Great Film Moments!

[mac1]

Lawrence setting out into Arabia, passing by the ruined pyramid...

Also, later when he leads the Arab army he's built up out, and the men are singing on their camels and with their flags, and the women are all about the caves above howling out. Strong atmosphere.

Oh YEAH! That film has far too many great moments to mention. The first ever recording of a mirage on film spings to mind, as does the that beautiful sunset scene with Lawrence on the camel walking over the dunes. Classic stuff!

 

[Foxbat]

I just love the build up to the 3 way gunfight at the end of The Good The Bad & The Ugly.....the rotating camera....Spanish guitar giving it laldy.....the Tijuana brass band joining for the crescendo....close ups of the eyes....bang bang bang!

Hey! Blondie! You Mother was a ............
They don't make 'em like that any more

 

[UltraCulture]

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Watched the Animatrix last night and love the scene in The Second Renaissance(part 2) where the the machine ambassador destroys the UNHQ.

"Your flesh is a relic, a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh and a new world awaits you. We demand it,"

BOOM
Also(ready for an obvious one)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

 

[nj1]

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Quite an obvious one -

The scene when Arthur faces the Black Knight in Monty Python's holy Grail. Arthur chops of his arms and legs and the Black Knight still won't give up.
"It's only a flesh wound!!"

Cracks me up just thinking of that one.

Visually speaking -

The opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan, Speechless!!

 

[Urlik]

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the whole scene of Bill Murray as a taxi driver at the start of Stripes.
especially the bit as he lifts the heavy cases into the car and says "oh my balls".
it is really silly but that line cracks me up every time

 

[gully_foyle]

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The scene in 2001 where the shuttle is synchronising and docking with the space station to the sounds of "The Blue Danube", I love that scene and cannot here the music without thinking of two spacecraft waltzing.

When ED-209 loses it in the offices of OCP in Robocop... "You call this a GLITCH?"

And of course Roy Batty's death scene. Good one UC.

 

[Culhwch]

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A couple from The Empire Strikes Back: 'I know.' and, 'Luke, I am your father.'

Boromir's death in LotR.

I'm sure I'll think of others.

 

[Foxbat]

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My all-time favourite scene must be Jimmy Cagney's walk to the electric chair in Angels With Dirty Faces.

Also I've come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of bubblegum from They Live. It still makes me smile.

 

[clovis-man]

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One that was a shocker in its day: Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) saying to Scarlet O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone With The Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Really something in 1939. This was the same era in which W.C. Fields could make a joke over being embarassed about inadvertantly saying "legs" as opposed to the politically correct version of the day, "limbs".

 

[Foxbat]

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One that was a shocker in its day: Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) saying to Scarlet O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone With The Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Really something in 1939. This was the same era in which W.C. Fields could make a joke over being embarassed about inadvertantly saying "legs" as opposed to the politically correct version of the day, "limbs".

I agree. A very different time. Also the grapefruit scene in The Public Enemy must have left audiences gasping in horror

 

[Urlik]

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another classic scene has to be the rhino in Ace Ventura 2.
the whole audience were in one mind during that and everyone was having trouble breathing. the film is worth watching just for that alone.

 

[HareBrain]

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The bit in the forest in Princess Mononoke where San is chewing Ashitaka's food because he's too weak to do it himself, and when she feeds him it he thinks for a moment she's kissing him, and his arms move a little to hold her, before he realises. So subtle and so beautifully done.

 

[Tillane]

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Also I've come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of bubblegum from They Live. It still makes me smile.

That would have to be one of mine, too. The whole film cracks me up, and that line - and Piper's delivery - are just priceless.

Others:
From Hot Fuzz:
Well, I wouldn't argue that it wasn't a no holds barred, adrenaline fuelled thrill ride. But, there is no way you can perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork.

And from High Fidelity:
Jon Dillinger was killed behind that theatre in a hail of FBI gunfire. And do you know who tipped them off? His f***ing girlfriend. All he wanted to do was go to the movies.

 

[manephelien]

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Boromir's death scene in LotR.

The moment when the Apollo 13 crew realizes that there's been an explosion aboard and that they'll never get to the moon.

 

[clovis-man]

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One of my favorite quotes from one of my all time favorite movies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Marcus Lycus (Phil Silvers) to one of his "employees" after smacking him on the head for fanning freshly bathed courtesans with a large ostrich feather:

"If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times; do not fan the girls when they're wet! But you'll never learn, you'll be a eunuch all your life."

 

[Stone]

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Avoiding the obvious choices this was fairly difficult but i would go with Field of Dreams and James Earl Jones "people will come..." speech near the end of the film "..it is money they have and peace they lack..", and if you have any doubt just remember, it's James Earl Jones!!

Mentioned twice already but Boromir death scene in LOTR is just so good, i love that whole 10 mins or so, from Aragorn's "i would have followed you into the very fires of Mordor.." until Boromir's "..my brother, my captain, my king".

I'll also add the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, end scene in the graveyard is probably the most popular. However, prior to that Tuco (Eli Wallach) is tracking Blondie (Clint) and the music which is used just suits the scenes perfectly and gathers momentum all the way to Tuco puffing on the discarded Cigar until he has it puffing again, brilliant

 

[clovis-man]

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Unforgiven: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

Words to live by.

 

[littlemissattitude]

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Bull Durham - When Susan Sarandon has Tim Robbins tied to the bed and he thinks he's going to get some kinky action, but then she starts reading poetry to him. Classic.

The very beginning of Rebel Without a Cause, when James Dean's character is drunk before being taken to the police station. The most uninhibited piece of acting I've ever seen.

The Abyss - when Ed Harris is trying to revive Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio after she has intentionally drowned so that he can get her back to their underwater shelter. He just won't give up. It's really very romantic.

The "walk-off" in Zoolander. Hilarious.

I'm sure there are others, but these are all I can think of in my present state of exhaustion.

 

[UltraCulture]

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Re: The Abyss I love the camera shot from above looking down on the crew surrounding Lindsey in the moonpool, the colours are fantastic.

regarging lines i like Catfish's remarks on the drop-off "This here's the bottomless pit baby, two and half miles strait down".

great film.

 

[biodroid]

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Something for the imagination.

Persian: "Our arrows will blot out the sun"
Spartan: "Then we will fight in the shade"
And the best one "This is SPARTA!!"

Neo: "Hmm upgrades"

Indiana Jones: Knocks guy out of the zeppelin, says "No ticket"

Freddie: "How sweet, fresh meat"