2000 AD Online Forum

I like this scene in The Crow....

The bit in 'For a Few Dollars More' where Clint keeps shooting Lee Van Cleef's hat off.

Cinematic genius!

There's millions.

Kurt Russell's body launguage when he's being interviewed by Lee Van Cleef (that man again!) at the start of Escape from New York is brilliant.

Ripley's subtle cock of the head just before she roasts the eggs in Aliens.

The beating-the-zombie-landlord-with-pool-cues scene in Shaun of the Dead.

Aliens: that moment when Dropship left the planet as Nuke blew up... that was so coolest moment!

The bit in Mr Nanny where Hulk's massive head is being held under water and the kid tries to stop the heavy so the heavy just swats him aside, awakening the Hulkster's righteous fury.

THÃ?ODEN
Is this it? Is this all you can conjure, Saruman?

the bit in Mad Max where the terrified station master says "anything you say" to the Toecutter, who says "Anything I say (pause) what a wonderful philosophy you have there"

the Godzilla film where he does a little victory dance

The bit in Kill Bill where the Bride kills the guy by slamming the door on his head. That was the only part of that film that didn't make me want to punch Tarantino's stupid face into next week.

I can imagine Tarantino being very concerned that a Hulk Hogan movie fan is critical of his work.

Hey, I liked all of QT's other stuff preceding Kill Bill, it's just his 4th film was so boring.

Thats my favourite scene in Escape From New York, rac!
"President of what?"
"Thats not funny, Plissken."

I rather think it is funny, Lee Van Cleef!

I love the scene in Vertigo where Jimmy Stewart sees Kim Novak for the first time after he's got her dressed up and dyed her hair. It's fifty years old next year, but still one of the most powerful and mesmerising films ever made.

It's fifty years old next year, but still one of the most powerful and mesmerising films ever made.

Absolutely agree with you there. It's one of my favourite ever films, actually. My only real gripe with it is the treat-the-audience-like-morons bit where Kim Novak goes into the flashback of the set-up after James Stewart leaves her apartment for the first time.

For the sheer "what the fuck?!" value the first time you see it, that ice cream van scene in Assault on Precinct 13.

The Nazi demons in An American Werewolf in London.

And from Mad Max (from memory, so excuse anything that I've got wrong): "Main Force Patrol, this is Big Bopper. Unable to continue pursuit. Better send a meat truck; Charlie's copped a saucepan in the throat."

Oh grud the Nazis from American Werewolf, utterly terrifying.

Pretty much any scene from The Big Lebowski I could put on this list, I don't know why but the bit where they confront the kid who nicked the car always cripples me with laughter.

"Is this your homework Larry? Is this your homework Larry?"

The Thing

After it's all kicked off after the blood test, Garry

"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!"


and from the Iron Giant

The Giant flying up towards the missile and oblivion, closing his eyes and saying

"Suuupppeerrrmannn"

(Sorry, something in my eye there - sniff.)

Man, tk421.net - those nerds!

Their precious bandwidth.

---

The Big Sleep:

Vivian: You go too far, Marlowe.

Marlowe: Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom.

---

But the best bit is:

Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them work out a little first, see if they're front-runners or come from behind, find out what their whole card is, what makes them run.

Marlowe: Find out mine?

Vivian: I think so.

Marlowe: Go ahead.

Vivian: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.

Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself.

Vivian: I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?

Marlowe: Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go.

Vivian: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

Mmmm, Vertigo, the American Werewolf Curtain-jumping Nazis, Big Lebowski, all superb.  

I'd have to throw in some more recent favourites:

The lighting of the White Mountains beacons in Jackson's Return of the King, beautiful scenery, stirring swirling music, makes one want to thwack an orc right there and then.

The magnificent urban running battle at the end of Children of Men, a movie I cannot commend highly enough as a sustained piece of film-making, even if the plot is a bit naff.

The highway-cop'n'porn-mag sequence in Little Miss Sunshine.  

Hey you GUYS!

the goonies

"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!"

The Thing is chock-a-block with fantastic lines.

"I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."

"They dig it up. They cart it back. It gets thawed out. Wakes up probably not in the best of moods..."

"That thing wanted to be *uuuuussss*!

Here, funt, while I love the Theoden sequence cited above, the very next bit always makes me laugh:  

Aragorn commands a troop of Elven archers (the very ones Legolas wishes for in the book, but never gets) on high ground overlooking a narrow breach in the Deeping Wall. His tactics?  "Charge!".  

Later, against all odds Theoden reaches the walls of Minas Tirith with his remaining horsemen, looks around and sees the outrageously large and somewhat impregnable Oliphaunts.  His tactics?  "Charge!".    

Later still, at the Black Gate, the Captains of the West hold a convenient hillock, encircled by the host of Mordor.  Their tactics?  "Charge!".

It's no wonder the heirs of Westernesse are all-but extinct.

The entrance of the priest during Peter Jackson's Brain Dead, kung-fu kicking three biker zombies to death in a New Zealand graveyard.

'I kicked arse for the Lord!'

It's true - all slightly foolhardly choices.  Mind you, one of the things I like about the heroic figures in the LOTR trilogy is that they're all flawed.  Theoden in particular is given to bouts of despair.  In all cases, as well, they're horribly outnumbered and (as far as they're concerned) sacrificing themselves as a delaying action.  Well, maybe not with the Oliphaunts.  That was stupid.  I mean, those things couldn't get into the city anyway, so why not just ride around for a while till they got tired?

baby ROOT!

the goonies

Turkish;- d'yer take sugar?

Bricktop;- No thankyou Turkish. (pause) I'm sweet enough.


Killer line from Snatch.

The Goonies is an immortal classic.
"I don't wear a hairpiece!"

I love the scene in The Burbs where the neighbours go to The Klopek's for tea.
"you keep a HORSE in the basement?!"

Didn't know this existed until recently:

Link: burbs alternate ending

LA Confidential, when Ed Exley asks Jack Vincennes why he became a cop. Vincennes says he cant remember.

Why? Because in this one scene, every single thing Vincennes and Exley do in the film is explained, both before and after this conversation.

That is cool. In my opinion.

And the scene in The Big Lebowski when The Dude gets his head dunked into the toilet time after time.

'Obviously, you're not a golfer'.

Odd thing:  I've avoided watching LA Confidential, despite innumerable excelleny reports, because I found the book to be so gobsmackingly wonderful that I never wanted to spoil my memories of it in the slightest degree.  Anyone else read-then-seen, and care to persuade me?

Couldn't say, but I can't imagine the difference is as jarring as the Black Dahlia book and film.

Other choices - done to death but...

I'll make it a Spielberg Special

Jurassic Park.
Not the T-rex attack, but the glimpse of the dinosaurs by the lake after the reveal of the Brachiosaur.

Saving Private Ryan
The Omaha beach opening was the most intense thing I'd seen for quite a while.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The bit when it all goes tits up after the Ark is opened

Jaws
Ben Gardner's head says hello

Ah, Tordelback, I saw then read.

It's such a great book, you're right - but (and this is generally agreed upon) the film is a very good adaptation.  It is an adaptation, though, and (without spoilerising) does considerably alter the events of the book.  

It's a great film noir, though - and I think everyone deserves to see these excellent performances.  It's really top of their game stuff, from all the cast.

I think it manages to retain the gritty feel of the books, but doesn't descend quite as far into the murk.  I mean, those books - they're punishing stuff.  It's like all Ellroy books seem to feature a triumvarate of amoral bastards - who do you root for when everyone's a bad guy?

The end credits to the Judge Dredd film.




V

I read and then saw too. It was the first time I saw a film adaption of a book I loved that changed some pretty big plot points without pissing me off and still keep true to the spirit of the story. It is actually a great example of how to adapt a book for film. Saying that I still haven't watched The Black Dahlia - should I?

I'm avoiding the movie of The Black Dahlia because I read reviews which said, essentially, "everything that was right about the adaptation of LA Confidential, they got wrong with The Black Dahlia".

I'm filing it in the same "never watch" drawer as the remakes of Psycho and The Wicker Man.

You're probably right. I have a few films in that remake drawer myself - King Kong, Assault on Precinct 13, Get Carter, Blues Brothers 2000...

Speaking of which, a classic scene for me when the good old boys crash their tour bus whilst chasing Jake and Elwood "Don't you say a fucking word"

Ooooh... millions, as Rac says.

Off the top of my head:


Trainspotting: "Can you shee the beasht?"

The Mystery Men tryouts scene.

The last scene in Angels With Dirty Faces.

In Pierrepoint, the last execution we see Pierrepoint do. I won't mention it for fear of spoilers!

The Shaun of the Dead scene where they chuck the records. Pretty much the whole of Shaun of the Dead, really.

The bit in the South Park film where the kids are coming out of the cinema.
"You shit-faced cockmaster!"

- Trout

With regards to that scene from 'The Crow' movie. The outline of large bird, wings outstretched on the pavement being lit up.

I guess it's effective the first couple of times you see this.

Which was on my mind when saw a similer scene from 'DareDevil'. Though, this time it's The Intials D and D in capitals linked together, burning.

I just thought that didn't really prove anything, in the context of how it was shown. ( The existence of this blind acrobatic superhero.)
Except that anybody with lighter fluid, a match and flair for caligraghy could do this.

Link: The scene in question is right at the start ...

The reveal in Oldboy left me shocked for a couple of days after I saw it.

My favourite LOTR scene is Sam and Frodo climbing up Mount Doom, due to the simple emotional impact.

An important childhood memory was Charlotte snuffing it in Charlotte's Web. I felt ill as Wilbur realised she wasn't there.

 
My ultimate cool film moment of all time ever is  Casino by Martin Scorcese.Thats my fave film of all time ever.

  There are too many scenes to choose from as i like all of it.

 Another One of mine is at the end of Predator 2.

 Its at the moment when Danny Glover is feigning injury

after fighting the Predator in its ship.

 Danny Glover pulls out the throwing disc thing that was concealed and then slices through the stomach of it then followed by 3 or 4 more of the same just to make sure he stays down.

 Then followed by "Whos next? " when the other predators appear.


 And not forgetting most of what i have seen in the trailers for AvP Requiem.

The moment in Bringing up Baby when you realise that... that couldn't have been Baby!

the reveal in OldBoy is genius, I really had no idea where the film was heading till that one bit of info clicks into place the daughter lived

CU Radbacker

Peter Jackson's Brain Dead:

"The rats got of the slave ships and raped all the little tree monkeys!"

posted by goaty on 15 Oct 07 at 09:45
...and from the Iron Giant
The Giant flying up towards the missile and oblivion, closing his eyes and saying "Suuupppeerrrmannn"
(Sorry, something in my eye there - sniff.)

Ha ha ha! My wife laughs at me everytime I watch that, it really is a beautiful moment. Very Charlie from Ro-Busters.

My favourite would be Roy Batty's end speech in Blade Runner, it completely turns the film on its head. From villain to victim in one scene. Brilliant.

the final scene at the Iron Giant make me crying every time!

and one scene in The Thing, is when the Norris's head fell off, and grews the legs, and tries to walk away... as one man says "You gotta be fucking kidding."

And one scene in "Angel" (remember it???) of when a boy jump through the timehole and destroy the monster then says "Hello Daddy". that was classic scene..

and love the best scene in Buffy, is when Spike get soul back!!!!!!

Whoops.

that was posted by 'mcwild', bit difficult to tell with this system, but glad you agree goaty.

I have many too...

More classic Jackson...

"I'm a Derek. And Dereks don't run" - Bad Taste. See also the sublime sheep + rocket launcher sequence.

Zen wisdom of Gandalf...
"I wish the ring had never come to me"
"So do all who live to see such times but that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Also,

The last scene of Fight Club. Where is my Mind remains one of my all time favourite bits of music.

The intro sequence in Advent Children

Pulp Fiction's dance contest

The spaceship sequence in Life of Brian

The forest fight in Crouching Tiger

I DO LOVE THIS SCENE!!!!

DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.
John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.
[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]
Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.
John Preston: Not without incident.
[His guns just appears!]

----------------------------
and this one scene in Batman Begins.

Loeb: Gordon... Gordon! All the city's riot police are on the island with you.
Jim Gordon: They're completely incapacitated!
Loeb: Gordon... there's nobody left to send in.
[the Batmobile roars across the bridge]

(wish see clip of that! very classic!)

The bit in The Long Kiss Goodnight - where Geena Davis throws Samuel Jackson out of  a moving car and rather than getting up, he lays still while traffic avoids him and lights up a fag - pretty cool

oh thank you Nofuture! as Long Kiss Goodnight remind me of other film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! lots of good scenes in it!!!

mmeet my little faggot! hehe....

as Robert Jr put a bullet in one gun and gamble with a bad man and he just shoot him!

Get Carter.
When a butt-naked Michael Caine, wielding a shotgun, see's off a couple of hoods.

"When a butt-naked Michael Caine, wielding a shotgun, see's off a couple of hoods. "

When the hitmen come for Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing.

The truck/motorbike chase in Terminator 2, specifically the True Grit riff with the shotgun ... the first time I sat in a movie theatre and heard the audience applaud spontaneously.

Great swathes of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The bit in Alien when Dallas (Tom Skerrit) is in the ventilation shafts and the alien jumps him. Gets me. Every. Single. Time.

Oh, God ... you've set me off. Back soon with more.

Cheers

Jim

The Ray Harryhausen , Dragon's teeth warriors in Jason and the Argonauts kept me going back for more.
Music score is excellent and the acting incredibley gelling with the animation.


The Stopwatch scene in a Few Dollars More. The music is called Paying off old debts or something?

The Boomerang scene in Mad Max two stuck out. The first time I saw a kid get his grevious bodily harm in first in a film. Fingers!!

Robocop- In the cocaine factory- "You are all under.. arrest!" setting his targetting on them and mowing them down without even looking where he was firing (the flash get)!

Deadmans Shoes- Where that drug dealer says to Paddy Considines character
"what you fuckin lookin at"?
To which Paddy responds "You ya cunt!"

The Ray Harryhausen , Dragon's teeth warriors in Jason and the Argonauts

Still utterly convincing after all these years.  It always amazed me as a kid that there was this (seemingly) distant golden age of Harryhausen SFX that no-one appeared to be able to match.  Quarter century later, and while there's no doubt that CGI can do 'better' skeletons, nothing I've seen matches the believability of that sequence.  A masterpiece.

I just watched that the other day..best ever


Also like the Good the Bad and the Ugly one. The scene where Tuco is running wildy through the graveyard as the music swells is amazing too


The zoom into Brody on the beach as the 'shark attacks' in Jaws

The body/car underwater in The Night of The Hunter

Ooh, Mitchum's battle between love an hate is simply chilling, showing his evil character's absolute mentalness! :D

"The Ray Harryhausen , Dragon's teeth warriors in Jason and the Argonauts"
---
"Still utterly convincing after all these years."

No argument there. Probably the FX scene by which all other FX scenes should be judged ... Producers of the Fraser/Vosloo 'Mummy' movies take note. A great many of your CGI creations in these movies are sadly wanting.

Cheers!

Jim

Also from Jason...

When Talos turns his head, and you know it's not going to end well for Hercules and his 'young friend'

- Steve

'Clash of the Titans'

When The Pegasus flies back out of the water after the Kraken turns to stone and crumbles, while Perseus thought it had drowned.

Not that I am altogether sure that scene played out that way.

I'm just saying it how I remembered it.

I think it dived into the weater to retreive the Head of Medusa after Perseus dropped it.

Anyway, it's still debatable as I couldn't find the exact scene on You-tube.

Link: The good, the evil, the danger, the daring...

Field of Dreams - lot's of it but the moment when the camera pulls back at the end and sees the road upto the farm packed with cars with their headlights on - as far back as the eye can see.

The Forbidden Planet - The tour of the Krell city

Babylon 5 - The Long Twilight Struggle the pull back of Londo watching from the window of the Centauri ship, watching as they use mass drivers to bombard Narn back to the stone age.

I though the thrid one cocerning 'Babylonb Five' sounded intrigueing. So loooked it up You-tube.

Getting the last bit you explained right at the end.

Take note of the ship that looks alot like the Blitzsphere from certain angles as it enters a yellow wyrmhole at 1:40.

Link: Babylon 5 - The Long Twilight Struggle

"Babylon 5 - The Long Twilight Struggle the pull back of Londo watching from the window of the Centauri ship, watching as they use mass drivers to bombard Narn back to the stone age. "

I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but I've never been afraid of repeating my own dismal drivel on here:

If you add every aspect of every single episode of Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise (blecch!) together, then you still fall a country mile short of the utter genius of the Londo/G'Kar relationship in B5.

"We have never been friends, G'Kar, but this ,,, this I would not wish on my worst enemy."

Damn, I miss B5. And what a sad loss Andreas Katsulas was.

Cheers!

Jim

"Come quietly or there will be.

Trouble."

They should really have stopped making films after that.

Totally agree with Jim about that bit in Aliens: the tension created by two little dots on a screen is unbelievable. Personal highlights of Lord of the Rings are the flight to the ford in the first one, Theoden's reawakening (very Excalibur) in the second and his speech and the charge of the Rohirrim in the last.

When it comes to classic scenes it's hard to top the start and end of Aguirre, Wrath of God. It opens with a stunning shot of a group of people walking up a narrow ridge to Macchu Picchu: the drop on one side completely filled with mist and the other pefectly clear while the spacey feedback tones of Popul Vuh drone along in the background.

It ends with the camera circling a makeshift raft populated by the bug-eyed lunacy of Klaus Kinski, the corpses of his followers and several hundred tiny, industrious monkeys.

It's al out of context but what the hey

Link: The Long Twilight Struggle as broadcast

Eli Wallach's Character Tuco After He shoots the guy from his bubble bath and says "If You're Gonna shoot, shoot, don't talk..."  Best line in any film ever.

The spaceship destroying The Empire State Building In Independance Day.

and

The Star Destroyer appearing overhead for the first time at the beginning of the original Star Wars, breathtaking, especially when I was seven!

Full Metal Jacket:- Bathroom scene with Pile "I am in a world of shit".


V

"Come quietly or there will be.

Trouble."

Oh yeah, that'll be what I meant...

"Eli Wallach's Character Tuco After He shoots the guy from his bubble bath and says "If You're Gonna shoot, shoot, don't talk..." Best line in any film ever.

"There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

I fucking love the Leone westerns ... and their transfer to DVD shows up one particular thing - the cinematography.

Pause these movies at just about any point (excluding the trademark Leone extreme close-up) and I guarantee you that any artist would be proud to have painted any of those shots ...

There are some shots in these movies that are so well realized that it should make grown men weep.

Cheers!

Jim

(Still waiting on a Western revival. Also still waiting on a Firefly revival ...)

Neville going out at night in The Omega Man.

Richard Burton shooting Richard Harris at the End of The Wild Geese.

The escalating revenge scene in Rushmore.

'Tiny Dancer' scene in Almost Famous.

Edward G Robinson's euthenasia in what turned out to be his last film, (that's dedication to the role for you!)Soylent Green

And the final meeting scene in Shawshank that always puts a lump in my throat.

I know it makes me a complete sap, but the awful moment on the bench at the end of Manon Des Sources where Papet realises that poor Jean was his longed-for son leaves my mouth dry and my hands clenched every single time.  Just a devastating performance by a fantastic actor.

The football match in "Kes".

M@

The behind poster reveal of the tunnel in Shawshank Redemption

Gandalf Falling Down the Abyss whilst Battling The Balrog at the start of TTT

The John Cusack wrecking a 'Quickie Mart' Fight scene, whilst the kid is listening to Ace Of Spades on his Walkman and playing a Video Game in Grosse Pointe Blank.

And the final death knell of Babylon 5, the pullback as the music plays as B5 disintegrates, always brings a lump to my throat.

I always like the BMX chase scene from 'E.T. Extra Terrestrial'

Despite even having completely read the novelisation before hand.

Seeing this for the first time and for the next few times afterwards.

I still thought seeing the bikes fly up into the air was strangely surprising. Like I wondered,  how the hell did they pull that off.

Combining the camera work, the soundtrack, the close-up of the aliens face.Speicifically the incidental music that highlighted pause before they took off.

Years latyer I finally releised why liked thsi film so much. I think it was the way it sold Amaerica, without actualley selling America. You would this quaint ;looking town sprawled in one of the hills of Californa. Surrounded by idyllic forests with giant, oaks and redwood trees.

Like when I was young I subconsiously wanted to go there and meet E.T..

These days, I now think now it was never the squashy alien, but just the principle photography.

Which incidently was the reason thsi film was thus accesssed and was able to win all those Oscars.

Link: Up up and away with a squatty alien

Here's one that gets me all choked up every time (dialogue nicked from IMDb)... The last line in particular is delivered with such gravitas that even reading it now I'm getting one of those shudders...

[as Jor-El is preparing to send his son to Earth before the destruction of Krypton, Lara enters the room with the infant, Kal-El]
Lara: Have you finished?
Jor-El: Nearly. It's the only answer, Lara. If he remains here with us... he will die as surely as we will.
Lara: But why Earth, Jor-El? They're primitives, thousands of years behind us.
Jor-El: He will need that advantage to survive. Their atmosphere will... sustain him.
[He looks at his son and walks over to the area where the ship that will carry Kal-El lies. There are information crystals placed in slots on the edges]
Lara: He will defy their gravity.
Jor-El: He will look like one of them.
Lara: He won't be one of them.
Jor-El: No. His dense molecular structure will make him strong.
Lara: He'll be odd. Different.
Jor-El: He'll be fast. Virtually invulnerable.
Lara: Isolated. Alone.
Jor-El: He will not be alone.
[He holds up a clear crystal and takes a long look at it]
Jor-El: He will never be alone.
[He places it in one of the slots along with the other crystals in the ship]

It was very same monologe that was used in the latest Superman film. As well as the same music that has made last movie alteast barely watchable.

I guess getting to see how well the new Superman can fly with the upgraded speical effects might have helped also.

is ThryllSeekr's posts most bored???

No, I'm very excited by my own messages.

Years latyer I finally releised why liked thsi film so much. I think it was the way it sold Amaerica, without actualley selling America. You would this quaint ;looking town sprawled in one of the hills of Californa. Surrounded by idyllic forests with giant, oaks and redwood trees.

Blimey, TS, you put your finger on it there.  As a kid, I was mesmerised by the setting of ET too, the strange new suburbia, the idea that there could be coyotes in the back yard, that Elliot could just cycle up the road and be lost in a vast redwood forest, the idea that kids could order a pizza delivery (!), this foreign strangeness added to the amazingly real details from my own life (Greedo, Hammerhead and Dungeons and Dragons) was at least as intriguing as the arrival of an alien.  

Other than the silly recent CGI-ing, my only real beef with ET is when I express (or am suspected to harbour) carnal interest in the adult Drew Barrymore, whereupon my better half will hold up one wavering finger and intone "Gerrrrtie".  Yeuchh.

yeah TS, every time i try read any of your messages, i nearly fell sleep!

Thought of another one just now.

The end of RotK, after Arragon in crowned and he says to the Hobbitses, 'My friends, you bow to no-one'- fills me up every single time.

Retropectively that scene always had me wondering if Aragorn should of thought that 'Your Hobbits always look like bowing to me, yet I now realise your just all very short.'

Ah poor Viggo, I wonder did he realise when he said that that it would be the last good line he would ever get?

Whatchoo talkin' bout, TordelBack?

Well, okay, I haven't seen History of Violence, but Hidalgo saw me nodding off, and I can't help thinking Aragorn is Mortensen's equivalent of Crowe's Maximus.  

The battle between Kaneda's gang and the Clowns in Akira has to be one of the most adrenalin-charged sequences in any film, animated or otherwise.

Viggo's next film Eastern Promises looks really eerie for Viggo's Character!

Crowe was great as Hando too

Speaking of great movie moments:

Nice middle class guy listening to Bizets Pearl Fishers turns around to be greeted by...

Link: "We came to wreck everything , and ruin your life.

The first 20 mins of Saving Ryan's Privates, my eyes were glued to the screen. Awesome piece of cinematic history. This is the only film I have been to the cinema twice to see.



V

::"Aragorn is Mortensen's equivalent of Crowe's Maximus."

Jack Aubrey, shurely?

Wils, your memory of Mad Max is accurate.  Other good bits from that flick include:

Fat Cop: Fer Christ's sake move over, I'm driving!
Skinny Cop (nervously moving over) "You're a blasphemer. I don't have to work with a blasphemer"
  (because it's so odd, so inconsquential in the middle of a frenzied chase scene)

and of course the scene where Max sees the last of the V8s in the Melbourne Univeristy underground car park.

Goose: You've seen it Max. And you're still asking questions?
Max revs the bejesus out of the engine, then turns it off
Max: When do we go for a ride?


Oh and the scen in Wings of Desire where the angel reads Nick Cave's mind.

Nick Cave (thinks) I'm not gonna tell you about a girl. I'm not gonna tell you about a girl.
(sings) I wanna tell you 'bout a girl.... (beginning of 'From Her To Eternity'

What about the bit from Mad Max 2, where the guy goes to catch the feral kids boomerang... "I Got, I Got urk!"

darn, should have put an it or two in there somewhere

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
"Truck? What Truck?"
"It's not the years, it's the mileage."

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
The little look Leia and Chewie give each other when the hyperdrive fails to work at the end.
Oh and Walkers. Coolest. Film. Special. Effect. Ever.

ROBOCOP
"Come on Sal, Tigers are playing tonight. Never miss a game".

APOCOLYPSE NOW
Two bits - where the nutty bloke uses the trench mortar and the bit where they sail under the tail of a downed B52 bomber with all the colourful birds around them - into another world.

FELLOWSHIP OF RING
The whole of the Moria sequence.
Then the really cool way Aragorn twirls his sword as he walks toward about a hundred Uruk Hai.
(not so keen on the other films but special mention goes to the charge of the Rohirim in Return of the King - brought a tear to my eye. As did Sam picking up Frodo on Mount Doom)

indy jones and the last crusade when indy sticks a flagpole in the nazi wheelsand laughs then his dad gives that dis approving look that dads do and we see indy deflated and a bit embarrassed.

Manon Des Sources, eh?

Well, if we're getting into foreign language films, how about the bit where the adult Toto sees what the projectionist left him in his will?

Tears down the cheeks, no matter how many times I watch it.

Oh, and the first five minutes of Betty Blue...

- Trout

"Tears down the cheeks, no matter how many times I watch it."

The end of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Cheers

Jim

"Tears down the cheeks, no matter how many times I watch it."

The end of Silent Running.

I can't watch Silent Running anymore it's too upsetting! Love it though.

Hana-Bi is a real tearjerker too.

What upsets me now about Silent Running is that a botanist doesn't know about photosynthesis.

'Slent Running' Was a good film in own day.

It may have been the third in an increasingly poor sequence of films, and Star Wars may be all but dead for me and I may look at george Lucas with a mix of pity and disgust.  *But* I'll always love the scene with The Emperor, Darth and Luke on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

The Emperor playing them both like puppets, Luke giving into the dark side before renouncing it and saying he is a Jedi knight, like his father before him, the Emperors subsequent electro-wrath and finally, Darth's look between Luke and the Emperor and the exact point where you somehow see a man in a mask change his mind and do the impossible, chucking the old geezer into the pre-health and safety check shaft like the sorry old sack of shite he is.

The rest of the film is a bit of a ragbag, but that stuff is truly great.

Also... the end of Escape from LA.  It may have been a pretty patchy movie, but at the end when Pliscan enters the code, the music strikes up and the satellites unfurl, I get shivers.  Snake Pliscan, the man who killed civilisation.  What a guy.

Excalibur has many many great moments, but Arthur dying at sunset always gets me.

All of those three give me that thrill power surge where you feel the electricity coursing through your nerves.

'Close Encounters of THird Kind'

When Roy Neary ( Richard Dreffus.) is finally seeing the same Landmark on televsion that he has been recreating via the medium of clay and other craft materials in his lounge room after his wife and kids had left him.

Alot of the night time sequences of this film were particuly good.

The Wickerman

The opening scene of the plane flying over the mountains

the middle bit

and the fantastic ending



The Nicholas Cage version

The Bear doing karate, punching women in the face "Bicthes!"

The Wickerman

The opening scene of the plane flying over the mountains
Agreed. Briliant shot. The rest of it's rubbish though.

The "travelling without moving" bit always makes the effort of watching Dune seem almost worthwhile for me.

"The rest of it's rubbish though. "



swoooon....bump

The opening scenes to Dirty Harry.That score is the beans.

Come to think of it; any downtown driving scene in Taxi Driver. Sheeit, the climatic gunfight in the penultimate scenes.

  Any of those CGI scenes of destruction that you get in Independence Day etc.

 There was a scene in a film called The Core where the ship that tunneled through the earth found itself in what was a giant Geode that was full of crystals that glittered like stars.

Reece's impassioned speach in The Terminator:

"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead".

As for Silent Running, that scene with the robot and the watering can feeding what is probably one of the few remaining plots of land from Earth gets me every time.

Oh and Harry Callahan's "I know what you're thinking punk......." is in a class of it's own.