Great moments of movie magic

jdavis

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How about something a little more positive from movies. What are your favorite scenes from movies that have stuck with you or influenced you or that you just really really liked?

(Warning many of these may be considered spoilers for a movie)

Examples:

Empire Strikes Back, Vader's reveal to Luke. That has to be one of the biggest and most recognized scenes of all time, I remember seeing it in a movie theater in Anchorage Alaska, I was 10 years old and I remember it like it was yesterday. That was one of the biggest shocks ever in my life.

Conan the Barbarian, Conan's prayer to Crom. Ok as silly as it sounds that scene consistently brings a tear to my eye, it was just a very powerful scene (not to mention the carnage that came seconds after it).

Conan the Barbarian, What is best in Life. Yea if somebody ask you what is best in life you should know the answer now. True words to live by :D

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, the gathering of historic person's montage. I'm particularly fond of "Genghis Khan want a twinkie?". Just goes to show sometimes the weirdest things get stuck in your head when watching a movie.

Star Wars, the Stormtrooper hitting his head. I bet I saw that movie a dozen times before it was pointed out to me, now I can't get through the movie without cracking up at it. If you don't know the scene, it's when the stormtroopers are breaking into the control room and the droids are hiding in the closet, one stormtrooper bashes his head on the door and almost goes down when they enter the room. Even after they spent all that money on the special editions that is still in there.

Star Wars, Han Solo coming back to help Luke at the Death Star trench. Man what a great scene, it gives me goosebumps. It was the big payoff of the whole movie for me (being I was always more of a Han fan than a Luke fan). Funny side to that check out how hard Han shakes Chewie, he about pulls him out of his seat.
 
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Amistad - Give Us Free scene in the courtroom.

Amelie - Scene when the father discovers the Gnome has returned.

Shawshank Redemption - Scene where he bursts from the earth into freedom.

Unbreakable - Scene in the train station, where he senses evil around him.

Usual Suspects - the ending Reveal scene.
 
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Fun topic! Rife with spoilers! :p

The Iron Giant The scene where the giant is flying into space to stop the nuke and he closes his eyes right before impact and whispers, "Superman..." Puts a lump in my throat every single time I see it--the closest I've ever come to shedding a tear in a movie.

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly The showdown at the end where the title characters stare intensely at each other for five minutes straight. Who could've thought that this scene could be as cool and intense as it is?

True Grit Another showdown scene--the bit where Rooster Cogburn faces down Ned Pepper and his gang, gets ticked off and just charges them! I love this scene! It has some of the coolest dialog ever as well:

RC: "I aim to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. What'll it be?"

NP: "I call that bold talk for a one eyed fat man!"

RC: "Fill your hands, you son of a :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: !" >charges<

Fast Times At Ridgemont High Phoebe Cates coming out of the pool. Mmm... Phoebe Cates... >Homer drool...<
 
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Mog Elffoe said:
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly The showdown at the end where the title characters stare intensely at each other for five minutes straight. Who could've thought that this scene could be as cool and intense as it is?

Hell yes! That's one of my favourite scenes from any movie ever. And I'm not a Western fan.

In the same vein - and given that we've got two Conan scenes already on the list - I'm going to add the face-off between Thulsa Doom and Mrs the Barbarian at the start of the film. I love that scene.

The duel between the Dread Pirate Westley and Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.

And while that movie (which I would consider my favourite movie from any movie ever :) ) is rife with wonderful dialogue ("You keep a-using that word..."), it's hard to beat the delivery of the scene at the castle gate...

"Give us the gate key."
"I have no gate key."
"Fezzik? Tear his arms off."
"Oh, you mean this gate key."

And I'm also going to add "Flash Gordon plays football vs the Imperial guards". So sue me :)

-Hyp.
 

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indy switching the idol for the bag of sand. Indy running away from the boulder.

Temple of Doom: Indy reaching back under the stone door to retrieve his hat.

The Terminator: The shiny chrome Terminator walking out of the wreckage of the flaming truck.

Back to the Future: Doc and Marty standing in the carpark, two flaming tyre tracks passing between their legs, staring at where the car and the dog aren't...

Groundhog Day. "I got you, babe"...

ET. Glowing fingers, and "Phone Home"...

Rain Man. Just Dustin Hoffman's performance in general.

Top Gun. The "We were inverted" explanation.
 


I agree with many of the people above.

One scene that still strikes me is the endscene from "The Body Snatchers (if thats the right english title)" where Donald Sutherland screams at the woman.

It stuck that strong that i still use it in my Shadowrungroup when a hidden/disguised char got dicovered. *g*
 


Goldfinger. The entire scene from the Oddjob fight to the dismantling of the nuke. I mean, first you've got Bond holding the hat, and Oddjob actually looks worried. That's just great. Then you've got the electrocution. And then he's about to accidentally set off the nuke when someone who actually knows what he's doing stops it, so it reads . . . 007. I can almost hear that little Bond riff, duh duh, DUH DUH!!!!!
 

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