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Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?
FIVETHIRTYEIGHT ^
| 01/14/2015
| Walt Hickey
Posted on 01/14/2015 7:31:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Argument much like karaoke and online shopping is at its best when done with friends and a drink. And so, heres Bar Fights With Walt, a column devoted to solving the only questions that truly matter: the dumb arguments about life and pop culture developed and hashed out in barroom rants. Well use data and research to take these arguments to their logical statistical conclusion. If youd like to submit a question or conundrum, corner the author at one of his typical haunts and pick a fight.
After an evening at Grassroots Tavern, some friends and I got into a heated argument about “Love Actually,” which I contend is a good movie (see this Ben Dreyfuss essay for more on that). This eventually became a slightly less heated argument about which movies make people cry. The consensus was that everyone has at least one movie that gets them. The lone dissenter was my friend Alex Kaufman, who claimed he had never cried during a movie. After we listed approximately half the films on IMDb, he eventually recanted, saying that “Saving Private Ryan” had, at points, briefly broken his steely resolve. This leads us to this week’s question:
What movies make people cry the most?
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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dontmakemecry; films; movies; notfilms
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To: SeekAndFind
One not on your list:
Some engineers get a bit teary at the end of Terminator 2, when Arnold cannot self-terminate, and needs Sarah (Linda Hamilton) to “lower him into ze steel.”
To: SeekAndFind
The Only Movie I ever say my father cry was October Sky
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:33:06 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: SeekAndFind
I wonder why Unforgiven did not make the list.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:33:40 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: SeekAndFind
Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry? "Barack and Michelle: an All-American Love Story"
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:34:09 AM PST
by
PROCON
(Je suis PISSED!)
To: KC_Lion
That’s a good movie.
That’s a really good movie.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:34:12 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: PROCON
They said cry - not projectile vomit.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:34:45 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: SeekAndFind
Saving Private Ryan
Grossly overrated.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:34:46 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
I always get choked up at the end of “It’s a Wonderful Life”. The hard working man, doing his best, putting his community and his family before his own ambitions. And finding out at the end that it all mattered after all.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:35:29 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
To: SeekAndFind
Brian’s Song, the original.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:35:32 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: Gamecock
Titanic?Ten minutes into that borefest, I'm going, "Just sink already!"
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01/14/2015 7:36:05 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: bigdaddy45
Well, that’s a classic. Even if I haven’t been paying attention to the seasons or much of anything else, I know it’s mid-December when “It’s a Wonderful Life” shows up on TV (along with “Miracle on 34th Street”).
To: WayneS; cripplecreek; GraceG; SevenofNine; MeganC; SkyDancer
The Only Movie I ever say my father cry was October Sky As you know its based after the early live of NASA Engineer Homer Hickam :)
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01/14/2015 7:36:19 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: bigdaddy45
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01/14/2015 7:36:25 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: SeekAndFind
Anything with a dog and a sad ending, really. Old Yeller, Hachi..
To: Pearls Before Swine
There is the scene with Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle” where him and his friend fake crying over “The Dirty Dozen”
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:37:07 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: SeekAndFind
Idiocracy. A good documentary always gets me..
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:37:17 AM PST
by
Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
To: MarkRegal05
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:37:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Gamecock
Maybe bad acting makes some men cry.
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01/14/2015 7:37:48 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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