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Also, the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan
When I watched this in the cinema the guy next to me (whom I didn’t know)was eating popcorn all the way through. There was me transfixed and feeling nauseous from what I had seen on the screen, well, I couldn’t have eaten anything at that point
Astonishing and mesmerising. I saw this at the cinema, I haven't seen it since and I doubt I ever will.
Popcorn... Pffffffff.
The bit in 'Life of Brian' when the space ship appears.
Only 3?? Damn.
In addition to many of the ones already mentioned....
Jurassic Park, where the 2 paleontologists see the dinosaurs for the first time. Yes, it's cheesy but it's a brilliant piece of cinema to watch.
The Longest Day, final scene with Richard Burton where he explains to the scared young soldier about the dead German who has his boots on the wrong feet.
Avengers Assemble - Hulk beating the ever-living shit out of Loki. "I am your God!" <smash-smash-smash-smash> "Puny God."
There are many better scenes, but this one just makes me laugh out loud!
But what about any number of scenes from Fistful of Dollars? Green Mile? Heat? Pulp Fiction? Thomas Crown Affair? I can't say the ones I've picked are my 3 favourite of all time, but they sprang to mind.
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Definite nerd choice but the music and the otherworldly view just works amazingly together.
This one has a spoiler for Children Of Men, which is an amazing film that not enough people have seen, so if you haven't, don't watch this, watch the film.
and I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYHhXaxgntk
Though I'd like to run it on into the gunfight.
Loads of crackers mentioned already.
I'll chip I with
Bruce Lee Vs O'Hara in Enter the Dragon
Rohirrim appearing at Helms Deep in the Two Towers
The Bride meeting Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill 1
Life of Pi. When they are sitting totally becalmed at night, the view of the lifeboat seemingly floating in space is breathtaking.
The end of lord of the flies, as Ralph escaping being murdered, falls at the feet of the rescuer and it all ends.
Pretty much half of Apocalypse Now.(Pretty much all we got was Vietnam war as a small kid, plonked in front of the tV watching the helicopters lifting off from the embassy., so any references to it I find interesting.
I think my mum was following it. She was a bit of a beatnik, sculpting and art.
Leon- Gary Oldman “EVERYONE!!!!!”
Lock Stock - Zorba the Greek gunfight scene.
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge.
The Intouchables car scene
Matrix - "Dodge this"
Good Will Hunting - "It's not your fault".
Definitely Goodfellas - lots of fantastic scenes. Funny like a clown takes it for me. I remember it well in the Cinema. Thrilling and hilarious.
Sicario - The Whole visit to Juárez was just stunning cinema. Barely any dialogue.
Usual Suspects - Last few moments caught me completely off my guard.
Some of the best scenes are scant of dialogue.
And bonus ball Trainspotting has probably the best opening and introduction to any film ever.
(Some good mentions - Miller's Crossing is very memorable. True Romance for sure. Tarantino ? The opening of Basterds is remarkable. Almost the whole of Pulp Fiction - tricky to pick a favourite. The Eric Stoltz sequence is amazing - a drug dealer that's your mate with some sort of friendly moral compass!)
The 'what?' scene in The Fall
The opening scene of Harold and Maude
Perfumed Ponce scene from Withnail and I
I've turned your link into an actual link as it's very sweary.
Alien John Hurt chest scene
Fun fact, none of the actors knew what was coming so their shocked reactions were real.
Avengers Assemble – Hulk beating the ever-living shit out of Loki. “I am your God!” <smash-smash-smash-smash> “Puny God.”
Is that the same film where he sucker-punches him clean out of the shot? I laughed so hard at that.
So many good choices already mentioned.
In an otherwise mediocre movie, the opening five minutes of Swordfish (in the cinema / on half-decent home AV). First time I watched it I immediately restarted the film to watch it again.
When Woody H. escapes in Natural Born Killers. Also, best use of music in a film ever. I really need to watch that again.
Indiana Jones shooting the guy with the swords. Totally ad-libbed, it was supposed to be a long fight sequence but Ford had the squits.
Three seems fairly arbitrary. I'll post more as I think of them.
Lots of classics already mentioned
+1 for the predator long tall Sally chopper scene, star wars & jaws USS
Hoth assault from Empire. Seeing the At At foot through the binoculars
Joker bank robbery from the Dark Knight. The action, masks, double crossery,heist itself & intro to the character.
1: Apocalypse Now - When Wilard comes out of the water and assassinates Kurtz to The End and the people butcher a cow at the same time.
2: Big Lebowski - Saddam Hussein dream bowling sequence.
3: Is a three way tie between the following:
Weekend at Bernie’s where they vac Bernie’s corpse (especially the moustache) and have to staple his wig back on.
Warrior King - Crazy restaurant fight/stunt extravaganza that was done in one take “WHERE’S MY ELEPHANT”
Once Upon a Time in the West - The train station stand off scene.
Sorry for sneaking five in there.
Not really all-time but some which spring to mind.
The Limey - "Tell 'im I'm facking camminnnng!"
Miami Vice - The shootout. I think because it's shot documentary style and the sound is so visceral. The only movie shootout I've ever watched where I was actually kinda grimacing and shrinking into my seat. It feels like you're in the scene.
Office Space - Peter's interview with the Bobs.
Im sure more will come to me as I think about it. Beaten to the coin toss scene too...
Matrix - Neo fights Morpheus
Magnolia - TJ Mackie's seminar
Network - Howard Beales Mad as hell speach
No particular order.
Opening scene of Betty Blue. 8 minutes of non-speaking rumpy-pumpy, then subtitle "I had known Betty for 6 days" or some such.
Local Hero - boat name painting scene - "are there two L's in dollar, Gideon?". "Aye, and are there two Gs in 'bugger off'?" 🙂
Diva - naughty cop on the take blow up Bohringer's Citroen TA, or so he thinks. Bohringer steps out of the shadows and gets into a decoy TA.
The fact The Matrix has been nominated so many times AND with so many different scenes proves its class.
Lots of good selections my 3 would be
A bridge to far James Caen driving the Jeep through the German lines.
Jason and the Argonauts fighting the skeletons.
The church Fight/ massacre scene from Kingsman.
Plus loads more I can’t think of.
Sicario – The Whole visit to Juárez was just stunning cinema. Barely any dialogue.
Ultimate ratchet experience. Brilliant!
2 pages and no one has mentioned Jenny Agutter in the shower?
I don't know whether to be happy or sad.
1. The Matrix - the scene with Morpheus and the red and blue pill. The desolation, the delivery and the reflection in the glasses. Perfect.
2. Cast Away - the scene when Tom Hanks throws away Wilson in a rage and then can’t find him. The anguish.
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Moria. The utter magnificence and grandeur of the place totally lived up to my imagination from reading the books. The fight between Gandalf and the Balrog. The emotion of The Hobbits at the loss of Gandalf and Boromir’s delivery of “give them a moment for pity’s sake!” Just phenomenal!
@Rusty Spanner
You mentioned it a page ago.
You know when you said you'd only do it til you needed glasses... 🙂
Oh,
The big reveal in The Shawshank Redemption.
Oh,
The big reveal in The Shawshank Redemption.
👍 Yep, fantastic. Great film.
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning
[mod edit: if you haven't seen The Usual Suspects and ever plan to, this clip spoilers the entire film]
And
Bricktops “ feed em to the pigs “ speech
Huh, you can hide embedded YT videos in spoiler tags. Cool, who knew.
Wow... will try to remember to hide clips in spoiler tags in future
Thanks Mod... didn’t realise that
But it is a great film so if anyone hasn’t seen it
WHY NOT 🤣
Ok, I've given this some though...
1) Silence of the Lambs - could be any of the Hopkins/Foster scenes but I think the final one, just before he escapes, is utterly mesmerising.
2) The end of It's a Wondeful Life - a climax of emotion without equal.
3) The Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian. The funniest scene ever made.
Naked Patrick Bateman dropping the chainsaw onto the fleeing escort.
Some of the LoTR fight scenes were amazing in the cinema.
Free Fire- when the van is going round in circles after the driver has been shot and Annie’ song is playing on its radio- brilliant juxtaposition.
Hear no Evil, See No Evil (yes a crap film but this bit makes up for it)- just before a contract killer (a beautiful female) is about to kill them, Gene Wilder asks if a kiss is out of the question. She obliges and Richard
Pryor asks “I suppose a f***’s out the question?” Sadly dubbed to bath when it’s been on telly.
Young Frankenstein- there’s a row of skulls showing period of decay, ending with Igor who bursts into “I ain’t got no body”
Tied in third place with the Monster’s “Putting on the Ritz”
The end of Matix 1 where Neo flexes and the world flexes with him. Goosebumps,
Anything in the LOTR
Its a wonderful life. Makes me well up everytime. All of it!
Monty Python, either Romans go home or Holy hand grenade, either one will do, they're both almost perfect.
Blade Runner "Do you like our Owl" Deckard, Rachel and Tyrell all playing their parts in revealing that Rachel isn't a human, and Rachel is the last to know...Horrible moment when you realise along with Rachel that she isn't what she thinks she is, "She's beginning to suspect I think..." The callousness of that is grim
Ex Machina - Ava and Kyoko have a plan, and Nathan get's whats coming. It's the banality of the horror of what "she's" done, and his disbelief that make the scene so uncomfortable to watch...
And one more, for fun - Old Boy. The octopus
I'm glad that The Matrix is getting so much love. It hasn't aged all that well but it was massively groundbreaking at the time. I came out of the cinema thinking it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. Then later you start thinking about it and realise that it doesn't make a jot of sense. (-:
But it is a great film so if anyone hasn’t seen it
WHY NOT 🤣
Well, quite.
probably because you’re watching it on a telly, with weedy speakers vs how you remember it at the pictures. I saw the 4K remaster at the cinema last year - it was ****ing awesome, every bit as good as I remember it. Only one scene looked a bit ropey IMO, the lobby explosion, which was 100% ageing CGI (and it showed).I’m glad that The Matrix is getting so much love. It hasn’t aged all that well
Due to my age and childhood, one of them would almost certainly have to be a standoff between Clint Eastwood and A.N.Other(s), probably involving Lee Van Cleef and possibly a musical pocket watch, but not necessarily.
Diva – naughty cop on the take blow up Bohringer’s Citroen TA, or so he thinks. Bohringer steps out of the shadows and gets into a decoy TA.
Bugger me! Someone else remembers Diva. Great film.
Some great ones already, originally came in to post the classic True Romance scene. Anyhow a couple more:
The scene in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly when Tuco and Blondie are dressed in stolen confederate uniforms. They see soldiers ride towards them and are trying to work out if they are from the north or south. Tuco says it's ok as they are wearing grey, so they stand in the road till the troop arrives.
As they stand there the soldiers draw up and pat themselves down. Clouds of dust fly off, revealing Union uniforms.
... but really just about any scene from that movie, from the opening to the end.
Toy Story 2, when the heroes get lost in the toy store and get shown around by tour guide Barbie.
Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet - the opening scene from the prologue to the fight at the petrol station.
I must be the only one who thinks The Matrix is utter pants. Fancy special effects do not a film make.
The closing scene of the original Wicker Man must be up there.
A good mention of Betty Blue above though. The whole film and soundtrack is a masterpiece.
Convoy - ‘well piss on ya, and piss on ya law’
Fun fact - both my brother and I can quote every line from that movie including the song
Full Metal Jacket - the scene where they walk through the bombed streets
Lock Stock - Rory breaker and nick the Greek. ‘Is this some white c* joke that black c* don’t get, because I’m not f**** laughin Nick-o-larse’...