Movies guaranteed to make a grown man cry

[dlbpharmd]

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.

Added to my Blockbuster queue.....

[Brinn]

Me as well...Sounds like a good recommendation!

[drew]

I've seen most of them.

Strangly, I only cried durring Armageddan...the scene where Bruce Willis is just about the blow the detonator, and in stead of his life flashing before his eyes it was his daughter's life.

I wouldn't say I cried a lot...but my eyes certainly welled up.

Steel Magnolia was sheer and utter torture. The only movie I hated as much may have been Thelma and Louise....and possibly Beaches.

As for SPR...although I loved the movie, It brought no tears to my eyes...maybe cause I'm not a vetran, I don't know.

Crying like a baby..? Probebly only at ET, the first time I saw it, when I was five.

[matrixman]

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!

Er, the blind guy was from Deep Impact...

I had a lump in my throat when Tea Leoni's character gave up her seat on the helicopter for the other woman and her kid. Also, when Leoni stood with her dad on the beach to meet their fate. Deep Impact moved me way more than Armageddon.

One heartbreaker of a film that is special to me is For The Moment (1994) - set on the Canadian prairies during WW II, about a local married farm girl who has a secret fling with an Aussie bomber pilot (who is there as part of the Commonwealth's pilot training program), while her husband, as well as her brother, are away at war. This movie had its share of lumpy throat moments, and one that totally made me break down: Lill (Christianne Hirt), the farm girl, is just going out into the yard to hang her laundry...but we know something is up because the scene is played in slow motion, accompanied by subdued, sorrowful music. The camera tracks her, then pans to the right, where we see a car slowly drive up to her house. Out steps an army officer, head bowed with a letter in his hand. The camera follows him back to Lill, who stands frozen as the officer hands her the letter. She reads the letter, then in a daze walks away, then collapses to her knees. Her father and sister at the other side of the yard rush to her, and we see her mouth the awful news to them. This whole slo mo sequence is one continuous shot, no edits. That gives the scene its emotional wallop, as every moment of sadness is magnified. Just a well executed, deceptively simple shot.

I also must mention the closing scene of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1936). The Little Tramp and the blind girl whom he helped are at last reunited in one of the greatest tearjerking moments ever. It gets to me every time - just thinking about the scene gets my eyes moist. I revere Chaplin.

[Fist and Faith]

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!

Er, the blind guy was from Deep Impact...

Yeah? Hm... Then I guess there aren't any moments in Armegeddon for me.

However, that means Deep Impact is even better, because this stuff you mention is also fantastic!! Two excellent scenes!

I had a lump in my throat when Tea Leoni's character gave up her seat on the helicopter for the other woman and her kid. Also, when Leoni stood with her dad on the beach to meet their fate. Deep Impact moved me way more than Armageddon.

You sure about that blind guy? Heh.

[matrixman]

Well, I don't remember any blind guys from Armageddon - just blinding, over the top cinematography and Ben Affleck's blinding white teeth!

[Fist and Faith]

I'll certainly take your word for it. It's been so long, I didn't even remember Ben was in it!

[SothuTheUnfetterdOne.]

I have seen 13 of those movies and none of them made me cry.

the last thing I remember that made me cry, was the end of a episode of 24
during season three where jack shoots ryan, hoo man.

[Avatar]

Deep Impact was way better than Armageddon.

--A

[Cail]

I watched Deep Impact with my daughter yesterday and lost it at the end when Tea Leoni and Maximillian Schell are standing on the beach arm-in-arm.

[Usivius]

That is a good moment, but I never thought much of either of those two meteor movies...

I also must mention the closing scene of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1936). The Little Tramp and the blind girl whom he helped are at last reunited in one of the greatest tearjerking moments ever. It gets to me every time - just thinking about the scene gets my eyes moist.

I am ashamed of myself. 'Tis true! The last time I saw that movie was about 5 years ago and as soon as that moment happens, the girl's eyes widen with realization, and a cut to the Tramp's smiling face, nervously biting his finger... wow, that was amazing.... (tears welled)

[Warmark]

Well, I don't remember any blind guys from Armageddon - just blinding, over the top cinematography and Ben Affleck's blinding white teeth!

doesnt some bloke look at the sun without a visor or something and turns blind during the mission.