The manly tears thread, Which movies made you well up?

My worst film for crying is AI.

The last 20 mins or so where he's with his mother.

Can't remember the name but there's a Nick Cage film where his children are taken by aliens to save the species. That last bit gets me.

Anything where small children are upset or lose parents tends to make me well up a bit.
 
I never used to be that bad, but these days a key change can set me off if I'm in the right (or wrong) mood.

The most recent example was 'Marriage Story' when Charlie finds and reads the list at the end. I was an absolute mess for a good 30 minutes. Spluttering and coughing like a baby I was.

Shown 'Room' to a few GF's and my parents since it's release and it ALWAYS get's me. There's moments in every scene or so that choke me up and I'm usually a mess throughout. It's such a beautiful film.

The end of 'Inside Out' used to ruin me but the kids have had it on so often that I've been conditioned to it.

'Paris, Texas'. Jesus christ the first time I saw that...

I try to steer clear of Arrival also, I can't do that ending again.
 
tearful sad moment - End All quiet western front, Leon, remains of the day; OHMS Mrs Bond's death, comes to mind too.
tearful happy - Manhattan( tracy's face )

Bubo said:
whenever I'm watching a film and I hear the first few chords of Adagio for Strings, I'm like "uh-oh"
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+1 , I'd give sad music crown to Elgar's Nimrod.
 
Kainz said:
Band of Brothers, that camp...
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Absolutely brutal episode. Recently rewatched it with my partner who hadn't seen it before. I had braced myself for it (and had some sort of sick pleasure watching her experience it) but it still hits really hard especially when he said things like "musicains, artists, carpenters.... undesirables" or something along those lines

For me the first film in a long time that evoked some manly tears was Interstellar.
 
Thekwango said:
the very end always got me more, where they recite what happened to them all after the war.
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"'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said, 'No, but I served in a company of heroes.'"

It took me to 2013 to watch BoB but I cried my eyes out in that final scene. Nothing else has done that as an adult.
 
One More Solo said:
"'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said, 'No, but I served in a company of heroes.'"

It took me to 2013 to watch BoB but I cried my eyes out in that final scene. Nothing else has done that as an adult.
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They, mostly, lived long and fruitful lives. I think Winters only passed away 10 or so years ago.


Sorry if it gets the tear machines operational again. We watched The Pacific right after watching BoB and the thing that stuck out most to me was how much I cared for the characters in Band of Brothers whilst I didn't really care about anyone within TP.

Edit: This video looks better and just seeing them makes me smile. What a bloody series.
 
Field of dreams (I know I cried but not having seen it for a long time I can't recall the scene or scenes)
Armageddon (A few scenes made me well up)
Green Mile (The chair with Jon Coffey, seeing the other guards welling up knowing what they know)
Shawshank redemption (Brookes death, the ending-it was so well done and needed more)
Terminator 2 (when Arnie goes under in the melting pot)
Marley and me (do I need to explain this one)
Band of brothers (The camp, the real people at the end talking)
Saving private Ryan (Ryan as an old man)
The mist (ending)
 
Junglist said:
They, mostly, lived long and fruitful lives. I think Winters only passed away 10 or so years ago.


Sorry if it gets the tear machines operational again. We watched The Pacific right after watching BoB and the thing that stuck out most to me was how much I cared for the characters in Band of Brothers whilst I didn't really care about anyone within TP.

Edit: This video looks better and just seeing them makes me smile. What a bloody series.
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Cheers for that second video... that music. Someone cutting bloody onions in here?

In all seriousness, BoB is probably the best piece of film ever to to be put on a screen anywhere. Absolutely phenomenal TV. I can't quite remember what episode its is, Points/Why we fight? perhaps, where the war is over and they are playing baseball in the meadows of the Alps and the capturing of the Eagles nest. Those are episodes where I felt a weight lifted off my OWN shoulders. I felt so much relief for those soldiers, Bastogne a seems ages ago when seeing them in the sun playing baseball, drinking wine from the Nest.

David Schwimmer played a fantastic part. At first I didn't like they way he played his character due to him being Ross in my mind. After repeat viewings, to which there have been plenty, I feel he nailed it. A tough, possibly fair Officer who everyone hated but respected so much. I felt sorry for him when he got reassigned and when he drove past in the jeep passing his ex squad members.
 
Droolinggimp said:
Cheers for that second video... that music. Someone cutting bloody onions in here?

In all seriousness, BoB is probably the best piece of film ever to to be put on a screen anywhere. Absolutely phenomenal TV. I can't quite remember what episode its is, Points/Why we fight? perhaps, where the war is over and they are playing baseball in the meadows of the Alps and the capturing of the Eagles nest. Those are episodes where I felt a weight lifted off my OWN shoulders. I felt so much relief for those soldiers, Bastogne a seems ages ago when seeing them in the sun playing baseball, drinking wine from the Nest.

David Schwimmer played a fantastic part. At first I didn't like they way he played his character due to him being Ross in my mind. After repeat viewings, to which there have been plenty, I feel he nailed it. A tough, possibly fair Officer who everyone hated but respected so much. I felt sorry for him when he got reassigned and when he drove past in the jeep passing his ex squad members.
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"You salute the rank, not the man" (edit: just realised this is a different scene - but regarding that scene. It also hits home when the German Major is addressing his man and Leibgott is translating it all. They realised at that point they were just fighting themselves, essentially)

In fairness to Sobel, his training made Easy Company the force they were. Curahee!
 
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