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Most powerful scene from a movie or TV show?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭Donalh


    The Wire -Proposition Joe Vs Marlo.
    "Close your Eyes, it wont hurt none"!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭phatkev


    the Wire really has somany but I'll always remember this scene, Omar Little- "when you Come at the king, you best not miss"

    The Sopranos-
    When Silvio and Adrianna go for a ride is some of the best TV I've ever seen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    The end of the original 'The Wicker Man' - haven't come across many endings like that.


  • Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

    The final scene of Six Feet Under.

    This. Wonderfully filmed and perfectly soundtracked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭MaroonAndGreen




    Jack telling Kate ''We have to go back'' in Lost.

    The moment fans realise they actually do get off the island and that they are watching a flash-forward instead of a flashback.

    Remember being stunned watching it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    This scene actually had me cry each time I watched it for ages



    The Wire definitely has some powerful moments, not too many more hard hitting then this



    This one has to be well up there too from a movie



    There are literally so many I'd be here all night


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Surely someone has mentioned Champ? Rudy?


    I felt like sh*t when one of the lads from The Shield got killed
    by a grenade


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Also the "Opera" scene in "Philadelphia"
    Few other very sad scenes in that movie, you'd have to have a swinging brick not to be moved by that movie:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    Anybody else spent the last 30 or so minutes watching clips of John McGinley?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    i posted this before in the film forum somewhere but this is my favourite from True Romance with Christopher Walken as the badass Mafia man and Hopper's character who is basically fcuked.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Dances with Wolves when the wolf is shot :(

    Last of the Mochicans when the Indian is killed and his father sees it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Reiketsu


    Breaking Bad's "Ozymandias" episode. Couldn't cope :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    The opening episode of the Shield was one that springs to ming. Very much a case of WTF!
    edit! The brothers in arms on West Wing wasn't bad either!

    Definitely one of my favourites



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Have to say the scene in the shed in Wolf Creek was fairly powerful and not in a good way, genuinely unnerving film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,013 ✭✭✭✭Alfred Borden


    Absolutely loved this scene, so powerful, just knew everything was going to go wild after this



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    ET "I'll be right here"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 CMBurns


    Another great one from Breaking Bad was the ending of season 3. The innocence of Gale combined with the sheer pressure Jesse had been put under to act made for brilliant TV. Couldn't help but feel sorry for both of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭sureitsgrand


    Loads of powerful scenes in Good Will Hunting, but I think the final few minutes top them all..



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Also a powerful scene, great from Frank. I wont put up one of his other most powerful scenes



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen




    More hard hitting tv from The Wire.

    Brutal, deserved, but brutal

    On a side note, the young actors in the wire, particularly Michael were fantastic

    Actually, I want to warn people who haven't seen this, it may upset you if your a bit sensitive

    Some scene though, says a bit more about Chris' character too, and what possibly happened to him as a kid maybe


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    Well there is three main ones for me personally.

    When Mick dies in Rocky 3:


    And when I was younger these two always got to me:o

    When Mufasa dies in the Lion King:


    When Drako died in Dragonheart:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Littlefoot's Mother dying :(.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    The Omen (original version)
    The priest being killed in the graveyard and the photographer being decapitated-both great yet horrifying scenes and the music is deadly.


    Song For A Raggy Boy
    The scenes where one little boy is buggered(please excuse my word choice) by a xtian brother and where another little boy is beaten to death by the head priest-both scenes made me want to put my foot through the TV screen.

    The scene near the end,where the teacher (played by Aidan Quinn) beats and kicks the livin sheit outa the bastard head priest-really enjoyed that scene.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 764 ✭✭✭horsebox09


    the fact somebody had the balls to do this, unbelievable:



    can't forget this either:



    Band of Brothers is still the pinnacle of TV for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭CM24



    Honourable mention- Last scene from Homeward Bound where they don't think the old dog has made it home.


    Don't know if we're allowed post from computer games but, Cid's backstory from Final Fantasy 7 hit me right in the feels. Go 2 mins in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭AlanMcC23


    The lion king when mufasa died has always got me since i first seen it really sad

    Also the warrior(tom hardy) ending was really underrated in my opinion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    This scene from La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)
    The father knows he is being taken for execution but still to the last minute shields his son from the horrors of life in the concentration camp by pretending it's a game.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭EuskalHerria


    AlanMcC23 wrote: »

    Also the warrior(tom hardy) ending was really underrated in my opinion

    Mentioned a page previously, but I completely agree. I think the premise put a lot of people off and they missed out on some great acting.

    The last minute or so of this scene is fantastic.


    Another great scene for me was in Oz. The scene before they attempt to execute Cyril O'Reilly for the 2nd time. The moment the rest of the prisoners collectively start banging on their cell windows. If you watch the preceding series, a rare moment of unity catches you off guard. Great scene.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    The Perfect Storm ending...Believe it or not! it's also my favourite movie, I've posted about it before(swear)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭grohlisagod




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