Films that make grown men cry!

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  • Lsqueezy
    Lsqueezy Posts: 128
    I cry at every sad movie, Marley and Me...I was a wreck! Absolute wreck leaving that theater. If there weren't people around I would have seriously sobbed!
    As for making grown men cry, my father who is emotionally the strongest man I know, cries every time he sees Rudy! I mean serious sniffles and all! That movie is officially banned at my parents house along with It's a Wonderful Life. I remember coming home one day to my father crying and watching It's a Wonderful Life....I thought someone had died.
  • Bdmiller42
    Bdmiller42 Posts: 149
    Marley and me.A dog dying is the worst. Except in Cujo..he might have had it coming to him.
  • MayMaydoesntrun
    MayMaydoesntrun Posts: 805 Member
    not the whole movie, but in Blow, the part where George prepares his final words to his dad:

    George: Hello Dad. You know I remember a lifetime ago, when I was about 3 1/2 feet tall, weighing all of 60 pounds, but every inch your son. I remember those Saturday mornings going to work with my dad, we'd climb into that big green truck. I thought that truck... was the biggest truck in the universe pop. I remember how important the job we did was, how if it wasn't for us, people would freeze to death. I thought you were the strongest man in the world. And remember those home videos when mom would dress up like Loretta Young, barbeques and football games, ice cream, playing with the Tuna. And when I left for California only to come home with the FBI chasing me, and that FBI agent Trout had to kneel down to put my boots on and you said, "That's where you belong you son of a *****, puttin on Georgie's boots." That was a good one pop, you remember that. And remember that time when you told me that money wasn't real. Well old man, I'm 42 years old, and I finally realize what you were trying to tell me, so many years ago. I finally understand. Your the best, pop, just wish I could have done more for you, wish we had more time. Anyway, may the wind always be at your back, and the sun always upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. I love you Dad. Love George.

    always gets me, lol

    OMG, yes. I cried at this too.
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    Hatchi a Dog's Tale, Old Yeller, Where the Red Ferns Grow - do you see a pattern?
  • MayMaydoesntrun
    MayMaydoesntrun Posts: 805 Member
    Note to self: NEVER EVER watch Marley & Me
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    Oh yeah, and Marley and Me! LOL. But hatchi was the saddest ever.
  • beachbumdoug
    beachbumdoug Posts: 171 Member
    Marley & Me bothers me because i am experiencing that phase of life with my old girl right now.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Marley and me.A dog dying is the worst. Except in Cujo..he might have had it coming to him.

    LOL! Yeah Cujo had it comin'
  • BellySoonGone
    BellySoonGone Posts: 150
    There have been quite a few threads about our favourite movies...but what about the Tearjerkers...what films actually made you cry?

    I have to confess that any film with an animal in it that gets hurt or dies gets me every time..

    Marley & Me
    The Incredible Journey
    Lassie
    Greyfriar's Bobby
    Bambi
    The Lion King

    I also wept after Titanic and Bridges of Madison County.

    What makes you reach for the tissues....that goes for all you tough guy's too!


    I never watched any of those except for Titanic - but it was not to cry for..it was more for the "draw me scene" and the special effects at the time.

    ...and I do my crying in the rain... LOL
  • thedreamhazer
    thedreamhazer Posts: 1,156 Member
    Not a man, and it's certainly not rare for me to cry at a movie --- but Marley and Me was different. I didn't cry. I SOBBED uncontrollably and had to leave the theater for the last 15 minutes so I didn't ruin it for other people.

    I didn't know what the movie was about when I went. My dog Freya, a Great Pyrenees, had just passed away a month ago. Worst part was, the friend who took me to see it was THERE when I got the news on Thanksgiving. I still give him a hard time about it.
  • jaimevondawson
    jaimevondawson Posts: 27
    Legends of the Fall...my husband totally cried, but will NEVER admit it!
  • msbeavert
    msbeavert Posts: 75
    Up! (I thought for sure I'd have to hang myself the first ten minutes)

    Toy Story 3 (I have young kids, one of which carries her stuffed monkey with her EVERYWHERE and I can't imagine a day when she won't anymore)

    Legend of the Fall (our son was named Tristan)

    Return of the King

    Steel Magnolia's (I wanted to name our daughter Shelby, but my husband hated it; it's her middle name instead)

    The Lion King (I saw the Broadway show and bawled like a baby!)

    there are a few more that I can't think of right now....never saw Marley and Me and am avoiding it for this reason!
  • ziggy67
    ziggy67 Posts: 351
    This thread has reinforced my faith in humanity...it confirms what a caring compassionate lot we all are underneath our 'steely' exterior's!

    There have been many films mentioned here I've seen and forgotten about such as Toy Story 3 and Homeward Bound and so many films I haven't seen such as The Pursuit of Happiness, Million Dollar baby, Old Yeller, The Notebook, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, & Atonement to name a few that have cropped up here a few times.

    You can bet I am going to seek all these out and I will make sure I am well stocked up with tissues!
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    Yea what is up with men and Marley and Me? He definitely got 'misty' eyed and we don't even own animals, never will!!

    My Sister's Keeper is a lame movie (better book + you HAVE to read the real ending!!!) but if you want to sit and cry, cry, cry its a good one for that.
  • jlschuh44
    jlschuh44 Posts: 218
    Saving Private Ryan.

    Band of Brothers.
  • jlschuh44
    jlschuh44 Posts: 218
    You softy.
  • jlschuh44
    jlschuh44 Posts: 218
    I'm sorry. Old Yeller, yes. But Marley and me was so corny...it scraped my intestines clean andit hurt to crap for a week.

    Not a good movie.
  • LozzaMc
    LozzaMc Posts: 9 Member
    Grave of the Fireflies.

    O fficially the saddest movie in the whole world, ever. (TM)

    It's an anime about two children in war torn Japan trying to survive after their parents die. One is a boy just in his teens, one is a wee girl who is barely 3.

    I've only been able to bring myself to watch it once.

    I'm tearing up just thinking about it!
  • kapeluza
    kapeluza Posts: 3,434 Member
    Ok I asked my husband he said : THE NOTEBOOK!!!!

    I have never seen the notebook..... maybe I should see it lol
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    Blackhawk down

    Not the best choice just after your family member is deployed. Ugh.
  • FitJoani
    FitJoani Posts: 2,173 Member
    I'm not a man, but I did cry after "Old Yeller". My husband cried during The Patriot, but don't tell nobody!
    i knew someone would say old yeller!!!!
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'm surprised no one mentioned these...

    The Untouchables, when Jim Malone (Sean Connery) died. :cry:

    Serenity, when Wash died. :sad:
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    Ok I asked my husband he said : THE NOTEBOOK!!!!

    I have never seen the notebook..... maybe I should see it lol

    The Notebook or PS I Love you...Also nearly every episode of Band of Brothers
  • polar5554
    polar5554 Posts: 576 Member
    I cry when I watch Pet Semetery...Weird right

    Also,

    I cry like it's my job when i watch the home movies that my husband made of my two baby girls! Sometimes I have to walk out of the room if they are on if I have somewhere to be very soon cause my makeup is EVERYWHERE... :(
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    Sex and the City counts if that is what tugs at your heart strings....anything that shows you have got a soft centre!

    I think they cried 'cause the movie was so awful.

    movies don't make me cry, they are after all, just movies.
  • witheredorchid
    witheredorchid Posts: 164 Member
    American History X makes my fiancee cry every time. I also hear Field Of Dreams makes guys cry.
  • witheredorchid
    witheredorchid Posts: 164 Member
    The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas is a tear jerker too.
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    The diving bell was really sad, and depressing, Dancer in the dark too (Bjorks in it)
  • SheehyCFC
    SheehyCFC Posts: 529 Member
    Legends of the Fall
    Saving Private Ryan
    Old Yeller
    Band of Brothers

    That's the list
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I'm not a man but I cry every time I watch Bridges of Madison County.
    Also The Passion of The Christ
    The Notebook
    I've never watched Marley and Me all the way through. I'll have to watch it completely the next time it comes on tv.
    I know there are others but I can't think of them right now.
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