Makes me misty every time.
Posted on 06/21/2011 8:44:55 AM PDT by Scythian
This scene, when I saw it for the first time as a kid, cut deep, still moves me today:
Death of a Soldier ...
A dying wish given without words, a simple pleasure, the last memory of home, a smoke of tobacco.
What are some of the ones you remember ?
Technically, it wasn’t a movie, but the last scene in “War and Remembrance”, when Natalie finally finds her son probably made me weep more than anything I’ve ever seen.
Makes me misty every time.
In “Apocalypse Now”; when Robert Duval is crouching on the beach and says “I love the smell of napalm in the morning, that gasoline smell, smells like victory, this wars going to end someday...”
This expands on that point and others from the film;
5 Reasons The Greatest Movie Villain Ever is a ‘Good’ Witch
http://www.cracked.com/article_18881_5-reasons-greatest-movie-villain-ever-good-witch.html
Most touching movie scene was when Maggot went nuts in “The Dirty Dozen.”
This is THE most touching scene in any movie. The whole movie is just weird without that one line, but that one line ties everything together. Forgiveness. Reconcilliation. Deep wounds healed. It's just gotta be what heaven is like
Even Chuck Norris cries when he sees it.
Just once I wish I could see Jim Brown make it to the truck.
1) Marley and Me - where Owen Wilson’s character takes the dog to the vet to be put down.....I could hardly watch it because I was crying so badly.
2) Contact - where Jody Foster’s character sees an image of her “dad” on the beach and he tells her about human existence which sort of breaks her very rigid scientific beliefs
I got dragged to that movie when I was just a kid. The whole
theater was crying. I had tears in my eyes. Mahalia Jackson
singing and the realization of of the daughter of her error,
never to be made good was a bit too much.
Also, the scene in the Good,Bad, and Ugly where Eastwood,
puts a warm jacket on, and gives a few puffs of his cigar to
the dying soldier just before the soldier dies was pretty
touching also. Not to mention Ennio Morricones score.
both good ones
“Fill your hands you sonofabitch!” yelled Rooster.
True Grit... best movie ever!
How could I also forget!
3) Seven Pounds - the very end when Will Smith’s character repaid his final debt....I cried for at least 30 minutes after the movie was over
King of Hearts -- When the grandfahter ies and wakes up in heaven as a little boy and starts running down the road and sees her mother open the door to the house with open arms.
Peter Ibbetsen - When Gary Cooper realizes that his love is dying in their dream and that she cant keep up the dream. ( They would meet in their dreams..)
Vanilla Sky - I wont reveal the end in case you havent seen it. But it was very heartbreaking..
The Patriot, when Mel Gibson’s youngest daughter - who is deliberately silent, already traumatized by the death of her mother a short time before and handling her father leaving to fight in the Revolution by refusing to speak to him - runs after him sobbing “Papa, papa, I’ll say anything! Please don’t go!”
The tears flow every time.
Near the end of “Godfather II”, when Kay tells Michael that she aborted their son. The look on his face! I cried. I still cry when I see that scene.
Well, either that or the scene at the end of "An Officer and a Gentleman" where Richard Gere scoops up Debra Winger and takes her out of the factory.
I cried like a baby through it.
What a fantastic movie that was.
Out of Africa, when Karen is at the funeral for Finch-Hatton, and she clutches the clump of dirt to her chest and walks away instead of tossing it on the casket. And then later, when she gets the letter telling her that lions have started to use the gravesite to look over the valley, and she says “Dennis would have liked that. I have to remember to tell him.”
Great, now I’ll be sobbing for the next 15 min.
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