Parcher

What a great and powerful movie.

what images. what story. what performances.

A+++. Few movies make me cry...Schindler's List did.

Schindler's end speech and the very last shots before credits.

beautiful and so sad.

jfoobar

Schindler's end speech was, IMHO, the only real blemish on what was otherwise a wonderful film. I actually guffawed the first time I saw it and I left the theater with a strange craving for burnt ham.

The actual footage at the end of survivors and descendents placing stones on Schindler's grave is what bring the tears-a-wellin' more than anything else for me.

Jackskeleton

Well, looks like you failed the "Am I a robot" test because I can't imagine it not making someone tear up.

The Antipodean

Yeah, it got to me too (I actually have never watched it again since it came out because it was such a wrenching experience).

I remember at the time reading reports of some teens in the audiences actually laughing at the movie. Sadly I imagine that problem would be even worse were it released today... violence is apparently funny no matter what the context to some folks

Apone

I always skip that scene in the movie. It was like Anakin's speech about "sand" and once was enough for me.

cranberries fan

I have watch this movie about 4 times it should be a flim that everyone should watch in there lifetime.Now if they would please put out Holocaust (the Abc minseries)on dvd that would very nice see again.

Arpeggi

I thought the movie was A++++ hilarious.

PopcornTreeCt

It was just one of those movies just hammered in the same depressing point in every single scene. I've teared up in other films when it felt like the director wasn't forcing me to cry.

bunkaroo

A great film, no doubt.

However, as far as holocaust films go, I liked The Pianist more.

Supermallet

Then call me Batty because I thought this was one of the most baldly manipulative movies I've ever seen, and hated it. There are much better Holocaust movies out there than Schindler's List.

hardercore

I didn't cry -- it's certainly one of the most powerful films I've ever seen, but I don't tend to cry at films. It's still no less and emotionally wrenching experience though. People are comparing it to The Pianist - I liked the cinematography in that film and individual moments were shocking, but it pales in comparison to Schindler's List as an overall experience.

nateman

I didn't cry during Schindler's list but it was indeed a very moving & powerful movie. The only movie I have ever cried during was the end of The Green Mile when John Coffey was Excuted in the electric chair-That movie is the #1 most powerful movie of all-time in my opinion.

Jackskeleton

Well then, you must be a nazi-commi. Good day to you sir.

movielib

It is available from Amazon.fr. Region 2 of course. English soundtrack, no forced subtitles. I've got it.

http://www.amazon.fr/Holocauste-Coff.../dp/B0001ZF5AE

Parcher

I've read a lot about the gruesome details of the Holocaust... what happened. I've seen photos, images.

BUT... to see it on film like in Schindler's List is IMO much more moving and effective... not rationally... but emotionally. the Panist left me with quite an impression too.

His end speech really got to me, and the last images with the grave and the stones being placed really got to me.

Also, I am at a point in my life where I find it extremely unsettling and heart breaking that the Holocaust - or any other massacre - could take place, and to the extent it did.

Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley were excellent...just excellent in their roles. So was Ralph Fiennes.

Shannon Nutt

I didn't cry during Schindler's, but I did during E.T.

Guess I'm just goofy, that way.

Yavin

Batman and Robin made me cry, but for different reasons.

bigsoos

I heard its a good movie to make out in

Supermallet

GrimTangent

The speech Schindler gave before leaving the factory seemed awkward and unnatural to me as well. I've heard it somewhere that that was Neeson's and Spielberg's "give me an Oscar, dammit" speech.

Giles

the only scene that made me emotional was the scene where the contents of all the suitcases were being emptied and you could see the countless personal photos and mememto's being thrown aside.

Giles

I saw that movie with a friend and both he and I were really overcome by the film, it was extremely awkward since I'm the more emotional of the two, I've never seen my friend so emotional moved by a film since.

only one movie at the Palm Spring International Film Festival, 'This Little Life' about a couple and a soon to be born child, had me crying so much, you could have had a mop to clean up all my tears.

toddly6666

I watch Schindler's List once a year - a masterpiece and extreme tear-dripper, (I had the VHS tape too released in 1995), so I have seen the movie at least 14 times. But then again, I've seen The Matrix about 14 times as well...

Schindler's List is the best Holocaust movie - no other movie compares (inlcuding The Pianist, Life Is Beautiful, or Fateless). The worst Holocaust movie which was so bad and poorly miscast was The Grey Zone. I'm jewish, but I was laughing throughout this whole movie it was so stupid.

If you want to see a serious tear-dripper, rent the Japanese animated movie about the effects of the atomic bomb on a family - Graveyard of the Fireflies. This is a movie, not an anime. If one does not cry during this film, you then are an emotionless zombie.

Spanky BananaPants

Schindler's List is a movie I watch about once a year or so. But I really have to gear myself up to watching it--it's such a dark movie that I've got to be in the right frame of mind before viewing it. Still, I think it remains just as disturbing after multiple viewings as when I first saw it.

I've yet to see the ABC miniseries on The Holocaust. I was a little young when it first aired to really appreciate it. If they'd ever release it on R1 DVD, I'd pick it up in a heartbeat.

covenant

I saw that on TV when it originally aired. And as a kid I was shocked all the main characters ended up being killed. I'd never seen that before in the movies, usually they escape or were saved in the nick of time.

Welcome to reality.