Which Film Scene has got you. I mean REALLY got you ?

[Uncle Spielberg]

For me, it's the early 70s sci fi film Silent Running.
It's about a botanist on a space station who is in charge of the last of earths plant life, ends up killing himself.
Very grim story for a Disney film...
Dunno what it is, maybe it's a strong reminder of being a really young kid when I first saw it, but when I saw it again in the mid 90s (I was about 25), it destroyed me. I couldn't get a grip for a couple or more hours.
I still can't watch it now.
There's a song in it called 'Rejoice In The Sun by Joan Baez. Just ruins me when it comes on in the film.
I must confess that I refused to watch Schindlers List with my flat mate & his lady. I booked in to watch it on my own as I knew I was going to find it impossible not to blub.
Yeah, I must be too soft, but I like to think it maybe makes me more 'human' than some.

That is a GREAT call and here it is. Silent Running. MAGNIFICENT !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF05D-NJMU

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

The ending of Midnight Cowboy, where the Jon Voight character has been trying to get Dustin Hoffman's Ratzo Ritzo character to Florida as the climate will be good for his illness (TB?), only to have him die as they arrive at their final destination on the Greyhound Bus. The first film that ever made me cry, and that was 40 years ago.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Opening scene of Inglourious Basterds

or

Closing scene of Carrie

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

watership down got me as a child.

Definitely one of my favourite films back in childhood.
Yep... Used to do a job on me too... without fail.
My 6 year old loves it now, but when 'Bright eyes' comes on... nothing... & he's a sensitive kid. Me on the other hand...

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

That is a GREAT call and here it is. Silent Running. MAGNIFICENT !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF05D-NJMU

Thanks US.

Emotional scenes aside, such a superb sci fi film.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Thanks US.

Emotional scenes aside, such a superb sci fi film.

I LOVE this film. A GREAT call.

 

[BrickTamland]

Quite frankly I couldn't care less when a person dies in an film, but the second an animal is in a tiny bit of pain I'm an emotional WRECK. Saying that I didn't find War Horse remotely sad, then again it was a poor film. Can't bring myself to watch Marley and Me

 

[SeagullSongs]

Quite frankly I couldn't care less when a person dies in an film, but the second an animal is in a tiny bit of pain I'm an emotional WRECK. Saying that I didn't find War Horse remotely sad, then again it was a poor film. Can't bring myself to watch Marley and Me

I highly recommend going to watch War Horse live on stage, that was probably the closest anything has ever been to 'getting me'.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Quite frankly I couldn't care less when a person dies in an film, but the second an animal is in a tiny bit of pain I'm an emotional WRECK. Saying that I didn't find War Horse remotely sad, then again it was a poor film. Can't bring myself to watch Marley and Me

I thought War Horse was magnificent and very moving myself.

 

[BrickTamland]

I can see why people like War Horse, and can also see why it would be good live. Maybe I need to watch it again as I usually like Spielberg films. Possibly I was comparing it to the hype which is never a good idea as the hypes very rarely met.

 

[LargeHadronZugzwang]

Can never watch this without it having a profound effect. The one and only tears in the rain...

 

[Worthing exile]

Pearl Harbour near the end when the ship has sunk and hands are reaching upwards out of a barred window. They slowly sink back as the sailors drown.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Any from Hook

 

[Lady Whistledown]

You've got me going again now Edna and when she smooths the bed sheet down with her hand when there isn't any creases on it the poor women doesn't know which way to turn
All this playing out while Joni Mitchell is singing "both sides now" in the background

Exactly. If she keeled over in floods of tears it would have been bad enough, but the brilliance in the acting/directing comes from the way she tries to tough it out, takes a deep breath, and flap her hands to dry her running mascara so the kids can't see she's been crying.

There's so much I love about that movie. Colin the nerd when he arrives in Wisconsin & is surrounded by stunning women. The sex scenes between Martin Freeman & Joanna whatserface from Gavin & Stacey when they're talking about their holidays while filming porn scenes. The Hugh Grant on the stairs dance. And most of all when Andrew Lincoln turns up outside Keira Knightley's house after she's got married, and uses the cardboard signs to tell her he'll always love her even though he knows they can't ever be together

 

[Theatre of Trees]

The end of Plague Dogs if the rest of this film hasn't finished you off already.

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[glasfryn]

Girl in the red coat, Schindlers list.

strange that, me too
very distressing though

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Life is Beautiful (La vita e bella) - the scene where the dad is telling his son that everything that's happening is just a game. I'm struggling not to cry just thinking about it.

 

[HantsSeagull]

End of saving private Ryan. Every time.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Opening scene of Inglourious Basterds

This, this, this.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I think the last time I had a tear in my eye at the kino was My Girl when Culkin gets the mood stone back and it changed colour.