Most emotionally affecting moment in a movie or show

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MUTT999

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:02 PM

How "The Body" didn't win an Emmy is beyond me. Many scenes were mentioned, but to me the most powerful scene was in Dawn's art class. The conversation between Dawn and her friend, the look on the teacher's face when Buffy arrives, and finally the hallway scene between Buffy and Dawn. Strong stuff.

"That's the buffet table....."

BLUEHANDTWOBYTWO

Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:02 AM

Here's some of my weep-fests:
TITANIC -when she lets Jack slide into the water and at the end when she 'reunites' with him in death.
THE ABYSS -when Ed Harris is trying to bring his wife back to life after she drowned
BIG FISH -when the estranged son tells his dying father a 'tall tale' as the old man lays in his death bed.
A.I. -when the mother abandons the android in the forest and also when he is finally able to 'bring her back for a day' in the far future.
E.T. -when Elliot says goodbye to the 'dead' ET and then again when he finally leaves.
THE IRON GIANT -animated, when the Giant realizes what he must do to save the city and says goodbye to the little boy.
SIXTH SENSE-Haley Joel's "grandmother" speech to his mother at the end as they sit in the car and he reveals his secret to her for the first time.

I'm sure there's LOTS more but those are the first ones that come to mind. I cry at just about every emotionally-manipulated movie moment there is. I cried during Color Purple and Mulan Rouge and Return of the King ("my friends, you bow to no one") and Mask and Edward Scissorhands and The Sound of Music and What's Eating Gilbert Grape and on and on. Hell, I even remember crying once at the end of King Kong when Jessica Lange reached out to touch him as he lay dying on the sidewalk and you hear his heartbeat drop slower and slower. (my father asked me what the hell was I crying for? It's only a movie! "because all he did was love her and now he's dead" I wept. I think I was still in high school!) lol
Sigh.
Think I'll go watch something cheery like "American Beauty" now that I'm in the right mood. lol
~LarryL

WORKEROFEVIL

Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:22 AM

Hotel Rwanda. Pretty much every scene. Some that stand out are when Don Cheadle's character (whose name I can't remember because I'm bad with names) is driving back to the hotel along a foggy river road and the van hits some bumps. When he and the driver get out the fog clears and they see the WHOLE road as far as they can see is covered in slaughtered bodies. Also when the French nuns and priests from the orphanage come to the hotel to be evacuated and find out none of the Rwandans are allowed to leave with them and they have to get on the bus and drive away pretty much knowing they're leaving all these people to be slaughtered. That is such a hard movie to watch. Just remembering it is affecting me. Those scenes and many, many more throughout the movie are extremely powerful.

TERRYO

Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:57 AM

Interesting thread...especially after last night's AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes (or something like that). It made me realize that while there are some great movies, I prefer tv most of the time.

The obligatory FF mention - last scenes of The Message. The snow, Kaylee listening to the tape, wow. (But you can't beat OOG for whole episode emotion.)

I am now going to prove how bad my taste in tv is.

The last scene of Blakes 7 - Star One where Blake says to Avon, "I have always trusted you." Oh my. Second favorite, Blake and the death of a crew member. Does a 25 year old show merit spoiler warnings?

Farscape - final scene of Season 4. It's a good thing I had quit watching the show half-way through the second season's first run because if I had had to wait longer than 3 months for the mini-series, I would have gone nuts. (Spent the holiday break watching a friend's dvds.)

ST:TOS - it doesn't get me quite as much anymore but once in a while I still get chills when Kirk says "Let's get the hell out of here" in COTEOF.

ST:TNG - where Picard is talking about being tortured by the Cardassians and how many lights he saw.

ST:DS9 - the one with Molly, stands out in my memory. Also Dr Bashir, I Presume.

Babylon 5 - Rewatching years after, I am struck by the whole journey of Londo Mollari. Seeing him with the children after becoming Emperor; watching Centauri Prime burn - truly riveting. Also in B5, Ivanova after Marcus died, G-Kar losing his eye, Michael York in A Late Delivery... moments that still resonate.

Kung Fu - Dark Angel, Blood of the Dragon, Battle Hymn - I need 3rd season to come out.

Lonseome Dove: The Series, The List (Mosby finds the man who killed his wife) and in The Outlaw Years, when Call returns to Curtis Wells to find his friend. Retooling didn't work, but it was dramatic.

Dr Who (2005) Parting of the Ways - Christopher Eccleston is incredible, haven't loved Who this much since Tom Baker. Very angsty and shippy.

Buffy - the end of Once More With Feeling, okay - all of season 6 had me glued to the tv. See, you can't just die and be resurrected without consequences. I loved it but I can see how viewers who were fans from the beginning might hate it.

And finally, since it's time to log off, the end of Angel with Wesley and Fred and Lorne and Lindsay. Lorne surprised me. Wesley and Fred made me cry.

As for movies, I thought I was the only one who bought movies and then didn't watch them because they are a little too much for comfortable viewing.

Terry (who didn't even get to non-SF shows like 24)

AMYGDALA

Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:47 AM

Most of the emotionally affecting moments in films or tv you can kind of reconcile in your brain - make them somehow okay, meant to be or whatever. Not this one from angel season five, which to me made it just that much more heartbreaking.

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I made it through "A Hole in the World", didn't ever really believe Fred would die, even when she did, thought they'd somehow bring her back. It was the end of the next episode when you know it's all over (soul all gone too), and they cut back to her driving to LA, all sweet and innocent with that hopeful expression on her face.

Killed me. Just. not. okay.

I think part of the reason was that there seemed to be no good reason for it - you can try and rationalise it, but in the end it was just to give Amy Acker more range to play. And because Alexis Denisof does suffering so damn well.

TERRYO

Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:44 PM

I hadn't paid much attention to AD in Buffy but as soon as the Connor storyline started on Angel I sat up and paid *very* close attention. :-)

Angel S5 was incredible, still can't believe they cancelled it when it was that good.

Terry

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Originally posted by amygdala:
Most of the emotionally affecting moments in films or tv you can kind of reconcile in your brain - make them somehow okay, meant to be or whatever. Not this one from angel season five, which to me made it just that much more heartbreaking.
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give Amy Acker more range to play. And because Alexis Denisof does suffering so damn well.

WHITEFALL

Monday, June 27, 2005 8:33 PM

There have been times when things hit me, I thought about them for weeks, but now none come to mind.

But still, every time I watch Firefly, Objects in Space specifically, I see River in the spacesuit on early's ship, and that whole monologue is so beautiful, the way Summer gives it so soulfully, and you know River the character, in her strange mind, knows at once that this is true, but that it is a scam, and so she can be completely serious.

The line "I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early" "and i'll just fade away"... everything leading up to that and after it, as River is in tears... every time I watch it I get sorta choked up, at what is essentially the prospect of losing River to this fate that she chose, it's so selfless and so sad, and also makes me scared of what the movie will do, since apparently people die a lot in joss shows.

"Some people juggle geese!" -Ancient Chinese proverb.

CALLYGAL

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:34 AM

Okay, not sure if this makes sense to anyone but me, but in LOTR, the lighting of the torches from Gondor to Rohan always makes me catch my breath. Think its the understanding that we are so tiny, there's just this thread of fire, then "Gondor calls for aid" "Rohan will answer". *looks around* no-one?

More conventionally - the shot of Angel, Xander and Buffy in Prophect Girl when Buffy's in her white dress like a sacrifice, soaked, just back from the 'dead' but you know she's on her way to kick butt. Also Intervention, the last scene with Buffy and Spike. The end of The Gift. Chosen "no you don't, but thanks for saying it" and not letting go til he made her, even though her hands were burning. Sorry, am a B/S shipper...

Angel: Hole in the World made my cry like nothing had in ages. "why can't I stay?". And the last ep, the last scene. Totally undone.

Star Wars: ESB - Han going into the carbon freeze. I was little, Han was a very early crush, and his "I know" which shouldn't be romantic, always gets me.

Firefly: OOG - "you all gonna be here when I wake up?" I read the transcripts before I could buy the DVDs, then found the audioclip of just that bit, and listened to it a million times before I bought the DVDs. Now that I can see it with Wash's (Wash of all people!) giving Mal such a sympathetic look, and Mal's relief at being able to sleep when Book says yes, its so much better! Really gets across that Mal loves them all, even though he doesn't always show it.

Fight Club and The Matrix in a less crying place. And The Amber Spyglass as a book. "we have to build the kingdom of heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere". Understanding that we can't live our lives saying that it'll be better after this one, we have to live well now. (not unlike Angel - "if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do")

I'm not nice. I'm just highly susceptible to guilt

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, December 4, 2022 9:37 PM

I thought these shows were kinda stupid

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 5:32 AM

Also not sci-fi:
Rudy. When the Team Captain sets his jersey on the Coaches desk, says he does not need to play the next game, and the Coach can lend his jersey to Rudy for the final game. Followed by every starting player on the team, doing the same. Until the coach has a stack of star player's jerseys overflowing his desk.

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