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

Blokes cry?

Must be a north of the river thing.

cry? the hippo doesn't cry.

Fields of Dreams ... every time.
Up ... in the opening montage of the couple falling in love, getting married etc.
The Time Traveller's Wife ... got me going at the cinema last year.

The final scenes in 'Dogma' with Alanis Morissette as God have me welling up. I realise this makes me odd.

Quite a lot of dialogue in the Star Wars prequel trilogy made me cry as well. But possibly for different reasons.

B

It really depends what kind of mood, and company, I'm in whether a film makes me blub or not. Also, consumed may be a factor

The most recent film to have me welling up was How To Train Your Dragon, on the flight to NZ. But in the past, Sleepless In Seattle has had me in tears.

RF

Carousel.

Every time.

I that a certain team hijacked the main anthem!!



MMF

there's a comment on that BBC article from a chap who had seen the Champ in some sort of military environment.

Reminds me of the time at summer camp once, in Bavaria, when it rained and rained and rained so they put on some films for our troop (60 men, 5 women). One of them was Who Will Love my Children and all the guys were sniffing away like a bunch of girls.

And my absolutely completely and utterly refuses to contemplate Terms of Endearment or The Bridge to Terebithia because they make him blub (and me of course, but I'm a gurl so I don't count)

Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events had me, and basically every other adult seeing it, crying their eyes out at the end.

My ex blubbed at Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris.

Awakenings.

As a female answering....I usually dont cry at films as I only really watch horrors (though Marely and me I did feel my eyes mist up) but books and TV shows do get me blubbering.

Ii think with books and TV shows yuo are investing more time and begin to know the characters. I remember reading Goodnight Mister Tom and crying like a baby. Also Greys Anatomy is guaranteed to make me cry.

On patrol on my submarine in the senior rates mess. Film night.
My choice of movie. I put on 'Whose life is it anyway?'. It's about an artist having become a paraplegic, his relationship with nurses etc and his right to die. He wins the right to have the medication stopped and dies.
The whole mess was completely silent for the whole film, a first, and then most made a mad dash for the door when the lights came on. I got called some very unusual and anatomically incorrect names.
Not a dry eye in the place.
Course men cry at films.
Lord of the rings, Pursuit of Happyness, Das Boot,etc, etc.
I am a proper blubber.
Even a good book will do it. Try Black Beauty!
Dim the lights and pass the hankies.

sceptic

I think the last film I cried for at the sinny may have been The Passion of the Christ...
I was overwhelmed by the thoughts in my head that there may have "real" Jesus either mad or a fanatic, tortured in that way. And, besides that millions had suffered torment either psychological or physical in the name of the myth being viscerally dragged out on the screen. And, again that we apes need no faith to be cruel.

Forgot to mention, we went to see Toy Story 3 the other day. There were a couple of blokes (early 20's?) behind us (it was the early afternoon showing so not at all full). As we were standing to leave one of the blokes was telling his mate that he'd blubbed. The 3D glasses can hide a multitude of sins.

Babe got me crying. When the lights came back on it was really embarassing to be seen crying in front of two young dried eyed boys.

I think from reading this thread it seems that the situation has as big an effect as the film. Im not surprised people in the forces awa from their families feel more emotional in regard of a film like "Who will love my children"



For the record I dont recall any films that have made me cry, but then I was taught to keep a tight reign on certain emotions as a very young boy and have difficulty accessing them now as a result. I do remember coming home from a rugby tour and after very little sleep and a lot of drinking we started singing old songs. I could barely hold back the tears during the choruses of "Homeward bound".

I think one just has to be older, have more life experience, to fully appreciate Babe.

War films usually do it for my DH. And a film about three dying blokes - I think it had one of the James Bonds in it - Timothy Dalton - hang on -



Hawks.

I cry over everything he doesn't.

Mol

sorry - it wasn't Who Will Love My Children that set off all my soldiers, but The Long Way Home (or something like that)