What types of scenes almost always trigger some kind of deep response in you? It can be sadness, happiness, humor, excitement...

After watching A League of Their Own tonight it dawned on me that I always get torn up when there is a scene involving a soldiers wife or mother receiving notice of their loved one dying. I always get choked up in Saving Private Ryan when the military car is pulling up to Mrs Ryan's house and she collapses on the front porch, in We Were Soldiers... when the wives are going around and dropping off the notices to the other wives, and tonight in A League of Their Own when Tom Hanks takes the telegram away from the insensitive postal worker and walks it over to Betty. That one made me realize that kind of scene always gets to me. It's not a serious movie, Jimmy Dugan is a silly character, Betty is just a random player on the team, but none of that mattered: that scene hits and I feel like someone's been cutting onions right next to me for the last ten minutes.

One of my friend's Is when pets die (Marley and Me, Old Yeller, etc). He can't handle it.

Others?

A dad doing something special for his child.
At the end of A Christmas Story when Ralphie's dad has gotten him the Red Ryder BB gun gets me every time.

For me:

Sadness - anything with a father and children resulting in any sort of separation. Having kids, that's killer.
Excited - almost any inspiring speech scene.
Awkward - most Michael Scott scenes.
Anger - a coward letting something bad happen to an undeserved person, scenes where someone is taken advantage of.
Humor - smart slapstick scenes.
Happiness - to be honest, a guy/girl love story resolving in two good people ending up together.

Ol Yeller, you know which scene.

I watched Deep Impact the other day, and teared up at the astronauts' sacrifice at the end, and Tea Leoni's reunion with her father on the beach.

Like TC, the end of Lion had my eyes watering. That was just such a cool story to watch and unfold.

It's more emotional scenes that do it for me. Not so much sad or sacrifice. The "Taster's Choice" moment in Good Will Hunting is so damn good. It didn't feel like watching people act.

When Forrest asks Jenny if his son is "smart"

When Matt Saracen drunkenly goes to Coach Taylor's house and breaks down while eating dinner after just seeing his Dad's dead body.

I get surprised at what gets me. Warrior - multiple scenes. The scene at the end of Bridge of Spies when he collapses on the bed and his wife is watching the news. Camillo Cabella singing the song about her dad at the grammys.

Roy Hobbs smacking the game winning homerun off the lights to clinch the pennant for the Knights in the The Natural.

Father delivering difficult message to son. This is a great example.

Lots of those mentions. The catch scene in FoD was the first one to come to mind.

I have never watched Old Yeller, Marley and Me, etc. Can't handle bad stuff happening to dogs.

i dont know if there is a specific type of scene that gets my allergies working, but i know the music being played usually has a role. it could be the triumphant conclusion or the bittersweet end.....maybe im just an emotional guy, i dunno. Scenes that almost always get me :

Bruce Willis' sacrifice in Armageddon, likewise the following "Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter, of the bravest man i ever met"....**** even thinking about that scene almost gets me.

End of Dead Poets Society

He cant see without his glasses!" My girl

Up- you know

Inside Out- BingBong scene

Winning play of Remember the Titans

End of Coco- remember me

Who's the wild man now?! Rudy


and by looking at that list, disney clearly has my number. sheesh.

Movies based on true stories where people willingly sacrifice their lives for others. So like when those 2 guys in Black Hawk Down go down to defend the helicopter pilot (and end up earning the Medal of Honor), Hacksaw Ridge, etc.

A couple odds and ends are Jack black visiting the burn ward in Shallow Hal (that comes out of nowhere), when Chick's ex wife tells her son that the astronaut on TV is his daddy in Armageddon, Schindler's list when he talks about how he could have saved more, montage scene in Up, and others that have already been mentioned.

It didn't even make it half a page before people started posting specific scenes instead of types of scenes.

Stupe said:

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It didn't even make it half a page before people started posting specific scenes instead of types of scenes.

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I thought the same thing but I was just going to let it go. Sometimes threads like this take on a life of their own and it's better to just let them flow.

The most consistent emotional response for me is the soul cringe I get at the "contrived misunderstanding" that sets up cheap drama. So imagine every movie/tv show where the leading lady walks in just in time to see the hero in an apparently compromising situation. I have to fast forward when I see it coming.

Teared up when Daniel went to visit Miyagi's grave in Cobra Kai. Teared up at Leia's death in TROS. Straight up cried at my namesake's departure in Furious 7.

So I think the category would be "goodbye" scenes for people who've died IRL.

Ulrich said:

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The most consistent emotional response for me is the soul cringe I get at the "contrived misunderstanding" that sets up cheap drama. So imagine every movie/tv show where the leading lady walks in just in time to see the hero in an apparently compromising situation. I have to fast forward when I see it coming.

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That's a GOOD one and different from most of the others here. I don't like contrived stuff either which is why most Rom-coms bore me to tears. When I do find one that's not too formulaic I'm usually a big fan.

50/50 - finding the book