Movies I cried watching (I’m manly):
Brian’s Song (Original)
The Man in the Moon (Reese Witherspoon), okay this one isnt very manly but it got me.
I’ve cried watching a few war documentaries. Tough old guys breaking down always gets me.
I didnt cry during 9/11, just got really, really pissed off. Still do.
Thats about it that I can recall, other than personal tragedies and funerals.

dll2000 on December 14, 2006 at 4:01 pm

There arent really any great football films. I think writers and directors cant relate to the sport and what it really means to people.
Coaches are always crazy and dont care about the players, QB’s always skinny and wimpy, there is no proper illustration of the physical and time sacrifice involved in a successful football team, players are all given favorable treatment by teachers and the community and get away with murder, they are usually rapists. The communities that embrace football are sneered at as being hicks, hillbillies and drunks who lack proper priorities.
For many young boys in this country football is the first time in their lives that they are experience what work is, the first time in their lives that they hear the phrase “suck it up” after getting hurt, the time when they are seperated from their mommies and start to become men. They are outside practicing for 2-3 hours a day in the boiling heat and the freezing cold, running and banging heads and getting yelled at. All the while their peers are at home playing X-Box.
Its one of the last bastions against the major feminization of this country.

dll2000 on December 14, 2006 at 4:15 pm

Chad said he liked the movie when he reviewed it for his blog.

JAT on December 20, 2006 at 3:58 pm