Posted on 12/29/2009 6:00:33 PM PST by smokingfrog
The era of the ‘Man’s Man’ is coming ever closer to ending. Soon it will be acceptable for all men to see a film and let it truly effect them emotionally. But that time isn’t upon us just yet. These are the top ten movies that not only make men cry, but it is deemed acceptable for them to do so.
10. The Wrestler
9. Saving Private Ryan
8. Braveheart
7. Field of Dreams
6. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
5. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Friday Night Lights
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2. Good Will Hunting
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
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Facing the Giants - when David’s father gets out of his wheel chair before David kicks the game winning field goal I lose it every time.
The remake of Dawn of the Dead...
The lead male character was asked, “So what were you good at before?”
He replied after staring off for a moment: “Being a Dad. I think I was good at that.”
That scene hit me hard. The look in his eyes when he answered. It told me all that I needed to know about what he had to do during the initial outbreak.
Agreed. Just thinking about it makes my throat tighten up.
Are they serious with this list? I will give it on Braveheart...but I don’t think I was ever moved more by a movie than I was by The Passion of the Christ.
YES United 93 and The Passion of the Christ had me in big tears.
I saw United 93 with my son in the theater, and it was... well, you know. We have the DVD, and this September, I walked into my office when he was *right at the end. He just asked me not to say anything for a few minutes, and I knew just where he was.
>>Titanic.
Me, too. At the very same scenes.
Also, in The Patriot, at the church burning. And, too, in Immortal Beloved, during the bombardment on the house.
Homeward Bound - you got it! “Turkey, turkey, turkey!”
The part of Wrath of Khan that got me was in memorial scene, when Scotty starts playing “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes.
Speaking of which, and I haven’t seen it yet, how about the movie “Amazing Grace”?
YES!! Taking Chance, yes. I cried throughout, too.
The Patriot ... that was the scene that choked me up the most. (I’m downthread from you.)
Yes, the death scene in Galaxy Quest... very touching.
Not “Cinderella Man?”
0 for 10 as far as I am concerned.
Only one movie has ever made me cry....LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
Best movie I have ever seen.
Really, ya’ll cried at that movie? I watched it with my Soldiers in Iraq. We were all silent at the end, each of us furiously angry. It’s a good thing we didn’t have a patrol that night! Our Iraqi interpreter was cowering in the corner of the room, just waiting for us all to beat him! lol...
I can only watch “Passion of the Christ” on Easter. It’s something of a new tradition in my family—go to church on Easter, go home, watch “Passion.”
There's no way to beat around the bush: Bay went for the money, because the Mets will never sniff the World Series unless their friends on the Yankees give them complimentary tix.
As a Ranger fan, I know what I speak of.
The last scene in Immortal Beloved got me, when you’re hearing this divine music, the Ninth, and the horrible irony that the man who wrote it never heard it.
Schindler’s List, of course. I want to slap people who are immune to that last scene. The whole last half-hour of Spielberg’s The Color Purple does that to me also.
And an odd one, that moment towards the end of Band of Brothers, when David Schwimmer’s Captain Sobel must salute Major Dick Winters (whose career he tried to ruin) always gets me emotionally. “We salute the rank, not the man.”
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