Favorite Movie Scenes

[denali]

from the movie Quadrophenia, there are loads, but a couple of faves that always come to mind.

Sting as the AceFace in court after the fighting when everyone else is bricking it about getting fined or jailed, just stands up and says "cash or cheque?"

(maybe you need to be a Mod for that to be totally awesome)


Jimmy (Phil Daniels) arguing with his dad about being a rebellious teenager
" Normal, what's normal then."

 

[Buttah]

The Range Rover, the 2 hills, the gate and the stone from "The Gods Must be Crazy."

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

The vampire actors killing that girl onstage in Interview With a Vampire

TS

 

[Sogegudo]

the last fight scene from the big hit where lou diamond phillips and mark wahlberg square off.

"knuckle up bitch" "Let's work"

Love those lines and that fight scene in the video store.

 

[Matthew82]

Glory, when Denzel is being whipped, I don't think I've ever not cried at that part.

 

[foofoo416]

How about the scene in The World According to Garp, when Garp's wife tells him she's pregnant and he doodles the little cartoon baby on her abdomen and talks to it. I have loved that scene since I was little...it always made me want to have a moment like that. Kind of an ideal way for a guy to react to that, lol. And when he tells the baby that it will be very comfortable because it's nice inside there, he should know. I love that. I just love that movie period.

 

[foofoo416]

Awwww...nothing? Really?

 

[Guest]

Okay... just remembered one....

The end of Blade Runner where Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) delivers his speech after suprisingly saving Deckard (Harrison Ford) "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 Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die."

So many great scenes in the movie, on of my all-time favourites, but in that moment he proves that the machines have more humanity than the so-called humans (is Deckard a replicant also?)

Fantastic and beautiful.

 

[chronicle_tenko]

Love Blade Runner. Roy crushing his creators skull. Haur is so good at that. Also him and Mickey rourke in Sin city. That's an awesome scene. Much of in city especially marv is great. But in the tower. "Will that give you satisfactiopn my son? Killing a a helpless old man?" (The gall to call him my son.)

"The killing, No. No satisfaction. But everything up to the killing will be a gas."

That's a great torch pass scene.

Also the onosecond in snatch. When Mickey wakes up in the final match, with goodnight anderson. And just clean knocks him out one punch. The camera freezes with Turkish's voiceover, and now we are fucked. That is the greatest onosecond ever.

*Oh-No-Seh-Con-Duh. Onosecond is the incredibly small amount of time that exists when everything freezes at the exact moment you realise you are absolutely fucked. Usually this gives you enough time to go Oh no.

Some of my favortie moments those three.

 

[foofoo416]

Thank you guys for sharing! Keep em coming!

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

The Band playing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" in The Last Waltz

 

[Willow123]

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[mark197205]

Just the other day I watched Kung-Fu Hustle, for me two stand out moments were the gangsters dancing like they were part of some 30's vaudeville show and the chase scene with them running at what must be 100mph, both bizarre yet laughoutloud funny.

 

[Guest]

I have just remembered a favourite scene through chatting to someone about films... It's from the movie Kill Bill 2

Now I'm not like normal folk.... I think Pulp Fiction has a few good moments but is overrated, and Reservoir Dogs is average at best.... but love Kill Bill 1 and Kill Bill 2 even more.

The score is superb!! And I just love the set-pieces, yet to me the best scene in the film was just a dark screen with sound effects. Everything is left to your imagination as The Bride (Uma Thurmann) is buried alive in a coffin. It's very claustrophobic and creepy. I loved it!!

 

[Matthew82]

Reservoir Dogs, when Madsen cuts the cops ear off, shocking yet you dont ever forget it

 

[foofoo416]

Ok, I'm gonna get all little girly here....but a classic scene from the all time great girly movie...Dirty Dancing. When Jonny beats the shit out of Robbie for talking shit about the girls, I just love that! It's just like....YEAH!! Kick his ass!!

 

[rab302]

The Professional (or Leon if you saw the Eurpean release) - When Stansfield (Gary Oldham character) kicks in the door to Matilda's family's apartment and starts killing everyone by shotgun while listening to Brahms in his head. Just absolutely great how psychotic he is and how normal he thinks that killing an entire family is in that scene.

 

[Hooper_X]

... killing everyone by shotgun while listening to Brahms in his head.

Wasn't it Beethoven? He had just mentioned calm moments before the storm reminding him of Beethoven seconds before.

 

[rab302]

Wasn't it Beethoven? He had just mentioned calm moments before the storm reminding him of Beethoven seconds before.

I thought he advised the guy to check out Beethoven after he determined that the guy was a Motzart fan, but he was a bit light for the job at hand. Haven't seen it in a while, so I may have those reversed.

 

[Hooper_X]

I thought he advised the guy to check out Beethoven after he determined that the guy was a Motzart fan, but he was a bit light for the job at hand. Haven't seen it in a while, so I may have those reversed.

I'm going to have to rent it to be sure. Oldman does indeed make the comment about Mozart. However, just before he kills Mathilda's family, he says something about liking these little moments before the storm and it reminding him of Beethoven. (which isn't too say that he didn't then begin to hum Brahams... I can't remember the music) The only reason I remember the comment is that when I first saw it, I wondered if Stansfield wasn't an homage to Little Alex de Large from A Clockwork Orange.

 

[rab302]

Another favorite scene is from Apocalypse Now when Lt. Col. Kilgore (Robert Duval) is kneeling with his shirt off talking to Lance (Sam Bottoms), right before the Napalm in the Morning speech; mortars are exploding all around and bullets are whizzing by and everyone ducks and flinches except Lt. Col. Kilgore.

 

[rab302]

I'm going to have to rent it to be sure. Oldman does indeed make the comment about Mozart. However, just before he kills Mathilda's family, he says something about liking these little moments before the storm and it reminding him of Beethoven. (which isn't too say that he didn't then begin to hum Brahams... I can't remember the music) The only reason I remember the comment is that when I first saw it, I wondered if Stansfield wasn't an homage to Little Alex de Large from A Clockwork Orange.

I have the DVD, you are correct! Though the movie never does let you hear him humming anything, he is just making gestures, so no idea which piece he is thinking of. I bow to your superior movie trivia knowledge.

 

[Hooper_X]

I have the DVD, you are correct! Though the movie never does let you hear him humming anything, he is just making gestures, so no idea which piece he is thinking of. I bow to your superior movie trivia knowledge.

Which DVD do you have, the avuncular American edit... or the unapologetically incestuous European/Director's cut? I'm going to have to rent & rip & burn the latter...

 

[rab302]

Which DVD do you have, the avuncular American edit... or the unapologetically incestuous European/Director's cut? I'm going to have to rent & rip & burn the latter...

Just the American cut.

 

[Hooper_X]

One movie scene that never fails to choke me up is at the beginning of Woody Allen's other masterpiece, Manhattan. In voice-over he is attempting to compose the beginning of a novel while a montage of black and white scenes of New York flash on the screen. After several false starts an idea begins to gel.

"'Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion.' Uh, no, make that: 'He-he...romanticized it all out of proportion. Now... to him... no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin..." "'He was as... tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.' -- I love this! -- 'New York was his town. And it always would be.'"

Exactly one beat after the the last syllable of the phrase," New York was his town and it always would be," Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue reaches its driving crescendo. This is probably, for me, the absolute perfect cinematic moment.