h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Inspired by - "20 films that make men cry" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10814813

Anybody agree with those 20 or do you have your own example of a film making the air quite dusty? For me it's the ending of "Saving Private Ryan" where the elderly Ryan is standing amongst the graves of the men who died saving him 40 years before and he asks his wife "Have I been a good man?"

The funeral pyre scene from Return Of The Jedi.

The skate rink scene from Monster.

I get a bit soppy at the end of Ghost World too.

Brokeback Mountain gets me a couple of times: when Ennis says "I wish I knew how to quit you Jack" and breaks down, and then when Ennis finds his own shirt in Jacks closet and holds it close.

LoTR: Two Towers always has me tearing up when Frodo and Sam are talking about whether there's any point in fighting, over scenes of Osgiliath, and the battles of Helms Deep and Isengard.

I have to say, I can't think of any time I've cried at a film, because I always feel a certain detachment. I can be thinking "Ooh, that's tragic, very moving" or in a horror film, "Ouch, that is really gruesome," or even "Hurrah, I'm very glad they won!" but it simply doesn't affect me physically. There's always a part of me that can't forget it's only a movie.

For some reason that I can never quite fathom the scene at the end of "A league of their own" the film with Tom Hanks, Gina Davis and Madonna about the female baseball league in WWII USA gets me bawling. In fact this is already down on record here somewhere as a weepy for me. Where they all meet up again after many years in a museum dedicated to them as old women. Pretty similar to that scene mentioned above in Shaving Ryan's Privates - also a weepy bit.

Interesting list.

I'm intrigued that a man watched The Railway Children 30 times.


Did the BBC realise that one of the quotes is about the original version of The Italian Job, but they've posted a photo of the remake?

Yeah, it's got a 'humorous' caption about the remake making critics cry.

>I'm intrigued that a man watched The Railway Children 30 times.<

Only someone outside of the UK would write that.

Anyone inside the UK will know that that is the number of times each summer holiday that film was repeated during the seventies and 80s.

School summer holidays in the UK back then involved nothing but endless revolving repeats of The Railway Children, Why Don't You*, and Heidi.**


I've probably watched it 30 times. It wasn't through choice paticularly.





* OK not strictly repeated.
** OK not strictly exclusive to the summer. Anything with 400 million episodes is clearly an all year round commitment.

The last 10 minutes of Schindler's List, guaranteed blub.

Not that I'm bitter or anything


I have to say I'm a bit intrigued about that film making a bloke cry though.
It might have made me sick once or twice but definitely not a cryer.

Oh ok. I had thought he'd watched it as an adult.

He probably did, I was being fairly there.

I can rarely spell that smiley right

The end of 'Silent Running'.

Think I'll wait for Toy Story 3 to come out on 'video'...

That's weepy but not as much as when "Duey" buys it - at least for me.

'The Dark Knight' when the Lambo gets totalled.

Silent Running is the only film that can make me cry, and it still makes me cry every time I watch it. Being a girl though, that's possibly not entirely relevant to the conversation...

Er...

I always find myself going a bit weepy at the 'photo album' from the end of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Hem hem.

Now I feel the need to go and watch some rugby league...

B

Having read the link, yes, Babe does it for me as well.

Hem hem.

I need to drink beer and then watch rugby league.

B

I'm a notorious bawler at films- if it's a comedy I often laugh until I cry. As to weepy films- I guess I would have to say that every Christmas *It's a Wonderful Life* gets me. The rest of the year *Goodbye Mr. Chips*, *The Shawshank Redemption* and *Forrest Gump* will have me blubbering if I'm in a particular mood. *Five Easy Pieces* can do it too if I willingly choose to ignore all the locations from my youth. If I had to chose one, it would be *Life is Beautiful* which had my date concerned for me when we first saw it.