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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, 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?


(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dontmakemecry; films; movies; notfilms
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To: SeekAndFind

Goodfellas is on my list. At the end when Henry Hill orders spaghetti and marinara and gets egg noodles and ketchup. That cuts to the heart of me.


21 posted on 01/14/2015 7:38:48 AM PST by needmorePaine
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To: WayneS

Indeed.

And what about “Lone Survivor”. . .made me tear-up.

I expect “American Sniper” to do the same.


22 posted on 01/14/2015 7:38:56 AM PST by Hulka
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To: KC_Lion

I read the book, saw the movie. Don’t remember too much of it though ...boys, rockets .... etc.


23 posted on 01/14/2015 7:39:08 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: SeekAndFind
What the hell is The Notebook?
24 posted on 01/14/2015 7:39:28 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Rat Race. The scene where the air traffic controller looks though his binoculars. I laughed so hard I cried.


25 posted on 01/14/2015 7:39:32 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: KC_Lion

I just visited the town that movie was filmed in last summer. Came across it in one of our wonderful “let’s turn off the main road and see what we find” moments.


26 posted on 01/14/2015 7:39:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes.

Typical of Spielberg hackness.


27 posted on 01/14/2015 7:39:45 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: SeekAndFind

The worst one for me, and it is WAY ahead of whatever is in second place:

Time Traveler’s Wife


28 posted on 01/14/2015 7:40:12 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rudy.


29 posted on 01/14/2015 7:40:54 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: dfwgator
Titanic? Ten minutes into that borefest, I'm going, "Just sink already!

Thanks for giving away the ending. I was going to watch that movie.

30 posted on 01/14/2015 7:40:58 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Hulka

Blackhawk Down

(seriously - although I may have been weeping with rage rather than from sadness)


31 posted on 01/14/2015 7:41:06 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dirty Dozen*. Duh.

*Obscure Sleepless In Seattle reference.


32 posted on 01/14/2015 7:41:18 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Hulka

“The Best Years of Our Lives” always makes me tear up...


33 posted on 01/14/2015 7:41:18 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Well played, sir!


34 posted on 01/14/2015 7:41:26 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: bigdaddy45

“The Best Years of our Lives”

I choke up several times through that movie.


35 posted on 01/14/2015 7:41:41 AM PST by CTyank
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To: thefactor

I’ll second that.


36 posted on 01/14/2015 7:41:54 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I’ll save you some time.

Titanic in Five Seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY


37 posted on 01/14/2015 7:42:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind
Phantasm II

When the 1971 Hemicuda got trashed

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

38 posted on 01/14/2015 7:42:40 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: MarkRegal05

You don’t want to see My Dog Skip, then. ;-)


39 posted on 01/14/2015 7:42:44 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: dfwgator

Brain’s Song gave me some laughs though. A Pinky And The Brain episode.


40 posted on 01/14/2015 7:42:45 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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