most emotionally devasting moment in film

[acoustix]

I only really get emotional in sports movies for some reason. Remember the Titans has my all time worst heart-wrenching scene after the car wreck when the black kid (don't remember his name) has to go in to the hospital room to see his newly paralyzed friend.

Ending of Rudy of course is up there.

Ending of 61* when they show the conference after Macgwire beatrs Maris' record and he says something to the order of "They showed me Roger's bat and I touched it with my heart" kills me everytime. Probably because they spend the whole time showing what Maris went through to break the record, and then use the actual conference footage at the end. That whole movie is beautiful on everybody's part.

Ending of the Natural more just makes me feel really good when he is rounding the bases with the sparks raining down.

Even the end of A League of Their Own chokes me up when they are walking through the hall of fame looking at the pictures.

[revots33]

Red-coated girl in Schindler's List. Absolutely devastating.

Also end scene of same movie when they show the surviving descendents of the Schindler Jews.

[BigPoppa]

People have metnioned the knifing in Saving Private Ryan, but I get far more affected by the death of Irwin Wade (the medic). He was by far the most likeable guy in the crew, and this was shortly after he'd talked about his mother being a doctor and her coming home late at night.


There are several scenes in Band of Brothers that always get me, but especially the one in the Battle of the Bulge episode when the Cajun medic returns to Bastogne and finds the emergency hospital blown up and his nurse friend likely dead. That one just kills me.

[sethypooh21]

For some reason "I would like to have seen Montana" from Hunt for Red October gets me.

[phiphika1453]

OLD YELLER... hands down.

[midnightpulp]

Oh, and how can I forget every moment in "Cries and Whispers."

Which I think is Bergman's uber-masterpiece.

[R*R]

For me it was several years ago...when I was a teen. My all-time favorite actor(Steve McQueen) was in the movie and imo it was one of the greatest movies ever made with an even more amazing cast. Two scenes. The first is when Roger Bartlett( played by Richard Attenborough) was shot down trying to climb the fence. The second was when Colin Blythe (played by Donald Pleasance), defenseless with blindness, was shot and killed.

[JTrout]

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[KotOD]

Hamchunk in "Green Berets" looking for "My Peterson".

Crushing.

[sonneti]

It's been mentioned a few times already, the knifing in Saving Private Ryan.

The Clip: (Watch the entire film if you havent seen it already)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxpSSJBwW0