I had "Taking Chance" in my possesion [a loan from a friend] for over two weeks before I could watch it. I finally did and it was painful. Especially learning about the real "Chance" and seeing his pictures and his family.

I am tired of the government waisting good people's lives while they let scum continue to live.

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"Saving Private Ryan" and "Forrest Gump". About half a box of Kleenex each.

I remember crying over Old Yeller when I saw it when I was a kid.
I didn't even know Where The Red Fern Grows was made into a movie, but that was the only time I ever remember crying over a book (in 3rd grade, probably around same age as when I watched Old Yeller) Don't know what it was about dogs dying that tugged at my heartstrings....Im still a dog lover today
Now that I know it exists, I'm buying a copy of the Where The Red Fern Grows movie.....still one of my favorite books ever

George C. Scott in the TV movie "The Last Days Of Patton" The final scene did it for me and I will say no more.

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"We Were Soldiers", every time.
Others have mentioned, "Saving Private Ryan."

T-Star

The scene in "Gone with the Wind" where Scarlett runs from the building being used as a hospital into the railyard where there are hundreds of wounded men lying out in the open-then the camera eases back, and the Stars and Bars flag is defiantly flapping in the foreground.

I had ancestors in the Army of Tennessee, one of which died in hospital before they were pushed back to Atlanta.

A few war movies,yea,but one I actually can't watch more then the one time I did....was an animated film from Japan (Anime) called "Grave of the Fireflies" which is about two kids in WWII Japan and you follow them through the war and basically...watch them starve to death.

That movie SUCKED and gawd I dunna want to watch it ever again

Not a movie but a book, "The Black Flower", about a young Confederate soldier wounded in the battle of Franklin, TN and was recuperating in a field hospital, meets a young nurse, falls in love and.............

keith44spl states,

"Cry over a movie?
Gees...Oh, go on and shed a tear if'n you have to.
But, I got tell ya'll, it ain't real folks.'

Sir, go to my profile and drop me a note as to your address. I will send you a copy of "Taking Chance".

Regards.

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Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon.

Anything with Rosie O'Donnell in it.

Such a waste of good film.

"Taking Chance"

"Saving Private Ryan"

Never cried because of a movie but the movie Ghost in the Darkness that I watched on a really ugly stormy night gave me a heck of a nightmare. When I finally woke up, I was backed up against the bedroom wall facing a wall full of windows to the back yard, rifle in hand and my old yellow Lab between my feet, hair on the back of his neck up and growling (Bubba watched it with me). No idea why it scared the **** out of both of us but darned if it didn't. Watched it again the next day and Bubba growled every time he saw one of the lions.

Reservoir Dogs
I Don't cry but makes me wince when they torture
the cop.
And basically any movie where a dog is killed.
Also whenever a gun is handled wrong or dropped.

Chuck

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For me,

Old Yeller,
Pride of the Yankees
Taking Chance
Saving Private Ryan
Pride of the Yankees, yeah it needs to be mentioned twice
Forest Gump

Somehow, those crossed anchors make me believe that you don't really have a wimp card. Thank you for your service to our great nation and her people.

Re: the actual topic of this thread; the movie that always gets me is "Big Red". The dog actor was the sire of my own red setter mentioned here in another thread.

Russ

The Green Berets, at the end when The Duke has to tell the kid about Peterson.

Not a movie, but season two of 24, where Jack is flying an airplane with a nuclear bomb on it, expecting to crash land it while talking to his daughter. I didn't cry (I NEVER cry) but I predicted Missus P&R Fan would, and she did.

And one I just watched tonight, King Creole. At the end, when Elvis' girlfriend gets shot.

Oh, one more, my absolute favorite movie of all time.....Casablanca. When Bogie lets Ingrid Bergman get on the plane without him. NO WAY would I have let her go!

I didn't actually cry at any of these. I'm way too tough....but I wanted to.

Jim

"I love Brian Picolo..and I want you all to love him."

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No, that made me smile! (BTW, whatever became of Bo Derek? I think her real name was Cathy Collins until she married John Derek, who was Ursula Andress's and Linda Evans's ex, too. That guy could really pick 'em, and he certainly had consistent taste in blondes.

What makes me cry? "We Were Soldiers", every time. It's a true story, and I've read the book by the officer who Mel Gibson portrayed, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. I think he received the DSC for that action, and three of those involved were eventually awarded the Medal of Honor. By golly, they earned it. It is a raw shame that the two helicopter pilots were delayed for so long in in receiving the Medal.

The whole movie is intense, and it got to me when the Oriental GI was lost to a US napalm drop. What Sgt. Savage's platoon endured was awful. I think the real Savage also received the DSC. Not to mention the Purple Heart...

Not shown was the nearby action the next day, I think, for which Lt. Joe Marm received the Medal of Honor.
These men were heroes who went through Hades and were mostly treated like stepsons by their ungrateful nation and a largely hostile media.


Another one that gets to me a little is, "Out of Africa", with the way that Bror treated Karen. Denys also was too much of a free spirit to settle down with her.

Here's a tearjerker not in the movie: John A. Hunter, the aptly named friend and sometime safari partner of Denys Finch Hatton, told in one of his books how the real Finch Hatton had been given some oranges by a lady at a farm just before he took off on his fatal flight. Hunter arrived soon after the crash and saw the blackened oranges rolling out of the burning cockpit and that was his last memory of his friend.

The loss of Karen's farm and her return to Denmark was also saddening, as was the death by blackwater fever of one of Denys's friends, Barkley.

But the hunting scenes and some of the wartime footage and the massive landscape views were redeeming. The guns were dead-on for the characters and the times. It's my favorite film with both Redford and Streep, ably assisted by Klaus Maria Brandauer. It's one of the best tellings of a true story that I've seen. Redford even looked a lot like the real Finch Hatton.


Good gosh! I just realized that this is an old thread!

In the original Highlander movie, there is a section where the hero is living with a girl in a croft in Scotland and they manage to show in a minute or two that she ages and he does not because he is immortal. It ends with the now old lady on her deathbed saying how she had never questioned how he stayed young and that she was sad they never had children. Much of this is done with the Queen tune "Who wants to live forever". Gets me and a lot of other guys every time.

Two more:

Watership Down
Toy Story 3

Well, it looks like most of you guys, like me, are human after all. Early in my short career in the army as a medic, we lost a patient to a heart attack. The sad thing was he didn't have to die that way. We saw him earlier in the day for complaints of chest pain. The doctor wanted to admit him right away, but he was on the base security team (Air Police) and he convinced us he would return briefly for admission and treatment in the hospital, but had to return to work briefly to turn over his keys, codes, etc., or that operations would really be impacted. He went into a secure area of the building and had the only key to the door in his pocket (the other key holder was out of the building at the time). By the time we could finally reach him, he was gone. I cried my eyes out for him. I was 19 yrs. old, and this was the first person I had ever seen die. My boss, an old SFC who had fought in Viet Nam (and never spoke of it), took me aside and told me while he understood my feelings, that it was enough, and if I could not handle people dying, I needed to get a new job, and that he would help me find it.

That did if for me, and I learned to stop the water works for the rest of my 16+ year medical career. I never really worried about the consequences as I (thought) I was now a "real man". It took the birth of my daughter to open the flood gates, and now, to my relief and embarrassment, I cry at the drop of a hat. I'll turn 57 yrs. this April, and I never thought I'd live this long.

Life is too short. Celebrate each day and don't worry when you decide to show your humanity.

Best regards,

Dave

On Golden Pond, fer cry sakes--------My grandparents were everything to me.........And "Life as a House" This sucks..................

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We Were Soldiers always gets to me for a couple of reasons. First, I was in the 1st Cav Div as a company commander and Bn S3 in 1980-83 at FT Hood, so we were always aware of the division's Vietnam history, but it was always in a dry, textbook kind of way. In a more personal light though, I was friends in junior high and high school with a kid whose father was killed in the battle. If you'll recall, there's a scene with an Air Force A1E Skyraider providing close air support over LZ X-RAY. On one of his several low-level gun runs, the AE1 was hit and in the movie you see it trailing smoke and flames. It crashed about 2 kilometers northeast of LZ X-RAY and the pilot, Capt. Paul T. McClellan was killed. That pilot was my friend's dad. Bob never talked about his dad, other than he was killed in Vietnam.

I always liked this from the movie;
‘All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies,’ Frith advises. ‘And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.’


'The Green Mile' had me choking up, too. And the sentiment of brotherhood expressed in the simple statement "You go, we go" in the movie 'Backdraft' always tugs at my heartstrings.

One that really got to me was the end of "Marley and Me" when Owen Wilson's character was talking to his dying lab about what he meant to the family!

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I have to admit I have cried at a lot of movies, too many to name.
Heck I started crying when I saw a newspaper article about the homeless. The picture with a little girl about 4 years old sitting on the side of a street with her mother and all their possessions and the sad look on her face, I still remember the look in her eyes.
I also cry just about every time a member post a thread about putting a pet down.
I guess I'm a softie, don't tell anybody.

Beginning and ending of Saving private when the old private ryan goes to the cemetary.

Forrest Gump when Forrest is standing at bubba's grave and when he is standing at Jenny's grave.

I tear-up when they give the cars back on Overhaulin'. By far the best show on television and they just started making new episodes!

I haven't cried at a movie since Old Yeller. Since becoming an adult there have been a few that have made me moist. I will say that several years ago my wicked, wicked wife tricked me into watching the Crying Game. She had to hide all the sharp objects from me so I couldn't poke my durn eyes out.

"Kill Ari - Parts 1&2" on NCIS. Caitlin's murder and the way her ghost interacted with the cast was handled beautifully. And when she admonishes Gibbs for being late to her funeral, well...

I forgot to comment about this, the scene from that movie that I've always remembered, played out in slow motion, was the Chicago Bears player crossing himself just before he takes the opening kickoff as a piano plays in the background. Very touching.

Not a movie, but the "MacGyver" TV series.
The butthead always threw the guns away instead of using them.

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I was gonna be a smart aleck and say "The Wild Bunch"....but okay, there are some movies that can take us on an emotional roller coaster if we allow them to...that is in fact why they exist, to entertain us and illicit some emotion whether it be joy, laughter, a sense of right over wrong when the bad guy gets it, etc., (although depressing movies are just that, depressing...my own life has been challenging enough, I don't need anyone to remind me how tough things are and about what we do or fail to do in order to respond)....

ANYWAY, all that being said, for me a scene that springs to mind is in "Rudy" when all the star seniors are willing to sit out for the game in order to let Rudy get his chance to step on the field in a real game just once (as promised by an earlier coach)...as a former football player myself (just kid stuff & high school) & team player at work in the Army & Texas prisons for the past 3 decades...this really gets to me, that others recognized his heart & will to succeed, along with his self-less effort at such a high level, and it did not pass unnoticed or unappreciated and they were willing to give back a little....

"The Flowers of War" about the rape of Nanking with Christian Bales.

"The other Side of the Mountain" about skier Jill Kinmont, when her boyfriend is killed.

Any dog-dying film.

A couple of others=If I remember the names, I'll post them.

This post-
...reflecting on each one that you-all mention.

One not mentioned, perhaps because not many saw it, is the Richard Gere movie "Haichi," also another dog movie. Plot was that the dog would always go to the railroad station every day to meet his master (Gere). Master dies at work, but faithful dog continues to visit the station every day in the hope his master will return for years afterward, summer and winter, and lives off what people feed him. Based upon a true story in Japan. A terrifically sad movie, I still get lumps in my throat over it.

That's enough to make me cry right there.

Forgot about that one. It was a "First Date" movie. I was so bummed out and so was the girl! Just took her home and dropped her off.

The fart scene in "Blazing Saddles" I laugh so hard I cry!

"Dirty Harry", when he says, "This here is a .44 Magnum, the most powerfull handgun in the world, and it will blow your head clean off." Actually," Saving Private Ryan" when the older Ryan ask his wife at the cemetary if he has been a good man, of course remembering the sacrifices made to save him and Tom Hanks as the Ranger Captain telling him "You earn this" just before he died.

Not ashamed to mention these:

Saving Private Ryan...final scene
Platoon--last scene on chopper with that song...get's me every time

I simply cannot watch the first part of "Up." My wife was in a coma in ICU for over a month in 2007, and when I saw that movie and he lost his wife, it brought back all those memories.

There are other movies that do make me sad, but I can't say that I actually cry. While not a movie, the commercials for the SPCA showing the pitiful abused animals is just more than I can take.

What they do to some of those care while "improving" them makes me cry sometimes.

As others have noted, the end of "Saving Private Ryan" gets me every time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prancer_(film)

Sorry. I'm a sap. My only child is a Daughter. If you haven't seen it, don't judge.

You and I are cut from the same cloth!

Add "Flags of Our Fathers" when John is killed and the Flag goes up, as well as a few other parts too long to go into here. My Father was on Iwo and that thirty days was a big part of his life...especially years later.

"Band of Bothers" at the end when Major Winters is recalling the story about the letter....WOW! Gets me every time.

FN in MT

"Old Yeller" . . . .

Band of Brothers when they come upon the concentration camp.

I'm not Jewish and my wife is German. It makes us both sick.

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The two big tear-jerker scenes that I come to mind are the end of "Saving Private Ryan" like other have mentioned, as well as the end of "Forrest Gump" when he is talking with his son.

"We Are Marshall" The crash was in my first sophomore year (I had two). Five fraternity brothers were on the plane, along with the parents of several high school classmates. We went to memorial services for a month. A cloud hung over the school and the city of Huntington until 1992 when we won the 2A National Championship. Cried at that game too, 22 years after the plane went down.

'55 Days at Peking'
Charlton Heston looks down at the little girl and says,
"Come, take my hand."

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