Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?

FIVETHIRTYEIGHT ^ | 01/14/2015 | Walt Hickey

[SeekAndFind]

Argument — much like karaoke and online shopping — is at its best when done with friends and a drink. And so, here’s “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. We’ll use data and research to take these arguments to their logical statistical conclusion. If you’d 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?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Last I saw, the Hemicuda from the movie that didn’t get crushed is still missing.

[DCBryan1]

Driving Miss Daisy:

[dfwgator]

After he looked at his watch and realized there was two hours left in the movie.

Well at least he could have waited until he saw Kate Winslet's boobies. ;)

[CatherineofAragon]

I’ve seen the first one. It was my mother’s favorite movie.

For some reason I’ve never watched “Romancing The Stone”...odd, because during the ‘80s I went to the movies all the time.

[Mears]

“My husband cried during Titanic.

After he looked at his watch and realized there was two hours left in the movie.”

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Post of the year !!!!!

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[wardaddy]

Indeed

Any grown man with a dead father

And to see him younger than you are

Touching when he comes out of the corn

It’s like that movie where the woman finds the little boy who’s reincarnated from her dead husband

[CatherineofAragon]

I can imagine his facial expression, LOL.

[dfwgator]

And "Win one for the Gipper."....You would think on this site especially.

[DCBryan1]

Well...this was a very sad scene in film history....
After all, it was "supposed to be a happy occasion, without all the bickering and arguing"

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I shall admit to a tear of gratitude when the saucer blows up Washington DC in Independence Day.

I was visiting Plano, Texas when I saw the movie at night and I could swear I heard applause after that scene was shown...

[CatherineofAragon]

Quite a few have told me to watch that movie...I never have, so far, anyway.

[Joe Brower]

I cried at the end of 'The Fast and The Furious' (the first one) when Vin Diesel managed to smash that beautiful Challenger all to hell at the end of the movie. $:-)

[WayneS]

Wow. Did he have some kind of childhood trauma at a Broadway show, or something?

[Disambiguator]

I knew it was somewhere along I-40, but I didn’t know which town.

I’ve been to Seligman, but not for about 20 years. It’s definitely got the Rt.66 thing going on!

[DCBryan1]

Dated, but haunting. "Johnny got his gun"

The nurse using morse code to say M-E-R-R-Y C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S on his chest was very, VERY sad.

[Cincinatus]

The last scene in the movie "Patton".....

"For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors enjoyed the honor of a triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians, and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners in chains before him. Sometimes, his children, robed in white, stood with him in his chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning.....that all glory is fleeting."

[dfwgator]

That was the movie used in the Metallica “One” video.

[dfwgator]

Did you ever watch “The Last Days of Patton”?

[Heartlander]

The only movie that came close was Always. My sister had lost her stunt pilot fiancé a few years before in a plane accident – he was a good guy…

[T-Bone Texan]

I know it is not a movie, but I get misty watching almost every episode of The Walkin Dead; they are not afraid to kill people off, including children.

I still mourn the loss of Carol's daughter.