When you cry manly tears of manliness

Thirteenth wrote:

I wept like a baby at the end of The Field of Dreams. It got too much.

You didn't like the movie either, huh?

Thirteenth wrote:

I wept like a baby at the end of The Field of Dreams. It got too much.

Somehow, I always get something in my eye when Doc walks off the field to attend to the injured little girl, and instantly ages.

The end of Where the Red Fern Grows (book version) had me weeping like a baby for an hour or so later.. but then, I was 10 years old

Up did it for me, and the ending of Forrest Gump where Tom Hanks is talking at the end.

And, fighting the two Scarabs towards the end of Halo 3 (Level is The Convenant, Rally Point Bravo). Just really well put together with the music (which changes when you get near the end), the action, the visuals. While the 2nd one is blowing up, I'll get some distance away from it, and turn around and watch it explode in all it's fantastic GPU-taxing glory. Oh man so such a poetic moment.

The song is playing is called "One Final Effort". Look it up, it's great!

ahrezmendi wrote:

Grave of the Fireflies.

'nuf said.

Yeah that one got me to and the end of the original Godzilla movie.

Tanglebones wrote:

The end of Where the Red Fern Grows (book version) had me weeping like a baby for an hour or so later.. but then, I was 10 years old ;)

Good lord yes.

I hadn't sobbed in awhile until I read this thread from the beginning damn it! My contributions...

Stumbled onto My Dog Skip while staying at a hotel on a business trip years ago. Marley and Me brought out the same reaction, dog movies man...
The STTNG episode "The Inner Light"
B5's finale "Sleeping in the Light", and the Angel episode "You're Welcome". I also agree with the previous Futurama references and want to add "Luck of the Fryrish"

While no manly tears were shed, I was deeply moved by the conclusion of Red Dead Redemption. I really loved that game.

The "We Have Forever" episode of Highway to Heaven was pretty good, the ending was a surprise and really emotional. The end of the movie The Last Station was very emotional and came as a surprise to my wife and I.

Ballotechnic wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

The end of Where the Red Fern Grows (book version) had me weeping like a baby for an hour or so later.. but then, I was 10 years old ;)

Good lord yes.

That did it for me when I was a kid, I haven't read it as an adult yet.

Another vote for Amelie. The scene

Spoiler:

near the end where she's making a cake and the cat disturbs the curtain behind her while she's day-dreaming of Nino.

Of course, my uber-manly tear ducts are only capable of producing small puffs of dust, but there's definitely some puffing going on after that one.

I recently watched the last four episodes of The Pacific in a single sitting and it completely reduced me to tears. Like, outright sobbing. Probably should have left some time to recover between episodes.

Now that I'm a father, anything that is intended to be sad and involves children. Movies that bored me to tears ten years ago, now move me to tears.

I was really drunk and the idea of an amputee or parapalegic being able to experience a new world, or get up and run in *crahgagdjfhavatarhhhmphhht* made me kind of choked up.

Any over the top hero sh*t, where I can believe I was destined to do something more significant than change diapers, eat butter tarts, and cash the odd client cheque usually gets me.

Someone said highway to heaven above. As a kid I always cried at the end of "The Littlest Hobo" [there's some Canadiana for you]. I could never understand why the damn dog kept leaving the people instead of staying where everything finally seemed to happy and fixed up.

Watched Big Fish again recently. Easily my favorite Tim Burton movie, and for some reason, caused me to leak like a sieve during the finale.

Ghostship wrote:

Someone said highway to heaven above. As a kid I always cried at the end of "The Littlest Hobo" [there's some Canadiana for you]. I could never understand why the damn dog kept leaving the people instead of staying where everything finally seemed to happy and fixed up.

I know. What the hell? He finds a new kid who loves him every episode and yet he keeps movin' on?

ExitPursuedByBear wrote:
Ghostship wrote:

Someone said highway to heaven above. As a kid I always cried at the end of "The Littlest Hobo" [there's some Canadiana for you]. I could never understand why the damn dog kept leaving the people instead of staying where everything finally seemed to happy and fixed up.

I know. What the hell? He finds a new kid who loves him every episode and yet he keeps movin' on?

It does strike me that each of his little happiness injections were pretty short term things. I seem to remember that the Hobo's "clients" benefited mainly from having a cool dog they could show off/use/make profit from, which doesn't seem like a sustainable thing once said dog is removed from the equation.

ExitPursuedByBear wrote:

I recently watched the last four episodes of The Pacific in a single sitting and it completely reduced me to tears. Like, outright sobbing. Probably should have left some time to recover between episodes.

Pretty much any "real" war movie that actually depicts the horrors involved instead of glorifying them, will do this to me. I get very depressed after watching those movies, and start hating the human race a little more than usual, but I still watch them for some reason.

Other movies that depict people suffering terrible loss will also bring the tears every time.

Movies are pretty much the only thing in life that can make me cry though*. Weird?

[size=10]*I did cry reading a newspaper article about the lives of the kids who were killed in the Columbine massacre. But usually tragedies in the news don't really hit too hard, at least not at that level.[/size]

Minarchist wrote:
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.

So in the Netflix Hidden Gems page, I had an Iron Giant story. I was relating that story to a coworker. This scene. And I couldn't even do that. Aw dang, now I can't find the post button, things just got kind of blurry.

As per the Aussie rules thread in the Sports forum, my team lost the Grand Final on saturday... was (and still am a little) absolutely shattered.

Definately shed a few tears that night, dreaming of what could have been

I know it's been mentioned in here a thousand times (maybe a little exageration) but UP!

We had a cluster of Pixar movies given to us, and didn't think much of them in terms of 'emotional' content. Just some G rated goodness for the little ones. Well, my wife walked out of the room after the first montage that ended in the Doctor's room, and when she came upstairs at the end of the movie, I was sitting there covered in tears.

Most of the 'tear jerking' bits were missed by our three year old, but she must have picked up the 'vibe' in the room, as she burst into tears when the old man shouted "I'm not your master" at the dog...

More emotional than Life is Beautiful, and that's the other one that usually gets me.

I was recently mocked for admitting to getting choked up at the end of Wall*E. Don't they understand? If they're not crying, THEY are the robots.

AP Erebus wrote:

As per the Aussie rules thread in the Sports forum, my team lost the Grand Final on saturday... was (and still am a little) absolutely shattered.

Definately shed a few tears that night, dreaming of what could have been :(

I'm kinda glad I don't follow a sports team. I'm sure there's a lot of fun involved but there also seems to be a fair amount of emotional trauma.

When The Tigers Broke Free by Pink Floyd gets me (Playing it now and I've got the chills.)

Several... the starting scene of Up. That was a real choker.

Even harder for me to cope with: WALL-E being broken in the junk yard, yet still only carrying about EVE's "objective", while she desperately tries to find a spare part for him. It get's me everytime - somehow I can't help it.

AP Erebus wrote:

As per the Aussie rules thread in the Sports forum, my team lost the Grand Final on saturday... was (and still am a little) absolutely shattered.

Definately shed a few tears that night, dreaming of what could have been :(

Mine won (sorry dude) and I had a tear in the eye of a different kind.

We have an Aussie rules thread here? How did I not notice THAT?

Oh man, I was just listening to Idle Thumbs when they mentioned Animal Crossing. That reminded me of the Korean Animal Crossing story, so I decided to look it up again. Well I didn't even have to re-read it, just scrolling down and seeing the letter already got my, uh, dust allergy starting up.

And then, while writing this post, I did re-read it. Dammit, why did I do this at work?

Anyway. I'm going to see my parents this weekend to help them set up their new TV, so I'm kind of looking forward to that now. Now back to more Thumbs to treat this damn allergy.

Edit: Okay, Hot Scoops reciting the Fresh Prince theme is doing it. Phew.

And then, while writing this post, I did re-read it. Dammit, why did I do this at work?

Thanks for providing that link so that I could read it at work!!!

Dang.

heavyfeul wrote:

For the parents: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...

That one's rough whether you have kids or not. I usually listen to podcasts on my walks to and from work, and the road was awful dusty the day that episode came out.

heavyfeul wrote:

For the parents: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...

Yeah, that was a heavy show, and I don't even have a wife or kids.

Grimmi Meloni wrote:

Several... the starting scene of Up. That was a real choker.

Even harder for me to cope with: WALL-E being broken in the junk yard, yet still only carrying about EVE's "objective", while she desperately tries to find a spare part for him. It get's me everytime - somehow I can't help it.

Yep, that got me too, especially when my 2 year old daughter looked at me with huge brown eyes and said "What's wrong with Wall-E, daddy?"

Speaking of my little girl, my most recent cry was when I knocked a bowl of soup onto her leg last week. Once I had her sitting in a cold bath and calmed down, called the ambulance and my wife was looking after her, there was nothing manly about my tears. I bawled like a child. I would do anything to prevent her from getting hurt, and then a moment of carelessness gives her the worst injury of her life.

spider_j wrote:

Speaking of my little girl, my most recent cry was when I knocked a bowl of soup onto her leg last week. Once I had her sitting in a cold bath and calmed down, called the ambulance and my wife was looking after her, there was nothing manly about my tears. I bawled like a child. I would do anything to prevent her from getting hurt, and then a moment of carelessness gives her the worst injury of her life.

A very similar thing happened to me when my daughter was two. Worst...Day...Ever.

It was the "Mom and Dad swinging her by her arms game." On one upswing I heard and felt a pop in the arm I was holding and she went silent, then she started crying and couldn't move her arm. Took her to urgent care and it turned out to be "Nursemaid Elbow." Basically what happens it that the elbow slips out of the joint for a second and then pinches soft tissue in the joint when it slips back in. It is very common in kids under the age of six. Usually it happens when you are holding your kids hand and walking and they have one of those flop to ground tantrums/protests or by ignorant parents like me who swing their kids around by their arms.

I think it took the doctor longer to calm us down than to fix her elbow and she was back to normal in a day or two. Still, I never felt so horrible in my life.

Note to parents: Don't ever swing your kids by their arms until they are 6 years old or older. I have actually told some parents my story when I see them swinging their kid around by the arms. Who knew this iconic image of parenthood would be so dangerous.

heavyfeul wrote:

Note to parents: Don't ever swing your kids by their arms until they are 6 years old or older. I have actually told some parents my story when I see them swinging their kid around by the arms. Who knew this iconic image of parenthood would be so dangerous.

My Uncle dislocated either the elbow or shoulder (I thought it was shoulder but that may just have been an assumption until I read your story) of my cousin when they were little. Not his child either, but one of his other nephews. If you thought you felt bad doing it to your own child just imagine how bad you'd feel doing it to someone elses.