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On 1/5/2019 at 2:32 PM, Clackles said:

Only time I remember crying watching a movie was Cinderella Man, when Braddock finally breaks down and has to go pass the hat amongst the rich guys to keep the heat on for his family.  Cried a couple times watching Texas play with some fucking heart this season though.

My favorite "sports" movie ever.  Lots of tear-jerk moments in that one, for me none bigger than the scene on the sidewalk after they return the stolen sausage to the butcher. 

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As a child,

Superman 2 when he loses his powers and hitch hikes to the North Pole

Empire when Han gets frozen in carbonite

As an adult,

Marley and Me (a beatdown)
Mr Gower scenes in Its a Wonderful Life
End of Blackhawk Down
Medic asking for his mom in Saving Private Ryan

2nd on Coco and Warrior


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me and earl and the dying girl had me trying to suppress hup hup crying on a goddamn transatlantic flight. the red wine might have helped, but that movie has some serious feels. 

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Anything military.  I just can't fathom the sacrifice.  Hell, I was a little bitch when I had to leave my fam for 2 weeks to open a restaurant in Austin several years ago

 

Anything kids.  I saw Schindler's List at a theater when it came out.  One of my favorite movies.  To this day, I've only seen it once because of the kid scenes.

Terms of Endearment.  Lived it.

Big Fish.  Perfect movie, IMO.

Sports movies.  Rudy, The Natural? Hoosiers, Victory.

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SIAP:

I have 3 half-siblings, none full.  Just as well, the world need only bear one of me.  But this is just sublimely beautiful.  

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On 1/4/2019 at 11:13 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Brian’s song

I recently saw an interview with James Caan on CBS Sunday Morning. It was just in the last week or two. He confirmed that he’s been approached by hundreds of fully grown men who’ve told him that was the only movie that ever made them cry.

I’ll add We Are Marshall. There are a lot of tear-jerking moments in that film, some real, some fictionalized for dramatic effect. One that did happen was when Bobby Bowden welcomed Jack Lengyel and his Marshall coaches to WVU to study the veer offense. And the Mountaineers really did wear a green cross on their helmets for the 1971 season. As Lengyel said in the film, that was “first class.”

RIP, Bobby. 

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On 1/5/2019 at 2:20 PM, freyguy said:

Same here.  Wife wanted to see it, didn’t know nuthin about it.  When the credits were rolling, the wife says to me “ready to go?”  And I’m like, no, gonna sit here for a few minutes till this Eddie Vedder song is over.

Pearl Jam’s never been one for wedding songs, but damned if Eddie can’t write some great funeral songs. 

 

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My dad is a huge Cowboys fan and over the years we accumulated many videos of the boys. One moment that always makes me cry like a baby is when Roger Staubach talks about Tom Landry in his retirement announcement. “Of course the nuts and bolts of the Dallas cowboys (his voice breaks and tears form)…is the man who wears funny hats on the sidelines.” I’m getting emotional thinking about it lol 

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The only movie I remember crying at as a child was Ben Hur.  When his mom and sister have leprosy and he can’t be with them.  Fucked me up Royal.

 

Now that I have kids, everything makes me cry.  
 

2 scenes that get me no matter how many times I watch them (and I watch each at least once a year):

Band of Brothers: “…but I served in a company of heroes.”

It’s a Wonderful Life: “…my brother George, the richest man in town.”

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On 5/1/2024 at 11:26 AM, Underdog said:

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First time I ever saw my daughter cry at a movie.  She was about 4, we get to this scene, and I look over on the couch and she's sobbing uncontrollably.  

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Surprised it hasn't been mentioned but the scene in Glory where Denzel gets whipped for leaving to go get biscuits has me in absolute fits every time I see it. Between that and the final battle scene its pretty much made for grown folks to be bawling throughout it. 

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23 minutes ago, TankedBevo said:

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned but the scene in Glory where Denzel gets whipped for leaving to go get biscuits has me in absolute fits every time I see it. Between that and the final battle scene its pretty much made for grown folks to be bawling throughout it. 

Such a good movie. 

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I saw it when I was like 12 (way too young), and cried. I saw it a couple more times as a grown ass man and cried then too. It's so fucking powerful, from the acting to the musical score, just perfect. 

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1 hour ago, TankedBevo said:

I saw it when I was like 12 (way too young), and cried. I saw it a couple more times as a grown ass man and cried then too. It's so fucking powerful, from the acting to the musical score, just perfect. 

I don't recall ever crying, but the Denzel scene is masterful.  An extended camera shot focusing on just him, with the sound of the whip on his back, and tears flowing down his face as he's showing tremendous restraint and whatever dignity and defiance he can muster, while keeping his eyes squarely on Col. Shaw.  Denzel is one of the best.

And yeah, it's one of my favorite musical scores of all time, which added to the power of the movie, especially the battle scenes.

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I don't recall ever crying, but the Denzel scene is masterful.  An extended camera shot focusing on just him, with the sound of the whip on his back, and tears flowing down his face as he's showing tremendous restraint and whatever dignity and defiance he can muster, while keeping his eyes squarely on Col. Shaw.  Denzel is one of the best.
And yeah, it's one of my favorite musical scores of all time, which added to the power of the movie, especially the battle scenes.

One thing I appreciated about Glory is that it didnt have much battle porn, that glorified war. But it showed men, black and white, heroic and scared, killing and dying. It glorified the men who were in the war.

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