What are Your Choices for the Best Most Memorable Moments and Scenes in all of Cinema ?

[BAYLOR]

One does not become a multi-billionaire without being a superlative liar. Tyrell's problem was that he couldn't conceive of anyone or anything not succumbing to his overbearing will.

Now that I think about it You're absolutely correct.

 

[Don Coyote]

The Singing in the Rain scene in A Clockwork Orange. Such raw, unadulterated brutality.

The Statue of Liberty at the end of The Planet Of The Apes. It was one of the few times my parents took us kids to see a movie in a walk-in and and it was a complete, punch to the gut surprise. I'll never forget that.

The battle at the bridge in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. It starts with a very surreal transition scene from a peaceful, parklike setting, then with the turn of a corner, they're suddenly in the middle of a hellish battlefield.

Patton giving his speech while standing in front of a huge American Flag. Powerful.

The chase scene in Bullit is one of the best in cinematic history, second only to Gone in Sixty Seconds. The original, not the weak sauce remake with Nicolas Cage.

Captain Nemo playing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor the pipe organ in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The dread from the foreshadowing of Nemo's eventual unravelling is terrifying.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Singing in the Rain scene in A Clockwork Orange. Such raw, unadulterated brutality.

The Statue of Liberty at the end of The Planet Of The Apes. It was one of the few times my parents took us kids to see a movie in a walk-in and and it was a complete, punch to the gut surprise. I'll never forget that.

The battle at the bridge in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. It starts with a very surreal transition scene from a peaceful, parklike setting, then with the turn of a corner, they're suddenly in the middle of a hellish battlefield.

Patton giving his speech while standing in front of a huge American Flag. Powerful.

The chase scene in Bullit is one of the best in cinematic history, second only to Gone in Sixty Seconds. The original, not the weak sauce remake with Nicolas Cage.

Captain Nemo playing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor the pipe organ in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

All excellent choices.

 

[Foxbat]

I love the gunfight in Baz Luhrman’s adaption of Romeo and Juliet.

 

[BAYLOR]

Aliens: "Get away from her you bitch!"

Classic Ripley

And the epic clash between here and the Queen.

 

[BAYLOR]

Heavy Metal 1981 The Taarna the Taarkian Warrior sequence . Taarna last of her people , is brave , heroic and beautiful beyond words She is summoned by the inhabitants of doomed city under a pact from long ago. The city and it'e people under siege by the enslaved and corrupted followers of an evil entity in the form of the Loc-nar Stone and they are losing badly unable to rally fight back agains the horde. She find the city in ruins and everyone dead and, embarks upon quest for vengeance and justice. This segment has a musical score by Elmer Bernstein that is beautiful and haunting.

 

[Bick]

Ten off the top of my head -

1. Bladerunner - Tears in rain
2. Once Upon a Time in the West - 'you brought two too many'
3. Ring - dead girl climbs out of the TV
4. Brando - 'I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody' - On the Waterfront
5. Unforgiven - 'its a hell of a thing, killing a man'
6. Enter the Dragon - Lee's first fight in the competition
7. The Shining - two little girls appearance in hallway
8. The Seven Samurai - Kyuzo's duel with anonymous samurai
9. Long-shot arrival of Omar Sharrif character at the beginning of Lawrence of Arabia
10. Citizen Kane - 'rosebud'

 

[Vince W]

Ten off the top of my head -

5. Unforgiven - 'its a hell of a thing, killing a man'

9. Long-shot arrival of Omar Sharrif character at the beginning of Lawrence of Arabia

I wish I had thought of these two.

 

[Khaldun]

Ten off the top of my head -

1. Bladerunner - Tears in rain

Also my number one. Nothing beats the first time you see it.

I also love the scene where Deckard meets Rachel and Tyrell and the light dims. The whole scene is brilliant.

Besides Blade Runner:

Lion King, Scar's Be Prepared song.
Return of the Jedi, when Luke turns rejects the dark side and Palpatine says "you will pay the price for your lack of vision!"

And I can't think of any more right now, will edit if something comes up..

 

[BAYLOR]

Schindler's List The little girl in the red coat .

 

[CupofJoe]

The "Tell me I'm a good man" scene in Saving Private Ryan.

 

[TWErvin2]

I would say the Augustus McCrae death scene, where he shares his last moments with his life long friend, Captain Woodrow Call in the mini series, Lonesome Dove.

Two different men, with two different outlooks on life, but bound by friendship and life experiences, saying good bye.

 

[Bick]

I would say the Augustus McCrae death scene, where he shares his last moments with his life long friend, Captain Woodrow Call in the mini series, Lonesome Dove.

Yes, Lonesome Dove has many great scenes that stick with you. One of my favourite moments is when Gus is talking to Lorie outside Lories camp away from the boys and cows. Its simple, but full of wisdom:
"You see, life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it’s likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things – like a sip of good whiskey in the evening..."

 

[Timebender]

So many, I'm sure I can't list them all, but here are the ones that come to mind.

• The Batmobile zooming through the spooky gothic woods to Danny Elfman's epic spine-tingling score, as Vicki Vale tries to take in what she's riding in and who she's riding with, in the 1989 Batman film.
• Any scene from A New Hope, but especially the opening with the Star Destroyer pursuing the rebel ship and the climactic fight/chase scene at the Death Star. They were unprecedented sequences of action and excitement and striking visuals.
• The "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" sequence from Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame". Innocence and sweet vulnerable joy in stark contrast with the greatest villain song ever.
• The Thanksgiving play scene from "Addams Family Values". Wednesday's hijacking the play and leading the outcast kids in taking over the camp is hilarious and cathartic, after the smarmy privilege-obsessed oppression from the counselors and popular kids, and Wednesday seemingly having been brainwashed into joining them.
• The unbearable tenseness and brief but shakening terror of the climax in "Psycho". And, of course, the paranoid dread of the shower scene.
• The big final battle in "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". A cracking great fight scene with a lot of fun characters in the midst of an eye-popping, chaotically beautiful setting.
• The opening scenes from Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, a fantastic combination of narration, world-building, and action.
• "This is Halloween", the first song from "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The lyrics are fun and extremely Halloween-y. The music is a pitch-perfect mix of whimsical, spooky, and magical. The visuals are distinctive and striking, with some of the most creative monster designs in film history.
• Any scene with "Emo Peter" from "Spider-Man 3". Nothing I say can do justice to the joy of those scenes.
• The training scenes from "The Matrix", as Neo and the audience see the seemingly-familiar world around them warp and change in ways that wouldn't ever have seemed possible.

 

[Timebender]

Some more I thought of:

• The scene in Joel Schumacher's "Phantom of the Opera", where the movie transitions from the present to the past. The sight of the old crumbling theater putting itself back together to what it once was, set to the bombastic theme, gives me goosebumps. A perfect way to translate the feeling of the chandelier scene from the stage to the screen.
• Any scene with the Invisible Man in the Universal film of the same name. The effects were ground-breaking, and are still fun and hold up reasonably well even to this day.
• The scenes in "Beetlejuice" where the stopmotion effects combine with the live actors, like the scene where Adam and Barbara twist their faces with ghost powers. Such hilariously macabre and unique visuals.
• The ending of "The Sixth Sense".
• Pretty much the entirety of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", but I'll go with Chocolate Room scene and, in a "memorable-for-how-stark-raving-terrifying-it-was" sense, the following tunnel scene.
• In "Singing in the Rain", after sound in films becomes mainstream, the montage of films with sound is so colorful and eye-popping and fun.
• Toontown and the reveal of the villain in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
• The endings of "Clue".
• The opening song of "Prince of Egypt", both epic and intimate.
• The final battle in "The Avengers". Just back-to-back moments of awesomeness.
• The "I'm Batman" song from "The Lego Batman Movie". It's hilarious, and yet it captures the appeal of Batman for fans.
• The scenes where Wesley chases Vizzini and his gang up the cliffs in "The Princess Bride".

 

[Vince W]

Clint Eastwood's duel with the marshall Stockburn and his men in Pale Rider. Also his earlier beating of LaHood's men with a good piece of hickory.
Spock diving into the tank to mind-meld with whales, Scotty trying to us an Apple MacIntosh computer, Kirk swearing and both Kirk and Spock riding the bus in Star Trek IV.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Threw Stooges Meet Hercules When they face off against the terrible Siamese Cyclops.

 

[BAYLOR]

GoodFellas seeing Tommy Devito get his much deserved comeuppance at the hands of the Mob.

 

[BAYLOR]

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 Cyclops vs Dragon

 

[Toby Frost]

I suppose I'd have to nominate the skeleton fight at the end of Jason and the Argonauts. It's hardly deep, but it's probably one of the best bits of stop-motion and Ray Harryhausen at the peak of his work.

I always think the old lady killing a German soldier with an axe in Went The Day Well? is pretty memorable. There's a definite sense of "We're not messing around here, are we?"