# What movies make men cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026 "2003-02-19T01:30:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Ohquitit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@Ohquitit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ohquitit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/181 "2003-03-04T07:28:28Z")
My Dad bawled like a baby when he watched Turner & Hooch. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/182 "2003-03-04T07:31:36Z")
The Autobiography of John Wayne Bobbitt…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/183 "2003-03-04T07:35:36Z")
for real- “Schindler’s List” still gets to me, esp. the end you know, I could’ve…one more ---
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/184 "2003-03-04T08:03:18Z")
“Gonna go watch Grave of the Fireflies now. Wish me luck.” So what did you think about it? Myself I thought it was really sad but also really beautiful. Though I may be in a minority here, I thought that the very final scene was moving rather than tragic. The tragic part was the “Home Sweet Home” sequence a little earlier. I think GOTF achieves true greatness because it’s more than a tear-jerker about two orphans dying slowly during a war, though it’s a damn effective tear-jerker as well. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/185 "2003-03-04T08:50:50Z")
Movie: THE IRON GIANT THE GIANT: Hogarth–you stay. I go. No following. (THE GIANT turns and flies up into the atmosphere to confront the nuclear missile and give his life for the people of Rockwell. HOGARTH watches him go.) HOGARTH: I love you. ME: (To my friends:) Kleenex, please. Oh, shut up. Oh, f#%@ you, give me the f#%@ing Kleenex, dammit! (I dissolve in helpless sobs.) What a wonderful scene. ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/186 "2003-03-04T09:16:19Z")
Oh, I don’t think this really counts as film, but the end cut-scene from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time always gets me going… It’s sooooooo sad, he’s done all that, and he has to go back in time when he doesn’t even know Zelda… Poor little lnk. And then it all freezes when he first meets her… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Zumpel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bb73d2/32.png) [@Zumpel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumpel)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/187 "2003-03-04T11:38:50Z")
Henry V Private Ryan What Dreams May Come The Postman Braveheart Cool Runnings ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/188 "2003-03-04T17:20:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe\_Cool \* > \*\*I didn’t know the Ox-Bow incident was a movie! I just read the book 2 1/2 years ago (mostly in installments while waiting for Jerseydiamond to get off work for our dates, just after I met her 🙂 ) and it was great. > > How does the movie compare? \*\* I didn’t know it was a book! So I can’t really answer you. But I get weepy, so… ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/189 "2003-03-04T18:06:38Z")
**61** makes me cry every time I see it. I cry at the beginning and then at the end. Don’t know why. I do know this movie is one of the reasons I don’t like the Yankees. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/190 "2003-03-04T22:20:50Z")
**October Sky** , especialy at the end when you find out The science teacher died of cancer. If you are not moved by “When she loved me” in **Toy Story 2** , you have no soul. (ok, maybe a bit of an exageration) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/191 "2003-03-18T02:46:13Z")
Sorry to bring back such an old thread, but I just remembered what is likely the saddest movie (and book) ever made: Johnny Got His Gun. It’s the story of a WWI soldier who had an artillery shell land right in his foxhole. He went home Blind and Deaf, with no arms, legs, face, jaw (so he’s mute too), etc. Almost entirely cut off from the world, but still fully conscious and aware. He spends the movie remembering happy scenes from his life and trying desperately to communicate with somebody. He finally realizes that he knows Morse Code, and starts hitting his head against the pillow in an attempt to talk to his doctor. His message? K…I…L…L… …M…E… …K…I…L…L… …M…E… …K…I…L…L… …M…E… Anybody who isn’t moved by that film truly has no soul. P.S. It’s the movie used in the video for “One” by Metallica, and was probably the inspiration for the song lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/192 "2003-03-18T04:23:13Z")
When Luke is pleading for help from Darth Vader in the final showdown with the Emperor in ‘Return of the Jedi’. ‘12 Monkeys’: The airport shooting The soldiers getting decimated in the opening scenes of ‘Saving Private Ryan’. ‘Silent Running’: The little robot wandering around at the end of the movie with a little flowery watering can, watering the plants…damn starting to get teary just thinkin about it… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/193 "2003-03-18T11:25:19Z")
Dances With Wolves–the farewell at the end. Out of Africa–the bit at the end about the lions on the grave. A League of Their Own–the reunion of the sisters. FOTR–Boromir’s farewell, among others. Schindler’s List–the gift of the ring and everything afterward. City of Angels–“I’ll tell them it was you.” The Two Towers–Smeagol and Gollum. What Dreams May Come–Chris decides to stay with Annie. Excalibur–Arthur’s farewell to Guenevere: > [@](#): > > I have often thought that, in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future and I can be just a man, that you would come to me and claim me as your own and know that I am your husband. It is a dream that I have. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/194 "2003-03-18T11:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skeezix \* > \*\*I’m with **SPOOFE** on the end of Fellowship. I think it’s just because Boromir is the most “down to earth” guy in the flick. He’s not immune to the temptation of the ring, he’s stubborn about what he thinks is the right use for it, but he’s also willing to give his life for his companions, and he just flat out refuses to quit. It’s hammered home a bit more in the EE DVD, when you get a better look at the absolute _carnage_ he left on the field, most of which was done with at least one arrow in his chest. > > The scene as it was filmed makes me a bit misty, but had he instead ended with “my liege,” instead of the slightly clunkier “my king”… > > It’s a pretty minor distraction, but that bugs me for some reason. > > That, and seeing the flick for the very first time, just a bit more than a month after 9/11, and hearing Frodo and Gandalf’s exchange about “So say all those who live in such times…” > > Yeah, that caught me off guard. \*\* Huh? How is “my king” clunkier than “my liege?” Besides, he _had_ to say “king” because it was a refutation of his earlier line, “Gondor has no king–Gondor needs no king.” ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/195 "2003-03-18T13:15:30Z")
Mr. as\_u\_wish gets misty eyed at a number of scenes in **Fiddler on the Roof**. I’m surprised that one hasn’t been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/196 "2003-03-19T06:44:53Z")
my husband cried during I AM SAM. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/197 "2003-03-19T07:34:29Z")
**Dr. Rieux** : Something about calling the king “King” to his face sounds wrong to my ears. You tell someone else “He is my King, and I fight for him!” or something along those lines, and it’s passable. My Lord, Milord, My Liege, Your Highness, Your Majesty… Any of those works better than My King, when you’re addressing the man with the metal beanie. Like I said, it was minor, but it bugged me. [sub]I see where you’re coming from, I think. Boromir was telling him, “You are my brother, my captain, and my king.” But it still sounds goofy to me, the way it was filmed.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/198 "2003-03-19T15:54:39Z")
I teared up last night watching **Parenthood**. Now that I’m a dad a lot of the scenes make more sense, and are funnier too. Actually, I tear up at tons of movies. I get into them and let them sway my emotions. At other times I can be the tough guy. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/199 "2003-03-19T16:02:27Z")
> [@](#): > > jr8 > I tend to hate blatant tearjerking moments – during Bruce Willis’s speech in Armageddon I was shouting at the television Other Michael Bay films with tear-jerking moments: ☹ **The Rock** - When Nicolas Cages girlfriend is waiting for him in the control center while the jets start theit bomb run on the island. ☹ **Pearl Harbor** - About half way through when I realized there were still 2 hours left in the movie > [@](#): > > Ol’Gaffer > Oh, and I have to add Gallipoli to the ones I mentioned above. If anyone has seen it, you know the scene I’m talking about. :(I will see your Gallipoli and raise you one **All Quiet on the Western Front** (remake). When Ernest Borgnine dies When the main character at the end is reflecting on how all his friends are either dead or crazy, stares up at a passing bird and **BLAM!!!** and of course :(“Ahh know now why you cry…but it is sahmthing I can never do…” (\* (cue the music… lowers into the smelting pit…big thumbs up…display goes blank and… scene) ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/200 "2003-03-19T19:02:58Z")
This might not be one that many people will remember, but there was a 1990 movie called “Flashback.” Dennis Hopper stars as an Abbie Hoffman-type 60s radical who is still on the run from the FBI, and Kiefer Sutherland is the federal agent that is trying to bring him in. There is one scene where they end up at a 60s commune where, it turns out, the Sutherland character spent part of his childhood. As they are walking up the path to the commune, the Jefferson Airplane song “Coming Back To Me” is playing. It turns out that there is just one 40 or 50-something hippie woman still living there. As someone who was born too late to have experienced this era first-hand, but who nevertheless believes very strongly in the ideals of the era, this scene made me weep. The Jefferson Airplane song is a rather sentimental one, and really adds to the emotional impact of the scene. Field of Dreams does it for me as well. Both my dad and my grandpa on my dad’s side were very into sports, including baseball/softball. Although I was not a very talented athlete, their love of sports was definitely passed down to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026.md?page=11)