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Top 10 Movies that Make Men Cry [Warning: Reviews include some Spoilers]
The Spotless Minds ^ | 12-4-09 | Greg

Posted on 12/29/2009 6:00:33 PM PST by smokingfrog

The era of the ‘Man’s Man’ is coming ever closer to ending. Soon it will be acceptable for all men to see a film and let it truly effect them emotionally. But that time isn’t upon us just yet. These are the top ten movies that not only make men cry, but it is deemed acceptable for them to do so.

10. The Wrestler
9. Saving Private Ryan
8. Braveheart
7. Field of Dreams
6. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
5. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Friday Night Lights
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2. Good Will Hunting
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; lists; metrosexuallist; movies
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To: smokingfrog

Facing the Giants - when David’s father gets out of his wheel chair before David kicks the game winning field goal I lose it every time.


221 posted on 12/29/2009 9:16:39 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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The remake of Dawn of the Dead...

The lead male character was asked, “So what were you good at before?”

He replied after staring off for a moment: “Being a Dad. I think I was good at that.”

That scene hit me hard. The look in his eyes when he answered. It told me all that I needed to know about what he had to do during the initial outbreak.


222 posted on 12/29/2009 9:19:31 PM PST by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Facing the Giants - when David’s father gets out of his wheel chair before David kicks the game winning field goal I lose it every time.

Agreed. Just thinking about it makes my throat tighten up.

223 posted on 12/29/2009 9:20:00 PM PST by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: smokingfrog
Although not a theatrical release, Brian's Song is the only, sure, tear-jerker for men.
224 posted on 12/29/2009 10:37:07 PM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: smokingfrog

Are they serious with this list? I will give it on Braveheart...but I don’t think I was ever moved more by a movie than I was by The Passion of the Christ.


225 posted on 12/29/2009 10:39:02 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: buccaneer81

YES United 93 and The Passion of the Christ had me in big tears.


226 posted on 12/29/2009 10:39:46 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: jimfree

I saw United 93 with my son in the theater, and it was... well, you know. We have the DVD, and this September, I walked into my office when he was *right at the end. He just asked me not to say anything for a few minutes, and I knew just where he was.


227 posted on 12/29/2009 10:42:05 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: hoagy62

>>Titanic.

Me, too. At the very same scenes.

Also, in The Patriot, at the church burning. And, too, in Immortal Beloved, during the bombardment on the house.


228 posted on 12/29/2009 10:43:24 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: tcrlaf

Homeward Bound - you got it! “Turkey, turkey, turkey!”


229 posted on 12/29/2009 10:50:20 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

The part of Wrath of Khan that got me was in memorial scene, when Scotty starts playing “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes.

Speaking of which, and I haven’t seen it yet, how about the movie “Amazing Grace”?


230 posted on 12/29/2009 10:54:05 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: MattinNJ

YES!! Taking Chance, yes. I cried throughout, too.


231 posted on 12/29/2009 10:55:24 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: SeaHawkFan

The Patriot ... that was the scene that choked me up the most. (I’m downthread from you.)


232 posted on 12/29/2009 10:57:17 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: Finny

Yes, the death scene in Galaxy Quest... very touching.


233 posted on 12/29/2009 10:58:25 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: smokingfrog

Not “Cinderella Man?”


234 posted on 12/29/2009 10:59:52 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: smokingfrog

0 for 10 as far as I am concerned.

Only one movie has ever made me cry....LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

Best movie I have ever seen.


235 posted on 12/29/2009 11:05:20 PM PST by JerseyDvl (The Obama Doctrine in 6 words - Embolden Enemies, Abandon Allies, WEAKEN AMERICA.)
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To: netmilsmom

Really, ya’ll cried at that movie? I watched it with my Soldiers in Iraq. We were all silent at the end, each of us furiously angry. It’s a good thing we didn’t have a patrol that night! Our Iraqi interpreter was cowering in the corner of the room, just waiting for us all to beat him! lol...


236 posted on 12/29/2009 11:07:26 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: buccaneer81

I can only watch “Passion of the Christ” on Easter. It’s something of a new tradition in my family—go to church on Easter, go home, watch “Passion.”


237 posted on 12/29/2009 11:11:30 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
My daughter just told me that Jason Bay signed with the Mets, so this is a depressing moment in Red Sox Nation. Still think Fenway is a poor joke.

There's no way to beat around the bush: Bay went for the money, because the Mets will never sniff the World Series unless their friends on the Yankees give them complimentary tix.

As a Ranger fan, I know what I speak of.

238 posted on 12/29/2009 11:15:45 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: smokingfrog
I didn't cry but I like The Sound of Music.
The scenery is magnificent and more importantly, 'Liesl' is the perfect female. (Despite playing a sixteen year old the actress in that role was at the time twenty-two).
239 posted on 12/29/2009 11:20:39 PM PST by jla ("Free Republic is Palin Country" - JimRob)
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To: bootless

The last scene in Immortal Beloved got me, when you’re hearing this divine music, the Ninth, and the horrible irony that the man who wrote it never heard it.

Schindler’s List, of course. I want to slap people who are immune to that last scene. The whole last half-hour of Spielberg’s The Color Purple does that to me also.

And an odd one, that moment towards the end of Band of Brothers, when David Schwimmer’s Captain Sobel must salute Major Dick Winters (whose career he tried to ruin) always gets me emotionally. “We salute the rank, not the man.”


240 posted on 12/29/2009 11:29:13 PM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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