Powerful moments in film

[perfectimo]

I think a great moment would have to be in End of Evangelion when...

Spoiler

Shinji and Asuka are argueing and she pushes him into the coffee mug burning him. He slowly gets up without any reaction to the boiling coffee and chokes her. That exact second when the music starts to play and the camera pans around them from a distance is perfect.

 

[aRealGuitarHero707]

Arlington Road
anyone whos seen it will know the last twenty minutes are absolutely amazing

 

[BaronAsh]

Probably the ending to Gattaca. I'm very likely the only human being who ever saw Gattaca (or it at least seems that way,) but I was very moved by it.

For some reason, I found (spoilers) the Tachikoma deaths at the end of the first Stand Alone Complex to be very moving. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I never outright hated them like some people did.

I watched it and yeah the whole incinerator deal was kind of emotional.

 

[The Sorrow]

All of Letters from Iwo Jima. Such an amazing film.

 

[aRealGuitarHero707]

Probably the ending to Gattaca. I'm very likely the only human being who ever saw Gattaca (or it at least seems that way,) but I was very moved by it.

For some reason, I found (spoilers) the Tachikoma deaths at the end of the first Stand Alone Complex to be very moving. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I never outright hated them like some people did.

I watched it and yeah the whole incinerator deal was kind of emotional.

i still think Jude Law should've got an Oscar that year for that role
and his accent was badass

 

[Johnny Ringo]

-The Thing: THE WHOLE MOVIE.

The Thing, and here I thought I was the only person who'd seen it.

"Nobody trusts anyone anymore. We're all very tired."

Good choice by the way.

 

[jim_doki]

The death scene at the end of 12 Monkeys

that was awesome

 

[Beowulf DW]

Lots of bits from Kingdom of Heaven. Especially the horse charge bit. Also the Horse charge in last samurai, i like horse charges

The Ride of the Rohirrim in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. The music, the battle cries...God, I love it. "A sword day, a red day, 'ere the sun rises!"

Also, Kingdom of Heaven, when Godfrey(sp?) is about to die, and his friend asks him if he repents his sins, Godfrey looks at Balin and says, "All but one."

 

[LordCraigus]

There's ever so many scenes that I've found particularly powerful, a few have been posted already (such as Schindler's departing in Schindler's List). These two always come to mind, I feel they are compelling yet extremely hard to watch scenes, both from brilliant movies:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WFjt0qmoNSA - Come and See

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QiA7eRQLohU - Nil By Mouth

As I've said I've seen too many amazing sequences and scenes in film to recount them all, but one that struck me recently is from Dead Man's Shoes. The final scene inside the castle, where Richard talks in a horrible way about the 'spastic' younger brother he spent the whole movie avenging the abuse of. It really sums up the unconditional love he had for the brother that embarrassed him so with his disability.

 

[Jamanticus]

Will I sound like a nerd if I say this? (rhetorical question, that)

The part in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King when Sauron's big black tower of doom cracks, falls, and explodes.

I think it's the mixture of Howard Shore's music and Ian McKellen shedding a tear that makes it so wonderful.

 

[death13245]

For me it would be in a movie called Shoot em up where this guy kills a guy by stabbing him with a carrot...it makes me know never to piss off guys with carrots in their hands.

Though sad wise probably Green Mile...gets me every time.

 

[xitel]

I have to point out most of Saving Private Ryan. I rarely get "moved" by movies, but that one really got to me.

EDIT: Also, A Beautiful Mind has a lot of really moving moments.

 

[stompy]

Most of you guys seem to express sadness at these scenes, but one of the most powerful scenes for me was when I was expressing anger. Hatred even, but on reflection, it was more towards the act, and not the people doing the act.

Anyways, it was in Black Hawk Down, where the two snipers were holding off the locals in order to save the downed pilot. The bit that struck me was the death of the second sniper, who was shot repeatedly, and then his carcass was displayed to the locals, as if it were an occasion of joy. The bit itself was accompanied by the tribal music, and it made my blood boil. Like I said, it wasn't at the people themselves, but it was more because how, um, barbaric that act was.

Here [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1-Bb_KaDQ] is a link for those who don't know what I'm talking about. Watch it from around the 4 min. mark.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

There are a few that really to mind.
First, there's the last thirty minutes of With Honors, a 1994 film about some Harvard students who, basically, let a bum into their lives. Very few movies put a lump in my throat like that one did.

Next, Breaker Morant. The final scene is extremely moving, though not so much in a make-you-cry manner; it's simply a very powerful moment.

Saving Private Ryan had several; the breakdown of the German prisoner as he begs for his life- a very difficult scene for me to watch, even now- and the opening scene at the cemetery where the old man breaks down over the grave of... someone.
We Were Soldiers has three that really stand out. The officer wives going from home to home with the death telegrams; and the two scenes where "Sergeant Mackenzie" dominates the soundtrack as the Air Cav head for Ia Drang, and again as they make their final charge.
Someone already mentioned Shawshank Redemption- for me it was about thirty seconds earlier, when they haven't quite figured out what happened to Dufrain... The warden throws a pebble at the Raquel Welch poster, finds the tunnel,...and my heart was in my throat. Incredibly uplifting.

Blackhawk Down has a scene that is very personally moving for me, when Shugart and Gordon try to keep the mob away from Mike Durant at the second crash site.

Getting away from war movies, Interstella 5555 has two sequences that always give me goosebumps; when "Shep" gets the distress call in "Digital Love", and the montage that leads to the Crescendolls returning home during "Face to Face."

Lastly, one that speaks to me as a father- in Pet Sematary the main character sees his son about to be run over by a truck. You can see what goes through his mind as he tries to push his son out of the truck's path- he knows that that he'll die if he saves his son's life, but he's alright with that, he's made up his mind and this is what he wants to do. It's the same sort of spirit that motivated Shugart and Gordon in Mogadishu, in a way, but it's hard to understand unless you've been in that situation: I can save this person, and I'm going to try, even if it kills me.

 

[Sirisaxman]

In Bruges, two scenes were very powerful for me. The first, about half an hour into the movie, the flashback sequence when Colin Ferrell assassinates the bishop, and he finds out he's accidentally killed a little boy. The second,

Spoiler

Near the end, when Ralph Fiennes had killed Jimmy the dwarf, but think's he's also killed a little boy, kills himself on the spot after saying, "A man's got to stick to his principles."

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

The opening/ending to Saving Private Ryan. Truly moving, the sacrifice of many for just one man.

THAT. They put 8 men to save one man... They put their asses, Tits, And penises on the line for one man. ONE MAN. Hell they lose a few men along the way...(Okay quite a few.I think the doctor dies first though? Or vin diesel?)

Awesome moment from Saving Private Ryan...Pistol>Tank.Pistol kill tank.

 

[stompy]

Pistol>Tank.Pistol kill tank.

That reminds me of Brothers in Arms. I know it isn't a movie, but still, the bit when Leggart loses is and unloads a clip into a tank, only to get half his body blown away from a tank shell, was an extremely moving bit in the game.

 

[Ronin_14-47]

Man, all these nerds, and NO ONE'S THOUGHT OF THIS!!! Call me crazy, but I think the most powerful moment in movie history is the "redemption" scene from Return of the Jedi. You know, when Vader finally takes out the Emperor? That's it, end of discussion. Just as powerful for me now when I was a kid. It really represents a lot of powerful emotions, and made us all love Vader.

 

[mark_n_b]

American Beauty where Lester realizes he is truly happy with his life right before he dies.

That is a truly beautiful moment in film that moves me every time.

 

[alwaysrockon]

i doubt anyone has ever seen the movie oldboy, but
all of it. it is one of the greatist movies of all time.
the end, well if it dosn't destroy, then your a friggen monster