what makes YOU cry manly tears?

[Nickompoop]

the second thing is a bit simpler but no less poignant its simply a Calvin and Hobbes motivational poster that i saw some time ago and now when ever i see i well up into tears for some reason

Dammit, you're right, that is a sad poster. I'm never throwing away my stuffed animals now.

Wall-E was ridiculously sad, but that may be because the character Wall-E was essentially me. So his (almost) death was super depressing.

 

[tzimize]

I don't. What if I get teleported to a desert.
I'd just feel like a jackass, wasting precious body fluids.

Good thinking.

Also: I laughed out loud.

OT: No specific things, just...stuff.

 

[Womplord]

When I get really insanely depressed for no reason...
Also, the story behind yuukimaru in naruto shippuden comes to mind. And the story behind Pain.
But I never really cry at all. I'm kinda the strong, silent type.

 

[MattRooney06]

Fucking Dumbo man!

my mate brought it round last week as i've never seen it, it gets to the bit when Dumbo goes to see his mum (who is effectivley in jail) holy fuck i was sobbing manley tears of sorrow then

 

[A Distant Star]

Manley Onions...

yup...

Nothing brings me to manly tears then manly onions.

 

[deus-ex-machina]

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Not because it's a sad song on it's on merits with a video showing a very old Cash going through things. I always associated this song with my dad for some reason and he died three years ago so it brings back happy/sad thoughts at the same time.

Lots of movies
I hold back the tears, but I would bawl if I was on my own.

In fairness, my daughter makes me cry man tears sometimes. She's amazing and seeing her grow up is awesome cool. Hearing her say things like 'Thank you' and 'Sorry' for the first times brought tears to my eyes.

 

[Sandjube]

Second episode of MLP:FiM a few times at the end. Annnnd during a few of the stories of how the mane cast got their cutie marks.

....what? Don't judge me.

Oh and some fanfiction of MLP called circle of friends.

Have you got a link for that fanfic? Google search is not being very helpful =/

OT: First 10 minutes of Up and that scene from Toy Story 3 get me every time. Also, I can't remember which book it was, but there's a part in the Wheel of Time where Perrin is defending a town from Trollocs and expects to be killed in the fighting, so he leaves a letter to Faile which I find rather upsetting to read.

Yeah, here it is! join the hugging and crying afterwards.
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-circle-of-friends.html

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

More manly crying my fuckin' eyes out than anything else. So beautiful

 

[Azrael the Cat]

The ending of the film 'Brazil' - written by Tom Stoppard (famous modern literary playwright, you'll find Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead, Arcadia and plenty of his other works in university literature courses), directed by Terry Gilliam - can't get a better pairing than that. Brilliant bittersweet 'sad but awesome' middle-finger to corporatism at the end. Strongly recommend it to anyone who likes arty-scifi (i.e. don't expect an action movie, though there is plenty of humour before things turn dark), or Stoppard-style existentialism.

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How the last 10 minutes of the film has a big action rescue sequence, where Robert De Niro's 'anarchist plumber' character and his comrades rescue the main character just as he's about to be tortured and have his mind read (so the Ministry of Information can find out their details) in a big action shootout, then finds out his girlfriend is still alive and leads a rebellion...until the action and events start getting increasingly absurd, over the top and finally...dreamlike.

The camera then pans out to reveal that the last 10 minutes has just been following the main character's dream (isn't out the blue - the film constantly crosses between the 'real' world, and the guy's 'dream world'), and he's really still strapped in the chair about to be tortured and interrogated. The interrogator readies his sharp tools, leans over and...

...realises that he can't actually wake the guy from his dream. The main character is catatonic, permantly stuck in his dream world where he 'won' and saved the day, with the Ministry unable to get at him inside his head. Film ends with them wheeling him off, commenting in frustration about him being useless to them now, while he's whistling away happily inside his dream-state.

Awesome ending, even by Stoppard's standards.

 

[ShakyFiend]

End of Babel, with this incredible music comes pretty close, although it also gives me those that-was-incredible shivers
Also that bit in Crash (if youve seen it you know which bit I mean)

Spoiler: Also its that bit with the bloody incredible music

End of Mass effect 2 also came pretty close.

But easily the worst (or best depending on how you look at it) is Don Hertzfeldts short films (Everything will be ok and I am so Proud of you)

 

[NLS]

Well, you know, the last 20 minutes of Toy Story 3.


;_____;

 

[rutger5000]

I don't. What if I get teleported to a desert.
I'd just feel like a jackass, wasting precious body fluids.

But tears are salty, so wouldn't it be good to lose some salt?

 

[Wuggy]

The whole of Heavy Rain. Admittedly I didn't exactly cry per se, but I was in a MANLY depression for a week.

 

[rutger5000]

Man tears I don't need to call them that. I love to cry because of a good story, be it in books or in movies. When I was a kid I had this book about a soldier of Napolions army. There was a chapter where they searched for said soldiers best friend, and after a while they found his foot, the rest had been eaten by wolves. I loved to cry during that chapter, read the book several times just to get into that chapter. (Though it was a great book regardless.)

 

[Pegghead]

The last time I cried was at the ending of the Green Mile a few weeks ago, when:

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John Coffey's closing his eyes and singing "Heaven" in the moments before he's executed...he didn't deserve to die dammit...

Aside from that there aren't many things that can make me cry any number of times. Possibly Jurassic Bark...maybe Gran Torino, I cry every damn time.

 

[matt87_50]

there's no such thing as manly tears!

 

[rutger5000]

I've seen two good comments, with I completly agree with.
"A Story is measured by the laughs and tears it brings."
"A man doesn't cry for himself, he cries for his comrades."
Exchanging comrade for fellow man, then as a man you should have cried at several occations.

 

[Lou]

You just brought something to light, my father introduced me to Calvin and Hobbes, it'd been his favourite comic book as a child.

 

[icypain]

Jurassic bark. *sniff* *sniff*

 

[Taldeer]

when they killed Henry Blake during MASH

Broke my heart...