The Devil's Brigade, 1968 starring

William Holden
Cliff Robertson
Vince Edwards
Claude Akins
Carroll O'Connor

The scene when the Canadians arrive on the scene. Pulls at the heartstrings that does.



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So many greats have been mentioned already.......

I'll go with the end of Slingblade when Billy Bob cracks the dad over the head.

I also like when they all fight the lumberjacks together later in the movie.

I agree, that's good too. It's the bonding part of the movie eh? I got to get that on DVD.

1. The aforementioned Atonement scene
2. The Bathing Scene - A Midnight Clear (there isnt a better war movie in existence)
3. The Unicorns - Legend
4. Fluellen & Harry post The Battle Of Agincourt - Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
5. The Battle of Stirling - Braveheart
6. Doc & Wyatt Playing Cards - Tombstone
7. Peace By Inches Speech - Any Given Sunday
8. The Devil's Appearnce in The Prophecy
9. Charge of Rohirrim - Return Of The King
10. The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan

PS
My alltime favorite moment would probalby have to be Speirs running across the town in The Breaking Point. Sends shivers through my spine every time I see it but thats not techincally a "film."

I don't know about "greatest" but the scene that comes to mind for me this morning is from and Lee Marvin movie "The Big Red One." WWII movie about the 1st infantry division. There's a scene where they're trying to quietly take out a German intelligence unit hidden in a insane asylum. Members of the unit sneak up on the outer guards and take them out with knives and bare hands. Once in the building they continue this tactic until the Germans catch on. A fire fight breaks out and bullets begin to fly. The patients calmly continue to eat as if nothing is amiss. A soldier drops his machine after being shot. One of the patients notices it sitting on the floor. He stops eating and crawls under the table. He picks it up, jumps on top of the table and yell's "I'm sane! I'm finally sane! I'm just like you, I'm sane!" As he laughs and empties the gun of all it's bullets he ends up killing several other patients. Yes, he's just like everyone else. He's sane.

Fight Club - Chemical Burn Scene

The fight scene from "They Live". Gotta be one of the longest two-person fight scenes ever filmed.

Great movie! I saw this in the theatre when it came out

Leto reminds me of another great moment:
Children of Dune, when Leto returns as a demigod and handles the guards and Alia with ease. Awesome.

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Looks like the whole thing is on Youtube...

Found it:

I'll just mention one movie for now.
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"

When the British POWs are walking to the prison camp for the first time, they're whistliing the Colonel Bogey March, which always sends chills over me.

Then when they're ordered to build the bridge, and Alec Guinness defies orders, the Japanese commander has them punished by standing in the sun all day, then finally puts Alec Guinness in the hole, where he tries to break him.
The commander then realizes he can't break him, and he himself breaks down in tears when he realizes that if he can't get the bridge built on time, he'll lose face in his country's eyes.

When Alec Guinness walks out of the hole in triumph and walks stiffly to the prisoner's quarters, now that's a great scene.

The ending....the ending is madness. :thumbsup:

The scene in the LOTR movie when Arwen is racing back home with Frodo and being chased by the Ring Wraiths... and then when she gets to the river she turns to face them and wipes them out...

The final scene of Donnie Darko when "Mad World" cuts in...

Pleasantville, when suddenly colour is EVERYWHERE

United 93 - the crash

This one is good, but I prefer the "Forth Eorlingas" scene in The Two Towers.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the car chase from "Bullitt" No.1 for me
I second the Odessa Steps scene from "Potemkin"
Last would be a scene from "Matewan" with the line, "I wouldn't pee down his throat if his heart was on fire."

Sunshine - Mace in the 'Earthroom'

sunshine - Speech of the bomb, reassurance to Cassie.

Sunshine - Death of Keneda (favorite scene in any movie, it had before been "Tears in the rain" from Blade Runner)

Sunshine - Death of Searl

Sunshine - Death of Mace

Sunshine - The great jump (I swear this is the last one from Sunshine, it was a very artistic / fantastic movie)

Matrix Revolutions - The begining of the storming of Zion (Where the sentinals are bouncing along the wall)

Gladiator - The Sythe Chariots in the Coluseum

Cool Hand Luke - Eggs

Blow - Realizing his visiting daughter is a trick of his mind

A Beautiful Mind - When Russel Crowe's character receives the pens

Gangs of New York - "I'm going to teach you to speak English with this fucking knife!"

Hero - All the fight scenes

That's way too many, but there you go.

Tom Yum Goon
The bar scene. The guy goes in the bar kicks everybody's ass. Proceeds to make his way up the stairs and kicking ass along the way. All done in one take, I hear.

Boondock Saints - "THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!"
God I love Willem Dafoe in this scene.

Dreamscape - Opening Few Seconds






ROTLA - The Map Room






Scent of a Woman - The final speech






The Day After - Nuclear attack segment






American Werewolf in London - Transformation






Goodfellas - How am I funny?






Little Big Man - A good Day to Die






Trainspotting - Intro






The Two Towers - Gandalf's Fall






Salem's Lot - Let Me In






Jurassic Park - T Rex Scene






The Terminator - The Gun Shop






The Mist - The Pharmacy





Just to name a few. . .

+1!

Really?! This one? Really?! Not the last 15 minutes of ST2: The Wrath of Khan"? Or the opening sequence of ST: First Contact?

Here are some film sequences that I have seen hundreds of times, and I have to see them, if I see nothing else of the film.

Nah. The ending of ST2 was too weepy, and the battle scene in First Contact was just wasn't memorable.

The Ben-Hur chariot race:

Watched the old John Wayne flick "True Grit" this morning. The battle scene near the end. Wanye's character, Rooster Cogburn, takes on three bad guys, including "Lucky" Ned Pepper play by Robert Duvall. The scene is a stand off with the three bad guys at one end of an open meadow and Rooster at the other.

Scene dialog:

Lucky Ned Pepper said, "Well, Rooster, will you give us the road? We have business elsewhere!"

Rooster said, "Harold, I want you and your brother to stand clear! I have no interest in you today! Stand clear and you will not be hurt!"

Harold Permalee's answer was to crow like a rooster, and the "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" brought a hearty laugh from his brother Farrell.

Lucky Ned Pepper said, "What is your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?"

Rooster said, "I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned, or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience! Which will you have?"

Lucky Ned Pepper laughed. He said, "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"

Rooster said, "Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver and drove his spurs into the flanks of his strong horse Bo and charged directly at the bandits. It was a sight to see. He held the revolvers wide on either side of the head of his plunging steed. The four bandits accepted the challenge and they likewise pulled their arms and charged their ponies ahead.

Natuarlly Rooster does them all in.

Tyler Durden "verses" The Narrator in Fight Club
The moment when Bruce Willis realises he's dead in the sixth sense
The gun fight with Neo and Trinity from The Matrix

The chilling reveal at the end of "Les Diaboliques".
Taxi (the original french movie), the chase scene towards the end when they exit Marseille to go to the freeway. Awesome music that goes with that scene.
Most of Heath ledger's scenes in The Dark Knight.
Batman Begins: when Ras al guhl burns his house down.

Agreed, pretty much all of the Heath Ledger's screen time in The Dark Knight was just fantastic. From his dark mirthful sense of humour, right down to his twisted insanity.

The final fight scene in V for Vendetta's amazing...

"No, what you have are bullets, and a hope that when your guns are empty, I'll be dead."
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The final battle was awesome too. Spoiler: Three-way fight between Batman, the SWAT team, and the Joker and his men, and Gordon's desperation to save the corrupted Dent.

Meryl Streep as Ethel Rosenberg helps Ben Shenkman to perform Kaddish in "Angels in America". Completely amazing.

Medea Goes to Jail - when Medea figures out Vanessa is cheating "You can't hit that woman. Let me get you some mace."
D.E.B.S. - bar scene "You owe me 50 bucks."
Sweeney Todd - the whole song and dance about how different folks would taste.
Hard Candy - the balls scene
Friday - the very first scene and the one with "you gots to be a stupid MFer to get fired on your day off."
Sister Act 2 - Joyful Joyful
Bone Collector - "you know it's illegal to molest the handicapped"
Wanted - the last one

I know only one of which is really action related (like most of these) but they are still my favorite scenes.

Ugh I HATED that scene. The bullet-time bugged the crap out of me.

The opening scene in El Topo. Can't find a video for it but it has little boy penis in it anyways so maybe that's a good thing (not why I like it! haha). It's just got an iconic -- to me -- atmosphere. A lonely desert.

In Stalker, the scene where the 3 people are right outside the room and they wax philosophic. But again, I can't seem to find a video so this scene (the ending) is also very cool.

I like the ending of V for Vendetta, though that fight scene is cool. I like the ending because it pumps me up.

There are tons but there's a few anyways. I mean, every movie I like has an awesome scene in it or 80.

The Obi-Wan/Vader and Yoda/Sidious fight scenes at the end of Revenge of the Sith. Particularly the fight between Obi-Wan and Vader.

Say what you will about the rest of the movie or the prequels, those final fights are undeniably kickass.

Some that come to mind that I didn't see posted:
The graveyard scene at the end of "Saving Private Ryan"
The car chase scene in "The Blues Brothers"
The chest-burster scene from "Alien"

COOL HAND LUKE

What we've got here is...failure to communicate." — spoken by "The Captain", the prison warden played by Strother Martin, during the film's early stages.


CASABLANCA (couldn't pick just one)

Rick: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.

Rick: You know what I want to hear.
Sam: [lying] No, I don't.
Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me!
Sam: [lying] Well, I don't think I can remember...
Rick: If she can stand it, I can! Play it!

Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

Rick: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.


GODFATHER I

Michael: My father's no different than any other powerful man, any man who's responsible for other people. Like a senator or a president.
Kay: You know how naive you sound?
Michael: Why?
Kay: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.
Michael: Oh, who's being naive, Kay?

I think this opening scene of Roger Dodger is amazing. Dialogue and humor definitely count.

I was just thinking of this topic last night. The scene from Shawshank Redemption where the warden starts to go nuts after Andy escapes, then trhows a stone through the poster on the wall. Then they discover the gaping hole Andy dug over twenty years.

Forgot one of my favs..

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - the alien ship communication and landing (the original version not the one where they show the inside of the ship)