Movies guaranteed to make a grown man cry

[dlbpharmd]

Source: EW.com

Shawshank Redemption
Armageddon
Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
Love Story
Amelie
Field of Dreams
My dog Skip
Old Yeller
Where the red fern grows
Good Will Hunting
Brian's Song
Big Fish
Backdraft
Hoosiers
Hotel Rwanda
Saving Private Ryan

[Avatar]

Seen 6 of those. No crying. But damn, does Ol' Yeller bring back memories.

--A

[dlbpharmd]

Edited to add a few more, Av. Hit "submit" by mistake.

[Avatar]

So make it 10 I've seen. Still nothing I'm afraid. Good, very good, movies though. (Just watched Hotel Rwanda recently in fact, prompted by our earlier discussion of it.)

--A

[dlbpharmd]

I cried like a baby at the end of SPR.

Steel Magnolias can bring the tears, but it's not so much the story as Sally Field's performance at the cemetary that breaks my heart.

But Armageddon? WTF? Cry from boredom, perhaps....

[Avatar]

Personally, I'm hampered by an inability to suspend my disbelief enough. There are a few, very few, scenes in some books that do bring tears to my eyes, but that's usually abot it. Can't think of a movie that has done the same thing.

--A

[dlbpharmd]

I'm probably just the opposite. I can become more engrossed in a movie scene than a scene from a book.

[Avatar]

For me I think it's that movies require less head-work. They give you too much on a plate. With a book, it's all in your head...and when I get lost in there...

--A

[Cail]

Old Yeller, definitely. Brian's Song, definitely. Field of Dreams, definitely.

[Usivius]

I've 10 as well, however, none made me cry.
Only two moview made me cry by the end:
Being There
Fearless (the Jeff Bridges one) --- balled like a baby at the end of that one...

[A Gunslinger]

Starman w/ Jeff Bridges was a sad ending,though i did not weep.

SPR was a toughie though, as was Life is Beautiful, though Roberto B., is an insufferable showboat.

[CovenantJr]

Armageddon?! Backdraft?!

My eyes did moisten slightly at the end of The Shawshank Redemption (which is about as close as I get to crying at films)

[Creator]

Old Yeller - always!

[lucimay]

Fearless (the Jeff Bridges one) --- balled like a baby at the end of that one...

wow! this is one of my favorite movies. VERY powerful. i always recommend this movie to people. i love peter weir's direction and the end is good but, 'scuse me, can you say ROSIE PEREZ!! omg...she's just BRILLIANT!! the toolbox scene.

[Fist and Faith]

There's LOTS more stuff that can make me cry since my first kid was born.

Steel Magnolias can bring the tears, but it's not so much the story as Sally Field's performance at the cemetary that breaks my heart.

Damn!

But Armageddon? WTF? Cry from boredom, perhaps....

Same thing. When the blind guy is saying goodbye to his kids via the video-radio. Good God!

And in Deep Impact, when the crowds are gathered outside the caverns, or whatever that safe place is, hoping to get in. And somebody holds up a little blond boy to the passing vehicle, hoping someone in the vehicle will grab their boy and take him in so he can live... Damn, I can barely type even that tiny description!

With a book, it's all in your head...and when I get lost in there...

Hey, man, don't even bring that up!!! Lost in Av's head?? *shudder*

Anyway, I'm with dlb. Although, imo, books are better in nearly every way, seeing some things is more powerful for me. I can read all about Dukkha Waynhim being hideously deformed and irreparably damaged by torture, but I won't ever bother trying to watch Mel Gibson's Passion. I can't watch that kind of brutality.

And reading that a 25' shark swam by the boat is kinda scary. But it's hard to really know what that means until I see it in the movie.

[Warmark]

Armageddon

HaHa! Hardly.

[Farm Ur-Ted]

I cried my ass of during Kingpin.

[Creator]

as to Armageddon:

Actually, for me it is the scene where the astronaunt father is introduced to the son that didn't know he was his dad.

[Edit: and for me a commercial -

my mom died a few years back of cancer. she was always a big kid at heart an played video games! my son would play with her when he visited and often help her with the 'hard parts'. Anyway ... Playstation had a commercial in which an old woman was muttering something about needed a secret or some such thing - no one paid attention to her ... and a little boy goes up to her and whispers the hint she needed for the vidoe game she was playing ... her whole face lit up ... that was my mom (and tears on the train back to DC even now! ]

[dlbpharmd]

What Fist said about fatherhood....completely understand. In the movie The House of Sand and Fog, when Ben Kingsley is praying to Allah to spare his son's life, I had to leave the room. That absolutely tore my heart out. I loved that movie, but I'll never see it again.

Also agree with Fist about Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. I can't handle that.

There's a movie that Dakota Fanning made recently that stirred some controversy (you may have heard about it.) No way I'm going to see that one either.

[Usivius]

the toolbox scene

Oh, yah, Lucy ... that on so many levels. the way Rosie loses it ... wow. And then Jeff freaks out. Everything was going so well, then suddenly (a) reality sets in. When he bursts from the car in a panic, I immediately got a lump in my throat. (getting shivers as I write it)...
then the whole idea he has about how to show her it wasn't her fault... she's sobbing uncontrollably... god, ... brilliant and absolutely moving.

I have been 'afraid' to see this movie with my wife, as I fear my ego would be too bruised when I loose it ....

I'm ALIVE!

(g'dam chilling...)