When you cry manly tears of manliness

kessler.ryan wrote:

Rudy - At the end when he gets to go in the game.

Field of Dreams - When Kevin Costner's character asks his dad if he wants to play a game of catch.

Same, and like many other the end of Saving Private Ryan. I would add the beginning of Saving Private Ryan as well. The whole storming of the beach is a pretty sad scene. The death of Buster in Gettysburg is a pretty sad moment as well especially since Jeff Daniels does a great job throughout the movie.There are also many parts of Band of Brothers that get me. Off the top of my head, towards the end when they find the concentration camp. Terrible. I guess I'm more susceptible to war horrors and sports moments as opposed to sappy love stuff.

Watching my Redskins week after week after week.

Up, both times I've seen it. It's something that might not have struck me as hard five years ago.

Anyone else get a little misty when Wall-E's battery conks out? Or when he loses his memory?

Floomi wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I really enjoyed the film but then I'm a fan of 'out of sequence' story telling. I think it comes from my early days as a comic collector :).

I think what you meant to say was:

as a comic collector my early days I think it comes from story telling of 'out of sequence' but then I'm a fan I really enjoyed the film

It took me a little while to realise what you did there

KingGorilla wrote:

Anyone else get a little misty when Wall-E's battery conks out? Or when he loses his memory?

You don't have a heart if you don't get a little misty from that movie.

kessler.ryan wrote:

Field of Dreams - When Kevin Costner's character asks his dad if he wants to play a game of catch.

Yeah, this made my eyes wet.

I watched Pixar's "Up" today, and pretty much the whole movie makes me cry. Despite the lots of laughs it's a very sad film.

Agemmon wrote:
KingGorilla wrote:

Anyone else get a little misty when Wall-E's battery conks out? Or when he loses his memory?

You don't have a heart if you don't get a little misty from that movie.

hear hear!

Prozac wrote:

For me it's always heroic deaths and self sacrifice for the greater good. I find books tend to get me much more than television and movies, but yeah, I can't go past a good heroic death.

I wish more television had permanent death for key characters.

I hope this means that you have watched Babylon 5. JMS (the creator of Babylon 5) really loves putting this into all his stuff.

Heck he wrote the best heroic death/self sacrifice in a Children live-action TV series (as opposed to the ones that were animated, usually in a movie format, like Transformers) that I've seen that has stayed with me for 20 years. Really wish that series would have lasted another season in order to show the full impact of that sacrifice.

Heck he wrote the best heroic death/self sacrifice in a Children live-action TV series (as opposed to the ones that were animated, usually in a movie format, like Transformers) that I've seen that has stayed with me for 20 years.

Wait, which one was this? The series, specifically.

There's a scene in Deadwood that I consider, to this day, to be the finest moment in television.

It's mid-second season, the Reverend Smith's brain tumor is in the midst of taking a turn for the worst. Bullock's mad about everything, Star's trying to calm him down, and up comes the Reverend, speaking to them both, asking them if they are truly his friends, or demons - because, he reasons, demons are built to take a pleasing shape, and what more pleasing shape to him would be the ones he considers friends?

Seth, with all his rage and issues, becomes the human being he's been trying to be since moving to Deadwood, and with Sol manages to convince the Reverend that they are, indeed, his friends, and not demons out to lead him astray. The episode ends simply with the two of them escorting the Reverend back to his home.

I lose it every time I watch that scene.

Also, Fringe's Walter Bishop. There are a lot of moments that get me, with just the inherent tragedy of this character literally imprisoned in his own mind, but one in particular hits home - at the start of the second season, Olivia is back, once thought dead. Walter, always fighting for a coherent thought, just simply manages to say "When I saw you lying there... I don't know what I would have done."

KingGorilla wrote:

Anyone else get a little misty when Wall-E's battery conks out? Or when he loses his memory?

I did.

Does crying at the birth of your daughters count as manly tears?

NSMike wrote:
Heck he wrote the best heroic death/self sacrifice in a Children live-action TV series (as opposed to the ones that were animated, usually in a movie format, like Transformers) that I've seen that has stayed with me for 20 years.

Wait, which one was this? The series, specifically.

The series was named Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. Cheezy? I know. Now most of this information can be found from the wiki entry, but I like writing it out as it forces me to remember.

Typical Terminator-like setup where in the future, machines have mostly taken over the world and small groups of human rebels oppose them. Some differences include: It's the merger of a human mind with an AI that leads to the machine uprising. The machines don't set out to kill humans, they "digitize" them to have their memories and knowledge added to the AI collective and some humans are left to live and grow under machine control. This last bit leads to the use of "Dread machine Youth", usually young humans that are loyal to the machines, trained to infiltrate the various rebel groups then betray them.

Oh and last but not least, some of the rebels have "Power Suits", wearable exoskeletal weapon platforms. These where made by the title character's dead father, hence the name.

So the rebels are organized like a military unit, with ranks, once again the source of the title character's name. This Captain Jonathan Power is one of the best leaders the rebels have, and he commands a small fast strike squad that operates out of a Power Base, making use of a warpgate using Jumpship that constantly thwarts the Machines efforts to track them down.

Into this all male squad comes a new rookie member assigned to them by rebel command, one Corporal Jennifer 'Pilot' Chase, meant to make better use of the Jumpship. Pilot comes in with a bit of a background: she was once a Dread Youth Leader but decided to turn and join the rebels after witnessing a daring rescue of human prisoners by Captain Power himself.

Naturally the rest of the squad are less than impressed by this revelation, having had their own fair share of run-ins with the Dread Youth. So she is the lowest ranking, youngest, least trusted of the bunch. Not to mention her shyness around her heroic icon and now direct commanding officer. Captain Power himself is at first somewhat made awkward by all this, and works on letting her see his human side. This kind of backfires as Power is highly driven to save humans at all costs, which gets him into constant trouble not to mention paint a huge target on him. Pilot gets around by being brash & outspoken, a good soldier and works her way into the good books of the squad.

Two events highlight Pliot's growth: one when she talks the rest into letting her sneak into a Dread Youth camp to retrieve an antidote and another where she protects an injured Captain from human survivors who recognize her from her past. Her loyalty elevates her to be an accepted member of the squad.

Near the end of the series, after destroying an orbital platform that was to be used by the Machines, Pilot finds the nerve to bring up to Power a conversation she has been meaning to have with him. However alerts on the warpgate system cause the squad to be deployed, interrupting their talk, while Pilot is left to defend Base. The situation escalates when the Machines use data gathered to finally break through the warpgates, allowing them to arrive at the Base itself and deactivating the warpgate system; the alerts were decoys, leaving the Jumpship stranded.

Forced to fly direct, Power is left helpless listening to the running battle back at Base as Pilot desperately defends against the Machine onslaught. He tells her to hang on, that they will be there soon and that they can finish that conversation, that they have so much to talk about. Pilot takes a direct hit, injuring her legs, her suit barely able to function and at minimal power. She drags herself into the control room, telling the rest that the only option left is the base power supply, "It's too late! I'm all broken up inside... stay clear. I'm sorry we never got to finish our talk."

The door is forced open and the Machine general orders her to surrender.
Pulling herself upright against the control panel, Pilot looks the towering machine in the eye and says "Go to hell" then hits the self-destruct button for the power base.

lostlobster wrote:

The Iron Giant, "Suuuupermaaaaan" freakin' KILLS me every time.

This, the best part of the best animated movie of all time, makes me break down every damn time.

I saw Where The Wild Things Are over the weekend. Man, I don't remember the book being so dark and depressing, but I was on the verge of bawling for most of it. I could kind of feel the buildup right behind my eyes. So sad.

Indignant wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

The Iron Giant, "Suuuupermaaaaan" freakin' KILLS me every time.

This, the best part of the best animated movie of all time, makes me break down every damn time.

I was watching that with my younger sister one Christmas and my older sister came downstairs to tell us dinner was ready right when he starts attacking the army. She'd never even heard of it before and didn't like any animated stuff not disney. She was balling when he said that. Her exact quote was "I hate it when they pick on bigger people just for being bigger!"

*I've repeated myself twice in this thread now. I'm such a sissyboy.

Mental Note to Self - watch Iron Giant.

Prozac wrote:

For me it's always heroic deaths and self sacrifice for the greater good. I find books tend to get me much more than television and movies, but yeah, I can't go past a good heroic death.

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Yeah Aaron I think that got me when I was 12 and saw it at the pictures.

The final episodes of Space: Above and Beyond fall into this category as well. I hadn't watched them when they originally aired, so I was in a bit of a shock when I re-watched the series earlier this year.

I think what triggers me is, in general, either a person losing the core support in their life (e.g., Up or the start of Full Metal Alchemist), a character sacrificing themselves for the others (sealing the door, giving up the last of the air, etc.), or a character stuck with a slow doom (e.g., ship is out of fuel and about to fall into a star, but they still have radio contact to say their goodbyes). That and anything truly horrible happening to children, as I immediately picture my nieces, nephews and friends' kids in that position.

One I don't think has been mentioned and which _totally_ caught me off guard was Bolt.

My son rented that last weekend and ...

Spoiler:

near the end where Bolt and Penny are caught in the fire, and instead of escaping through the vent he just curls up under her arm after she has collapsed

Dammit, I'm getting misty thinking about it.

Wasn't even thinking I'd like the movie, much less give a darn about the fate of the characters.

Elysium wrote:

One I don't think has been mentioned and which _totally_ caught me off guard was Bolt.

My son rented that last weekend and ...

Spoiler:

near the end where Bolt and Penny are caught in the fire, and instead of escaping through the vent he just curls up under her arm after she has collapsed

Dammit, I'm getting misty thinking about it.

Wasn't even thinking I'd like the movie, much less give a darn about the fate of the characters.

Yeah, that one was surprisingly good.

The above comments about Wall-E are well-seen. I actually cried openly (big, girly tears) at the end sequence with the robots and humans doing stuff together. That awesome imagery of technology and humanity meshing was just too much for me.

I got really choked up at the end of Contact too, for reference.

Just found a new one... In Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 2, there's an episode where they follow a character for a few minutes, like a short. One of them is the Tale of Iroh. When he ends his day beneath a tree in Ba Sing Se, lighting incense for his lost son, and sings the "Brave Soldier Boy" song.

Iroh also happens to be my favorite character.

NSMike wrote:

Just found a new one... In Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 2, there's an episode where they follow a character for a few minutes, like a short. One of them is the Tale of Iroh. When he ends his day beneath a tree in Ba Sing Se, lighting incense for his lost son, and sings the "Brave Soldier Boy" song.

Iroh also happens to be my favorite character.

It's even worse after you find out that the episode was dedicated to Mako, the original voice of Iroh, since he died partway through season 2.

mudbunny wrote:

Does crying at the birth of your daughters count as manly tears?

Dude. Yes. Good Lord, yes.

Indignant wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

The Iron Giant, "Suuuupermaaaaan" freakin' KILLS me every time.

This, the best part of the best animated movie of all time, makes me break down every damn time.

This too. I had seen it a few years ago but it came in my Netflix queue on Friday, so I was able to watch it again this weekend. Brad Bird is great, but I think this may still be his best work.

muttonchop wrote:
NSMike wrote:

Just found a new one... In Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 2, there's an episode where they follow a character for a few minutes, like a short. One of them is the Tale of Iroh. When he ends his day beneath a tree in Ba Sing Se, lighting incense for his lost son, and sings the "Brave Soldier Boy" song.

Iroh also happens to be my favorite character.

It's even worse after you find out that the episode was dedicated to Mako, the original voice of Iroh, since he died partway through season 2.

Aw geez.

muttonchop wrote:
NSMike wrote:

Just found a new one... In Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 2, there's an episode where they follow a character for a few minutes, like a short. One of them is the Tale of Iroh. When he ends his day beneath a tree in Ba Sing Se, lighting incense for his lost son, and sings the "Brave Soldier Boy" song.

Iroh also happens to be my favorite character.

It's even worse after you find out that the episode was dedicated to Mako, the original voice of Iroh, since he died partway through season 2.

Yeah, I got misty at that one too. And by time I saw it I knew Mako had passed. So yeah, that hurt.

Bolt, when

Spoiler:

Penny and Bolt reunite in the burning building.

Makes me tear up just a little bit every. frickin'. time. And my two-year-old likes the movie, so you can imagine how often I type it.

This.

http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/Grego... (Direct link to mp3)

Listening to this in the car this morning made me tear up something fierce.

CFRA's Remembrance Day stuff is always awesome. It's the only thing actually worth listening to on "Ottawa's Fox News".