The most moving moment ever captured.
 

The part of a movie that totally floors you, brings a tear to your eye or sends a chill down your spine. It may be a deeply profound or moving scene, or maybe a visually stunning shot that you can't get your mind off of. Basically anything that makes you say to yourself, "this is the reason I love movies."

What is it for you?

Here are a few of mine:

Excalibur - Guinevere is trying to get Arthur to champion her in a duel to prove her innocence regarding her feelings towards Lancelot, as King Arthur must judge the combat however, she says to him "But you're King, you're above the law." Arthur angrily responds "Noone is above the law!! ..Especially the King."

Unbreakable - The end, where he's in the train station reading peoples ill deeds, that music is playing, the deeply human scenes are playing out in his mind, and his emotions are so well portrayed that you can tell exactly what he's thinking.

Return of the King - "For wrath! For Rohan! And for the red dawn!" And then they ride into battle. Enough said.

Return of the King: "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me!"

Truly awesome.

The big speech in Braveheart before the massive battle. Nothing like hearing a speech that makes you willing to die...

Roy Batty's final speech in BladeRunner

"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?
That's what it is to be a slave.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've watched C beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in rain.

Time to die."

Return of the King : To add to the list:
Pipin singing while Faramir rides to orcs
Lighting of the beacons
Sam carrying frodo up the mountian

The beginning of each Band of Brothers episode where the real WWII vets talk about their experiences get me everytime too.

The end of U.H.F when Wierd Al gives Stanley Spadowski the trophy....
"World's Greatest Janitor and T.V. Star"

Or...In Glory, at the end, when Denzel picks up the fallen flag and then gets capped.

Or...The first time I saw Return of the King. We had been sitting in the theatre for over 10 hours by the time it started, (Trilogy Tuesday) and I was so emotionally drained that I cried for like the last hour of the movie. When Pippin sings while Faramir is riding to battle really got me the most, but all of it had me holding back weeps.

I second sipsake's BR reference, and TheJig's Glory.

The end of Heat kicks my ass every time.

The most recent scene that moved me to tears was in "Antoine Fisher". When he comes home to his "new" family's home after meeting his mother and all his relatives are there that he has never meet to welcome him home. Then he meets the matriarch of the family. She takes his hands and says "Welcome." Truely moving in my book.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day when he's being lowered into the molten metal and he puts his thumb up...

Seriously though, when John Coffey gets executed at the end of The Green Mile. That gets me every time

i always liked the speech by Maximus in the beginning of Gladiator.

You have no clue how much that made me laugh :lol:


Anyhow, I think one of the most moving moments was the end of Saving Private Ryan during the scene in which the elderly Ryan was at the grave and asked his wife, "Am I a good man?".

Also, I loved the scene in Big Fish at the end when Spoiler: as his dad is dying the son finishes his father's life 'story' with a tall tale of his own.

Optimus Prime: Megatron must be stopped! No matter the cost.

Megatron: [surprised] Prime.
Optimus Prime: One shall stand, one shall fall.
Megatron: Why throw away your life so recklessly?
Optimus Prime: That's a question you should ask YOURSELF, Megatron.

Okay...all you folks who saw it in the theater.

I heard a bunch of you burst out weeping when the scene cuts to the flower as it wilts signalling E.T.'s demise.

Me...I just had a bad case of hayfever.

I found the end of Deep Impact to be extremely moving for some reason. Both for the people who died and the people who lived.

Hmm... with all the Return of the King moments, I feel a big one has been left out. The scene where everyone.. *everyone* bows down and pays their respect to the 4 Hobbits.. that was amazing.

Other great moments from movies I like:

Apollo 13 - when the capsule successfully splashes down, and everyone erupts in cheers

Shawshank Redemption - the end scene

Re: The most moving moment ever captured.
 

Damn Straight.

Moulin Rouge - The climax of "El Tango De Roxanne." I was basically sweating in anticipation and anxiety watching it, it was insane.

I agree with all these

I'll give you 2 from "Schindler's List":

Itzhak Stern: It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."


...and...


Oskar Schindler: I could've gotten more out. I could've gotten more people if I just tried harder. I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I just...
Itzhak Stern: There are over 100 families here as a result of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.


I get chills just remembering.

wow. i couldn't agree more. that really was phenomenal.

The "changeover" scene from Fight Club, in the hotel room, when everything really falls into place. I think it could only have that impact he first time you saw it, but when I first saw the movie, it floored me.

Also, in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, when Chuck Barris walks backstage after he breaks down on the Gong Show. Visually amazing.

Neither are really tearjerker moments, or anything like that, but they're the kind of stuff where I just sink into my chair and say, "Wow."

Another powerful scene from the Green Mile was right before Paul Coffee was going to be put to death, Tom Hanks was asking how he could answer to God for killing one of his beautiful creations.

I like the very last scene, where the President is speaking from the steps of the Capitol Building, which has obviously been rebuilt on what's left of DC, which is largely still empty ground. When something important to people, part of their lives, is destroyed, you build it back right where it was the first time, as a symbol that the people are not defeated.

Meant a lot to me, because I live in a town that lost a lot of landmark buildings and businesses in an earthquake. And in several cases, the owners rebuilt the old buildings to look just as they did, sometimes with even the same businesses inside. When you walk into a building like that, that you've known, that's been lost and then replaced, you get tears in your eyes. So that last scene in Deep Impact really resonated with me.

Return of the King,

"Lighting of the Beacons"
The Eagles
King Theoden rides down the line hitting his sword against the other mens' right before they ride into battle.

Cold Mountian
Almost the whole movie, it was heartbreaking, as was the book.

Gladiator, the end fight scene and the look on Commodus' face when he knows it is over.

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

The Last castle- when Robert Redford is hanging the flag

LOTR:ROTK - beacon lighting

Love, Actually- when Liam Neeson and the kid are bonding.

The only movie that made me cry is the Green Mile. John Q and A.I get me a little bit too.

The Molson Canadian I.Am. commercial with Joe. I know it's not from a movie, but I think it counts.

Gives me shivers everytime I hear it. :)
I'm sure only Canadians would feel the same as me.


I'm not a lumberjack or a fur trader.
I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber or own a dog sled.
I don't know Jimmy, Sally, or Suzie from Canada, although I'm certain they're really really nice.
I have a prime minister. Not a president.
I speak English and French, not American.
And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace-keeping, not policing.
Diversity, not assimilation.
And that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal.
A tuque is a hat!
A Chesterfield is a couch!
And it is pronounced 'zed'! Not 'zee'! 'Zed'!
Canada is the second largest land mass!
The first nation of hockey!
And the best part of North America! My name is Joe!
And
I! Am! Canadian!

YES and YES



Also, i loved the ending for About Schmidt and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, most of the stuff in 2001: A Space Odessey...just thinking now, there really is a shitload and it seems unjust to name a few?

although, a special mention to She's All That, in which teenage love blossoms *sheds tear* :D

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At the end of Braveheart, Spoiler: when he is being disemboweled and he still calls out for freedom.
Sorry, I don't know how to use the spoiler tag.
I do now.

I'm glad other people actually found those moments from Transformers: The Movie to be emotionally moving. I know I'm strange, but I actually tear up a little right after the "Megatron must be stopped" line, when Optimus is transforming and leading the Autobots on. It's like he knows he's going to his death, but does it for the greater good.

I'll stop being corny now. The nobility of it always strikes me.

I'm not sure if this is my most moving movie moment, but it's a great honorable mention. It's from "The Empire Strikes Back, when Han Solo has just been interrogated/tortured after having been captured by Darth Vader. He is taken back to his cell, and as Leia comforts him while he shakes, he says in a ragged voice, "They never even asked me any questions." SUCH A GOOD MOMENT.

I'll cop to this, too. I don't cry when Prime dies, just when at the mentioned line. And the music kicks in and argh it's giving me chills now...I think I have to go watch it. :)

Yes, and as he sees muron(his wife) walking in the crowd...

So many good movies, so many moving moments...
The Fifth Element: at the end in the temple "I dont know love...".
The Messenger: the taking of Orleans and the dialouge with Joan's conscionse/God/Devil
Any movie where Mel Gibson makes a speech, hes just got great presencse.
Chasing Amy: After Holden breaks up with her, Alyssa's reaction in the parking lot, very emotional.
Battle Royale: Best movie ever!!! If you actually look past the gore, a beautiful film develops, and just shows human behavior at its best and worst. A class of 42 middle school Japanese students is abducted by the goverment and forced to kill each other until there is only one survivor.
Mitsuko, an outsider who was forced into prostituion by her parents, kills her schoolmates. She becomes ruthless to try and prove that she is not worthless.(Dying words: "I just didn't want to be a loser anymore")
THe person everyone picks on becomes paranoid and kills everyone he sees.
The clique of popular girls unite for peace, but in an instant the mistrust turns on them and the kill each other.
Others call for peace, and are killed for it.
Kawada is a survivor of a previous round, and devotes himself to finding out the meaning of Keiko's smile. "things changed when there was only the two of us left...BANG...BANG...thank you"
Shuya devotes himself to protecting the girl his best friend had a crush on.
Others refuse to fight, and simply commit suicide.
The movie offers so much more than the gore that people know it for. The characters are given 3 days to live, and the movie shows the wide variety of things tha happen.
While it is very short on humor, the drama that progresses will change you if you let it. The deaths of some characters can make you cry, others just sympathy, while others you feel they deserve it.
This thread is about moving moments, the kind that change you, and if ever a film captured them, it would be Battle Royale.

Here's the list of my tear-jerkers:
1. Field of Dreams - When Ray and John Kinsella play catch at the end of the movie.

2. Gattaca - When Jude Law kills himself.

3. Henry V (Branagh) - St. Crispin's Day Speech

4. LOTR: ROTK - Aragorn: "For Frodo" and then he just starts running at the orcs. (The one speech in the entire movie he didn't fuck up,IMHO)

5. The Mission (Deniro & Irons): The final battle

6. A Midnight Clear - When they bath Mother's body. (Probably the finest war movie ever. Ever.)

7. Tombstone - Doc Holliday's death (that one really gets me)

Dittos @ Braveheart, Band of Brothers (the final baseball game always gets me), LOTRs.

Damn, I have some movies to watch now.........

At the end of ROTK when Aragorn says "my friends, you bow to no one."

I totally lost it.

The end of The Color Purple where she is reunited with her kids.

Also, for some reason, the end of Mulholland Drive really gets to me.

That was the one that immediately popped into my head, aside from it being Shakespeare, I couldn't remember which movie it was from.

Another from ROTK...
"No my friends, you bow to no-one."
-Aragorn, son of Arathorn

The Last Samurai...
"If you believe me to be your enemy, command me, and I'll galdly take my life."
-Nathan Algren

Seven Samurai...
When Kikuchiyo gets shot and defiantly marches on through the hutt to claim his vengence of his families murder.

Band of Brothers...
Every fucking moment.

The Lion King...
When Mufasa dies to save his son.

I could go on and on...

Definatley a good one!

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

ROTK - Aragorn:
"...Gondor calls for aid!?......"
Theoden:
"...and Rohan will answer!":D:D:D(GOD I love that movie!!)

/me goes to see it for the 6th time

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.

SPOILER!!! SKIP IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ROTK!!!









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.

Hi,
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.
Thanks,
Manga

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!!!

Hi,
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 :(.
Thanks,
Manga

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.

fin

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.

Goddamn Right!!

Aside from the above commercial, the end of the Sixth Sense, when Haley Joel Osment is telling his mom about how grandma told him to tell his mother that she was proud of her.
Makes me cry every time

Requiem For A Dream, at the end, when Jennifer Connely's charactor is told by the old man at the party to do "Ass to Ass" I looked at that, and it really made me think what drugs could make people do. Great movie!

the scene in Donnie Darko when all of the manipulated living wake up and start crying.

Also, the St Crispin's Day speech in Henry V is the inspiration for all these "we gotta fight with our lives and if we die, we will have at least died for a good cause". Jeez, hearing that takes me waaaaay back, when I studied Shakespeare...

I am not a racist, but this a movie to end all movies, Please excuse the Movies Title "Gay N*****s from Outer Space"

Check it out at IMDB

http://mirrors.meepzorp.com/imdb.com/gnfos/

HERE IS THE IMDB REVIEW OF IT:


When the first gay n*****r walks onto the screen, you know you're in for a real treat. It is almost to impossible articulate, in words, the sheer, visionary brilliance of this film.

Julien Garneau-Proulx gives the performance of his life as the janitor's son. Although he spends most of his time cleaning his father's bath house, and he dies rather early at the hands of the Super Gay N****r, he leaves an unforgettable impression on the audience.

The music is amazing as well. "Gay N*****s Eat Pigs and Fly on Penises Made of Ham and Brown Ham, Because They're Gay N*****s" is an oscar-worthy song. This song plays during the scene when Gay N****r Jim rapes a toilet and explodes, and unless you're souless, it will make you cry.

The stuff of legends . . . :D

**Mod note**

While my initial reaction to the above was, "what the fuck?", I have- after some measure of thought- come to the following conclusion:

If they're going to make a movie satirizing a topic as potentially racially- and homophobically-charged as "Gayniggers From Outer Space" (the actual title), we should all be comfortable with laughing at it.

The only way we can truly progress towards being a truly harmonious and enlightened society as a whole, is to reach mutual levels of understanding, am I right?

While it might seem on the edge of appropriate, I think it's a fine example of things that break down walls of anxiety that surround certain topics- i.e., feeling apprehensive about certain types of humor. Just laugh, that's why they made it.

Thanks! :)

I'm glad you understand what I saw in it, thanks.

the Third Man...Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles)

#1. (Looking down at a crowd from a ferris wheel)
"Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays."

#2 "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "

I have two more.

Saving Private Ryan - Most of this movie is genius, but two parts especially are phenominally captivating. The first is where they storm Omaha. Absolutely surreal, if you can't handle gore, try, just for this. The next, and my favorite is the ending when you finally get the big picture and the old man is crying at the grave with his family, he tells his wife "Tell me I've been a good man." and then there's a shot of the American flag blowing in the wind, fade to black.

That's one of the few moments in a movie a man can cry in front of his friends without them calling him a pussy.

Mafia - A video game! It just so happens to have an unreal cool story though, and the ending is absolutely crazy.

The sceen in Gladiator when Commodus finds out that Maximus lives as a Gladiator in the colloseum. That scene just rocks.


COMMODUS: SLAVE! WHO ARE YOU?!

MAXIMUS: I AM MAXIMUS MERIDAS, GENERAL OF THE FELIX REGIMENT OF THE ROMAN ARMY AND SERVANT TO THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS!

I AM FATHER TO A MURDERED SON AND HUSBAND TO A MURDERED WIFE AND LANDLORD TO A MURDERED WORLD -- AND I WILL HAVE VENGEANCE!

Yeah, that one got me too. Definitely.

In the execution scene in Braveheart, when he yells, the look on his friends' faces as they are hiding in the crowd.

Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan moments I totally agree with, but I didn't think Return of the King was all that emotional. Those comments suprise me. The Champ -man, I hadn't thought about that but it was a pretty emotional scene too, and I had forgotten about it.

My addition:
Super cheesey, I know, but in Armageddon, the whole kid that doesn't know who his dad is, much less what he is doing until near the end, and the toy space shuttle storyline really got to me for some reason.

I don't know if it was mentioned yet, but how about The Green Mile electrocution of John Coffey?

Finale's to Heat, Blade Runner, and Donnie Darko are quite poignant to me, add to that Leon (The Professional). Rutger Hauer played Roy Batty to perfection, his death scene was so incredible, one could really understand the anguish at losing such a mind, such mind-blowing experiences..

OK, so they're not movies, but here I go anyway...

-The last episode of "The Wonder Years," when adult Kevin is talking about what happened to his life, and you hear these incredible stories about these characters that you care about so much. Oh, man. Just reading the monologue makes me tear up.

-Not everyone's seen it, but you all know exactly the type of scene I'm talking about. There's an episode of Animal Hospital where a guy brings in his old dog to put it to sleep, and he has a moment where he's got the dog lying on the table, waiting for the shot, and he's just petting it and talking about how he's been a good dog... ouch. I don't care what cat people say- people get links with their dogs that are something else entirely.

this may sound odd but in My Girl with Akroyd and Anna Chlumsky, during the funeral of caulkins character when Chlumsky walks up to the casket and starts talking about how he needs his glasses....

Chokes me up inside.

Also, in Hardball with Keanu Reeves - when the little boy is killed by random gunfire and Reeves gives the eulogy about the little boy.

The last episode of Babylon 5, when J. Michael Straczynski turns out the lights on the station and then the whole place is destroyed with ships of all the major alien races witnessing in salute... Ivanova's monologue "B-5 was the last of the Babylon stations, there will never be another. It changed the world, and it changed us...." Beautiful. I cried.
Not a movie, but hollywood wishes they could get than kind of emotion on a regular basis.

I agree with that, although it isn't a movie. Great storyline and I totally didn't expect it. Really enjoyed that game!

very good choice.
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The climax in The Birth of a Nation when the two old friends meet and embrace in the heat of battle on opposite sides during a bloody charge.
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The end of Falling Down where he says 'I'm the bad guy?' just before he falls in the water.
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&lt;Cliched answer&gt;
the end of It's A Wonderful Life
&lt;/Cliched answer&gt;
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The actual quote is:
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

The "true" emperor adds more emphasis, and in this life or the next.