Favourite Scene

Jim

yet another pointless thread but here goes........,

Whats ur favourite scene from a film/ tv of all time,

Mine : Full Metal Jacket
Scene : 2
intro to sgt.Hartman

Pure excellence

Karl Hungus

The opening sequence of Lord Of The Rings just doesn't seem to tire.
It's truly something!

And basically ANY scene from Leon.

strat

teh short bit in the matrix where Neo gets up after being shot and kicks the ever fucking shit out of the agents

Winters

My Favourite Scene.. well... If EVERY episode of Band Of Brothers was one giant scene it would be that .

Band Of Brothers, episode 3, Carentan, Attack on Carentan .... great!
Band Of Brothers, episode 2, Day Of Days, Attack on Kraut 88s great!
Band Of Brothers, episode 8, The Patrol, Retreating back with a hale of tracer fire from MG's acress the river great!

I could go on... but ill stop

Spunog UIE

"i know kung fu"

"show me" ...

Spunog UIE

"and then this one time at band camp..."

leejon

" You're gonna need a bigger boat"

leejon

"we came, we saw, we kicked it's ass"!!!

Kali

saving private ryan.. whole opening scene - storming the beach.
apocalypse now - bit when they reach the bridge
amélie - the follow the footprint scene.. bit in the park. beautiful.

sixpack's little hat

Apocalypse Now - helicopters attacking and turning on the music a mile out

Karl Hungus

The end Sequence of American History X was amazing.

As well as the "Bite the kerb!" scene.
That's a scene that'll probably be remembered.

SantaHoe

Fight Club
The Start => Long zoomy brain view, pans out to gun in jacks mouth... excellent.
The End => Resolution - then to top it off - BA-BOOM - cue Pixies - where is my mind... classic.

Clintons Cat

the scene in shawshank redemption where tom hanks plays opera music over the tannoy and the camera pans across the prison whilst morgan freeman says their voices swooped and soared like birds/I dont know what it was those italian women were singing about i like to think it was something to beautiful to put into words.

A beautiful scene

Also "Brooks Was Here"

btw>good choice angelwhore

Karl Hungus

Excuse me?
Did I just see "TOM HANKS" in there!?!?

For shame!

Mills

Hmmmm, so many good scenes to choose from. I'm never going to think of them all, so I'l going to look at my DVD collection and pick a favourite scene from each one..... as for an overall favourite, no idea :-/.

Hmm, have to be careful of spoilers :-/.

Shawshank Redemption: The very end, with the bus, actually brought a few tears to my eyes the first time I watched it, and still feels really, really uplifting even after seeing it several times. Actually, this probably wins by default because it's the only one which managed to actually bring tears to my eyes .

Se7en:

The scene near the end, out in the desert, where the van arrives and Morgan Freeman goes over to it, leaving Mills and John Doe..... tension mounts as he gets the box and opens it and it all culminates in "So I took a souvenir, her pretty head" and Morgan Freeman opening the box and looking away in horror. My jaw dropped wide open as everything fell into place, brilliance. It's fun to watch the DVD with someone who's never seen it and just watch their face at this point .

Apocalypse Now (Redux):

I loved the scene with the helicopters and rise of the valkyries, don't get me wrong, but I prefer the scene where he kills kurtz, withn the music building up and getting more and more frenzied and the cow sacrifice running in parallel and then the cow being hacked up as he is.

The Matrix: Lobby scene, all of it, but particularly the bit where they're standing there, and the elevator arrives and everyone piles out, and there's silence for a second, then the Propellerheads start up and the action begins

The Usual Suspects:

There can only be one from this . Has to be the scene at the end where we realise what's been going on all along. From the moment the detective's sitting on the table staring at the board and drops his coffee cup, through all the quotes from previous bits of the film, the fax coming out of Verbal's face, his limp disappearing as he walked down the street, right up until "And like that *puff*, he's gone". That's the king of the jaw-dropping movie moments as far as I'm concerned.

Mememto:

I love the way it ends, first the twist, then the way everything tied in together beautifully afterwards and the whole film makes sense when the car screeches to a halt outside the tattoo parlour, "Now, where was I".

Twelve Monkeys:

Again, the bit in the airport where the whole film is tied together, everything fits so perfectly.

Fight Club:

It's hard to pick just one scene from this because the whole film is just excellent, but I suppose the part where he realises that he's Tyler in the hotel room takes it, with the very end, where the towers explode and the Pixies start up coming a close second.

Fallen:

I love the twist at the end of this, it's the only reason I bought it. It comes completely out of the blue, I thought the film was over first time I saw it and was reaching for the remote, when the cat appeared..... .

Hmmm, most of those are endings, but I love films where the ending leaves you shocked or stirs up some serious emotions.... so it figures I suppose .

Jim

Originally posted by Clintons Cat
the scene in shawshank redemption where tom hanks plays opera music ........

emn, if u njoyed the film tat much ud know it was tim robins and NOt tom hanks, [huh, the pig ignorence, i will say good day to u sir!]:rolleyes:

[WOW! IRELAND JUST SCORED, NICE 1 HOLLAND!!!!]:D

Samson

Originally posted by sixpack's little hat
Apocalypse Now - helicopters attacking and turning on the music a mile out

That's mine too, when I went to see "redux" on the big screen (at the IFC), I was absolutely fucking mesmerised and grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

Spiffing

Originally posted by Mills
Hmmmm, so many good scenes to choose from. I'm never going to think of them all, so I'l going to look at my DVD collection and pick a favourite scene from each one..... as for an overall favourite, no idea :-/.

Hmm, have to be careful of spoilers :-/.

Shawshank Redemption: The very end, with the bus, actually brought a few tears to my eyes the first time I watched it, and still feels really, really uplifting even after seeing it several times. Actually, this probably wins by default because it's the only one which managed to actually bring tears to my eyes .

Se7en:

The scene near the end, out in the desert, where the van arrives and Morgan Freeman goes over to it, leaving Mills and John Doe..... tension mounts as he gets the box and opens it and it all culminates in "So I took a souvenir, her pretty head" and Morgan Freeman opening the box and looking away in horror. My jaw dropped wide open as everything fell into place, brilliance. It's fun to watch the DVD with someone who's never seen it and just watch their face at this point .

Apocalypse Now (Redux):

I loved the scene with the helicopters and rise of the valkyries, don't get me wrong, but I prefer the scene where he kills kurtz, withn the music building up and getting more and more frenzied and the cow sacrifice running in parallel and then the cow being hacked up as he is.

The Matrix: Lobby scene, all of it, but particularly the bit where they're standing there, and the elevator arrives and everyone piles out, and there's silence for a second, then the Propellerheads start up and the action begins

The Usual Suspects:

There can only be one from this . Has to be the scene at the end where we realise what's been going on all along. From the moment the detective's sitting on the table staring at the board and drops his coffee cup, through all the quotes from previous bits of the film, the fax coming out of Verbal's face, his limp disappearing as he walked down the street, right up until "And like that *puff*, he's gone". That's the king of the jaw-dropping movie moments as far as I'm concerned.

Mememto:

I love the way it ends, first the twist, then the way everything tied in together beautifully afterwards and the whole film makes sense when the car screeches to a halt outside the tattoo parlour, "Now, where was I".

Twelve Monkeys:

Again, the bit in the airport where the whole film is tied together, everything fits so perfectly.

Fight Club:

It's hard to pick just one scene from this because the whole film is just excellent, but I suppose the part where he realises that he's Tyler in the hotel room takes it, with the very end, where the towers explode and the Pixies start up coming a close second.

Fallen:

I love the twist at the end of this, it's the only reason I bought it. It comes completely out of the blue, I thought the film was over first time I saw it and was reaching for the remote, when the cat appeared..... .

Hmmm, most of those are endings, but I love films where the ending leaves you shocked or stirs up some serious emotions.... so it figures I suppose .

Totally agree with you there, good post

Karl Hungus

That's great... Quote a page-long reply only to say a single line. :rolleyes:

bugler

The grenade scene from Leon is immensely satisfying alright. I can't help shouting "TAKE IT YOU EVIL BAST*RD" when I see it.

Also worthy of mention are a few from 'Carlito's Way'. Obviously the pool hall scene , but also the opening and closing scenes.

Karl Hungus

The scene in Aliens where Bishop is torn in half was great!
I watched that when I was a kid... Didn't fecking see it coming, and it scared the living **** out of me!

Spiffing

It's quite funny though that when the air hold is open, and Bishop grabs Newt (why?) the hole is REALLY clear. Made me chuckle anyway

Pigman

The "Uncle Fuc.ka" scene from SouthPark bigger longer uncut.


"Shut your fuc.king face uncle fuc.ka
You're a co.ck sucking ass licking uncle fuc.ka
You're an uncle fuc.ka, yes its true
Nobody fuc.ks uncles quite like you

Shut your fuc.king face uncle fuc.ka
You're the one that fuc.ked your uncle, uncle fuc.ka
You dont eat or sleep or mow the lawn,
You just **** your uncle all day long
(fart noises)
Terrance: Hmm!
(fart noises)
(laughing)
(fart)

What's going on here?
(fart noises)

Fuc.ker fuc.ker uncle fuc.ka fuc.ka fuc.ka fuc.ka fuc.ka
Shut your fuc.king face uncle fuc.ka
You're a boner biting bas.tard uncle fuc.ka
You're an uncle fuc.ka I must say
Well you fuc.ked your uncle yesterday
(laughing)
Uncle fu.cka... thats U-N-C-L-E fuc.k you Uncle
Fuc.kaaaaaaaaaaaaa tonight..."


Ah! They don't write em like that anymore!

banbutcher

the chainsaw scene in scar face!!!!:D

Winters

Originally posted by sixpack's little hat
Apocalypse Now - helicopters attacking and turning on the music a mile out

Bought the DVD and watched it aboot 50times

bonkey

I think one of my most memorable scenes would be the closing argument made by Mahew McConaughey in A Time to Kill.

From a visual "Holy Crap, Batman" perspective....quite possibly the first time I saw just how damned big a super-star-destroyer really was in The Empire Strikes Back.

jc

Manach

At random
Rutger Heuer on the rooftop dying in "Blade Runner"

The garrision at Rourke's Drift singing Men of Harlech in "Zulu"

The 70ft Marshmellow Man appearence in "Ghostbusters"

pauldeehan

I have too many favourites. I'll have to go with Roy Batty's swansong in BladeRunner.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All these...moments will be lost in time like...tears...in the rain...time to die."

The langauge used is so evocative that you really want to see what Batty saw.

Winters

How could i forget:

Deliverance - Dueling Banjos

That funny funny funny inbread kid

Spunog UIE

heh heh HELL YEAH!

Squall

i cant believe no ones mentioned the opening scene of Gladiator. Its all action and theres some classy quotes.

"At my signal unleash hell"

"What we do in life echoes in eternity"

"If you find yourself alone in green fields with the sun on your back, your troubles are over, for you are in elysium and your already dead"

"My name is Maximus Decimus Peridius, commmander of the armys of the north, general of the Felix legions, loyal servant to the true emperor Marcus Aurelius, Father to a murdered son, Husband to a murdered wife and i will have my vengeance in this life or the next"
(I know this isnt in the first scene but is so CLASS, the look on commidus's face is classic)

plastic membrane

All of the above, great scenes.
I said it on a similar thread before, but my own is Quint's "The thing about a shark" speech from Jaws. Mesmerising.

alb

I find it weird that most of the replies so far have been scenes of violence..... having said that one of my most memorable scenes is definitly when marcellus turns in the middle of the road ...."mother****er" right before his fat ass goes flying over Bruce willis' car.

Although most scenes from my favourite movies are ones of dialogue and not violent action, fight scenes, battles etc

Gaz

hmmm so many too choose from ....

Rocky 3: Adrian wakes from coma and tells rocky to "win" ...cue music !!! pure class !

The godfather: Scene in restaurant where pacino shoots cop

Ferris Bueller: scene where they ferrari does a swan dive out top window

Robocop: ED209 shooting the sh1t out of poor bastard

Mallrats: Fart while recieving blowjob from girlfriend story

Dumb and Dumber: laxative scene ... that actually brought tears to my eyes the first time, i laughed so hard.

Legend: Tim Currys whole performace as darkness

.... ah i could go on all day with this thread

darthmise

Lately it would have to be Yoda in Episode 2. Without doubt.
But overall it would probably be something like, Will Huntings Refusal of a job with the NSA.


WILL
Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one.
But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and
somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else
can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break
it. And I'm real happy with myself, cus' I did my job
well. But maybe that code was the location of some
rebel army in...

Sean's Office

WILL
...North Africa or the Middle East and once they have
that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are
hiding... Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never
had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are
sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" cus'
they don't give a ****. It won't be their kid over there,
gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number
got called, cus' they were off pullin' a tour in the National
Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin'
shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant
he used to work at got exported to the country he just
got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his
ass got his old job, cus' he'll work for fifteen cents a day
and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only
reason he was over there in the first place was so that
we could install a government that would sell us oil at a
good price. And of course the oil companies used the
little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices.
A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't
helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin'
their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe
even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who
likes to drink martinis and ****in' play slalom with the
icebergs, it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil
and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now
my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so
he's walking to the ****in' job interviews, which sucks
because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic
hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' cus' every
time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate
special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with
Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for
somethin' better. I figure **** it, while I'm at it why not
just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn
enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby
seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I
could be elected President.

Victor

The Way of the Gun - final shoot out

One Night at McCool's - YMCA

Pulp Fiction - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson): "There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." I been sayin' that s*** for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherf***er before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some s*** this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that s*** ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd."

Makaveli

"mmmm juicy fruit" The scene in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest when

we find out the Chief can speak

. Spoiler just in case somebody hasnt seen this classic film.

I really like the end of aswell eXistenZ aswell where you are left wondering.

The muffin man scene in Shrek, just because it has nothing to do with the film storyline and that the voice of the gingerbread man is so funny.

The bit in Reservoir Dogs where

Harvey Keitel defend Tim Roth only to find out that he is actually a cop and then kills him, the killing bit is not what I like just the way Keitel acted the scene so well.

Sleepers

The whole sting that Brad Pitt engineers to get the other two off the hook is quite remarkable

There are more but Mills named most of them:D.