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Greatest Movie Scene?

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  • #32
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Good will hunting. Any scene.
    /thread

    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.


  • #33
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,388 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    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.


  • #34
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    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!!!


  • #35
    k99_64
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭k99_64


    Once upon a time in the west opening scene

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


  • #36
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now.

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


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  • #37
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    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.


  • #38
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    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.


  • #39
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    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!!!!


  • #40
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    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.


  • #41
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    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!!!!


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    kung fu hustle

    landlords reveal

    genius


  • #43
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    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


  • #44
    XsApollo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭XsApollo


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


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


  • #45
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    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



  • #46
    [Deleted User]
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    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


  • #47
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    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.


  • #48
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


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


  • #49
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,888 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    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


  • #50
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


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

    The first drop in quality ...


  • #51
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    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 ...


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #53
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


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

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


  • #54
    stevensi
    Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭stevensi


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


  • #55
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    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.


  • #56
    Nedington
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Nedington


    Basement scene, inglourious basterds


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    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


  • #58
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


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


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #60
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    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!


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  • #61
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    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"

    :D


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