@Liberal (Liberal) posted a new topic, subject "Top Five Cinematic Moments". It read:

   These are movie “moments”, rather than scenes. The death scene from _Imitation of Life_ , for example, would not be appropriate here. Although it is indeed one of the greatest _scenes_ in any movie ever, it lasts a while. These are simply _moments_ that you remember kind of like snapshots.
    
    Here're my picks? What're yours?
    
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    **5\. Now it puts the lotion in the basket.** — _Silence of the Lambs_
    
    I had held out some hope for the poor girl in the hole until the delivery of this line. After the line, hope is merely another torture for her. She is nothing more than an “it”. Like a bug. [shiver…]
    
    **4\. The sack.** — _Rudy_
    
    I cry like a baby everytime I see this moment. You think of the work. You think of the years. You think of the unmitigated glory and the sheer it-was-meant-to-be-ness of this moment. It is nearly enough to make an atheist believe in God.
    
    **3\. The hair straight up.** — _There's Something About Mary_
    
    You just can't belp but savor the anticipation of this moment. You simply can't wait for the camera to switch after he sort of cocks his head and glances up from her eyes to her hair. Even after multiple views, it is good for a really hardy belly laugh.
    
    **2\. The sledgehammer against the foot.** — _Misery_
    
    Wow. She slams a sixteen pound sledge into his foot, and during his scream, looks at him lustily, and demures, “ _God_ , I love you!” For her entire role in this movie, she turned in some of the most memorable work in cinematic history.
    
    **1\. Are you ready for me, Ralph?** — _Risky Business_
    
    [Gulp…] Time and space begin to dissapate as Rebecca DeMornay approaches the open window, lifts her silky leg, and places her dainty foot on the sill. This moment is the end of the scene, after a very fortunate and sustained gusty breeze playfully lifts and tosses her light satin skirt, flashing strobe shots of her smooth flesh and gentle curves. Hey, the only way Ralph coudn't be ready is if he's dead.

@Narile (Narile) replied

    Hmmmmms…
    
    1) **What a waste of sword training** The swordman scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. One of the classic off the cuff scenes in moviedom. First time seen, unexpected and beautiful.
    
    2) **ByeBye, Mr. Bond** It is one of the great lines, and because of that, one of the best moments…“You expect me to talk?” “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” Goldfinger  
    I'll have to think on the others…not in movie thought mode at the moment.

To which @Narile (Narile) replied

    Oh Yes…
    
    3) **Ride 'em coyboy!!!** What a way to go, Slim Pickens rides the ultimate bronco…A hydrogen bomb. YeeeHaaaa!!! Dr.Strangelove [sub]or, how I stopped worrying, and learned to love the bomb.[/sub]
    
    4) **I have you now!!Oops** Star Wars You know it is going to happen, but when Han Solo blasts the enemy Tie and helps Luke blow up the Death Star, that is a great moment, the adrenaline hits the roof there.
    
    5) **We are alllll Barbarians** The Lion in Winter The final denoument(sp) scene, where everyones cards are on the table, and King Henry realizes that even if he wins, he has lost.

After which, @Ukulele_Ike (Ukulele Ike) added

    1. The light falling across Orson Welles' face in _The Third Man._
    
      2. Grace Kelly pointing to the wedding ring and Raymond Burr noticing it and looking straight up into Jimmy Stewart's (and OUR) eyes in _Rear Window._
    
      3. Mary Philbin yanking Lon Chaney's mask off in _The Phantom of the Opera._
    
      4. The lighting technician turning the spotlight on Gloria Swanson on Cecil B. DeMille's soundstage in _Sunset Boulevard._
    
      5. Virginia Cherrill realizing just who that funny-looking bum is in _City Lights._

Then @panamajack (panamajack) said

    Not in any particular order –
    
    John Cusack holding a stereo over his head in * Say Anything*. Perhaps more memorable since the picture's on the front of the soundtrack album, but as a symbol of love it stuck in my head long before I bought the record.
    
    Mogwa gets it in * The Last of The Mohicans*(recent version with Daniel Day-Lewis, don't know if there're others). Almost a scene, but the ‘moment' occurs when Mogwa receives such a crippling blow from the very start that there's not even a fight going on there, just a killing.
    
    The point when the rain begins and the rabbits are getting out in _Jean de Florette_. It always sounds funny to relate it that way, since it doesn't seem like much, but it all relies on what built up to it. You realize that Cadoret's (Gerard Depardieu's char.) dreams are simply failing, irregardless of the plans against him. You simply see it from his point of view, an expression of despair.
    
    The processional in _The Mission_. Specifically, the shot of the child holding the cross up in the face of all the fighting around him. It is a beacon of hope, and also a sign of the insanity of violence. Fits well with the verse used in the movie (John 1:5) “the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not understood it.”
    
    And a couple that fall under “the moment at the end that makes the movie worth it” :
    
    When Nickie realizes just why Terry didn't meet him in _An Affair To Remember_. No doubt one of the sappiest moments in cinema, but it works.
    
    And of course, since the movie is hardly watchable without it, the very last shot in _The Blair Witch Project_. The number one cause of nightmares in the US for a few months.
    
    panama jack
    
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    “I've been looking forward to this for a very long time.”  
    -“Yeah, I'll bet you have.” – Han Solo

To which @UncaStuart (UncaStuart) replied

    Uke, you rock.
    
    And for me,  
    In Casablanca, when Ilsa had insinuated herself into Rick's office, we see her in the corner, in the shadows, and there is a luminosity about her that makes our breath catch (black and white kicks definite ass).
    
    In the Manchurian Candidate when Angela Lansbury shows up as the queen.
    
    The freeze frame of Butch and Sundance as they break cover.
    
    Claudette Colbert's leg.
    
    Paul Baumer and the butterfly.

So @Typo_Negative (Typo Negative) replied

    I agree with hobbleing of James Caan in ‘Misery'.  
    Then there's the end of ‘Field of dreams' where Costner realizes his dad is the catcher.  
    And the entire Normandy invasion scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan'.  
    And the scene in ‘Manchurian Canidate' where the Senator is shot through the carton of milk.  
    And finally, the ending of ‘Usual Suspects' where Spacey begins to show he's not crippled after all.

Then @Cabbage (Cabbage) said

    _Citizen Kane_ –the burning of the Rosebud sled.
    
    _The Wizard of Oz_ –the melting of the wicked witch.
    
    _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ –the moment when Miles discovers Becky has become one of _them_ is one of the most depressing ever.
    
    The final moments in _Don't Look Now_ , _The Godfather_ , and _Chinatown_.

After which, @Johnny_L.A (Johnny L.A.) added

    _Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras_. The scene where the reporter asks a woman in a zip-up patent-leather vest, “What do you think of this “zombie” stalking the streets of New Orleans?” and she answers, “What do you think of these _titties_ stalking the streets of New Orleans?” Ziiiiiip! Flash! Then a montage of Mardi Gras street scenes set to surf music by The Royal Pendletons.
    
    _A Bucket of Blood_. After Watler Paisley (Dick Miller) inadvertently kills a cop (Burt Convy), the scene shifts to the coffee house where he works. A guitarist is singing, “Go down, you murderer, go down!” and Walter sheepishly walks across the screen.
    
    _Always_. Near the beginning, Richard Drefuss is in trouble. As he barely clears the trees after being out of sight for a moment, there's a close-up of Holly Hunter. Something about that one shot of her expressing relief gets me every time.
    
    _Dr. Strangelove (or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”)_. Slim Pickens riding the bomb.
    
    _The Right Stuff_. The juxtaposition of the astronauts being celebrated at a “Texas-style” barbeque, and the depiction of a solitary Chuck Yeager testing the NF-104 (which had the potential of reaching space… if only its reaction jets worked).

@Spoke (Spoke) replied

    1. Mel Gibson yelling “Freedom!!!” during the torture scene in **Braveheart**.
    
      2. The switch to color in **The Wizard of Oz**.
    
      3. The shark coming out of the water while Chief Brody is chumming in **Jaws**. Also the image of the shark passing under the bridge over the inlet, when you see the huge dark shadow and realize what an enormous creature this is.
    
      4. The end of **American Graffitti** , when Kurt looks down from the airplane, and sees the white T-Bird cruising away up the highway.
    
      5. **The Shining** , when Danny rounds the corner on his Big Wheel, and the twin girls are standing there.
    
      6. The moment in **Rocky** as the bell sounds to end the fight, Creed says "Ain't gonna be no rematch, " to which Rocky replies “Don't want one.”
    
      7. **The Sixth Sense** , when the kid gets up to pee in the middle of the night, then as he is peeing, you see the ghost pass behind him.
    
      8. Speaking of grab-you moments, how about where Jason comes out of the lake at the end of the first **Friday the 13th**?
    
      9. Gary Cooper throws his badge into the dirt in **High Noon**.
    
      10. Can't think of the movie title, but when **Buster Keaton** is sitting on the connecting rod of the locomotive, the train starts up, and Keaton is going up and down with the connecting rod.

After which, @Eve (Eve) added

    1. The Great Hall of Babylon in “Intolerance.”
    
      2. Gloria Swanson descending the staircase in “Sunset Boulevard.”
    
      3. Joan Crawford's beaded-curtain entrance in “Rain.”
    
      4. The final close-up of Garbo in “Queen Christina.”
    
      5. William Hurt breaks in on Kathleen Turner in “Body Heat.”
    
    
    
    
    Lots and lots more, but these came to mind first . . .

To which @Ukulele_Ike (Ukulele Ike) replied

    > **  
    >  10\. Can't think of the movie title, but when **Buster Keaton** is sitting on the connecting rod of the locomotive, the train starts up, and Keaton is going up and down with the connecting rod.  
    >  **
    
    **Spoke-: **It's _The General._ I was thinking of picking a moment in that movie, too, but I was leaning toward the one where the bad guys have dumped two enormous wooden beams onto the railroad tracks about a hundred yards apart in an effort to derail Buster's train (which THEY think is loaded with Confederate troops, but which in actuality is loaded only with Buster).
    
    Buster climbs down onto the cowcatcher and manages to lift up the first beam, struggling and staggering and you're thinking _Ohmigod he's gonna drop it, Ohmigod he's gonna fall in front of the train, Ohmigod what about the SECOND beam_ …and then Buster suddenly drops the first beam ONTO the edge of the second beam, both of them fall harmlessly aside, and the train steams ahead.
    
    I've seen this film a dozen times in theaters, and this moment NEVER fails to elicit a simultaneous gasp of relief and giddy charmed laughter from even the most jaded of audiences.

@Needs2know (Needs2know) replied

    To Kill a Mockingbird…when the old black man tells Jim to “stand up son, your Daddy's passing.”
    
    Jaws…The “Indianapolis soliloquy”. Jaws was on network over the weekend and Spielberg said this was his favorite scene too.
    
    Aliens…When Ripley comes out with that loading suit on and tells the Alien; “Get away from her you bitch!” and whacks her in the jaw. Damn! I've always wanted to drive one of those suits!
    
    Apocalypse Now…the puppy scene.
    
    Booty Call…the Saran Wrap scene/and the two Indian convenience store clerks teasing them by singing; “You got to lick it before you stick it…”
    
    Wizard of Oz…Ray Bolger's “You gotta have a brain”
    
    Hawaii…When the old king knocks out his teeth at the death of his wife.
    
    The Ghost and Ms. Muir…when Rex Harrison comes back at the end to take her away.
    
    Plenty more…
    
    Needs

@Spoke (Spoke) replied

    **Uke** -
    
    Thanks. I thought that was it, but wasn't sure.
    
    I love Keaton's stuff. I also thought about the stunt where the side of a building falls on him, but he happens to be standing in the one spot where an open window lands, so that the wall falls to the ground around him but leaves him standing, unharmed.
    
    Of the silent comedians, I actually prefer Keaton to Chaplin, which probably puts me in the minority.

To which @Eve (Eve) replied

    Oh, I'm with you, spokes—and I know a lot of other people who are, too. Chaplin always left me cold. His early stuff was all “throw a brick at a cop” and his later stuff was “sad little clown sniffing a rose.” Feh!
    
    Keaton and Lloyd had it all over Chaplin, as far as I'm concerned. Besides the fact that Chaplin was a royal SOB in real life . . .

To which @Poysyn (Poysyn) replied

    -An Officer and A Gentleman - When Richard gere comes to the factory for Debra Winger in his naval whites (I'm a sucker for a man in uniform)  
    -Hope Floats- The shot of Sandra Bullock on the talk show at the beginning, the light is just reflecting off the unshed tears in her eyes, it's perfect  
    -Steel Magnolias- two scenes, when Julia Roberts is begging her mom to be happy for her pregnancy and at the end when Sally Field explodes at the cemetary  
    -Poltergeist - When the kid realizes the clown is not in the cair and rolls over and it's right behind him.  
    -The Exorcist- The writing on Blair's belly  
    -The Exorcist III - When the possed guy floats behind the nurse  
    -Twin Peaks- The shot of Bob at the foot of the bed  
    -Field of Dreams - When “Moonlight Graham” steps out to save the girl

Then @jaytini (jaytini) said

    9. How can the WIZARD OF OZ not be on my list, pick any scene…the long walk down the emerald hall used to scare the shit out of me.
    
      10. Lisa Kudrow in ROMY AND MICHELLE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, when she gets hit by the limo, almost peed my pants.
    
      11. Jada Pinket getting slashed in SCREAM 2…Emotion is a powerful acting tool, and i felt sooooo bad for her
    
      12. HALLOWEEN, when they say, He is pure evil and the little boy is sitting in the chair…actually parts of that movie ar all classics.
    
      13. there is a part in JAWS 2 when the girl saves the little brother by helping him get onto the over turned boat…while she is in the water. She utters one line “i can't get up” and then the shark grabs her…that one line is cinema at it's finest…i don't think she has ever been in anything since, but the fear and desperation in her voice…shivers.
    
      14. the scene in ALIVE when the plan crashes…HOLY CRAP!!!
    
      15. BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS…the scene where they are lying n bed, unsure if anyone is going to make a move, the tension. ugh, the tension.
    
      16. SCREAM 1…the opening scene with Drew Barrymore managed to reboot her career and to escalate the level to which Horror movies were produced tenfold.
    
      17. the scene in EYE FOR AN EYE with Sally field. well, she wasn't in the scene too much, but when her daughter is at home getting ready for the paty, and the whole rape/beating up/ice block broken over her head, and the anxiety when she is on the phone with sally field…oh my god, nightmares. So well done that it makes you hurt inside, and be full of so much hate and anger and sadness. One of those moments you hate to love because you weren't aware how much anger and disgust you really had in you.
    
    
    
    
    i'm sure i could have gone on…but those are mine…i will check out everyone else's, please look for mine…i think they show that we still have some amazing movies today.

To which @jaytini (jaytini) replied

    i just realized that several of mine are scenes, and i got away from the topic…sorry, however all of those things are sharp memories in my mind…i still apologize, and hope i don't start a trend of not paying attention to what i was supposed to do.

So @Gilligan (Gilligan) replied

    **Ghost** – when Patrick Swayze floats the penny over to Demi Moore, makes me bawl every time.
    
    **Gone With the Wind** –when the camera keeps pulling back to reveal more and more wounded until it's overwhelming.
    
    **1984** – when Richard Burton shows John Hurt himself in the mirror, this is the moment when you know there is no hope.
    
    **Mary Poppins** – there's something about Mary floating down from the sky when she makes her first appearance that always makes me feel good.
    
    **The Crow** – when Brandon Lee drops a match and the outline of a crow gradually appears in flames, it's just too cool.

To which @teela_brown (teela brown) replied

    Ukelele Ike and Eve, your votes are my votes. Just reading about Gloria Swanson's descent on the staircase gave me the shivers again, and anything that can do that on a Monday morning at work is pure gold.
    
    May I add:
    
    Al Pacino's face, when he is trying to bring himself to shoot the policeman and the other man in the restaurant – The Godfather
    
    Bette Davis, dying from syphilis in an asylum – Of Human Bondage. I believe I read somewhere that she refused all makeup for the scene, and the her face looks that way because she was able to make it look that way.
    
    The characters Addison Dewitt and Eve Harrington (sorry, I don't know the actors' names), in the hotel room, when the venomous Dewitt reveals that he's on to all of Harrington's lies – All About Eve
    
    Cary Grant's face, when he first realizes his two sweet old aunts are serial murderers – Arsenic and Old Lace
    
    All of the passengers, in wordless agreement, leaping on, beating, and pushing overboard the German passenger, after they realize he murdered William Bendix, and kept all available water secretly for himself – Lifeboat
    
    What can beat the alien larva eating its way out of John Hurt's chest in Alien? It's Hurt's acting that makes it horrifying, not the nasty little grub or the blood.
    
    Judy Holliday reading the words inscribed around the inside of Washington's memorial to Thomas Jefferson. May I paraphrase the quote from memory? I think it goes: “I have sworn eternal hostility against all forms of tyranny over the minds of men.”

@pldennison (pldennison) replied

    In no particular order:
    
    **Alien** : Jones the cat recoils and hisses at the full-grown alien, which is standing up (unbeknownst to him) behind Harry Dean Stanton. The audience knows right then and there, based on the angle of the cat's stare, that The Game Has Suddenly Changed.
    
    **The Caine Mutiny** : The moment of silence, punctuated only by the clacking of the steel balls, just after Capt. Queeg loses it on the stand. You just know that it's all over, and Keefe and Marek aren't going to be convicted.
    
    **Se7en** : Morgan Freeman opens the box. Right away, before anyone says a word, you know what's in it.
    
    **Casablanca** : Renault's look just before he decides not to tell the police that Rick shot Maj. Strasser. Faced with the necessity of making a moral decision for the first time in a while, he slam-dunks it.
    
    **Dead Again** : Mike looks in the mirror in his dream and realizes he is _Margaret_ , not Roman. So obvious, but it was handled pretty deftly, and the first time you see it, it works perfectly.
    
    And five more for the hell of it:
    
    **Vertigo** : When Judy goes over the edge of the tower at the end. That look on Jimmy Stewart's face . . .
    
    **Bull Durham** : Bat boy: “Get a hit, Crash.” Crash: “Shut up!” I just about wet my pants the first time I heard that, and it hasn't gotten any less funny.
    
    **Close Encounters of the Third Kind** : Dreyfuss is on the phone talking to his wife, the model is taking up his entire living room, and Devil's Tower appears on the news report, and you're thinking, “Turn around, dammit!”
    
    **Bambi** : When Bambi turns around and says, “We made it, mother! Mother . . .?” Cripes, that STILL makes me cry.
    
    **The Godfather** : Moe Greene gets shot in the eye. Nothing crucial to the plot or paticularly touching, but it was pretty frigging cool.

So @Liberal (Liberal) replied

    **Jaytini**
    
    No problem. You're doing fine. You described the scenes just to set up the context for the moments, much as I did.
    
    **Spoke**
    
    >   7. The Sixth Sense, when the kid gets up to pee in the middle of the night, then as he is peeing, you see the ghost pass behind him.
    > 
    
    
    A great one indeed! What totally made that moment for me was the unsustained, heavily aspirated diminished 11 chord. [wiping beads of sweat…]
    
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    Here's another:
    
    **Just plain “ho”.** — _Buloxi Blues_
    
    The sargeant has just instructed the new batch of arrivals that the answer to his questions is “ho”. Matthew Broderick, in his inimitably understated style, unthinkingly responds to a question, “Ho, yes.” Catching himself, he says, “Ho, no!” Meanwhile, Christopher Walken is playing a great straight, and Broderick, desperately trying to recover, says, “Ho, nothing.” And finally, “Just plain ho!” If you didn't see it, you probably won't get it. But if you did, you probably loved it.

So @Liberal (Liberal) replied

    **Phil**
    
    > The Godfather: Moe Greene gets shot in the eye. Nothing crucial to the plot or paticularly touching, but it was pretty frigging cool.
    
    That reminded me of another.
    
    **Sharp shootin'** — _Saving Private Ryan_
    
    The bullet through the scope. 'Nuff said.

To which @Rick_Void (Rick Void) replied

    In the last part of the movie Giant. Where the hero Rock Hudson get his ass beat by the cook of a dinner. Who refuse sevice to Rock's Mexican daughter inlaw, and grandson. Eventhough Rock was a rich, and powerful oil baron, and could have bought out the dinner many times.  
    Another. Also on Giant. When Rock went over to the Mexican family, who had lost their son Sal Mineo to WW2. Handed them the flag of Texas.

So @kiffa (kiffa) replied

    Add to the list of favorite cinema scenes:
    
    Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence coming out of the Devil's Anvil desert and certain death with his rescued man.  
    Mahmoud [?] one of his pair of young boy servants, is waiting for them with some water. Nothing on the  
    horizon and nothing all around except Mahmoud sitting  
    on his camel - there are only two or three basic colors: blue sky and dirt sand and dark jellabia robe, yet Mahmoud spots something moving towards him.
    
    Camera shot shows the ground slowly begining to move as Mahmoud and his camel try to get a better view; the music begins to speed up. Such joy, relief, happiness, uncontrolled exurberance as he rushes past Lawrence.  
    Scene ends when Lawrence says: Nothing is written.  
    Love it.

@Ridley (Ridley) replied

    Hi all! I'm brand spankin' new here and I figured the best place to start my posts is on a subject I love: movies.
    
    Some awesome cinematic moments. ( I could never come up with “top five” since I can never decide which is better. To me they're all awesome!)
    
      5. “The Emperor is not as forgiving as I” -Star Wars:Return of the Jedi  
    That has to be my favorite Star Wars moment. Just to imagine that Darth Vader considers himself forgiving compared to The Emperor… _shiver_
    
      6. “Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls… Dyin' time's here.” -Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome  
    Just before Mad Max enters the Thunderdome for the fight with Master Blaster. That announcer really got me into the fight with just that one line.
    
      7. “Did anything about that seem weird to you?” - Men In Black
    
    
    
    
    The look on Will Smith's face when Tommy Lee Jones asks that question… oh, I was rolling on the floor.
    
      2. “Okay, get a cane pole and catch me the fish that ate him.” - The Fugitive
    
    
    
    Talk about your obsessed cops! If we had more cops like Sam Gerard, criminals wouldn't have a chance in hell.
    
      1. “What did I tell you?! Eighty-eight miles per hour!” -Back to the Future
    
    
    
    Just an awesome moment! The time machine actually worked!
    
      0. “We're on a mission from God.” - The Blues Brothers
    
    
    
    'nuff said.  
    Ridley

After which, @teela_brown (teela brown) added

    Welcome, Ridley! Movies seem to be a hot topic just now. That's fine with me; I love 'em, and the discussions going on are giving me great ideas on what to rent. Top of the list for next trip to blockbuster: Apocalypse Now.

After which, @Sake_Samurai (Sake Samurai) added

    There's a thin line between ‘moment' & ‘scene' isn't there? ‘Moment' seems to draw emotion with a brief image - I'll stay away from over-the-top stuff (like Old Yeller & Bambi) to the more subtle:
    
      1. Seven Samurai - When Kyuzo, the emotionless fighting machine, is waiting to ambush the bandits by their horses the camera cuts to him playing with a delicate flower with a blank look on his face - such a conflicting image.
    
      2. M - That damn ballon drifts up into the power lines and your heart immediately falls the other direction.
    
      3. 2001 - The moment when we see that HAL can read lips. A very juicy scare!
    
      4. Nostalghia - The initial shot inside Domenico's “house” with the camera panning over a luscious garden of eden that is revealed to be nothing more than a puddle on the floor. How profound perspective can be! (Similar, but opposite to the concluding shot of Solaris - which should also be on this list)
    
      5. Aguirre: The Wrath of God - At the end of the movie when Aguirre stumbles around a monkey-infested raft he picks one up, squeezes it and tosses it with a wild look in his eyes that says it all. His final speech was unnecessary.

Then @HelloKitty (HelloKitty) said

    Shawshank Redemption:
    
    Red says, “I hope I can make it to the border. I hope to see my friend Andy again and shake his hand. I hope the ocean is as blue as in my dreams. I hope…”
    
    Long shot of Morgan Freeman walking on to the beach and Tim Robbins seeing him…the two running towards each other and embracing. What a classic moment–triumph of human spirit through such adversity. I cry every time.

To which @delini8r (delini8r) replied

    Bridge on the River Kwai - The look that comes over Alec Guiness' face when he realizes what he's been doing all through the movie.
    
    Bull Durham - When Crash gets tossed from the game for calling the ump a c _ **sucker and it cuts to Susan Sarandon saying "He must have called him a c**_ sucker."
    
    This came up in another thread: Casablanca - “Shocked! Shocked I am to discover gambling here!” “Your winnings, sir.” (I know I butchered it. It's been too long.)
    
    Cheezey movie, but the ending of No Way Out - Kevin Costner spilling his guts in Russian.
    
    I had several others, but got beaten to the punch.

Then @AuntiePam (AuntiePam) said

    Wow! Thanks for the memories! Well, what you guys said.
    
    Two of my favorite quickie scenes are from **Dead Zone** :
    
    The shot of the semi sliding up the hill toward Walken's VW bug.
    
    The look on Walken's face when his married ex-girlfriend starts to unbutton her shirt. Sorta shy, and unbelieving.

Then @Eutychus (Eutychus) said

    A few pefectly edited endings are my favorites …
    
    “Jaws” : Roy Schieder saying “Smile, you son of a bitch”; the gunshot and the explosion. Perfectly timed editing.
    
    “Brazil” : I won't ruin the end for those who haven't seen it, but the every end when a sudden intrusion reveals Sam Lowrey's final fate.
    
    “The Usual Suspect” : again, the very end. “And like that … he's gone.” Cut to black. Beautiful.
    
    Also …
    
    “A Few Good Men” : Jack Nicholson's scene, “Did you order a code red?” “You're damn right I did!”
    
    And my favorite special effect is from “Volcano” when we finally see the volcano exploding out of the La Brea Tar Pits.

@missbunny (missbunny) replied

    Many of my favorites have already been posted, but here's a few more:
    
    **Whatever Happened to Baby Jane** \- the buildup to when Bette Davis takes the cover off Joan Crawford's dinner platter and there's a huge dead rat lying there.
    
    **The English Patient** \- in the little church, when Naveen Andrews lights the flare and quickly swings Juliette Binoche up so she can see the paintings high up on the walls.
    
    **Marathon Man** \- the moment when Dustin Hoffman is strapped in that dentist chair and he realizes exactly what Laurence Olivier is planning to do with all those picks and drills and he knows there is absolutely no escape.
    
    **Shane** \- the end, when the little boy is calling, “Shane! Come back, come back!” and Shane slumps over in the saddle, dead.
    
    **The Mission** \- when you see that guy floating along on water that's quickly turning into rapids, and then the camera pulls back and you realize he's tied to a cross heading straight for a waterfall, and then it slowly goes over.

So @teela_brown (teela brown) replied

    Couldn't resist. Here they are:
    
      1. In Kubrick's Spartacus, when Kirk Douglas and the other gladiator are waiting their turn to fight each other to the death. They are in a little claustrophobic waiting box that opens into the arena. They are facing each other, and listening to the sounds of the preceding unfortunate pair of gladiators as they battle to the death. The door to the arena is between them, and we do not see the battle, either – we just stare at the door. N.B., Sake Samurai, the scene in Kubrick's 2001, as Hal and Frank talk in the pod, is set up visually exactly like this, his earlier film, with Hal visible through the window between them. The tension in both scenes is excruciating.
    
      2. The opening to The Big Chill, where there is a close-up of a woman's hands sensually dressing a man – shirt, tie, jacket. Then you realize it is a mortician dressing a corpse. What a lead-in for a movie that starts with a funeral!

So @Danielinthewolvesden (Danielinthewolvesden) replied

    “Raiders” full of good moments but “asps, very dangerous, you go 1st”.
    
    Star Trek Movie 1, the 1st 5 minutes were great (the rest was eh), but…: the look on the Klingon Commanders face when he realizes his weapons didn't work and he's gonna die.
    
    Can we stretch the definition to include “the chalice from the Palace” routine?.. "Court Jester.
    
    “Last Crusade”…“He choose poorly”.

Then @Ruffian (Ruffian) said

    Dammit, y'all have named most of my favorie moments–the one that popped up in my head right away was Sigourney Weaver's “Get away from her, you _**bitch!**_ ” in _Aliens,_ as already listed. Now lessee what I can manage from what's left to assemble…
    
      1. **Amadeus** The scene where Mozart, on his dying bed (hey, anyone read the new _Discover_? They're theorizing he died of congestive heart failure brought on by rheumatic fever), is dictating the “Confutatis” section of his Requiem to Salieri. It is truly hypnotic, in a freakish, brilliant, magnificent way.
    
      2. **Good Morning Vietnam** The bizarre irony of Louis Armstrong sweetly singing “What a Wonderful World” as background to various gruesome scenes of war carnage.
    
      3. **Jurassic Park** This scene is rather blasé now, but when the movie first came out(and when seen on the big screen), seeing that T-Rex walk over the fence was breathtakingly awesome and frightening. I will always remember my mother's jaw-dropped hushed drawl, “Oh my _worrrrrd!_ ” when that beast first presented himself.
    
      4. **Awakenings** I bawl like a PMSing baby (hey, it could happen!) when Leonard–“awakened” after 20 years of a catatonic state–opens his arms and cheerfully, lovingly greets his now elderly mother who has cared for her unresponsive son all that time. A bit of an obvious heart-string tug, but I still succomb. A close second from this film is the “fucking miracle” when the entire wing of catatonics was treated with L-Dopa. I bawl more there. (Yes, this is my crying movie.)
    
      5. **Top Gun** Purely for the lusty beefcake factor: the volleyball game scene. I'm calling my fiancé!
    
      6. **Schindler's List** “More…I could have saved more…this ring, I don't need this ring…I could have saved one, maybe two more…this car, I could have saved 10 people with this car…”
    
    
    
    
    Whoops…you said top five, and I could have kept going. Note that these weren't in order of first to last, just in order of when they came to mind.

To which @samclem (samclem) replied

    l. **Witness for the Prosecution** -When Marlene Dietrich rasps to Charles Laughton after the trial, and his look when he realizes what has just happened…
    
      2. **Gunga Din** –Sam Jaffe,wounded and dying, climbing to the top of the turret to blow his bugle to warn the troop…talk about hair standing up on your neck. Eat you heart out, Dr. Kildare!
    
      3. **Psycho** How can anyone ever take a shower, by themselves, without worrying, ever so slightly, about that sound they just heard…

So @Jophiel (Jophiel) replied

    Since I'm probably one of the only people reading this who've seen the animated film _The Plague Dogs_ , I guess I might as well explain the scene. Two dogs have escaped from a testing facility and are being hunted by the military after it's revealed that, among other things, said facility was conducting tests on bubonic plague. At the very end, the two dogs wind up on a beach and are backed into the ocean as a line of troops prepares to open fire upon them. Having no other option, the dogs swim out to sea. Trying to spur his partner on, the terrier named Snitter begins telling his labador friend, Rowf, about the island they are swimming to where they'll be free and have real owners instead of the men in the facility. The shoreline recedes, the dogs' strength ebbs away to the waters… Rowf mentions that he's getting very weak but they must be near the island by now. Snitter replies, right before the credits begin, “I lied, Rowf. There is no island.”
    
    _Well!_ There was a real pick-me-up!

To which @Sam_Stone (Sam Stone) replied

    Speaking of Kubrick…
    
    The first part of “Full Metal Jacket”, with R. Lee Ermey as the Marine drill Sergeant (good casting - before becoming an actor, R. Lee Ermey WAS a Marine Drill Instructor)

So @Rilchiam (Rilchiam) replied

    In no particular order:
    
    1) **Fight Club** : The midair plane collision.
    
    2) **Mr. Holland's Opus** : a)The moment when you realize his son is deaf. b) “Ladies and gentlemen, our esteemed governor, the honorable Gertrude Lang!”
    
    3) **Heavenly Creatures** : “Go on, Mum…Treat yourself.” Mum's daughter and her friend are twenty minutes from murdering Mum; the flat hate in the daughter's eyes will curdle your milk.
    
    4) **Deep Impact** : The montage sequence with the teenage wedding and the older woman making herself up before taking an overdose. I know there are people here who don't like that film. Sue me.
    
    5) **Aliens** : Vasquez and Drake, the Okie guy, sacrificing themselves. I love those two; they're like Gimli and Legolas. Their loss would be cause for much gloom…except the film is _only starting to rev up_.
    
    6) **Silence of the Lambs** : Catherine, the “girl in the hole”, driving home and singing raucously along with the radio. You just know nothing good can happen to her, if she's in this film.
    
    7) **Holy Grail** a)“Knights of the Round Table”. b)Launcelot storming Swamp Castle. It's all good, but those two scenes are just freight trains.
    
    8) **Lucas** "We were thinking of going out for a pizza. Why don't **you** come with **us**?"
    
    9) **Clueless** : Stacey Dash unintentionally driving on the freeway. Another freight train, and especially funny to me because I learned to drive in LA.
    
    10) **Boogie Nights** : The “Jessie's Girl” scene at the dealer's house. The look on Mark Wahlberg's face is probably the same as the look on mine the first time I saw it.

To which @Spoke (Spoke) replied

    **Ruffian** wrote-
    
    > **Awakenings** I bawl like a PMSing baby (hey, it could happen!) when Leonard–“awakened” after 20 years of a catatonic state–opens his arms and cheerfully, lovingly greets his now elderly mother who has cared for her unresponsive son all that time. A bit of an obvious heart-string tug, but I still succomb. A close second from this film is the “fucking miracle” when the entire wing of catatonics was treated with L-Dopa. I bawl more there.(Yes, this is my crying movie.)
    
    Yeah, it's a manipulative movie, but I'm a sucker for this one, too. As for a favorite “moment” from the movie, mine would be the scene where all of the employees of the facility, right down to the janitor, turn over their paychecks to finance the treatment. Now, I'm a guy, so I can't admit to bawling, but I do get a manly lump in my throat at that moment.
    
    I also like the double meaning of the title, since Robin Williams's character undergoes an awakening of his own in the film. I really thought that Williams deserved an Oscar for this performance.
    
    One more “moment” has occurred to me, from **Planes Trains and Automobiles** : When John Candy falls asleep at the wheel, winds up on the wrong side of the interstate, and then the car has to squeeze in between two tractor trailers coming in the opposite direction. The sparks are flying as the car screeches through the gap, Candy and Steve Martin are screaming, then Martin turns to look at Candy, and Candy, for a moment, appears as a maniacally laughing Devil…I just about fell out of my theater seat laughing when I saw that.

@Coldfire (Coldfire) replied

    > 3) **Heavenly Creatures** : “Go on, Mum…Treat yourself.” Mum's daughter and her friend are twenty minutes from murdering Mum; the flat hate in the daughter's eyes will curdle your milk.**
    
    Rillchiam, I **love** you!
    
    That is one of my favourite movies of all time. It is also proof that Kate Winslet can actually _act_ , contrary to what one might think after witnessing _“Titanic”_.
    
    This also brought back the momory of the **Mario Lanza Shrine**. Thanks, there's a big grin on my face now 
    
    Peter Jackson (the director of _Heavenly Creatures_ and also _Brain Dead / Dead Alive_ , oddly enough) is an absolute hero of mine.

To which @Poysyn (Poysyn) replied

    Jophiel - Gawd, you just brought down my whole day, thanks  at least now i know never to rent this movie.
    
    Full Metal Jacket - The scene at the end when they are all singing the Mickey Mouse club song
    
    Stripes - The graduation ceremony
    
    Empire Records - The chasing the shoplifter scene
    
    Barefoot in the Park - Robert Redford drunk in the park
    
    Moll Flanders - (I bawled through that whole movie) The end when in finally falls together for her
    
    Mandingo - When the plantation owner boils the slave and stabs him with a pitchfork
    
    Searching For Bobby Fisher - When he offers that little brat a draw
    
    Batman Returns - Catwoman's introduction - I'm a heterosexual woman but MEOW!
    
    Legends of the Fall - When the youngest brother gets shot, that look of helplessness when they both realize. When Brad Pitt's wife gets shot.
    
    American History X -the curb stomping scene and the prison rape scene.
    
    Primal Fear - i won't ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it, the end
    
    American Me - the prison rape/murder/violation
    
    Blood in, blood out - when they drop the artist on the fire hydrant, ouch!

Then @Rilchiam (Rilchiam) said

    [QUOTE]  
    **
    
    > Rilchiam, I **love** you!
    > 
    > [Heavenly Creatures] is one of my favourite movies of all time. It is also proof that Kate Winslet can actually _act_ , contrary to what one might think after witnessing _“Titanic”_.
    > 
    > This also brought back the momory of the **Mario Lanza Shrine**. Thanks, there's a big grin on my face now 
    > 
    > Peter Jackson (the director of _Heavenly Creatures_ and also _Brain Dead / Dead Alive_ , oddly enough) is an absolute hero of mine.  
    >  **
    
    Yes, I was beside myself with joy when Peter Jackson was announced as the director of **Lord of the Rings** There's great potential to muck it up, but I know he won't. Also, I'm sorry you don't like **Titanic** , but I do, and I might not have seen it at all if I hadn't known Winslet from HC.
    
    I made Coldfire smile!

After which, @jjjfishe (jjjfishe) added

    Sitting on the bench in the middle of the night - NOTTING HILL - Loved It!!!

To which @_oo ((^(oo)^)) replied

    > **  
    >  American History X -the curb stomping scene and the prison rape scene.  
    >  **
    
    I still can't get over this ‘curb stomping' scene as you have named it…and especially at the part when his brother said he could hear that guys head crack open…can't imagine


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