Greatest Movie Scene?

Keyzer · 16-11-2018 10:06AM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Good will hunting. Any scene.
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I'll see your Good Will Hunting and go all in with Schindlers List.

A harrowing and heartbreaking film, the deathcamp scenes from that movie will stay with me until I leave this world.

murpho999 · 16-11-2018 10:12AM

Tuco88 wrote: »

Just a few.

The shining.
Full metal jacket.
Jaws.
No country for old men.
Mostly anything with Clint Eastwood.

Good movies but asking for favourites scenes not films.

Hector Savage · 16-11-2018 10:15AM

Captain Red Beard wrote: »

The end of The Last of the Mohicans. The chase, music, landscape, photography, actors, everything about it is what film making should be.

Good one!!!

k99_64 · 16-11-2018 10:15AM

Once upon a time in the west opening scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QML28YQBvyc

CrankyHaus · 16-11-2018 10:16AM

Helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QzkBNmHALEw

PlaneSpeeking · 16-11-2018 10:17AM

Keyzer wrote: »

I'll see your Good Will Hunting and go all in with Schindlers List.

A harrowing and heartbreaking film, the deathcamp scenes from that movie will stay with me until I leave this world.

When Schindler breaks down and feels guilty his posessions could have saved more - "This pin, that's one more" - I weep for hours.

How Liam Neeson never won the Oscar that year will always be Hollywood's shame.

PlaneSpeeking · 16-11-2018 10:21AM

My personal list:

Brokeback Mountain - first time together in their tent, it's awkward but beautiful.
Jaws - first time you see the shark and also Quint's tale about the Indianapolis.
Usual Suspects/The Sixth Sense (the "reveals" - no spoilers there!!)
Blade Runner - the death of Roy Batty and the speech he gives.
Psycho - the first time you realise who Mother really is ....
Goodfellas - "I'm funny how ?" - Pesci at his best.

Hector Savage · 16-11-2018 10:22AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

The nightmare sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). Which also happens to be my all time favorite film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WAxDlUOw-w

A close second would the amazing unknown voyage sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s incredible 2001: A Space Odessey (1968), which revolutionized the sci-fi genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6JNQwPWE0

You have good taste!
I watched that film for the first time last Saturday (Vertigo)
Such atmosphere!!!!

Keyzer · 16-11-2018 10:23AM

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

My personal list:

Goodfellas - "I'm funny how ?" - Pesci at his best.

People probably know this but that scene was completely improvised. Scorcese left the camera running and let the actors shoot the sh1t.

PlaneSpeeking · 16-11-2018 10:25AM

Keyzer wrote: »

People probably know this but that scene was completely improvised. Scorcese left the camera running and let the actors shoot the sh1t.

I actually did not know that!!!

Wow, even more impressive and I thought so highly of it already!!!!

16-11-2018 10:26AM

kung fu hustle

landlords reveal

genius

JohnnyFlash · 16-11-2018 10:28AM

That scene in Goodfellas where Jimmy starts getting worried about his crew after the airport robbery. Bodies turning up in freezers, dump trucks etc while Layla plays in the background. It’s magnificent.

https://youtu.be/1Z6MJIjCJ20

XsApollo · 16-11-2018 10:29AM

Top gun,
Opening scene,
Usually stop watching after Maverick has to go back for goose.

EDIT: it’s not goose, the other guy Cougar?

Hector Savage · 16-11-2018 10:29AM

wow .. what a thread, literally every post is a great scene.
There is so much to choose from , and I can't say which is the best, most of what I wanted to post is here already so I'll add one that isn't

This was probably the best 4 minutes I've ever spent in a cinema

16-11-2018 10:29AM

super troopers- pre credits scene

heat- the heist goes wrong

tinker tailor soldier spy- smiley calls out esterhazy with the plane threatening in the background

russia with love- the great robert shaw puts up the only real fistfight connerys bond ever looked like losing

the sting- the great robert shaw places a losing bet

jaws- the great robert shaw tells a story about the uss indianapolis

PlaneSpeeking · 16-11-2018 10:38AM

Can I be a total girl and also put up the scene in Beaches where the mate dies ? The second Wind Beneath My Wings starts and I am a mess.

JohnnyFlash · 16-11-2018 10:39AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3E5e7fZ6M

AndyBoBandy · 16-11-2018 10:40AM

Greatest movie scene ever? Absolutely not, but in terms of recent movies I've watched, this scene is pretty awesome!! and I'm not afraid to admit I've watched it more than a few times.

Of course the movies are just huge big CGI fests, but they are entertaining, and I still think this scene is bloody great, and tied in with that score.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7mDue5HOE8

Also this, again with an immense score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7CDejp6Lw

Hector Savage · 16-11-2018 10:44AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3E5e7fZ6M

The first drop in quality ...

Hector Savage · 16-11-2018 10:45AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Greatest movie scene ever? Absolutely not, but in terms of recent movies I've watched, this scene is pretty awesome!! and I'm not afraid to admit I've watched it more than a few times.

Of course the movies are just huge big CGI fests, but they are entertaining, and I still think this scene is bloody great, and tied in with that score.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7mDue5HOE8

Also this, again with an immense score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7CDejp6Lw

Every time I watch Predator I joke that would be me ... about Billy , just saying F*ck it , throwing down me guns and facing the Predator with a knife ...

16-11-2018 10:52AM

Purely going on how I felt when I saw it, and how it affected me.

surely the opening scene in jaws no? it has everything, it's amazing but again a question of taste, for me it wins hands down. second would be the alex kitner on the raft scene, how the camera pulls brody into view and the gurgling and blood etc. I remember being about 8yrs old and feeling physically ill seeing that.
That's one bad hat harry!

there's loads of movies with great scenes of beauty and dialogue etc but for what it was, Jaws gets it, even on Theme alone.

Assetbacked · 16-11-2018 10:55AM

I'll raise the OUATITW opening scene with one of the last scenes;

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

stevensi · 16-11-2018 10:58AM

Ingloriuos Bastard opening scene when we first meet the Jew Hunter (Christopher Waltz)

valoren · 16-11-2018 11:00AM

rusty cole wrote: »

Purely going on how I felt when I saw it, and how it affected me.

surely the opening scene in jaws no? it has everything, it's amazing but again a question of taste, for me it wins hands down. second would be the alex kitner on the raft scene, how the camera pull brody into view and the gurgling and blood etc. I remember being about 8yrs old and feeling physically ill seeing that.

there's loads of movies with great scenes of beauty and dialogue etc but for what it was, Jaws gets it, even on Theme alone.

The problem with Jaws is which scene do you pick. It's such a great movie.

Even the dialogue is a lesson in compactness. The scene where Brody get's introduced where he wakes up and his wife is still snoozing in bed.

"How come the sun didn't used to shine in here?"
"We moved here in the fall, this is summer...the kids up?"
"They must be in the back yard"
"In Amity, you say 'yahd'"
"The kids are in the yahd...not too fah...from the cah...how does that sound?"
"Like you're from New York"

So much is conveyed in short order. They're a family just recently moved from New York, they're not quite settled yet and not sure about how they're going to settle in with the locals but it doesn't matter, it's clear it doesn't bother them as they both clearly love each other with the playful banter.

Nedington · 16-11-2018 11:01AM

Basement scene, inglourious basterds

16-11-2018 11:07AM

Goodfellas again:
The one where they are in Joe Pesci's Mam's kitchen, on the way to bury the body - the story she tells about the guy who never talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJz_hj6GXw

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 16-11-2018 11:07AM

When Jack Nicholson attacks Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Very satisfying.

16-11-2018 11:11AM

valoren wrote: »

The problem with Jaws is which scene do you pick. It's such a great movie.

Even the dialogue is a lesson in compactness. The scene where Brody wakes up and his wife is still snoozing in bed.

"How come the sun didn't used to shine in here?"
"We moved here in the fall, this is summer...the kids up?"
"They must be in the back yard"
"In Amity, you say 'yahd'"
"The kids are in the yahd...not too fah...from the cah...how does that sound?"
"Like you're from New York"

So much is conveyed in short order. They're a family just recently moved from New York, they're not quite settled yet and not sure about how they're going to settle in with the locals but it doesn't matter, it's clear it doesn't bother them as they both clearly love each other with the witty banter.

yes it's why it's my favourite film of all time and I cannot see it being beat!
like you say, some of the seminal scenes need not even be mentioned, it's that good. "Now you take a look at that sign, those proportions are correct"!

I read the book twice too and much prefer the movie, which is an exception to the rule...so is Shawshank in that regard.

PlaneSpeeking · 16-11-2018 11:12AM

rusty cole wrote: »

Purely going on how I felt when I saw it, and how it affected me.

surely the opening scene in jaws no? it has everything, it's amazing but again a question of taste, for me it wins hands down. second would be the alex kitner on the raft scene, how the camera pulls brody into view and the gurgling and blood etc. I remember being about 8yrs old and feeling physically ill seeing that.
That's one bad hat harry!

there's loads of movies with great scenes of beauty and dialogue etc but for what it was, Jaws gets it, even on Theme alone.

Jaws is my number one fave film, ever. It's got a bit of everything!

valoren · 16-11-2018 11:14AM

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Jaws is my number one fave film, ever. It's got a bit of everything!

If I ever went into the printing business I'd call the company 'Polly'

Our tag line would be "Let Polly do the printing"

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