’ll begin with Breaking the Waves – the final “aerial” shot.
That one floored my wife and me. We were caught completely unprepared.
When I was a kid, I sobbed and sobbed and was literrally hysterical when I watched The Fox and the Hound.
I got it as a gift several years ago and still haven’t unwrapped it, for fear that I might break down and cry again like that! Ha!
Oddly enough, Click, the Adam Sandler movie, made me cry like a baby too. Very weird that it had such an effect on me.
**V for Vendetta **makes me cry too, I think, but just tear up and choke up… not really sob.
I’m an emotional guy when it comes to movies though, so I tend to at least shed a tear or two at any emotional scene from a movie I’ve been enjoying.
*My Dog Skip
Glory *(the ending with that music . . .)
I’ll second Iron Giant.
Damn you, animated films, for manipulating my emotions.
Oh yeah, and I’ll add “The Muppet Movie” especially when they start singing that damnable song about rainbows. Even though I’m all growed up. Perhaps especially because I’m all growed up. Permission to deny this, please?
Another vote for Field of Dreams (this must be the classic tear-jerker for guys. Most women I’ve talked to don’t get it at all).
Also another vote for Iron Giant (as mentioned before, going in, you’d never suspect that a “cartoon” is going to sucker punch you in the end like that.)
For me, another one is Gattaca (the end with the simultaneous shots of the rocket blasting off while Jude Law commits suicide in an incinerator).
Dances With Wolves. Poor Two Socks. Really, anything that involves the subjugation of the American Indians or mistreatment of animals will make me tear up (before I crush that shameful emotion beneath my mighty boot of manliness).
Schindler’s List - when Oskar is asking how many more people he could have saved if he had traded his gold pin - that just turned on the tear ducts.
I would like to submit two more films to this list (and admit that I cried in all the ones mentioned here that I’ve seen).
- P.S., I Love You.
- Bridge to Terabithia
Field of Dreams. It’s a guy thing I know. But most of us come preprogrammed with father issues and that pokes that spot.
The Highlander. When his first love ages and he doesn’t. Oof.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned *Brian’s Song *yet.
Anything do to with animals being hurt. I have to keep reminding myself “They’re trained actors…it’s special effects…they’re safe…it’s all okay…”
Funny, one movie that made me bawl was “Look Who’s Talking Too.” It think it was a montage where the older kid is watching the younger kid get all the attention - this was over 20 years ago so I don’t remember exactly - and for some reason I sobbed through the whole thing. I think I was just releasing pent-up stress from the crappy situation my life was in at that time, but wow did I cry.
Titanic.
Oh yeah. I know it’s cool now to dismiss “Titanic”, but when I saw it in the movie theatre ages ago, I just sat there in my seat after it was over, basically too stunned to move.
OH I forgot “The Passion of the Christ”. I sobbed damn near hysterically in the theatre - but so did everyone around me.
*Schindler’s List *- the end
*Toy Story 3 *- the incinerator scene
*Toy Story 2 *- Jessie’s song (gets me every single time I see that movie)
*Up *- The beginning, with Carl and his wife
*Titanic *- the end, when she sees everybody alive again
My (now) wife and me were still dating. So, we went to visit my mom and took her to a nice place to eat. Afterwards, we thought “Why not? Let’s go see a nice movie”. We went to see Hachiko: A Dog’s Story.
Halfway through, we all were kind of bored (“So what? He got a nice dog by accident and has a pretty good relationship with him. That’s nice. But kind of boring.”)
Afterwards it seemed like everyone had gotten a cold, big time. Everyone sniffing and sobs all around(I guess the sobs would have made it a strange kind of cold, though).
Nice mother’s day gift.
Based on my reaction to the play, I’m sure Les Miserables will…