Here's one for the machismo-burdened men amongst the readership:
Do you ever cry at movies, boys? Man, I do. I'll admit to being tetched upon occasion by a pull at the old heart valves, sclerotic as they may be. I am affected by the poignant. Piqued by the piquant. I can't help that.
You know why I cry when some criminally manipulative director tugs them valves? Because I have a fucking soul, man. I'm hardwired to find the tear ducts when the moment presents itself.
Strangely, I am hard-assed as a Turkish prison guard in real world situations, but the proper amount of pathos or sorrow in a make believe story can have me weeping like a baby with the piles.
The only time I couldn't cry at a proper moment was when I was on the Prozacs a few years ago. Baby got kilt in a housefire? It's all good, man. Star-crossed lovers finally get together and one of them has terminal pancreatic cancer? Chillin. That's why I quit taking that shit. Well, that and the fact I could get a magnificent erection, and couldn't do anything with it. Come to think of it, I did cry, then.
Hell, I think I'll put on Love Story. That's a damned weeper. Mainly because Ryan O'Neal was a studly hoss, and fell in love with a palomino of a chick. THAT is sad. I wanted him to fuck his way across Boston. I live vicariously like that.
How about it, lads? Anybody got the swinging sack to cop to this admission?
Egg-ZAC-ly the same symptoms. Cold in the real world, Big Heap O Snot in the theatre. Shit, I cry during ads. Certain songs make me booger up.
Posted by: Bane at December 2, 2005 9:31 PMOh hell yeah! I enjoy a fine tear-jerking. Tops on my list of movies that make me a pussy..."The Notebook", "Brian's Song", "Finding Neverland", "E.T.", "The Green Mile"...
I'm sure there are others. I mean, I don't intentionally watch the Lifetime channel to get my cry on, but I'm not above weeping along with my lovely on the couch after the kids go to bed.
Posted by: David K at December 2, 2005 9:36 PMOh! And also, the end of "The Sixth Sense" when the kid tells his mom he sees dead people, then gives her the message from her dead grandmother. Someone could rob me blind during that scene and I wouldn't even realize it.
Posted by: David K at December 2, 2005 9:37 PMYou wanna see scrote? I bawl like a bitch at the ending of Bruce Willis' "Armageddon."
Posted by: Don McArthur at December 2, 2005 9:52 PMMan, there's some decent flick's up above, but for me, it can be the right movie, but songs can also cure a dry eye.
"Goodfellas" gets me every time. And that scene in "Last Tango" where Brando gives it to her in the rear.
Posted by: Jack Straw at December 2, 2005 10:37 PMBullshit, Jack. You cried when you got it in the rear.
Posted by: Velociman at December 2, 2005 10:59 PMAre you kidding? I cry at the end of Willy fucking Wonka, fer Chrissakes. Even the 1933 version of King Kong gets me ferklempt.
You know what else makes me weep? Beauty. For example:
"weeping like a baby with the piles..." Now, a phrase like that is so beautiful, I think I need to go get my Supply o' Snotrags to stanch the Lachrymose Flow.
Posted by: Elisson at December 2, 2005 11:23 PMYou Fucking Pussy! Just Damn! (If you had said Old Yeller, I might have bought it.)
Posted by: Dax Montana at December 3, 2005 12:00 AMOh those Prozacs do wonders to stop the tears, but oddly I have never been more horney. But also, I'm a girl....so go figure....
Posted by: Dogsdontpurr at December 3, 2005 12:02 AMHoly Shit!!!
Posted by: Yabu at December 3, 2005 1:10 AMI haven't perfected the peeing while standing thing, myself, and you know, I'm all knocked up n' shit so I can weep at the sight of a perfectly-made sandwich.
Movies? Sheyah. Them, too.
Right now, the biggest tear-jerker for me is those damned "Baby Stories" on TLC. I always start bawling at the emergence of the babe -- and as they lay him/her at the apex of his mother's thighs, I wonder to myself:
Am I crying because of the miracle of birth? Or is it more like sympathy pains?
Aheh.
Posted by: Margi at December 3, 2005 1:14 AMI'm all sorts of sappy. But you knew that, didn't you?
Posted by: Dana at December 3, 2005 1:37 AMIt depends on what your "definition" of crying is, which covers the whole spectrum of crying after getting one's crotch kicked, or merely being a fucking metrosexual by crying during every WWII movie starring Tom Hanks. Could you, uh, be a bit more specific?
Posted by: sadie at December 3, 2005 2:17 AMYou asshole. Glad to know you're alive.
I cried at the end of Terranigma (video game) and the end of Odd Thomas (book by Dean Koontz) only because both had suffered through so much and given of themselves so freely only to be kicked in the goddamned teeth.
I can watch baby seals get thrashed by sharks, but if someone gets the raw end of it when they've suffered so? That gets me. Hardcore.
But then again I'm female, so the estrogen may play a part.
Posted by: Cythen at December 3, 2005 2:31 AMYes, but generally only at the movies where guys always admit to - the end of Field of Dreams, as a ferinstance, or Old Yeller.
I'm nothing if not a walking stereotype that way.
Posted by: Patton at December 3, 2005 3:17 AMKodak commercials and any time Lassie limps.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at December 3, 2005 5:05 AMMy husband will admit to weeping. One of his favorite movies is "Dances with Wolves" and ya know at the end...Kevin Costner is leaving the tribe and his Indian brother is screaming "I am your friend"....gets to my ole man every single time....He has no shame in his game either..
I have a theory though...men who cry make great lovers :)
Posted by: Sandy at December 3, 2005 7:38 AMOh wait...BEACHES gets to him too....he actually will not watch that movie ever again..haha..
Posted by: Sandy at December 3, 2005 7:39 AMHell, I got misty when Mel's boy got kilt in The Patriot. Sometimes ya just get hooked in the movie...
Posted by: JimBob at December 3, 2005 7:43 AM.. that last movie to get me was the Funeral Scene in "Three Weddings and a Funeral"... watching that nancy quote Auden breaks me up every time...
Posted by: Eric at December 3, 2005 8:08 AMAbout time you posted something. I was gonna have to get midaeval on your ass.
I cried when Dr Lecter hadda cut off his hand. Shoulda whacked Clarice, the bitch. The book ending is much more satisfactory than the movie.
Oh man, I cried like a bitch when Valerie Bertinelli fell in love with Father Tim in Shattered Vows. But nothing like the jag I had during the finale of the One Day At A Time Reunion. Oh man, only a heartless bastard could say that didn't get to him...
Posted by: Circa Bellum at December 3, 2005 9:10 AMI cried watching Bambi. 'Course I was fucking six years old.
Posted by: Hoosierboy at December 3, 2005 9:16 AM"Remember the Titans" The hospital scene where the to players clasp hands and say "Left side." "Strong side". Gets me everytime.
Posted by: Primal at December 3, 2005 9:45 AMMan, that prozac stuff just SUCKS doesn't it. My husband cried quite a few tears when I was taking it because after being frustrated for so long, I just lost interest. Stangely enough, everybody likes me crazy better. Probably better party entertainment that way.
Posted by: Kelly at December 3, 2005 10:02 AMFrom Ol' Yeller to Behind the Green Door can find a reason to cry in all of em.
Posted by: lambo at December 3, 2005 11:04 AMThere have been lots of them, but if you can watch Brian's Song without bustin' a tear, you've got no soul, man. Old Yeller is another one that automatically works on me.
Posted by: Dash at December 3, 2005 11:18 AMSee? This is what comes of drinking Shirley Temples.
Posted by: zonker at December 3, 2005 1:22 PMMy old man cries during the scene from It's A Wonderful Life when Jimmy Stewart comes home half-drunk and desperate, and frightenedly hugs his kids. Man, that kills him like nothing else.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at December 3, 2005 1:24 PMMy wife and my girlfriend and I staggered out of the theatre after seeing ET and just clung to each other and sobbed in a heap. We weren't alone. The parking lot was one big boogerfest. Everybody emptying the snack bar napkin holders to blow their noses with. It was crazy.
Posted by: Bane at December 3, 2005 2:36 PMI bawled like a freakin fruit loop @ Free Willy.
Glad to see you're alive, I put the head back on your voodoo doll and I'm gonna bring it to Ga with me.
Posted by: livey at December 3, 2005 7:42 PMI'd sink a harpoon into Willy with a quickness, and then fuck the bleeding hole while he dies. Why do you think they call it the 'blowhole'?
Posted by: Bane at December 3, 2005 8:12 PMThe Yearling.
NOBODY can deny the urge when watching The Yearling.
Also, I've taken great pleasure in springing an unexpected surprise on a few of my guy friends:
She's Having A Baby
It starts off as a comedy and leaves 'em crying in the end.
Gets them every time!!
Posted by: jmflynny at December 3, 2005 11:05 PMThe S.O. doesn't visit these parts so let me tattle on his behalf. He cries, alright. Chokes back the tears and sniffles during Extreme Home Makeover, feigning allergies or some such affliction. Such is life with a flaming metrosexual.
Posted by: Anna at December 4, 2005 3:43 AMBane you're a sick fucker.
Posted by: livey at December 4, 2005 1:03 PMOh, C'mon, Livey, don't try to tell me you havent had fantasies of some aquatic mammal squeaking away on you in a warm lagoon somewhere.
Posted by: Bane at December 4, 2005 2:09 PMDitto for me V-man - my husband always used to get up and leave when we'd be watching movies and it'd seem to get close to a part that you could predict was gonna get "weepy"... I asked his mother about it and she said he did that ever since he was a little boy. Big softy...heh heh heh...I love it...
Nice to see you back btw...
Hell, I cry when I read velocihova!
Posted by: james hooker - man among men at December 5, 2005 3:38 AMOh yeah. Schindler's List, Dances with Wolves, frickin' Star Trek episodes, Sophie's Choice, Interview with the Vampire, and ooooh, Titanic. Hell, I'm getting weepy when that sad Irish music starts in the beginning with the photos of the ship, for all the souls that were lost, the dream of that mighty vessel that was lost, the lovers parted, etc. Beautiful music gets me too.
And yet, like many, I'll watch baby seals getting eaten by killer whales impassionately.
Sandy -- ditto for me on Dances With Wolves but not just the end -- and I HATE Kevin Costner too. Shit, I cried last night listening to Jimmy Smits' speech to the black Baptist congregation in West Wing.
This is the new thing, Velo, you ain't been keepin up. Cryin' and quiche.
Posted by: wavemaker at December 5, 2005 11:04 AMI cried during Terminator. No shit. One of the greatest romances of all time. He came through time for her. Died trying. He was a virgin until the one time he slept with her an impregnated her with John Connor, who was his father. And he never knew. Fuckin' perfect tearjerker if you ask me.
Posted by: WitNit at December 5, 2005 11:57 PM