Fav Scene From A Movie Ever!

[DarkMana]

whats your all-time favorite scene froma movie?
mines gotta be,

Lord of the rings: Return of the king;
when Legolas, Arigorn and Gimlie get off the ship and it looks as though there alone agains tons of orcs, then thousands of the undead soldieres seep through the ship walls and walk all over the mass amount of orcs!!!!

[N D Hill]

Alien: The chestburster scene.

Aliens: "Get away from her you bitch!"

Alien 3 (SE): Junior (the guy who attacked Ripley) lures the alien into the holding tank and Ripley closes the doors behind it, you can hear him screaming through the metal.

Alien resurrection: The chestburster that was inside Purvis comes out through Wren's face.

The Matrix: "Please remove any metalic items, keys, loose change... Holy shit!"

The Matrix Reloaded: The fight at the Merovingian's Chateau.

The Matrix Revolutions: The final battle between Neo and Agent Smith. Plus any scene with the sentinals fighting the APUs. The sentinals looked absolutely incredable.

2001: A Space Odyssee: Dave is shutting down HAL while his sings "Daisy." You actually feel pitty for him.

O'Brother where art thou: The Bible salesman beats them up, steps on the frog and takes their money... "You don't have to read'em to sell'em"

Saving Private Ryan: The D-Day invasion. It's the most overwhelming thing in the entire movie.

Pitch Black: When the aliens first break out of the rock spires as the suns are blocked out.

Gladiator: The battle of Germania.

Braveheart: Robert the Bruce, helps William Wallace escape after betraying him.

Jurassic Park: The Raptors make their first appearance in the Kitchen.

Jurassic park III: The battle between the spinosaurus and the rex. The rest of the movie sucked.

FOTR: When the Balrog makes his first appearance.

Two Towers: The face off at helms deep with the Uruk'hai, before the battle begins.

ROTK: Sam fights Shelob

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Lee Mu Bai avenges his master at the end.

Signs: The kid backs up against the grate and the alien's hand grabs his face. And the brother watching the news in the closet while they're reporting on the alien caught on tape in mexico.

The Brotherhood of the Wolf: The part when the beast of Gevoudan is cornered in the pit and attacked.

Spinal tap: They preform their song Stonehenge.

[Nimrod]

First one that came to mind was from Miller's Crossing, but prolly cause I just saw it the other day:
Bernie: 'Look in your heart! Look in your heart!!'
Tom: 'What heart?' BANG!!

can't forget:

Hard-Boiled: tracking shot following CYF's dive on the docks, when the mailbox or whatever blows up. Beautiful

Usual Suspects: when the coffee mug falls and shatters

Fist of Legend: Jet Li making American-style Boxing look like the most incredibly lethal fighting art ever devised and sucker-punching his best friend in the back of the head

[davi]

The Cell: "Where do you come from?!"

LOTR- RTOK: The scene where the Witch-king drops his war mace/flail

Snatch: basicly every scene

[RONIN]

Heat: The 7.5 minute gunfight through the streets of LA

True Romance: Clarence (Christian Slater) visits Drexel (Gary Oldman) and when Vincent (Christopher Walken) visits Cliff (Dennis Hopper)

State of Grace: Final gunfight scene in bar The camera is great but the sound editing REALLY is the best.

Braveheart: The Battle of Sterling

Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) and Officer Marvin Nash ... "Hello, can you hear me?!"

There are MANY more but these are off the top of my head that stand out.

[John]

I love stuff like the scene in Fight Club when Eddy Norton talks about his apartment, and the way it blows up for the photography; the slow motion scenes in FLCL for their humour; and last but not least Ripley in Alien chasing a huge monster with a tiny taser for whatever.
I also love the simpsons drug trips (fav: peyote jalapeno peppers).

[Crash]

alien: chestburster

matrix: the first time i saw bullet time, WHOA

crusty demons of dirt: seth enslows overshot in the desert 260+ feet

[DanSTC]

I really don't have a favorite scene. I have lots of favorite scenes though.

Here are a few:

In "Blue Velvet" when Dennis Hopper grabs the main character by the face and tells him "In dreams, you're mine."

Ghostbusters - Egon getting his pack switched on inside the elevator, and Ray/Peter fearfully backing away from the noise it emits. Also, every scene with Mr. Stay Puft and Slimer.

The methodical "cleanup" sequence following the shower scene in "Psycho." The aftermath is more exciting than the actual slaying to me, which is a continuity lover's wet dream. Why? Because it makes the actual slaying seem that much more a horrific "reality."

Night of the Living dead - "They're coming to get you, Barbara." and the lurching ghoul that actually *does* get Johnny.

Spartacus - "I'm Spartacus!" "I'm Spartacus!" "I'm Spartacus!" (etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.)

The "hospital trolly" sequence "Jacob's Ladder" where an abadoned hospital gradually turns into a hallucinatory living hell on earth with insane asylum patients, deformed human beings, bloodied strewn body parts, and finally, Jacob catching a glimpse of the disembodied trunk of a black man in an executioner's mask shaking his head in a barely visible blur.

Back to the Future, when Doc reacts to Marty's revelation that he's from the future.

Tron - Tron's introductory disc fight, and the lightcycle race.

Dr. Strangelove - "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is a war room!"

In "Ran" when the delirious king searches for a knife to commit hari-kari on himself, but can't find one, instead stumbling out between two lines of soldiers who used to fight for him that are now invading his castle, and off into the fields.

Blade Runner - The replicant death scene. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." More proof that the most effective special effects are those in your head.

"All that Jazz" when they intercut scenes of men talking casually about a business deal regarding the main character with unflinching shots of an actual open-heart surgery being performed on the main character.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's mine cart ride.

The Seven Samurai when Ichiro kills the bandit leader with the last of his strength. (I like the action in general in that movie; it's so brutal and unglamorous that it makes you hate war.)

And lastly...

Citizen Kane's famous "progression of time" sequence, ending with Kane's wife reading a competing newspaper.

Really, I could go on and on and on and on and on...

[AnarchyAo2]

Billy Madison: I loved about every scene from that movie. "I wanted a snack pack, why can't you just give me a SNACK PACK?!" "Billy, did you fall asleep by the pool...or did you pass out?"

"Its one of those flaming bags again!"
"Don't forget your boots Fred!"
"Don't tell me my business devil-woman! Call the fire department, this ones out of control! ....sniff sniff... Its dat poop again!"
"He called the shit, 'poop'!"
"I'll get you damn kids! You all gonna DIE!"

[epiphany]

LOTR-ROTK - "for frodo..."

Fight Club - "The first rule of fight club is..."

Equilibrium - "no.....not without incident"

Band of Brothers(ok I know this is no movie) - the whole jewish camp scene..

Bowling for Columbine - when Micheal Moore leaves the little girl's picture in front of Charlton Heston's House

51st State - every scene rocks

[geoffd]

cabin fever.
the whole freaking movie!! awesome
film

PANCAKES!!!!!!!!

[Aven]

The beginning of Waynes World. Two words. Bohemian Rhapsody :D

[John]

Aven: Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the greatest moments in movie history :D
I used to be dj at a small pub here for some time with a friend of mine, and at ~3 am we'd always play that song and bang our heads like it was 1992 :D
I still got the video tape here, it's a terrible neon yellow. God, i was 11 when that came out... and i must have seen the movie at least 6 times in the last 12 years... along with Bill & Ted... i guess i'm conditioned to behave like an idiot. ROCK! VAN HALEN! AC/DC!

Edit: I just saw PhilHolland post about Road to Perdition and i had to add this, the scene when they arrive in chicago is brilliant; the shot in which the camera circles the car from front to back, showing first a bored tom hanks and kid, then the kid becomes aware of the city reflected in the windows, and finally the camera has turned around 180 degrees and reveals the skyline of the city... made me shiver.

[PhilHolland]

Too many to list. I'll post them as I think of them. Very good ones already mentioned too.

Tombstone - (2 scenes)
-After Wyatt does his walk on water thing - Doc Holiday, "Wyatt Earp's my friend", "Hell, I got lots of friends", Doc, "I don't".
-Doc Holiday's showdown with Ringo. Especially the shot before the face reveal, where his hat is just still hiding his face......

Desparado - Opening story scene & "Let's play".

Godfather I & II - Too many to list. Vito's first kill in II is really great. Oh, and don't forget horsehead from I.

The Abyss - Lot's in this one. Especially the ring in the doorway. The cinematics in this flick are insane. Watch the use of the color red.... Also, the first contact scene.

Lost in Translation - It's the little details and expressions that make this movie. I recently saw it and am impressed with shots that contain no dialogue.

Jurassic Park - This was the movie that made me want to work in visual effects. When the T-Rex roars at the end of the first movie I got chills. I couldn't believe that my childhood fascination with dinosaurs would ever be so "real".

Star Wars IV - Darth vs. Obi
Trench run. Just so many out of the IV,V, & VI. Darth's death scene. The emotion that motionless black plastic eyes displayed was brilliant. Another movie that really made me want to get into vfx.

Goonies - When they first see the ship in the cave.

Amadeus - Salieri as Mozart's "father" in the doorway/hallway. AMAZING.

Young Sherlock Holmes - Lot's of stuff. Stained glass knight, etc...

Indiana Jones - Adventure at it's best. Really the shots showing Indiana's decision making and some of the best action directing I've seen. Great pacing too.

The Mummy - Dear lord. My fescination with Egypt's gonna kill me one day. The movies are lame, but make up for it in the pacing. Similar style to Indiana Jones.

(NOT A MOVIE) Stargate SG1 - Probably the most underated show I've seen. It's pretty corny sometimes, but the damn stories, the plot, the fact that it's really original everytime through the gate, and the long term story lines. Gah! I love it.

Road to Perdition - Bullet through the rear window in car chase.

Saving Private Ryan - Death scene mentioned already, but the Omaha run. The audio/visual effect with the camera above and below water. Also, a lot of set driven scenes that were really, really amazing.

Alien - Tunnel.

Event Horizon - Corridor shots. Use of darker colors. Spooky atmosphere.

Matrix - Real worl/Matrix color schemes. Blue/Red, and Green/Yellow.

Titanic - When the ship is pointed up, the shear terror of people falling to their deaths.

Excalibur (1981) - A lot of it. I cannot hear "O' Fortuna" without thinking of this movie.

Batman - The first one. Bruce in the cave.... A couple of those shots. Jack made the movie as the Joker though. The tower sequence is good.

A.I. - The pan of the futuristic city where Jude has his animated monologue.

Lord of the Rings - Way too many to list. Most of the shots with the Ring Wraiths and the Witch King stand out. Also, the scale shots with characters entering locations were really well done.

Fight Club - Pretty much all of this movie. Possibly the best stylized flick I've seen. Great use of color. I want you to hit me as hard as you can.

Wow. I don't even think I've scratched the surface....

Phil

[LEN]

Last scene from Good Will Hunting

[AndreasM]

The others: The outside scenes, showing the house and the part when the fog is tightening..

[Marcatili]

Jacobs Ladder...man what a disturbing movie!
I loved the scene in that where Jacob's lover Jezebel strokes his back with her foot while they're sitting on the bed...but in actual fact it's a midget's leg! The shot is fairly short so you don't realise what's wrong straight away...the film is full of stuff like that.

Braveheart- where his wife is killed...ooh you just wanna get that fat guy who kills her...

Saving Private Ryan- Omaha Beach (recently discovered the photography of Robert Capa, a war photographer who was amongst the first wave of troops to hit Omaha Beach...intense)

The Elephant Man- Where Anthony Hopkins walks through the streets of London at the beginning- the sound design is awesome

The Big Lebowski- where the Sherriff of Malibu suddenly throws his coffee mug right into the Dude's forehead.
In fact there are heaps of scenes in this film I love.

Apocalypse Now- opening titles, scenes with Kurtz, destruction of Kurtz's temple complex

Requiem for a Dream- I love this film because I can only bear watching it once.

Waking Ned Devine- Naked old man on a motorbike!

Star Wars Ep1- Darth Maul Sabre battles. Maul brought so much vitality to the concept of Jedi lightsabre battles. Too bad about the rest of the movie.

Tron- lightcycle scene.

LOTR ROTK- Mordor/ Mount Doom- The Witch King

Fight Club- the use of media references as narrative elements.

Seven- not any particular scene, just the mood of the shots used, cinematography and set design

there are so many more...oh well

[Wizard of KOZ]

The Princess Bride, the Sword Fight scene on the Cliffs of insanity.

As well as the Fight between Inigo and Count Rugen
"I want my father back you SON OF A BITCH!"

The whole movie just plain rocks out.

[Payback]

The matrix - lobby scene

The Exorcist - "what a wonderful day for an exorcism".

Monty Python & holy grail - the bridge-crossing scene.

Tron - Lightcycle race

Eyes Wide shut - the orgy scene. :p

2001 - "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave" -scene.

Barry Lyndon - the duel between Barry and his step-son.

The Shining - The scene where Nicholson goes after his wife up the stairs.

Taxi Driver - "You talking to me?"

The Crow - The scene where he takes out the gangleader in his car.

Two Towers - Gollums schizo-scene.

[Skank]

Boondock Saints, couple from this movie.
THE CAT!!! lol and the scene where willam dafoe (sp) is in drag, and he sits up with his gun and shoots the dude in the head, all the while flapping his lips...freakin hilarius...hehe

Star wars.....wow..so many..
Ep 4-5-6 respectively: the trench scene at the end, all of han solos reactions to situations (in all the movies)
the AT_AT battle on hoth, and the final lightsaber battle with luke and vader. the speeder bike chase on endor, and the final space battle...i LOVE that scene when all the tie fighters peel off and attack.
Ep. 1-2: darth mauls fight, all of it...so cool. YODA!!! fuckin awsome...that little booger made the movie...

LOTR: umm...wow...the ones that stand out are in the first one, after gandalf falls, the emotion gets me everytime. and boramirs death scene is quite well done . and in ROTK, the cavalry charge and the charge of the olyphants....amazing stuff...

13th warrior, when Buliwyf whacks the chief off his horse...i love that shit...lol

indiana jones..
harrison fords expressions make these movies what they are... in last crusade, when he pegs 3 guys with one shot, priceless!

ok..im sure i could go on...but i wont.



:chug:

[RETEP]

LOTR fellowship of the ring-when gandalf is standing on the bridge and tells barlog "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!", just love it.

fight club- when tyler uh, jack shoots himself in the head. BRILLIANT.

amelie- when she makes this guy go through a scavenger hunt to get his photo album back.

matrix- the sparing match between neo and morphius

snacth- the final boxing match with micky

matrix revolutions-when neo and trinity are making there way to the robot city and have to go up through the clouds, the sky is breath taking, and its such a contrast in colors compared to the rest of the films, its perfect.

[Jebus]

Predator: "doc, ur bleedin'" "I ain't got time tah bleed"

Predator "CONTAAAACT", and then a whole tropical rainforest is cut down by painless, the best minigun in a movie ever :cool:

[nor]

only one I can pull outta my head that's recent

ROTK- When Faramir and his company charge to retake Osgilliath, Pippin is singing and Denethor stuffs his face. I thought that was beautiful.

[geoffd]

didn't see this one....
Full Metal Jacket - This first 40 minutes or so... awesome!

[Nimrod]

[R. Lee Ermey] GET UP! GET ON YOUR FEET! [/R. Lee Ermey]

[Calle_]

The boondock saints: Vent scene to slaughter

The boondock saints: Where he ripps the toilet of the floor

KillBill: The showdown

As dav said, Snatch: alot of them =)

cant think of anything more though

[Hanuka]

While reading through this thread, i had so many flashbacks - simply fun :) sorry, if i repeat some:

as capt. harlock said: the first half of full metal jacket is _awesome_. Private Pauler's suicide is one of the most moving scenes i remember in movie history.

reservoir dogs - their debate about giving tips. tarantino-style =)

2001 - A Space Oddyssey: the muted scene as well as the end with dave shutting down HAL. Oh, and the whole beginning including the famous match-cut :D this movie is just too good.

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back: "Darth Vader: No, Luke... I am your father!"

There are so many more, maybe ill add some later. no time.

[NoUseFrAName]

Contact: "...approximately 18 hours of static?"

-Rob

[pvrhye]

I like the fight from the first 10 or so minuites of the movie adaptation of Escaflowne.

My second pic would be The fight scene where Ed Norton beats his won ass in the office in fight club.

[FunkYeti]

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back: "Darth Vader: No, Luke... I am your father!"

Greatest scene in movie history!!!!!!

Monty Pythons Life of Brian - the crucifixtion at the end
The Proffesional - When he gets shot by Gary Oldman
X2 - when wolvie stabs that guy up against the fridge and in fact the whole scene where he just cuts loose.
Feddy Vs. Jason - When they step up to each other at the end.

Ep II - when Yoda wips out the lightsaber, unbelievable.
And I'm sure a lot more plus most of them have been listed already.

[gallon]

resovair dogs- Mr. Orange undercover-story (lavatory-pot-selling)

Lock, stock and two smoking barrels- The girl with the Bren gun

Freaks- gabba gabba hey, you're one of us

Dawn of the dead- (well, whats not to like)- when they run through the ware house in the shopping cart

oh, terminator 2- when arnold steps on the rose- (first confrontation T-1000--T-800)

[Max Rockatansky]

Alien->Chestburster and entering the alien ship.
Aliens->the bishop in half scene
Roadwarrior-> "you wanna get out of here? You talk to me"
Thunderdome->Gyro man "Between us and them there's not enough space"
max-"There will be"
Blade Runner-> the final scene
matrix->trinity-"Dodge this"
Close encountours->the inicial scene where they find old planes in the desert like they were new
the abyss->the scene where they try to revive the character of mary elisabeth mastro antonio...very powerful
predator->"if it bleeds we can kill it"

[nil]

Titus - the scene where Titus' daughter is atop the tree stump with no tongue, hands etc.

Cannibal: The Musical - "Lets build a snowman!" and "Lets build a snowman - reprise"

The Last Boyscout - "Touch me again and I'll kill ya."

[edit: had to add, also the scene in Cannibal where Packer comes back to camp after checking out the ridge. He looks around camp and we get flashes of hacked off limbs and heads to Hitchcokian violins. "Heh..what're you guys doin?"]

[Nadim]

-Modern Times - Every single scene (Chaplin was a genius).

-Scent of a woman - Tango Dance.

-The Untouchables - "Enthusiasm . enthusiasm ...enthusiasm "

-Gladiator - Wife and son dead - crying at her feet .

-Psycho - The Shower Scene .

-Godfather I - "Bonasera... Bonasera... What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?".

-I have to agree with davi on SNATCH and with philholland on FIGHT CLUB

-Mystic river - Every Sean Penn scene.

Good Will Hunting - "Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. "


Can't think of more yet I know there is - I 'll be back

[JackalAnubis]

the game-when mike falls off the building after shooting sean penn

rules of attraction- the whole europe montage

labyrinth-when the camera pans and that rock face is 3 differnt rocks

cowboy bebop (not really a movie I guess) - when julia gets shot

metropolis- when the tower blows up

the prophecy- when that girl in the sleeping bag explodes (a laugh and a half)

matrix reloaded-the highway scene

there are more but I can't remember

[artisant]

Godfather 1: When Marlon Brando (Vito) smacks up Al Martino telling him to be a man.

and When Al Pacino (Michael) is at his nephew's baptism and his goons take out the guy in the staircase, massage parlor, revolving door and in bed.

Godfather II: "What's your father's name?" - "Antonio Andolini. *stab*"

Godfather III: When the credits rolled. Thank god that piece of shit film ended.

Matrix : BULLET-TIME!!!

Matrix Reloaded : Every scene with Monica Bellucci.

Matrix Revolutions : When the Machines broke into Zion and flooded the dock. Holy Bejeezus.

Leon : When Jean Reno (Leon) hands Gary Oldman the grenade at the end.

Gladiator : When Russel Crowe (Maximus) reveals himself to Joaquin Phoenix (Caesar) at the Colisseum. "...Father to a Murdered son, Husband to a Murdered Wife..."

Tomb Raider 1, 2, Bone Collector and Taking Lives : When Angelina Jolie is running .... *drool* God bless Gravity

Blade Runner : The dying Android Speech at the end...

Wizard of OZ : *points* LOOK! THE MIDGET HUNG HIMSELF!

Kill Bill : Every scene... especially... Animated O-ren Part.

Terminator 2 : "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Pootie-Tang : Everytime Pootie talked...

Zoolander : Everytime Ben Stiller talked...

Last Samurai : When they killed Bob... damn that was sad...

The Passion of the Christ : *blank*..... I remember blood...

Finding Nemo : Anything but the beginning! DAMN THAT WAS DEPRESSING. Oh, watch the movie in french its hilarious. The seagulls say "Amoi! Amoi! Amoi!" instead of "Mine! Mine! Mine!"

Dawn of the Dead : Every scene. Damn that was a funny movie!

The Green Mile : "Sure just put the into a nice cigar box...make it look all pretty and comfy" HAHAHAHAH!

Castaway : Wilson deserves a fucking Oscar!

Schindler's List : When they all visited Schindler's Grave... Touching and Moving.... The scene I mean...

Monster's inc : The Bloopers on the DVD

Full Metal Jacket : "I AM GUNNERY SEARGENT HART!!!" Classic gold.

Platoon : The scene where they gut messed up by that one chick sniper..

Saving Private Ryan : Omaha Beach Invasion and when the sniper would say a prayer before he shot... awesome...

The Crow : "Jesus Christ walked into a hotel, handed the keep three nails and asked: COULD YOU PUT ME UP FOR THE NIGHT?"

Coming To America : Every scene! Especially the end..

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon : That whole running thing in the air cracks me up everytime...

Honey, I shrunk the Kids : When Anty died... I almost cried...

The Shining : HEEEEEEERE's JOHNNY!

IT : That movie still scares me...

The Exorcist : Everytime she threw up that green stuff, I had a craving for Avocado...

Germlins : Gizmo!

[mtw]

From Saving Private Ryan, I really like the beginning and ending battles.

In one of the ski films I have, one of the skiers has a part where he does a little bit of skiing to a cliff and then BASE jumps off them. I get goosebumps every time I see him jump of those huge cliffs; it must be such a rush.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Just about everyone in here has mentioned most of my favorite scenes. I'll add,

Terminator 1 - When we first see the Terminator for the first time without his flesh, right after he gets blown up in the truck.

Matrix Reloaded - Burly Brawl, Neo has to fight hundreds of Smiths, (MORE SPECIFICALLY, the part where Neo pulls the poll from the ground and gives the Smith's a hardcore beat down everytime the camera slows down for the big hits Neo gives, along with the chorus singing to add to the grandess of Neo's hardcore blows.)

Fist Of Legend - The Last battle with the General. Extremely well done fighting choreography, and realism.

Gorgeous - A Jacky Chan movie. It's not very good, but it has a mind boggling AMAZINGLY well done fight scene between Chan and a short Kick boxer. More specifically, when the Kick boxer easily and unexpectedly jumps in the air and does a 5 or 6 multi air kick combo as he floats through the air towards Jackie's head, (you can tell there were no ropes), and continued to fight easily right after he landed, and the fight just kept on going!

Close Encounters - When you first see the massive ship at the end.

Indiana Jones Raiders - The entire truck scene where Indy has to fight his way onto the truck, and beat all of the soldiers in it from the drivers seat. Nicely planned. Specifically when the 'last boss' music starts up as the last soldier makes his way to the front of the truck to fight Indy.

LOTR'S Return of the King (Cartoon) - When Frodo puts on the ring, goes completely mad, and destroys all of the Orcs, making you feel terrified and bad for the Orcs instead of him.

STARWARS (JEDI) - When Luke fights Darth Vader, the music brings the evil in that scene to reality.

Poltergist - When the parents and crew step into Carlolan's bedroom for the second time, and see the violent vortex and it's winds spinning wildly in the child's closet.

The Ring - The last scene when the evil girl Samara steps from the TV screen to kill Aidan.

AI - The scene towards the end were the boy was under water and couldn't-nor wanted to go anywhere as he kept asking for Blue Fairy.

Pulp Fiction - The cheese burger scene.

Scarface - "Say hello to my little friend" That enitre scene up to when he get shot.

Star Trek Motion Picture - The V-Ger fly over, when Kirk and crew first get through Vger's incredible cloud shield and fly's over the Vger star ship which is so big it makes the Enterpise look like a speck of dust.

EDIT - I forgot to mention....LOST HIGHWAY - The scene where Mr. Eddie goes berserk on that bad driver.

artisant -
Matrix Reloaded : Every scene with Monica Bellucci.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! She's incredible.

[Nadim]

"Me? I'd be very careful who I talked

to about this. It sounds like

someone dangerous wrote it... someone

who might snap at any moment,

stalking from office to office with

an Armalite AR-10 Carbine-gas

semiautomatic, bitterly pumping round

after round into colleagues and co-

workers.


"Might be someone you've known for

years... somebody very close to you.

Or, maybe you shouldn't be bringing

me every little piece of trash you

pick up.

Ed norton.

[Forge]

wayne's world : The delaware scene "ooh we are in Delaware......... it's fun the Delaware....."
can't forget that :D

[fletchgirl]

ohh... man.... some of the ones on here gave me chills just reading about them!


2001- yes, HAL getting shut down, but just as much when you realize HAL's been reading their lips in the pod... eeeeeeee.

The Deer Hunter- russian roulette

Blues Brothers- well all of it, but the biggest car chase ever comes to mind. "Use of unnecessary violence while apprehending the Blues Brothers has been approved." :)

Jaws- Roy Scheider nervous on the beach.

The Iron Giant- Hogarth praying.

Close Encounters- When Richard Dreyfuss waves the "car" around him, and you see it fly away.

[cybercyst]

oh wow. That's a tough one....

But the first one that came to my head was the Government Lobby scene in the first Matrix.

[young paddy1]

equillibrium: every fight especially the killing of his rival who reckons he's the best

matrix: subway fight

matrix reloaded: the freeway in general

matrix revolutions: the sentinals vs the whole populus of zion

terminator 2: Arnie shooting his pie dish gun at the T1000, the truck chase, and the look on T1000's face when he realises it's an explosive shell

Ep1 PM: the maul, QGJ and OB1 fight

EP2 AOTC: the whole arena battle sequence and the yoda fight

FOTR: mines of moria battle

TTT: helms deep

Akira: when tetsuo squishes the doctor and guards in the corridor, kaneda surfing the huge lump of tarmac

[Humtuk]

terminator 3: when clair danes father gets shot, i hope that if i ever get shot i make that face

pulp fiction:"im a mushroom cloud layin motherfucker motherfucker, every time my ass touches brain im superfly tnt" best movie quote of all time

when the ents marched on isengard in the two towers

the scene in kung-pow when master tang was remembering when a good friend of his told him that there would be a chosen one

monty python and the holy grail, the whole lancealot story

predator, when arnold says "get to da choppa", and anything that had to do with the predator

[Spacemanchuck]

The intro scene to Ralph Bakshi's

<-----------WIZARDS

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[Justme]

I'm way out of my league here. I still think The Lion in Winter (1968?) had some of the best dialogue of all time. Incredible film.

I like all kinds of film but really powerful drama and classic actors put certain types of film in a league all their own.
They're eternal.

I guess that's why Shakespeare is still alive and a challenge to stage and film.

[Beatnik]

I'd have to say almost any scene in the Blues Brothers but here are a few I really liked.

- When Jake and Elwood went to get Matt Guitar Murphy and John Lee Hooker was playing in the street. Loved that scene.

-The car chase

-When they drive through the mall and the cops are chasing them

-The scene where Ray Charles does Tailfeather and the entire block is out dancing

hmmm this could go on forever.

Also, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Twist and shout scene on with the parade.

The Shining.. room 237 and those damn little girls freak me out to this day

Fight Club - when he beats his own ass to get the free paycheck

Galaxy Quest when Tech Sgnt Chen beams up the pig lizard and it is turned inside out, then explodes.

Matrix - lobby scene

Pretty much the entire thing of Ninja Scroll


Pulp Fiction when he has a bite of the Kahuna burger and also when uma od's and they put the needle thru her heart. Freaky. Too many other scenes to list in that flick.

Fun to read everyone's favs. Keep em coming :beer:

[SirRon]

Aliens: When Bishop does his knife trick.

Hard-Boiled: Every gun fight. John Woo!!!

Matrix Reloaded: The sex orgy scene (just kidding :))

Schindler's List: I want to cry everytime I think about the scene when Schindler says he could have saved more.

"Schindler: This car. Goeth would've bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people, right there. Ten people, ten more people...(He rips the swastika pin from his lapel) This pin, two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would've given me two for it. At least one. He would've given me one. One more. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could've gotten one more person and I didn't."

:cry:

[Nimrod]

Unquestionably the finest piece of filmmaking ever -

the first 15 minutes of Once Upon a Time in the West.

Sergio Leone is my hero.

Other recent faves are the opening scenes from Wim Wender's Wings of Desire; also from that film the scene with the angel in the car, where the driver drives through modern day Berlin, but the angel sees WW2 Berlin out the windows.

And from Hellboy: 'It's for YOU!!' and 'You damned monster!!!' Instant classic one-liners.

[Sammy]

Laurence of Arabia: The whole damn thing... :eek: Tyboogie knows what I'm talkin' 'bout...

BABE pig in the city: when Flealick, the little paralized terrier gets hit by the truck and dreams he's in doggie heaven chasing butterflies.... :cry: And when Theloneus the noble chimp insists on dressing up before escaping.

Triumph of the Will: The disturbingly cheery nazi training camp.

Stargate: The camera zooming up revealing Anubis's first victory pose :eek:

The way things go: how the whole artsy fartsy sciency 45 min long chain reaction ends...

Little Shop of Horrors: The first time Frank Oz' Twoie talks and the whole 'feed me' break into song.... and the huge puppet at the end manned by 33 people!

Howard the Duck: Phill Tippets creepy ass stop-motion monster at the end that scarred us all as children...

Starship Troopers: Sunny Clindathune battle scene, bugs.

Matrix Revolutions: The epic Zion battle!!! EAC owes me some new pants.

Episode II: Finally getting to see a fleet of Jedi whoop some ass.

... and lots more ... and just about what everyone in this thread has mentioned.

[fletchgirl]

speaking of first scenes, the first 5-10 minutes of Bottle Rocket is fricken hilarious. :cool: haha, Owen Wilson Trying to break Luke Wilson out of a hostpital the day he's getting out anyway :D as a whole though, i like the other Wes Andersen films more... esp. Royal Tannebaums. a lot of scenes in that are great too.

[Alex Outbreak]

I know some of this will sound a little campy, but eh...

Any of the musical scenes in Nightmare Before Christmas. I adore that movie.
The Pei Mai flashbacks in Kill Bill volume II
When Rocky fights the Russian in Rocky IV
The bare knuckle boxing matches, and when the Pikeys get their revenge in Snatch
The "tip" arguement in Reservoir Dogs
Almost any scene from Pulp Fiction

[hito]

This, I went back to see 4 times.

Theoden: Arise! Arise! Riders of Theoden! Spears shall be shaken! Shields shall be splintered!
[As he rides in front of Eowyn she turns to hide her face.]
Theoden: A sword day! A red day! Ere the sun rises!
[The Orcs form ranks.]
Eowyn: Merry, stay with me. I will look after you.
[Theoden rides down the spears.]
Theoden: Ride Now! Ride now! Ride! Ride to ruin and the world's ending! Death!
Rohirrim: Death!
[Eowyn gasps.]
Theoden: Death!
Rohirrim: Death!
Theoden: Death!
Rohirrim: Death!
Merry and Eowyn: Death!
Theoden: Forth Eorlingas!
[The horns sound. The Rohirrim shout and charge toward the orcs' line.]

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[dfacto]

After very uncareful calculations:

LOTR:TTT - When the Rohirrim ride in and mop up the Uruk-hai.

LOTR:ROTK - Charge of the Rohirrim

(what can I say, I'm a sucker for chargers :D )

Matrix - when Smith backs Neo into a wall and pummels him with blazing speed. What the final fight scene should have been, but wasn't.

Matrix:Reloaded - When Neo bursts out of the building so fast it explodes. Nothing special in theory, but I've never stopped and rewatched any other movie explosion. This one just really did it for me. As a lover of explosions, I was thrilled to see them get it right.

Snatch - Boris the blade, all scenes.

[treeboy]

ROTK: when the camera pans across the assembled Rohirrim and you can finally see just *how many* there are. And then the actual charge where they just go flashing across the screen and the orcs go from looking haughty and superior to this sorta *oh shit* expression and then theyre just swept away by Rohan.

RoTJ: The final saber fight between Vader and Luke. Specifically the parts when Luke is up on the catwalk and he and vader are talking. And then the very final part after Luke screams 'never.' the music along with the lightsaber action is some of the best cinematography i can think of.

best line though goes to Vader (mainly due to James E-Jones awesome voice acting):

"Your thoughts betray you, father. I feel the good in you...the conflict."
"There is no conflict."

[Bad_Kat]

Eurotrip: The robot street performer fight.

[Diesel]

"Lock, stock and two smoking barrels"... i don't remember it frame by frame...but one woman gets knocked down by some bad guys , she gets up after a while, picks up one hell of a british machine gun and when she starts shooting, the camera goes into slo mo , and what a slo mo scene it was ! i have to say that not even the Matrix trilogy wasn't able to come with something better than that... i remember watching the movie several times over just for that scene.. awesome !

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Humtuk wrotepulp fiction:"im a mushroom cloud layin motherfucker motherfucker, every time my ass touches brain im superfly tnt" best movie quote of all timeHAHAHAHA! I forgot about that line.

[bRyaN]

Originally posted by MIKECORRIERO
BOONDOCK SAINTS...every other scene has some great stuff,

When Rocco tells his Joke to the Italian Boss

When Rocco Hits the gun and the cat explodes and he says..I'm hit..I'm hit...is it dead?

The shootout with Willem Dafoe reinacting the scene while it's going on in the same {shot} " There was a Fire Fight"

HELL YES!!! That movie was awesome on soo many levels...

[strych9ine]

"I'll have a Coke, then."

[Farvus]

I'm bumping this thread beacause I just found on youtube one of the movie scenes that I always loved.

It's from "1492: Conquest of paradise" when they discover land.

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Awesome music and imagery put togeter into something epic.

[tomwaits4noman]

Top 5 would be

1. Millers Crossing... The scene/s between Johnny Caspar and Tom Regan where Casper is trying to find out where Casper is trying to find out where Regans loyalties lie and Casper's child enters the room "poppa Poppa," to be smacked by
Casper and the child starts crying,

brilliantly acted, great dialogue , your never quite sure who is in control in the scene tension and comic moments etc.

2. Brazil

Could pick 3/4 of the film, possibly The "Father Christmas" scene where Helpmann visits Sam after his booking, Helpmann is dressed as Santa Claus.

Its so surreal and dark

3. Pi

The sequence where Max Cohen is walking through the city and its just shots of the city, people in the park doing tai chi

4. Delicatessen

The montage scene with the bed springs etc

5. Old Boy

Dae-su is set free on the rooftop of a building from a suit case

[Jabo]

Heat
When hell breaks loose after the police has spotted the crew leaving the back, Tom Sizemore picks up a little girl and takes her hostage. Pacino comes around the corner, unsighted and there's this slow-motion shot of him lifting his gun and turning his head to loosen up his neck, peeking through the ironsights. That always gives me the chills, as well as sizemore falling after he's been shot in the head.

Leon
Leon pushing Mathilda into the air vent and her trying to get out because she realizes that he can't come with him. Tears in my eyes, every single time.

Sunshine
When the ship encounters Mercury. Beautiful cinematography. Especially moving when you're in theaters and the whole room falls silent to sit and stare.

28 Weeks Later
The last motion-shaken scene of the infected running out of the underground towards the eiffel tower. The moment I saw it, I wanted to watch 28 Months Later.

Abyss
Everything.

High Fidelity
John Cusack screaming in front of Catherine Zeta-Jones' window.

[Ilaekae]

Under Siege--when Gary Busey in hooker makeup and a set of fake boobs looks up from a desk at Tommy Lee Jones and asks, "Do I look like I need psychiatric help?!?!"

The baptism/assassination intercut scene from the Godfather.

War Games--"Let's play total nuclear war."

Quigley down under--the final death scene, "I never said I couldn't use a handgun. I said I didn't like them."

Final Destination--the teacher's death scene--a massacre staged by the Marx Brothers.

[Dan!]

Last of the mohicans- final chase up the mountain with just the theme playing.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels- big chris and little chris interrogating the guy in the tanning booth. Bren gun scene.

Belly- intro scene, method man finding out he was drugged and unloading in the strip club only to get shotgunned out the door. Ox explaining his love for soccer.

Snatch- bullettooth tonys "replica" speach.

LOTR- crossing by the back gate to mordor - frodo gets a little dizzy- ethereal energy cracks open the gates , the witch king flies out on his nazgul and it screams in the camera-screeeeeeeeeeeee

The Crow- the gun fight to "my life with the thrill kill kult"..and "i know you..you're dead..you don't come back(ducttaped to the car filled with explosives)

Legend- inside hells "kitchen"

Man on Fire- when Denzel trades himself for the girl

The animatrix- "kill em alll, kill em all" rise and fall of the robots episode

O Brother Where Art Thou- Well, isnt this place a geographical oddity- two days from everywhere. and the scene with john goodman.

House of a thousand corpses- the ending sequence..I'm sorry- I loved it.

The fifth element- which ones the leader?

Collateral- when he offs the two thugs for taking his stuff.-tap-tap..tap-tap.

Constantine- the scene with Gabriel and the devil.

[seba_boi]

These are the first two that popped into my head:

1. The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa, 1960) - The Wedding Banquet

In my opinion, the best opening scene I've ever seen in a movie... It's rightly hailed as a tour-de-force of direction, editing, pacing, plot revelation, acting, intrigue, choreography, and whatnot as it's just awesome... I have seen and studied this scene more than twenty times for the past month... Too bad the rest of the movie kinda pales in comparison...

2. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) - Mrs. DeWinter's long walk down the stairs

This is suspense at its most simplest and most brilliant form... And when I say simple, it's extremely simple... Yet Hitchcock managed to make the scene work--for the SECOND TIME in the same movie--and even BETTER!.... Okay, enough with the caps, but seriously, if you've been paying attention even the slightest to the story, it's hard to take your eyes off the this particular scene...

[Vulgar`]

Blade - The scene where Whistler puts the gun to his head and says "Now walk away... you stupid son of a bitch. Walk the fuck away..." and Blade turns away with vengeance in his eyes. The entire movie is a masterpiece of action.

Powder - The scene at the end where Powder is roughly carried outside of the school, humiliated, stripped of his clothes, and thrown into a puddle of mud. The music, sense of power, and visuals are incredible.

Shawshank Redemption - Red's sleepless night before Andy escapes.

Coming to America - The barbershop scenes.

The Fifth Element - "Aziz... light!" and everything else, pretty much. The movie was a futuristic vision - silly heroic premise/action or not.

Platoon - When Barnes looks like a cyborg in the reddened glow of the explosion in the jungle, about to murder Taylor.

Predator - "You're one ugly motherfucker"

Billy Elliot - The scene where Billy's dad is hacking apart his mother's piano for firewood.

The Ninth Gate - Sex scene at the end.

All I can think of right now.

[Snarfevs]

Falling Down: Foster's suicide-by-cop. "I would've gotcha"
That movie had so many excellent moments.

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[Mossi]

Weird place for a first post, but my fav´s the whole Opera scene in the fifth element.

Oh yeah and: Hello everybody! Great to be amongst ya´ll (freakishly talented) artists :)

[N D Hill]

Alien The Chestburster Scene

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly "You see, there are two kinds of people in the world my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig."

Monty Python and the Holy Grail "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"

Seven Samurai Kikuchiyo's martyrs himself to kill the leader of the bandits

Ran The Daimyo goes insane as the the castle is under Siege by archers. (A parallel to the storm scene from King Lear)

Bladerunner Tyrell's death scene.

Pan's Labyrinth The Pale Man's scene.

[Flake]

Last of the Mohicans- Mountain chase at the end.

Matrix "He is The One"..

Equilibrium- "No, not without incident"..

first ones out of my head but there are probably hundreds more..

[Jabo]

Panic Room: The camera flight through the whole house. I think I have to eloborate on this:

1. The narrative in this scene is mindblowing. You see the residents sleeping in their beds and next, you see all of the burglars roaming around the house, peeking through windows, breaking doors. All in one move.

2. The way the camera moves is just so much fun. The first time I saw it in cinema, I instantly wanted to push rewind and watch it again. The way the camera flies over the table, just an inch above the surface makes it look like a landscape instead of your ordinary living room.

3. Lighting. There's a lot of things I love about Fincher/Khondji, but their lighting is always so crystal clear and moody. These guys constantly amaze and Khondji is a big idol to me.

se7en: Intro and mood in the rainy scenes + library. Again, Fincher/Khondji.

Starship Troopers: "Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order."

[Grumbledook]

Pan's Labyrinth The Pale Man's scene.

how did this take till page 3 to get mentioned ;o

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[arttorney]

A Clockwork Orange- "I was cured all right!"

Dr. Strangelove- "Heck I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nukler combat."

North by Northwest- Cary Grant tells the cop "I'm a dangerous assassin. I'm a mad Killer on the loose!" and the cop just tells him "You outta be ashamed of yourself."

Big Trouble in Little China- The alley fight where the three storms show up.

Mystery Men- the Shoveler defeats nearly the entire Disco Boys gang single handedly.

[Steph Laberis]

From My Neighbor Totoro:

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If you're not getting shivers when that tree starts growing, you have no soul. <3

[KingUnicorn]

This put my childhood into a tailspin:

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~KU

[Jabo]

KingUnicorn: Everything in The Thing is golden. Thanks for bringing this up!

This is the scene from Panic Room btw:

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[deadred]

Sweeney Todd, shaving contest (sorta-spoiler in vid)
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i really hate musicals but the silly singing made that scene pure funnay (to me anyway) :D

[rattsang]

would have to be the Chicken swim in gattaca were vincent tells his brother how he did it- that scene fills me with hope.
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[ninjacat11]

Rambo III-The scene where one of the Russians gets hung and blown up by his own grenade.

Alien-The chestburster scene

Plan 9 from Outer Space-"And remember my friend, future events such as these can affect you in the future."

Hellboy 2-The Troll Market scene.

Pan's Labyrinth-The Pale Man scene.

Aliens-Too many to name. The power loader scene, pretty much anything that comes out of Bill Paxton's mouth, when the marines first get ambushed by the Aliens, and the sentry gun scene

Robocop-"I'd buy that for a dollar!". That or the scene with the ED-209.

2001-"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

The Thing-All of it. Especially the blood testing scene and the defibrillation scene.

Van Helsing-The end

28 Days Later-When Cillian Murphy roams the empty streets of London to Godspeed You, Black Emperor.

28 Weeks Later-The helicopter scene

Blade Runner-Roy Batty's final speech

[Presence]

It's not exactly a scene but a sequence,

Han running down the storm troopers in the death star only to come around the corner and find himself faced with 10,00 more of them and run away.

Characterization at its absolute finest.

[artdude89]

The pencil trick scene from The Dark Knight.

[PatriciaS]

Lawrence of Arabia: Sherif Ali's (Omar Sharif) entry into the movie.

THAT scene right thar. Best. Ever.


Damn sexy and dramatic.

[IanE]

Ahhh, the scene in Crank where Chev is in the cab with the Haitian.

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[Straight Edge Ryan]

Gladiator-the ending with Maximus' dying visions of his family and home alternating between the stadium and the crowd. The film itself was visually astounding with the architecture alone, but the ambience of the death scene really made the movie for me

28 Weeks Later-The entire scene at the beginning where Don abandons his wife, and you get that field view of him running away from hordes of zombies with that music playing

Aliens-the first time you see the queen

Dogma-the entire "these humans have besmirched everything/you sound like the morning star" speech scene between Matt Damon and Ben Affleks characters

Oceans 11-13 -pretty much every time at the end of the movie(s) where they ran down how the whole plan went

[chriskot]

Here are a few off the top of my head:

Die Hard - The final confrontation with Hans Gruber
The Game - The part where the main character tries to kill himself after shooting his brother
Ocean's Eleven - Walking out with the money
The Matrix: Reloaded - Neo vs. a whole bunch of Smiths in the park
The Nightmare Before Christmas - The "What's This?" musical number
Wall-E - ...Most of the movie was awesome

[Jasonwclark]

Three favorite scenes in a Comedy :)

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just for good measure

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[The Whistler]

Hero - when Broken Sword writes while the school is being torn down by enemy archers in the red chapter

[coelakanth]

Wall-E The penultimate scene where Wall-E's memory has been erased and Eve rushes to collect the parts. When Wall-E starts holding Eve's hand is one of the most tear-jurking moments in Cinema ;)

Silent Hill Bathroom scene, after the shift. Creature drags itself from the cubicle and starts changing the room.