When you cry manly tears of manliness

I have only once gotten through LotR: Fellowship of the Rings without tearing up when Boromir dies.

"I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king."

Me? Done.

toph513 wrote:

I have only once gotten through LotR: Fellowship of the Rings without tearing up when Boromir dies.

"I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king."

Me? Done.

Yeah.. that whole sequence did more to redeem Boromir in my eyes than the two or three times I had read through the trilogy before seeing the movie. And I was pretty damned weepy too.

Tanglebones wrote:
toph513 wrote:

I have only once gotten through LotR: Fellowship of the Rings without tearing up when Boromir dies.

"I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king."

Me? Done.

Yeah.. that whole sequence did more to redeem Boromir in my eyes than the two or three times I had read through the trilogy before seeing the movie. And I was pretty damned weepy too.

I absolutely love the scene where he is fighting to defend the hobbits. But the part in the series where I choke: Theoden's speech to the Rhorirrim at the battle of Pelenor Fields. Something about this much smaller force facing an unbeatable onslaught and then riding straight into the heart of it despite.

HedgeWizard wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
toph513 wrote:

I have only once gotten through LotR: Fellowship of the Rings without tearing up when Boromir dies.

"I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king."

Me? Done.

Yeah.. that whole sequence did more to redeem Boromir in my eyes than the two or three times I had read through the trilogy before seeing the movie. And I was pretty damned weepy too.

I absolutely love the scene where he is fighting to defend the hobbits. But the part in the series where I choke: Theoden's speech to the Rhorirrim at the battle of Pelenor Fields. Something about this much smaller force facing an unbeatable onslaught and then riding straight into the heart of it despite.

For me, besides Boromir, its either "For Frodo." and then Aragorn and the two hobbits charge all of Mordor or Gandalf describing death as a "Far Green Country" to Pippin right before the second ring is breached. Its maybe the only time that Gandalf speaks to Pippin without telling him he's an idiot. And the look in Ian McKellan's face, as if he's been there, and wouldn't mind returning. I find that little comfort he gave Pippin very moving.

And let's not forgot Aragorn's "my friends, you bow to no one" line. Just that look of complete sincerity on Aragorn's face, that makes me a little misty.

My internal vision of the story was set long before the film came out, but what has always moved me the most was Eomer's response to Theoden's death and Eowyn's supposed death.

I'll admit to tearing up at all the LOTR scenes described above and adding a few more:

-The look on Frodo's face when he turns around at Aragorn's call just after the escape of The Mines of Moria and the Fall of Gandalf to the Balrog.

-The Beacons of Gondor being lit and that damned moving Howard Shore score that went along with it.

And I think we already talked about all this in the first few pages of this very same thread

This didn't make me tear up, but I did feel a bit of emotion with it. The death earlier this year of Peter Steele of Type O Negative, "eulogized" online by the band's co-founder Josh Silver:

“Peter, My endless source of frustration, (as I'm yours) you have really done it this time. You have changed and touched countless lives through music, comedy and often brutal honesty. You've made life both interesting and irritating and I could not imagine not having known you for 37 years. It still isn't true in my mind but in time I will miss you and the creating that we all endured together. We certainly disagreed constantly and I believe (and hope) we all learned from each other. Should I call you my brother, friend or neighbor? I can only call you Peter (and usually after 2 PM). We laughed at ourselves more times then I can count. Knowing humans are preposterous creatures and I know we reveled in that fact. I will miss you in time, but at this moment your premature departure seems surreal and has pissed me off to no end. Though I never told you that I harbor a deep respect for you, I do. Goodbye my friend.”

I teared up to this video a couple times. At work. Had to stop it at one point because I was welling up just while playing the song in the background while working at my desk. Beautiful song(s), even more poignant with pictures.

I know, I posted this in the Name a Band/Song and Post a Video threads, but it deserves attention.

Spoiler:

It just makes me think about growing old with my wife and how much I'm going to lose it if she goes before me. Hell, I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.

Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.

..every time.

The ending to As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me. On Netflix instant, btw.

I guess if I am confessing, I should also add (like many others): the end of Band of Brothers. As Colonel Winters delivers the lines about what happened to whom, while the company plays baseball.

I guess it brings up some memories of my time in the service, and when you've "walked" with Easy Company throughout the series, understanding these were real men... I have to go... my allergies are kicking up.

WipEout wrote:

I teared up to this video a couple times. At work. Had to stop it at one point because I was welling up just while playing the song in the background while working at my desk. Beautiful song(s), even more poignant with pictures.

Holy crap is that powerful.

Spoiler:

I knew that it was coming. Everything pointed towards it, and I *still* choked up when I saw him carrying her, with her head flopped back and the arm dangling.

On a related note: "But I'm thinking of what Sarah said, That love is watching someone die." Thanks Death Cab. That song kills me.

The end of Toy Story 3. Cried in the theatre.

And then, Tuesday, when the blu-ray dvds came in the mail, my daughter who is 3 wanted to watch it.

I'm on the couch, holding her, trying not to cry too loudly in her ear and she turns and looks at me and says, in a very concerned voice: "Is the boy not going to play with his toys any more?" I took a second and said "That's right, honey. But he's giving them to that little girl to play with. And she's going to love them just as much as he did." She looked at me and then the tv and said, "Oh. Okay."

KILLED. ME.

WipEout wrote:

It just makes me think about growing old with my wife and how much I'm going to lose it if she goes before me. Hell, I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.

My Fiancee's going in for major surgery in 10 days, so this is what's been jumping out of nowhere and getting me lately.

First time I cried in front of my girlfriend was the end of The Color Purple. Damn you, Spielberg!

Prozac wrote:
WipEout wrote:

It just makes me think about growing old with my wife and how much I'm going to lose it if she goes before me. Hell, I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.

My Fiancee's going in for major surgery in 10 days, so this is what's been jumping out of nowhere and getting me lately.

As the great Lous C.K. said, "Best case scenario in marriage is you get to grow old and watch the person you love the most die."

Yeah he's kind of a downer.

Ballotechnic wrote:

And let's not forgot Aragorn's "my friends, you bow to no one" line. Just that look of complete sincerity on Aragorn's face, that makes me a little misty.

It is cry tears of MANliness, not NERDliness!

Unknown Soldier wrote:

As the great Lous C.K. said, "Best case scenario in marriage is you get to grow old and watch the person you love the most die."

Yeah he's kind of a downer.

Brutally honest, though.

Falchion wrote:

I'll admit to tearing up at all the LOTR scenes described above and adding a few more:

Not from the movie, but from the book itself - this passage from the Fall of Gondor:

J R R Tolkien wrote:

And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a rooster crowed. shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.

And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns horns, in dark mindolluins sides they dimly echoed. great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.

That last line gets me.. every single time.

This video had me crying. Not just tearing up, but crying. And I am trying hard to not think too much about the video while typing this, because I am just on the edge again. If you have ever had a pet that meant a lot to you, watch this at home, not at work. If this doesn't touch you, you have no soul.

I'm tempted to watch that but there's no way I can. I've been through the final moments of the life of a cat that was hit by a car and I've had to make the decision to put down multiple sick or old-age pets over the years. They were all miseries the likes of which I've rarely felt otherwise and the few times in my adult life I've genuinely cried.

Kraint wrote:
Unknown Soldier wrote:

As the great Lous C.K. said, "Best case scenario in marriage is you get to grow old and watch the person you love the most die."

Yeah he's kind of a downer.

Brutally honest, though.

I think that's part of why I like him so much. I very much ascribe to that hyper-realism point of view.

Jonman wrote:

I think that's part of why I like him so much. I very much ascribe to that hyper-realism point of view.

I concur. I've been following that approach, as well as his line of thought, quite a bit recently as my wedding approaches.

Also, goddamn Grave of the Fireflies.

mudbunny wrote:

This video had me crying.

I knew I shouldn't have watched that. I need a tissue.
Jerk.

mudbunny wrote:

This video had me crying. Not just tearing up, but crying. And I am trying hard to not think too much about the video while typing this, because I am just on the edge again. If you have ever had a pet that meant a lot to you, watch this at home, not at work. If this doesn't touch you, you have no soul.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_attack

Wikipedia wrote:

With the close association of dogs and humans in daily life (largely as pets), dog attacks—with injuries from very minor to significant, and severe to fatal—are not uncommon. Attacks on the serious end of the spectrum have become the focus of increasing media and public attention in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It is estimated that two percent of the US population, 4.7 million people, are bitten each year. In the 1980s and 1990s the US averaged 17 fatalities per year, while in the 2000s this has increased to 26. 77% of dog bites are from the pet of family or friends, and 50% of attacks occur on the dog owner's property

Man's best friend?

Yeah, I like dogs and all-- they're cute-- but I'll keep my bird, thanks. The chances of a little parakeet mauling me to death are kinda slim, I think.

WipEout wrote:

Yeah, I like dogs and all-- they're cute-- but I'll keep my bird, thanks. The chances of a little parakeet mauling me to death are kinda slim, I think. ;)

In this era, sure!

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