Most emotionally affecting moment in a movie or show

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 3, 2005 12:48 AM

More on topic:

Anyone remember Beast Wars? As a show made for children it has no parallel. I remember when Dinobot died.

The things never had to die, when they became damaged to a certain point they just shut down and were repaired later, but here was this one guy (semi-organic robot, whatever) in the middle of a battle and he hit that point. There was no backup close enough so if he shut down he’d lose.

If he lost the future would be changed.

So he died to save a species he didn’t like (humanity) and protect a future in which his people (predicons) are second class, constantly degraded every possible moment and never shown the least bit of respect. He did it because it was the right thing to do.

It was made more powerful by the fact that the whole series had these guys being blown up and such, but none of them died because none of them had to die, but he chose to die rather than compromise his morals.

When I saw it I cried, but then again I was younger than.

CHRISISALL

Friday, June 3, 2005 12:50 AM

Jeez. Cult is right. You guys take this 'show' a little too seriously, I think. Watch and enjoy, but it's just a show.
What do you have? Like a six-foot model of Serenity in your living room to worship or something?

Mine's in the bedroom, the living room's too small Chrisisall

MANWITHPEZ

Friday, June 3, 2005 12:54 AM

Chrisisall vs Christhecynic...Give them lightsabres, but onyl so they can light cigarettes to make themselves look more macho! Are you ready? Are you ready...LET's GET IT ON!!!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 3, 2005 1:01 AM

I don't smoke, sorry. But I do have cool lighters. I have this one that I got in Florence, Italy -made in China- in addition to a cool little red LED that shines through the lighter fluid when it’s open its also got the fact it’s a triple lighter going for it.

Turn up the flame all the way and it’s a trident of fire, the middle flame at about a foot long.

GUNRUNNER

Friday, June 3, 2005 1:02 AM

In Ariel when Jayne is in the Airlock. Every time I see that scene I mutter, “Don’t do it Mal your not a murderer” under my breath.

In ‘A Bridge Too Far’ there is a part where a group of British Paratroopers is cut off from their landing zone by the Germans, they are running low on ammo and all their supplies are being dropped on the Germans then one crate lands just barely out of reach. They are about to give up one solder steps forward and runs out to retrieve the crate. He lifts the crate on his back and starts to run back and everyone is cheering him on when the Germans shoot him dead, the crate brakes open showing its filled with nothing but hats. I was teary eyed the rest of the night.

In ‘Apocalypse Now’ Charlie Sheen and this other guy are walking in this trench looking for the commander of this isolated base. He asks two guys who’s the CO. They respond, “Aren’t you?” We then hear this enemy solider trapped on the barbed wire yelling curses at them, the one guy with grenade launcher and a blank look on his face steps forward, listens for a moment and pops off a grenade there is an explosion and the yelling stops. Sheen asks the guy with the grenade launcher if he knows who the CO is, he responds “yea…” and walks away. When Sheen gets back to the gunboat the Chief asks him if he found the CO, Sheen says there’s no one in charge here. It just shows how people can just become nothing when cut off from the world, reminds anyone of something from Firefly?

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 3, 2005 1:08 AM

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Originally posted by GunRunner:
In Ariel when Jayne is in the Airlock. Every time I see that scene I mutter, “Don’t do it Mal your not a murderer” under my breath.

The part of that scene that seems to best represent the human condition to me is when Jayne asks Mal to make something up.

SWITCHY

Friday, June 3, 2005 3:24 AM

forgive me for jumping the track in a non-scifi direction but I recently saw the movie Crash (2005) and there is a scene that had me ramping up to weep like a baby and then suddenly everything was ok. It was the strangest sensation I've had in a cinema in quite a long time. I won't bother spoiling the scene for anyone but I tell you there is some heavy shit going on in that movie.

ROCKETJOCK

Friday, June 3, 2005 4:11 AM

Casablanca, the Marseillaise scene, for so damn many reasons it's hard to list them all:
-The matching scowls on the faces of Victor Lazlo and Rick Blaine as they watch the Nazis singing Die Wacht am Rhein;
-Lazlo's near-holy determination as he orders the band to play his lost homeland's anthem;
-Rick's curt nod to the band okaying the song --
-More on that: Bogart's expression is indescribable; Rick doesn't understand why he's doing this -- it's crazy to bait the Nazis, he knows that -- yet somehow he can't go against Lazlo.

And that's why this scene is the film's centerpiece; for the first time in the movie, the viewer understands what Ilsa see in Lazlo, why she had to leave Rick behind. Because at that moment Victor Lazlo shines as a force of nature.

While Rick Blaine may be the movie's protagonist, at that moment Victor Lazlo is its hero -- and it isn't until the story's end that Rick manages to reclaim the title.

If you've never seen Casablanca, for Ghod's sake, rent it, buy it, borrow it. And Ghod, I envy you -- seeing it for the first time.

"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? It's somebody who gets somebody else killed." -- Zoë Warren

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 3, 2005 4:31 AM

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Originally posted by switchy:
forgive me for jumping the track in a non-scifi direction

Since the second post this has been open to sci fi and non-sci fi alike. You've nothing to apologize for.

PURPLEBELLY

Friday, June 3, 2005 5:26 AM

That's my good girl Kaylee Fry: Serenity - the episode.
The first Firefly I saw was the second half of the pilot, so I had no real idea what was going on - this moment just reached me beyond the narrative; it may be that machines mean more to me than people.
Mind you, Jewel did have those extra pounds

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