Films That Make Men Get A Little Bit Of Grit In Their Eyes

[sojourner]

Okay, let's test that


Trains



The green or the yellow?

ahem, donna

I'm gonna watch telly for a bit now, you'll have plenty of time to come back

 

[Diamond Dog]

Terminator 2

Dead Poets' Society

It's a Wonderful Life.

The Secret Millionaire.


Ok, so the last one isn't a film, but my god you'd have to have a weeping petrified and blackened prune in place of your heart not to be moved by the donations.

Still, all are highly

 

[Orang Utan]

A friend of mine cried at How Clean Is Your House? At work, at his desk

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Star Trek 2: The Search For Spock

Im not the anti pussy but I really can't remember crying at anything. Then one day a I just started getting weepy about almost any film. A sort of middle aged eye incontinence.

I have got grit in my eye watching Star trek insurrection, lost in space, and way too many cartoons. I quite enjoy the feeling. I was a little embarrassed when I cried at the remake of shall we dance.

 

[Diamond Dog]

A friend of mine cried at How Clean Is Your House? At work, at his desk

I did the same when I found out Aggie was married

 

[Donna Ferentes]

ahem, donna

I'm gonna watch telly for a bit now, you'll have plenty of time to come back

Oh sorry, was there a question? I thought you were free-associating...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Not even The Champ?? you are made of grit

Nope

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

During spocks funeral Kirk starts to breakdown while adrdressing the crew. Fucking heartbreaking.

Spock's dead

 

[mauvais]

Das Boot.

The Green Mile.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Then one day a I just started getting weepy about almost any film. A sort of middle aged eye incontinence.

 

[kyser_soze]

Kes - saw it when I was VERY young and it tore me to pieces. I wanted to kill his brother at the end of that film (which is a strong feeling when you're 9 years old!)

I'd forgotten Dead Poets Society - I have it on DVD but it's one of those 'Never watch again, lest rewatching destroy a cherished adolescent memory' films...I don't know if I'd find it a bit too saccharine(sp?) now...

 

[DotCommunist]

Have we mentioned Iron Giant yet?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I was never able to watch A Short Film About Love as at the time, this girl I liked had just gone to Poland. I wonder if I should watch it and this distance, or whether I'd be better off giving it a miss?

 

[kyser_soze]

There's the air of a wistful yet tragic European film in that last post of yours DF...

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Goodbye Lenin is the last film I remember crying at, I remember crying at Schindler's List when I was in my teens.

Since we're confessing, I once cried at the simpsons and neighbours ffs, but in my defence both occasions were during the week after taking loads of pills at the weekend. Still

 

[Andy the Don]

One flew over the cuckoos nest..

When the chief smoothers McMurphy after he has been lobotomised.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There's the air of a wistful yet tragic European film in that last post of yours DF...

Go on....

 

[El Sueno]

I found a bit of grit in my eye watching bleedin' Annie at the weekend. Mind you, I am a recovering drug addict and my emotions are all over the place lately!

I dunno why but I find myself welling up at the happiest moments, not the saddest ones. The sound of a huge crown cheering or applauding gets me sometimes too. It's like getting overwhelmed by positive energy, or something.

Others that get me - It's a Wonderful Life and E.T. (when Gertie starts crying at the end with the flower gone all droopy). Aww.

 

[elevendayempire]

Oh thank fuck


I though I was the only one...





Unless of course this is just some cunning OU ruse to out me.

No, it's true. I well up a little bit when the T-800 tops himself.

SG

 

[belboid]

Oh God yes. Somebody wants to find it on YouTube, the sequence where he's talking to her while his plane is going down.

bit early in the film for any welling up, imo, marvellous tho it is...."I could love a man like you Peter"

e2a: no sound on this PC, so this might be in German!

The scene where Lermontov announces that Vicky won't dance tonight in The Red Shoes, and they then perform it without her, tho, is heartrending. And the last of Theo's speeches in Blimp.

 

[London_Calling]

Buttman and Throbin made my eyes water.

 

[belboid]

just the one eye in that case, shorely?

 

[London_Calling]

2 watered, one dribbled.

 

[kyser_soze]

Betty Blue...

 

[october_lost]

Off the top of my head

Land and Freedom
Spartacus
Forest Gump
Its a Wonderful Life

 

[Barking_Mad]

The Green Mile

Any Lassie movie/tv show.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Betty Blue...

Was that the answer to my question? (I've not seen it, which could explain my continuing bafflement.)

 

[kyser_soze]

Ah no.. in answer to you question about it...your mention of not watching a film because an appreciated lady had gone to Poland has a filmic quality about it I think...

 

[sojourner]

Oh sorry, was there a question? I thought you were free-associating...

Did you miss the bit where I said 'let's test that'?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Did you miss the bit where I said 'let's test that'?

No, just any logical follow-up thereto.