Whats your favorite movie scene? - Page 2

The Godfather Michael in the restaurant before going to Italy

It's a Wonderful Life The last 10 minutes or so

To Kill a Mockingbird When Atticus walks out of the courthouse after the trial has finished.

Star Wars Death Star battle

On the Waterfront I could have been a contender and the final scene

Rebecca Mrs. Danvers showing Rebecca's bedroom and again talking Mrs. de Winters into jumping out the window

Apollo 13 When the engineers solve the CO2 filter problem. (The nerd in me is coming out)


And many more...

Damn, I am ashamed that I didn't think of that one, as it is one of my favorite movie moments ever. :b

Another vote for Star Wars Death star Battle

My fave scene, uhg I have so many...

Star Wars:The Death Star Battle.

The Empire Strikes Back: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Return of the Jedi:Final battle and Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

The Phantom Menace:Darth Maul fighting Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.

Attack of the Clones:Anakin's Confession to Padme after the Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) .

Raiders of the Lost Ark:The whole beginning.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:The bridge scene.

Aliens:The marines first encounter with the Aliens and their escape.

Planet of the Apes 68':Final scene.

Jurassic Park:First encounter with the T-rex.

T2:Judgement Day: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

The Deer Hunter:The Russian Roulette scene in the Vietnamese prison camp.

Minority Report:The whole car factory scene and Anderton chasing his eyeballs.

Scarface:Tony Montana's last stand.

The Godfather: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

The Godfather Part 2:Vito stalking Don Fanucci.

The Crow:Eric going through everybody to get Scank.

Saving Private Ryan:Normandy Beach scene.

Braveheart: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Gladiator:The first battle in the Coliseum.

Independence Day: Times up.

Ghostbusters:Everything with Slimer.

Gremlins:The whole theater scene.

There's Something About Mary: The whole puffy the dog scene with Ted.

Young Frankenstein:The whole dart throwing scene.

The Princess Bride:Wesley and Montoya fencing.

Evil Dead 2:The whole hand scene.

Batman:The art gallery scene.

A Few Good Men:Final scene with Jesup and Cathy.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail:The Black Knight scene.

Fellowship of the Ring:Aragorn and Lurtz the Uruk-Hai going at it.

The Usual Suspects:Final scene.

Highlander:Final battle between The Kurgan and Macleod.

Jaws - ENTIRE second half of the movie on the Orca.

Jurassic Park - T-Rex

Requiem For A Dream - last 20 minutes

Lawrence Of Arabia - montage of lawrence in the desert deciding whether or not to go to Aqaba

Memento - ending speech by Lenny

Dawn Of The Dead - after the zombies have been cleared, the gradual depression of the characters

There is TONS more but it's late, I'm tired and I can't think that well.

I almost forgot to mention my two absolute favorite scene's from two films last year. The first is the scene in Frequency when John and his father Frank are communicating on the ham radio and John starts telling his dad about life in his time, the conversation ends with a scene so touching it's almost painful, they tell each other that they love one another, then John tells his dad he's missed him all these years. Chokes me up everytime!

The second is easily the 'El Tango De La Roxanne' dance sequence from my favorite film from last year Moulin Rouge.

To many to name, but heres some off the top of my head. There are NO SPOILer tags so beware!!


2001 A Space Odyssey - Ape amashing bones,Sharchild,Death of Hal
Apocalypse Now - Raid on village
The Shining - The opening scenes/helicopter shots
Seven Samurai - The lifting of the Farm flag/bandits last raid in the rain
Re-Animator - When Barbara Crampton gets head
Blade Runner - The Last 15 minutes, especially when Deckard jumps off the roof
Wrath of Khan - Spocks death
Akira - Akiras awakening
Pulp Fiction - Mias Overdose
Empire Strikes Back - "Perhaps you think youre being treated unfairly?"
Return of the Jedi - Luke cuts of Vaders hand/ Vaders redemption
Conan The Barbarian - The big battle
Nixon - All the Oval office scenes
JFK - Meeting X in Washington
Carlitos Way - The chase scene in the train station
Interview w/ the Vampire - Lestat playing the piano after returning from the swamp
Halloween - Micheal appearing at the top of the stairs after Jamie stabs him in the neck
The Road Warrior - The last chase scene

Off the top of my head I have to pick:

Ending of Usual Suspects

And the "Fathers Revenge" fight in Last of the Mohicans. Well, actually I love the whole last 10 minutes or so.

The final fight in 'Drunken Master 2'. I could watch that scene again and again. ... and again.

The scene in Memento where Natalie tells Leonard she's going to use him and he's desparately trying to find a pen.

Lobby shootout in The Matrix.

Normandy beach invasion in Saving Private Ryan.

Goodbye scene in Casablanca.

Final home run in The Natural.

Big shootout in L.A. Confidential.

When the doctor lets Vincent go through to the space shuttle in Gattaca.

"Up yours nigger!" from Blazing Saddles.

Some scenes that nobody has mentioned:

Bullitt(Greatest car chase ever)

The French Connnection(car chase)

Hard Boiled(hospital shootout, greatest action scene and gunnfight)

The Killer (church shootout)

Face/Off (FBI raid on penthouse, speedboat chase)


And:

Alien (alien ripping out of chest)

The Usual Suspects (the last 5 minutes)

Se7en (the last 5 minutes)

Platoon (village scene)

Black Hawk Down (first helicopter crash)

JonZ gets the "Moonwatcher Prize." My fave scene too!

I forgot about Dirty Harry

The Harry/Scorpio scene in the stadium has always been a favorite as well.

I've got two:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - Near the end, when the Grinch sees the beauty of the sunrise for the very first time - followed shortly by the sweeping wide shot of the Grinch holding the sleigh of toys above his head on top of Mount Crumpet. The music and clouds are truly beautiful. It's a very touching cinematic scene. It powerfully shows the Grinch's transformation to a new creature of goodness. All those who hate this movie, probably left the theatre or turned off the TV before it got to this scene, so bah!

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Near the end, when Luke is hanging from the pole under cloud city, calling out for help. The Force Theme begins playing. Ben does not answer his cries, so he calls for Leia. We then cut to Leia in the Falcon, who has a tranced look on her face. The Force Theme swells as she senses Luke calling for her. The connection between brother and sister has been made. It confirms the "other hope" that Yoda spoke of earlier. It's probably my favorite scene of all the Star Wars films.

Consider this a very incomplete list...

Apollo 13 - The CO2 scene, as mentioned above. Also, solving the power-up problem. This is the film that should've won Ron Howard his Best Director Oscar...

Poltergeist - "One 1000, two 1000..."; Diane and Robbie first hear Carol Anne; Robbie devises Carol Anne's rescue; "To her, it simply is another child..."; "Cross over children..."; "What's happening!!!".

Run, Lola, Run - The opening("The ball is round..."). The end of the first cycle("Stop.") The casino, the ambulance. Forget it, the whole film!

The Thing - The kennel, the blood test, the revival(give the doctor a hand).

The long slow pan after

The Shining -- the scene with Jack and Danny sitting on the bed talking about the hotel etc. I'm fascinated how the music (which wasn't even written for the movie) and the conversation flow perfectly with each other.

Jacob's Ladder -- the final scene with Gabe leading Jake up the stairway with Maurice Jarre's incredible music swelling up. Something about that scene makes me sob like a baby every time I see it.

North by Northwest -- the scene at the auction. The interplay between the characters is tremendous.

Dancer in the Dark -- final scene.

Twin Peaks FWWM -- perhaps not a crowd favorite, but the final scene in the train car blows me away every time.

The Wicker Man -- final scene.

Welcome aboard Rafayel ,nice thought prevoking topic . Well so many great scenes have been mentioned as I'm late to the party. One that hasn't been is from Notorious , the closing scene where Devlin(Grant) returns to Sebastian's(Rains) mansion to rescue Alicia(Bergman) .

The ending to the original Planet of the Apes.

STII - TWOK - in Engineering as Kirk rushes in and calls out Spock's name, Spock struggles to his feet and then gives his jacket a quick little tug to straighten it out. Don't know why but that little move is perfect, so right, so Spock and gets me every time!

LOTR - when Frodo announces at the council at Rivendell that he will take the ring to Mordor - the look of pain that passes over Gandalf's face.

Field of Dreams - the catch scene at the end.

TESB - Luke's entrance into the chamber room at Bespin. A exquisite marriage of the audio and visual. You don't see Vader but you hear his breathing and then the utterance of the line, 'The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet!' Beautifully done.

Shawshank Redemption - the overhead panning shot of Shawshank as Andy arrives to begin his sentence. Andy and Red embracing at the end.

Superman - the helicopter sequence from when Clark runs to the open phone booth.

Alien - the meal sequence.

Iron Giant - the Superman sequence in the barn and near the end. The ending scene.

OK, here go's!
The Big Blue: last scene,where Jacques finally lets go, gives everything up for the big blue.

The Abyss: the scene where Bud is in the alien ship and they are playing all the different scenes of how shitty we are to each other.

Mad Max: where Max's family get ran over by the bikers( something nobody ever wants to go through)

Phenomenon: when George passes away and Lace is saying don't go, not yet.

Titanic: When rose is trying to get jack to "wake" up, when their in the water, toward the end.

As I think about it, everyone of these scenes makes me cry, every time I watch them. I guess that's what makes them great.
Mike(the big crying baby)Boettner

Oh, I like that one!

Good pick!

The Empire Strikes Back: Han being frozen, kissing Leia, etc...
The Godfather: The restaurant scene
The Godfather Part II: "It was an abortion"
The Shawshank Redemption: Andy in the rain
Goodfellas: When the Layla coda is being played
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Billy stops studdering, but Nurse Ratchett breaks him down
JFK: When Garrison looks at the camera and says, "It's up to you..."

That's all I can think of now...but I'm sure there are hundreds more

The "shirt scene" in Rudy

"I love you guys" - Hoosiers

Norton looks behind the poster in The Shawshank Redemption

The pool-emptying candy bar - Caddyshack

John Belushi smashes the guitar - Animal House

"Put the bunny back in the box" - Con Air

The tongue on the flagpole - A Christmas Story

The final chess match - Searching for Bobby Fischer

Harvey Keitel's closing monologue - Smoke

Mark Wahlberg's torture scene - Three Kings

Mel Gibson goes to the Vietnam wall - We Were Soldiers

Robert DeNiro looks out the window at the bus driving away - Awakenings

Cicely Tyson runs down the hill - Sounder

Pacino in the hot tub - Scarface

Billy Bob Thornton's final scene - A Simple Plan

The last ball game - Bang the Drum Slowly

The omelet scene - Big Night

George's chewing out the teacher - It's a Wonderful Life

Hey, Rafael, I'm new too!

1. The slo mo scene in Platoon with the Barber Adagio playing. I couldn't get up when the movie ended. That's never happened before. I don't know if I think it's the greatest, but it was the most powerful.

2. The little boy running terrified from the train in Stand By Me. I howl everytime.

3. Love scene with Brad and Julia in Legends of the Fall. (well, you asked)

4. Young Ludwig running from deranged father and floating in the pond during Ode to Joy. Wow.

A lot of old threads seem to be getting revived lately. I see a lot of grand scenes are being picked, so I'll go the other way.



Lately my favorite is:

The "confession" scene about 2/3 of the way through the 2002 film Heaven. One of the most purely cinematic moments I think I have ever seen. I also like the final sequence starting when they arrive at the house in Tuscany, about the last 6 minutes or so. Just pure film making, bordering on fantasy.


Also like:

The final sequence in Monster's Ball. One of the most quiet, emotionally charged and beautifully done scenes of all time, in my book.

My classic answer, the final scene in Wild Strawberries.

The first appearance of Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West. Just a great film moment.

The final showdown in Once Upon a Time in the West. Goes on for what, about 13 minutes? Builds to an incredible climax and ends with those great words, "who are you?". Ennio Morricone is a God in that movie.

Robert DiNero looking up through the mesh above the bed at the end of Once Upon a Time in America.


That should do for now......

Oh yeah, I love that one. You forgot to mention it is from Immortal Beloved.

I stand corrected. Immortal Beloved it twas.:b

Great call, Susannah (and John). Every time I hear 'Ode to Joy' I think of that sequence.

Which reminds me, I still need to pick up Immortal Beloved on DVD. I knew there was something else I could have added to my DDD order!



Good call....other than your reference to "DiNero"!

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