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Movies that make grown men cry...

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    #302
    Cravez
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    Grave of the Fireflies


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    #303
    Howard the Duck
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    I'd often get a little bit emotional during sad movies, One trick I've learned to stop any tears is to bite my tongue and try think about something else.

    I watched a documentary called Dear Zachary the other day and it's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I was watching it with my flatmate so didn't want to look unmanly, So instead i nearly bit my tongue off.....i think i need a new trick.


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    #304
    sky88
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    the presidents speech in independance day brings a tear and makes me fired up to save the world all in one speech


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    #305
    ToniTuddle
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    Howard the Duck wrote: »

    I watched a documentary called Dear Zachary the other day and it's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I was watching it with my flatmate so didn't want to look unmanly, So instead i nearly bit my tongue off.....i think i need a new trick.


    Ahh here! How was your flatmate during it? That film is utterly heart breaking/wrenching/ripping. But yeah I do recommend anyone watching it does so alone with about a full roll of tissues. Never has a film had such an effect on me like that one. It really does stay with ya :/

    Now it wouldn't work with that film but other ones I've gotten away with not crying by once you feel the sting to start looking up at the ceiling while not moving your head and blinking like mad! Not sure if I've mentioned that before but sure....it's a handy tip to try!


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    #306
    Shane-KornSpace
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    armageddon.

    Marley and me.


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    #307
    seachto7
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    Anvil!


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    #308
    Otis Driftwood
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    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Ahh here! How was your flatmate during it? That film is utterly heart breaking/wrenching/ripping. But yeah I do recommend anyone watching it does so alone with about a full roll of tissues. Never has a film had such an effect on me like that one. It really does stay with ya :/

    Now it wouldn't work with that film but other ones I've gotten away with not crying by once you feel the sting to start looking up at the ceiling while not moving your head and blinking like mad! Not sure if I've mentioned that before but sure....it's a handy tip to try!

    I downloaded this last night and will watch it tonight.I dont know anything about it at all except its supposed to be ultra sad.I shall report my thoughts back later.


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    #309
    CroatoanCat
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    I'm a woman, hope it's okay to add my nominations!

    As so many others have said, the opening sequence of Up; it just fells you.

    Nil by Mouth - a superb film and extraordinary performances by Ray Winstone and Kathy Burke. I cried through large chunks of that, even at the end when you were left wondering if Winstone's character had changed in any real way.


    Once were Warriors - the scene where the mother makes the discovery in the garden. Heart-breaking.


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    #310
    ToniTuddle
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    Otis Driftwood wrote: »
    I downloaded this last night and will watch it tonight.I dont know anything about it at all except its supposed to be ultra sad.I shall report my thoughts back later.

    Don't watch any trailers or read anything about it. Never watch any trailers anymore as they always give away the whole feicin movie >.<
    Have the volume up good and loud too so ya can hear everything!

    I normally hate watching movies with others in the house they always get up to put on the kettle or to go to the toilet during an important part in the movie, drives me mad :pac:


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    #311
    Marty McFly
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    Howard the Duck wrote: »
    I'd often get a little bit emotional during sad movies, One trick I've learned to stop any tears is to bite my tongue and try think about something else.

    I watched a documentary called Dear Zachary the other day and it's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I was watching it with my flatmate so didn't want to look unmanly, So instead i nearly bit my tongue off.....i think i need a new trick.

    Hmm all the talk of this has me very curious to see it now, might have to source a copy of it from somewhere. Or anyone know anywhere to download it? if your allowed say on this thread.


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    #312
    Howard the Duck
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    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Ahh here! How was your flatmate during it? That film is utterly heart breaking/wrenching/ripping. But yeah I do recommend anyone watching it does so alone with about a full roll of tissues. Never has a film had such an effect on me like that one. It really does stay with ya :/

    Now it wouldn't work with that film but other ones I've gotten away with not crying by once you feel the sting to start looking up at the ceiling while not moving your head and blinking like mad! Not sure if I've mentioned that before but sure....it's a handy tip to try!

    Ah sure girls are allowed to cry at sad movies!
    I'm not sure how my flatmate was during it, after i think we both kinda mumbled "well that was depressing" and didn't make eye contact.
    luvbulmers01 wrote: »
    Hmm all the talk of this has me very curious to see it now, might have to source a copy of it from somewhere. Or anyone know anywhere to download it? if your allowed say on this thread.

    To be honest i dunno if i'd actually recommend it, sad movies are ok but the fact this is a documentary it really stays with you as Toni said. Don't think we are allowed to talk about downloading stuff (illegally)


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    #313
    Otis Driftwood
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    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Don't watch any trailers or read anything about it. Never watch any trailers anymore as they always give away the whole feicin movie >.<
    Have the volume up good and loud too so ya can hear everything!

    Just got done with it.Jesus Christ,glad I have the house to myself.:(


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    #314
    ToniTuddle
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    Howard the Duck wrote: »
    Ah sure girls are allowed to cry at sad movies!
    I'm not sure how my flatmate was during it, after i think we both kinda mumbled "well that was depressing" and didn't make eye contact.

    Awww bless ya's! Well I wouldn't think any less of a lad for getting some tears in his eyes or crying at a movie. In fact it would be damn refreshing to see!

    Even though I do try and hide tears mysef if I'm along with someone, that's why I like watching sad movies alone as I can cry buckets in peace :o
    Otis Driftwood wrote: »
    Just got done with it.Jesus Christ,glad I have the house to myself.:(

    Yeah it gets to ya :(


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    #315
    tunguska
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    Saving Private Ryan

    Near the end when a dying Captain Miller(Hanks)tells Ryan to "Earn this"
    And then it flashes foward to the present with Ryan kneeling at miller's grave, he turns to his wife and asks her, "Have I been a good man?"
    Jesus that gets me everytime...........


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    #316
    Chinafoot
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    Sophie's Choice

    Lorenzo's Oil

    The Green Mile (I had read the book first and that also had me in tears. One of the most perfectly cast films ever.)

    Shawshank Redemption

    Toy Story 3

    Up

    Steel Magnolias

    I don't understand the tears for Into the Wild. That film (and book) infuriated me. He was a selfish little boy. Also, Sean Penn changed the ending and a lot of the film is pure speculation so I wouldn't exactly call it a true story.


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    #317
    Snowie
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    theres only one film that really ever made me remotely tearfull and thats was Hidalgo

    I used to ride this spoil brats ponny muck out his stables as a child/early teen... Funny thing was that spoiled little brat couldnt ride him... But with me Misty was just fine, with me... he never once threw me but threw his owner about 15 times...

    That movie kinda reminds me of the pony cause they were booth similier in colour and temperment....:D


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    #318
    KyussBishop
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    Just finished watching a documentary there; referenced a film fitting for this thread (and with a nicely matching title):
    Boys Don't Cry

    Depressing but quite powerful film, based on a real person.


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    #319
    Otis Driftwood
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    That the one with Hilary Swank?

    Tough movie alright.


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    #320
    KyussBishop
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    Otis Driftwood wrote: »
    That the one with Hilary Swank?

    Tough movie alright.
    Yep that's the one :) tough one indeed.


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    #321
    Acoshla
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    My boyfriend sobbed for the last 15 minutes of Marley and Me, proper sobbing, face soaked with tears. He didn't even start crying at a sad bit, just when Owen Wilson and Marley were sitting in the field, out of nowhere! I laughed, probably shouldn't have, was pretty funny though.


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    #322
    Otis Driftwood
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    Acoshla wrote: »
    My boyfriend sobbed for the last 15 minutes of Marley and Me, proper sobbing, face soaked with tears. He didn't even start crying at a sad bit, just when Owen Wilson and Marley were sitting in the field, out of nowhere! I laughed, probably shouldn't have, was pretty funny though.

    You evil woman!

    Dont you know how men feel about their dogs!


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    #323
    Acoshla
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    Otis Driftwood wrote: »
    You evil woman!

    Dont you know how men feel about their dogs!

    Yeah I do, and I love dogs, and our own dog was curled up at our feet...it was funny mainly because he was trying to keep it in, so the sobs were even bigger :P


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    #324
    darklighter
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    aej1974 wrote: »
    Last of the mohicans.
    Calibos wrote: »
    The Last Samurai

    These two get a little welling up from me every time. (Although the book of Mohicans did get me crying the first time I read it!)

    I know its not a film but theres an episode of ER where a patient is paralysed and losing feeling from the toes upwards and the family just watches as the paralysis moves up the body until they die.

    Was watching it with a group of guys in college and everyone was nearly cryin. Except me....who was actually crying :(


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    #325
    busyliving
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    Ah "The Lion King" or maybe "A Beautiful Mind"


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    #326
    gavmcg92
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    The Wind That Shakes the Barley: When Chris Reilly is shot up the mountains by Damian.


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    #327
    zod
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfcjyXmSqOs


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    Eph1958
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    Inside I'm Dancing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_I%27m_Dancing). Totally heartbreaking film and so, so relevant from a male perspective as DMD is almost exclusively suffered by boys and young men.

    Ephraim.


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    #329
    augustus gloop
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    million dollar baby, carlitos way(the end), braveheart(when he sees his wife walk through the crowd)


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    #330
    gent9662
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    Never let me go

    Strange compelling movie which is very sad.


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    DazMarz
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    Just finished watching An Officer And A Gentleman for the first time in years. Remember watching it as a kid, and not thinking too much of it. But I've been in floods for the last 15 or so minutes of the film... from the
    suicide scene
    up until Zack Mayo
    walks into the factory where his girlfriend works, in his officer's white uniform, all to the instrumental strains of 'Up Where We Belong'...
    ... What a film, what a story, what acting, what a tear jerker and what a triumph over adversity! To anyone who has not watched it and might be turned off by it being a soppy love story... watch this film. Classic film, with a great love story that is not sappy at all. All the parts fit, and anyone who doesn't cry at the end of this film must be made of stone...


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