Sensitive topic (pun intended): Movies that make men cry

[bwickens]

Sure, I know it's just the work of some screenwriters jerking around my emotions, but there are movies where you just can't help but get teary-eyed. Without blaming it on "allergies", Top of my List:
"My Dog Skip". Saw it once. Can't watch it again.

 

[MaximumLawman]

Not a movie, but I always cried during "The Dukes of Hazard" when the General Lee went heading towards another ramp knowing what was going to happen when the front end hit the ground.

 

[jframe]

I always cry in the middle of Bullitt, when the Mustang tears off a control arm in the ditch at the end of the chase, and that hot '68 Charger R/T veers into the gas station. Another notable tear jerker for me is when Joe Don Baker as Buford Pusser hits the guy in the back with his big stick like a Louisville slugger in the 1973 classic, Walking Tall.

 

[Crazy K38]

the fast and the furious when that beautiful black charger rolls, oh I am tearing up now, or any movie where a beautiful 1911 hits the floor!

 

[hberttmank]

Not that I would admit crying over a movie, but the part in Dirty Harry when Scorpio has Harry toss his 29 on the concrete kinda brings a lump in my throat.

 

[sipowicz]

Any movie that costs over 9 bucks.

 

[Knightrider03m]

John Q. That whole movie sent me for a emo ride
Green mile <---- I didn't even watch the whole movie, just the ending and I got all choked up.
The end of Gran Torino
And believe it or not, the Disney movie "up"

 

[mgjohn]

The first part of Heat where the bad guys burn the ambulance with there guns inside after the armored car robbery.

 

[NFrameFred]

When that dirty back shootin' Nazi guns down Jim Brown on his grenade run in the "Dirty Dozen" . . . oh, the humanity !

 

[BarbC]

Thelma & Louise, when they go over the cliff. What a waste of a Mustang.

 

[mr.croom]

Saving Private Ryan
Turner & Hooch

I watched "The Notebook" with my wife on a date night while the kids were with grandma. In the final moments of the film, when it is revealed that James Garner's character is actually telling his Alzheimer's stricken wife the story of their love for one another, that was pretty tough. Seeing ol' "Maverick" cry after she slips back into dimentia, after having only a brief moment of clarity with her, broke me.

EDIT: Sorry Ma'am! My sincerest apologies!

 

[Iggy]

I'm with Sip. I've only gone to one movie in the last 20 years. That was Dances with Wolves.
Near the end of the movie, Two Socks and Lt Dunbar literally and figuratively trapped between the old ways (Indians) and the new ways (White soldiers). Watching Two Socks trying to choose an escape route and being shot, tore me up.

As a member of a pioneer family in Wyoming and a "Buckskinner" and knowing we took the land from the Indians, and now watching modern civilization encroaching and taking my way of life, I can strongly relate to what the movie was saying.

Can't say as I cried, but it gave me a deep sense of sadness to know that time after time, "ways of life" have been destroyed by what we call progress.

I guess I kind of expressed some of my feelings in this story I wrote on my web page

Iggy's story. http://home.bresnan.net/~buflerchip/iggystory.html

 

[jimmyj]

Good Morning:
1. Bambi- when His Mother is killed
2. Old Yellow- when Old Yellow has to be "Put Down"
3. My Dog Skip- when Skip is dying and wants up on His Master's bed.
4. The Yearling- when Flag has to be killed
5. Sands of Iwo Jima- when "John" is killed and the American Flag is raised.

 

[moonclip]

When Alan Ladd kept on riding even after Joey shouted "Shane! Come back!"

......moon

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The ONLY movie men are allowed to cry in is Old Yeller. Any others-turn in your man card. (exception-Shenandoah when Jimmie Stewart's son gets killed by the Yankee )

 

[walnutred]

The ONLY movie men are allowed to cry in is Old Yeller. Any others-turn in your man card. (exception-Shenandoah when Jimmie Stewart's son gets killed by the Yankee )

You beat me to the Shenandoah reference. Last movie that made me cry was: Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam.

 

[jimmyj]

Hi, Cajun:
I don't have a "Man Card" to turn in.
However I have a "Wimp Card" that I have had for years.
Do I turn it in?
Jimmy (aka- Wimp/cry baby)

 

[NFrameFred]

Hi, Cajun:
I don't have a "Man Card" to turn in.
However I have a "Wimp Card" that I have had for years.
Do I turn it in?
Jimmy (aka- Wimp/cry baby)

Let him keep it, Caj . . . you wouldn't want to make him cry

 

[Pilgrim]

If Schindler's List doesn't make you well up, you ain't human.

 

[Chromedhearts]

Thelma & Louise, when they go over the cliff. What a waste of a Mustang.

Ahh, that was a T-Bird, I believe, not a Mustang.