Emotions are a big part of movies. There are those movies that make us laugh, those that get the adrenal glands pumping, those that make us think, and those that make us cry. Today’s roar will focus on movies that bring about a salty discharge from the eye. For guys, it is probably the sports movie with the kid who will never play Division 1 football, or the action driven flick where the hero says goodbye to his wife as he rushes off to save the planet from a giant meteor. For gals, it is the best friend movie, where two girls grew up in the same town and the best friend develops cancer only to die leaving behind a child. Either way, we put ourselves through the emotionally ringer time and time again and call it entertainment. Today, I give you what I consider to be tear worthy films.
5) King Kong (1933) I was nine when I saw this for the first time and I was enthralled by Faye Wray and Bruce Cabot, but the big hairy ape had me at his first roar. When he dies at the end of this movie, I was forever moved and could not understand why anybody would shoot something so cuddly.
4)Braveheart (1995)Has there ever been a movie that makes you hate the English more than Braveheart? Freedom!!!!!
3)The Fox and the Hound (1981) This is Disney right? This is supposed to be upbeat with songs and happy endings, right? No. Two childhood friends forced to be enemies and the story goes from there. The ending of this movie provokes tears that literally spit from my eyes. I think I need a tissue just thinking about it.
2) Schindler’s List(1993)/Hotel Rwanda(2004)Movies about mass genocide are enough to get me going, but throw in Liam Neeson (Oscar Schindler) and Don Cheadle(Paul Rusesabagina) and you have two of the finest movies on the subject ever made.
1) Field of Dreams (1989)Are you serious? To have a catch with your deceased father once again makes me cry like a baby. Crying is actually not a good word to use, it is more like sobbing. If you build it, the tears will come.
4 comments:
it really doesn't take all that much to make me cry. sometimes a movie will remind me of a time, or a place, or a feeling and i will get nostalgic and choked up. i think that i cried through about the last half hour of 'bridge to terabithia' because it reminded me of the feeling i had when i lost my brother. also 'kite runner'!!
there are also those movies that i cry at, and when i tell people that i cried at that particular movie they furrow their brow and say: "you cried at that?"
all i can do is shrug my overly sensitive shoulders in affirmation.
i remember 'the fox and the hound' really had me a quivering mess as a child, and i was even worse years later when i watched it again as an adult.
i'm such a big baby.
My Life with Michael Keaton gets me.So does the end of Grumpy Old Men
oh man... when matthau goes to visit jack lemon in the hospital, and the nurse asks him if he' friend or family, and he says 'friend' and looks like a sad old basset hound...it kills me...
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