05-16-2008, 08:58 AM | #41 (permalink) |
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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. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g1awwAgU_t8&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g1awwAgU_t8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Last edited by Leto; 07-26-2008 at 09:19 PM.. |
05-16-2008, 09:45 AM | #42 (permalink) |
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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.
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05-17-2008, 12:55 AM | #45 (permalink) |
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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."
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05-17-2008, 09:13 AM | #46 (permalink) |
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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.
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05-20-2008, 08:50 AM | #49 (permalink) | |
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05-20-2008, 12:25 PM | #51 (permalink) | |
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05-20-2008, 08:57 PM | #53 (permalink) |
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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.
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05-24-2008, 02:38 PM | #54 (permalink) |
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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
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05-24-2008, 03:11 PM | #55 (permalink) | |
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06-13-2008, 08:21 PM | #56 (permalink) |
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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."
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06-20-2008, 07:14 PM | #57 (permalink) |
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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. |
06-23-2008, 08:48 PM | #58 (permalink) |
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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.
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07-16-2008, 12:54 PM | #60 (permalink) |
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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. . .
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07-16-2008, 03:39 PM | #62 (permalink) |
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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.
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07-16-2008, 07:49 PM | #63 (permalink) | |
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07-26-2008, 08:15 AM | #65 (permalink) |
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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.
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08-04-2008, 08:12 AM | #67 (permalink) |
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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.
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08-06-2008, 09:48 PM | #69 (permalink) | |
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The final fight scene in V for Vendetta's amazing...
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08-13-2008, 02:47 PM | #71 (permalink) |
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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.
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08-14-2008, 02:52 AM | #73 (permalink) |
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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. |
08-14-2008, 09:36 AM | #76 (permalink) |
Easy Rider
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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? |
08-15-2008, 03:18 AM | #77 (permalink) |
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I think this opening scene of Roger Dodger is amazing. Dialogue and humor definitely count.
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08-15-2008, 03:28 AM | #78 (permalink) |
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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.
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