Most emotional movie moment in a theater

towards the end of Shawshank Redemption , when the old guy hung himself.

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If you ever find yourself near Mansfield Ohio be sure to visit the prison where Shawshank was filmed. They do a great tour.

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This was one of mine.

My other one was the end of How To Train Your Dragon 3. The first movie came out when I was 5 and I grew up with all of those toys and video games so that was sad as shit.

I’m pretty sure a part of me died that day.

I was also completely speechless at the end of Infinity War.

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Braveheart for sure. FREEDOM!!

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When all of the people who had their lives saves was thanking Schindler in Schindler’s List. It was a tear jerk. Shows what one person can do.

Future tear jerker: The Crucifixion in season 6 of the Chosen.

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Braveheart
Hidalgo
LOVE when captain America smoked thanos with Mjolnir
Secondhand Lions

The War, with Kevin Costner was an awful tear jerker too.
AMAZING movie

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I’d say Philadelphia for me. While I would say it was pretty well done. I didn’t enjoy it at all. Who wants to watch a guy dying from AIDS? But yeah if I ever thought about risky sex it ended after that.

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It was my freshman year in college, I went for popcorn and couldn’t find my girlfriend who I was on my first date with.

No, she didnt leave.

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Phantom and Les Mis both evoke strong emotions. The score is so powerful.

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I make the wife watch The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly every now and then and it gets emotional. Particularly the part where Tuco runs around the graveyard looking for Arch Stanton’s grave. She thinks it’s awful. I think it’s genius.

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When they shot Bigfoot.

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Field of Dreams, both the ā€œHey rookie…you were goodā€ and the end scene still get me every time.

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Not in a theater, but what comes to mind for me was watching Cool Hand Luke with my dad, and then he’s like sorry, pal, this is a grownup movie. So he put me to bed and went back to the movie himself. But I creeped out of my room and watched the whole thing from the top of stairs. And got busted when the movie ended and dad came upstairs to pee or something. He says, what are you crying for? I said, cos they shot Luke. I was probably 4. Don’t recall anything like that in a theater.

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Funny story, I had just started dating my now wife and we went to see Philadelphia, primarily because Tom Hanks was in it. To be honest, we didn’t know a whole lot about the movie. But it was opening night and the theater was packed. Fellas, I think my girlfriend was the only female in the entire theater and we had to sit up in the front row. Both our bungholes kept looking at each other through tepid glances…trying not to draw attention.

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I didn’t see it in the theater or with anyone else thankfully. Not sure why I didn’t turn it off. But I watched the whole thing.

Did it move?

THIS…and imitation of life

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Saving Private Ryan ending.

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Michael Crawford as The Phantom. Damn.

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That is one of my wife’s favorite movies of all time, she loves the Eastwood spaghetti westerns. We have all of them on our movie/tvshow/music server. May actually watch that this weekend, been a long time

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