Amen-Moses

I'd vote for Bicentennial Man or AI.

(OK so I'm a big cry baby, bite me.)

Amen-Moses

Majestyk

Several moments come to mind from "Silent Running".

Dern's character, after murdering his crewmates to save the last scrap of flora and fauna left from the earth and now alone, engages in the same frivilous and disengaged behaviour for which he held his crewmates in disdain.

One of the little droids is lost to a shower of debris from Saturns rings and the remaining two droids seem to mourn its loss.

The last bit of forest is sent into "deep" space with one droid on board to tend it in solitude, forever.

cjack

I believe his last line was "take good care of the forest, Dewey..." right before he nuked himself.

Sad stuff indeed.

woodheart

Here are what I think would be the saddest moments in Sifi history.

Enemy Mine: Stranded on the planet two enemies must learn to survive together. But any way in this one it is when The the Drack dies in child birth leaving the human to raise a drack child alone.

Star Trek II: When Spock dies to save the ship.

Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi: Darth Vader die in Luke's arms.

Now as far as one Sifi death that did not effect me was in the last marix movie.

The death of Neo. But I will miss "Agent Smith" he was a damn good at being real bad.

nixon

In "The Day After" (1983 version, not the one out now), the part where the lady is out hanging her wash & she watches the missle being launched. (In conjunction with a scene earlier in the movie where she's waving to the military men at the missle silo).

Hyndis

The scene where the missiles takes off always gets me too. Its not the actual event, but its what is implied.

The destruction of all civilization, and probably extinction for homo sapiens, brought on by sheer paranoia.


In the movie "Atomic Cafe", which is a collection of cold war era propoganda, there's a similar scene, with clips of missile launches, people ducking and covering, and then a series of explosions. I think "Dr Strangelove" might also have a similar scene, but its been ages since I saw that movie.

Elrac

*batteries not included - When the baby alien dies, I mean they re assemble him, but still.

B5 - "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" - The one with the guy cataloging all of the stuff that happens after B5 was over. Then you find out it's because the sun is about to supernova, and he is actually the last person on earth sending off all of the information so it wouldn't be forgotten.( I agree with the other B5 ones also)

The last few episodes of Cowboy Beebop

-Elrac

Arctish

I agree that the end of Silent Running is one of the saddest scenes in scifi movies. I will also add a TV movie from the 1980s called Testament . It was broadcast about the same time as The Day After and has a similar theme. There are many sad and moving moments, but for me the saddest one is when the youngest child of the main character is dying of radiation sickness. The mom goes from desperate to despairing in tending her child. In the end she simply rocks him in her lap as he is dying. They quietly sing his favorite lullaby together. Just remembering it is bringing tears to my eyes. So very sad.

azidhak

Yes I too get a lump in the throat during that scene. I just wish he'd say "We live for the One, we die for the One!" instead of "in Valen's name"!
Haakon

wonkothesane

I know that he did, but I wonder if they didn't change a few things after his death...

I mean, I knida got the impression that they were trying to validate religious experiences, and paint faith as equal in some ways to science...Jodi's...er...Elie's testamony at the end parallels the precher's bit about how he found God...

I dunno, I just got rather mixed messages from the film...I wish that it had been a bit more hard-core atheist...not so wishy-washy...

- wonko