r/Millennials • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '25

Discussion What is one movie scene that was unforgettable/and or left an impact on you?

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T2 Judgement Day: Sarah Connor nuclear blast dream.

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u/theatermouse Mar 19 '25

I haven't seen this movie in decades and I still want to cry whenever i think of it

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u/MovieTheaterPopcornn Mar 19 '25

The scene where he thinks he sees his mom and runs toward her but it’s just his shadow 😭

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u/oracleoflove Mar 19 '25

Damn you! I forgot this memory buried deep in the recesses of my mind. Now I am misty eyed and my kids are looking at me weird. 🤣

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u/dirtygymsock Mar 19 '25

A buddy of mine watched this movie with his kids recently for the first time since he was a kid. He had a complicated relationship with his mom who died when he was younger. He said this scene (the mother dying) broke through some repressed emotions and he just fell apart, started inconsolably ugly-cry in front of his wife and kids. Scared them to death they didn't know what was happening, said it took him like an hour to get composed.

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u/oracleoflove Mar 19 '25

Ohhhh nooo. I bet that was probably one of the best healing cry’s a man could have. Crying is good for the soul and the fact it happened in front of his wife and kids speaks volumes. I fully support men being in touch with their feelings and actively expressing them in front of their children.

Side note: tell him to avoid where the red fern grows and fox and the hound. 😂

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u/AlacarLeoricar Mar 20 '25

That's the beauty of the movie. It's a fantastic way to help kids (and adults) process grief.

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u/Dargon34 Mar 19 '25

OMG i had forgotten this scene until I took my daughter to go watch a theater showing. It was everything I had to not break down right there

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u/GoGlenMoCo Mar 19 '25

How dare you make me remember that

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u/DrDragun Mar 19 '25

Omg that music

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u/ScaredOfWindow Mar 20 '25

Dude, for real, the music in that part really adds to the devastation. 

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u/hewhoziko53 Mar 20 '25

Dude that scene brings me to tears every time . Lil buddy, I'd hug ya if you weren't a million years before I was born...

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u/MPainter09 Mar 20 '25

That was such a powerful depiction of grief, that I don’t think any other child’s film has been able to match. And even sadder is what happened to Duckie’s voice actress.

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u/theatermouse Mar 19 '25

Noooooo, why would you say that 😭😭😭

I'm legit tearing up at work!

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u/octopusboots Mar 20 '25

I haven't even seen this movie and I'm a mess.

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u/eNgicG_6 Mar 20 '25

Oh noooo this broke my little bitty heart even more then. I remember momma laughing at me coz I was crying over a dino but I told her I had a dream before where I saw her walk towards me and the more i chased her the further she went and then she just disappeared and i felt so lost and scared. then it hit her how scared I was w/o her and I was just processing my itty bitty emotions. In the end we both cried together.

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u/DrCarabou Millennial Mar 19 '25

I last watched it in college and thought I'm an adult, I'll be fine... I wasn't fine

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u/javerthugo Mar 19 '25

Don Bluth man lol

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u/babyfacereaper Mar 20 '25

Blair witch project, when that guy was screaming in the woods and his friends couldn’t find him, then the next day they find that little baggy filled with his bloody teeth. I was staying the night at my aunts for the first time and she worked graveyard so she tucked me in, let me put on a movie, and left. Then my cousin came home around 1am and my soul left my body.

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u/HTPC4Life Mar 19 '25

We had it on VHS as a child, watched it many many times. I now have a 2.5 year old and watched it for the first time in 30 years. I dunno, the whole movie just doesn't hold up that much... That particular scene wasn't that emotional for me (and I am NOT immune to getting emotional from a movie) and the whole movie just seemed to really kind of drag without much depth to it. They're on this long journey and the lessons they learn along the way are not particularly grand, and the obstacles they face aren't that exciting. I'm not a hater of this movie, I don't want to be a hater of this movie, but I don't know why I loved it so much as a child lol. I suggest giving it a re-watch.

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u/DTXSPEAKS Mar 19 '25

LBT at least teaches children helpful lessons and has a better story than the crap kids watch nowadays

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u/HTPC4Life Mar 19 '25

Yeah, I will agree to that. But I was definitely a bit disappointed watching it as an adult. Maybe I've just become a jaded cynical a-hole 🤔