Most powerful scenes in cinema (spoilers abound)
 

In no order:

Shawshank Redemption: The Aria being played over the PA system
Shawshank Redemption: Brooks' suicide
Schindler's List: The red dress
The Godfather: Finale
Fight Club: Final Scene

Add your own.

The stuff Buzzkill said plus:

Requiem For A Dream: Climax with electro-shock therepy/arm getting cut off/ass to ass/jail
Donnie Darko: Mad World/final scene
Memento: Your wife was diabetic
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Final scene

Se7en: pretty much everything from the box onward

Green Mile: The last half hour or so

as a huge stanley kubrick fan, i'd put the treatment scene in clockwork orange on the list, and certainly the entire finale-nicholson-goes-insane scene from the shining. de niro shooing the pimp in taxi driver is pretty nuts, too. but there are far too many powerful scenes in cinema history to list.

Rudy: When he tackles the guy in the final scene and they show his father, his brother, his freind and the groundskeeper guy and they're all proud of him. Made me :'(


Stand By Me When Chris stands his ground and Ace was about to kill him, but Gordie shoots the gun off.


The War When Kevin Costner's character gives the cotton candy to those asshole kids, when his son(Elijah Wood) just got beat up by them.

Of Mice and Men When he shoots his brother. That was tough to watch.

Full Metal Jacket: Bathroom Suicide Scene & the soap beating scene.

Misery: The Hobbling Scene.

Shashank Redemption: When the guard kills the inmate who knows that Andy was wrongly convicted.

Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Blonde Dancing/Ear Cutting Scene.

Dogville: Final scene

Armageddon scene with Bruce Willis saying goodbye to Liz Tyler was pretty powerful. " Tell Chick I could not have done it without him". It is still they only movie scene to make me cry

Full Metal Jacket - Bathroom scene with Pyle, Joker, and Hartman
12 Angry Men - When the last juror says not guilty.
American History X - Curb scene
Audition - Final scene with the needles and leg and aosduifasdf
Boogie Nights - That shit where everything is cut together and bad shit happens to everybody

I don't feel like going past the Bs, because I am lazy, but there are 9235 more I can name.

Godfather Part II- when Pacino sits alone at the end
American History X - dinner table scene
Shawshank Redemption - Brooks's suicide

On the Waterfront - Marlon Brando's classic "I coulda' been a contender" scene

That's one of my favorites, most of the others have been said.

The Goonies - where chunk tells sloth he's going to live with him now & sloths ears just go crazy! it gets me everytime that scene!

just thought-

Shawshank Redemption - where they cripple the guy who had been rapping andy

The Great Escape - after they have all been recaptured & the germans tell them to stretch their legs, then kill them all.

Escape to Victory - apart from Pele's overhead kick, the scene where they can escape at half time but choose to play on as they can win the game is good.

Stand By Me - When Chris stands his ground and Ace was about to kill him, but Gordie shoots the gun off. (thanks LC)

The Towering Inferno - when Steve McQueen drops the fireman from the lift to then realise he landed safely

Cool Hand Luke - Paul Newmans performance was excellent and i love the way that in the end he still had that daft grin on his face.

Taxi Driver - Final shoot out and everything after.

I'm going Old school

High Noon: when Gary Cooper is standing all alone in the center of town right before the shoot out.

A Few Good Men... Tom Cruise: I want the Truth...
then to see Jack Nicholson's face as he say YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

Then later when he admited to giving order for Code Red Powerful stuff

Theres so many great moments in that movie. It's tough to pick one.

SAW: When the jigsaw killer gets up from the floor at the end

The Ring: Samara coming through the fucking TV screen

Empire Strikes Back: I am your father scene

Saving Private Ryan: Normandy Beach

Ladder 49: The funeral in the end

3: From the beginning of the 2001 Daytona 500 up until the end of the movie


Those 2 and 1 other that I can't think of at the moment (might of been the Armageddon moment mentioned by The Answer) are the only movies that have ever come close to bringing a tear to my eye.

"Empire Strikes Back: I am your father scene"

I always thought that was hillarious.

Luke: HE TOLD ME ENOUGH!!!!!!!!! HE TOLD ME YOU KILLED HIM!!!!!!!!!

Vader: No! I am your <s>rapist</s> father!

Luke: No . . . That's not true . . . THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vader: You know it to be true! <s>Your genintals were so soft . . .</s>

Luke: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! <s>THEY'RE DRY AND ROTTEN</S>

what the fuck?

<b>Road to Perdition:</b> Paul Newman's death
<b>City of God:</b> Knockout Ned's death
<b>Hoosiers:</b> "I'll make it."

Um...

:|

Shawshank the Andy "Jesus Christ Pose" in the rain after he escapes is pretty powerful. It's my wallpaper at work.

Sappy yet powerful, the moving penny scene in "Ghost".

The Russian Roulette Scene when they are all captured in "The Deer Hunter".

Mystic River, when Senn Penn's Character (Jimmy) shoots Tim Robbins (Dave) thinking he killed his daughter. Actually the last 15-20 minutes of the movie blew my fucking mind.

The torture scene in "The Passion of the Christ".

Green Mile - When the one guy was fried in the electric chair

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - the end

Armageddon - the end

Braveheart - the end

Lady Snowblood - the end

:wtf:

:y: That was awesome.

Very underrated film.

Sorry . . .

Road to Perdition: Tom Hanks death. Supreme :mad: That piano score through that whole scene is my favorite movie score ever.

Million Dollar Baby - (spoiler) when Eastwood tells Swank what her nickname means right before he assisits in her suicide.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Godfather 3's ending. Even though it was kinda shitty watching Michael Corleone die and knowing that it was officially over must've had some kind of impact when it first came out.

^ Godfather Part III was so poorly made that I think noboddy gave 2 shits about the movie or the ending

SPOILERS!!!!!
Godfater 1- Sonny's death, and the finale.
Godfather 2- "The Kiss of Death", and the finale.
Braveheart- The Freeeedom scream.
The Aviator- The plane crash into Hollywood.
Million Dollar Baby- Same as what was said before.
Star Wars ESB- "Luke i am your fater!"
Raging Bull- DeNiro Hitting the wall "I'm not an animal!"
The English Patient- Don't know the names but when, the guy is carrying the girl from the plane crash, and she says, she has always loved him.
Saving Private Ryan- Tom Hanks tells Matt Damon "Earn this.".
That's all for now

ya De Niro in the cell in Raging Bull

Half Baked: When Killer get's killed :(

Yeah Saw had it strong..

The ending to Ubreakable was awesome .... to me.

And Tombstone everything after Morgan Earp's death was really solid.