What are the films that have made you cry at the cinema?
Here are the five that managed to break Jamie…
This article contains spoilers for the films mentioned.
If you dont want a film spoiled, dont read the entry for it!
Traditionally, men have only been permitted to cry over two things: sports, and nothing else.
Surely women dont have a monopoly on tears at the cinema?
Well, they dont.
Because I cry at movies… and Im not ashamed to admit it.
Well, okay, I am a little bit.
But obviously not so ashamed that I wont write a lengthy article about it.
I wont cry at anything and everything, though.
Thankfully, most traditional weepies and epic romances are out.
Im paraphrasing ever so slightly.
In fact,Watership Downis like some hideous cartoon hybrid ofThe ShiningandApocalypse Now.
But lets put the ripped-apart rabbits and psychological horror aside for a moment.
And make no mistake:Watership Downis a beautiful little movie.
Harrowingly beautiful, certainly.
But beautiful all the same.
The casting helps, too.
Can you imagine it voiced by bunnies from the Bronx?
Or by rabbits with broad Liverpudlian or Glaswegian accents?
You know me, dont you?
I get lightning-flash goosepimples running up and down my back like a man whos just ingested twenty-six ecstasy tablets.
Theyll be alright, and thousands like them.
If youll come along, Ill show you what I mean.
After all, whats the rescue of Private Ryan without the D-Day Landings?
I was 10, she was 17.
Which is probably precisely why it happened.
Dont feel too bad for young me, though.
(Ill miss you too, Sam.
Sure, the final scenes schmaltzy (Its amazing, Molly.
The love inside… you take it with you.
or How awkward is it going to be when she arrives in heaven with her new husband?
Instead of crying like a big girl, as my sister would put it.
The Chiefs realisation that his friend is now permanently imprisoned within his own limp body is heart-breaking.
Ultimately, Lets… go is the Chiefs way of taking McMurphy with him.
I wouldnt leave you this way, he tells his friend.
In short, he shone through with raw humanity.
I Am Legend
Cards on the table.
But when he had to kill his dog?
The whole doggy arc is horribly upsetting and heart-breakingly inevitable.
I sawI Am Legendfor the first time in the cinema.
that caused great embarrassment to my then girlfriend.
This was a dog in mortal peril all bets were off.
A veteran of many a zombie flick, I knew and dreaded what was coming next.
But she doesnt just die.
I couldnt take it anymore.
And do you know what?
Hell hath no fury like a guy crying because hes sad about a dying dog.
I dont know what it is about dogs.
Up
I knew nothing aboutUp.
A bunch of friends were going to see it, and invited me along.
Balloons, you say?
I sat in front of the giant screen, anticipating nothing more affecting than your average Road Runner cartoon.
I was crying macho crying, mind you.
Pixar has been melting hearts for a long time now.
Thats how the opening ofUpmade me feel except in reverse.
Best-case scenario, youre a nine-year-old sociopath.
So, come on then.
Which films made you cry?
