Most heartwrenching scene...

[Chips]

JohnQ when he had the gun against his head and he fired it but had the safety on

[Szlia]

How well a movie can *work* on me really depends on my mood when I see it... for example if I a bit depressed, I know I'll cry every 2 min in an episode of ER (I stopped watching the serie a while back but I just caught the other day that episode with Green's father dying and Hataway leaving to meet Ross... oh boy did I cry... ER is hand down the best written tv serie I ever saw, sharing this spot with Dream On).

Other than that I am easily touched but I rarely cry at movies. The empathy one can develop toward the characters is so superior in TV series...

[beepbeepbeep]

Most heartwrenching scene:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

You know that scene, where they lower the guy down on the thingy, and the freaky witch doctor guy shoves his hand into the guys chest and pulls it out?

[BigMovieBuff]

Life as a house got me pretty good.

[tasdamon]

wow you guys have just about covered all bases. But, what about the hidden ending to clerks, where that dude that Randall was screwing with who says he'll be back comes back and shoots Dante and robs the place. Then it ends....that scene then a black screen....wow. I cussed Kevin Smith for even thinking that he could end that awesome movie like that.

[Nazbuk]

This is crazy and no one will probably agree with me, but Return of the Jedi. At the end when Luke is torching his father Darth Vader. Man what a sucky moment. You redeam your father only to have him die on you. I get a little teary.

All the other ones are good. My girlfriend wants me to rent I am Sam and I'm worried it'll be a tear jerker.

[200MPHBMW]

I agree with the Return of the Jedi. Another scene in that movie is also really powerful, the scene when Yoda dies. "Strong with the Force, am I, but not that strong. Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall, such is the way of things, the way of the Force... When gone am I, the last of the Jedi you will be." Just sad because Yoda is the last true Jedi, as Luke isn't a Jedi yet at this point in the movie.

[xmortal]

Ever since i had my daughter, what gets me is Patriotic moments,

My biggest tear jerkers:

Armageddon - When they're walking in front of the flag on their way to the ship

Braveheart - FREEEEEEDOM!!

Gladiator - the final arena battle, and the final scene

The Patriot - The final battle when he takes up the flag and charges forward.

Biggest one of all for me:

Independance day... the presidents speach before the final batlle on the airfield.

[Gathrid]

I consciously avoid sad / depressing movies. I have for most of my life. Entertainment for me should leave me feeling upbeat or, at least, amused otherwise it's sort of pointless. I mean the sad stuff finds me often enough, why would I go looking for it?

That said, the ones that get me include;

the last episode of Cowboy Bebop, the end of that series was pretty unexpected for me.

The end of Tombstone where Doc tells Wyatt "If you're my friend, you'll leave."

The tragic hero always gets me. The guy that wins but dies doing it, triumphs, but in triumph loses the girl, lives up to his principles but loses something inexpressibly precious in doing so.

Entertainment should always be the unreal for me. "The bad guy gets stepped, and the girl gets the hero" style of thing.

Watching something just as messed up as occurs in life, I've never understood the appeal in that.

G

[Animale]

Henry V Saint Crispian (sp?) speech (particularly Kenneth's version, but Olivier's isn't bad either)
Any other movie that speech has been used in.

The bard at his best.

Animale

[Furor Planedefiler]

You pussies.

With that said, remember the scene in 'Beverly Hills Ninja,' where Chris Farley is rocking back and forth on that palm tree in order to catapult himself into the factory? Gets me every damn time...

[Peny]

Ending to Platoon had me crying.

From Forrest Gump I think most emotional for me was the scene when he first saw his son. After this rather funny moment with "He's got a daddy named Forrest too?" when he asks "Is he...?" and Jenny assures him that he's a very normal, bright boy.
Tom Hanks rules.

Ending to Bonnie and Clyde was so sad and cruel to me as a 10-12 year old kid that I was crying histerically. So many bullet holes in that car

E.T. - big tear jerking ending for a kid so young as I was then


I forgot the name of the movie, but the one with Julia Roberts where she was taking care of a guy with leukemia, very depressing love story.

Well... Love Story! Who didn't cry after this one?

I need Kleenex now

[Synd D`nys]

Furor is a big softy. I bet he watches Fried Green Tomatos when no one is looking.

[DiscW]

For me:

The end of braveheart

The last parts of Requiem for a Dream

And just about the entire goddamned length of Grave of the Fireflies. That has to be the saddest movie ever made.

[Ecksi]

The most heartwrenching scene i've ever seen was from Fist of the North Star. Ken was viciously poked to near death by his arch rival, Goiter man.

We see Ken laying down on cot. Time has passed, he has a stupid looking beard but his hair hasn't grown (must have something to do with the Japanese and tentacles.) There are people around him i've never seen.

Cut to biker gang raiding the city where our hero is sleeping. They start killing people, while searching suitcases for food and water. They open the cases to find only money and diamonds, and are very angry (see this is post-apocalyptic, so diamonds and money have no value, which they love to rub in your face, thats why these people have suitcases and suitcases of diamonds and money.)

Well all of the sudden, off in the distance, you see a brown figure. He walks his horribly misproportionate body towards the village, punching down buildings.

Cut to a close up of the mysterious figure. The brown shit is coming off his body, lo and behold.. its KEN! He is clean shaven, and somehow warps to the village from miles away after warping out of the village to become a golem or something. I cant remember if blue shit is coming off his body at this time, I'll have to get back to you on that one.

So Ken starts punching these bikers in the face and we have a nice three or four second screen of thier heads exploding, eyeballs first. (This part was so violent, it is rumored that they had to blur the exploding people, I've only seen the blured version, I will pay up to 5 USD or 5,000,000,000 Y for the pre-nerf edition)

We now see Ken standing over piles of corpses with no heads. From the corner of the screen there is... ONE MORE BIKER! He is the leader of the biker gang apparently, because he starts at a mere 10 feet tall, and grows to be about 30 when Ken explodes his face.

I cried the first time I saw this, whether it was out of pain or sadness I know not. I thought that maybe the biker and Ken could have worked out thier differences.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling lonely, I like to blare the horribly translated song from FONS. I would like to share with you the lyrics...

*Bad ASS synth beat starts, similar sounding to Rockey*
Koniche Laca(sp?) for a Long long time...
UH-OH;
Standing in the heart of darkness;
OH-OH;
Feer my pain, feer my energies; (probably supposed to be feel)
OH-OH;

Rinse and repeat x10


In short, guys, dont watch this movie in front of your friends, it tends to make one overflowing with emotions.