Here Here!!!

The line earlier in the movie where his brother asks him

-"How did you do it, how did you do any of it?"
-"You want to know how I did it?
This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back!"

The Last Samurai, where the gatling gun captain stops firing, and, crying, takes off his hat and kneels and bows before Algren and Katsumoto, followed by the rest of the conscript army.

Les Miserables (Neeson, Rush), when Inspector Javert takes off Jean Valjean's cuff's, attaches them to himself, and throws himself into the Seine.

Here's mine:

1) from the TV version of MASH - when Radar salutes as Henry choppered flown out on his last show.

2) Platoon - When Elias is shot down as he runs for the hellicopter

I seem to have an issue with hellicopters. I never noticed it before.

What are these "emotions" that everyone keeps talking about?

I kid. Umm since everyone is on Braveheart, the when Mel helplessly watches his wife's get killed.

In Varsity Blues when Jon Voight says "Cry me a river ya fat, fuckin baby!"

Not really a crier, that one gets me big time though.

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First time I've cried at a movie in a long while was when Gollum snatched the ring and dropped into the lava at the end of Return of the King. I see a lot of you point out the heroic parts as especially moving, but seeing his joy on reacquiring the one ring, even as he is falling to his death, really hit me hard, and I really had to struggle not to start bawling.

In ROTK, when Pippin pushes Faramir off of the flaming pyre, but Denethor is still on it - just the look on their faces... argh.

Mentioned earlier that I agree completely...
Platoon - When Elias is shot down as he runs for the hellicopter

Blade Runner - Roy Batty's final speech, that Tear's in the Rain speech is just soooooo good.

Return of the King -Aragorn: "For Frodo" and then he just starts running at the orcs
Return of the King - Everyone bowing to the Hobbits
Return of the King - Frodo's fate... for those who havent seen it I'll leave it at that...

Schindler's List - The scene where he doesnt believe he did enough

Shawshank Redemption - In the jail cell when the warden throws the rock at the poster and he discovers the hole.

The Molson Canadian I.Am. commercial with Joe.

And a few of my own...
The Empire Strikes Back - Leia "I love you." Han "I know."

Chasing Amy - When Holden tells Alyssa how he really feels about her in the car

Fellowship of the Ring - Boromir's death scene, one of my favorite death scene's of all time.

JohnQ and Green mile get me every time.

FREEEEDOMMMMM!!!!!!!
From Braveheart, those who don't cry at that moment or at list get a chill down the spine must be robots

That's the one I was going to mention.

vanilla sky had a couple good ones too.

Donnie Darko when he laughs in his bed before he gets crushed

The end of 'In the Name of the Father'...."I'm goin' out the front door with Gerry!"

Every damn time...

The scene in "Glory" when Denzel Washington gets whipped is amazing.

ROTK - Eowyn:
"I am no man..."

most definitely

Braveheart again, but this time it's when the father of the big red guy finally receives his death wound, and he says to his son something to the effect of "I have lived long enough to watch my son become a man." That part always kills me because my dad died of cancer when I was 19, about a year into college and about six months before meeting the girl who would eventually become my wife.
Matrix, the whole rescue of Morpheus, that great underhelicopter shot with the minigun blazing, morpheus breaking the handcuffs, and Neo rescuing Trinity from the helicopter.

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In Schindler's List when they are clearing out the camp and the adults realize what's happening when the truckloads full of screaming children begin to drive away and they run after them... Gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.
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I would agree with Roy Batty's final speech, really moving that one.
Also the Braveheart Freedom moment is very emotional.
Damn can't remember many.

Hmmm futurama season 5, episode 2 'Jurassic Bark'.
Spoiler
At the end where Fry's dog is sitting in front of Panucci's waiting for Fry to return (20th Century), and the timeline goes along the years, still watching the dog waiting for Fry, "I will wait for you" playing in background, finally the dog, now hunched over, lays its head down and dies.
When I saw it, it just slammed me.

Holy shit that Futurama one is just... wow. That episode deserves to be near the top of the best sitcoms ever. Really, everyone who hasn't seen it should download it, keep a box of tissues handy though.

Absolutely!!!

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I agree with the Futurama one. I saw it and I came closer to crying then than when I ever watch sappy-crappy movies. I think it's because I totally wasn't expecting it and it caught me off guard but damn, it hit me hard. It was so sad :(.
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The end of Rudy......I cry every time.

It's not really from a movie, but from the TV miniseries, "Children of Dune" that came out last year.

When Alia kills herself. Her mother, the Lady Jessica, picks her up and Alia wipes a tear away from her mother's cheek and with her dying breath she says, "I want my brother."

i agree with almost everything here except the mel gibson crap... sorry but i dont like him at all! he's a terrible actor!

"Look daddy. Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"

"That's right, that's right.................................attaboy, Clarence!



Damn you George Bailey...........'sniff'

DAMN YOU INDEED!!! gets me every x-mas same with the end of the Alistar Sim version of A Christmas Carol

Many, many in ROTK - but I prefer to see the test of time. The whole LOTR trilogy has got me emotional just because they had the genius to do justice to the work I have worshiped for so many years!
So the test of time leafds me to a couple:
To Kill a Mockingbird (Say hello to Boo, Scout) WOW!
Dr. Zhivago - he comes back to Laura, yet calls for Tanya in his sleep

I trully fell in love with "Return of the King" when the very old and delirious Bilbo Baggins said
"it's time for one more adventure" or something like that.
that was what that series was all about for me.

I'm not going to lie the final scene in ROTK was pretty depressing. Damn Frodo for breaking up the band.

ditto on that one...when he sees his wife in the crowd, i always get choked up. actually that whole final scene is pretty intense, and when he sees her thats just the icing on the cake in terms of sadness.

The Futurama episode definitely gets me..

The latest one has been Passion of Christ (I know.. there's another thread on it.. but I'm just mentioning this part) where he's carrying the cross and falls.. and Mary runs to help him.. that hit me very hard.

Requiem For A Dream.. the end of it all.. especially the mother's end...

There's others.. but those two came to mind (and I had to agree w/ the Futurama one hehe).

The last two scenes of Donnie Darko, as "Mad World" kicks on...

In Glory, when M Broderick tells the men that the Confederates will return the Blacks to their slave owners and kill the White officers that lead them. Then the next morning when he comes out, all the men, Blacks and Whites are still there. That is when they came together.

The one that gets me every time is actually The Rookie, when Dennis Quaid walks out onto the field in his first major league game. (I figure that isn't really a spoiler since the movie is loosely based off of a true story). Now, I'm not the biggest sports fan in the world, but that's a choked up moment for sure.

As for my 'artsy/classic' moment. If at all possible you should find a copy of 'The Plague' (sometimes titled Albert Camus' The Plague). William Hurt plays an american doctor working in South America when the Bubonic Plague resurfaces and begins killing people again. This is without a doubt an intensely moving picture.

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Well I know this maybe I stretch but the Iron Giant when he goes up to stop the missile, "Superman" and he smiles. Gets me everytime.<p>I may have to buy Futurama now for that one sounds great.

One more:
"Shakespeare In Love." When they rehearsing the Romeo and Juliet" (when everyone is standing around and watching them in the torchlight) and especially (especially!!!!) when they are performing the play at the end of the movie and Romeo and Juliet are bidding each other farewell ("Dry sorrow drinks our blood...."). Just the way he performs that adieu always, always gets me. Hell, most of that movie gets the emotions flowing.

I remember crying really hard at the end of The Champ (the old version), when the boy sees his dad lying dead on the training table.

I was also going to say the end of Requiem for a Dream, combined with the song, its really moving.

My Braveheart moment is at the very end, when Robert the Bruce pulls the tattered handkerchief from underneath his armor and says to his troops, with that crazed look in his eyes, "You've bled with Wallace...Now bleed with me."

Leon walking towards the exit of the tenement house in The Professional.

The final, bitter end of Requiem for a Dream, flipping back and forth between the endings of all the main characters.

The end of the fight between Russel Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator.

The scene at the beach house in Road to Perdition.

When Hoot goes right back into the streets of Mogadishu in Black Hawk Down.

The end of The Usual Suspects, when the mystery finally unravels.

The scene in The Sixth Sense when the boy and his mother are stuck in traffic and he explains to her the things he sees all the time.

Countless stunning moments in Apocalypse Now and, to a lesser extent, The Thin Red Line.

The opening scene of Blade Runner with the camera roving over a future Los Angeles. It's amazing how the music has stood the test of time.

There are others, but those are what float to the top for me.

Grave of the Firefly.

When the little sister is sick, and thinks she is eating the fruit candy drops. Which were really glass marbles. She also though she made rice dumplings for her brother, when in fact they were made of dirt. She was too sick to know what she was making them out of. She was soo sick that she eat half of one of the dirt dumplings. Then she passes away.

Yes I know it's a cartoon, but it's just a very intense Japanimation movies.

The end of "Hero" when Spoiler: Nameless decides not to kill the emperor with the words: "remember those who gave up their lives for the highest of ideals".

"Chocolat" - when Serge approaches his wife Josefine to seek forgiveness for beating her up: "we are still married in the eyes of God and Josefine answers: "then he must be blind" and closes the door. Great moment!

Every moment in "Marvins Room"! But I particularly like the scene where Bessy and Hank are driving up and down the beach and the scene where Spoiler: Lee realizes that her sister Bessy is going to die from cancer and graps her and holds her.