bombadilillo said:
No Rudy? FUCK THIS THREAD.
In all seriousness, if you dont cry at the end of Rudy you have no soul.
There are a lot of movies in that poll that I don't understand why you would cry at them....Gladiator? No Country? Requiem? I don't see why you are crying here. And American Beauty? Moving, but not tear inducing at all.
I guess I'm saying, OP if Forrest Gump made you cry Rudy will open the floodgates.
Rudy did open the floodgates for me and they never closed again. I was in my teens and I had pretty strong sense of masculinity which meant I could not cry while watching a movie. The last time I cried was when Optimus Prime died in Tranformers and I was nine. Shamed of myself, I swore that I would not do so again. So I watched movie after movie, toughing it out and bottling all my emotions up. Then comes along Rudy.
Little plucky Sean Astin from the Goonies (one of my favorite childhood films) chasing that impossible dream. Deep down, you know he shouldn't make it, but you root for him anyways. He trys so damn hard to only be sidelined again and again... until the final game.
It wasn't the soundtrack...
It wasn't the crowd chanting...
It wasn't that he was finally let onto the field...
It was when he caught the goddamn football. I cried so fucking hard that my eyes where red and my nose ran like a faucet.
After that day, my emotions could never be kept so easily buried. More than adecade later, I am watching Sean Astin telling his best pal Frodo, "Don't go where I can't follow" and I tear up again. Damn you Sean. Damn you Rudy.