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My top three:

Fred Astaire dancing to "Puttin' On The Ritz" in BLUE SKIES.
The sword fight between Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in THE MARK OF ZORRO.
The fight on the train in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.
 
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I don't have enough post to tag a link up, so here is the conversation instead.

The movie is Altered States.

Eddie Jessup: What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no Buddhist God per se. It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth.
Emily Jessup: What the hell is not religious about that? You've simply replaced God with the Original Self.
Eddie Jessup: Yes, but we've localized it. Now I know where the Self is. It's in our own minds. It's a form of human energy. Our atoms are six billion years old. We've got six billion years of memory in our minds.


Eddie Jessup: Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.
Mason Parrish: You're a whacko!
Eddie Jessup: What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.
 
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Member - I've not seen Altered States, but based on that piece of dialogue I will! Cheers (and hello). Seems like dialogue that could come straight out of Waking Life or even Pi, except I'm struggling to find the scenes I want from those.

In the meantime, here's something...groovy.

Evil Dead 2 on Youtube
 
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No One said:
In the meantime, here's something...groovy.
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I've not seen Waking Life, to be honest I'm not even sure I've heard of that movie. I will look it up, though.

Also, my cousin and got into trouble one night because we were laughing so hard, and making so much noise while watching Evil Dead II over at his house.

This was back when it first came out, and we've been a fan of Bruce Campbell even since.

Edit: Just found whole movie on youtube, will watch tomorrow.
Looks like A Scanner Darkly.
 
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Member said:
I've not seen Waking Life, to be honest I'm not even sure I've heard of that movie. I will look it up, though.

Also, my cousin and got into trouble one night because we were laughing so hard, and making so much noise while watching Evil Dead II over at his house.

This was back when it first came out, and we've been a fan of Bruce Campbell even since.

Edit: Just found whole movie on youtube, will watch tomorrow.
Looks like A Scanner Darkly.
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Yeah, Waking Life is by the same director as A Scanner Darkly, though a vastly different film. It's not even a film inasmuch as a series of heavily philosophical/sociological discourses. It's 90 minutes of serious thinking-cap time, but it's chock-full of goodness.

And of course, it was just a matter of time before the inimitable Bruce Campbell was brought to bear :D

But to keep with Starbeast's excellent choice of comedy...

Spinal Tap on Youtube
 
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Yes, it's a cartoon. Yes, it's for kids. But it is also spectacular animation, and the scene I looked forward to when I watched it for the second time. Tai Lung escapes from prison in Kung Fu Panda.

 
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Not really a scene per se, but there's a moment in Blade Runner where the camera is panning left behind rows of dark columns and a small group of kids on bicycles ride toward the camera that I think is just beautiful.
 
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Not the scene I wanted from Pi, but it'll have to do:

Pi on Youtube

I think Mark Margolis is fantastic in this scene.
 
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Starbeast - Laurel and Hardy. That did not even come to mind, but the second I saw the image I knew the scene!

I saw that clip when I was tiny (a long, long time ago) but it stuck with me and watching it again now I laughed just as much.

Great choice
 
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And because I can't resist, here's one of many great scenes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (one of my favourite films, but clips on youtube are few and far between, so I've had to opt for one of the 12 parts of the whole film, which can be found there. In other words, there's about 30 seconds of faffing about before the scene proper starts, and runs to around the 7 minute mark).

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on youtube

Richard Dreyfuss is stupendous.
 
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Mouse said:
I can't decide who I love more, Michelle Yeoh or Ziyi Zhang.
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Takes two to tango I guess! Although I remember hearing/reading somewhere that Michelle Yeoh had knee surgery just a couple weeks before shooting that scene. What a trouper.
 
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