Scenes in movies that just made you feel good =)

[njshadow]

It just kinda came to mind after I was listening to the Jamiroquai song that Napoleon danced to. That dance scene was just so great! :D

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[MaxTheSilent]

The scene in the listening booth at the record shop in BEFORE SUNRISE. Never have I seen a more natural moment of unbearably hesitant physical attraction in a movie.

And the end of BEFORE SUNSET had me grinning for about half-an-hour.

Cheeky bastards, how dare they do that to us! I guess we'll find out what happened in about ten years.

[beatowner]

The end of Love Actually.

[gonzooo]

The ending of "The Usual Suspects". :)

Also, when Peter stands up to Lumbergh in "Office Space".

[rabidbadger]

The ending of "The Usual Suspects". .

ditto dat.

also the end (beginning?) of Memento

[az0madman]

End of Donnie Darko when they start playing Mad World. As overused as that song is, it's still awesome to see in the movie.

[patch]

Children of Men. When they are coming out of the building and everyone just stops and stares, and try to touch the baby. Complete silence. It brings me to tears. And, if I'm still kinda broken up, the name of the ship at the very end. That can sometimes keep me going.

[rabidbadger]

oohh. I am sooo gonna watch donnie darko again this weekend.

[gonzooo]

I missed an obvious one in my previous post here...

The ending of "A.I.". I simply cannot keep from crying. It's so extremely beautiful.

[esophagus]

The beach scene in Once.

[tsmith15]

The end of Cruel Intentions, the end of the Romeo & Juliet performance in Shakespeare In Love, the super-long one-shot near the end of Children of Men, the ending joust in A Knight's Tale, part of the fight near the end of The Patriot where Mel raises the American Flag to rally his troops (even though I'm Canadian, :P), the ending of Independence Day, etc.

I also forgot, about 8 different times in Sunshine (thanks to nshady for reminding me), the president's speech in Independence Day, and retro montages such as in Karate Kid and Rocky.

[hobbes]

ditto the end of Love Actually, the Children of Men scene and Independence day and add my all time fave the end of Goonies when the ship floats out from behind the rocks. It still makes me tear up and smile.

[eddielee]

Sex scenes. They made me feel good.

[esophagus]

Sex scenes. They made me feel good.
Then you have never seen He Was a Quiet Man.

"Is that topless Elisha Cuthbert? As a quadrapalegic? Having sex with bald Christian Slater? I don't know what to think. She's hot. But. Oh god."

[puddlefish]

Every single frame of The Iron Giant

The 80's song arcade montage (You're the best around! No one's ever gonna keep you down!) from King of Kong.

[poltah]

When Cage meets his daughter in the end of Con Air. Fuck yeah!

[nshady]

When everyone jumps on stage at the beauty contest at the end of Little Miss Sunshine.

And while we're on the topic, the very end of Sunshine with Cillian Murphy touching the huge explosion as time and space all goes crazy around him.

[rabidbadger]

the death star blowing up

[jasonpoon]

Ewan McGregor first saw Alison Lohman in the circus in Big Fish
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."

Also in Big Fish, when Ewan McGregor proposed to Alison Lohman
"You don't even know me."
"I have the rest of my life to find out."

So sweet, so true.

[kickarse]

At the end of August Rush when they all finally meet because of Augusts aka Evan's symphony of music. Talk about a knot in the throat.

[3cardmonte]

Ok, I'm going to have to go with an extremely bad movie with one particular action scene that made me feel amazing. In THE HULK, when he's running down like.. a canyon and missiles are chasing him. That was the highlight of the movie.

In Darjeeling Limited where Adrian Brody is running onto the train in slow motion and the kinks "This Time Tomorrow" come in real loud drowing out all other sound and Bill Murray stand behind and watched. Magic.

How about that montage in Blank Check where he's playing with all the stuff he got?

[rsampaio]

For me it has to be the end of The Shawshank Redemption. I totally did not see that coming and it was amazing.

[mephistos-brother]

The end of October Sky when the Father watches the Son Launch his Rocket and puts his arm around him.
It grabs a part of me that wishes my own father would have taken a greater interest in my life when i was younger.

[cut_la_rock]

Any scene from Airplane.

[oliviakay]

The last scene in the hallway, of Eternal Sunshine.

[jchaosrs]

When everyone jumps on stage at the beauty contest at the end of Little Miss Sunshine.

And while we're on the topic, the very end of Sunshine with Cillian Murphy touching the huge explosion as time and space all goes crazy around him.
Ditto, as well as the already mentioned scene from Children of Men. Beautiful.

But it's kind of difficult to remember feel-good moments as I tend to gravitate to more tragic stories. But I remember the end of Contact was really good.

[rabidbadger]

dang what is with all the sunshine titles. I can't keep them all straight.

[stubadub]

"Andy Dufresne crawled 500 yards through shit and came out clean on the other side." or however it goes.

Shawshank is a strong contender for greatest film ever IMO.

[iggystar]

Robert Redford running through a shower of sparks after hitting the winning home run in The Natural.

[neumann]

Every single frame in "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit."

The final act in "Shawshank Redemption" where Tim Robbins settles his score. FANTASTIC. I want that voice-over to play in my head EVERY time I have a bad day.

The future scene in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." It's very chilly mellow.

Chris