10 Movies It's OK For Men To Cry At

4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdkAe0GgbA Terminator 2 might seem like an unlikely entry for those who have only a passing interest or knowledge of James Cameron's masterful sci-fi action epic, but it's one of those rare blockbusters that also pays its characters a huge due, and the result is an extremely cathartic and moving payoff that was even referenced rather amusingly on Simon Pegg's TV show Spaced ("I cried like a child at the end of Terminator 2!"). The entire film is centred around the relationship between a young boy, John Connor (Edward Furlong), and the machine, the T-800, programmed and sent back through time to protect him (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from an even more terrifying machine, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), that has been sent back also. Mid-film, John's mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton) remarks how it becomes clear to her that the Terminator is, in fact, the perfect father for her son; he'll never let him down like so many others, and he'll protect him to the very end. This is exactly what he does, taking down the T-1000 but at huge expense to himself, and once Sarah, John and the Terminator have destroyed all possible materials that could risk their future by throwing them into a steel mill, the T-800 attests that there is one final chip that has to be destroyed - his own. The T-800 cannot self-terminate, so Sarah lowers him into the liquid steel, but not before John sobs and begs the Terminator not to leave. The T-800 declares that he cannot stay, but he now knows why humans cry. This is about the point where I get misty-eyed. And so he's lowered into the molten steel, burning up but not before giving a final thumbs-up to the pair, suggesting that perhaps the future might be OK.