You know, when Maximus triumphs but dies soon thereafter and walks into Elysium... I did find some extra moisture in the corner of my eye. This would be Gladiator, of course, this time the extended edition on Blu-ray. It's one of my favorite historical epics. The aforementioned moment feels so wrong and so right. I guess I have some sort of a built-in trigger for heroic death stories. The Alamo, King Leonidas with his Spartans (and assorted other Greeks who tend to be forgotten) at Thermopylae, The Wild Bunch, Maximus...
Note that I'm not saying only boys' weepies have this effect. I am a big old softie sometimes.
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