Phaenx

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.

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Redjake

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

Truly awesome.

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bookerV

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

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sipsake

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."

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BuddyHawks

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

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Redjake

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

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TheJig

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.

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Kadath

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

The end of Heat kicks my ass every time.

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bparker805

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.

djflish

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

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moonstrucksoul

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

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Plan9Senior

You have no clue how much that made me laugh


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.

2kids1headache

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.

sipsake

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.

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grayman

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.

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ironchef82

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

mystmarimatt

Damn Straight.

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

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I agree with all these

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Derwood

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.

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bundy

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

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FleaCircus

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."

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Mojo_PeiPei

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.

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Rodney

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.

NoLa

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.

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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.

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amonkie

The Last castle- when Robert Redford is hanging the flag

LOTR:ROTK - beacon lighting

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

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slvrnblck

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

Tempboy

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!

Sleepyjack

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*

johnsmith

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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.

2kids1headache

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.

SabrinaFair

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.

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Kadath

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.

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Stare At The Sun

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

Lotronex

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.

MahlerIsGod

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.........

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frankx

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.

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rockzilla

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

Mr.Deflok

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...

InTeGrA77

Definatley a good one!

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

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

/me goes to see it for the 6th time

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