Great moments of movie magic

[kirinke]

a memorable scene from the mummy returns
evy's death scene. that was just too teary for words....

 

[WayneLigon]

Oh, man.. an almost impossible task. And I'll choose just one from each movie I think of. It's just whatever randomly comes to my mind, since there are so so many great scenes in stuff I've liked.

Star Wars: The jump to lightspeed
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: "Where's your other hand?" "Between two pillows." *Eyes widen*
Lake Placid: Betty White feeding her 'babies'
Fellowship of the Ring: Legolas' amazing stab-then-shoot.
The Two Towers: the revelation of the true size of Saruman's army
Return of the King: Frodo kissing Sam on the forehead
Batman Forever: The only time we see Dick in the original Robin costume
Aliens: When they realize they're trapped in the lab
Rat Race: You. Should. Have. Bought. A. Squirrel.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: When Barry opens the farmhouse door to the blinding light. Alternately, when the Indians all point upwards and shout.
Once Upon a Time In Mexico: 'We are Sons of Mexico."




From the small screen:
Battlestar Gallactica: "I really think you should take a look at the other Battlestar!"

 

[Elemental]

I have a lot, so.....

Toy Story--Woody's pleading with the Frankenstein-toys in Sid's room to help him save Buzz.

Blade 2--Nyssa's disintegration as the sun comes up, after fifteen-plus minutes of slick ultraviolence.

Fellowship of the Ring--The whole Amon Hen sequence, from Aragorn facing down the hundred orcs, through that amazing rolling-down-the-side of the hill shot that takes us from one fight to another, to the fall of Boromir.

Return of the King--Two. One is the bit at the beginning, where we see Gollum's slow degeneration as the Ring corrupts him. Also, the moment when the Mumakil turn up, visible from the other side of the battlefield....and the Rohirrim charge them!

Hard Boiled--the entire hospital shootout.

Kill Bill--the entire battle at the club. Especially the way the last standing gang member is dealt with.

Apollo 13--the tense wait to see if the spacecraft has burnt up, missed and shot beyond hope of recovery, or if it made it. I knew what had happened, but I was still on the edge of my seat.

Matrix Reloaded--Morpheus' speech. "What if tomorrow.....the war could be over?"

Matrix Revolutions--Three. The start of the battle for Zion, where all the mecha open fire on the breach at once, and there's nothing coming down from it but wreckage for several seconds. The hovercraft shoots above the cloud cover, and for just a moment, we see a normal sun and sky. And shortly afterwards, Trinity's death scene. Neo may be a god in the virtual world, but in the real one, he's helpless--he can't even see her face.

Conan The Barbarian--the conversation between Saboutai and the wizard at the funeral pyre. "He is Conan. A Cimmerian. He will not cry. So I cry for him."

American Pie--"This one time, at band camp....."

 

[Hypersmurf]

Fellowship of the Ring--The whole Amon Hen sequence, from Aragorn facing down the hundred orcs, through that amazing rolling-down-the-side of the hill shot that takes us from one fight to another, to the fall of Boromir.

Yeah!

Return of the King--Two. One is the bit at the beginning, where we see Gollum's slow degeneration as the Ring corrupts him. Also, the moment when the Mumakil turn up, visible from the other side of the battlefield....and the Rohirrim charge them!

The Gollum progression didn't really work for me. But as for the Rohgue Squadron - Yeah!

Conan The Barbarian--the conversation between Saboutai and the wizard at the funeral pyre. "He is Conan. A Cimmerian. He will not cry. So I cry for him."

Yeah!

Hell, there's so many in Conan...

-Hyp.

 

[Kai Lord]

Hard Boiled--the entire hospital shootout.

The best part of this is one spectacular sequence where Tequila and Tony take out two entire floors of bad buys in one continuous shot. They blow away everyone on one floor without a single cutaway, then they jump into the elevator, the cameraman follows them in, doors close. Doors open, new floor, they exit and commence firing. Two floors. Dozens of bodies. One shot. One take. Awesome.

 

[John Crichton]

Spoilers ahoy!

To add from some of my favorite flicks -

Dark City: After Hurt's character is sucked out and we see the City for what it really is.

Fargo: The woodchipper.

Fight Club: The reveal.

Ghostbusters: The end confrontation with Gozer.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Spock's entrance at the beginning and the fly off into the sunset at the end.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: "Fire!"

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Enterprise coming up behind the Reliant in the nebula sequence at the end and pelting it with torpedoes.

The Game: The fall.

Citizen Kane: The opening sequence.

Titanic: The first time seeing the ship. Seeing the broken ship later on.

Army of Darkness: The pit sequence and Ash's boomstick speech afterwords.

Brotherhood of the Wolf: Opening fight with Mani against the crowd.

 

[CCamfield]

Raiders of the Lost Ark - when Indy confronts the swordsman in Cairo

Once a Thief - the big surprise, and the final shootout

Army of Darkness - when he grabs the book and what happens immediately after. Also, dealing with his twin(s).

Arsenic and Old Lace - when Cary Grant's character opens the window seat

Fist of Legend - the final fight between Jet Li's character and the general

A Fistful of Dollars - "My mule don't like it when people laugh..."

edit - some more

Casablanca - there are so many great bits of dialogue, it's pretty much the whole film. Rick's final speech to Ilsa. Renaud closing the club and being handed his winnings. The scene where Laszlo gets the band to play La Marseillaise.

Lawrence of Arabia - when Lawrence goes back to get the lost man

 

[shilsen]

Most recent one for me, which I don't think has been mentioned:

RotK - The beacons of Gondor sequence. Never has the lighting of a few bonfires looked so good.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Star Wars opening ships in combat appearing from the top of the screen and keep passing over, epic.

Cool Hand Luke (the whole movie)

Raiders of the Lost Arc - the run out of the ruins to the airplane

Alien - when the little guy pops from the chest

LotR - the battle with the cave troll, the Nazgul, on-and-on

Dragonslayer - the dragon crawling in the caves

Arsenic and Old Lace - When Gary Grant finds out there is a body in the window seat and there are 11 more bodies in the basement

 

[Frostmarrow]

When the camera approaches the space station to the score of Also sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odessey.

When the kids' television is revealed to be a fireplace in The Terminator.

Christopher Walken plays Russian roulette in Saigon after the Vietnam war is over in Deer Hunter.