Movies that make grown men cry...

Nolanger · 22-12-2010 09:55PM

King Kong original - at the end - "it was beauty killed the beast".

TentCrasher · 22-12-2010 10:03PM

Majority of irish films:rolleyes:

23-12-2010 12:13AM

I'm not exactly a man but... I'm extremely surprised no one has mentioned 'Up' :eek:

Dr Bolouswki · 23-12-2010 12:20AM

I find it best not to have emotions.

If I HAD to have them, I would probably have used them at the end of Into the Wild. And if I was caught unawares, maybe Dead Man Walking.

TheUsual · 23-12-2010 01:12AM

Band of Brothers, when they find the first concentration camps was hard to watch.

Also 'The Road' was grim. Not going to give away the plot or anything.

Omnipresence · 23-12-2010 01:24AM

.Into the Wild.

Because it was a true story and that ending...

TouchingVirus · 23-12-2010 01:55AM

Band of Brothers isn't a film, but I can excuse it's place on this list - I've watered up a bit every time I watch a few particular scenes.

Bambi and the Fox and the Hound - maybe as a kid I thought they were the saddest movies ever but as a 'grown man' I can't say they'd make me cry.

Marley and Me destroyed me

Col200sx · 23-12-2010 09:26AM

quad_red wrote: »

+1 for Marley and me.

A dire, dire, dire movie played with zero charism by Wilson and Aniston, with a non existent story and irritating set pieces.

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Marley and Me destroyed me

I haven't seen Marley and Me (although I've guessed what happens at the end), but love dogs and have dogs at home.

Should I best avoid this movie?

Einstein · 23-12-2010 09:39AM

Col200sx wrote: »

I haven't seen Marley and Me (although I've guessed what happens at the end), but love dogs and have dogs at home.

Should I best avoid this movie?

I'm kinda on the same line as you here...I can't stand seeing dogs hurt / dying in movies.

The end of Turner and Hooch was the first flick to make me well up...

but there was a new puppy in the end so it was made better

So began my lifelong avoidance and fear of dogs gettin hurt in movies..

Also just remembered the part where whatshis name loses his horse in the quicksand in Never Ending Story...that was a tearjerker too...

cc87 · 23-12-2010 06:02PM

The crying game

TouchingVirus · 24-12-2010 12:24AM

Col200sx wrote: »

I haven't seen Marley and Me (although I've guessed what happens at the end), but love dogs and have dogs at home.

Should I best avoid this movie?

Yes, you probably couldn't steel yourself enough even if you knew precisely what would happen

djfitzerjnr · 24-12-2010 12:28AM

Big Daddy

Mrs. Doubtfire

Toy Story 3

Micilin Muc · 24-12-2010 12:28AM

Rocky I

The scene at the very end where Rocky and Adrienne are reunited after his fight!

Doodoo · 24-12-2010 12:34AM

A film that i didnt think was really much good and then the last half hour changed my mind and made me shed a few was Seven Pounds.

Another one that shocked me was Elf with the happy scene at the end - just couldn't hold back (i'm still tough i am)

Final Approach · 24-12-2010 12:39AM

Gran Torino

ScareGilly · 24-12-2010 01:02AM

Definitely +1 on Shawshank:

Brooks' retirement and "Brooks was here".

Philadelphia
The Terminal for some strange reason
And probably the biggest tearjerker I found was The World's Fastest Indian.

I honestly thought his dream was over, but then there was so much tears of joy when he got to race at the end.

For some reason, nobody has ever seen the last one

8mv · 24-12-2010 01:14AM

ET for sure and Atonement (The book makes me tear up as well) and It's A Wonderful Life + the most recent series ending of Dr. Who - when Amy makes her wedding speech

killerking · 24-12-2010 11:53PM

It's gotta be The Champ (1979) starring Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie's Daddy) as a hapless washed-up pug who makes one last shot at the title in order to win back the woman he loves and the kid he never sees and Ricky Schroeder as his adoring son turned soft by his smothering mother who discovers the hard way what true courage and manhood is....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

A close second is Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989).

WARNING SPOILER: A Nazi villain shoots Indy's father Henry Senior point blank in the stomach in order to force Indy to brave a series of booby traps and retrieve the Holy Grail (the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper) which he can use to restore his father to health.
There is a magnificently emotional scene where Indy finds his way blocked by a bottomless chasm.
He must rediscover his faith in order to summon the courage to take a leap of faith....

I also get tears in my eyes when I watch this astonishing scene from the end of The Mission (1986).

SPOILER WARNING: Mendoza, a slave trader, stricken with remorse after murdering his beloved younger brother in a duel over a beautiful woman has become a novice Jesuit priest who ministers to the Indian natives he once oppressed and falls under the influence of the saintly Jesuit Father Gabriel who has established a mission deep in the Amazon jungle.
When their Amazonian mission is betrayed by self-serving secular politicians who seek to exploit the natives rather than lead them to civilisation and enlightenment, both men decide to resist knowing their cause is futile.
Mendoza resorts to the sword while Gabriel chooses pacificism.
Both men bound by a profound mutual respect, brotherly love and fellowship, die heroic deaths in defense of liberty, freedom and love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y4XS0Qbb8

killerking · 25-12-2010 12:28AM

Harrison Ford is Dick Deckard, a Bladerunner who is sent on a mission to 'retire' (kill) a group of replicants - genetically engineered humanoids - who have returned to Earth after a rebellion on an off-world colony in the early 21st century.
Roy Battie, the last survivor, fights to the death with Deckard before there is a profoundly moving showdown on the roof of an acid rain swept crumbling skyscraper above a nightmarish Los Angelos.
Battie reflects on the wonders he has seen in deep space and considers oblivion and death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQrkBS1yT4

In an earlier scene Deckard falls in love with a female replicant named Rachel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRiYJ1_eYkA

ScareGilly · 25-12-2010 01:03AM

killerking wrote: »

A close second is Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989).

WARNING SPOILER: A Nazi villain shoots Indy's father Henry Senior point blank in the stomach in order to force Indy to brave a series of booby traps and retrieve the Holy Grail (the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper) which he can use to restore his father to health.
There is a magnificently emotional scene where Indy finds his way blocked by a bottomless chasm.
He must rediscover his faith in order to summon the courage to take a leap of faith....

I also get tears in my eyes when I watch this astonishing scene from the end of The Mission (1986).

SPOILER WARNING: Mendoza, a slave trader, stricken with remorse after murdering his beloved younger brother in a duel over a beautiful woman has become a novice Jesuit priest who ministers to the Indian natives he once oppressed and falls under the influence of the saintly Jesuit Father Gabriel who has established a mission deep in the Amazon jungle.
When their Amazonian mission is betrayed by self-serving secular politicians who seek to exploit the natives rather than lead them to civilisation and enlightenment, both men decide to resist knowing their cause is futile.
Mendoza resorts to the sword while Gabriel chooses pacificism.
Both men bound by a profound mutual respect, brotherly love and fellowship, die heroic deaths in defense of liberty, freedom and love.

Yeah, put spoiler alerts on these two but NOT on the one that I actually want to see or haven't seen. :mad:

maddragon · 25-12-2010 01:17AM

Braveheart
Million Dollar Baby
but my personal biggest tear bringer
Dead poets society

ShaneU · 25-12-2010 01:24AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm not exactly a man but... I'm extremely surprised no one has mentioned 'Up' :eek:

The start of Up is the saddest thing I've seen in ages.

Dub. · 25-12-2010 02:29AM

maddragon wrote: »

Million Dollar Baby

Yes.

Another one in that vein is Cinderella Man.

TentCrasher · 26-12-2010 02:20AM

Marley and me

Benicetomonty · 26-12-2010 10:38PM

Obviously the movies you see recently spring to mind. Don't think I've ever bleen blubbering at the end of a movie, but 'Into The Wild' almost caught me out big time. +1 also to 'Braveheart'. 'Lord of The Rings' because of all we went through

Slumdog Millionaire because it's on now

. Thought 'Life is Beautiful' would've been mentioned by now. +1 also to 'Forrest Gump'. And although I've never seen the movie version, 'The Kite Runner' absolutely blew me away.

irishh_bob · 27-12-2010 03:54PM

armageddon

Panthro · 27-12-2010 05:38PM

the film version of "The Punisher", released about 7 or 8 years ago nearly brought a tear to my eye, because it was SOOOOOOOOOOOO bloody terrible.
I nearly cried upon the realisation that I will never have that time back again.

Think it was "The Land Before Time" where one of them dies (the mother perhaps? I can't really remember) knocked a wiggle out of the tear machine in me.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 27-12-2010 06:09PM

Just watched Marley and Me there, it destroyed me! First time I properly cried for a movie... When

the little girl said to Marley "you can have my teddy as long as you dont chew off the other ear"

I laughed so hard.. and then cried some more!
Triffic movie!

CDfm · 27-12-2010 06:53PM

I dont think there is a movie that would make me cry, there is one scene in the Exorcist that sppoks me a bit, where Regan pops down the stairs and terlls a guy that he will die.

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DJvhl4At6AX8

Teenage girls are scary anyways.

SouperComputer · 27-12-2010 06:56PM

My Sister's Keeper. Just had a daughter so it was hard to comprehend.

Oh and spiceworld makes be cry quite a bit too LOL.

Movies that make grown men cry...

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