The Crying Game, the Game

[laneela]

So they were discussing which movies are ok for men to cry during on the radio the other morning and I've been trying to think of a list of movies I've seen men cry during... I've only come up with a few where I think they wouldn't be mocked senselessly by other men for. I'll add a couple to this thread so as not to kill anyone else's glory but:

If you're of the male variety - which movies have you cried during?

And for everyone else (men can play too): which movies do you think make a man a pansy for having cried during?

Movies I thought did not emasculate a man for having cried during:

The Bucket List
Big Fish
The Green Mile

Your turn...


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I don't think crying makes a man a pansy at all. In fact, I like to try to do just that as often as humanly possible.

[Fash]

Movies are one of the few things that can make me cry. When I see people in an emotional situation, it brings me to their level and I feel it too.

50 First Dates is the only one I can think of right now. I felt connected to the characters and got choked up thrice.

[Funkmasterr]

So they were discussing which movies are ok for men to cry during on the radio the other morning and I've been trying to think of a list of movies I've seen men cry during... I've only come up with a few where I think they wouldn't be mocked senselessly by other men for. I'll add a couple to this thread so as not to kill anyone else's glory but:

If you're of the male variety - which movies have you cried during?

And for everyone else (men can play too): which movies do you think make a man a pansy for having cried during?

Movies I thought did not emasculate a man for having cried during:

The Bucket List
Big Fish
The Green Mile

Your turn...


PS
I don't think crying makes a man a pansy at all. In fact, I like to try to do just that as often as humanly possible.

Oh yeah, The Bucket List brought some tears, no doubt. The only thing I think that says about anything is that it was a well directed, well acted movie.

I know there have been others, but I'm having a hard time thinking of any off the top of my head.

[Sylvus]

Big Fish for sure.

I think I cried the first time I saw the Lion King.

Something about the death of a father really gets me every time. I think Armageddon even made me choke up a little bit, but that was the double whammy of a dad dying and it being Bruce Willis, who is never supposed to die in a movie.

[Funkmasterr]

I liked Big Fish and The Green Mile but for the life of me I can't remember the ending of either one or whether I thought it was sad...

[Fairweather Pure]

I will add the following movies that choked me up.

Forest Gump
Million Dollar Baby
Thin Red Line
Crash
AI
Children of Men
Schindler's List
What Dreams May Come

The first movie that drove me to tears was ET. The first book was Where the Red Fern Grows.

[Funkmasterr]

I will add the following movies that choked me up.

Forest Gump
Million Dollar Baby
Thin Red Line
Crash
AI
Children of Men
Schindler's List
What Dreams May Come

The first movie that drove me to tears was ET. The first book was Where the Red Fern Grows.

What Dreams May Come is the saddest movie, ever. I wouldn't even say that movie choked me up, it made me cry. This was partly due to a cousin of mine killing himself shortly before I saw this movie, too.

[Canelek]

I almost cryed watching Crash, but it was more from a general sadness due to Hollywood attempting to create a film about morality. =/

[Winnow]

I'll stick with Heavenly Forrest since I posted about it recently although there are other movies I could list. In light of the news about crying emotional tears being healthy, I plan on crying more often during movies. If anything slightly emotional happens, I'm going to bawl my eyes out and be healthier for it.

[Ashur]

Armageddon and 50 First Dates both got me as well.

[Acies]

Surprised no one has made reference to the ending of Braveheart, so I will.

[Spang]

Some of these movies invoked tears of both joy and/or sadness:

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Adaptation
Almost Famous
Antwone Fisher
As Good as It Gets
Before Sunrise
Big Daddy
Crash
Forrest Gump
Garden State
Good Will Hunting
Hotel Rwanda
Hustle & Flow
I Am Legend
Jerry Maguire
Jersey Girl
Junebug
Juno
Leaving Las Vegas
Little Miss Sunshine
Men of Honor
The Patriot
Remember the Titans
Rescue Dawn
Rudy
Saving Private Ryan
School of Rock
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Spanglish
Titanic
The Wedding Singer

Go ahead, call me a pansy!

[Fairweather Pure]

School of Rock

Help me out here, pansy. I don't recall anything sad about this movie at all. (other than the sad attempt at humor!)

[Kaldaur]

I cry at the end of every Star Trek movie. "This can't be the end, I need moar!!!"

Shawshank Redemption. When Morgan Freeman finally gets out and meets up with Tim Robbins, they begin a journey that was thirty years delayed. God, what an amazing movie.
I cried for at least thirty minutes of Dawn of the Dead when I went to see it in the theaters. I was laughing so hard, the tears just kept coming.

[Bubba Grizz]

Believe it or not...Hook had me tearful at the point where Robin Williams was reaching out to get the baseball and he failed in front of his son. Something about not living up to the hopes and expectations of your children hits me pretty bad.

It's been mentioned but not the specific part. The Patriot. Where the youngest daughter cries out for her father not to leave after not having spoken to him ever.

Then pretty much any movie where a child or a pet gets killed. Varies in degree though from a misty moment to free falling tears. Usually I can keep a brave face when with others to maintain my Man Card but if I am alone I don't hold back.

[Hesten]

Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Children off Men
The Stand (those big empty wiped out realistic areas get me every time), same with 28 days later.
28 Days Later
Croutching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Strictly Ballroom
Donnie Darko

Blair Witch Project, but that was crying over wasting 2 hours of my life on it.

[Spang]

School of Rock

Help me out here, pansy. I don't recall anything sad about this movie at all. (other than the sad attempt at humor!)

Happy tears were building up at the end of the movie when the kids were finally able to put on their show, coupled with the eventual positive reactions of their parents. It was heart warming.

[Kwonryu DragonFist]

Cried when Mufasa bought it in LionKing and at the ending of King Kong VS Godzilla from 1962.

Also cried a bit when i heard Paris Hilton was gonna have a part in House of Wax.

[Kaldaur]

I don't know about you, kwon, but the best part of that movie is when she gets impaled. I cried for joy.

[Ashur]

House of Wax was just outright gross and the ending was just retarded.

[masteen]

I cried at the end of E.T. I was also 8. Y'all some faggots up in here.

[Funkmasterr]

I cried at the end of E.T. I was also 8. Y'all some faggots up in here.

lol.

I remember crying at the end of My Girl when I was about that age or a little younger when Macaulay Culkin died. Now that I look back on it, I should have been laughing, or cheering the bees on.. depends on how you want to approach the situation, I guess.

[Morgrym]

Any movie that relates to a Father / Son bond puts tears in my eyes. It is probably due in part to the broken home syndrome and never having a "father" there for me when growing up. I tell ya, the boy scouts sucks without a dad!

[Sartori]

Schindler's List, most definitely.