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I feel like the ending of "The Mist" could be in here. I mean... it's absolutely devastating what he has to do, and even WORSE is when he is saved just after what he did and is just screaming to the sky.
Avengers: Infinity War- "You should've went for the head." I never left a theater feeling sicker, more depressed, and hopeless, and haven't felt that way from a movie since
SUCH an underrated movie! I forget the guys name, but when he gets overran by zombies and says "it f***in figures!" And lights the flare to blow himself up with them. Absolutely epic.
The prologue of Avengers Endgame, when Thanos tells them “I am inevitable” while revealing he destroyed the infinity stones (preventing the avengers to undo the snap), resulting in Thor chopping his head off in frustration
Maybe a bit tame, but for me the trash oven scene in Toy Story 3 perfectly embodies this feeling. Chilling and beautiful how they stop trying and just hold eachother.
The Whiskey outpost scene in Starship Troopers where Rasczak peers over the perimeter wall and see's an endless horde of arachnids swarming towards them. His face and subtle wipe of his nose is iconic!
My Top 3: 3.: The Fly: Brundlefly begs for the mercy kill. 2.: In the Mouth of Madness: Movie theatre scene. 1.: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Riding the nuke.
If Matrix belongs on this list at all, the qualifying moment would be when Tank judges that they must euthanize Morpheus. Trinity's still keeping her secret, so the remaining third of the Neb crew must face the icy cold necessity of it. They think they've broken the new-recruit rules for nothing. They think Morpheus must become the sixth crewmate to die for nothing.
If it has Bill Paxton in it, I am there !! :) As for 'Thief" with James Caan, I would place this in the top 20 greatest movies ever made. I rewatched it the other night and every scene was brilliant, engaging, and of course, Tangerine Dream just made it that much better.
Where the scene in Endgame where Cap (for a brief moment) was facing Thanos and his crew, ALL BY HIMSELF! That was the epitome of an "All hope is lost" moment.
Honorary opinion: Army of Darkness: When the deadite army is overwhelming the castle's forces and the King declares the book be protected at all costs and that god save them all! Just then Ash comes through with his modified Oldsmobile!
Bernard Hill (Captain Smith Titanic), had other crushing moments as King Theoden in the second half of the LOTR trilogy......and sticking with the trilogy, would probably go with Frodo's "They're here" moment more of an 'all hope is lost' moment, when in hindsight Gandalf did return in greater strength, whereas Gondor then proceeded to get its @$$ handed to them.
I don't remember American Graffiti well enough to say, but I've read that the heartbreak is pretty powerful when the mystery dream girl on the phone tells the Richard Dreyfuss character that he and she are not to be.
Is WhatCulture not allowed to actually play the scenes they describe? So many of these lists are just no audio clips with the narrator telling us what happened. I’d rather see the actual clips instead of someone reading it off a paper.
No offense to Midnight Run, which is definitely an amazing movie, but how can Avenger's Infinity War and Thanos' snap (and the resulting, dusty carnage) not be on this list at all???
I think that you are pushing some of these, especially the death of Gandolf considering it didn't mean all hope is lost. Just a beloved character supposedly dies. The one for me is from a TV show where Author Dent said so this is it we're going to die.
"long live the king..." except why be a king when you can be a God zzilla. "we're held on the gravitational field of the moon, what do we do???? .......wiiiiiiiiiii.....We Die!" the last starfighter.
J.R.R. Tolkien > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?) J.R.R. Tolkien “The Balrog reached the bridge. Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but in his other hand Glamdring gleamed, cold and white. His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. It raised the whip, and the thongs whined and cracked. Fire came from its nostrils. But Gandalf stood firm. 'You cannot pass,' he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. 'I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.' The Balrog made no answer. The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly onto the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall; but still Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm. From out of the shadow a red sword leaped flaming. Glamdring glittered white in answer. There was a ringing clash and a stab of white fire. The Balrog fell back and its sword flew up in molten fragments. The wizard swayed on the bridge, stepped back a pace, and then again stood still. 'You cannot pass!' he said. With a bound the Balrog leaped full upon the bridge. Its whip whirled and hissed. 'He cannot stand alone!' cried Aragorn suddenly and ran back along the bridge. 'Elendil!' he shouted. 'I am with you, Gandalf!' 'Gondor!' cried Boromir and leaped after him. At that moment Gandalf lifted his staff, and crying aloud he smote the bridge before him. The staff broke asunder and fell from his hand. A blinding sheet of white flame sprang up. The bridge cracked. Right at the Balrog's feet it broke, and the stone upon which it stood crashed into the gulf, while the rest remained, poised, quivering like a tongue of rock thrust out into emptiness. With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished. But even as it fell it swung its whip, and the thongs lashed and curled about the wizard's knees, dragging him to the brink. He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. 'Fly, you fools!' he cried, and was gone.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
@@johnburns9634 ...that's really an unnecessary amount of effort to demonstrate whether the film quote was right or not. If I could be semi-arsed I could just look up the clip on youtube to confirm it or not. In fact, I'll do it now. One moment please
Whatta you know, there's actually some controversy over whether he said "run" or "fly". I've watched that scene several times and I always heard "run". Fly seems like a stupid think to say because they can't although it sort of means flee, but run seems more likely as that is what they do. Then again, I don't really care.
