Greatest moments in film?

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What are your Greatest moments(scenes) in film?

My top 10  so far,
I will upgrade as i remember,

1) Once Upon a Time in America: the opening credit sequence
2) 2001 A space odyssey: The dawn of man segment
3) Dr. Strangelove: the last 5 minutes.
4) UN CHIEN ANDALOU: the eyeball slice
5) Taxi Driver: DeNiro holds his bloody index finger to his head and mimics blowing his brains out.
6) Blue Velvet: Dean Stockwell singing with a light, Dennis Hopper calling Isabella Rossellini mommy
7) True Romance: Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken talking about Sicilians.
8 ) Pulp Fiction: Christopher Walken telling young Bruce Willis about the watch and his father.
9) Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Phobe Cates comming out of the swimming pool and taking her top off.
10) The Empire Strikes Back: No, Luke, I am your fater.
11) Reservoir Dogs : Michael Madsen cutting the cop's ear off.
 
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7, 8 and 9 are great examples!


Here are 10 in no particular order and off the top of my head.

1. The opening sequence of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
2. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" from JAWS and the immortal speech by Robert Shaw of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
3. "They're heeeerrreee!" from Poltergeist
4. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Omaha Beach sequence
5. T-REX sequence in Jarrasic Park "Iaannn! Freeeze!"
6. ALIENS when M. Biehn looks up in the cieling and see's them coming!
7. DIE HARD when Bruce throws the terrorist onto the cop car "Welcome to the Party pal!"
8. STAR WARS opening sequence. I was 7 years old and seeing that Star Destroyer and then Storm Troopers coming into the corridor!
9. HALLOWEEN The sequence when Dr. Loomis and the girl pull up to the mental ward; it's raining and the patients are wandering around in the rain
10. The THING when MacReady is doing the blood test.
 
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1.  LTC Kilgore: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Apocalypse Now
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2.  “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.  I watched sea beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser gate.  All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.  Time to die.”  - Blade Runner

3.  The opening D-Day landing scene when the landing craft door falls exposing the Rangers to MG42 fire. - Saving Private Ryan
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4.  Jules: "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." - Pulp Fiction
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5.  Patton: "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."
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Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled **** in Louisiana."
 
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Well I don't have a list of ten but I do have one.
Evil Dead 2: When Ash looks into the mirror (after dismembering his possesed girlfriend with a chainsaw) he tells him self "I'm okay, Ive got a grip on myself, I'm fine" and his reflection jumps out of the mirror at him and replies "We just cut up out girlfriend with a chainsaw, does that sound FINE ???" If you have seen the movie then you know what scene I am referring to. If not your probably totally lost, and I'm sorry. If you havent seen it rent it, soon.
 
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[quote author=Brian Thompson link=board=movies;num=1094955441;start=0#4 date=10/05/04 at 21:34:36]If you havent seen it rent it, soon.[/quote]

If you haven't seen it, you should be banned from the board. ;)

Here's mine in no particular order:
1. Fight Club: Holding hands in the sky scraper, watching out the window at the end of all credit history.

2. Citizen Kane: The wideshot at the end "Charles Foster Kane was a man who had everything and lost it... I guess Rosebud is just a missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle." And then BAM! Rosebud!

3. Clockwork Orange: The establishing shot of Alex and his droogs.

4. 25th Hour: The scene where Slattery beats up Montey.

5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The first 5 minutes.

6. Kill Bill: The man from Okanawa sequence.

7. American Beauty: Not a particular scene, but anytime Lester does something completely stupid in front of Angela.

8. Amadeus: The perfect opera at the end, and Salieri's reaction to it.

9. Usual Suspects: The collage at the end, and then poof. He's gone.

10. Swingers: "Your like this big beast, with claws and fangs. And she's just this little defensless bunny rabbit."
 
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Here are some that come to mind

Star Wars - Luke I'm your father

E.T. - ET is alive

Attack of the clones - Yoda kicks butt

Kill Bill - Bride takes on the Crazy 88's

Pearl Harbour - Bombing harbour scene

Troy - It isn't Achilles leading the battle

Predator - Predator removes mask

Terminator 2 - T1000's dagger through milk carton & foster dad

Snatch - Brad fights for the caravan

Terminator 3 - Crane flips over

Matrix Reloaded - The two trucks smash head on


Memorable moment:

Optimus Prime dies  :'( - Transformers. the Movie
 
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The few that come to mind are:

Gangs of New York at the very end when the landscape is graduated and dissloved until it looks like present day. I dont know exactly what that was called, edit-wise.

The Matrix--the first time I saw bullet-time and when Neo comes back after bing shot up and killed by Smith in the hallway.

And lastly, Mule Skinner Blues, when Beanie Andrew says "Never be a wish-I-had".
 
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I always liked the bit in "Superman 2" when General Zod has Supes kneel before him. Then Supes takes his hand to kiss the ring, but begins crushing it. Oops Zod, you were fooled, take that, KA-BAM!!

AWESOME STUFF!!
 
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What about the crosscutting sequence in "The Godfather" between Michael Corleone's niece's christening, and the killing of the leaders of the families. Brilliant.
 
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What about Taxi Driver, "Are you looking at me, Are you looking at me, you must be looking at me cause Im the only one here" by Robert Deniro
 
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(*) Return of the Jedi: Darth flipping sides and tossing the emperor over the rail. I was shocked back in the day, a full 3 film and 6 year build up for that one.

There are tons more for me, I was just reminded of this one recently...
 
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Army of Darkness(Evil Dead 3): 1."This... is my.. BOOMSTICK!"

2.when he doesn't pick the book in the middle.

EVIL DEAD 2: the hilarious laughing with the house scene.

KILL BILL: 1.the cereal scene
2. Oren's gang marching to their private room
with 'Battle Without Honor or Humanity' soundtrack
3. the man from okinawa -worth repeating
 
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Army of Darkness, aka Midevil Dead. (God I love that title)
 
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I forgot Annie Hall the scene where Alvy pulls the dude from behind the sign and puts the loudmouth guy who was behind him in line, in his place. I love that scene.
 
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the end of dirty dancing when patrick swazye comes in and takes Jennifer Grey up to the stage for the last dance and says " i always do the last dance" then they dance and dance and its all so hot and sexy that it makes all the other people get all hot and sexy too then they all start dancing too and then patrick swazye jumps off the stage and dances solo then all the other people dance behind him and then Jennifer Grey does the swab jump thing they practiced so hard in the begining of the movie then they kiss and go to leave and the father says to patrick "i know it wasnt you who got that other girl into trouble" or somthing like that and forgive him and everyone is happy then patrick and jennifer kiss and kiss and kiss and its over.
 
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some of mine off the top in no order;

1. the jerk - 'he's shooting the cans'

2. waking ned devine - old naked man on motorcycle

3. donnie darko - the mad world montage

4. freaks - the table scene 'we accept her'

5. natural born killers - the scene where they're parked and the ghost is in the background

6. titanic - when he finally drowns

7. bottle rocket - dignan yells, 'we have to hide our identities'
 
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Any part of Casablanca
Bruce Willis realizing he'd dead
The brothers with Father (arrows scene) in RAN
Opening scene of Man Bites Dog
When the father steels a random bicycle at the end of Bicycle Thief (original)
'But, this one goes to 11 ' Spinal Tap
When Arthur kneels to be knighted by his enemy, in order to have his allegeance in Excalibur. (dude, so cool)
Elisabeth Shue lifting her skirt in Leaving Las Vegas 'cut me'
Robert Crumb and his brother on the couch.
The 'buying coke' scene in Boogie Nights
Fonda getting whacked at the end of Easy Rider
The 'rape' scene in Straw Dogs
All the 'cop' scenes in Magnolia (Reily)
'You got knocked the fug out!' From Friday.
The part where Ahnuld talks smack about the Asian guy's God, in Conan The Barbarian. (sweet)
 
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-when the greatest thespian actor of modern times and role model of millions, Robert Van Winkle, said, in his Oscar worthy performance, within a visual masterpiece, the greatest quote in cinema history, in the greatest film in the history of film(COOL AS ICE):

"Drop dat zero, and git wid da HERO!!"

(suddenly, not a dry eye on the DVXUSER board)
 
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One of my favorites is from "The Shawshank Redemption", when you realize what Tim Robbins character has been doing for all those years.
 
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