Anything with Rosie O'Donnell in it.
Such a waste of good film.
Such a waste of good film.
Sensitive topic (pun intended): Movies that make men cry
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jwk
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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.
JCS&W
US Veteran
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
Old Yeller,
Pride of the Yankees
Taking Chance
Saving Private Ryan
Pride of the Yankees, yeah it needs to be mentioned twice
Forest Gump
rcnixon
Member
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
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
sipowicz
Member
"I love Brian Picolo..and I want you all to love him."
Texas Star
US Veteran
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!
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LVSteve
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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
Two more:
Watership Down
Toy Story 3
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Double-O-Dave
US Veteran
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
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
ChuckS1
US Veteran
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.
clubleaf206
Member
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!
bamabiker
Member
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.
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.
mg357
Absent Comrade
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.
Forrest Gump when Forrest is standing at bubba's grave and when he is standing at Jenny's grave.
mball
Member
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.
