# Men: Movie scenes that seriously choke you up. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911 "2014-10-20T13:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/101 "2014-10-23T13:12:38Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Wow. Now _ **that’s** _ commitment, that’s marriage, that’s devotion. There was a scene in the TV show LOST where one part of a couple was trapped in a sinking submarine(they had a child who was not with them but in the care of relatives) and they decide to go down together, it is played as this really romantic and epic scene. My wife said what kind of shit is that, the trapped one should punch the free one in the face and say you are not dieing with me someone has to raise our kid. I laughed because I agreed 100%, I assumed the writers didn’t have kids(I don’t know if they do). ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/102 "2014-10-23T13:41:11Z")
Age: 31. GRE: Approx. 5. _Barry Lyndon_. Every time. Every goddamn time. And I’ve seen it more than a dozen times. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/103 "2014-10-23T13:56:12Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Wow. Now _ **that’s** _ commitment, that’s marriage, that’s devotion. Does it make me a bad person to think in his mind he was saying “Ten fucking minutes to myself, was that too much to ask?” ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/104 "2014-10-23T21:12:17Z")
**Empire of the Sun** , just after the attack on the airfield when Jim tells the doctor he can’t remember what his parents look like and the final reunion scene. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/105 "2014-10-24T04:36:35Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Does it make me a bad person to think in his mind he was saying “Ten fucking minutes to myself, was that too much to ask?” Yes! 😃 You asshole, you. 😃 That was pretty funny, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/106 "2014-10-24T05:20:33Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That really didn’t have an effect on me. It wasn’t exactly a surprise. The part that chokes me up is a little [earlier](http://www.anyclip.com/movies/apollo-13/ken-in-the-simulator/#!quotes/) when Marilyn is trying to tell Jim’s senile mother the bad news. Not nearly as tear jerking as when grandma pulls it together just long enough to tell her worried grandson not to worry “if they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy can land it.” Opie should have the good fortune to direct another scene as subtle and powerful. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/107 "2014-10-24T05:49:47Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Not nearly as tear jerking as when grandma pulls it together just long enough to tell her worried grandson not to worry “if they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy can land it.” Opie should have the good fortune to direct another scene as subtle and powerful. What was cool was that was Ron Howard’s mother. Checked IMDB and was surprised to learn that [she had a long career as an actress.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397362/reference) ---
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/108 "2014-10-24T06:59:28Z")
In “life is beautiful” when Benigni told his son don’t come out as he knew the nazis were taking him away to kill him. Then right after, their concentration camp was liberated. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/109 "2014-10-24T07:07:14Z")
Another vote for ROTK, “My friends! You bow to NO ONE!” Gets me every time. And this from a 56 year old surly curmudgeon who laughs in the face of death, sneers at doom, and chuckles at catastrophe. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/110 "2014-10-24T11:08:30Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > Age: 31. > > GRE: Approx. 5. > > _Barry Lyndon_. Every time. Every goddamn time. And I’ve seen it more than a dozen times. Which scene? When his young child dies? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/111 "2014-10-24T17:19:39Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > **Enter the Dragon** - When Bruce has to reluctantly break Chuck’s neck. That would be _Way of the Dragon_, released in the USA under the title _Return of the Dragon._ _Enter the Dragon_ was the one with John Saxon and Jim Kelly. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/112 "2014-10-24T18:42:28Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Another vote for ROTK, “My friends! You bow to NO ONE!” Gets me every time. > > And this from a 56 year old surly curmudgeon who laughs in the face of death, sneers at doom, and chuckles at catastrophe. And that scene makes me cry from embarrassment every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/114 "2014-10-24T19:16:17Z")
42, GER 5 Apollo 13 reentry, Shawshank redemption on a happy emotional level One Flew Over The Cuckoos nest , various LOTR scenes When watching a movie on an aircraft the GER rockets to a 10, I watched Draft day and felt quite emotional. Something wired about the altitude I guess. ---
**Author:** ![thevillager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@thevillager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thevillager)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911/115 "2014-10-24T22:51:49Z")
Well I’m 25; G.E.R. anverage. There has been only one film that really made me cry: **Dead Man Walking**. When Sean Penn is going to be executed. The music especially makes this one of my favourite scenes I have ever seen in a movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-movie-scenes-that-seriously-choke-you-up/701911.md?page=5)