To any guys on this board: did you cry?

What the *beep*?

Has our society reached such a horrid stage, that people see men shedding tears, and expressing emotions as something unnatural or wrong?

Not a man here, but boy did I cry. My best friend took me and his kids to see this in the theater. What stood out for me (between my tears and sniffles) was that it seemed like all the adults were crying. I looked over and my friend was crying, I had never seen him cry before. The kids might've been sad, but no crying. When it was released on DVD I made my husband watch it. We both cried, I mean really cried, I think I sobbed. Being in the same circumstances as Ellie and Carl, I think it hit a little too close to home. I think it was a beautiful love story, and captured the feelings of loss and overcoming loss wonderfully.

Cried twice. During the montage near the start, of course, and when Carl is going through the adventure book once the house gets to the waterfall.

You are not a man.

Soon-to-be 49 (and male), I got a thick lump in my throat first when Ellie was told she couldn't have any children, then when she died. My thought at that point was "Is this a Disney movie for children?"
But then (after a while) 'Kevin' entered the story and I began laughing.

Actually I do think that movies for children should *not* be afraid of showing sorrow and death - children think about those things too. They are a part of life and by showing them you tell children that it's OK to ponder them.


Computers are like air conditioners - they stop working properly if you open windows.

Im a man, I recently lost my wife and I cried like a baby

I watched this movie for the first time yesterday. I had no idea about the plot, except that it involved a house with ballons and a talking dog. I've always avoided it because the one scene I had scene (where they meet Dug for the first time) didn't strike me as funny at all.
But - the girl I'm dating loves it and wanted me to see it. So we watched it.
I've cried at movies before (Toy Story 3 had me bawling my eyes out on an airplane, which was pretty arkward...) but usually I can just Watch it and then dry my eyes and keep watching.
This time, when the image of Carl in his living room after Ellie dies came on, sitting with his ballon in the dark - I had to hit stop. I turned to my girlfriend with tears streaming Down my face and said "Please tell me this isn't how the movie is all the way through!" before I broke Down crying. It just hit me right in the stomach with a knockout punch. It took 10 min to get back to watching, and still I think I cried three times more through the movie. ("Now go have a new adventure!" really got to me too, but for other reasons.) It's probably the saddest film I have ever seen, and I don't think I could bring myself to ever Watch it Again. Not because it's bad, but because it was THAT good.

Who am I to argue with the captain of the Enterprise?

I've gotten teary watching movies before, especially animated movies, but no movie has ever made me cry the way Up has.

3 scenes in particular had me crying with tears running completely down my face (something no other movie has ever been able to do).

1) The married life montage obviously. This was something special as almost any other movie that gets me emotional happens later on in the movie when you've grown attached to the characters and the plot. But this scene happens at the beginning of the movie and Ellie's death really had me going. A four minute scene of their married life was all it took for Pixar to make you grow attached to Carl and Ellie enough for you to truly feel sorry and cry, that is a work of art if I've ever seen one.

2) "Thanks for the adventure, now go have a new one!" This scene gets to me every single time I watch it. By this time you've gotten to know Carl and have grown attached to him. When you see him flipping through the first few pages of the photo album, you see him filled with regret. He's regretful that he was never able to give Ellie the adventure that he thought she always wanted, he sees himself as a failure because of it and thus the grumpy attitude we see him with throughout the movie. Then he sees the edge of the new photos that Ellie added and we see the pictures of their life together. He's finally able to see that he wasn't a failure, and that Ellie lived a happy life with no regrets, her life with him WAS her adventure. After seeing this, Carl is finally able to move on and get over his grief after finally knowing that he was her adventure and he made her happier than he ever realized. Just typing this down actually gets to me.

3) The Ellie Badge. Not as major as the other two scenes, but this one gets to me a little because of the significance of the badge itself. Carl is happy now, he's there for Russell when he needs him at the award ceremony, a happy moment. Then, instead of pinning the "assisting the elderly" badge on Russell, he gives him the Ellie badge that Ellie gave to Carl so very long ago, the first thing she ever gave him in fact. Carl no longer has the house or anything in it, so that badge is now the last memento he has of her, essentially the only thing left of her. To watch him give that to Russell is just extremely heartwarming as they both know how much it means for him to give it away like that.