What's Your Favorite Movie Scene?
3What’s your favorite movie scene? Not favorite movie…just scene.
Maybe the basement in the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction
Maybe the “Stuck in the Middle With You” scene from Reservoir Dogs
Maybe the closet scene in Burn After Reading
Maybe the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Maybe the “fuzzy britches” scene from Shawshank Redemption
Try not to give out “spoilers.” Some of us have not seen very many movies.
I hope nobody’s already done this topic. If it’s already been done, just ignore this unless your choice has changed.
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Oh my goodness! Too many to name them all, but these come to mind…
Gene Kelly dancing and singing in the rain,
The helicopter fly-over in Vietnam in Apocalypse Now (I think, correct me if I’m wrong on the title),
Homer Simpson and the “Spider Pig” song,
Princess Leia’s first appearance as a hologram to Luke and Obi-wan,
Darth Vader absolutely destroying a bunch of rebel soldiers in a hallway,
The replicant’s soliloquy near the end of the original Blade Runner (Rutger Hauer),
The human-to-cat transformation in Harry Potter,
Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie making eyes at each other in ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’ and last, but not least…
The Thanos Snap
@GrandmaLyn This is where I will be in a couple weeks. I dislike most musicals but I have seen this about 10 times at Tampa Theatre.
https://tampatheatre.org/movie/singin-in-the-rain
I instinctively also pick Rutger Hauer’s final scene in Blade Runner: “Time… to die…”
I will just say “grignak” and leave it at that. You know what I mean, or you don’t.
@werehatrack You’re just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its motivation?
@werehatrack @ybmuG
Too many to choose just one.
You’re quite complicated, Sir. (deleted scene)
That was a hell of a thing.
@werehatrack I didn’t, but Google did. I guess you’ve seen that flick more than a few times if you can remember the name of the rock monster
/giphy GalaxyQuest
So many. The two off the top of my head
Rocky I, after the big fight yelling for Adrian. I can remember being Itty bitty at the drive in laying back on the hood/windshield of my parents car watching in awe
Top Gun volleyball scene. I was a teenager when it came out… Nuff said
@tinamarie1974 Tina I am soooo with you on the volleyball scene. Love it.
Mother Goose, you pussy!!!
@zachdecker really underrated opera singer imo.
/youtube he split Robin’s arrow in tween
Blazing Saddles Campfire Scene. A classic. So many great scenes in this movie.
“When Harry Met Sally” restaurant scene.
(not really, but I couldn’t just let that lie there and not post it).
@Tadlem43 There’s gotta be a gif of that, let’s see…
/giphy When Harry Met Sally
@GrandmaLyn @Tadlem43
/giphy when Harry met sally orgasm
@tweezak
/giphy Brad Pitt
Ripley in the cargo loader battling the queen alien.
enjoy, frendos.
@jrwofuga OMG, YES! This movie was like the epitaph for the Western genre.
I can think of a couple of parts in lifeforce.
so many things about this movie that I love, but this is still mine and SWMBO’s fav:
Or if you want to cut to the chase:
There are so many. Many many excellent ones have already been mentioned.
Many fav scenes are now memes, or involve highly quotable lines, or moments of iconic emotion.
I have seen a bunch of less famous films, but those scenes are popping into my head at this moment.
And so many films and film series are practically a series of one fav scene after another, such as:
*Star Wars (just the good films please)
Many musicals, esp
My Fair Lady
Singing in the Rain
The Sound of Music
The LOTR series
Casablanca
Blazing Saddles
Here are a few ultra familiar ones:
/youtube Casablanca Marseillaise
/youtube The Two Towers “there is always hope”
(Ok, anything with Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire, or Gene Kelly dancing)
None shall pass.
@tweezak Tis but a scratch
@ELJAY That vid omits one of the best parts. The fight that Arthur and Patsy witness is awesome.
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
/youtube you shall not pass
/youtube Monty python rabbit
@unksol
/youtube we want a shubbery
@mike808
/youtube airspeed of a swallow
@mike808 @unksol
@mike808 @unksol So if she weighs the same as a duck…
@tweezak @unksol
You can’t expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
@mike808 @unksol BE QUIET! I ORDER YOU TO BE QUIET!!!
/youtube have fun storming the castle
@unksol
@mike808
/youtube you killed my father
@mike808 @unksol Prepare to die
@unksol LIAR!!
And since I said “no spoilers”, I’ll just mention the closing scenes of Last of the Mohicans.
Epic.
Quite possibly this scene from What’s Up, Doc?:
This is only the beginning, the tripping followed by helping up goes all the way to her hotel room, which is what makes it so funny.
And while this scene from the beginning of Can’t Stop the Music is definitely and unambiguously one of the worst things ever filmed, Steve Guttenberg shouting “My time is NOW!” and triumphantly rollerskating out of his job remains very dear to my heart.
Young Frankenstein
“Wow, what knockers!”
@mike808 Why thank you herr doktor
Oh dang, I forgot all the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Like when his Chinese assistant attacked him in their apartment. Countless hilarious scenes.
@tweezak Yeah, no way to choose just one. But apparently you don’t have to, because here are all of them?
@tweezak “Not now Cato you fool!”
In Con Air where John Cusack is kind of introducing the prisoners…
“Cyrus the Virus. This ones done it all….”
/giphy con air
@moonhat wow. What is that
@moonhat
@moonhat
This too
“I’ll see you in hell, William Munny!”
…
“yeah.”
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Also, I like how he sights down the barrel of the shotgun at the end of that scene, as if he could miss at that range.
@PocketBrain rifle, sorry…
I like this scene a lot. I like the sound use in this scene.
The opening credits theme song scene from any Bond movie.
The nearly continuous shot as Julia enters her haunted house for the first time, in Full Circle/ The Haunting of Julia.
(skip to 8:17, or watch the whole thing)
/image Psycho shower
I am not a fan of romance in any type of movie… its almost always hokey/over-sexed bs thrown into a good movie for antiquated reasons.
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But, even though it’s animated, this scene from How To Train Your Dragon 2 almost brought me to tears and remains (in my mind) one of the most truly heartfelt expression of love that has ever been captured in a movie. Link to video clip
The guy with the fancy knife twirling skills facing down Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. After he executes a dozen slice and dice maneuvers designed to throw fear into Indy and takes his fight stance, Ford pulls his sidearm and shoots him dead. The scene was intended to be a big fight but Ford was sick that day so he just shot him. It worked so the director left it in therefore proving the axiom, “Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”.
This. I hate waiting.
Hair gel or zipper scene in There’s something about Mary.