What Is Your Favorite Movie Scene Of All Time?? (5 Viewers)

[whiteshadowen]

Linda Blair possession scene on her bed in 1974. I'm still traumatized about that.

 

[boutte]

In One flew over the cuckoo's nest when Chief picks up the water fountain and throws it through thr window.

The big chase scene in Road Warrior

Edward G Robinson's death scene in Soylent Green. It actually made me cry.

The tatoo scene in Dudes Where's My Car. There;s a few of them in that movie.

Young Frankenstien, Putting the Ritz

 

[IHATETHEFALCONS]

The vollyball scene from Top Gun

 

[peglegpeet13]

I didn't read the thread so this has probably been said but the scene when Golum argues with himself and Smeegle tells Golum to go away. The guy should have won Academy award for that scene.

I still think it is a shame that he didn't get a chance to win an Oscar. Even though the character was CG, Andy Serkis made Gollum who he was.

Another favorite of mine is in The Natural. The sparks falling as Roy Hobbs rounds the bases with the music in the background is amazing.

 

[thewyrm]

The Smeagol / Gollum scene was great. I think the best scene from the movies was my favorite scene from the books though. It has already been mentioned in this thread but it bears another heap of praise. When Eowyn faces the Witch King of Angmar on the Pelennor Fields. I was terrified that Peter Jackson wouldn't get it right. Even after how great he directed the first two movies, I was sure he would ruin my favorite moment in literary history. Boy was I wrong.

 

[Fiyo]

Best line - Scarface - "Say Hello To My Little Friend!"

Great scenes: The Warriors vs. the Baseball Furies in the Warriors
The mothership landing and encounter in Close Encounters
Darth Vader telling Luke he's his father.
"I think he broke his "bleeping" neck in the Longest Yard.

But what may be my all-time favorite scene isn't from one of my all-time favorite movies - but I remember almost wetting my pants laughing the first time I saw it in the theater:

The Stay-Puff Marshmellow Man scene in Ghostbusters. -- The four Ghostbusters are trying to make sure they don't think of anything bad that can become reality to attack New York and them. You realize Dan Ackroyd thought of something, and from the sound of it, you expect to see Godzilla come storming down the street - but instead you get the Michelin Man's giant brother.

 

[peglegpeet13]

The Smeagol / Gollum scene was great. I think the best scene from the movies was my favorite scene from the books though. It has already been mentioned in this thread but it bears another heap of praise. When Eowyn faces the Witch King of Angmar on the Pelennor Fields. I was terrified that Peter Jackson wouldn't get it right. Even after how great he directed the first two movies, I was sure he would ruin my favorite moment in literary history. Boy was I wrong.

Peter Jackson really did a great job on those movies

 

[NotOnHerb]

the baptism/murder scene from the godfather and the final scene from seven when they are in the desert and receive the package.

 

[ridgeben]

The pool scene in "Swimfan"....

 

[Paul]

Great thread.

I've got a ton, but here's a few:

Heat - When Deniro & Pacino meet in the diner. By far my favorite scene in that movie. Also, the bank robbery scene was one of the livest cop & robber scenes, ever.

So many from LOTR.

Ocean's 11 (the remake with Clooney & Pitt) - I really enjoyed the scene (whole sequence) when they robbed the casino. I rooted for the bad guys in that one.

A Bronx Tale - the scene where little Calogero witnesses the murder in the street.

The Suicide Kings - the scene where Dennis Leary's character goes to the waitress' apartment, and her old man is there, and he just beat her. Leary's character tells a story, gets up to leave, and then comes back and hammers the old guy with a toaster.


A lot more - I just don't have the time.

 

[SaintNELA]

I can't possibly pinpoint one scene, but here's a few of my favorites:

The first 45 minutes of "Full Metal Jacket." R. Lee Ermey is great in that one. I couldn't even tell you what happens in the rest of the movie. I watched it all the way through one time, but now I don't remember it.

The town meeting scene in "Hoosiers" where they're voting on whether to fire Coach Dale. After voting to fire the coach, Jimmy Chitwood walks in and says, "I play, coach stays. He goes, I go." Leading to a re-vote, and the tearing up of the ballot followed by, "Coach stays."

And somebody already mentioned "Big Trouble in Little China." This one is filled with gems. However, my favorite is when Kurt Russell throws his knife (and misses badly) at Lo Pan. Lo Pan says,"Good knife. Goodbye, Mr. Burton," and throws the knife back at Russell, who manages to catch it, and immediately throw it back at Lo Pan (this time stabbing him square in the forehead and killing him). The leads to all the statues in the room crashing in a domino effect. Kim Cattrall looks at Russell, bewildered at how he did it. Russell (full of himself) responds, "It's all in the reflexes." Classic.

 

[peglegpeet13]

I can't possibly pinpoint one scene, but here's a few of my favorites:

The first 45 minutes of "Full Metal Jacket." R. Lee Ermey is great in that one. I couldn't even tell you what happens in the rest of the movie. I watched it all the way through one time, but now I don't remember it.

The town meeting scene in "Hoosiers" where they're voting on whether to fire Coach Dale. After voting to fire the coach, Jimmy Chitwood walks in and says, "I play, coach stays. He goes, I go." Leading to a re-vote, and the tearing up of the ballot followed by, "Coach stays."

And somebody already mentioned "Big Trouble in Little China." This one is filled with gems. However, my favorite is when Kurt Russell throws his knife (and misses badly) at Lo Pan. Lo Pan says,"Good knife. Goodbye, Mr. Burton," and throws the knife back at Russell, who manages to catch it, and immediately throw it back at Lo Pan (this time stabbing him square in the forehead and killing him). The leads to all the statues in the room crashing in a domino effect. Kim Cattrall looks at Russell, bewildered at how he did it. Russell (full of himself) responds, "It's all in the reflexes." Classic.

The first 45 of Full Metal Jacket are so good that many people don't realize that there is still a lot of movie left.