Films/scenes that stand out

kowloon

So everyone has their favorite and their worst, there are lists of both; but what was the film or scene that stood out ost to you?
A film that made you think; maybe just one scene in a film that you don't even rate that highly stood out to you; or the most sickening or upsetting scene or entire film you've ever seen.

No lists of film names, just a single film name (and the particular scene if applicable) and your thoughts on it.

MagicMarker

I've mentioned this in previous threads but one of my favourite scenes ever is in American Psycho where Bateman

kills Paul Allen with the Axe to the sounds of Huey Lewis & the News

It's just fantastic. In fact there are a few scenes in that movie that i would consider some of my favourites.

hussey

maybe not my all time favourite
but a recent one is No country for old men when asking the shop keeper to choose heads or tails

MagicMarker

hussey wrote: »

maybe not my all time favourite
but a recent one is No country for old men when asking the shop keeper to choose heads or tails

Oooh, that is a good one.

Another from that movie is the

strangling scene

near the start, that was immense!

Perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufss5ot_vGE

ziedth

Not so much a scene but more 10-15min of the film, But the new Indy from

the stupid car chase/swordfight right up to the even more stupid going over the waterfalls twice and staying in the car

IMO brought it down from a really bad film to one of the worst films ever.

There a couple of films that are only so so but carried through by one good scene though, what springs to mind first is 187 with Samuel Jackson

the russian roulette scene

was very good

FionnMatthew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVC3BzVi8m8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOW4QiOD-oc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTCOj1KUcq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG2vL-KAktA

DirkVoodoo

Good call on the Dark Knight one, gives me goosebumps each time I see it.

shrapnel222

the russian roulette scene when in the cage in deer hunter was pretty intense

one of my favorites: dennis hopper in True romance telling christopher walken that sicillians were spawned by ****

in order to ensure a quick death

Otis Driftwood

Oscholar

The first ten to fifteen minutes of Miike Takashi's 'Dead Or Alive' is amazing. How everything is edited together: the introduction of the characters, the action, the violence, etc. Really fast paced and gets your adrenaline pumping. I could have picked any of Takashi's films but this is still one of my favourites.

charlie_says

Shindlers List: when the workers are brought naked in to the large room and showered in the concentration camp.

Requiem for a Dream: Electroshock therapy and amputation scene. Arresting stuff!

kowloon

charlie_says wrote: »

Requiem for a Dream: Electroshock therapy and amputation scene. Arresting stuff!

Yes, the electroshock therapy scene was horrible to watch, I didn't empathise with the other characters to the same degree.

eagle eye

Well there are a lot of great movie scenes. I couldn't pick a favourite but I remember these ones off the top of my head.

The one that shook me most was

The Reservoir dogs scene Where the cop gets his ear cut off

Pulp Fiction has so many that are brilliant such as

Samuel L Jackson reciting the bible before they kill the guys in the apartment

And then out of nowhere just as only Tarantino can do

The whole Pawn shop basement scene with the gimp

, now thats what I call dark comedy.

The V for Vendetta scene is just a performance I will never forget

V introduces himself to Evie: Voila In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.

And of course the scene from Apocalypse Now

I only found out about two years ago that Martin Sheen did actually have a real mental breakdown during that scene.

One more and I'm done, and I'll go with Saving Private Ryan

The Omaha Beach scene at the start of the movie

There are so many, I can think of a lot that really hit me and some fantastic acting performances that blew me away.

gandalf

The infamous Sales Motivation speech from Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glenross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

The final scenes in Field of Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS2UtAlmX4

Knife fight in Saving Private Ryan (Warning Gruesome)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxpSSJBwW0

Shacklebolt

American Gangster execution scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwsomb-lKfM

End scene of Batman Begins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4LW3wcGE1w

Plot Twist in The Usual Suspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXH6DQNjCY

Feelgood

This blew me away and still does to this day......

indough

the final scene in angel heart springs to mind

DaveyGem

Heat coffee scene ffs

And the final moments of The Dark Knight (Oldman's monlogue)

Both epic

oldboy

Predator

Billy making his last stand on the bridge, the heavy music n him just focused on facing his fate

....lethal !

MagicMarker

Goodfellas - How the **** am i funny?

Shryke

Platoon. Elias' scene and the 'Dance! Dance!; scene.
Apocalypse Now has many. The opening while he's wasted with the brilliant narration, the flares, as he rises out of the mist draped waters. Amazing film. And the redux is massively better than the original. Anyone who hasn't seen it owes it to themselves.
28 Days Later.

With the rain as Murphys character takes on the military lads

, fantastically put together.
The Thing.

When the head grows legs!

FionnMatthew

Oh oh.

The Thing when the guy drops on his knees in the snow and starts screaming with the weird hands, before they burn him.

That was spooky.

S.M.B.

Deleted User wrote: »

Perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufss5ot_vGE

On a similar note, The Massacre scene from the slightly inferior I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK is the standout scene of the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3uFG3lFg4