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Screenwriting
14 films that make men cry
MSNBC claims that these seven movies make men "get something in their eyes":
1. Dead Poets' Society
2. Gladiator
3. Legends of the Fall
4. The Notebook
5. Rudy
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Titanic
But then Creative Screenwriting Weekly grabbed a box of Kleenex and wept over:
1. Babe
2. Field of Dreams
3. In America
4. Kramer vs. Kramer
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. Schindler's List
7. Stand by Me
Although none of the he-men who chew nails and split logs here on MWSm would ever cry while watching a movie, what films do you think other men much less manly men would add to the list?
Lois
1. Dead Poets' Society
2. Gladiator
3. Legends of the Fall
4. The Notebook
5. Rudy
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Titanic
But then Creative Screenwriting Weekly grabbed a box of Kleenex and wept over:
1. Babe
2. Field of Dreams
3. In America
4. Kramer vs. Kramer
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. Schindler's List
7. Stand by Me
Although none of the he-men who chew nails and split logs here on MWSm would ever cry while watching a movie, what films do you think other men much less manly men would add to the list?
Lois
Top answer
Out of those lists I'll admit to crying at the end of Saving Private Ryan and Field of Dreams. When I think about crying over a Kevin Costner movie, I cringe a little. I believe Forrest Gump might have made me cry when he was standing at Jenny's gravestone, or at least a little teary eyed.
- Out of those lists I'll admit to crying at the end of Saving Private Ryan and Field of Dreams.
- When I think about crying over a Kevin Costner movie, I cringe a little.
- I believe Forrest Gump might have made me cry when he was standing at Jenny's gravestone, or at least a little teary eyed.
- I know there are more but for some reason none are coming to mind.
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Out of those lists I'll admit to crying at the end of Saving Private Ryan and Field of Dreams. When I think about crying over a Kevin Costner movie, I cringe a little. I believe Forrest Gump might have made me cry when he was standing at Jenny's gravestone, or at least a little teary eyed. I know there are more but for some reason none are coming to mind.
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]MSNBC claims that these seven movies make men "get something in their eyes": 1. Dead Poets' Society[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]2. Gladiator[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]3. Legends of the Fall[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]4. The Notebook[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]5. Rudy[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]6. Saving Private Ryan[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]7. Titanic[/nq]
*** almighty no!
[nq:1]MSNBC claims that these seven movies make men "get something in their eyes": 1. Dead Poets' Society[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]2. Gladiator[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]3. Legends of the Fall[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]4. The Notebook[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]5. Rudy[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]6. Saving Private Ryan[/nq]
Nope.
[nq:1]7. Titanic[/nq]
*** almighty no!
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]Cripes, who did the poll, the entire cast of "Hello Dolly"?[/nq]
Now, I'd like to specify that while I found most of those movies moving, very few if any moved me to lumps in my throat.
jaybee
[nq:1]Cripes, who did the poll, the entire cast of "Hello Dolly"?[/nq]
Now, I'd like to specify that while I found most of those movies moving, very few if any moved me to lumps in my throat.
jaybee
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There's really only one movie that could make a man cry "Brian's Song" (the original, not the remake).
ADS.
ADS.
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[nq:1]@reader2.panix.com:[/nq]
I'm with you on all of them, Jaybee. Maybe what makes gay men cry, but they don't do much for my tear ducts.
If my wife and I are watching any of these types of movies I sometimes think at what ever moment, this is a sad scene. Then I hear a sniff and look over with a bemused look at my wife as she wipes away a few tears. She looks back at me and gets all ***
I'm with you on all of them, Jaybee. Maybe what makes gay men cry, but they don't do much for my tear ducts.
If my wife and I are watching any of these types of movies I sometimes think at what ever moment, this is a sad scene. Then I hear a sniff and look over with a bemused look at my wife as she wipes away a few tears. She looks back at me and gets all ***
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[nq:1]@reader2.panix.com:[/nq]
It is a ridiculously lame pair of lists. I mean, *** "Gladiator"!?
Cheers,
B
It is a ridiculously lame pair of lists. I mean, *** "Gladiator"!?
Cheers,
B
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[nq:1]MSNBC claims that these seven movies make men "get something in their eyes":[/nq]
I've seen most of the movies on both lists, and I don't think I cried through any of them.
Dena Jo
More macho than most men...
Email goes to denajo2 at the dot com variation of the Yahoo domain.
Plonk the ********:
I've seen most of the movies on both lists, and I don't think I cried through any of them.
Dena Jo
More macho than most men...
Email goes to denajo2 at the dot com variation of the Yahoo domain.
Plonk the ********:
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[nq:1]MSNBC claims that these seven movies make men "get something in their eyes":[/nq]
I don't think any of the films on those lists gave me so much as a sniffle. And where the **** is "SHANE"!? Talk about a glaring omission!
Here's my list:
"Bride of Frankenstein" - Whale may have intended it as a black comedy, but that tenderly wrought scene between Karloff and O.P. Heggie gets
I don't think any of the films on those lists gave me so much as a sniffle. And where the **** is "SHANE"!? Talk about a glaring omission!
Here's my list:
"Bride of Frankenstein" - Whale may have intended it as a black comedy, but that tenderly wrought scene between Karloff and O.P. Heggie gets
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[nq:1]I'm surprised that "Field of Dreams" didn't choke you up. I alway thot that movie, along with "Brian's Song" were the main movies that allowed men to unashamedly cry.[/nq]
I don't "do" baseball. Bores me to death. Including movies about it.
jaybee
I don't "do" baseball. Bores me to death. Including movies about it.
jaybee
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[nq:1]Here's my list:[/nq]
[nq:1]"Cinema Paradiso"[/nq]
I really like that one too, but how patently manipulative it is. I mean, the soudntrack never takes a break, making sure you feel the "right" emkotion at the right time.
I like the movie more for the conditions when I saw it than the movie itself. I was working the graveyard shift at a job I hated, and I went to see the late show
[nq:1]"Cinema Paradiso"[/nq]
I really like that one too, but how patently manipulative it is. I mean, the soudntrack never takes a break, making sure you feel the "right" emkotion at the right time.
I like the movie more for the conditions when I saw it than the movie itself. I was working the graveyard shift at a job I hated, and I went to see the late show
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