When you cry manly tears of manliness

Amoebic wrote:

This thread kind of compels in me the desire to make hot cocoa and give reassuring hugs.
There, there, my dears.

I actually find your avatar inexplicably cheers me up. I think I shall have to steal it and keep it on my desktop in a corner somewhere for when I feel sad! That said, I never pass up hot cocoa...

dhelor wrote:

1. Animal Cops shows. Whenever they show animals that have been abused to nearly the point of death (and sometimes, sadly, beyond that point).

So... Undead animals then? That actually sounds kinda awesome.

I tried to Netflix Grave of Fireflies, but the disk was all scratched and it barely got halfway through with me skipping a chapter or two. I'll have to try again sometime, but it might just take too much effort to watch again.

DrSugardaddy wrote:

Manly tears? The death of Maximus...every damn time I see it. Not for him as much as for the keen way the other characters clearly feel his loss.

Indeed. It's always more in the way Lucilla handles it, and Juba burying the little wooden figurines that gets me.

As for others, I could probably make a big list which I guess makes me a huge wuss, but that's ok.

interstate78 wrote:

Piano and Violins usually hit my string pretty bad and make me cry. In a sad movie, it's a sure hit.

Well done music can make a scene that might have just been a little bit sad really hard not to cry a bit for.

Most wrote:

The ending of Heat.

gets me every time.

And I'll add and make note of this one because it's another one where the music adds to an already involving scene.

The end of the Iron Giant.

Oh yeah, and.....

WUSSIES!

not very manly... anything that involves personal sacrifice, loss, points of honor, all get me every time

St.Hillary wrote:

Any movie or show where something bad happens involving children and/or animals.

No one fracking told me that Marley and Me was about euthanasia. I guess that's what I get for renting Marley and Me?

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/

What a wonderful and heart wrenching movie.

Gurren Lagann's ending. Tears of joy at Gainax ENDING something properly.

cube wrote:

Gurren Lagann's ending. Tears of joy at Gainax ENDING something properly.

Woah. Gurren Lagann was a Gainax production? I watched an episode and thought it was just about the silliest thing ever created. I'll have to give it a second look with that in mind.

Stryker wrote:

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/

What a wonderful and heart wrenching movie.

Interesting.

That looks a lot like the 2005 Hungarian film, Fateless. It was equally tragic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aifZ...

Quite a beautiful film.

Trainwreck wrote:
St.Hillary wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

This thread kind of compels in me the desire to make hot cocoa and give reassuring hugs.
There, there, my dears.

That's not very manly.

That's because Amoebic is incapable of crying man tears.

I think I will go strut and pump some iron now, and then flex in the mirror for good measure.

Amoebic wrote:
Trainwreck wrote:
St.Hillary wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

This thread kind of compels in me the desire to make hot cocoa and give reassuring hugs.
There, there, my dears.

That's not very manly.

That's because Amoebic is incapable of crying man tears.

I think I will go strut and pump some iron now, and then flex in the mirror for good measure.

You may as well weld something to something else while you're at it, or a saw a big piece of wood into several smaller pieces of wood.

adam.greenbrier wrote:
cube wrote:

Gurren Lagann's ending. Tears of joy at Gainax ENDING something properly.

Woah. Gurren Lagann was a Gainax production? I watched an episode and thought it was just about the silliest thing ever created. I'll have to give it a second look with that in mind.

Yeah, it's silly. And, somehow, filled with awesome.

Probably because it's not trying to be psudo-philosophical or any of that crap. I find Gainax to be at their best when they're completely random, silly, brainf*ck-style series, like Gurren Langann and FLCL.

cube wrote:

I find Gainax to be at their best when they're completely random, silly, brainf*ck-style series, like Gurren Langann and FLCL.

In other words, the things least touched by Hideaki Anno?

Pretty much.

Ya know the ending to Return of the King kinda gets me. When Aragorn is speaking to everyone and they are bowing then the hobbits bow and he tells them " My friends you shall never bow" or something of that matter. The line was delivered so well as there is a bittersweet pain in his voice. That they the hobbits saved them all and they really didn't realize just how great a deed was done.

For me it was the ending of the Matrix 3... when I realized how much I had paid to see that piece of dross.

Jonman wrote:
Amoebic wrote:
Trainwreck wrote:
St.Hillary wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

This thread kind of compels in me the desire to make hot cocoa and give reassuring hugs.
There, there, my dears.

That's not very manly.

That's because Amoebic is incapable of crying man tears.

I think I will go strut and pump some iron now, and then flex in the mirror for good measure.

You may as well weld something to something else while you're at it, or a saw a big piece of wood into several smaller pieces of wood.

I draw a terrible bead, so wood it is! (Does ply count? All we have lying around right now is contract-grade ply and a skillsaw. hee hee!)

AustinLiz wrote:
St.Hillary wrote:

Any movie or show where something bad happens involving children and/or animals.

No one fracking told me that Marley and Me was about euthanasia. I guess that's what I get for renting Marley and Me?

I already know that movie doesn't end well and I still haven't seen it. I avoid it like the plague.

kaostheory wrote:
Grenn wrote:

The Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A show about ridiculous, fantastic death where no main character is safe, dealing realistically with the death of a loved one. And without any soundtrack for that episode.

This is exactly what I was thinking of. After loving Firefly and Dr. Horrible, my sister was able to convince me to watch Buffy (I'm still working on Season 6). When I got to this episode, I just completely broke down. I was weeping.

I had the hardest time not spoiling this for my wife, who had never seen more than an episode or two of Buffy before I started her on season 1.

The quickest way to pull on my heartstrings is to have someone lose their wife/husband/love-of-their-life. I still find the death of a child or parent, self-sacrifice, or death of a pet, sad; I just don't find them as sad as losing a love.

All you b*stards have weeping silent wimpy tears like crazy here. Gah!

Couple of big ones for me are also that Sarah McLachlan song in Toy Story 2 (don't know exactly why it hits SO hard but it does it every time), and yes - a few scenes in Finding Nemo but only after I had my son. Still haven't seen Up yet but I just hope I can sob quietly 'cuz I know it's going to happen.

Going real old school (and I don't care how much it may un-man me) - years ago there was some TV ad where this new dad is holding his baby girl and then he flash-forwards to all these future scenes until he's giving her away at the altar, and then flashes back to the 2 of them in her room (and her a baby again).

No idea what the ad was for, but still stays with me.

(and even worse, the ad was referenced in that ridiculous Schwarzenegger and Devito movie "Junior". Arnie is all bawling over that very ad supposedly because he's all hormoned-up to keep him from rejecting the pregnancy).

Too late to weld or cut wood. Guess I'll go kill some virtual terrorists.

I generally loathe westerns, but the ending of the Jack Bull gets me every time.

Sunshine has a few good heroic deaths. I'm a sucker for the heroic sacrifice, and the John Murphy music that accompanies the scenes are perfect. The "What Can You See?" scene as well as the bomb separation sequence are just flawlessly constructed.

Also, I found the end of Bioshock quite moving, though I think that's a minority view.

Moving to books, the two that reliably get me are:

(a) The Scholar's daughter in Hyperion, which bothers me psychologically on all sorts of levels, though diluted somewhat in the sequel.
(b) Lin's fate in Perdido Street Station for being so monstrously unfair.

The original 'Lord of the Flies' movie - the breaking of Piggy's glasses and his death. Still gets me after all these years. Didn't have his physique but could sure identify with him.

DudleySmith wrote:

Sunshine has a few good heroic deaths. I'm a sucker for the heroic sacrifice, and the John Murphy music that accompanies the scenes are perfect. The "What Can You See?" scene as well as the bomb separation sequence are just flawlessly constructed.

Also, I found the end of Bioshock quite moving, though I think that's a minority view.

Crap. I knew I had forgotten something. Another vote for Sunshine's bomb separation sequence. The part where he falls over in the EMV suit, you can just taste the despair and frustration in trying to get it done to save all of mankind while having just seen the dead bodies of all his friends. The music score helps tremendously and I wish John Murphy and Underground would reach an agreement so that they can release the soundtrack already.

The good ending for Bioshock got me too, i'm a sucker for child/parent situations. It could have been done much better because for me, after the big plot twist, I felt like a machine & was just going through the motions (yes I know the irony in that) while the game was trying to get us angry at that point.

It's only happened a few times to me, and by god, they're all such lame examples.

1.) The ending of Glory. Big manly-tears with that hocking, jerking breathing you do when you're desperately trying not to sob. Absolutely killed me. The worst.
2.) "The Real Folk Blues" Parts 1 & 2 from Cowboy Bebop. 50/50 for scene/music. It got very misty in the room both times.
3.) The ending of Freespace 2, when i'd died trying to escape the Supernova. I was so invested in the game, and finishing it felt like such an emotional release.

In another video game I only vaguely remember, the death in a JRPG that hit me hardest was not the oft-cited Aeris from FFVII (although that was nicely done) but some female character whose name I cannot remember from Phantasy Star IV. Cut 12-year old me's heart out.

DudleySmith wrote:

(b) Lin's fate in Perdido Street Station for being so monstrously unfair.

Holy crap yes. The scene afterward where she's trying to sculpt is just brutal.

Some for me:

1) ET: Still puts tears in my eyes.
2) My Dog Skip: Weeping and not self-conscious of it, at all.

Minarchist wrote:
Aries wrote:
Gaald wrote:

Near the end of Lord of the Rings when everyone bows down to the Hobbits... dammit I can't even think about it without getting chocked up.

Yup, gets me every time. "My friends, you bow to no one"

My tear-filled moment of RotK was Théoden's speech to the Riders of Rohan right before they charged into battle. A sword clanging on spears, a challenge to ride to ruin, and ear-splitting chants of "Death!" just felt so, I dunno, authentic.

Yeah - this is the one that makes me swallow hard. But I admit to becoming a little choked up when everyone bows to the hobbits also.