Film moments - what are your faves?

[English Paul]

This isn`t a best film thread, but a favourite film moments thread (the film could suck).

I`ve got loads but three that spring to mind initially are...

Tank girl - I just love the bit with Lori Petty in the sand shower - It`s the music (Portishead IIRC) and atmosphere.

First Blood - The bit where Rambo drives the army truck through the police cars, again the music helps but it just always amazes me that that truck ever stayed on its wheels.

Pulp Fiction - Both the Big Mac conversation and the coffee conversation. Fantastic writing about such trivial things.

I`m off to think of some more now.

[Mikey]

Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea

Charlton Heston seeing the Statue of Liberty

Porky's shower scene

Gene Hackman's death scene on Posiedon Adventure

Police Academy-2 ... Mauser getting his hair trimmed

[Adam West]

I'm sure I'll come up with more but off hand

I like the point in The Usual Suspects when you finally figure out the identity of Kaiser Soze

Of course the Empire Strikes Back when Vader exclaims "I am your father"

A Few Good Men when Tom Cruise has Jack Nicholson on the witness stand and gets him to admit that he ordered the code red.

[boynightwing]

The scene in Ghostbuster's at the beginning where the guy gets an electric shock (even after guessing the right card!) and his gum falls out of his mouth. Then he sticks his thumb in it and puts it back in his mouth. For some reason it always cracks me up.

[johnmiic]

Star Wars Episode 1

The Sun setting on the Jedi Council tower on Couriscant as young Anakin is tested. The symbolism is lost on most viewers that now that they have found Anakin the sun is setting on the Jedi Order and the Old Republic. Their time is coming to an end. A friend of mine had to point this out. It gets lost in all the bad reviews.


Field of Dreams

Hey Dad, you wanna play some catch?


Lord of the Rings

The tracking-in on Frodo's tear outside Moira after Gandalf has died.


Flash Gordon to Dr. Zarkoff

Flash, ( Buster Crabbe ) - Say Doc, any of these rockets ever come back?

Zarkoff - Naw, they were never meant to!


Transylvania 6500:

Man trying to escape!!! Man trying to escape!!!

Man trying to get in!!! Man trying to get in!!!


Have you seen Dracula?

Yah, when it first came out!


5th Element

"Smoke You!"

[txteach]

Dances with wolves-"I am your friend and always will be"

Alive- "I'm proud to be a man on a day like today"

Rocky- "Yo Adrian, I did it"

Full Metal Jacket- "Hell I like you, I'm gonna bring you home and let you scrappy doo my sister

Logans Run- "I never killed anyone in my life, I terminate runners"

[toys2cool]

The ****** part in Space Balls by Lord Helmet

T2-Arnold asking about the dog"Mom? what's wrong with wolfie?"

10 things I hate about you-(When the dad says My mama didn't raise no fool) one of the funniest things I've ever seen

I'm sure I got a million more

[kingdom warrior]

Wow can't think of a lot off the top of my head

Superman catching Lois-I've got you miss, You've got me? Who's Got you?
Dirty harry- Go on Make my Day

Scarface- ending shooting scene -Say Hello to my little friends

Pulp Fiction- Bring out the Gimp scene when Marsellus Wallace tells the cop I'm gonna bring some hard hittinMF"S who are gonna get mid-evil on you with a pair of pliers and a blow torch

Animal House-Food Fight!

GoldFinger -Hello my name is ***** Galore. Bond- I must be dreaming

Blazzing Saddles-The workers singing scene

[toys2cool]

Wow can't think of a lot off the top of my head

Superman catching Lois-I've got you miss, You've got me? Who's Got you?
Dirty harry- Go on Make my Day

Scarface- ending shooting scene -Say Hello to my little friends

Pulp Fiction- Bring out the Gimp scene when Marsellus Wallace tells the cop I'm gonna bring some hard hittinMF"S who are gonna get mid-evil on you with a pair of pliers and a blow torch

Animal House-Food Fight!

GoldFinger -Hello my name is ***** Galore. Bond- I must be dreaming

Blazzing Saddles-The workers singing scene

Oh yeah that Scarface part is a classic,great call

[Adam West]

One other moment that was particularly poignant. In the movie Glory when Denzel Washington's character leaves camp to find shoes I think but is caught and convicted of AWOL. His sentence is a public whipping. When they pull his shirt off, his back is scarred from being a former slave and he just stares at Matthew Broderick with a look of hate and humiliation and a single tear comes from his eye....

[kingdom warrior]

One other moment that was particularly poignant. In the movie Glory when Denzel Washington's character leaves camp to find shoes I think but is caught and convicted of AWOL. His sentence is a public whipping. When they pull his shirt off, his back is scarred from being a former slave and he just stares at Matthew Broderick with a look of hate and humiliation and a single tear comes from his eye....

Yeah that's a good one and I like when they're about to go fight towards the end and he tells the reporters Tell them what you saw today you really see the fear in Matthew's eyes at that moment....

[Merlyn1976]

I like the point in The Usual Suspects when you finally figure out the identity of Kaiser Soze

My favorite by far....

Die Hard..."Yippee ki-ay, MFer"

Happy Gilmore...The fight between Adam and Bob

Fight club...the scenes where they start fights with strangers....the guy with the hose in paticular...

[megoat]

Pink Flamingos- the singing ***. What a movie memory!

[Evel KMego]

Revenge of the Nerds - "Wait till you see Lamar's throw" scene
SpaceBalls - combing the desert scene - "We ain't found s$%t!"
Three Amigos - "Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?"
Happy Gilmore - Happy cussing the ball out on the monitor in the back ground
Fletch - 6'9" with the afro!

[Goblin19]

My favorite scene is also from my favorite movie. In Casablanca, when Paul Henreid stands up to the Nazis in the bar and has the band play the French national anthem, with the crowd beginning to sing and slowly overtaking the German officers' voices.

Others of note:
The helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now
The chase scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark starting with the horse and ending with Indy beating the snot out of the guy who tried to run him over
The end of On the Waterfront when Terry Malloy takes on Johnny Friendly
The end scene of Ride the High Country with Joel McCrea Slowly slumping over and dying as the credits roll (the best ending to a movie ever)
I'll go with a scene from Glory, too. The one that gets me is when they're all singing before they go into battle, when you know they're almost all going to die.

Many more that I can't think of