SADDEST MOVIE MOMENT (spoilers)

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soylent greenish

June 11, 2003, 05:16:06 AM
im new here so im not sure if this topic has been burnt out or not.
but what cinematic moment is most saddest to you.

for me it's when chris ( robin williams ) realizes that Leona, the flight attendent, is really his daughter. in WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

the greater part of the movie is crap.  but for some reason i cry buckets everytime i see that scene. :cry:

Cecil

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June 11, 2003, 07:02:36 AM
spoilers (requiem for a dream, platoon)

i know there are many others that im forgetting, but the "old" monologue in requiem for a dream, as well as harry and marions last phone conversation, and the last scene of the movie (sarah with the red dress...) always make me cry.

willem dafow getting shot down in platoon also makes me cry... the bulk of born on the fourth of july as well.

plenty more.... cant really remember (not sure i want to)

MacGuffin

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June 11, 2003, 08:20:58 AM
In "Dumbo" when he goes to visit his locked up mother, and she swings him in her trunk.
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phil marlowe

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June 11, 2003, 08:41:19 AM
the horse who's slowsly sinking to death in the never ending story. beautiful just beautiful.

children with angels

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June 11, 2003, 08:49:49 AM
Quote from: MacGuffinIn "Dumbo" when he goes to visit his locked up mother, and she swings him in her trunk.

Totally.
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June 11, 2003, 08:49:55 AM
When Costner asks his dad to play catch in Field Of Dreams. For some reason I can't help crying everytime I see this.
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BonBon85

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June 11, 2003, 09:15:10 AM
I agree with Cecil on the Requiem stuff, and I'll add a few scenes in Dancer in the Dark as well as the Stanley has to go to the bathroom scene in Magnolia. The Wise Up sequence gets me too.

Sigur Rós

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June 11, 2003, 09:19:09 AM
Requiem for a Dream: The scene where Harry calls Marrion from prison. That's pretty damn sad!

Sleuth

#8
June 11, 2003, 09:20:31 AM
Cecil stole my emotions from the "most powerful scenes" thread and he should be banned

But also I think we're all forgetting Bambi...
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Gold Trumpet

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June 11, 2003, 09:22:40 AM
In Hillary and Jackie, when Emily Watson's character of a musical genius has been reduced down to a non understanding, half retarted woman because of the mental abuse she suffered through her life and they show her back in a musical orchestra of sorts when her job is to just hit a tamberine at a specific moment and she misses it. She smiles embarassingly and hits it. Then they show a flashback of her to a little girl and missing that same part, but not because of her mental incapabilities, but because she wasn't pushed to death yet to strive for musical excellence. Don't know if I should admit it, but I cried for a half hour after seeing that one moment and this was prolly 3 years ago and I haven't watched the movie since.

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Sigur Rós

#10
June 11, 2003, 09:24:15 AM
Titanic! The scene where Leo dies  :cry:

chainsmoking insomniac

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June 11, 2003, 09:27:05 AM
Wow.  :(

The final scene in American Beauty, when we see Kevin Spacey's dead smile as the blood spills from his head, kinda got me.  And the monologue that followed....

And Apollo 13, when the heroes return from space.....don't know why, but I got teary-eyed.  

Also in Amelie, in the final scene where she and her soul mate just made love for the first time and she's so happy....kinda tear-jerked me a bit too, but mainly because I wanted to be the dude in bed with her  :-D

But all of those moments you posted above got to me at some point, especially Dumbo.
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Ghostboy

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June 11, 2003, 11:17:33 AM
Quote from: Phil Marlowethe horse who's slowsly sinking to death in the never ending story. beautiful just beautiful.

When I saw that movie for the first time, when I was like five, that scene freaked me out and disturbed me  so much that my mom had to turn the movie off, and I didn't see it again until just a few years ago.

Oh, and Edward Scissorhands always has done the trick. Monsters Inc is joining the rank. But the number one movie to make me cry will always and forever be E.T. When they zap him with the defilibrator and there's the perfect cut to Gertie sobbing...that's the breaking point.

Pubrick

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June 11, 2003, 11:18:09 AM
Quote from: The Gold Trumpethalf retarted woman because of the mental abuse she suffered through her life
i think multiple sclerosis had something to do with that.

Quote from: mogwaiThe end of 'Planes, trains & automobiles'.
yes! oh man, warms up the ticker don't it.

for me: forrest gump "i might not be a smart man, but i know what love is" and then he runs out into the rain. that always makes me do the old "there's sumthin in my eye".
under the paving stones.

Sigur Rós

#14
June 11, 2003, 11:19:15 AM
Quote from: Pfor me: forrest gump "i might not be a smart man, but i know what love is" and then he runs out into the rain. that always makes me do the old "there's sumthin in my eye".

Damn, you are SO rite!
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