rjzeller

Okay, I'll bite....

Schindler's List: The little girl in the red dress...you know what I'm talking about. Too many scenes, in fact. The shooting at the concentration camp. The showers. The end where the guy breaks down into tears. First movie I ever cried at...

We Were Soldiers: Not necessarily one scene, just the entire movie. Never felt so exhausted after a flick in my life, and you could see the entire audience felt the same.

The Passion of the Christ: Another one that left the audience collectively spent and many in tears. The scene with the roman soldiers beating Christ left many in the audience nearly broken (saw it with my mother, and she had her face covered through much of it).

Rocky II: Did anyone in the theater NOT cheer at the end of this?

Titanic: Let's face it, every lady in the theater was balling her head off at the end, especially when the string quartet started playind and they showed the woman reading to her kids, the old couple laying together, the captain going down with his ship. Sappy film, but that series of shots are largely part of the reason this film did $600 million....

I didn't see Jaws in the theater, and I haven't seen "Luke, I am your Father" in the theater either. Same with the Godfather movies, though I can imagine...

I saw the Wrath of Khan when I was but a wee lad, and I was pretty upset about the ending. I think as far as Star Trek movies go, that one did get quite an audience reaction.

Others? When Bruce Willis turned out dead in Sixth Sense, nobody said anything, but you could hear the collective gasp when it was revealed.l

Also, the point where everything went completely dark near the end of "Signs". A few people got literally spooked by that one.

I'm sure there's more...but those are all that comes to mind at this point.[/u]

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Alex Yates

I was going to bring this one up too RZ. In its totality this movie is quite a work of art and the girl in the red dress was genius in its impact.

The_Lip

I remember seeing 2001: A Space Odessey back in '67. The entire theater gasped when the "Star Child" suddenly appeared on screen at the end.

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Episode III when Darth vader comes to being... "Arise, Lord Vader..."

Alex- One of my personal favorites is the transformation of Gandalf the Grey to Gandalf the White. The silence in the theatre as the remaining members of the Fellowship emerge without Gandalf was astounding.

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Star wars 3, when Anakin draws his sabre on the young jedi in the temple. The battle between him and Obi Wan. Crappy acting, when Darth/Ani/James Earl Jones screams, noooooooooooooooooooo!! Surely a Simpsons moment?!

Clarino

The system didn't censor it, so I guess it's acceptable. Please note that I was quoting. I would never use that sort of language on these boards otherwise.


Me too. Powerful film.

Manny Laureano

I think the most gut wrenching audience moment had to be the one in Saving Private Ryan where the Nazi that was set free by the pleading of the idealistic American journalist, slowly, excruciatingly sinks the bayonet into the heart of an American GI. To this day that scene haunts me and I wanted to kill the Nazi and the idiot journalist who pleaded for him not to be killed. People where squirming in their seats empathetically as though our struggle could somehow free the doomed soldier.

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40cal

The first 1/3 of Full Metal Jacket

All of Starship Troopers (violence, sex, gore, no plot, no character development)

Titanic

I started laughing out loud when the ship went down and people were falling

Super Troopers

The games the troopers play with the public really do happen

Alex Yates

Ah yes Glenn, how could I forget that one? T'was a wonderful moment of many in the trilogy.

ML - that moment in Saving Private Ryan was very intense. I had forgotten about that, but remember very well the moment in the theater. It still makes my stomach squirm a bit.