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!

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.

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.

Some great ones already, originally came in to post the classic True Romance scene.  Anyhow a couple more:

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.

probably because you’re watching it on a telly,

Nah. It’s a technically brilliant, groundbreaking film and I can still appreciate that, the problem is that its technical brilliance distracts from the fact that the plot is abject twaddle. Once the then-revolutionary tech becomes mainstream it loses its USP somewhat.

Two incredibly powerful and utterly contrasting scenes from a couple of films set just a few years apart.

the fight between that guy & Cusack by the school lockers is probably my favourite screen fight of all time! Brutal, brilliant choreography & dare I say it (never actually been in a fight to the death) seems very realistic! Also I love that when it’s over, he is visibly exhausted (most movie fights end with the hero not even out of breath and running straight off to do something else 😃)

The pair of them know what they doing and the other guy in the scene is Benny Urquidez

From Wiki.

Cusack trained in kickboxing under former world kickboxing champion Benny Urquidez for over twenty years. He began training under Urquidez in preparation for his role in Say Anything… and holds the rank of a level six black belt in Urquidez’s Ukidokan Kickboxing system

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.

I missed this before I posted my impossible selection. I totally agree, so so many scenes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. From the very beginning where three mean looking guys turn up looking for someone and Tuco shoots them off screen and jumps out of a window, gun in one hand, chicken leg in the other. To the very end in the grave yard. Most of them include Tuco.

“Who the hell is that? One bastard goes in, another one comes out.“

Another film full of great scenes is Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

@eddiebaby –

Bugger me! Someone else remembers Diva. Great film.

I love it. Took me a while before got around to seeing it (flatmate had raved about it for ages). DVD copy – check.

See also Death in a French Garden – the scene cuts in that are inventive. Great music. The copies floating around aren’t quite as explicit as I recall it though!

Just bought a copy of Butch Cassidy to further my kid’s education during lockdown.

Another classic scene, especially where Kelly, Odd Ball and Big Joe approach the Tiger, itself a parody of other Clint Eastwood movies.

Donald Sutherland steals every scene in the movie just with his eye movements.

Also,

“Spring Chicken to Shitehawk in five minutes.”

…and this. Brutal and NSFW or small kids.

A Few Good Men – You Cant Handle The Truth!

That “Fury” clip is such nonsense though

The crane chase in Terminator 2 was amazing when I first saw it at the cinema.

Some scenes are so classic to have almost become clichés.. but it’s only cos they are brilliant, eg:
Deniro – “You lookin at me?”
Mr Blonde + “Stuck in the Middle With You”
The blood testing and the “spider” alien in The Thing

Humans would make shit batteries. You’d probably get more energy from burning them. Plus, why bother, where are all the animals?
Why is it necessary for the Matrix to exist at all? The machines could just strap us in, why do we need to be tricked? This might’ve been explained, it’s a while since I’ve watched it; but again, where are all the animals? You wouldn’t need an elaborate Matrix savanna for plugged-in elephants, cows wouldn’t need the Mootrix.
Why aren’t the real world bodies totally atrophied? And why are liberated bodies conveniently flushed away rather than just killed?
The Matrix and real world are supposed to be separate unless you die. So why do Neo et al they physically react when Smith is beating the snot out of them?
Who’s operator when Cypher’s in the Matrix double-crossing them?
Etc, etc.

The movie is much more than the baseline “story” though. That story is just a vehicle to convey deeper philosophical, religious and social concepts and that is why the movie is so popular and well regarded.

this is true and perhaps anyone looking at the story/plot completely literally is missing the whole point, although I’m not sure most “holes” can’t be explained?

Possibly all the animals are dead? Scorched sky and all that. but…

I don’t think the machines necessarily want to kill all humans… this isn’t The Terminator… they just want not to be killed BY humans. The whole war was one of self-defence, from the machines’ perspective. So possibly the matrix is a way of keeping humanity placid.

their brains are plugged into a computer. I’m sure it could fire off enough microsimulation of the muscles to stop them totally wasting away. Next.

same reason people sometimes physically react when they’re dreaming? Come on, have you even thought about these? 😂

What happens in the matrix isn’t real. Neo can control the matrix with his mind. So what he does in the matrix does not have to follow the “rules” of real life. How can that possibly have escaped you 😂

Christ, deep diving into the plot holes of science fiction films! That’s a whole other thread.
And a really boring one.

In no particular order:

Kellys Heroes where Oddballs Sherman is hunting the Tigers in the town. Absolutely brilliant.

Inglorious Basterds (could just pick any of it) but the cinema when they’re pretending to be Italian movie directors through to them blowing the place up. Brad Pitt’s and Taratino’s finest film I reckon. Could have easily chosen any number of clips from that film including the bar, the opening scene, the bit in the woods, the “features” clip and subsequent breaking out of Stiglitz. Going to watch that tonight I think…

Captain Phillips – towards the end where the 3 US Navy ships conduct the plan to kill the pirates. Another favourite film.

The Italian Job (the proper one) – the whole Mini Cooper escape sequence up to the credit roll.

Pulp Fiction, when Vincent and Lance are outraged at Vincent’s car getting keyed (“no trial, no jury, straight to execution!”). Whilst weighing out a big bag of heroin. (In fact most of Travolta’s scenes in the Mia Wallace part of the story.)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – opening scene in the Red Shark driving through the desert.