# Most Emotional Film Moments 1: Cool Runnings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220 "2003-03-05T11:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/41 "2003-03-09T23:58:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ender\_Will \* > **_On the Beach_ (No, not that DiCaprio film).** Of course not. DiCaprio’s was _The Beach_, not _On the Beach_ (although I bet some people would like to see DiCaprio involved in a film with a nuclear explosion in it). ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/42 "2003-03-10T01:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\*… > > Hmm, what else? OK, in _The Karate Kid_, in the tournament, when the boy goes into the “pelican” stance after getting kneecapped twice in a row by his opponent. I don’t know why, and it isn’t a “crying” sort of emotional moment, but it has strength nevertheless. \*\* It’s funny, I just watched this movie again for the first time in years because my wife had never seen it. The sequel(s) were crap but the first one has some good moments in it, and this is one of them. It is almost better the second or third time you see it, because you know that the Kid is actually thinking, and hasn’t panicked or lost his cool. It shows that he has learned things that are going to help in in real life, too. I would nominate: Spocks death in _Wrath of Khan_ The brief scene in _Fellowship of the Ring_ right after they run out of Moria into daylight. The scene in _Out of Africa_ when Meryl Streep is waiting for Robert Redford to come back in his plane, he is late, and then her ex-husband comes to see her. She realizes immediately what it means (Robert Redford has crashed his plane and is dead). ---
**Author:** ![ECJones29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ECJones29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ECJones29)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/43 "2003-03-10T02:47:55Z")
Can’t believe I’m the first to mention this one! I cry buckets every time! SCOUT: Hay, Boo! ATTICUS: Miss Jean Louise, may I present Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you. _later in that same scene. . ._ SCOUT: You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. 'Couldn’t if he was awake though. He wouldn’t let you. Another lump-in-the-throat scene: REV. SYKES: “Miss Jean Louise, Miss Jean Louise! Stand up! Your father’s passin’.” From SHERIFF TATE: “I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I’m still the Sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife!” And the closing narration by Kim Stanley as the grown-up Scout: “He (Atticus) would be in Jem’s room all night. And he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.” _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/44 "2003-03-10T04:14:41Z")
The end of **Black Hawk Down** when they were reading that letter from the dead sniper while they showed the names of all the dead soldiers. When he says “Give her a kiss from daddy”. Makes me teary eyed just thinking about someone reading my “didn’t-make-it-back-from-war” letter to my daughter because it has that exact same line in it. Guess you would have had to have written one to really feel it. ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/45 "2003-03-11T17:36:34Z")
Standing on the desks in _Dead Poets Society_ “Oh captain, my captain” (and very cheesy…) “Mavricks re-engaging sir” from _Top Gun_ NP: **Katatonia** - _Last Fair Deal Gone Down_ ---
**Author:** ![Sardaukar3925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Sardaukar3925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sardaukar3925)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/46 "2003-03-11T17:47:20Z")
The end of “Leon, the professional”. The closest I ever was to crying in a movie… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/47 "2003-03-11T18:10:35Z")
The last twenty minutes or so of Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream were very emotional. Before I saw that movie, I didn’t know how it was possible for people to cry at a movie. Those last scenes are very emotional and you can actually feel what those people are going through. The part that did it for me was when Marlon Wayans was laying on his bunk in that fetal position and it was then that you knew that things would never be the same for those people. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/48 "2003-03-11T18:19:42Z")
> [@](#): > > REV. SYKES: “Miss Jean Louise, Miss Jean Louise! Stand up! Your father’s passin’.” ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/49 "2003-03-11T18:19:42Z")
> [@](#): > > REV. SYKES: “Miss Jean Louise, Miss Jean Louise! Stand up! Your father’s passin’.” ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/50 "2003-03-11T18:21:46Z")
Sorry 'bout that. I had completely forgotten about that scene in TKAMB. Got me all choked up just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/51 "2003-03-11T19:09:44Z")
I never cry at movies, only 5 or 6 in my entire life have made me tear up. That said, **A.I. Artificial Intelligence** had me reduced to a quivering pile of goo for nearly the whole film, especially when David gets abandoned in the woods. (Roger Ebert said he simply couldn’t get emotionally attached to a character who is basically a machine. Obviously he’s never played “The Sims” for days on end.) **Empire of the Sun** got to me twice, first when Jim gets separated from his parents (hmm, notice a theme here?) and second after the war, when he’s reunited with his parents…_and they don’t recognize each other._ ---
**Author:** ![No\_Disguise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@No\_Disguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Disguise)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/52 "2003-03-12T02:39:04Z")
I third that Forrest Gump graveside scene. I don’t know why, but I probably cried (probably more than what was warranted) during that scene in A.I. when Teddy handed that annoying brat the lock of his mother’s hair. I think I was drunk from sleeplessness. ---
**Author:** ![HazyBaby33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HazyBaby33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazyBaby33)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/53 "2003-03-12T02:52:13Z")
At the very end of The Outsiders when the credits come on and Stevie Wonder’s song “Stay Gold” is playing… **sniff** ---
**Author:** ![lindarielle13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lindarielle13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindarielle13)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/54 "2003-03-12T05:32:19Z")
I cried a lot at Deep Impact, but not really at any particular scene. The ending bit of Instinct made me cry too. But probably the most moving scene in a movie is the part in Glory where Denzel Washington’s character is being whipped, and he just stands there with a single tear running down his face. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/55 "2003-03-12T06:58:47Z")
how about in “mask” when sam elliot’s character is describing when he took rocky and his mother to get rockys picture taken and how the photographer was shocked by rocky’s face but his mother was beaming with pride and love as she watched, and he tells rocky “I have never seen a more beautiful woman.” damn, typing it gets to me. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220/56 "2003-03-12T11:16:24Z")
Yeah, the ending to _Lilo & Stitch_: “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good . . . Yeah, still good.” As a child, I cried toward the end of _Short Circuit_, when it seems as if Number 5 has been blown up, and the bad guys are picking over the wreckage and playing with it. Very distressing for a 6 year old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-emotional-film-moments-1-cool-runnings/159220.md?page=2)