Greatest Movie Scene?

I have a few of these there are somewhat Random but I absolutely love a good scene. Genuinely think one scene can make (Or break) a film;

Any Given Sunday: I have two from this first will be somewhat obvious but Al Pacino's speech before the final game is even on my Spotify playlist when in the gym. I challenge anyone not to get pumped during it.

Second is a great one between Pacino and James Woods when they have an argument on the field. It is just pure OTT Oliver stone but just seem to he trying to one up each other in chewing the scenery. It's brilliant.


Gangs of New York: Daniel Day Lewis's film all over but in keeping with the more random picks it's a scene where Brendan Gleeson defiantly asks "Will I hang my watch there Bill" and later says "Someday" it's a hell of allot more suttble then Woods/Pacino scene above bit there is so much said in that film if you are watching it.


The Raid 2: Kitchen Fight, is is the best fight scene in film IMO. Anything else is fighting for second.


Rounders: It's a little dated now since the poker revolution and everyone is an expert but watch the final hand in this and something like the final hand in Casino Royale (Or most other poker films) and the later will be some crazy unlikely hand where there will be statistically unlikely showdown or played like a lunatic which is spoon fed to the audience. In Rounders you see it played out without narration and they don't even show you John Malkoviches hand.

The Count of Monte Cristo: Unashamedly my favourite film to watch, Final Fight between Jim Caviesl and a scene steeling Guy Ritchie.

The Golden Miller wrote: »

I should narrow the question down, a film you'd re-watch just for one scene, one where the hairs on your neck stand up every time? To top the first two films (arguably making it the most perfect cinematic trilogy ever) was an achievement in itself, it also contains one of film's greatest moments.... the Ride of the Rohirrim:

Collater: Club scene


Terminator 2: Truck chase


Rocky 1: Rocky vs Apollo


Mission Impossible Fallout: Bathroom fight


Just off the top of my head. Would throw in Lord of the Rings but i watch that when ever its on anyway.

Rocky 1 probably my favourite movie of all time so had to add that

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Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »

Deliverance. One for the boys!

One in a similar vein to Deliverance would be Southern Comfort (1981) about a platoon of soldiers out training in the wilds who have inadvertently upset the locals. I must add there is a lush ambient soundtrack with the amazing Ry Cooder on lap steel guitar.

This intense scene from Straight Time (1978).
Dustin Hoffman and M Emmett Walsh
Explodes around 1:18 onwards.

Deleted User wrote: »

can't account for taste but srsly offering marvel movies and superman fight scenes and lotr itt......cmon ppl watch a few movies with some actual emotional heft as opposed to some special-effects over-scored crowdsourced marketing exercises....do yourselves a favour

The best thing about these type threads is that everyone has a different opinion/definition otherwise they would be pointless. Always handy to remember that rather than just criticising when those opinions don't conform to yours.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

can't account for taste but srsly offering marvel movies and superman fight scenes and lotr itt......cmon ppl watch a few movies with some actual emotional heft as opposed to some special-effects over-scored crowdsourced marketing exercises....do yourselves a favour

Dont be puttin Lord of the Rings in that bracket, that triology was done superbly and at the time we hadnt seen anything like it. Head and shoulders above many films before and after

Yeah, even leaving aside personal tastes lumping LotR in with the marvel movies is a case of someone not being as knowledgeable as they’re pretending to be.

Deleted User wrote: »

can't account for taste but srsly offering marvel movies and superman fight scenes and lotr itt......cmon ppl watch a few movies with some actual emotional heft as opposed to some special-effects over-scored crowdsourced marketing exercises....do yourselves a favour

I agree. It's probably why cinema has slid down the pot. The Lotr's scene posted earlier is nothing more than a feckin cartoon scene, A total and absolute SFX scene created on a computer. That's not filmmaking in any shape or form. I used to be a Peter Jackson fan, The guy had some real ingenuity when he made Bad Taste and the next two movies including Brain Dead. He's a mere producer with a computer now.

bazz26 wrote: »

The best thing about these type threads is that everyone has a different opinion/definition otherwise they would be pointless. Always handy to remember that rather than just criticising when those opinions don't conform to yours.

Yep. And opinions on filmmaking change all the time. However you have to admit that the craft has gone to pot with the explosion that is CGI and the resulting style in filmmaking. The new Stella is full to the brim with youngsters watching real films that relied on technique rather than technology. That said I love CGI but it needs to be reined in and used where it has a purpose and not as a replacement for actual filmmaking techniques. Sadly, we are ingrained in it now along with remakes and crappy so called original stuff.

Grandeeod wrote: »

I agree. It's probably why cinema has slid down the pot. The Lotr's scene posted earlier is nothing more than a feckin cartoon scene, A total and absolute SFX scene created on a computer. That's not filmmaking in any shape or form..

Most of the Marvel films and LOR are still excellent works of filmmaking, there mega popular for a reason. Thers nothing wrong with sfx, I recently rewatched Shindlers list and it has a few unforgettable scenes including the girl in the red jacket but id still put the t-rex introduction in Jurassic park as Spieldbergs best film moment and one of the best film moments ever

One from the childhood but when john candy gives both barrels to the school principle....

Here's a quarter. Go down town and have a rat GNAW that thing off your face. Good day to you ma'am.

It's worth waiting for every time

Higgins and Condor's final confrontation in Three Days Of The Condor:

Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!