What's your favourite moments in your favourite movies?
 

The opening of Star Wars as the huuuge Imperial Cruiser enters from the top of the screen. (Remember, when we first saw it we had no idea of what it was or what was to come)

The ground assault on the rebel base on the planet of Hoth, in The Empire Strikes Back.

The final car journey in The Devil's Rejects, with the awesome Skynyrd soundtrack.

The opening 20 minutes of Once Upon a Time in the West as various no good types await the trains arrival. Especially Jack Elam and his fly.

The Three Amigo's sing My Little Buttercup in a western saloon that Django would steer clear of.

The Gladiator Maximus speech always sends a shudder up my spine Reaps.

Great idea for a thread by the way. :thumb:

Cheers Dem.

Yeah one of the best speeches ever made.

I remember reading a report that a clergyman in England had refused to christen a child Maximus!:lol:

This takes some beating as a scene. - Braveheart


WALLACE
Sons of Scotland!... I am William
Wallace!

SOLDIER
William Wallace is seven feet tall!

WALLACE
Yes, I have heard! He kills men by
the hundreds! And if he were here,
he would consume the English with
fireballs from his eyes, and bolts
of lightning from his ass!

Many laugh -- all get the point.

WALLACE
I am William Wallace. And my enemies
do not go away. I saw our good nobles
hanged. My wife... I am William
Wallace. And I see a whole army of
my countrymen, here in defiance of
tyranny. You have come to fight as
free men. And free men you are! What
will you do with freedom? Will you
fight?

VETERAN
Two thousand, against ten? We will
run -- and live!

WALLACE
Yes. Fight and you may die. Run and
you will live, at least awhile. And
dying in your bed many years from
now, would you be willing to trade
all the days from this day to that,
for one chance to come back here as
young men, and tell our enemies that
they make take our lives, but they
will never take our freedom?

Another rousing speech.:clap:

Historically incorrect,but rousing nonetheless.:nod:

Another classic scene is Pesci telling De Niro that his stomach is in the way of his television screen in Raging Bull .:lol:

I love the bit in [b]Conan The Barbarian[b] when he's asked what is best in life.

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you... and to hear the lamentation of their women!

I wish I hadnt sold my Conan dvd and could watch it now, just have to wait for the BD next month.

Victor Laszlo: Play the "Marseillaise."... Play it!

Just one of about 200 memorable scenes in the best film of all time - Casablanca, as Rick's Place threatens to crumble as the Germans are humiliated by the French national anthem being sung at deafening volume from every corner of the bar.

The first three scenes of Once Upon A Time In The West (waiting for Harmonica, the McBain massacre, Jill's arrival) are the greatest things cinema has yet given us.

The chainsaw fight at the end of Tiger on the Beat is one of my very favourite movie moments.

Apparently Gordon Lui's shoe being sliced was not scripted, it was an accident when Conan Lee was cutting through the floor. Lui ever the professional simply carried on acting.

Jackie Chan meets a very large glass slope in Rotterdam. - Who Am I?

Great thread :D

Will have think of what to post.

If its a truly great scene in your eyes, you won't need to think. ;)

A few faves, the helicopter assault in 'Apocalypse Now', Groucho Marx getting conned by Chico into buying a load of useless books at the racetrack in 'A day at the races', the first appearance of Boris Karloff in 'Frankenstein' and finally the "Do ya feel lucky punk" final moments of 'Dirty Harry'.

Great thread Reaps. :thumb:

...just needed some time to search out some of my favourite scenes ;)

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.

2001: A Space Odyssey: Airlock Scene:



Bad Boy Bubby: Chocolate Eclairs:



Blue Velvet: Dennis Hopper's 'Performance':



Brazil: 27B-6 Scene:



Dr Strangelove: 'Prevert'/Coca-Cola Machine Assault Scene:



Full Metal Jacket: Pyle Goes Crazy:



Lost Highway: Dream Scene:



Oldboy: Hallway Fight Scene:



One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Chief Speaks:



Requiem for a Dream: Diet Pills Scene:



Solyaris: Highway Scene:



True Romance: Another great performance from Hopper:

I love the Russian arms bazaar pre credits sequence in Tomorrow never Dies.
The best out of all the Bond films.

[the Royal Navy has launched a cruise missile at a terrorist site Bond is surveying -
Charles Robinson: White knight, 4 minutes to impact. Get out of there.
[pause]
Charles Robinson: Yes, dammit, I know what it is, it's on the screen in front of me. It's a jeep in front of a plane! Now get the hell OUT of there!
Admiral Roebuck: What the hell is going on?
Charles Robinson: [to Bond] You will NOT wait! That is an order!
Admiral Roebuck: What is your man waiting for?
Charles Robinson: White Knight?
[Robinson reacts with horror to something on the screen]
Charles Robinson: Oh my God, those are Soviet SB-5 nuclear torpedoes! If the cruise hits them...
M: Order them to abort the missile!
Admiral Roebuck: [picks up phone] HMS Chester, urgent, Abort missile! Abort missile!

Long list I know, but once I got started it took a lot of willpower to decide where to finish!

The journey to the stage and the Stonehenge scene in This Is Spinal Tap
The 'Chestburster' scene from Alien
The end of It's Wonderful Life
Malcolm McDowell reinventing Singin’ In the Rain in A Clockwork Orange
The Envy/Wrath ending in Se7en
The scene with Brett ("Mmm hmm, this is a tasty burger") in Pulp Fiction
Damien Karras first meeting 'Regan' in The Exorcist
Rosemary meeting her baby in Rosemary's Baby
The phone call between Pres Mirkin and the Russian president in Dr Strangelove
The chariot race in Ben Hur
"I could have been a contender" from On the Waterfront
"I could have been a contender" from Raging Bull
The dinner scene with Capt McCluskey and Solozzo in The Godfather
Playing basketball in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Marseillaise in Casablanca
The introduction of Leon in Leon
Dorothy accidentally thrown water over The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard Of Oz
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" in Jaws
Dracula appearing in Horror of Dracula/Dracula (1978)
Count Orlock moving up the stairs in Nosferatu
The titular scene in Singin’ In the Rain
"Is it safe?" in Marathon Man
Scotty climbing the bell tower stairs in Vertigo
Marion Crane meeting 'Mrs Bates' in Psycho
The cropduster sequence in North by Northwest
Bambi's first encounter with ice in Bambi
The final shootout in de Palma's Scarface
The opening sequence at the train station in Once Upon a Time in the West
The massacre in which the gang leader is revealed as Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
Don Corleone getting revenge for his father in The Godfather: Part II
Henry taking Karen into the club in Goodfellas
"How am I funny?" in Goodfellas – Joe Pesci probably at his most frightening
King Arthur and his knights meet the killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from Monty Python's Life of Brian
"What have the Romans ever done for us?" from Monty Python's Life of Brian
Roy Baty's farewell speech in Blade Runner
Private Pyle losing it in Full Metal Jacket
Dave turning off HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey
The T Rex chasing the jeep in Jurassic Park
The espresso scene in Mulholland Drive
Attempting to clean the kitchen in Withnail & I
Creating the robot woman in Metropolis
Barbarella undressing in zero gravity (even though the wires are clear to see)

The birdhouse/cafe scene from the start of Hard Boiled

Club Silencio from Mulholland Drive

The final Black Lodge/White Lodge sequence from Fire Walk With Me

Wwwwwwiiiilllllllllderness girlllsssssssss from National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon

The 'Pretty Woman' montage in Dumb and Dumber

The end of The Wrestler

The Lady in the Radiator from Eraserhead

The hammer fight from Oldboy

The hall of mirrors from Enter The Dragon

How did I forget to put that in my list? I also completely forgot to add:

The 'mirror' scene from Duck Soup, which has been often imitated, never bettered.

YouTube - ‪Duck Soup: Mirror‬‏

Also, the scene in A Night at the Opera where Groucho and Chico go through the contracts.

YouTube - ‪Groucho And Chico Contract Scene‬‏

Finally, the part in Ringu when Sadako appears through the TV, which really shook me up for the first time I saw it and is still fairly chilling on repeated viewings.

YouTube - ‪Ringu awesome scene‬‏

Whoah! Big list there Nos; some great scenes you mentioned though. :nod:

Some of my favourites, too. :thumb:

ok some repeats here but none the less...

when micheal gets up at the end of 1st Halloween.
sadako coming out of tv.
"get back to your ****in' tribe!!" from Taxi Driver.
the banging on the door in The Haunting.
last twenty minutes of The Old Dark House.
last 15 minutes of Blair Witch.
"hey, look one bastard goes in, another comes out" from TG,TB & TU
"EAT THIS!!" from Aliens.
"up your ****ing borstal!!" from Scum.
could pick endless moments from this but il go for....the sequence with the dogs from The Thing (82).
last scene from Srpski (itl stay with me for a long while...and not in a good way).
too many kubrick bits so il just pick any scene from Barry Lyndon (they all resemble paintings anyhow).
The Baby of Macon.
the xmas sequence from Man Bites Dog.
the grass from The Thin Red Line.
the fact that The Beyond just gets stranger as it goes on.
El Topo.
opening sequence from Eden Log.
Stalker (no picks, just watch...am amazed theres a game based on it etc)

and not least at all but lastly...Grace Kelly in Rear Window (uuuhhh)

Way out West.

'Trail of the Lonesome Pine' song and dance routine. - Superb.

Ninotchka (1939) by Ernst Lubitsch.

I should quote the whole movie - as it is a collection of hilarious and wonderful scenes. :love:

But here's one of the greatest moments.



Pure genius! :nod:

Greetings!

There are several chase sequences which I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet including several moments in Vanishing Point, Two-Lane Blacktop and the superb pursuit around the San Francisco streets in Bullitt. That was the finest chase scene ever made until William Friedkin decided to terrorise numerous motorists and pedestrians in The French Connection.

I love the first scene on the island in Battle Royale when Beat Takashi demonstrates how the collars work and how life is expendable, the biker gang taking out numerous zombies in Dawn of the Dead and death by vomiting up intestines in City of the Living Dead.

There are several moments in Trainspotting which stick in my mind such as Renton digging in the toilet for his suppositories and going swimming, the cold turkey detox when he sees baby Dawn crawling along the ceiling and the whole 'Choose Life' opening monologue and section.

If I had to make a top three of my favourite moments from my favourite films, it would be:
Father Karras beating Pazuzu out of Regan and then choosing self-sacrifice in The Exorcist
The telephone conversation between the American and Soviet presidents in Dr Strangelove
The final couple of minutes in It's a Wonderful Life when the bell rings on the tree and George Bailey reads the inscription in the mysterious copy of Tom Sawyer.

I was wondering if and when someone was going to mention that. Your name was pretty high on the list of likely candidates actually!

I figured you were one of the few users with the gall and sense of humour to mention it!

Actually, I considered putting it in the middle of that long list to see if anyone would notice.

Tarka was an otter, not a beaver.;)

They both look alike in the dark!

They all look similar to me! :lol:

You have to be carefull as a beaver has two great big teeth behind those lovely lips.

So do otters! They're also both slippery when... actually, I won't go there!

Nothing smutty going on here.

You haven't have you Nos? Not inside an otter.:eek:

You're joking -- not with those teeth!

:focus:

:focus:

Charles Bronson's first sock-with-change assault in DEATH WISH.

Death by iron in MS 45.

Death by massive bear trap in STRAW DOGS.

"Top o' the morning to ya"

Bullseye enters the bar in Daredevil.

Slim:- You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow

Bacall's teaches Bogey how to whistle in To Have and Have Not.