One not on your list:
Some engineers get a bit teary at the end of Terminator 2, when Arnold cannot self-terminate, and needs Sarah (Linda Hamilton) to “lower him into ze steel.”
I always get choked up at the end of “It’s a Wonderful Life”. The hard working man, doing his best, putting his community and his family before his own ambitions. And finding out at the end that it all mattered after all.
There is the scene with Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle” where him and his friend fake crying over “The Dirty Dozen”
Rat Race. The scene where the air traffic controller looks though his binoculars. I laughed so hard I cried.
Saving Private Ryan
Brian’s Song
Field of Dreams (at the end when Costner plays catch with his dad. I watched this again a couple months after my Pop passed. Cried like a baby at that scene).
The Searchers when Ethan finally catches Debbie gives me a lump in throat.
I’m 6’4”, 240lbs.
I have cow manure on my boots and axle grease under my fingernails. Usually I smell like a cross between gasoline and burned gun powder.
But... when my wife... God rest her sole... tricked me into going to see Marley and Me, I turned into a sobbing little girl.
“””””You know how we’re always saying what a pain you are, you’re the world’s worst dog, don’t believe it, don’t believe it for one minute because you know we couldn’t find a better dog, I love you, more than anything. You’re not a good dog. You’re a great dog”””””
Good Lord.....
Saving Private Ryan recently caused me to use my inhaler especially the ending.
Not tearing up but clearing my throat a couple of times:
1) Best Years of Our Lives when some guy tells the sailor (Harold Russell) that his buddies died in vain and he grabs the guy by the lapels with both hooks and says “If I only had hands!”.
2) The ending of Saving Private Ryan (from IMDB quotes):
Old James Ryan: [addressing Capt. Miller’s grave] My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried to live my life the best that I could. I hope that was enough. I hope that, at least in your eyes, I’ve earned what all of you have done for me.
Ryan’s Wife: James?...
[looking at headstone]
Ryan’s Wife: Captain John H Miller.
Old James Ryan: Tell me I have led a good life.
Ryan’s Wife: What?
Old James Ryan: Tell me I’m a good man.
Ryan’s Wife: You are.
[walks away]
Old James Ryan: [stands back and salutes]
(clearing my throat as I read this)
3) Gallipoli, where the Aussies make a suicidal bayonet charge (nothing up the spout) against the Turkish machine guns and the film ends with a freeze frame of the guy arcing backwards from the hits. The movie house was silent as a tomb for a minute or so, except for a bunch of guys repeatedly clearing their throats.
Thankfully, there are more movies that trigger tears of laughter.
When John Wayne’s horse gets shot in “True Grit”.
“Rudy,” “While You Were Sleeping”, the Little Round Top scene in “Gettysburg” and, once in a while, one of the scenes from my movie “Rockin’ the Wall”.