Your Favorite Movies/Scenes

SpaceGhost

It's cheesy as hell, but the scene in Forrest Gump where [realspoiler:a283549890]Forrest finds out that he has a son, and asks if he is handicapped[/realspoiler:a283549890] always gets me choked up. That, and the final scene of Big Fish. Both amazingly sad/happy scenes in film.

As for cool or cinematic stuff, basically all of Band of Brothers blew me away start to finish, along with the charm and camera work of most of Wes Anderson's work, most notably Life Aquatic and Tenenbaums.

Oh, and the camera work and soundtrack to The Shining by Kubrick is just amazing too.

Sam

All of Chungking Express..really touching yet funny film.

Golden God

Any movie when the protagonist unexpectedly dies rather then through sheer garbage lives for the sole sake of a happy ending.

FCD

Near the end of Spirited Away, when Chihiro is at Zeniba's house and the music starts to swell. [realspoiler:1e261ce7e0]Then she opens the door, and Haku is there, alive and well.[/realspoiler:1e261ce7e0] That's about when I start bawling like a little baby. [realspoiler:1e261ce7e0]And don't even get me started about the scene a few minutes later, when Haku remembers his real name.[/realspoiler:1e261ce7e0] Water come out my eyes

ToadTheMushroom

[realspoiler:10af4812c1]When the cruise missile hits George Clooney in Syriana.[/realspoiler:10af4812c1]

Scared the fuck out of me. Totally unexpected.

matt has a problem

You know, SPOILERS WOULD BE GOOD IN THIS THREAD.

Just saying, since the last two posts contained major SPOILERS.

bombardier

Guess I don't have to see Syriana now.

The idol scene in Raiders always makes me all tingly and excited. The music and timing is just so flawless and never gets old.

LiveWire

Thanks, asshole

Malkor

My favorite scene to a movie would be the beginning of Kelly's Heroes. It starts out as a typical WWII yarn with explosions and Germans getting blow'd up etc, then they play the song 'Burning Bridges' by the Mike Curb Congregation. If you've ever heard the song, you'd know it doesn't belong in a war movie. For some reason the violence on screen and the lighthearted pop music work together nicely, and the movie takes off.

Descendant X

The Iron Giant.

"...Superman..."

Cue waterworks.

TankHammer

DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.

John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.

[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]

Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.

John Preston: Not without incident.


I always get a smile from that scene.

Big Mutant

Chris Walken and Dennis Hopper (who I did not like and haven't since) in True Romance.

If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about.

I won't say more. [spoiler:61dae0172e]Wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone.[/spoiler:61dae0172e]

Corlis

Kantankeris wrote:

DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.

John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.

[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]

Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.

John Preston: Not without incident.


I always get a smile from that scene.

What movie is that? Sounds pretty cool.

nexuscrawler

great job with the spoilers guys

Darth Waiter

Hmmm. So many good monologues that have struck a chord within me. And scenes. And characters. So many reasons, so much fun.

American Psycho - the final monologue from the film

Jaws - Quint's speech about the U.S.S. Indianapolis

Conan the Barbarian - you know the one speech

Big Trouble in Little China - Anything that Jack Burton says, ever

Shaun of the Dead - Pretty much the entire flick

Hero - Oh God the cinematography was gorgeous

Unleashed - probably the most visceral fight scenes I've ever seen outside of UFC

That's all for now; fun movies with great moments. I'd have to spoiler some of the artsy stuff I used to watch and I'm not in the mood to write a treatise on something that only two people will read.

Darth Waiter

Corlis wrote:

Kantankeris wrote:

DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.

John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.

[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]

Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.

John Preston: Not without incident.


I always get a smile from that scene.

What movie is that? Sounds pretty cool.

Equilibrium with Christian Bale, Angus MacFadyen, and Taye Diggs.

TankHammer

Darth Waiter wrote:

Corlis wrote:

Kantankeris wrote:

DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.

John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.

[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]

Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.

John Preston: Not without incident.


I always get a smile from that scene.

What movie is that? Sounds pretty cool.

Equilibrium with Christian Bale, Angus MacFadyen, and Taye Diggs.

and Sean Bean and a cute little dog and the origin of the gun-kata (gun-fu).

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Irond Will

Yeah spoiler anything that seems like it might be spoilerish.

Shinto

The Wave Speech.

Hunter Thompson wrote:

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Malkor

I loved the scene from the episode 'Day of Days' in Band of Brothers. [spoiler:a8bc2e5b29]Its a fight to destroy arty. guns hidden in hedgerows.[/spoiler:a8bc2e5b29] What really makes the scene is camera work. The girdled up on of the main characters with a camera, and when [spoiler:a8bc2e5b29]he running up and down the hedges giving orders and leading his men[/spoiler:a8bc2e5b29] you really feel the intensity and frenticness of the battle. If you've ever played the first Call of Duty, you can see where the game developers got their inspiration from.

Target Practice

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

[realspoiler:6654b21520]When the cruise missile hits George Clooney in Syriana.[/realspoiler:6654b21520]

Scared the fuck out of me. Totally unexpected.

Man, what?

You only see them coordinating it for like ten minutes.

DanHibiki

The Big Lebowski

Jesus Quintana wrote:

Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click."

TankHammer

Boondock Saints

[spoiler:72147492b6][after Smecker gets a phone call in bed with his gay lover]
Paul Smecker: What are you doing?
Hojo: I just wanted to cuddle.
Paul Smecker: Cuddle? What a fag. [/spoiler:72147492b6]

Menace

The breakfast scene in Reservoir Dogs, specifically with Mr. Pink and tipping.

The scene in Scarface when Tony confronts Lopez after [spoiler:9ecc4ed8d3]he suspects Lopez of hiring the hitmen to kill him in the club. His way of having someone phone in and trap Lopez in a lie seems like it express's Tony's mind very well.[/spoiler:9ecc4ed8d3]

In Lion King (do I really need to spoiler this?) [spoiler:9ecc4ed8d3]the killing of Mufasa and the "I killed Mufasa" follow-up.[/spoiler:9ecc4ed8d3]

Typewriter/"Give me the bat" from The Shining.

Turgidson worrying about the Soviet in the war room, seeing the big board in Dr. Strangelove.

Preacher

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, end shoot out. The music, the camera angles, it all works so perfectly.

In the same vein For a Few Dollars More also has a cool end scene.

[realspoiler:1220ea925b] The way you are waiting for the bad guys watch chimes to finish and then eastwood shows up with the other watch and his rifle just awesome [/realspoiler:1220ea925b]

A movie that I am sure I am one of the only fans of. Last Man Standing, hotel shoot out just cool.

Loren Michael

FCD wrote:

Near the end of Spirited Away, when Chihiro is at Zeniba's house and the music starts to swell. [realspoiler:f0fba14d8c]Then she opens the door, and Haku is there, alive and well.[/realspoiler:f0fba14d8c] That's about when I start bawling like a little baby. [realspoiler:f0fba14d8c]And don't even get me started about the scene a few minutes later, when Haku remembers his real name.[/realspoiler:f0fba14d8c] Water come out my eyes

my favorite miyazaki movie.

my favorite part was [spoiler:f0fba14d8c]the train sequence, near the end. ethereal, sleepy, dreamlike, perfect. a lot of people, i assume, think it's boring as hell. it captures the fantasy and dreaminess of the movie perfectly. makes me want to shed a tear every time, and only because of the mood.[/spoiler:f0fba14d8c]


also, i gotta say, the car sequence in the beginning/middle and the city sequence at the end (you know the two that i'm talking about) in [spoiler:f0fba14d8c]Children of Men.[/spoiler:f0fba14d8c] holy shit.


the part in love, actually when kiera knightly [spoiler:f0fba14d8c]sees the video.[/spoiler:f0fba14d8c] i'm such a goddamn sap.

DiscGrace

The part, near the end, in Field of Dreams, where [spoiler:307b74ecfc]Moonlight Graham steps off the field and becomes Doc Graham again, and saves Mary, and then Ray realizes that he can't go back. Just the sadness/rightness of the moment, and then the twinkle in Burt Lancaster's eye when he says he'd better be getting on home to his wife or she'll think he's got himself a girlfriend![/spoiler:307b74ecfc]

In Platoon, the scene where [spoiler:307b74ecfc]Sergeant Elias runs toward the helicopter and gets gunned down by the Viet Cong. I was almost flat out bawling the first time I saw that scene.[/spoiler:307b74ecfc]

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

tony_important

Pulp Fiction

The whole scene involving Jimmy Dimmick, "The Wolf", Vincent, Jules, and Marvin's body.

"Jimmie: No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you see a sign out in front of my house that said Dead N***** Storage?
Jules: Jimmie, you know I ain't seen no...
Jimmie: Did you see a sign out in front of my house that said Dead N***** Storage?
Jules: [pause] No. I didn't.
Jimmie: You know WHY you didn't see that sign?
Jules: Why?
Jimmie: 'Cause it ain't there, 'cause storing dead n***** ain't my fucking business, that's why!"

And then the rest of that whole section up until they get out of there.

Spilled Milk, Inc.

Shinto wrote:

The Wave Speech.

Hunter Thompson wrote:

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Yes.

The scene at the beginning of Amelie where she's skipping rocks. It's really beautifully shot.

tony_important

Spilled Milk, Inc. wrote:

The scene at the beginning of Amelie where she's skipping rocks. It's really beautifully shot.

YES! You just reminded me of that movie. I saw it ages ago and loved it. Looks like it's off to blockbastard for me tonight

Irond Will

Preacher wrote:

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, end shoot out. The music, the camera angles, it all works so perfectly.

In the same vein For a Few Dollars More also has a cool end scene.

[realspoiler:975bf232b9] The way you are waiting for the bad guys watch chimes to finish and then eastwood shows up with the other watch and his rifle just awesome [/realspoiler:975bf232b9]

A movie that I am sure I am one of the only fans of. Last Man Standing, hotel shoot out just cool.

Man you're all about the Kurosawa remakes.

Moridan

Pulp Fiction: "Ezekial 25:17"

Torso Boy

The entirety of Fight Club.

American Psycho -
[spoiler:4eb10e5a4b]Bale donning a raincoat and hacking Jared Leto to death to "Hip to be Square."[/spoiler:4eb10e5a4b]

Seconding the "not without incident" moment from Equilibrium. Most of the action scenes in that movie send chills down my spine- especially the one where the dudes find the puppy, and when Preston rides the door into the room.

The first time I saw the end of Oldboy, and didn't see it coming AT ALL.

Serenity, when Wash...well, you know.

The Devil's Rejects has a few great moments that border on profoundness- such as Otis's "I am the devil" speech, or pretty much any scene with Wydell.

I could go on...maybe I will, but later.

tony_important

Moridan wrote:

Pulp Fiction: "Ezekial 25:17"

but of course

Malkor

tony_important wrote:

Moridan wrote:

Pulp Fiction: "Ezekial 25:17"

but of course

I think part of that was just 'cause it was loud.

SithDrummer

Band of Brothers - "Day of Days"
When Buck Compton fumbles the grenade. He just looks so terrified, the first time you see it, you get drawn in by making the same "oh shit" face. Of course, once you've seen the episode a few times, you rewind this section over and over because it's pretty hilarious.

Dumb and Dumber
Lloyd's (Jim Carrey) scream in the bathroom when Sea Bass walks in. Perfection.

Falling Down
When D-FENS starts mouthing off to the two Latino thugs on the hill about how their graffiti is impossible to understand.

Field of Dreams
"Peace, love, dope! Now get the hell out of here!" James Earl Jones.

The Truman Show
Truman's utter despair when his boat hits the wall, and then his complete victory when he exits stage left after his signature line.

Unbreakable
The big reveal at the end.

TankHammer

At the end of Kill Bill Vol. 1.

[spoiler:edda8fda24]
[last lines]
Bill: One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?
[/spoiler:edda8fda24]
Still gives me chills hearing it. I shouted "FUCK YOU QUENTIN!" at the end because I knew it'd be a year before we got to see the conclusion.

Capt Howdy

JAWS - The whole damn movie.

American Psycho - Name something not to love, I dare you. (Dare withdrawn) (Dare Reinstated)

Bubba Ho-Tep - Bruce Campbell as Elvis, what more do you need, other than [spoiler:236aac0dcc] JFK still being alive, and black, played by Ossie Davis[/spoiler:236aac0dcc]

Loren Michael

oh yeah, band of brothers: i can't remember the episode, one of the later ones... where they're walking through the woods and one guy remarks (paraphrased), "hey, this forest is kind of like bastogne!" and another guy says, "yeah, except the trees aren't fucking exploding!"

also, every scene with spiers.

Loren Michael

Kantankeris wrote:

At the end of Kill Bill Vol. 1.

[spoiler:278aa33aa2]
[last lines]
Bill: One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?
[/spoiler:278aa33aa2]
Still gives me chills hearing it. I shouted "FUCK YOU QUENTIN!" at the end because I knew it'd be a year before we got to see the conclusion.

wasn't it only like, a few months?