Movie Scenes You Could Watch Over And Over

[The Man]

Originally Posted by Who_me?

Damn you screwed up the coding about as badly as possible.



(Still not right, but at least it makes sense now.)

sorry

[The Man]

Originally Posted by Wolf Larsen

Wenz, if you like that scene in Kill Bill, you'd probably like "The Yakuza" with Mitchum. There is this amazing sword fight in it that was designed by someone who really knew about sword fighting. There is a guy up on a table fighting a bunch of guys and he keeps making these little moves until he gets the distance and then slash! another dead guy.

Another good fight scene is the one between the two chicks in the dojo in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

[BJMoose]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

I initially read this as "Woody Allen."

Which has me imagining an apartement super with a Brooklyn accents saying, "You're still three hundred dollars short."

[Clothahump]

Forrest Gump - Forrest's monologue by Jenny's grave. He has loved her unconditionally from day one and Tom Hanks absolutely nails that scene.

Big Fish - the scene where Will makes peace with his dad.

Labyrinth - the scene with the worm. It's just funny and I get a kick out of it. "Come in and meet the Mrs.!"

Forbidden Kingdom - Jason is bitching because he isn't learning Gung-fu. Jackie Chan whacks him and says, "That is strike. Tomorrow I teach you block."

[threnody]

The whole beginning of Up where the dorky boy and tomboy girl meet and grow up and make a life together. Until of course she ages and dies. Then I weep for the rest of that day.

Also where Dory talks to the Whale in Nemo.

[Gorgon Heap]

I admit I have not read the whole thread yet, but this:

Also the entire cliff sequence from Last of the Mohicans. This could be the best combination of soundtrack and scene, EVAR.

By KidVermicious... I actually willingly sit through the entire movie just to watch this scene.

[teela brown]

From Bladerunner:

The whole scene where Decker flies into the big corporate headquarters skyscraper and meets Rachael and Tyrell. That futuristic executive office with a view of a smoggy sunset, an artificial owl, and the strange watery shimmering light is awesome. I like Rachael's 1940's padded shoulder suit, too, and the way her and the owl's eyes glow eerily. Just spectacular cinematography and atmosphere all around.

[jali]

The job interview scene in Trainspotting.
The replica gun scene in Snatch.
The will you marry me scene in He's Just Not That Into You.

[Chacoguy]

Tim Robbins' first day on the job in The Hudsucker Proxy.

[Tripler]

The opening scene from the new Star Trek. Part the emotion and action, part the cinematography (I know half of it's CGI), and most of it is that they get the physics right!

That's one thing I've noticed lately about sci-fi. They're getting the physics finally right. First noticed it in the new Battlestar Galactica, but I'm picking up on it in a lot of other movies and shows now. I like that.

Tripler
We all know that nobody can hear you scream . . . in space.

[Lungfish]

Cyrus's speech from The Warriors.

CAN YOU DIG IT?

[Mako]

Originally Posted by threnody

Also where Dory talks to the Whale in Nemo.

I adored Dory and that scene was really cute, if a little disturbing, (I suffer from underwater agoraphobia - yes, it really is that specific).

Originally Posted by teela brown

From Bladerunner:

The whole scene where Decker flies into the big corporate headquarters skyscraper and meets Rachael and Tyrell. That futuristic executive office with a view of a smoggy sunset, an artificial owl, and the strange watery shimmering light is awesome. I like Rachael's 1940's padded shoulder suit, too, and the way her and the owl's eyes glow eerily. Just spectacular cinematography and atmosphere all around.

"It seems you think our work is not of benefit..."

Best. Film. Ever.

Originally Posted by Tripler

That's one thing I've noticed lately about sci-fi. They're getting the physics finally right.

Yes. They're now actually employing consultants that understand what's physically possible. The trouble has always been that producers are caught between accuracy and saleable cinematography. The good news is that they seem to get the idea that their target market won't put up with Star Wars IV-VI anymore.

I would love to see The Mote In God's Eye and The Gripping Hand done right. But I think we're a ways off that yet.

[Lazlo]

Originally Posted by Tripler

The opening scene from the new Star Trek. Part the emotion and action, part the cinematography (I know half of it's CGI), and most of it is that they get the physics right!in space.

It is a great scene, aside from all the motherfucking lens flare. (JJ Abrams needs a cockslap across his arrogant face.)

Alas, it is the only part of the movie that does a decent job with the physics.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Tripler

The opening scene from the new Star Trek. Part the emotion and action, part the cinematography (I know half of it's CGI), and most of it is that they get the physics right!

I find it hilarious that you're able to speak the words "new Star Trek" and "get the physics right" in the same breath.

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

I find it hilarious that you're able to speak the words "new Star Trek" and "get the physics right" in the same breath.

Well, c'mon now. . . it is called "science fiction." For a good tale, you have to have serious credibility with each, individual term.

Tripler
I mean, who doesn't love a good,accurately-depicted phaser fight?

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Tripler

Well, c'mon now. . . it is called "science fiction." For a good tale, you have to have serious credibility with each, individual term.

There's fictional physics that legitimately allows you to suspend disbelieve (e.g., transporters), and there's fictional physics that's just retarded (e.g., a supernova crumbles a planet in a completely different solar system, with no warning and no travel time for the blast wave, so that no one can evacuate... although somehow Spock knew it was going to happen in time for the Vulcan Science Academy to outfit him with a ship with enough "red matter" to probably destroy the entire quadrant).

Which isn't to say it wasn't a fun film. I liked it a lot. I just have no illusions about how retarded a lot of the science (and plot) was.

[SoylentPopTart]

Originally Posted by threnody

The whole beginning of Up where the dorky boy and tomboy girl meet and grow up and make a life together. Until of course she ages and dies. Then I weep for the rest of that day.
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First saw this on a flight back home from vacation and it caught me by surprise. I can only imagine what the other people on the plane thought seeing a 45 old manly man sitting in his seat, watching a cartoon and bawling like a baby.

[Lucifer]

From Apocalypse Now; this scene (or at least the quote) is pretty famous, but what really blows me away about the scene is that there are a bunch of explosions right near them as they have this exchange, but Duvall doesn't even flinch. The other guy, Lance (actor Sam Bottoms), is pretty shaken up by them, but Bobby's a ROCK. Awesome on SO many levels....

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like
[sniffing, pondering]
Kilgore: victory. Someday this war's gonna end...

[Mr. Buttons]

The "printer execution" scene from Office Space is always satisfying.

[Lazlo]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

There's fictional physics that legitimately allows you to suspend disbelieve (e.g., transporters), and there's fictional physics that's just retarded (e.g., a supernova crumbles a planet in a completely different solar system, with no warning and no travel time for the blast wave, so that no one can evacuate... although somehow Spock knew it was going to happen in time for the Vulcan Science Academy to outfit him with a ship with enough "red matter" to probably destroy the entire quadrant).

Which isn't to say it wasn't a fun film. I liked it a lot. I just have no illusions about how retarded a lot of the science (and plot) was.

Well, as Tripler made perfectly obvious, he was only talking about the opening scene. Hell, even Phil Plait agrees with that.

I agree that the rest of the movie's physics is horrible beyond belief, but that matters not a whit to what once again, Tripler actually said:

Originally Posted by Tripler

The opening scene from the new Star Trek. Part the emotion and action, part the cinematography (I know half of it's CGI), and most of it is that they get the physics right!

[Lazlo]

I made that harsher than I should have. My apologies, Shot From Guns.

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Which isn't to say it wasn't a fun film. I liked it a lot. I just have no illusions about how retarded a lot of the science (and plot) was.

Now I understand where you're coming from, and agree with you completely. The "tactical science" is good, and that's what I enjoy. Hell, there were plot holes in BSG too that were shaky at best, but the gunfights made up for those.

Tripler
Yeah! Die toaster, die!

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Lazlo

Well, as Tripler made perfectly obvious, he was only talking about the opening scene.

Yes, the opening scene was well done. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of the rest of the "science" in the film was just abyssmally wrong to the point of being fucking retarded. Thus my amusement at someone being able to talk at all about Star Trek getting physics right.

It wasn't intended as an attack--simply a wryly bemused observation.

[NoClueBoy]

In the fictional Trek-a-verse, the Gravitational constant can be changed. So any discussion pro OR con of real-verse physics in the stories is just silly, imho. (I'm a Trekker [yeah, they even called us Trekkies til I singlehandedly changed the fan name]from Season 3 of the original network airing of Star Trek [before they even had to call it TOS], being too young young to stay up for it the first two seasons, but caught it all on UHF reruns faster than you could say "Tranya! Ha ha ha ha!")

[Lazlo]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

It wasn't intended as an attack--simply a wryly bemused observation.

I realized that in retrospect. Again, sorry about that.

[Lazlo]

Originally Posted by NoClueBoy

In the fictional Trek-a-verse, they can teleport matter on a macroscopic scale. So any discussion pro OR con of real-verse physics in the stories is just silly, imho.

FTFY. Fucking "trekkers."

Lazlo,
Trekkie

[threnody]

Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

First saw this on a flight back home from vacation and it caught me by surprise. I can only imagine what the other people on the plane thought seeing a 45 old manly man sitting in his seat, watching a cartoon and bawling like a baby.

Aww they would have thought you were a big softy - and they'd be right.

[NoClueBoy]

Originally Posted by Lazlo

FTFY. Fucking "trekkers."

Lazlo,
Trekkie

My pajamas will never fit you.

[Carolia]

I can watch the tango scene between Che and Eva in Evita over and over.

[Lazlo]

We need a damned like button.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Lazlo

I realized that in retrospect. Again, sorry about that.

NOOOOOO, FFFFFFFFUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[WednesdayAddams]

The opening scene of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, shot in sepia, was damn near perfect. I <3 it. Of course, that entire movie is a scene I could watch over and over (yes, even the stoopid bit with the bicycle and the song).

[NoClueBoy]

ooh, I've been to Sepia! One of my favourite places ...

[Jeff]

"What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"

"How you been, Ellis?"

"You're lookin' at it. I gots to say, you're lookin' older."

"I am older."

No Country for Old Men is basically one long series of endlessly re-watchable scenes.

[Rebo]

Damn - sleeps beat me to it. Oh well, it bears repeating!

[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZT5sajkys[/m

[Chacoguy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZT5sajkys

FTFY

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Jeff

No Country for Old Men is basically one long series of endlessly re-watchable scenes.

I really hope this is the right link.

[Clothahump]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Yes, the opening scene was well done. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of the rest of the "science" in the film was just abyssmally wrong to the point of being fucking retarded. Thus my amusement at someone being able to talk at all about Star Trek getting physics right.

Well, even blind hogs find an occasional acorn.

[detop]

Two scenes from Battle of Britain :

• The "repeat please" scene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXf1bhEEXd0
• The RAF resurgent scene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuI0gFUq3HY

[The Superhero]

One that just occurred to me recently: Superman rescuing Lois Lane from the helicopter crash in the first Superman, still the best superhero movie based on a comic book.*

One of the best first-meeting dialogue exchanges between two characters ever: "Easy, miss, I've got you." (disbelieving look) "You've got me?! Who's got you?!"

Then Superman catches the falling helicopter in one hand, the crowd goes nuts and John Williams hits the perfect, "Of course he caught the helicopter, he's motherfucking SUPERMAN!" note...

Damn, I love that scene. The whole "Superman does superheroic deeds" sequence that follows is great, but the whole helicopter crash and rescue scene is one of my favorites ever.

I would have loved just one scene even half that great in Superman Returns. Alas, it was not to be.

* Not, however, the best overall superhero movie ever, thanks to the existence of The Incredibles.

[Rebo]

USS Indianapolis

[LemmeOut]

I'm chiming in to second anything from No Country for Old Men and Rebo's scene from Jaws.

There is about a one or two second scene from Face/Off where Nicholas Cage is walking away from the plane in the very beginning, where it's done in slo-mo, and his coat tail flips up in the wind and you just know he's bad news. I've looped that footage over and over....

[ivylass]

Schindler's List, when the war is over and Schindler and his wife are getting ready to flee. They give him the ring, he drops it...and I begin to sob uncontrollably.

The songs in Chicago, specifically Murderess Row and When You're Good to Mama.

The scene in the final LOTR when Legolas kills the oliphant and all aboard it. "It still only counts as one!"

[DogMom]

Originally Posted by Agent Foxtrot

Inigo Montoya avenges his father. 'Nuff said.

Oh yes, that scene is one of the best.

"Offer me money."
"Yes!"
"Power too, promise me that."
"All that I have and more."
"Offer me anything I ask for."
"Anything you want..."
"I want my father back, you son of a bitch."

[DogMom]

Originally Posted by threnody

Aww they would have thought you were a big softy - and they'd be right.

I love the scene near the end where the house finally does go to the falls - completely by accident.

[Sparky]

Poltergeist
Tangina's speech. I get goosebumps every time she turns the conversation to the evil that is with Carol Anne. "It lies to her. It tells her things only a child can understand. It's been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply is another child. To us, it is The Beast."

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Boromir's death scene with Aragorn. "I would have followed you, my brother...my captain...my king."

The Shawshank Redemption
The scene where Andy locks the door and plays the music over the loudspeakers. Absolutely love the rising crane shot of all the inmates, frozen in place and staring up at the loudspeaker.

Sling Blade
The scene near the end between Karl and Frank at their special place in the woods. Karl gives him his treasured stack of books with the bookmark he made. "You Will Be Happy." Gets me every time.

Driving Miss Daisy
Hoke's visit with Miss Daisy in the nursing home, ending with him helping her eat her pumpkin pie. Another scene that just gets me every time.

Glory
Denzel Washington's character being whipped. He plays the scene beautifully, trying to be stoic against the physical pain of the lashes. With each whip, his eyes fill with tears until one finally streaks down his face.

[DoubleJ]

Originally Posted by Sparky

The Shawshank Redemption
The scene where Andy locks the door and plays the music over the loudspeakers. Absolutely love the rising crane shot of all the inmates, frozen in place and staring up at the loudspeaker.

A good scene, but my favorite is a little later: "You were right warden, salvation lay within." And the warden flips open the Bible to find the hole Andy had cut out of the pages to hide his rock hammer -- beginning on the first page of Exodus.

[Dread Pirate Jimbo]

Originally Posted by The Superhero

One that just occurred to me recently: Superman rescuing Lois Lane from the helicopter crash in the first Superman, still the best superhero movie based on a comic book.*

One of the best first-meeting dialogue exchanges between two characters ever: "Easy, miss, I've got you." (disbelieving look) "You've got me?! Who's got you?!"

Then Superman catches the falling helicopter in one hand, the crowd goes nuts and John Williams hits the perfect, "Of course he caught the helicopter, he's motherfucking SUPERMAN!" note...

Damn, I love that scene. The whole "Superman does superheroic deeds" sequence that follows is great, but the whole helicopter crash and rescue scene is one of my favorites ever.

I would have loved just one scene even half that great in Superman Returns. Alas, it was not to be.

* Not, however, the best overall superhero movie ever, thanks to the existence of The Incredibles.

The space shuttle/airplane rescue sequence in "Superman Returns" might be the single best action sequence in any movie ever, IMHO. Adding in the "safest way to travel" line and Lois fainting as a nod to the first movie was a nice touch.

The big dramatic court room finale in "My Cousin Vinny" is something I can't ever tear myself away from. Same goes for the big final confrontation between Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men." And I'm not even a huge court room drama fan.