Twenty films that make men cry

E.T.

ET made us cry. It also made us laugh. I remember watching the film in Hull’s ABC cinema (since demolished and replaced with St. Stephen’s shopping center).

When ET died some little child in the audience openly cried; “ET”. We all laughed. Happy memories…

Goose does it every time you watch it; you’d think he’d learn….

….I’ll get me coat…

how can you all forget….TOP GUN! goose dies 🙁 gets me every time….

band of brothers aswell…thats another that gets me

The World Trade Center by Oliver Stone.

OK, needed to be retitled without the spelling mistake for the British market, but an emotional rollercoaster throughout.

Cameron went to great lengths to make sure he told the story of The Titanic (or at least some of it), and not just concentrate on the Jack/Rose bit.

He applies the same logic to Aliens, making it as much a story about the Colonial Marines as about Ripley. The same could be said for the first two Terminator films….

Just after I went to see Titanic, I saw a programme on the telly about the making of the film and it was amazing to see the amount of research that went into the filmmaking to get the background story (the real story) and all the little details across in the final film. Especially as Cameron actually went to Titanic herself and let the ship tell her story, to a degree. Then used the footage in the film rather than using models of the wreck.

Martin

I’ll agree with Titanic, and it’s not the Kate/Leo stuff for me, either. It’s the snippets showing the other passengers accepting their fate – the steerage mother (incidentally played by Jeanette Goldstein, who was also John Connor’s foster mum in T2 and the ass-kicking Vasquez in Aliens) telling her kids the story of Tir Na Nog; the old couple on their bed; the band playing as the ship goes down…

The only film I’ve ever cried at was James Camerons Titanic. It wasnt any of the far-fetched mushy stuff with Leo diCrapio and Kate Twinset but the scene that did it for me was where Isador Strauss and his wife went back to their cabin and laid on their bed in each others arms with the water flowing around their bed. As the wife starts to cry it (strangely) reminded me of my mums face, as the train left the station, when I left home to join the RAF.

I have seen a few films though that have had a profound effect on me. Some ones that spring to mind are.

Platoon – so well made and realistic (this was confirmed to me by a Vietnam Vet I spoke to about ten years later) especially as ‘Chris’ would not have been much older than me at the time I saw the film.

Shawshank Redemption – I was going through a low point in my life at the time and it gave me a virtual kick up the rear to turn my life around wth the line ‘Get busy livin or get busy dyin’

Titanic – After seeing a story so well told (about the ship, passengers and crew not the soppy love story) I felt somehow moved emotionally as though I was there to a degree.

Band of Brothers – OK not a film but I still got the same feelings I got from seeing the others mentioned

Martin

Wow, I haven’t seen (or thought of) it in years.
Yes, the little suckers were cute…and years before R2D2.
I liked the music but since I only saw the film a year or so after it was released, I couldn’t find the soundtrack.

I recall that it (Silent Running) was the support film to something I had gone to see (probably 007 or Connery related) and as I’m not really into sci-fi wasn’t expecting much. But I too enjoyed the music and tried to get the soundtrack without success – maybe I should try again.

You’ve got to be kidding 😮

I guess it depend how emotional you are!! personally I never have, I’m more intersted in working out how they made it look like they blew a guys leg off, or how long it took to make a 3d character’s hair bounce you know special effects which these days are much more interesting than the story line.

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For me the films that can do that are as follows,

The Green mile- hard to explain why it just does
The Shawshank Redemption- The whole film is stunning snd emotional
Ray- Just the end when you think what he achieved in his life.

As a kid Kes used to make me cry, Doesn’t now but still a good film.

Theres one paricular scene I have on Video that brings tears to my eyes every time I see it. It is not a feature film but the National Geographic on the Discovery of the Bismarck. A German survivor desparately trying not to cry during an interview. His voice failes him several times. That gets me every time I see it.

Black Beauty (1994 version) – the scene where Beauty (or Blackjack as he’s now known) stands in the pouring rain at a cab stand in London, and spies what was once his beloved Ginger being carried away on the back of a cart… 🙁

s**t i’d forgotten about that one !!! yep very sad !!

the book is a terrific read also , read it when i couldn’t get round to the stable to see mine after a bike accident !!

I dunno about all this films making a man cry business, but has anyone been watching Rolf Harris’s Penguin Island lately?!

Black Beauty (1994 version) – the scene where Beauty (or Blackjack as he’s now known) stands in the pouring rain at a cab stand in London, and spies what was once his beloved Ginger being carried away on the back of a cart… 🙁

It’s been a long time since I last saw it, but Silent Running left me with a lump in my throat, towards the end, and when you think that the end centred on 3 robots (that were injured/damaged) what does it say about me?

Just the same with me. It must be well over 30 years since I last saw it but I remember feeling silly about getting upset over robots.

And I’ve no idea why, but the song “Feed the Birds” in Mary Poppins gets me feeling very emotional. There must be some subconscious associations there somehow . . .

I never cry at films…..I’ve just got something in my eye! 😮

What about the end of Marley and me.
Flying saucer, my dog skip is another one i cannot get through.
With me its animals, people no dogs water works turn on. Daft T*** i am.

Schindler’s List makes me well up. Saving Private Ryan because of what both of my grandfather’s went through.

although good a fantastic true story , i feel ” the pianist is far better !!” especialy when the jew meets the kindred spirit nazi , fantastic film !!also a true story !!

Champions: Aldaniti and Bob Champion win the Grand National, amidst Carl Davis’ classic rousing score.

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very few make me cry

but that’s a good shout , never beat a real story !!

one that never fails though is ” notting hill “

” i’m just a girl standing infront of a boy , asking him to love her !!”

superb emotional scene !

but what a t@t knocking her back !!