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Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

steve d — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:49:51 -0000

i am crying right now i loved the notebook i cried like a baby though most of the movie. rudy good to know another guy to blubbers. so you are not alone i love a cry over movies

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:20:43 -0000

Awesome, Ape :)

I still love League of their Own, although Tom Hanks makes it great.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

The Trousered Ape — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:21:50 -0000

From IMDB:

Jimmy Dugan: Evelyn, could you come here for a second? Which team do you play for?

Evelyn Gardner: Well, I'm a Peach.

Jimmy Dugan: Well I was just wonderin' why you would throw home when we got a two-run lead. You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head. That's the lump that's three feet above your ass.

[Evelyn starts to cry]

Jimmy Dugan: Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!

Doris Murphy: Why don't you give her a break, Jimmy...

Jimmy Dugan: Oh, you zip it, Doris! Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry?

Evelyn Gardner: No, no, no.

Jimmy Dugan: NO. NO. And do you know why?

Evelyn Gardner: No...

Jimmy Dugan: Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:03:28 -0000

That's cool Michael....I've been known to tear up at cool things, not just sad scenes in movies.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

MichaelB (formerly known as Ch — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:04:20 -0000

At the risk of alienating myself, when I was a kid I cried during a movie NOBODY cries during. It was just after graduating from high school (a busy week since my girlfriend had dumped me by that point as well). I was getting ready to go to film school, and I went and saw a little film called Jurassic Park.

That opening shot of the brontosaur was nothing less than spectacular, because in my head, I'm telling myself, "You can do THIS in the movies? Oh my freaking God." That was a pivotal moment in my choice of life path, and yes, I teared up a lot during that scene.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

The Trousered Ape — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:39:05 -0000

No - that would have been the Harp...

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Cap'n Schwartz — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:29:36 -0000

Ive never seen the Piano Ape either, is that the sequel to Piano?

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

The Trousered Ape — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:48:39 -0000

Not a great movie - but a good story - just keep the Kleenex handy.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:45:16 -0000

Sleepless in Seattle...I think that's a Tear Flow Factor of maybe 1.

Return to Me, a good one I missed...that was some serious flowage going on.

Never seen the Piano Ape, might need to.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

The Trousered Ape — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:32:53 -0000

Old Yeller and Schindler's List definitely.

Seriously - if you don't cry during Old Yeller then you probably are not alive.

How about Where the Red Fern Grows"? That was a tear-jerker too.

I don't know about the Pianist, but The Piano should get you watering up as well.

I cried during The Libertine, but that was only because it sucked so bad and I missed my money...

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Jason A Clark — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:21:13 -0000

Return To Me? I can't remember if it was cry worthy. My wife made me watch it so many times it lost all meaning...

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Grizzly — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:27:35 -0000

What... no "Sleepless in Seattle"?

I can water the lawn every time my wife and two daughters put the damn movie on! Doesn't phase me a b-b-b-bit though.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:24:04 -0000

Nicky, nice call in The Pianist, that is such an underrated movie.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

nicky — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:20:57 -0000

Natty Gann!! Oh I loved that movie when I was younger. Not that I can really comment since I'm a girl and I cry at many many movies. One I always cry at is The Sound Of Music when the father sings Edelweiss at the end. Ugh. And The Pianist for the same reasons as Schindler's List, beautifully human and heartbreaking. Great post Mike!

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:04:03 -0000

Scott, hence the tear flow factor...only a 2.5 on Shawshank, but a 5 on Private Ryan :)

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Scott — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:23:45 -0000

I like the list, but I'd have different ratings. Private Ryan...huge tearjerker. Shawhank? Great movie, but not a tearjerker.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:57:31 -0000

Cap'n, that movie IS manly, but the point is....do you consider crying manly? :)

Steven, I may have to watch that movie again, because I don't remember much about it really. It had a ton of great actors in it though.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

jfcarr — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:41:56 -0000

War movies can get me. Saving Private Ryan and United 93 got me. But Glory I thought was too contrived and Braveheart's historical inaccuracies bugged me too much.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Cap'n Schwartz — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:37:23 -0000

Saving Private Ryan is not a manly movie? For clarity, if it has explosions, its manly!!

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Steven — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:13:11 -0000

Great and courageous :-) list Mike. I admit it, almost all of the movies I have seen on this list made me at least tear up a little bit. In particular, Saving Private Ryan. When Private Ryan asks his wife to tell him he is a good man, wow.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Mike — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:35:59 -0000

Dang it, I knew that...I was just filling some spots and for some reason went with that.

I think her name being Mary threw me off :(

Thanks Jason.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Jason A Clark — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:09:18 -0000

Donna Reed played Mary Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life.

Re: Top 21 less than manly movie moments

Jason A Clark — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:08:00 -0000

Sissy.

I'm just kidding.

Not really, though.

Yeah, I'm kidding. No I'm not.

Your list made me cry.

Stop telling our manly secrets.