Your Favorite Moments on Film

[Silliw 2]

With all the favorite movie lists lately, I thought it would be interesting to list your favorite MOMENT from any film ever made.

Now the point was going to be to only name ONE moment, but I know that decisions like this are difficult, so just go nuts if you want to. Multiple post with multiple moments are welcome.

With the Star Wars threads popping up, I am reminded of the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back, with the Imperial walkers advancing on the Rebel base on the ice planet of Hoth.

Those Walkers may be my earliest memory of Star Wars, and still my favorite. Just the way they moved was awe inspiring (at the time).

[CaptainAwesome]

Superman first appearing in Metropolis in Superman the Movie.

Rutgar Hauer's speech at the end of Blade Runner (Director's Cut).

The first and last shoot out in The Wild Bunch.

"Go ahead, make my day." Dirty Harry.

The shoot out in Heat.

[Buzz Dixon]

The airport scene in CASABLANCA.

[SuperSaiyaMan12]

The opening of Samurai X.

[SnowTrooper]

I really like the part of Chronicles of Riddick when Riddick first stood up to the Necromongers in the city coliseum and kills the one soldier.

Sword fight between Wesley and Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.

The whole Marv segment in Sin City. Marv kicked so much ass he deserved his own movie.

The final showdown between the T-800 and the T-1000 in Terminator 2.

[Phil Clark]

Indy running through the streets, suddenly the crowd parts and this giant of a man starts swinging a 5 foot symatar around. Indy looks at him, pulls his gun and shoots him. Followed by 5 minutes of laughter in the theater. :D

Charleton Heston riding down the beach and coming upon the half buried Statue of Liberty.

Spider-Man swinging through the city at the end of the first Spider-Man film.

More to come later...

[BoosterBronze]

Leia: I love you!
Han: I know.

To me, that is the permanent definition of all things cool.

Also, when Aidan Quinn steps up and shoots the bad guy in the final moments of "Legends of the Fall." Gives me a lump in my throat everytime.

[Silliw 2]

Charleton Heston riding down the beach and coming upon the half buried Statue of Liberty.


Forgot about that one. Has an epic feeling to it.

It's also been spoofed a bazillion times, which is proof that it is great :D

[Gavin Higginbotham, BotF]

"The Touch".

[jaguarshark]

-The end of 'High Plains Drifter'. "Yes you do."

-The Huey Lewis scene in 'American Psycho'. Actually, any of the moments where Patrick talks about music.

-When the date finally changes in 'Groundhog Day'.

-When we see Harmonica's flashback in full in 'Once Upon A Time In The West'.

-The moment Margot steps off the bus in 'Royal Tenenbaums'.

[the_big_billbowski]

The part of Superman 2 where the wind whips, the music starts and thier is a re-powered Superman outside the Daily Planet. "General Zod, would you care to step outside?" Now that is bad ass.


I love the end of Casablanca where Claude Reigns looks at the "Viciy" water, take the bottle, toss it in the grabage can and kicks it over. No longer will be be a puppet of a Nazi supporting govt. He's joing Rick to fight the good fight.

[LordEd1976]

Optimus Prime tears through the Decepticons upon arriving at Autobot City.

Guy Pearce and Russel Crowe vs. the corrupt cops at the end of LA Confidential

Kevin Spacey surprises his wife and her lover when they go for drive-thru in American Beauty.

Alec Baldwin's "pep talk" in Glengarry Glen Ross

Donald Sutherland and his buddies pull the curtain on Sally kellerman in MASH

Carlo meets his fate in Godfather

Bruce Willis "negoiates" in Fifth Element

"he chose.....Poorly." in Indiana Jones and the Last crusade

Arnold and Jaime Lee Curtis have a talk while he's under the influence of truth serum in True Lies.

[Gavin Higginbotham, BotF]

Arnold and Jaime Lee Curtis have a talk while he's under the influence of truth serum in True Lies.

I love pretty much everything you mentioned but especially the above one.

"Have you ever killed anyone?"

"Yes, but they were all bad."

I loved that movie. It's just about the ultimate action movie, they throw everything in there. Including a young Faith! Yay!

[the_big_billbowski]

Gotta mention at the end of Return of the Jedi when Vader finally redeems himself and saves Luke by tossing the Emporer. Very dramatic and very powerful especially watching it at a young age. Also, it was just damn cool.

[Dennis K]

Attica! Attica! Attica!

[Frodo-X]

"I can't carry it for you, Mr. Frodo, but I can CARRY YOU!!!"

[Dennis K]

"You're going to need a bigger boat."

[Lord of Denial]

Kurt Russell in Tombstone. Wyatt- " NO NO NO NO NO" as he walks thru the river taking out everyone in his path.

Superman 2 The Zod rumble and his entrance to challenge him. ( One of the most badass moments in any movie ever )

The Braveheart scene when Wallace is being " Purified" and all he has to do is kiss the royal emblem and say mercy but he simply will not give in and outlast the king and the king dies as he hears Wallace scream freedom.

[Dennis K]

"Did you motorboat? Did you motorboat'em? You motorboatin' son of a bi*ch!"

[DonC]

All time favorite? Phoebe Cates getting out of the pool.


What? I'm a guy. That was the sexiest movie scene ever.

[Dennis K]

"We're putting the band back together."

[Lord of Denial]

All time favorite? Phoebe Cates getting out of the pool.


What? I'm a guy. That was the sexiest movie scene ever.


Kevin Kline is the thinking mans hero for hitting that all these years.

[Ontir]

The Imperial Walker is upon the bunker, Leah's been shot and Han is concerned. She pulls out a pistol and smiles.

Han
I love you.

LEAH
I know.

In Maurice, when Maurice returns to Pendersleigh Park to tell Clive that he's in love with Scudder, and that Scudder has risked everything to be with him. After he leaves, there's a brief moment where Clive seems to be imagining what might've been, had he been a bit more brave.

Similarly, in Latter Days, when Christian turns around to find Aaron standing in front of him, and drops the tray of dishes.

In THX-1138 when THX is allowed to go free, because the pursuit is over-budget!

My Best Friend's Wedding, Roberts and Mulroney are on the boat. She has one last chance to declare herself, and he's waiting to hear it, but she just can't do it, and when they emerge from the bridge's shadow, the moment is gone, forever. Then, at the wedding, when Roberts' character is giving the toast, and the camera goes to M Emmet Walsh, and there's the brief moment where you know, that deep down, he wishes that his son was marrying her, instead.

[Davideaux]

Memento The end of the movie when Leonard purposefully sets life into a dangerous never-ending circle...

The Godfather 2Too many fantastic scenes to list just one, but I love when Michael realizes that Fredo was the one who sold him out. It was in Cuba, during the strip show, when Fredo lets slip that he's known Johnny Ola and Heiman Roth quite intimately.

[Dark Galaxy]

"I'm your Huckleberry" -Doc Holliday -Tombstone

It's just so bad ass.

[Domo Goddess]

The Sleepaway Camp ending

The ending of the third story of Trilogy of Terror

The Asylum ending

[kmeyers]

"Care to step outside?" -Superman II

random thug firing machine gun wildly: "Where are you?!?"
Batman: "Here."
random thug: screams.

The first time Wolverine popped his claws.

edit: The entire opening of X2. Nightcrawler "BAMF"

[Kirayoshi]

Spider-Man. When Peter called MJ and the Goblin answered the phone. "Can Spider-Man come out to play?"

Spider-Man 2. The fight on the train, and the passengers helping Spider-Man.

It's a Wonderful Life. George and Mary at the school dance, and on the way home. Also the last ten minutes, from when George is on the bridge shouting "Help me Clarence! I want to live!" to the end.

[DrewTheXenocide]

The reveal that "The Bride's" daughter is still alive at the end of Kill Bill Vol. 1.

[Thunder Phoenix]

The "In the words of my generation...." scene from Independence Day, and the resulting defeat of the city destroyer.

The final 20 minutes or so of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The climax from Back to the Future (Which was good enough for them to repeat in both of the sequels).

Barak-Dur collapsing in Return of the King.

The Tyrannosaurus showing up at the end of Jurassic Park! :D

[LordEd1976]

The T-1000 stepping out of the flaming remains of the semi cab in T-2

Eowyn defeats the Witch-King in Return of the King

Every cop, soldier, and their mother chasing the Blues Brothers in Blues Brothers

The future lives of the Deltas are revealed as they trash the Homecoming Parade in Animal House

A pre-Batman Bruce Wayne battles a gang of crooks in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

Also from the same film, Batman and the Joker do their best impression of a Godzilla movie amidst the ruins of the City of the Future.

D mad dashes out the door of Count Magus Lee's castle in Vampire Hunter D.

wolverine is introduced to the Drake Family in X2.

Pizza delivery Spidey-style in Spider-Man 2.

[Ontir]

The chase scene from What's Up Doc?, and Streisand's final phone call to her rich cousin as she and Michael Sarrazin head out of NYC!

The first reveal of Belu Lugosi's Dracula, to Renfield!

Maud Lebowski's entrance in the Big Lebowski!

[Frodo-X]

"I came here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum."

The dinner scene in "Wedding Crashers"

[shades of eternity]

1st 10 minutes of x-men first movie.

I cannot imagine a better scene for defining magneto or any character for that matter.

Extra points while doing so within a pg rating.

[berk]

I like a lot of the famous ones that have already been mentioned - e.g. the Statue of Liberty scene in Planet of the Apes - but I want to bring up one that made a deep impression on me and that no one seems to remember whenever I try to talk about it. remember the character in Sonny Chiba's first Streetfighter movie, the guy who was in prison and Sonny/Terry smuggles him out right at the start of the movie? Terry has to fight him and knock him out becuase the guy doesn't know what's going on, and then he somehow sneaks his unconscious body out. Then later on, the guy is sent off to Hong Kong, IIRC, where he wakes up, not having a clue as to what's happened to him - the last thing he remembers is being in prison. Then he's in this sleazy, waterfront dive, full of crooks and assorted dangerous types, slumped at a table with his chin in his hand, obviously totally dazed/confused/discouraged by his inability to understand what the hell is going on (all this is conveyed visually, via body language, which makes it all the more powerful to me, but might perhaps explain why others haven't agreed in the past - I could just be reading it differently from them). Then, as he's sitting there like that, a local gangster leader comes up and tries to get his attention by throwing a punch at him and stopping just short of his head - and the guy doesn't budge. He's so locked into his inner world, the incomprehensibility of his situation has taken such a hold over him that he either doesn't even notice the danger or, as it seemed to me, just doesn't care any more. The expression on his face, his physical posture, etc, etc conveys all this so strongly that it remains the most memorable and powerful moment for me in a movie full of exciting scenes, because what the character is experiencing, when you come right down to it, is just a more concentrated form of the same thing everyone risks experiencing every day: he's been forced to face what most of us spend all our time trying to avoid - the utter incomprehensibility of our own existence, and thus perhaps, by extension, of existence itself. Or at least that's my current explanation of why this scene had such an effect on me that it's driven me to type all this gibberish tonight, more than ten years later.

[Motormouse]

The base jumper launching himself of a cliff to escape the gunmen in Cliffhanger

The Millenium Falcon outrunning the blast from the Deathstar in RotJ

King Theodin's speech and the following charge into the hords of mordor in Return of the King

From "Marines, we are leaving!" to the Dropship crash in Aliens

The Lighthouse shootout in Battle Royale

The first time Yoda draws his Lightsaber

The toga party in animal house, specifically Pinto with the Devil & Angel on his shoulders giving him advive

[Gary Joyce]

The Hopper/Walken scene in True Romance

Marv's Story in Sin City

Cartman singing Kyles Moms A Bitch in the South Park movie

The opening sequence in Leon

[hoffmandu]

Deniro's test of the Russians reflexes in ROnin (tips hte cup of coffee off of the table)

Bruce Willis rising from the pool of water to kick ass in Unbreakable.

"I'm better than you, Sark!"- Tron

[jessecuster3]

The opening speech in Color of Money: "For some players luck istself is an art." And then at the tournament when they show all the tables breaking at the same time.

The Usual Suspects when Agent Cujon looks at the wall behind him and sees all the elements of Verbal Kint's story and realizes that he is Keyser Soze.

The opening of The Player which shows all the pitches going on and Fred Ward is talking about Touch of Evil.


The Matrix the training fight with Morpheus and when Neo realizes who he is and flexes and the walls bend.



My favorite scene of all time though is the Battle At Helms Deep from The Two Towers

[Aggie]

"gilda, are you decent?"

*sexy hair flip"

"i'm decent"...

the scene in the color purple when shug leads the "sinners" to the church

brick sniffing maggie's dress robe in the bathroom in cat on a hot tin roof

maggie taking off her stocking in cat on a hot tin roof

lana turner's entrance in the postman always rings twice

vernita green vs the bride..."c'mon bitch"...my favorite line ever!!

luke's back flip during showdown w/ vader in empire strikes back...

kevin spacey from gimp to pimp walk in usual suspects...

i have a ton of these...:)

[HomerJay]

Bruce Willis rising from the pool of water to kick ass in Unbreakable.
That gives me goosebumps EVERYTIME. Also the scene where he has the killer in the sleeper hold as the music swells always gets me: he finally found his purpose in life.

Also
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
- "I love you." "I know."
THE TERMINATOR
- Sarah spills her drink and ducks down to pick it up just as the T-800 walks by.
TERMINATOR 2
- "Come with me if you want to live." These were also the first words spoken to her by Reese in the original. The emotional cache carried by that one line made me gasp when I first saw it.
X-MEN
- Logan's PERFECT introduction during the cage fight.
GODFATHER pt 2
- Michael's slow burn before slapping Kate after she tells him she had an abortion.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
- The mothership appears from behind Devil's Tower.
TRUE ROMANCE
- The Walken/Hopper exchange.
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
- Andy's escape.
GOOD WILL HUNTING
- Robin Williams' monologue on the park bench. Takes my breath away everytime.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
- Lester relects upon his life as lays dying. Maybe the most beautifully written piece of cinema ever, IMO.
SUPERMAN
- Clark opens his shirt revealing the S for the first time. Now when my 2.5 yr-old watches it, she squeals with delight.

There's lots more, but I'll stop here.

[berk]

Here's another one:

remember at the end of Roman Holiday, when Audrey Hepburn sees Gregory Peck in the press gallery and suddenly realises that all along he was just a reporter trying to get a story? And at the same time, she's in the middle of a public appearance where she has to maintain her composure at all costs. The camera is on her face, and the changing expressions on that face tell an entire story in just those few moments, a story of shock, betrayal, sadness, and finally acceptance not only of what's actually happened to her, but of her responsibility, a responsibility that extends far beyond her own personal situation. The character grows from a child to an adult right before your very eyes in just those few instances. In it's own way, it's as cinematically, as poetically effective in conveying a complex, multi-staged, multi-leveled transition, an evolution, in visual terms as is another scene I love: the famous one near the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the proto-humans discover tools and Kubrick makes that daring and devastating visual juxtaposition between the bone-club-instrument smashing other bones and the space-ship breaking earth's gravity-field.

[DWEarhart]

De Niro and Pacino's diner scene from Heat. Watching those two work together, delivering those lines about life, death, and survival; it was thrilling.

[clayholio]

The very end of Out of Sight.
Rob Lowe's first 30 seconds on-screen in Tommy Boy.
The first scene of Super Troopers. "Do you know how fast you were going?"
The entirety of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

That's a good start for now.

[J. Robb]

"The Imperial March" scene from Empire Strikes Back, when Vader's super-star destroyer first appears.

The mirror scene from Duck Soup. That always cracks me up, especially when Groucho does the spin around and Harpo just pretends to.

The scene in Life is Beautiful when Guido takes over the loudspeaker and says his favourite line, "Buon giorno, Principessa!" And then later on when he plays the record... I don't want to give too much away, but if you've seen the movie you know what I'm talking about, if you haven't seen it, SEE IT!

[DWEarhart]

When Ministry appears, performing in A.I.

Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper's scene in True Romance.

When Christopher Walken explains to Chaz Palminteri the difference between a typical backer and a millionaire in Poolhall Junkies.
Also, Walken's pep talk to Mars Callahan just before he goes out to take his shot in the final game.

[Dennis K]

The diner scene from Reservoir Dogs.

[Jade_GL]

The scene in The Manchurian Candidate where Marco (SInatra's character) deprograms Raymond. That is a badass scene. I know I am totally spoiling it, but the movie was made in 1962...

Marco: 52 of them! Take a good look at 'em, Raymond, look at 'em, and while you're looking, listen. This is me, Marco, talking. 52 red queens and me are telling you... you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over.

That and the Marv vs. Kevin in Sin City.

And the very beginning of Citizen Kane where they make a fake newsreel documenting Kane's life. That was a really clever storytelling device, and it really sets the tone for the movie. Very cool.

One more that is super geeky. :)

Colossus changing into his organic steel form for the first time in X2. The theater went nuts when it happened, it was a true geek moment.

[Dennis K]

When Ned Beatty squeals like a pig in Deliverance

[kmeyers]

"You bow to no man." Return of the King.

[Boldido]

Clevon Little taking himself hostage in Blazing Saddles

The roof tarring scene in Shawshank Redemption

The entire first half of Full Metal Jacket

The final confrontation between Neo and Smith in The Matrix

[DWEarhart]

The final gun battle in Young Guns. Also, when they take the peyote.

[EZMOHR]

I like a lot the ones that had been mentioned so far, here are some of my faves.......

-The end of Dawn of the Dead 2004. I totally did not think Jake Weber was gonna die at the end...but his death made the movie.

-Spock saving Thhe Enterprise from the Genesis Wave at the end of Wrath of Khan.

-When John Vernon says he thinks Josey Wales is in Mexico at the end of The Outlaw Josey Wales.

-The final test flight of Chuck Yeager at the end of The Right Stuff. In fact, the whole is "that a man," speech at the end is the DEFINITION of being a man.

[jwd]

Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark - The whole opening act with the little statue, running from the boulder and the people attacking him all the way to the plane. One of the best openers for a movie ever!

Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Shooting the swordsman. I'd heard somewhere that originally they were suppose to fight and Harrison Ford was sick that day of filming so he asked. "Why don't I just shoot him?"

Transformers the Movie - Optimus Prime leaving the ship, transforming and mowing down Decepticons then fighting Megatron.

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan - Spock's death *sniff*

Star Wars: The look on Obi-Wan's face right before he dies. I don't know why I like it so much. He just seemed so calm and knew what he had to do.

Star Wars: The end sequence with Obi-Wan telling him to use the Force then Luke turning his targeting computer off and them asking him if anything is wrong and he says he's alright. Intense and great stuff there.

Empire Strikes Back - The big reveal from Vader.

Return of the Jedi - Luke doing the flip off the plank and back onto the skiff. I can remember being 9 at the theater and freaking out because I had no idea what he was going to do. I then really wanted to try it on the diving board and the public school. Alas I did not have the Jedi skills to even hang on to the board and just fell into the pool.

Superman - Saving Lois from the helicopter.

Superman II - Music buidup. Stack of newspapers blown over. Streak of red & blue "Would you care to step outside?"

I could probably think of more but those I think are the most memorable for me.

[berk]

Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Shooting the swordsman. I'd heard somewhere that originally they were suppose to fight and Harrison Ford was sick that day of filming so he asked. "Why don't I just shoot him?" Nothing personal, but I've always hated that scene; a not-so-thinly disguised encapsulation of the history of Western colonialism: the white guy with the gun shoots the native guy who has nothing but a primitive sword to defend himself with. The popularity of the scene, the laughs it got in the theatre when I saw the movie when it first came out show exactly how much we've internalised the attitude that we - "the West" - in some sense have the right to intervene in less developed parts of the world, that our higher level of scientific and economic development makes us better than them, morally. Technological superiority interpreted as moral superiority. Might makes right, indeed.

[Dark Galaxy]

The final gun battle in Young Guns. Also, when they take the peyote.

Did you guys see the size of that chicken?
Did you guys see the size of that Cock-A-Doodle-God-Damn-Doo?
:p Love it!

[DWEarhart]

Did you guys see the size of that chicken?
Did you guys see the size of that Cock-A-Doodle-God-Damn-Doo?
:p Love it!

"Hey, Chavez. How come they ain't shootin' at us?"

"We're in the spirit world, asshole, they can't see us.":D Bwahahahaha.

[ouiyahtsiouiyah]

[QUOTE=jwd] Return of the Jedi - Luke doing the flip off the plank and back onto the skiff. I can remember being 9 at the theater and freaking out because I had no idea what he was going to do. I then really wanted to try it on the diving board and the public school. Alas I did not have the Jedi skills to even hang on to the board and just fell into the pool. QUOTE]

I think every 9 year old in the world has tried the backflip off the diving board. I have and had worse results. Basically I held on and bounced up and landed on my face on the diving board, then fell into the pool. It was Awesome.

[DWEarhart]

Robocop: Among the many glorious moments in this film, the one when he storms the drug-producing warehouse, and shows Clarence Boddicker the finer points of window diving.

Return of the Jedi: The final confrontation between Luke and Darth Vader, especially when Luke has Vader cornered, and proceeds with the ultimate beatdown on Vader's lightsaber.

Indiana Jones - The Last Crusade:
- "It's Indiana, dad."
- "We named the dog Indiana."

Waiting for Guffman: When the town council denies the acting group a larger budget. "Well I hate you, and I hate your ass-face."

[DubipR]

Lots of good ones mentioned here. Here's a little list of some of mine:

1. Klattuu's final speech in The Day The Earth Stood Still.
2. The opera in A Night At The Opera- one of the funniest scenes in movie history, as well as the Stateroom Scene.
3. The Shower scene from Psycho. Still a classic. 40 plus cuts in less than a minute.
4. The Flower Show/Brainwashing scene from Manchurian Canidate- the intersplicing of what the soliders see and what's really happening is absolutely brilliant.
5. The final 15 minutes of Cape Fear- Robert Mitchum is the coolest badass villian. Far superior than the over the top hammy performance of DeNiro.
6. The 2 tracking shots in GoodFellas- Sure everyone knows the Copa shot, but the interior shot where Ray Liotta narrates in introducing everyone is a great shot.
7. King Kong versus the Dinosaur in the 1933 version.
8. "Top of the World, Ma!"- the finale of White Heat.
9. The bank heist in Heat- best gunplay captured on screen.
10. "Anyone got a match?"- Becall's entrance in To Have And Have Not.

[Frodo-X]

The scene in "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" where the wife is explaining the colors in great detail, and then when she leaves one painter says "Did you get all that?" and the other replies "Yep. Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and White."

[Kirayoshi]

The opening shot of Star Wars. I was eight years old at the time, and when I first saw Star Wars, the only seats available in the theater were toward the front. So when the Star Destroyer was pursuing the Rebel transport(in Dolby Sound, no less), and it just kept passing overhead and filling the screen, it was like the damn thing was parking on top of my head! That's when I knew that this would be the coolest movie ever made.

Bruce Wayne confronting the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman. "YOU WANNA GET NUTS? C'MON! LET'S GET NUTS!" If they'd have done more of that, Michael Keaton would have been the ideal Batman!

The concert, and subsequent chase scene, from "Blues Brothers". Plus, purely because it's cool to see nasty things happen to White Supremicists, when Jake Blues drove his car through the Nazi rally. "I hate Illinois Nazis."

When Beatrix Kiddo(the Bride) stalked through Bill's home, and found him in his bedroom, only to also find her long-lost daughter. "I'm 'pervious to bullets, Mommy." Both shocking and surprisingly warm-hearted. For the first time we see the Bride as more than a vengeance seeker.

[DWEarhart]

Bruce Wayne confronting the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman. "YOU WANNA GET NUTS? C'MON! LET'S GET NUTS!" If they'd have done more of that, Michael Keaton would have been the ideal Batman!

The concert, and subsequent chase scene, from "Blues Brothers". Plus, purely because it's cool to see nasty things happen to White Supremicists, when Jake Blues drove his car through the Nazi rally. "I hate Illinois Nazis."


Yes to these. Many times, yes.

Nobody's Fool: When Paul Newman decks Phillip Seymour Hoffman against the cop car.

Dario Argento's The Card Player: When the corpse, recently dragged from the lake, spurts water into the forensic cops' face.

Harlem Nights: When Veera is thirsty for some orange juice, and she finds out there's only a swallow left in the container. "Dammit, Benny. You got my mouth all ready for some orange juice, and there's only a swallow left in the container."
"Well, swallow it, and shut the fuck up."

[berk]

NBow that I'm geting all this off my chest, I want to bring up another one: there's a certain moment in Notorious when Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are, I think, on an airplane to South America; and there's a brief moment when they look into each other's eyes and the viewer suddenly realises they're in love - but it isn't a simple or obvious shot of the two famous stars dreamily gazing into one another's eyes, it's a sequence where you first see the two of them on the plane, then you see Grant's eyes, then Bergman's or maybe vica versa, it's been a long time since I've watchced it. Anyway, the impact is made via the beauty of Bergman, the look in Grant's eyes, a look full of impenetrable depth and sombreness, and not at all the conventional "love-lorn" or "captivated" look movie-wathcers have been educated to expect when they`re seeing two pwoplw in love; and the editing and camera-decisions of Hithcock. Sometimes I think it's the only truly convincing love-scene in film, precisely because Hitchcock had the sense to suggest rather than display; but I'm not sure it could have worked without Bergman and Grant. If anyone`s seen the movie and can`t recal the scene I`m trying to describe, I urge them to watch it again keeping this in mind.

[Dennis K]

Cary Grant. Cropduster. North By Northwest. That is all.

[David O Burcham]

Harry Lime steps out of the shadows in The Third Man.

C-3PO tells Han Solo the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back.

Slim Pickens takes the ultimate broncho ride in Dr. Strangelove.

Jack Elam catches a fly in Once Upon a Time in the West.

The ladder scene in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, particularly Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Terry-Thomas trampolining on the electric wires.

The giant emerges from the ocean wearing the orge's ship as a hat in Time Bandits.

Death by frog mask in The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

Birds on monkeybars in The Birds and the parody in High Anxiety.

The campfire scene in Blazing Saddles.

"Puttin' on the Ritz" in Young Frankenstein.

The animator dies of a heart attack in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[hoffmandu]

Herbert West being arrested, "I didn't kill him, I GAVE HIM LIFE!"- Re-Animator

[Voncaster]

Too many to name

Raiders of the Lost Ark
"I don't know...I'm making this thing up as I go along."

Nightmare on Elm Street
The trippy introduction with the lamb and Freddy in the boiler room. (I can't wait for the SE DVD coming out in late September)

Psycho
Any part with Norman Bates. Anthony Perkins is outstanding in this movie.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
"Dude remember Disneyland, what did George Washington say at the Hall of Presidents?"
...
"I've got it. 'Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.'"

[Voncaster]

Nothing personal, but I've always hated that scene; a not-so-thinly disguised encapsulation of the history of Western colonialism: the white guy with the gun shoots the native guy who has nothing but a primitive sword to defend himself with. The popularity of the scene, the laughs it got in the theatre when I saw the movie when it first came out show exactly how much we've internalised the attitude that we - "the West" - in some sense have the right to intervene in less developed parts of the world, that our higher level of scientific and economic development makes us better than them, morally. Technological superiority interpreted as moral superiority. Might makes right, indeed.

I've heard that Speilberg regrets shooting that scene, but personally I like it. Thats Indiana Jones act first think later attitude. I also like the scene in Temple of Doom where Indy is facing down two swordsmen, smirks and reaches for his gun only to find its not there.

[Trucker Belt]

When Doc Holliday confronts Ringo, both times! "I'm your huckleberry"

Vin Diesels preformance in A Man Apart, It's very underrated.

Marv in Sin City, where he goes through everyone to get his info. "I don't know about you but I'm having a ball" Screw it the whole Marv scene was awesome.

First 10 minutes of the Dawn of the Dead remake.

Silent Hill where Pyramid Head rips off that girls skin and flings it at the doors.

Bearded Rocky in Rocky 4

Ivan Drago "I must break you" from Rocky 4

Dawn of The Dead original where it shows the rednecks and the world from the Helicopter.

The motorboating part from Wedding Crashers.

George Clooney's performance in "From Dusk Til Dawn" and Salma Hayeks striptease from the same movie.

Tim McGraw giving his kid his championship ring in "Friday Night Lights"

Ashley J. Williams. period.

Jason recognizing Freddy when that chick pulls him from her dream.. also the look on Freddy's face when he realizes he's screwed.

The coming of the Rohirrum in "Return of The King" also, The coming of the Witch King in the same movie.

Treebeard and his army of pissed off Ents from The Two Towers.

Walk The Line.

When Sheriff Wydell tortures the Firefly family in "The Devil's Rejects" also when he stalks and beats Baby. Just about every scene in the movie that involves Wydell, I hated that family and the first movie.

Deacon Frost in the first Blade.

There's probably more... I'll add when I think of 'em.