Can't remember the movie, but two characters are in a boat off the coast of Maine or Massachusetts and one picks up a lobster and shows how it has all these little eggs attached to it, which means they have to put it back.

Totally random and has been seared into my brain. I found it so revolting.

When Glenn close cooks that rabbit in the pot.

The massacre at the Aztec temple in "The Other Conquest".

Most of these are pretty grizzly. I was hoping to hear of scenes of intense, almost supernatural beauty. Let me see if I can think of some.


"The Blues Brothers": Aretha Franklin singing "Respect".

"The Black Stallion": the horse and the boy on the island. The horse jumping from the boat during the storm.

"Babette's Feast": the church group holding hands and singing outside after the feast.

"Young Frankenstein": Gene Wilder besides the monster, backlit by lightening, his eyes turned towards the heavens.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" Snape storming into the classroom when substituting for Professor Lupin.

Dead Man Walking. Final few minutes where you know the execution will take place at X time and move shows subject's final hours interspersed with a clock...it's getting closer.

I had to leave the movie theatre. Couldn't bear the intensity.

I can't recall the name of the movie, but Tommy Lee Jones has a Vietnamese girlfriend and he comes back for her and her kids at the fall of Saigon. The look on her face made me burst into tears in the movie theater.

Anonymous wrote:Dh and I have an inside joke "you have chosen wisely" from Indiana Jones when Indiana chooses the cup Jesus used (He was the son of a carpenter").

I think of that line all the time!

Anonymous wrote:When Sally Field climbs up on the table with her UNION sign in Norma Rae.

The scene with the plastic bag blowing around in American Beauty.

In E.T., when they open the front door and the astronaut is standing there.

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but Allan Ball, the American Beauty screenwriter, has said in interviews that he was inspired to write the movie when he was sitting in the World Trade Center plaza and watching a plastic bag dancing in the wind drafts that were created by the towers. He said this way before 9/11. Makes that scene even more poignant, and oddly was one of the things I thought of after the towers fell. It made me wonder what other moments of inspiration and beauty were lost that day.

Dh and I have an inside joke "you have chosen wisely" from Indiana Jones when Indiana chooses the cup Jesus used (He was the son of a carpenter").

Numerous scenes in the wrestler.

The physical and emotional pain that character deals with...

Anonymous wrote:Castaway: the rain scene where helen hunt gets in the car with tom hanks but then realizes she can't go with him.

Away we go: wasn't a great movie, but there's a scene where this lady who had a ton of miscarriages pole dances for her husband and it's just profoundly sad.

"You're the love of my life!"
The way she delivers that line is heartbreaking.

Castaway: the rain scene where helen hunt gets in the car with tom hanks but then realizes she can't go with him.

Away we go: wasn't a great movie, but there's a scene where this lady who had a ton of miscarriages pole dances for her husband and it's just profoundly sad.

The scene from American History X with the curb. Deeply disturbed me and made me feel sick for days after. A fellow student actually showed that scene during a philosophy class in High School when I saw it, so I wasn't expecting it and I felt like I would faint at the time.

Anonymous wrote:Children of the Corn, in the diner, one boy is playing pinball

The movie with the boy with 666 on his neck, he pushes his mom? over the railing with his tricycle.

That was The Omen.
I'll add: when they open the coffin and find a jackal skeleton, and when the nanny hangs herself.