Things that shouldn't make you cry...but they do...
So, in the month between the end of school and going off to camp, my 12 year old daughter has been binge-watching "Glee."
She shared with me how the current season she's watching has had her in tears. Apparently, there have been a lot of relationship break-ups and other dramatic nonsense.
I was teasing her for crying, and then she reminded me that I teared up during Jim Harbaugh's introductory press conference. Touche, 2026 UM Grad. Touche, indeed.
In addition to freshly-cut onions and dust, there are some other things that make me get a little misty-eyed..."The Natural"..."Joy Luck Club"...certain episodes of "The Wonder Years."
Anyone else willing to come clean and share what makes you cry?
(Of course, I'm not referring to truly sad situations like the death of a loved one, a job loss, divorce, etc.)
(EDIT: Of course, I did a search of MGoBlog after I posted this, only to find that a similar topic had been posted about three months ago. Seems, though, like that's enough time in between posts...)
Big fan of both actually. The Mountain Goats introduced me to the folk punk scene.
Sunscreen in my eyes. Is it really impossible to make sunscreen that isn't like like lemon juice in one's eyes?
Also, the end of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles when John Candy and Steve Martin are walking down the street together.
And the moment my daughter "took the field" at the Big House during high school band day against Maryland in 2014. We already planned to go to the game, from Seattle, but she found out about band day and talked her way into it. Wangler was sitting right in front of me and I did even care that he saw me cry. Or that we lost the game. After the game we went directly to Yost to catch the hockey game and sat right behind where I sat with my Dad and brother for a decade or more in the 80s. And I shed a couple tears again.
But mostly sunscreen. Damn that tear-inducing shit.
The scene in Saving Private Ryan when the clergymen come to tell the mother that three of her sons are dead. I lost it as did a good bud of mine with whom I watched the movie in a theater. Our wives had given both of us sons shortly before we saw the movie.
The Rookie. When he calls his wife to ask about his blue sportscoat. Then she says what about the blue sportscoat. Then he tells her about the dress code in MLB. Then he tells his kid who promptly announces his daddy is a big league pitcher.
Sort of random, but the scene towards the end of 'The Theory of Everything' where a girl drops her pencil in the auditorium during Stephen Hawking's presentation and he imagines for a minute that he stands up and walks over to pick up the pencil for her. Then it flips back to reality and he's still sitting there in the chair.
I didn't even particularly like the movie that much but damn that scene hit home!
Anytime the Tigers play a pregame montage on the radio of Ernie Harwell calling Kirk Gibson's homerun in the 1984 World Series. For some reason that gets me.
Also the movies of Hoosiers, Field of Dreams, and The Natural. I also teared up when I finally passed a class in college years ago, because I kept failing it over and over and finally passed and was able to achieve my goal of earning my degree and graduating.
I HATE baseball, but Field of Dreams gets me, and just hearing the opening notes of The Natural will get me blubbering.
Inside out, and anything tugging at parental strings will do it as well.
Being over 50 & having 3 kids does wonders for crumbling any masculine armor I may have had in my youth.
Still not as bad as my wife, she can watch a Bell Tire® commercial and end up sobbing.
Think we were planning on how to celebrate number 200. Yankees rolled into town. Tigers were mediocre at best but had a young rookie by the name of Mark "the bird" Fidrych. He was his own groundskeeper, talked to the ball, gave it directions with his hands while the ball was in the air and sprinted back and forth to the dugout. Dude was at about the 1900 lb mark in a half ton pickup of crazy.
However, his antics, the true joy he brought back to the game made the "old timers" discuss the fun he had brought back to the "business' of baseball. He had a top ten song, The Bird is the Word, women that hated the game know who he was, and going into that Monday night game he had a string of 6 or 7 complete game victories.
He mowed the Yankees down in under two hours in a 5-1 win but the crowd would not leave. This was after he shook hands with a fireman, the umpire crew and the groundskeepers, all the normal things you do after a baseball game.
They waited and waited like they would have for Mick Jagger. All during the game, and of all people, Uecker was working that night, they never spoke of the Yankees or Tigers, just this young kid. I must admit watching the crowd refuse to leave, then finally watching him make his way back to the field upon directions from teammates - he was clueless- It got to me. I stood there with a big ass smile and tears rolling down both cheeks. For some reason, we needed him that year and he came through big time.
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The scene in "I Am Legend" where Will Smith is forced to kill his beloved dog. Man, that's always tough for me.
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Among those that will bring some tears:
- The “Hey Dad, you wanna have a catch?” scene in Field of Dreams. LINK
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The older Private Ryan’s salute at the grave marker of Captain John Miller at the end of Saving Private Ryan LINK
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,The gas chamber scene from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas LINK
- Jim Craig skating with an American flag draped over his shoulders, and then, without the flag, looking in the stands for his father after the USA won the hockey gold medal game in the 1980 Winter Olympics. LINK
Reading through this entire thread, Cat's in the Cradle eluded me. Until now. I've always liked it, but now with my own son and my dad having died, this song kills me.
Not many movies bring me to tears, but I do get choked up at quite a few. The things that bring tears are big moments, like locker room celebrations - things that bring so much joy to the participants. When you can see that they're overcome and losing it. Al Micheals call in 1980... Any montage of Bob Ufer highlights... Hell, even hype videos, anymore.
a moment, then says "I'll make it," I lose it. I'm tearing up while typing this. Also when the Roy Hobbs blast smashes into the lights. Don't really understand it, but those hero moments just destroy me.
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Wallace dying in The Wire got me pretty good.
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trust me was never a fan of his and didn't vote for him, but watching the the first african american being sworn in, kind of teared me up. such a historical moment imo. greatest country ever.