Movies that make you cry...

[daveedka]

The only movie that I ever teared up to was Million Dollar Baby.

Jeese, that was freakin sad.

Quite possibly the single most depressing movie ever filmed. Great movie, but come on!!!!!!!!


I will say as a man that I have cried during plenty of movies, I am a fairly pasionate person about certain things, and it does not bother me one bit to lose a tear or two.

I am also very patriotic so:
The worst was "saving Private Ryan" That was the fisrt time It ever occured to me to wonder what the names were of the men who died so I could be free and happy. To me the entire Gist of that movie was that Ryan actually lived with the knowledge of exactly who gave thier lives so he could go home and have a family, a job, and so on. We do not have the luxury of actually knowing who was personally responsible for our freedom, but putting it in that perspective makes me far more appreciative than I ever was before. I cried pretty much from the initial invasion on during that movie. I cried every time I thought about it for the next three days, My wife thought I was off my rocker. I still think everyone should watch it and think about what our soldiers have given for us and for a lot of other people in the world.
I have quite a few pictures of the Normandy invasion that my Grandfather collected, it is amazing what young men from all over the world were willing to do to stop a lunatic and his allies.

Here is apicture of one of my Grandfathers ships, this happened in sicily not normandy, the picture was taken from the ship that rescued them from the water: the smoke plume is LST 158 burning near Red beach, my Granfather was on one end, my Uncle Ray on the other end and the bomb landed pretty much dead center. Shortly therafter, the Navy figured out that they had brothers aboard the same ship, and seperated them.
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1249/lst158burningonredbeachatsicil.jpg

Here is apicture of Narmandy shortly after the beach was secured, Granpa could always point out which ship was his and which ones his brother were on, I can never remember. He was chief petty officer on the 512 at Normandy
Sorry if I'm hijacking, Talking about "saving Private ryan always gets me thinking about this.
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1249/lst158burningonredbeachatsicil.jpg


Of course I cried when Travis shot old Yeller, and when Bambi's mom died (I was 5 years old when I saw Bambi).


Dave

 

[graphicdesign_r]

I have seen so many movies, and only one makes me tear up every time...

...Armageddon. near the end when Bruce Willis is saying goodbye to his daughter and she's sitting in front of the monitors with his face on there before the bomb/asteroid explodes (I get chills just thinking of that scene).

Dunno why after being so desensitized by all of the things I've seen that one still hits me hard but it does. Maybe Liv Tyler just has great empathy... or maybe it's the selflessness of him pushing his daughter's fiance (or whatever) on the shuttle and giving his own life for their future...

 

[Emg]

Daveedka....I'm with you 100%

Just answered an email from another soldier whom we just started corresponding with. I got hooked up with Soldier's Angeles and am so happy to be able to do SOMETHING constructive for these guys !

My Father in law served on an escort ship in the pacific in WWll. He was out with the carriers when Pearl Harbor was bombed...and saw the Yorktown go down. His post was up in the conning tower..so he saw EVERYTHING that went on....and also knew alot of things that most of the rest of the ship never knew.....like the time they quietly snuck through a group of japanese ships during the night by changing the color of thier lights. (I don't fully understand what the lights were...but he said the japs had a particular color they used at night to keep track of each other....as soon as the capt realized they were in the middle of the enemy, he had them change colors on their ship) They sailed right through....thank God they weren't noticed before they were able to make the change.

I can't thank these men and women enough for all they do !

 

[aknif]

I'll cry at any movie with any scene intended to make a lady get her hankie out. But some of my favorite cries come from:

Ghost
Gone With the Wind
Somewhere in Time
Titanic
Every weeks episode of "Extreme Makeover Home Edition"
(I'll cry just because of my longing for Ty Pennington) LOL

Now here's the really sad part. I've seen my husband cry just one time in our 10+ years together. Our wedding? No. The births of our children? Nope. The scene in Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, when the 4 hobbits attempt to bow to the newly crowned king and he says "You bow to no one"... Then he and the entire city kneel in gratitude to the hobbits.... YEP!! I see that lone tear running down his cheek.... and I slugged him right there in the movie theater....

 

[wesleydnunder]

ROFL aknif. Sounds like something my wife would do.

Mark

 

[aknif]

Mark, my husband's name is Mark... come a little closer... I'll slug you too!!

 

[Emg]

LOL Aknif !

OH yeah ! I forgot about THAT part in the LOTRs trilogy ! That one too ! Very powerful moment....

 

[125gJoe]

Remember "Alien" the first movie in that series of movies?

At the very end when the alien gets sucked out through the hatch?

It was so difficult, such, ..... ....sob...sniff... sniff.... boohooo....sniff... :sad: ...













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[xauz]

I have to agree with you Dave. Just about any WWII movie makes me tear up. Mostly because of my grandfather. I'm probably the only on in the family that knows everything he went through over there. When I was growing up, probably 10 or 11, I got really interested in that stuff and wanted to know more about it. He was supposed to get a bunch of medals but never pushed for them. When I started asking more questions about which ones he was supposed to have, he went and talked to the person in charge of his VFW hall. A few weeks later he got all but one of the medals he was entitled to in the mail. The only one he didn't get was the Purple Heart. He said he didn't want that...I found out a few years later why. He was stabbed in the back and when he turned around to defend himself, it was a young kid, probably about 13 or 14. I've thought about seeing if I can get it for him because he does deserve it, but I know he would be cussing up a storm in heaven.

 

[Omega]

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