Anyone else get Teary-Eyed when watching the war genre?

Almost no other genre do I actually cry. But I will admit this when I am watching a really good war movie almost always at some point in it I will tear up. Especially when a soldier risks his life to save another I don't know what gets over me! Anyone else?

I can remember many points in Letters To Iwo Jima where I would shed well a few tears..

I thought I was the only one! "We Were Soldiers" gets me all misty eyed and snively. Doesn't happen with any other genre.

It depends. If it's a good movie where I care for the characters then I'll might get a frog in my throat.

I dont cry, but the end of Band of Brothers is something else..

I can't cry over a film. It's not real.

But I especially can't cry over a War Film. Glorification of War/Distortion of History is Anathema.

They are either jingoistic and quite often American focused.

Or so poignant to the point of nauseam.

I don't think I've ever cried from watching a war movie. I might have gotten a lump in my throat from the BoB ending or Saving Private Ryan ending though. The Last Battalion is a bit of a downer, and you should have heard the girls in my class when Major Konig hanged that kid in EatG lol.

If anything, war movies (especially the more disturbing/graphic ones) leave me feeling a bit numb and drained more than sad.

I still say the saddest movie of all time is The Fox and the Hound.

The Lion King was fairly sad when I was a kid. I fail to find any sad war movies though. BoB would be the closest but that is not a movie so you have much more time to develop personality etc.

I get a bit teary eyed watching BoB or The Pacific, though they are tears for all the people that died in that war, not just Americans.

I can't make myself emotionally attached to any movie characters. I watch war movies for the blood, gore and combat. And that's why I usually skip most of it anyway.

No wonder you cant get attached if you skip half the movie.

No, I skip the movie because I know I won't care anyway. I only ever get attached to a few book characters, and extremely rarely, to video game ones.