[Closed] came home last night and my wife was crying her eyes out...

I have to admit that those videos of soldiers etc returning home to surprise their kids get me every bloody time!

Bastards the lot of you. Reading this on my phone at my desk at work. I'd forgotten about that lad in Educating Yorkshire. 😥

But agree about the war memorials. Attend the Remembrance Day parade in our village as my lad does the parade with the Cubs and Scouts. They read the names from the memorial, ridiculously long list for what at that time was a small farming and mining community. My lad was chosen to do the reading last year "They shall not grow old" etc. I was in bits.

Happy sad at the returning soldiers and airman - too many late nights as a young kid stood waiting in big dark hangers for my dad to get back from tours/exercises.

As well as all the above, can I add the bit in Dead Poet's Society when they all get on their desks and say 'ohh, Captain...'

Ohh and not TV, but anytime I hear The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve) because at the time I was on the verge of losing the love of my life.

And (thanks dad) Floyd's "Shine On...' - he only asked to have it played at his funeral (we all shared his love of the band).

[i]What makes you cry/pulls on the heart strings [b]on tv[/b] ?[/i]

Strayed from the OP's subject a little eh?

I felt one of those tickly eyelid moments at the end of the My Mad Fat Diary... (I do have a close relative who that programme could be about)

What makes you cry/pulls on the heart strings [b]on tv [/b]

That Educating Yorkshire thing got me and I still haven't even seen it. The wife was telling me about it in the kitchen and i nearly went.

The olympics tend to get me too. An old mate of mine won a gold in london and my face/throat got a bit hot.

Thank god, so it's not just me then.

TV/ Film: Up & DIY SOS (predictable?)

Music: Johnny Cash, Hurt or Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream

Cheers Prawny

The Paralympics had my in such a dusty roomed state I swear I lost half my body weight in tear-sweat alone.

Though it was through such admiration that by Christ i'd do it all again I tells ya

HEaring You'll never Walk alone a couple of weeks ago had me sobbing.

It had me sobbing too weeksy, though probably for different reasons 😉

Know a few chaps that have a lower lip tremble when nimrod is played.

Saving private Ryan, at the end, in the grave yard, "was I worth it?"

+1

The whole final episode of Band of Brothers where the real soldiers speak about their experiences, pretty dusty the whole way through that.

12 Years a Slave at the end where he apologises to his family for being away.

Return of the King when Aragorn tell the Hobbits they don't need to kneel

Oh and the start of Up and Toy Story 3 as well.

I found Sunshine on Leith oddly affecting too.

Basically I'm a great big softy

The recent documentary "The Mike Hailwood Story" was a difficult watch.
To see the effect on the family subsequently was pretty heart breaking.

+1 to many of the above, End of Frozen, definitely the end of Toy Story, the start of Up, the end of that First Episode of Hinterland (really sad), the Doctor Who 50th special when Tom Baker turned up (BIG fan when I was a kid and I know it helped to create a lot of demons for him).

+1 for War memorials, WW1 was the opposite of the Battle of Britain, we owe too much to the many, not the few.

Worse since I had kids.

Blooming anything these days. Used to be dead inside but old age/first child has resulted in a few cracks.

By the time number 3 pops out, you're blubbing over a small shoe.

Even the bloody Lego Movie nearly did me.

Worse since I had kids.

I have heard a theory that this is an evolutionary thing to allow men to cope with fatherhood without committing infanticide after their first 6 week stretch of zero sleep.

Decrease testosterone, increase progesterone, puts you in touch with your emotional feminine side.

http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2011/09/fatherhood-decreases-testosterone

This might also explain why married men can't park.

deleted, missed the TV reference.. nothing, not even Ian over acting Beale on bloody Eastenders at the moment..

But then I did measure 96% psycho and will vote for UKIP.

Gah, a lot of mine have already been mentioned - the furnace bit of Toy Story 3, the start of Up (and how did THAT ever make it into a kid's film, too?), the end of Marley And Me (ditto), end of Blackadder goes Forth, Senna, Beaches, Steel Magnolias, Watership Down, The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, It's A Wonderful Life, the end of Warrior, end of Leon, etc etc etc... I think I'm composed of a higher than normal percentage of blouse.

Watching the footy on Sky Sports has had me weeping uncontrollably a few times this season

Following Scotland in the Six Nations is always good for a cry too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041vcqr

Radio 4's Pick of the Week, not every one, obviously, but listen to this, and listen to the piece about Myfanwy. I was in floods.

Rorschach - Member
Wall-E....every time.....like a girl.

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The bit at the end of Schindlers List when the real-life survivors visit Schindlers grave caused me to 'get something in my eye'

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Perspective, ladies and gentlemen.

The thing is, if I'm watching something like Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, etc then I'm sort of steeled for the fact that it'll be emotional. It's something you are expecting when you go into those films.

Hence why it's the unexpected gut punch from things like kid's films, comedies and daytime reality TV that can really get people.

Errr, Britain's Got Talent, when some kid does something amazing, just seeing the proud parents' faces as they perform.

Now I know BGT is tosh, but there are some amazingly talented kids out there and to be the parent of one must be amazing.

Yes, I am a parent.

DIY SOS, when they do a really shonky job on some poor disabled kid's bedroom, and you just know it will be falling apart within six weeks... 🙂

But seriously, that Educating Yorkshire lad was something else. What an advert for the teaching profession. It was nearly as bad watching the same teacher putting himself in hospital a couple of weeks earlier through stress, overwork, and sheer determination to do right by those kids.

Errr, Britain's Got Talent, when some kid does something amazing, just seeing the proud parents' faces as they perform.

Another vote for the start of Up

*Cough*

MTFU you lot 🙄

*sobs*

Shurrup you!

Awe c'mon, you lot will be reading BetaMale and owning Axe's, growing Beards, taking kids to skool on your fixies whilst wearing check shirts, jeans with right leg turned up, arranging potted plants, making Bread, stocking up wood burners, feeling your Mrs's "time of the month" in your belly and actually understanding your Mrs's mood swings next..

Bloody Pathetic..
😆

Last night's episode of Rev when Colin's dog died of kebab poisoning was unexpectedly tear-jerky

To be honest, I feel a bit sorry for the [i]"big boys don't cry"[/i] RealMen ™

Nowt wrong with feeling stuff.

All sorts of things on telly can suddenly trigger a slightly hot feeling around the eyes, but the beginning of Up, does me in every time.
Another one was Buffy, when she gets home, and calls 'Hi mom!' 'Mom?', 'Mom?' 'Mummy?', as she sees her mum lying on the sofa, dead. It was the quavering in her voice as she said 'Mummy?', that just did for me.

This from Toy Story 2

And this from Calendar Girls

Ah well if you're allowed songs from films, this one does me in every time.

Up should've come with some kind of warning. We watched it when we were feeling sorry for ourselves after a miscarriage - we wanted something light-hearted and not too challenging and thought Up would do nicely (it is a children's film after all). What a bloody awful decision that was - I was in bits!

I cannot watch any children's hospital programmes, too difficult

Op luckily you didnt come home to see your wife crying over someone called Winston.

For those who have preschool kids.. Did you see the old jacks boat Christmas special ?

It's a modern jacanory with Bernard Cribbins as old jack who tells the story, they did the back story about it being the anniversary of his wife's passing and they did a ceremony on the beach. The Mrs was in floods of tears and even though I twigged what the story was going to be about I was welling a bit....

GrahamS - Member

To be honest, I feel a bit sorry for the "big boys don't cry" RealMen ™

Nowt wrong with feeling stuff.

I never used to but I think a combination of losing loved ones, getting older and having a breakdown have turned me into a right fairy!

I don't care, as long as the chicks keep digging the fact that I make Barry White sound like Peewee Herman I'm all good. 8)

For those who have preschool kids.. Did you see the old jacks boat Christmas special ?

Yep - me and the missus were shooting each other teary glances while the little 'un was basically oblivious.

Driving home one Christmas, & ClassicFM played a recording of a Primary School class singing "The Holly & the Ivy", I cried like a baby.

Well you lot are either soppy girls blubbing away or I'm a hard faced git!

I only ever cried to Bambi when he realises his mum has been burned to death in the forest fire, I was 4!

Mind, Marley for me nearly got the water works going too btw.

coolhandluke - Member

I only ever cried to Bambi when he realises his mum has been burned to death in the forest fire, I was 4!

Dumbo is nightmarish. I didn't cry, I cowered and then had nightmares.

Bambi's mum got shot, though.