Movie scenes that stick in your mind

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What is a movie scene that has stuck in head long after the rest of the movie has faded?

For me there is one in a wrestling movie made back in the 1980's called Vision Quest (I had to google the name) wherein the protagonist wrestler visits the "antagonist" wrestler opponent who happens to be training. The training includes going up and down stadium steps while carrying a giant log on his shoulders. :eek:

I don't remember if the movie is any good or just another lame 80s movie, but I remember that scene. I have no idea why. :confused:

Well off to go run some steps during my lunch break...list some scenes that stick in your head. :)
 
The one scene that i'll remember like something I'll never for get is probably
the bit at the end of Predator when the predator takes his mask off to fight
Dutch and does that crab/scorpion sort of stance while growling.

A true moment of cinematic greatnes right there :thumbup:
 
There was a Sylvester Stallone movie called Cobra and towards the beginning old Sly pulls up what I think is a customized Mercury. It was the coolest car I had seen at the time and that visual has always stuck with me.
 
in the first Alien, when the guys is trying to track her and they say, it is right there! where? where? and he turns around and shines they light and the she is towering over him! awesome!
paul
 
Movie, Dances With Wolves.
Timmons the peddler, while guiding John Dunbar to his outpost on the frontier happens upon the wagon massacre of some settlers.
Looking down upon the skeleton of one of the women in the party he says, IIRC, "someone back east is saying..
Why don't she write." :D

This should be an interesting thread, Zen. :thumbup:
 
There was a movie about some type of little monster, Scuzzbucket or something similar, haven't been able to find it on IMDB. Might be the wrong name. Anyway, I saw it when I was a little kid, the kid takes the monster back home beneath the sewers, and there are hundreds of these things down there.

I think this is it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286639/.
 
When Josey Wales faces the bounty hunter...."Dying ain't much of a living boy".

Great scene!
 
There are two scenes in Jaws that are probably my most memorable.

First is the scene where Hooper is arguing with the fishermen that caught the Tiger Shark in the foreground and not "wanting to get beat up over it". At the same time the mayor is approaching Brody in the background and there is a pretty heated discussion going on.

Second scene is where Hooper is trying to explain how the Great White is "a perfect machine. All this shark does is swim, eat, and make baby sharks".

The scene ends with, "I think I'm familiar with the idea that you're going to ignore this particular problem 'til it swims up and bites you on the ass!"

Classic and still funny :D
 
Empire of the Sun. The kid is on top of the building cheering as the Mustangs strafe and bomb the Japanese airfield. The slow motion flyby of the Mustang with the pilot waving and wobbling his wings at the kid was an incredible scene.
 
My Cousin Vinny:
Mona Lisa Vito: [Vinny looks at her funny] What?
Vinny Gambini: Nothing. You stick out like a sore thumb around here.
Mona Lisa Vito: Me? What about you?
Vinny Gambini: I fit in better than you. At least I'm wearing cowboy boots.
Mona Lisa Vito: Oh yeah, you blend.

Pulp Fiction:
Brett: No, no, I just want you to know... I just want you to know how sorry we are that things got so ------ up with us and Mr. Wallace. We got into this thing with the best intentions and I never...
Jules: [Jules shoots the man on the couch] I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?
Brett: What?
Jules: What country are you from?
Brett: What? What? Wh - ?
Jules: "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?
Brett: What?
Jules: English, mother------, do you speak it?
Brett: Yes! Yes!
Jules: Then you know what I'm sayin'!
Brett: Yes!
Jules: Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like!
Brett: What?
Jules: Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you mother------, say what one more Goddamn time!
 
The sun rays shining thru the two bulldozer blades right near the end of Vanishing Point. Boy, it's been a while since I've seen that one.
 
Ahab, "beckoning thrice" from the back of Moby Dick. Also the "St. Elmo's Fire" scene from the same. A remarkable film; saw it on the big screen when it came out.

Several from Lawrence of Arabia; the shot of him exulting on top of the train, seen in shadow...

Ahnold...."I'll be back....."

Chief Brody..."We're gonna need a bigger boat."

Close Encounters, when the "mother ship" inverts itself over the mountain.

So many...
 
One of many great scenes from one of my favorites:

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"One is going East, the other one is going West, so what?"

"And this guy's saying, 'Whaddaya want from me?'"
 
Clint picking up the fingers and putting them in the box in "Escape from Alcatraz". "Put THIS in your report".
 
Ripley: "Get away from her, you *b-tch!*"

Then comes the awesome robotic Ripley battling it out with the mother Alien.
 
Dr. Peter Venkman: [as the Ghostbusters approach Gozer] Grab your stick!
[the Ghostbusters draw their handsets]
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: HOLDIN'!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Heat 'em up!
[they arm their packs]
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: SMOKIN'!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Make 'em hard!
[they rack their handsets]
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: READY!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Let's show this prehistoric b-tch how we do things downtown... THROW IT!

Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
Walter Peck: Jeez!
[Charges at Venkman]
Mayor: Break it up! Hey, break this up! Break it up!
Walter Peck: All right, all right, all right!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, that's what I heard!
 
I will never forget and love thinking of it even now. The scene is in Dumb and Dumber during the dream sequence when Lauren Holly lifts her skirt and shows her Butt Cheeks! I always liked her in Pickett Fences and I never thought they would get her to do a scene like that.

I also love the scene in Streets of Fire where the lead character keeps taking the Butterfly Knife away from the punk and slapping him in the face. Great Knife Scene!
 
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