Great moments of movie magic

[Chain Lightning]

Goldfinger. The entire scene from the Oddjob fight to the dismantling of the nuke.

Yeah, that's a cool scene.

A few favorites of mine are:

--Blackhawk Down : From the airstrip to downtown Bakara market deployment scene.

--Heat: So many in this movie actually. Pacino talking to Deniro in cafe over coffee, the downtown shoot out, Pacino yelling "Cuz she's got a GREAT @$$! And you got your head....all the way up it!" Stuff like that.

--Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Ring : Everything in Moria . That's going to be a unbeatable D&D inspiring moment for a long time for me.

--Goldeneye : The pre-credit sequence...and heck, the credit sequence too!

--Braveheart : The battle at Stirling.

--Saving Private Ryan: The battle at Normandy beach.


Man, I must be bloodthirsty...sure are a lot of battle sequences. Okay, some none battle sequences....

--Some Kind of Wonderful : when Mary Stuart Masterson's character helps Eric Stoltz's character practice kissing.

--Battle Royale : When the students get told about the game, its rules, and when they get their names called one by one to gather their equipment bag to head out.

--JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : The games with the gambler Darby. A smart confrontation with lots of tension and yet no fighting.

--Seven : "What's in the box!?!?"

 

[Skarp Hedin]

Gandhi -- Anytime they start chanting "Long Live! Gandhi-ji!"

 

[ConnorSB]

The Proffessional: At the end when the corrupt cop finally gets whats coming to him- grenade style.

Requium for a Dream: When the mom is tripping on the uppers and downers while watching that infomercial... whoa, that was some powerful stuff.

Ditto for The Iron Giant- "Superman".

Dead Poet's Society- When the kid dons the Pan outfit and stares out his window before moving towards his father's desk

 

[stevelabny]

The usual scenes from Star Wars, Indiana Jones and LOTR. You know them already.

Unbreakable: in the comic art gallery where Elijah tells David his theory about why there had to be a "superman" to counterbalance his fragility.

Matrix: When Morpheus tells Neo about the Matrix.

Toy Story: When Buzz tries to fly and crashes to the floor below. :-(

Little Mermaid: "Poor Unfortunate Souls" and "Part of Your World"

Aladdin: Flying through the Cave of Wonder

Emperor's New Groove: The climactic potion-drinking scene.

Godzilla: When they first enter Madison Square Garden.

Heathers: Heather #1 and the glass coffee table. "corn nuts"

Clerks: "THIRTY-SIX? Including Me?" "Thirty-seven" "THIRTY-SEVEN?!"

Chasing Amy: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the male-friendly lesbian, the man-hating lesbian and a $100 dollar bill. And the Hooper X "Black Rage" speech at the convention.

X-Men: When Rogue asks Wolvy if it hurts when the claws come out.

X2: Nightcrawler's opening scene, and the Phoenix effect.

Spider-man: Uncle Ben's death scene.

South Park: The movie rendtion of the Kyle's Mom song.

Labyrinth: "One of these doors leads to the castle at the center of the labyrinth and the other door leads to...CERTAIN DEATH" and the bog of eternal stench

Pirates of the Caribbean: "But you've heard of me"

Terminator 3: The ending.

Daredevil: The "Dirty Dog" song playing for the Kingpin's first appearance.

Some of those are cooler than others, but that's just what came off the top of my head (mostly from my list of favorite movies)

 

[demiurge1138]

The Lord of the Rings- Any time the Nazgul appear on screen.

Raiders of the Lost Ark- The entire Gratuitous Opening Action Sequence.

King Kong- The ending, with Kong astride the Empire State building.

Star Wars- The Cantina scene.

Nosferatu (the 70s remake)- The scenes of the English village emptied by plague, with rats running all over everything and the people having one last celebration before their dooms. Creepy, creepy stuff.

Demiurge out.

 

[Kai Lord]

Jaws: The shark's head rising from the water while Roy Scheider is tossing chum off the back of the boat.

Star Wars: Luke and Leia swinging on the rope.

Sleeping Beauty: The prince fighting the dragon on the cliff above the burning forest.

The Black Stallion: The kid riding the horse along the beach.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The little kid opening up the front door in front of that orange light.

The Empire Strikes Back: Luke igniting his sword in front of Vader.

The Fox and the Hound: The dog standing in front of the fox so the hunter can't shoot it. *sniff*

E.T.: The entire sequence beginning with the flowers coming back to life to reveal E.T.'s alive to the spaceship departing at the end.

Gremlins: The blender. The microwave. Christmas carolers. Dory's tavern. The theater. So many moments.

Aliens: Ripley and Newt realize they're in the chamber of the Queen.

Beauty and the Beast: The Gaston song. Belle saying "I love you" one second before the last rose petal fell.

Aladdin: Escaping the lava wave on the magic carpet. "You'll always be a prince to me."

The Fellowship of the Ring: "If you want him, come and claim him!"

 

[CSB046]

The scene in "Jaws" in which Quint, Brody, and Hooper are drinking below the ship's deck. I'm always fascinated and drawn in by the way the scene movies from the initial lighthearted joking and comparing of scars to Quint's horrifying tale of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the subsequent shark attacks, the half-eaten man "bobbing up and down like a kind of top"...just chilling. If Robert Shaw had done nothing else in his career but that scene, I'd probably still be calling him "one of the greats."

Not quite as good, but sticking with the same movie: the crew's first encounter with the shark. Some memorable moments there...Brody unknowingly tossing chum into the shark's gaping mouth, the line "You're gonna need a bigger boat," and the exchange between Hooper and Quint as the shark swims by: "That's a twenty-footer"..."Twenty-five. All three tons of him."

Great stuff!

(Oh, and I can't forget, "Smile, you son of a..." BOOM!)

Edited to note that Kai Lord posted about one of the above scenes while I was typing my own message. Great minds, blah, blah, blah.

 

[Elf Witch]

Risky Business: The car reapir man coming out and asking "allright who is the u boat commander"

ET: The whole scene where Et "dies" and then comes back I have seen this movie a dozen times and I still bawl like a baby.

Gone With The Wind: Scarlett standing the in the field vowing that she nor her family will ever go hungry again.

Pearl Harbor: the entire attack had be on the edge of my seat.

Titantic: Rose and Jack hanging on the back of the ship right before it goes down.

Terminator 2: Linda Hamilton blowing away the evil terminator in the end.

 

[Hypersmurf]

And the Hooper X "Black Rage" speech at the convention.

"What's a Nubian?"

Labyrinth: "One of these doors leads to the castle at the center of the labyrinth and the other door leads to...CERTAIN DEATH" and the bog of eternal stench

For me, it's Sir Didymus' introduction.

"Well... may we have your permission?"
"Oh, I... well... hmm... that is to say... yes?"

Raiders of the Lost Ark- The entire Gratuitous Opening Action Sequence.

Just thinking back... it's a fantastic film... but most of my stand-out memories are from the opening sequence...

-Hyp.

 

[jdavis]

Fun topic! Rife with spoilers!

Oops, I'll add a spoiler warning in at the top.

The Ring, when the kid tells the mom she wasn't supposed to help the girl. Talk about chills down the spine.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the ending. Man the warehouse scene creeped me out at the end, talk about getting you thinking.

Hunt for the Red October, the sub battle at the end. From the first shot to the Dallas blowing her tanks to the Russian officers last line to Captain Tupolev, was all wonderful, kept me on the edge of my seat.

Highlander, the church scene. "I've got something to say, it's better to burn out than fade away".

Blair Witch, the end where the guy was standing in the corner. The movie looses something with repeated viewings, but man the end really got to me the first time I saw it.

Desperado, the gun fight in the bar. I sat through the whole scene mumbling "this is so cool" to myself. Man I love that movie.

No Way Out, the end reveal. I won't spoil that one, it's a classic.

Big Trouble in Little China, Jack talking to Lo Pan in the wheelchair. Funny stuff.