I’ll start with this one. It became iconic very quickly. Beginning with the recognition by the clerk of what had happened, it brilliantly sets the theme of the entire movie.
Makes me cry every time.
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This one always gets me…
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To me, the more moving scene is when Matt Damon refuses to leave and says he is staying with the only brothers he has left. Apparently that is a quote from the the real Private Ryan when they found him.
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There are two scenes from animated movies that jump immediately to mind for me:
- The Train scene in Spirited Away is one of the most beautiful pieces of animation I’ve ever seen. Watching the faceless, shadowy people disembark the train and step off into nowhere always hits me with a sense of deep and profound sadness.
YouTube apparently kills any attempt to upload it, but the scene can be found on Vimeo here. And if you’ve never seen Spirited Away, I cannot possibly recommend it enough. It is a generational masterpiece of animation from Hayao Miyazaki
- “Superman” from The Iron Giant. There are very few movies that will make me instantly tear up. This is top on the list.
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Hoosiers: “I play, coach stays. He goes, I go.”
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The last scene, starting when Claude Rains throws the bottle of Vichy water in the garbage can also gets the old emotions going.
There are so many scenes from the Deer Hunter I could mention, but I’ll go with this one.
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Ben Stiller’s “We’ve had a rough year dad” from the criminally underrated “The Royal Tenenbaums”.
Destroys me every time.
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Sorry I know this is kind of comedically/ tongue-in-cheek dramatic, but a great scene nonetheless and you’re right… severely underrated film.
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Val Kilmer’s scene in Top-Gun/Maverick where he struggled to speak several lines. Knowing he goes through that to talk in real life made the scene quite emotional.
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Daniel Day Lewis explaining the intracacies and legalities of the Emancipation Proclaimation in 6 minutes does it better than any history professor ever did
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I love this film.
“Did you just call me Coltrane?”
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I have to throw this one in since I marched around the house whistling this.
Can’t leave this out.
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Funny thing is, I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. Like, at all. In fact, I think every one of his other movies are dull messes at best and unwatchable pretentious arthouse crap at worst.
But for some reason that I can’t even really put my finger on, The Royal Tenenbaums just hits my soul. I would easily put it in my top 10 favorite films, while nothing else he’s ever done would even rank.
It’s just such a remarkable film.
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Do you recall that the tune was picked up for Malt-O-Meal commercials? “Winners wake up with Malt-O-Meal…”
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“What have I Done.”
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I ws so moved by the train journey and music from Spirited Away that I used to spend hours sort of recreting the layout while building game bases in SimCity2000
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I thought his first 3-4 films were really good. Tenenbaums, Bottle Rockets, Rushmore. After that they started getting super pretentious.
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