What's the most powerful emotional reaction you've had at the movies?

[even_sven]

@HMS_Irruncible

The end of La Bamba, when they told Richie Valens’s mother that he had died, her grief drove me to tears. To this day it puzzles me why random trite things like this provoke a bigger response than something like Schindler’s List.

I guess I throw up my defenses when I see heavy shit coming, but little sentimental family tragedies tend to catch me unprepared.

This one got me, too. What’s worse is that I was screening it as part of a film studies class- definitely not a place you want to be seen bawling at a cheesy movie at.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

I had seen, probably, hundreds of (mostly shitty) horror movies in my first 19 years, but the original “Dawn Of The Dead” scared the absolute hell out of me–nightmares for three days; if a friend hadn’t driven us to the theatre, I would not have gotten home that night. Much, much worse than The Exorcist, for me. shudder

[AZMark]

I tear up every time I watch the movie “Always” with Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. The scene that does it is towards the end when Holly Hunter’s plane runs out of fuel and …