What your film cool moment/scenes you like about?

[Jim_Campbell]

"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

[I, Cosh]

"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.

[philt]

It's al out of context but what the hey

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QR2O6riffdI" target="_blank">The Long Twilight Struggle as broadcast

[adeh20]

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!

[vzzbux]

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


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[judda fett]

"Come quietly or there will be.

Trouble."

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

[Jim_Campbell]

"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 ...)

[Buttonman]

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.

[TordelBack]

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.

[Banners]

The football match in "Kes".

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[adeh20]

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.

[ThryllSeekyr]

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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZni1gomz8Y&mode=related&search=" target="_blank">Up up and away with a squatty alien

[Mike Carroll]

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]

[ThryllSeekyr]

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.

[Goaty]

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