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

[clubleaf206]

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

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.

 

[Mickey D]

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

 

[MP1983]

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....

 

[BearBio]

"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.

 

[Donald Paul]

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

 

[DWalt]

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.

 

[mjr]

...I've heard that the real Porsche 917 that Steve [McQueen] drove in the movie is now owned by Jerry Seinfeld.

That's enough to make me cry right there.

 

[blujax01]

....

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

...

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.

 

[pineappleshooter]

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

 

[Foodfuzz]

"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.

 

[Aden67]

Not ashamed to mention these:

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

 

[GKC]

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.

 

[GaryS]

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!

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.

 

[LoadedRound]

Prancer

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.

 

[Frank237]

At the end of Saving Private Ryan, when the elder Ryan asks if he has been a good man, get's me every @#$% time. AND, the interviews with the real men from E company in Band of Brothers when they talk about each other as friends.

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

 

[wraco]

"Old Yeller" . . . .

 

[DeathGrip]

Band of Brothers when they come upon the concentration camp.

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

 

[novalty]

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.

 

[LazyKB]

"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.

 

[pilgrim6a]

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