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Posted: 4/27/2009 12:38:44 PM | If you wanted to see your partner's emotional side, (male or female), what movie would you pop in your DVD player on movie night?
There are tons, so I'll just mention two...
*Terms of Endearment
*SOLAS - this is a great foreign film (drama - subtitled). Here is a brief synopsis:
While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital in her daughter's home town, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's passivity. As the daughter struggles to find dignity in her job and her relationships with men, her mother quietly tries to brighten the life of her daughter and an elderly male neighbor with only a dog for a companion.
(Besides being a tear jerker, it is a great movie with lots of realism and strong performances.) | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 1:37:57 PM | Brian's Song
Love Story
both oldies, but goodies... 
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Posted: 4/27/2009 2:01:52 PM | | Well I don't usually watch tear jerkers with dates I am more into a comedy outing but different things bring on emotions for different people. The Movie Knowing was very emotionally triggering for me in a more profound way then just everyday domestic stuff. I love Grand Torino also because of the huge sacrifice Clint Eastwoods character makes. I think the most moving film I have seen this year is 7lbs I balled like a baby . Just because of how someone can get so stuck in negative emotions. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 3:05:48 PM | | "Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis made me cry like a baby for some reason. I saw it a second time and reacted the same way. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 4:22:28 PM | | a walk to remember....i a hardcore guys but that gets me everytime. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 9:14:57 PM | When I really need to let go and sob, occasionally I need a 'trigger'...usually "Sophie's Choice". Yeah, I know, an unhealthy relationship is not something one should weep about...though there is so much more to the characters.
Also, I just love "Shakespeare In Love"....very romantic and I do get teary at the 'Romeo and Juliet' scene...takes my breath away.
Many years ago a movie titled "Scarecrow" with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, would make me cry. Think many guys would find it a 'mans tearjerker', as well. It ends up being very sad and all about 'love' in the friendship form. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 9:39:45 PM | | also 8 seconds and gone in sixty 60sec when nick cage totals eleanore....breaks my heart | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 10:08:28 PM | | I would put in Pan's Labyrinth for the purpose you described. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 11:10:57 PM | Dirty Dozen... j/k
What Dreams May Come- when he enters hell to get his wife | |
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Posted: 4/27/2009 11:49:25 PM | pppffttt... those are lame... If you want to watch a proper film, that has won dozens of awards, based on a true story and very mobing.. two words:
Schindler's List
One of Steven Speilberg's best films. | |
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Ettien
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Joined: 3/17/2009
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Posted: 4/27/2009 11:59:22 PM | GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
If you don't at least get teary-eyed from this, you're a MACHINE!!!!!!!! =P
I also found 13 Going on 30 pretty tear-jerking at times. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 12:37:02 AM | For women The Notebook, hands down, who doesn't want to be loved like that? *Sigh*
For men I'd have to say, hmm, There's Something About Mary, the zipper scene. Other than that I'd have to agree with the above post, Gone in 60 Seconds, that's a horrible thing to do to any car let alone an Ellenore. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 7:36:53 AM | For women, I haven't met very many that don't cry during "The Notebook". I personally thought it was a crap film but that's beside the point isn't it?
I'd challenge any guy to watch "We Were Soldiers" without at least getting a bit misty. One of the few that gets me every time.
For a movie that's "not too manly, not too girlie" but has a pretty good chance of making both weepy - that new HBO flick "Taking Chance" with Kevin Bacon. Again, I'm not really the type to cry over a movie but that one rode my emotions hard. Same for the woman I watched it with. It really should just come packaged with tissue. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 11:24:08 AM | | Forgot about "Green Mile" and "Schindler's List"....tearjerkers for everyone! | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 11:51:31 AM | Definitely Green Mile.
For me, it was Ghost. That's one of the first movies I remember watching, got me everytime. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 1:00:19 PM | | Anyone seen "The Champ" with Ricky Schroeder? It's an old movie, and a remake, I think. That was the hardest I have ever cried at a movie! And the worst part was, it was right at the end so you had to walk out in tears. The only consolation was that everyone else, men and women, were in tears also. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 3:19:28 PM | If I wanted to see my girl's emotional side I would play the movie Kazaam. If they aren't crying for me to take the movie out after at most, 25 minutes then they are not a keeper, lolz.  | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 3:35:14 PM | I agree with Green Mile, Schindler's List and Ghost but if you really want to see a man cry you need to have him watch Fast and The Furious #1. He's just not a man if he can watch that Charger get smashed all too hell and not cry about it. LOL
Phenomenon is also a good tear jerker. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 6:18:32 PM | Ghost? Seriously? That movie makes me wanna gag. I thought the Notebook was okay but not tear worthy.
I got a wee bit teary eyed in Terminator. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 7:04:35 PM | God Bless the Child with Mare Winningham.
Movie synopsis:
Abandoned in a strange city, Theresa Johnson and her seven-year-old daughter Hillary are forced out into the streets. Moving from shelter to shelter, Theresa fights to keep herself and Hillary housed and fed. They are befriended by Calvin Reed, a dedicated social worker who cares enough to help Theresa rebuild her shattered life.
I cry EVERY time I watch this movie. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 7:20:37 PM | Bridges of Madison County has long been one of my favorites.
The Painted Veil is an indy film with Edward Norton and Naomi Watts that didn't get much attention at the box office, but is really a well made film.
I'll also vote for 8 Seconds. Especially the scene at the end where Tuff Hedeman rides an extra 8 seconds in memory of Lane.
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Posted: 4/28/2009 7:49:50 PM | | I would say "Pay it Forward " or "the Jacket"just because it's the only movies that made me cry.... | |
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