The scene at the end of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
where she’s standing in a blood-soaked dress among a sea of golden Ohmu tentacles and the whole town realizes the prophesy has become fulfilled, and that the legendary savior of mankind is, in fact, the Princess.
An old blind woman weeps. Just beautiful animation.
Such a fantastic film.
In the Two Towers, Gandalf’s fight with the Balrog, that one shot of them plummeting into a cavernous lake with that music is simply amazing.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Cedric’s father mourning his death right after Harry returns from the graveyard. A friend of mine had just lost her son in Iraq which probably made the scene extra emotional for me.
I’m a little startled by that number. Could you be referring to the numbers for Bomber Command? That site claims 27 out of 100 aircrew survived a tour of duty without being killed/injured/captured/missing.
Although I may have missed it, I hadn’t heard comparable figures for fighter losses quoted anywhere.
A lot of these get to me, too, but one that never fails is telling parents their kid is dead. The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the car turns up the path and you see the mother run out onto the porch and then her legs just give out…
well I want to cry just thinking about it.
Another Nausicaa one : The part where Nausicaa sees the airborne gun turret dangling a tortured ohmu, and flies straight at them on an unarmed glider then hurls herself at them, all the time being fired upon and wounded by machine gun fire.
Babe, when James Cromwell sings that song to Babe and does his little dance to get him to eat.
When Father Fitzgibbons sees his mother walk into the church at the end of Going My Way. Gets me every time.
The scene in Big Lebowski where they toss Donnie’s ashes into the wind. It’s hilarious and touching at the same time.
I would guess because, before that scene, Doc Brown is assumed to be dead, and Marty has no way to go back in time to save him, this time.
Regardless of the plot or acting, It is always an emotional scene when you find out that a character you liked, who you thought was dead (for good), somehow made it out alive.
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya…”
When he’s on the brink of losing the fight to Count Rugen, but suddenly finds the strength to go on, with his voice rising each time… I can never watch that scene too much.
The end of Home Alone. A silly and fun movie, but for some reason the creepy man hugging his family always makes me tear up.
Mmm. The first one I was going to mention is the aforementioned Beacons scene from RotK (Asidem since I just came from a related thread: so many people seem to find RotK the least satisfying of the three LotR films, but it seems to be getting the most mention in this thread.) but the two scenes in Nausicaa people mentioned blow it away entirely. I’m a dork though, I always cry at the end of Castle in the Sky too.
Yes!