Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?

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Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?

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?

[Brougham33]

[Monotonous]

Forest Gump and Armageddon for me.

[alpha]

Armageddon

[Tommy Bunz]

[tehgiftofgab]

Green mile yo

[Spartan]

“Never, oh never. Nothing will die. The stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beats. Nothing will die.”

[Jayou Ayen]

39

[drizzle]

You know when

[darkwingduck]

You know when

YES!

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

^^^^^ Shit gets me open EVERY time.

Have a long history of emoting to The Muppets which stretches back to Robin The Frog's cover version of Halfway Down The Stairs.

[ackbar]

UP

[blastmaster]

You know when

YES!

Still makes me want to kill everyone.

[Brougham33]

UP

Toy Story 3 too.

[ThaJim2]

You know when

Was just coming in to say it and kind of tearing up right now thinking about it.

[Kid That's Lifeless]

G-Baby dying in Hardball followed by Keanu's rousing speech at the funeral always gives me the feels, bros.

[Pizon]

Vanilla Sky every time

[Joe Pesci]

[AWAE]

into the blue

[Mindbender Futurama]

i cry when i watch superhero movies its not a good one if i don't shed a tear

I fucking poured tears of heavenly joy when I saw the first Raimi 'Spiderman' movie, and Peter Parker was in the wrestling ring and shit

waited my whole god damn life to see that moment on the big screen

looked at some little 6 year old kid beside me and thought "you can not possibly appreciate this as deeply as I can, son!!!!"

yeah it was a shitty emotion, but :KANYESHRUG: . i gush tears of happiness or heartbreak in most comic book movies. When Jean Gray turned into Phoenix at the end of X-2 and sacrificed herself for everyone on the Blackbird? DEAD

[Random Sample]

Saving Private Ryan
Miracle
My Dog Skip
Marley and Me
Dear Zachary

[drizzle]

into the blue

[ric]

so many movies. just so goddamn many. i cried during the new tmnt movie. thats how real it gets for me when im able to become absorbed

who am i? im moving at an unstoppable pace bababaBA bababaBA

[Tweak Da Leak]

Still makes a Ru shed a tear, despite it being mostly optimistic lyrics.

[Mindbender Futurama]

so many movies. just so goddamn many. i cried during the new tmnt movie. thats how real it gets for me when im able to become absorbed

who am i? im moving at an unstoppable pace bababaBA bababaBA

you're now my new best hriend

SO many movies bring tears from the soul.

A gangsta teardrop broke out of eyeball jail when I heard the homie Anthony Mackie solemnly say "on your left" to Steve Rogers lying in the hospital bed at the end of Cap America: Winter Soldier. That made the movie a PERFECT 360 DEGREE CIRCLE to me, and I was like x x

tears are the words the mouth is too weak to say

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

i cried in the first 10 minutes of i saw the devil when the guy started chopping apart that poor christian girl. i fucking hate that movie.

[T Rav]

I guess they might not count as movies, but there's more than a handful of 30 for 30's that have made me cry.
I'm like a woman on her period watching SPCA commercials when it comes to sports docs/movies.

[paul_smith]

Léon - I got in prepared for crying. Still hadn't shed a tear at the very end climax but when Sting's Shape of my heart started I broke down immediately

Co-singing ric and mindbender, so many exampels when I'm jsut watching something that reverberates on such a deep level that tears start pouring, not necessarily out of sadness or any particular emotion, just something like the ultimate revelation that what you are watching is more than amazingly made/shot/etc.

I'll definitely come back with more movies after thinking back a bit but right now, I want to mention watching Mark Ruffalo nailing down every fucking movement to the last mannerism of being a wrestler in Foxcatcher

[Dat_Triflin_Ass_Dude]

12 monkeys

[ZiekeFons]

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