Empire of the Sun (film)/YMMV

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1987 Steven Spielberg film.

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: meets Facing the Bullets One-Liner when Jim takes Basie back to his abandoned house to see if there's anything worth taking from it. Unfortunately, the house is no longer abandoned, but now quarters Japanese officers who proceed to beat the living shit out of Basie. He casually tosses Jim his aviator shades before the beatdown, with the line, "I want these back when they're done, kid!"
• Crowning Moment of Funny - Basie deadpans "I bet my Life", referring to his magazine.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming meets Crowning Music of Awesome - Suo Gan
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The choir scene at the start of the movie.
• Retroactive Recognition: Ben Stiller as one of the American prisoners of war.
• The Scrappy: Jim is an extremely annoying Spoiled Brat for the first half of the film.