Best movie moment

I'll exclude works adapted to the screen, to easy to go with Henry V ("We few, we happy few, We band of brothers...) or TLOTR:TFOTR (I would have followed you to the end, My brother, My Captain, My King.)

I love the court scene in Mel Brooks' The Producers when Leo Bloom tells the court how Max Bialistock made him enjoy life for the first time. Interesting thing is the scene was not in the original script but was written by Gene Wilder.
 
When King Longshanks sent The Princess of Wales to offer a truce to William Wallace. "If you are going to be a Queen you have to open your eyes". She did. Of course the movie Braveheart.
 
Wow. There are quite a few. First, I have to second the moment in "The Sixth Sense", mentioned already, when you realize & rethink...

In order of my personal life's experience:

Highlander: The scene when Blossom dies in Conor's arms, wearing the boots he made for her; The scene when Connery's character Remirez (sp?) explains immortality, "what are the stars?, Pinholes in the cover of night?", etc.

The Crow: Many scenes, amongst them: "Victims, aren't we all?", and, "You're all going to die." The ultimate fantasy story of avenging the one I hold most dear...

Braveheart: Again, many scenes. When Wallace slits the throat of the roman commander who ordered his wife's death in the same way; When the french princess and her handmaiden are talking about that Wallace started the war over the love of a woman; When the ghost of his wife appears to "collect" him at the end; And, on a lighter note: When the irishman claims that "It's *my* island".

Prophecy I and Prophecy III: Almost every scene featuring Christopher Walkens as the archangel Gabriel. I dare not try to list them here, since my wife and I will end up quoting the entire movies.

WayLander
 
Seeing that treacherous cattle-rustler and bandit William Wallace being hung, drawn and quartered in Braveheart :)

Roger
 
Roger Gregory said:
Seeing that treacherous cattle-rustler and bandit William Wallace being hung, drawn and quartered in Braveheart :)

Roger
What was it that the handmaiden said in Braveheart...something about the English didn't know what tongues were for. Be careful, we'll make fun of YOUR Prince Charles :)
 
TOMBSTONE. The Earps an Holliday about to shoot it out with the Clantons and McClaureys. Doc Holliday winks at Billy Clanton and then Wyatt see's Clanton make this face like he's going to draw. Wyatt says, "Oh no." :eek:
 
WayLander said:
Wow. There are quite a few. First, I have to second the moment in "The Sixth Sense", mentioned already, when you realize & rethink...

In order of my personal life's experience:

Highlander: The scene when Blossom dies in Conor's arms, wearing the boots he made for her; The scene when Connery's character Remirez (sp?) explains immortality, "what are the stars?, Pinholes in the cover of night?", etc.



WayLander

WAS THERE A BLOSSOM IN HIGHLANDER???
Do you mean Heather?

Edited to add:

One of my favourite scenes is from Gladiator when they picked up maximus' body. The song at that moment was perfect.

I also actually liked a part of titanic (the only moment i liked) where the ship was sinking and they showed all the people who already gave up eg. captain, engineer, the old couple, the mother and children, the musicians...i thought it was cool...

Another one that surprised me was Unbreakable when Bruce's character shaked hands with Samuel's character. Excellent.

Oh...also the last part in Last of the Mohicans when Daniel Day Lewis was running up the hill to save the girls. Again the music played a great part in that scene.
 
Jaws:
The scene where Roy is chumming off the back of the boat and the shark breaks the surface and he sees how big it is!

Cliffhanger:
When Stalone can't save the woman on the rope.

Rob Roy:
The final fight scene, when Rob Roy grabs the opponents rapier and splits him in half.

Blade Runner:
The final scene where Rutger dies and releases the doves.

Allen.
 
Point44 said:
WAS THERE A BLOSSOM IN HIGHLANDER???
Do you mean Heather?

I believe you did catch me in a mistake here; I was typing from the cuff. I think Conor uses the term of endearment "Blossom" for Heather in that scene; it's been a year or two since I lost the video.

WayLander
 
First Blood

Sheriff: "Are you crazy? What do you hunt with a knife like this?"

Stallone: "Name it."
 
-Elders, the city is burning. We must escape.

-We must arm ourselves, we must fight!

-Silence! We are not warriors. We are statesmen and scientists. From our very beginning it was ordained that the warrior race of Tarak the Defender would aid us in times of need. This was the Pact!

-This Tarak the Defender, his race is dead. They cannot defend anyone.

-Some say the race is not dead, that one still lives.

-One! What good is one?

-One of Tarak's blood can do much.

Frank
 
Just on the other night: In "The Professional"--a movie which has several great scenes--when Mathilda gets back from the market and has to walk by her apartment door, right past the corpses of her family, and she knocks on Leon's door, scared for her life, praying he answers the door. Leon, his mind twisting the permutations, Mexican holds his pistol and opens the door and she is sheathed in white light as he opens the door.

When Stansfield corners her in the men's room. Pure evil, one of the best bad guys ever seen on screen. I imagine sometimes poor Natalie Portman wakes up with nightmares of that dude.

Cindy and Waylander, I'll also vote for the very end of "Braveheart", when he's dying and sees his wife walking through the crowd, waiting for him. It's a motif he used in "The Passion", too, I believe.

In "Gladiator" when the Praetorians emerge in those long cloaks and form a circle around Maximus as Commodus comes out and Max gives him sh!te. Again, when the Guard turns their collective back on Commodus, if only for a moment. The "Are You Not Entertained" bit.

"Road Warrior"--a movie of nothing BUT great moments--when Max shoos away the Feral Kid and then throws him the little turnkey music box; when the battered Gyro captain trundles up to a bloodied, beaten Max, pulls up his googles, and they share a smile; when Papagallo offers Max a place with them and he refuses.

"Blade Runner", as Batty is descending the elevator after doing bad things to Tyrell. I've never understood why Rutger Hauer didn't become a major star after that movie--he blows Harrison Ford off the screen.

A sentimental favorite--the very very end of "The Fountainhead", maybe one of the corniest moments in film history but still moving, as the elevator reaches the top floor.

Although I've come to despise him, at the end of "Manhattan", there's some sweeping panoramas of the New York skyline and great orchestral music--very romantic, especially in an era when almost every contemporary movie set in New York City showed the town as crappy and degenerate.
 
There are quite a few in Kill Bill.

When O Ren Ishi dies and says, "It was a Hattori Hanso."

When Bud says, "This woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die. But so does she."

And, of course, the ending, with the dramatic walk to death.


LOTR TTT: I agree, the ride out of Helm's Deep: "For Wrath, for Ruin, and for the Red Dawn!!"
 
I thought the part in the original Solaris, where Kelvin starts to untie his wife's dress, but finds that under the wrap the dress is solid was pretty creepy and cool.
 
Greg Covington said:
My favorite is in Mel Gibson's "We Were Soldiers" when he realizes the perimeter is collasping and calls a broken arrow
This was one of my favorites too. Mel Gibson ordering his troops "FIX BAYONETS!" Also when they are about to be overrun and the helicoper pilot comes in with the minigun blazing and he salutes Mel. Very powerful scene IMO.
 
In the original Batman movie from 1966 with Adam West, there is a scene where Batman is trying to get rid of a bomb and he is running around on the warf looking for a safe place to throw it. He runs to the left there is a woman with a baby carriage, he runs to the right there is a family of ducks in the water.

That scene always gets me, Batman coulda just said screw it and tossed the bomb anywhere...
 
Office Space

[Scene: The meeting between Peter and the two Bobs.]

Bob Porter: It looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.

Peter: I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.

(They laugh.)
 
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