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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
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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: dfwgator
Yes. Somewhat disappointing, I thought. I prefer to remember him walking into the distance. (Interesting that his death as a result of a car crash is foreshadowed in the original movie when the out-of-control oxcart almost takes him out.)
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:32:07 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: SeekAndFind
“Grave of the Fireflies” by the great Studio Ghibli is an animated feature that follows the lives of a Japanese brother and sister struggling to survive in the final months of World War II. By the end I was a mess. Probably the saddest movie I’ve ever seen, but excellently done.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:34:09 AM PST
by
reegs
To: SeekAndFind
The ending of “The Lives of Others” when Wiesler is in the book store, when he’s asked “Is this a gift for someone”, and he replies, “No, it’s for me.”
A perfect ending, and it got me, especially knowing the actor had died soon after filming made it all the more poignant.
To: T-Bone Texan
I still mourn the loss of Carol's daughter. What are ya? Some kinda walker-lover?!
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:35:44 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: reegs
“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.”
To: dfwgator
Also “Kings Row”.
“Where’s the rest of me?”
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:36:17 AM PST
by
catman67
( 30 gauge?)
To: WayneS
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:39:35 AM PST
by
cld51860
(Volo pro veritas)
To: Cincinatus
I watched it, but wished they didn’t do it. I guess the one redeeming thing about it was it did tell us more about Patton’s relationship with his wife.
To: Jeff Chandler
The Babe Ruth Story, when he’s in the hospital and the crowd outside is holding a vigil, and then here goes “Take me out to the ball game”. I don’t care if critics think it’s crap. Armageddon and Old Yeller. Oh, and Greyfriars Bobby.
To: SeekAndFind
The old 1950s partially black and white Christmas film The Littlest Angel which was shown in public elementary schools in the Deep South in the 1960s
First movie to make me misty eyed
When the little angel goes back to earth to get a present for baby Jesus in heaven cause he has nothing like grown Angels
And he hears his mom in the kitchen crying.....Still sad over him
Damn....still emo today even pushing Six Oh
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:41:06 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
To: SeekAndFind
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
To: SeekAndFind
PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE
When the little guy gets his precious bike back. Ride, Pee Wee, ride like the wind!
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:41:48 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SeekAndFind
I probably cried 50 years ago when Mrs. Peel drove away with her long-lost husband leaving Steed to deal with that dimwit, Tara King.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:42:10 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: SeekAndFind
I’ve seen all but 2 of the movies in the list, but the one that is the most well done and hardest to watch is “Grave of the Fireflies”. It’s a cartoon, but will make anyone cry.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:43:17 AM PST
by
BuffaloJack
(Muslim Creeping Conquest of America and Canada)
To: demshateGod
I cried when they charged me $12.50 to get into the theater for “Guardians of the Galaxy”.
To: cuban leaf
Thanks!
I am glad I am not he only guy that teared up at Cars.
UP is another.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:45:09 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Big Red Clay
Your post reminded me of The Sandlot. Not that there were any sad moments (that I can remember), but when I watched it with my kid I found myself getting emotional because he was enjoying it so much and it brought me back to a time in my life when I didn’t have a care in the world and would play baseball and football endlessly with my buddies. A time that none of us will sadly ever see again.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:45:19 AM PST
by
cld51860
(Volo pro veritas)
To: TADSLOS; KC_Lion
I am generally considered a hardass by those that know me. The ending of Lone Survivor got me (even though it is not accurate to the true story). A few months ago I got to meet Marcus Luttrell and I lost it. He shook my hand and said “It OK, I am doing fine.” What a great guy. BTW his injuries are almost debilitating. He puts on a good front but I could see the pain in his eyes.
To: SeekAndFind
I have seen a few grown men & teenage boys tear up in Armageddon.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:45:33 AM PST
by
TheMom
(Bump Him!)
To: Dubh_Ghlase
If home is Montana, we lived in Billings for 7 years where I became familiar with Norman Maclean and other Montana writer/artists. A great place to be then but understand Hollywood has discovered Paradise Valley etc. and bought up a lot of rural property there.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:45:50 AM PST
by
yetidog
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