Best scene in a movie

[Kai Lord]

Empire Strikes Back: "No, Luke. I am your father."

THE most misquoted line in film history....

 

[Asmo]

The end scene in " Sixth Sense" when the truth is revealed.
When I saw it the first time it was like : "wooow!"

Asmo

 

[Dark Jezter]

Several more I came up with...

Ben Hur: The chariot race.

Red Dawn: Soviet paratroopers begin landing on the high school football field.

The 10 Commandments: Either "Let my people go!" or the parting of the Red Sea.

Willow: Madmartigan (Val Kilmer's character) starts fighting with a sword in each hand.

The Princess Bride: The swordfight between Wesley and Inigo Montoya.

Saving Private Ryan: The assault on Omaha Beach.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: The "arrow-cam" scene.

True Lies: Arnold in a Harrier jet.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: KenM already mentioned this one, but I love the scene where Indy draws his revolver and shoots the swordsman.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The mine cars chase scene.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "He chose... poorly."

Star Wars: A New Hope: The Death Star trench run.

Return of the Jedi: Darth Vader unmasked.

The Phantom Menace: Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul (it's still my favorite lightsaber fight out of any of the Star Wars movies).

Attack of the Clones: Yoda vs. Count Dooku.

Flight of the Intruder: SAM Alley.

Silence of the Lambs: Hannibal Lecter escapes from captivity by disguising himself as a mutilated guard.

 

[Sir Whiskers]

Schindler's List: Fade to the present, as the real survivors place stones on Schindler's gravestone. Most moving image I've ever seen in a movie.

 

[KenM]

Another scene I liked: Superman 2, the big fight scene with the 3 villians and superman, a good old fashioned comic book slug fest.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I've always loved the scene in Shrek when they're escaping the dragon's castle.

 

[stevelabny]

the rescue of princess leia scene in star wars.

han solo gets frozen in carbonite scene in empire.

luke vs vader in empire and jedi

the first meeting of c-3p0 and r2d2 and quigon and obiwan vs darth maul in phantom menace

screw all you guys who love the awful special effects and bash the great acting by hayden... anakin saying "theyre animals, and i slaughtered them like animals" is great in aotc

sams going further from the shire than hes ever gone before,sam joining the fellowship and the death of boromir from fellowship.

the crazy gollum-smeagol scene in two towers

pippins song in rotk, second saddest movie scene ever

the original matrix has tons, ill go with the reveal of the matrix and gun-combat in the stone columns

the opening sequence in raiders

the nightcrawler scene, the magneto breakout, the magneto hand grenade scene, and jean greys last scene in x2

uncle bens speech and death in spidey. they nailed it. and peter telling mj NO. booyah.

the cheesy soundtrack entrance of kingpin and bullseye in daredevil and the see-saw scene. campy goodness.

buzz trying to fly and falling in toy story. saddest movie scene ever.

the mutli-transformation ending of emperors new groove.

the first look inside madison square garden in godzilla.

jt's first appearance, the glass coffee table,and "eskimo" in heathers

the wide shot of the whole labyrinth in labyrinth

"37?!" from clerks

"your mothers a tracer", hoopers anti-star wars rant, and the infamous santa clause/easter bunny/ man friendly lesbian/ man hating lesbian sequence from chasing amy

kyles mom, and the medley of all the songs in the south park movie

the opening sequence, and the first look at hogwarts in harry potter

part of your world and giant ursula in little mermaid

Jack Sparrow upset about the loss of his rum in POTC

 

[Crothian]

Big Trouble in Little China: Lo Pan verse Jack Burton

Spaceballs: Lone Star verse Dak Helmet, Dark Helmet playing with his Dolls

Plan 9 From Outer Space: The aliens explaining Plan Nine

Shawshank Redemtion: The morning after the escape

Best of the Best: The last two fights

Predator: When they all shot wildly into the woods hitting nothing

Predator 2: Then end on the spaceship when all the Predators are revealed

Sneakers: At the end when they are asking favors from the Goverment

Dave: The imposter president goes to the factory and the kids shelter

Top Gun: Opening Scene

Few Good Me: Trial scene with Jack and Tom

Star Trek 2: Kahn!!!!!!!!!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: End credits with Paul Reubens still "dieing"

Major League: The fans of the Indians commenting about the team

Split Second: Final confrontation with it

Die Hard: Bruce Willis in the air ducts muttering to himself; Bruce dropping C4 down the elevator shaft

 

[Krieg]

Jaws

Brody, Quint & Hooper are in the galley drinking, telling stories & comparing scars. Brody asks Quint about a scar that he didn't mention. Quint says it was a tattoo he'd had removed. Hooper ribs him about it saying "mother". Quint replies that it was of the "USS Indianapolis". Hooper is stunned. Brody is confused. Quint explains...


Quint

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb.

Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour...Tiger...Thirteen footer.

You know, you know how to tell that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail.

Well, we didn't know, `cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh-uh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups.

You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.

Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour.

On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended.

Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up.

You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn.

I'll never put on a lifejacket again.

So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, Nineteen hundred & forty five.

...Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Best...monologue...ever.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

The baptism scene in Godfather. The way Coppola intercut the images of the baptismal ceremony with the assassinations of the Corleone family's enemies, culminating with the priest asking Michael "Do you reject Satan in all of his forms?". Coppola used a similar device in the other two films, but this one set the bar.

Michael's offer for Senator Geary in Godfather II.

The walk-through in the Copa in Goodfellas.

Can you tell I'm a mob movie nut?