movies that have made you cry? (men only plz)

[Valsuvious]

I'll admit it, I cried second time I saw the Notebook... damn sappy romances.. first time I saw it with my (soon to be ex) girlfriend. Second time was about 6 months later after we'd broke up and I couldn't get over her cause it reminded me so much of our relationship.

Good news is that we're back together now though...

As for other movies, almost anything that shows some type of military combat and people dying always get me a little misty-eyed. Just hits too close to home from my personal experiences. Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Blackhawk Down.. movies like this

[CrazyEyez]

"Give 'em hell, 54th!!!"

Every time.

(Sorry for the bump. Caught it on AMC tonite 15 seconds before that line.)

[AlexM]

Old Yeller
My Girl
One Buffy episode where a robot died.

Dogs and kids and robots dying. Who cares about adults? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I well up at other emotional stuff in some movie once or twice a year though.

[PokerAmateur4]

It's interesting how homogeneous the responses are here, I would expect people to be moved more diversely. I come very close during the Fry's dog scene at the end, and the old guy's monologue and hanging in Shawshank.

[4 High]

House Of Sand And Fog

[Rushmore]

Reposting this, just in case it was missed the first time around. I think it's worthy of consideration, in the Grown Man Choked Up Sweepstakes:



The recent thread about men crying at movies reminded me of the only time I ever got choked up watching TV. Ken Burns' Civil War on PBS, the end of the first installment, when this letter was read by Paul Roebling over a backdrop of Ashokan Farewell.

Sullivan Ballou wrote the letter one week before he died at Manassas .

I know it's long, but it's really quite something. If you really want to get the full impact, Netflix The Civil War's first disc, and wait for the very end. If you are not somehow moved, you are very likely not human.

If you simply CANNOT read the entire thing, just start at the 8th paragraph, which begins "Forgive my many faults..."

But you really ought to read the entire thing.


LETTER TO HIS WIFE (1861)
My very dear Sarah:

The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days -- perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.

Our movement may be one of a few days duration and full of pleasure -- and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine O God, be done. If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing -- perfectly willing -- to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt.

But, my dear wife, when I know that with my own joys I lay down nearly all of yours, and replace them in this life with cares and sorrows -- when, after having eaten for long years the bitter fruit of orphanage myself, I must offer it as their only sustenance to my dear little children -- is it weak or dishonorable, while the banner of my purpose floats calmly and proudly in the breeze, that my unbounded love for you, my darling wife and children, should struggle in fierce, though useless, contest with my love of country?

I cannot describe to you my feelings on this calm summer night, when two thousand men are sleeping around me, many of them enjoying the last, perhaps, before that of death -- and I, suspicious that Death is creeping behind me with his fatal dart, am communing with God, my country, and thee.

I have sought most closely and diligently, and often in my breast, for a wrong motive in thus hazarding the happiness of those I loved and I could not find one. A pure love of my country and of the principles I have often advocated before the people and "the name of honor that I love more than I fear death" have called upon me, and I have obeyed.

Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me -- perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar -- that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name.

Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have oftentimes been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But I cannot. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night -- amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours -- always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.

As for my little boys, they will grow as I have done, and never know a father's love and care. Little Willie is too young to remember me long, and my blue-eyed Edgar will keep my frolics with him among the dimmest memories of his childhood. Sarah, I have unlimited confidence in your maternal care and your development of their characters. Tell my two mothers his and hers I call God's blessing upon them. O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children.

Sullivan

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Although it is technically not a movie, I cannot sit through this Warner Brothers cartoon without a lump in my throat, at least. And yet it is funny at the same time:

Google Video

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Seems like the Google Video got removed, but it's on Youtube in French.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWM7KLUk5Bk
YouTube - Feed the kitty

Magnifique! Formidable!

[React1oN]

I am Sam, is the only one I can remember, at the end, I couldn't help but letting out a tear.

[Deorum]

Movies:

- Field of Dreams (catch)

- Old Yeller (end)

- Terminator II (end, only when it first came out and I was young)

- Crash (daughter covering father)

- Benji the Hunted (end)

TV:

- Fresh Prince (episode where his father comes back)

- Jurassic Bark (end of Futurama episode already mentioned) this one would probably kill me if I watched it right now. I am 24, my dog is 15. I got him when he was a tiny puppy. We grew up together. He has cancer and is getting worse fast. I know I am going to have to bury him within the next couple of months, and I know I am going to be bawling when that time comes.

- Roseanne (final episode, I think, spoiler in white: <font color="white"> at the end where she reveals that Dan actually died of a heart attack, they never won the lottery, and the entire last season or however long that storyline went was just a story she wrote to deal with the pain</font>)

Book:

- Bridge to Terabithia (read it in 5th grade long b4 it was a movie, spoiler in white: <font color="white"> when Josh finds out Leslie died - didn't move me in the movie, but maybe that is because I was expecting it and they left out the only line I remember from reading the book all those years ago </font>)


Some also mentioned Cast Away. I always thought this movie had huge tear jerker potential but felt they did a poor job of creating a relationship between him and his wife, so the scene where he comes back to find her was not that devastating to me, as I really did not have any feelings for her. To each his own, though.

[Rushmore]

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Movies:

- Field of Dreams (catch)

- Old Yeller (end)

- Terminator II (end, only when it first came out and I was young)

- Crash (daughter covering father)

- Benji the Hunted (end)

TV:

- Fresh Prince (episode where his father comes back)

- Jurassic Bark (end of Futurama episode already mentioned) this one would probably kill me if I watched it right now. I am 24, my dog is 15. I got him when he was a tiny puppy. We grew up together. He has cancer and is getting worse fast. I know I am going to have to bury him within the next couple of months, and I know I am going to be bawling when that time comes.

- Roseanne (final episode, I think, spoiler in white: <font color="white"> at the end where she reveals that Dan actually died of a heart attack, they never won the lottery, and the entire last season or however long that storyline went was just a story she wrote to deal with the pain</font>)

Book:

- Bridge to Terabithia (read it in 5th grade long b4 it was a movie, spoiler in white: <font color="white"> when Josh finds out Leslie died - didn't move me in the movie, but maybe that is because I was expecting it and they left out the only line I remember from reading the book all those years ago </font>)


Some also mentioned Cast Away. I always thought this movie had huge tear jerker potential but felt they did a poor job of creating a relationship between him and his wife, so the scene where he comes back to find her was not that devastating to me, as I really did not have any feelings for her. To each his own, though.

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I cried at Crash, too.

But it was only because they wouldn't give me my money back.