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Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?
FiveThirtyEight.com ^ | January 12, 2015 | Walt Hickey

Posted on 01/15/2015 12:39:40 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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To: DogByte6RER

Gettysburg. Armistead’s “for Old Virginia” scene always makes me tear up. Richard Jordan who portrayed Armistead died of a brain tumor shortly before the movie was released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Xu_Jni4V4


21 posted on 01/15/2015 12:53:33 PM PST by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: DogByte6RER

‘The Resignation of President Barak H. Obama’.

(Yet to be released.)


22 posted on 01/15/2015 12:54:41 PM PST by x1stcav (Why does Eleanor Clift always look like her private parts are causing her acute pain?)
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To: DogByte6RER
The ending scene in It's a Wonderful Life when the whole community rallies around George Bailey always causes my hay fever to act up giving me watery eyes. There can be no other explanation for it - it's hay fever I tell you.

I honestly don't remember if I teared up or not (probably did) but the original Splendor in the Grass moved me so much that I have not watched it again. What happened to Natalie Wood's character is just heart-breaking.

23 posted on 01/15/2015 12:55:05 PM PST by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner realizes he is play catch with his dad. Oh, to have that chance just one more time!


24 posted on 01/15/2015 12:56:01 PM PST by HonorInPa
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To: DogByte6RER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_It_Forward_(film)

Pay it Forward

They killed the kid, why did they have to do that?!


25 posted on 01/15/2015 12:57:27 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: DogByte6RER
"Oh God, I love that movie!"

Seriously, the final episode of Band of Brothers always gets to me. Specifically, the baseball scene that segues into a narrated epilogue about the fate of each soldier.

26 posted on 01/15/2015 12:58:01 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: DogByte6RER

A Night To Remember.

“Goodbye my dear son.”


27 posted on 01/15/2015 12:59:29 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: DogByte6RER

I cried during “Dirty Harry” when the bad guy made Harry throw his Smith and Wesson model 29 on the pavement. The thought of that fine handgun being scratched moved me to tears.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 1:00:30 PM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Field of Dreams. Simply because I know I'll never play another game of Catch with him. And it's worse because it takes me off guard.

Titanic, tho. I'm ready to hold his head under myself, just to shorten the pain by a few minutes... Hers too. One more emote from her, and I would go for a 9 iron, for proper cranial cleavage.

29 posted on 01/15/2015 1:01:17 PM PST by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: punknpuss
I regard The Elephant Man to be a masterpiece. Brilliantly done. Really penetrates the human psyche.. Just a sampling here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r52-SxOOQQg

30 posted on 01/15/2015 1:02:34 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: DogByte6RER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ

This Movie broke me up...


31 posted on 01/15/2015 1:04:51 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: XRdsRev

Gettysburg is a great film. Also, The Best Years of Our Lives when the young soldier with no arms shows his fiancee how he gets ready for bed. That scene plus the one where they marry in the movie makes me tear up.

The movie Mrs. Miniver, when her son walks up the stairs to see the corpse of his new bride and his mother is brave until he turns the corner then Mrs. Miniver falls into her husband’s arms to cry and then in the church where the young soldier goes to stand with his bride’s grandmother and sings with her, I always cry at that one too.


32 posted on 01/15/2015 1:05:30 PM PST by punknpuss
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To: DogByte6RER

Oh yeah, ‘Lassie Come Home’, too!


33 posted on 01/15/2015 1:06:09 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: DogByte6RER

Greg: She’s, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of “the Dirty Dozen.”
Greg: Who didn’t?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin
[Begins to cry]
Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg: Stop.
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/quotes?item=qt0293335


34 posted on 01/15/2015 1:06:34 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: DogByte6RER

Shallow Hal made me cry a little bit.


35 posted on 01/15/2015 1:07:36 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I gave my parish priest the DVD, Marley and Me.

If you don't cry at the end of that one, you are not human.

36 posted on 01/15/2015 1:08:52 PM PST by mware
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To: DogByte6RER

‘The Cowboys’

‘Well, it’s not how you’re buried, it’s how you’re remembered.’


37 posted on 01/15/2015 1:08:59 PM PST by oldmomster
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To: DogByte6RER

Casablanca.


38 posted on 01/15/2015 1:09:00 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: ctdonath2
Ones that get me running to the bathroom to 'blow my nose'. Apollo 13, Sergeant York, Pride of the Yankees, Rudy, It's Wonderful Life. You know, I just may be some kind of sissyboy after all.
39 posted on 01/15/2015 1:11:31 PM PST by fhayek
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To: DogByte6RER
When Slim Pickens goes toe-to-toe with the Russkis.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 1:12:11 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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