Best film scene...

03-07-2016 10:00pm #1

...be careful about spoilers, but what was the best scene in a film?

For me, it's hard to beat the school intro in Donnie Darko, a perfect mix of music, angled shots, speeding up and slowing down, tracking, and we see a lot of the main protagonists in just over 2 minutes of perfection...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyfGwlf_l0

Honourable mentions the the finales in the Wicker Man and Ringu, for shock value.

And the scene in Picnic at Hanging Rock where the students ascend the mountain. Haunting.

MilesMorales1 · 03-07-2016 10:01pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6UKS1L0YQ

Goosebumps, every time.

groucho marx · 03-07-2016 10:02pm

Funny how... like I'm a clown like I'm here to amuse you

Father Hernandez · 03-07-2016 10:03pm

Love it..

Miss Demeanour · 03-07-2016 10:04pm

Toss up between.....
Love lifts us up....an officer and a gentleman and
Hungry eyes......Dirty dancing.....
/swoon

Birneybau · 03-07-2016 10:09pm

Chase scene through Dublin in 'Haywire'.

Nah, kidding. Opening of 'Saving Private Ryan'?

Robsweezie · 03-07-2016 10:09pm

Sharon stone leg cross, basic instinct.

Hazys · 03-07-2016 10:10pm

Tom Hanks' acting in the last 10 mins of Captain Phillips

MilesMorales1 · 03-07-2016 10:10pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2kEvktHRYw

GottaGetGatt · 03-07-2016 10:11pm

Perfection

Junkyard Tom · 03-07-2016 10:12pm

Saving Private Ryan, Omaha Beach scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RTzi5Vt7w

maudgonner · 03-07-2016 10:12pm

Robert Shaw recalling the USS Indianapolis in Jaws.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs

MarkAnthony · 03-07-2016 10:12pm

As much as I want to treat this seriously and as much as this me IS me treating this seriously...

ziedth · 03-07-2016 10:13pm

Have a couple that on occasion still throw on youtube:

1. Kitchen fight scene in the raid 2 and the lead up to it. In my opinion the best 10 minutes of any action film ever made. Id your an action fan and you haven't seen both raid films I would advise you take tomorrow off and watch them. Nothing else even comes close to that scene.

2. Any Given Sunday Inches speech with peace playing in the background. It's classic OTT oliver stone and Al Pacino overacting but if that doesn't get you pumped nothing will. Everytime I listen too it I feel like I cold 12 rounds with Tyson.

3. For comedy it has to be "The running of the Jew" in Borat. I went to see the film in the cinema and not really being a Ali G fan I had absolutely expectations for the film but it was probably one of my favourite cinema experiences simply because it caught me so much by surprise. The best of which was this scene, without even exaggeration I would say I missed the next 5 minutes of the film because I couldn't catch my breath from laughing so much and I would randomly burst out laughing again just thinking about it.

MarkAnthony · 03-07-2016 10:15pm

Actually lets...

andekwarhola · 03-07-2016 10:16pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-ZPo-SjcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwNrZ3Hpe60

Barry Badrinath · 03-07-2016 10:16pm

Dog Soldiers.

After being helidropped into the mountains and tabbing all day.

The section holds up for a few hours, Sean Pertwee tells them a story about his mate that stood on an anti personnel mine. Just as the atmosphere gets heavy...

BOOOOM!

Excellent!

03-07-2016 10:21pm

ziedth wrote: »

2. Any Given Sunday Inches speech with peace playing in the background. It's classic OTT oliver stone and Al Pacino overacting but if that doesn't get you pumped nothing will. Everytime I listen too it I feel like I cold 12 rounds with Tyson...

Great scene alright.

Pacino has had a few of those. But none as gritty as his turn in Glengarry Glen Ross..."you fairy, you company man"

Warning, contains NSFW language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVMM1mRGEg0

Ann22 · 03-07-2016 10:24pm

maudgonner wrote:

Robert Shaw recalling the USS Indianapolis in Jaws.

That's what I was going to say.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 03-07-2016 10:25pm

The scene in Jaws where the compare scars and it ends with Robert Shaws speech about his encounter with sharks while in the Navy during WW2.

An innocuous scene to begin with but has real intensity and Shaws acting is incredible.It also helps add great depth to the Quint character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjNzwEULG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs

callaway92 · 03-07-2016 10:26pm

Honestly, this scene scares the shít out of me every time I watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSsfuEG4GMA

Ronald Wilson Reagan · 03-07-2016 10:27pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCwxMvXPZo

callaway92 · 03-07-2016 10:29pm

This scene pretty much solidified Jennifer Lawrence for me as a superstar. A lot of credit is also deserved for Bradley Cooper for his facial reactions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQslm7HjT0c

Father Hernandez · 03-07-2016 10:31pm

Also fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUynRdzzsM

As greedy as a pig...

turbostan · 03-07-2016 10:35pm

The biker scene in A Bronx Tale.
Unforgettable.

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DerL2czOyNoc&ved=0ahUKEwiCzeCRrdjNAhUIK8AKHcK_COYQtwIIHzAB&usg=AFQjCNHCXL0d-qlznDiYTFIXJmQmceJxtA&sig2=2SpInd8Qi4SdlsTXfqQQkQ

Ruu · 03-07-2016 10:35pm

Kiss scene in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence or

ending with Lawrence and Sgt. Hara in the room together.

Shannon757 · 03-07-2016 10:37pm

The interrogation scene in Pulp Fiction. "English Mother****er, do you speak it?"

Two Tone · 03-07-2016 10:40pm

hogey143 wrote: »

Love it..

Prefer his long scene at the start of the movie in the farmer's house. Chilling.

L'prof · 03-07-2016 10:43pm

The exchange between Norton and Gere at the end of Primal Fear has always been a personal favourite of mine.

osarusan · 03-07-2016 10:43pm

In the film Three Colors: White, there is a scene that takes place in a subway. Prior to this scene, one character has asked another to do a particular job for him, and it culminates in this scene in a subway.

I'm not going to put in a video or explain it in more detail because that would spoil it, but it's one of the best scenes I've ever seen in any film.

Threads like always bother me because I know I'm forgetting a load of things I'll recall later, and this is no exception. Expect edits to this post.

But for now, honourable mentions to:
the opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West ('No, you brought two too many').
Dustin Hoffman's 7-minute take from Lenny.
Begging scene in Umberto D.
the scene in Secrets and Lies when everything gets revealed.
Two presidents talking on the phone in Dr. Strangelove.

Conall Cernach · 03-07-2016 10:43pm

dark crystal · 03-07-2016 10:44pm

Sicilians....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM

It's just a stunning duet between the two. Hopper really hits this scene out of the park.

I could watch this scene endlessly and never tire of it.

Two Tone · 03-07-2016 10:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb3P0fuM1c

RikkFlair · 03-07-2016 10:51pm

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

storker · 03-07-2016 10:51pm

Just one of many candidate scenes from this movie:

I have to throw this one in too. The card game at the beginning of the Odd Couple. It's a much longer scene than the clip suggests, but it's the best clip I could find:

gandalf · 03-07-2016 10:55pm

FFS if you are going to say Glengarry Glenross then there is one scene above all others in it. Alec Baldwins finest moment of acting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9XW6P0tiVc

GottaGetGatt · 03-07-2016 10:58pm

This is a classic too:)

maudgonner · 03-07-2016 10:59pm

The final scene from The Graduate is great. Getting to see what happens immediately after most movies would have had their ended - the 'oh crap, what have we done. And what the hell do we do now?' moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pdNYXY3Zo

storker · 03-07-2016 10:59pm

The opening scene from Ridley Scott's "The Duellists". The beautiful visuals and painting-like scenes set the tone for the visual treat that is to come:

FunLover18 · 03-07-2016 10:59pm

One of the tensest scenes I've ever seen

storker · 03-07-2016 11:02pm

gandalf wrote: »

FFS if you are going to say Glengarry Glenross then there is one scene above all others in it. Alec Baldwins finest moment of acting.

Let's face it, that whole movie is a collection of amazing scenes.

bogwalrus · 03-07-2016 11:03pm

Pacino and di nero stand off scene in heat with moby in the background. https://youtu.be/YMru9bMnKw0

gandalf · 03-07-2016 11:04pm

storker wrote: »

Let's face it, that whole movie is a collection of amazing scenes.

Absolutely a great script with a real heavyweight cast of actors who are all at the top of the powers. Jack Lemmon is absolutely brilliant and he breaks your heart in that film. Definitely one of my top five favourite films.

Simi · 03-07-2016 11:05pm

This scene from the thin red line is my personal favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2wL9AawlDA

storker · 03-07-2016 11:07pm

Just one more. Marlon Brando's delivery of Mark Antony's speech from Julius Caesar:

(Skip to 0:50)

gandalf · 03-07-2016 11:09pm

This scene in Dr Strangelove speaks volumes to me about the absolute madness of war. Slim Pickens and the infamous bomb ride. It's dated now but it still gives me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y

FunLover18 · 03-07-2016 11:09pm

I've also adored this film and this fight scene since I was a wee lad

PressRun · 03-07-2016 11:16pm

Ellen Burstyn's monologue in Requiem for a Dream is pretty hard-hitting stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0W-L1KKPg

lertsnim · 03-07-2016 11:19pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc

Absolutely astounding shootout scene with a surround sound system cranked all the way up.

myshirt · 03-07-2016 11:20pm

Women in Love. Marvelous scene by the fireside.

Check it out.

learn_more · 03-07-2016 11:24pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5PnnqrzWp4

Joking aside, I did actually like that movie for some odd reason, but then I do have a thing for Michael Douglas.

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