What a great/disturbing movie.

Eugh.....

Not devistating at all.

It was devastating to Billy ...

no kidding, what a ***.

That movie left me with such a deep emptiness inside I couldn't shake that even a year after watching it just thinking about it makes me angry. The whole theme seems to center around the inevitablity of doom, pain, and suffering. Plus the scenes with him in the little space bubble just plain freak me out.

I remember going to watch Baz Luhmans Romeo + Juliet at the cinema and at the end it was totally silent the one girl starts sobbing, the gf at the time didnt want to cry because she had mascara on

Agree with lots here, the red coat in Schindlers List and the part where Schindler is lamenting the fact he could have saved more and Ben Kingsleys character (cannot remember his name has been a while) tells him he did enough just for Liam Neesons performance there.

Breaking the waves, wow Emily Watsons performance in that is heartbreaking, I caught it on film4 a good time ago knowing nothing of the film and only little about Lars VonTrier it was late I was lying there slighty chilled of some smoke and that got me hard that film, something about Emily Watsons eyes just fills her whole performance for me.

"Get up rocky cos Micky loves ya" Burgess Merideth was a god.

Tv spoilers Cracker

Going for television here but Jimmy McGoven, wow that guy can write only saw two episodes of the street both where emotionally devastating.

For me though the episode of Cracker where Robert Carlye playing a serial killer in a amazing perfomance leading the Police Super into his house (played by the exellent Christopher Eccelston) that scene is amazing down to the cutting of the sound as he stabs him to the copper pleading for help and the resulting last statement via 2-way radio.

I was a wreck after that movie. The power saw in particular really got me. As soon as the credits rolled, I said out loud (to myself, I watched it alone): "Wow. That movie was amazing. I never want to watch that ever again."

And I never have.

Marley and Me.

This.

My eyes were dry as the Sahara during Titanic and I giggled through Perfect Storm, but this one teared me up, for some reason.

My thoughts exactly. Requiem for a Dream was very weak and a big disappointment after hearing about it so much in threads like these. The theme is very obvious early on so you know it's going to end up with a lot of horrible stuff happening to people with addictions, and there's just nothing else to the movie.

Drugs are bad, here are bad things happening to people who use drugs, the end. For me it was just a lot of ugliness with no entertainment value and a very crude and obvious way of teaching the lesson that addictions are dangerous. It's like making a movie about the dangers of drunk driving that just shows people getting mangled in horrific car wrecks for 90 minutes - Not interesting, not entertaining, not worth watching.

Winner! Though I'd say Schindler's List has its moments as well

What did you expect it to be exactly? This is what happens when you take drugs. To have made the movie any other way would have likely been dishonest to the material. You say there was a lot of ugliness but isn't that the point? Drugs **** you up plain and simple. When you take them there are often no easy ways out just because it is depressing doesn't make it bad.

the title of this thread is not, "Movies that were cute, gave me the sniffles, and made me feel sad."

I read the thread title, this was emotionally devasting to me. You do realize that different people are affected by different things, don't you? Maybe going forward when someone starts a movie thread, they should put "Dominic" in the title, such as "movies that Dominic would consider the most emotionally devastating moment in film"? It seems like you often criticize others for expressing their opinions on movies. Just because you don't agree with something there is no need to quote it and ridicule it.

I like this idea.

That's because I know more than all of you about film. Except maybe John Cole. And Blarg. Maybe Pryor. Db, too. Okay, maybe half of you, but still.

well what's the point of starting a thread then? Sheesh.

Seriously, try watching Schindler's List or Leaving Las Vegas.

Kind of surprised Million Dollar Baby has only been mentioned once ITT

I know it's been mentioned, but Dear Zachary just gutted me.

I guess I was hoping for some kind of original perspective and not just a whole movie that could have been summarized in a 60-second public service announcement.

grunch

don't know if it was mentioned, but the first one that came to my mind was private Pyle getting beaten up in Full Metal Jacket. I still have trouble watching that scene.

airbud!

100% Chick Flick, but a movie I loved. Probobly lends itself to people who fall really hard when in love, but Lost and Delirious. Both the final scene and the scene where Jessica Pare is walking away from her sister after telling her "you know im not like that"

Also: there is way too much hate in this thread for Requiem for a Dream, and way too much talk of it being unrealistic. For me the reason the film was so emotionally devastating is ive known 3 of those 4 characters multiple times in my life, and that movie shows the situations you don't see those people in when you know them. (Aka, Ive known a girl who had sex for drugs, but i didnt have to watch the look on her face as she was doing it.)

I really like Aronofsky as a director, but I must admit I don't see the big deal about Requiem For A Dream. Unlike you, I found it entertaining, but I wasn't remotely moved by it.

Maybe that's due to my own illustrious career in drugs.

Or maybe that's just more testimony to the fact that it was weak.

Hard to say it was "bad;" I'm just saying people hold it in too high a regard, it seems to me.

Wade's death in Saving Private Ryan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU1Jvs-FsbI

After the excellent scene from the church where he talks about his mother, this is just gigantically devastating, no?

Giovanni Ribisi is a very underrated actor.