What do you think is the most unforgettable movie moment?

[Cloud]

I think the training sequence from either Rocky I or Rocky II would have to be it.

I always get chills when I see the training scene. The trademark song "Gonna Fly Now" has become the theme song for striving to reach an impossible goal. Watching Rocky run through the dirty streets of Philadelphia and train hard under the eyes of Mickey really hit a chord with all audiences.

I don't know anybody who wasn't moved by the training scenes leading up to the fight with Apollo Creed.

[TroubleMan]

1. In the South Park movie

When Terrance and Phillip sing "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle Fucker!!"

Greatest movie moment of all time.....it just twisted my heart strings into a knot.
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(I hope you know I'm kidding)

[curse10]

64. In Southpark I'm more partial

to the scene where Sadaam pulls out his penis in a piss-poor attempt to get Satan interested again. Classic.

[JohnKleeb]

71. lol

Saddam thats just gross

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Speaking of which...

did you Eagles fan see Stallone at the Linc?

All I can think -- WTF is he doing here, and what is the significance? Then I think Rocky movies.

That old-has been is now shilling himself shamelessly.

At least he's not running for Governor.

Hawkeye-X

[Yupster]

3. I can't help choking up

when Kevin Costner plays catch with his dad in "Fields of Dreams."

I also like the swordfighting scene from the "Princess Bride."

[TheReligiousLeft]

48. Princess Bride!!!

Agreed.
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.

[TroubleMan]

4. Okay...I'm being for real now....John Q.

When Denzel Washington was talking to his kid, right before he was going to have the doctor take out his heart and put it in his son.

That is the only movie scene that I've ever shed tears on - probably the most moving scene ever.

I never let movies get to me. I've lost a child, been in the Marine Corps, spent time in jail, and a lot of other traumatic stuff......but that scene got to me.

I have no idea why he didn't win an Oscar for that.

[AWD]

5. Mine...

When Willie Mays Hayes scores from 2nd base on a bunt.

Still makes me cry.

No, seriously....one of my favorite moments holds the following quote....

"My name is Andrew Shepard, and I AM the President."

[lynndew2]

6. When Farnsworth tells her to just look into the eyes

In Heaven can wait. He is being forced to leave that body but has fallen in love.

That or when Dick Nixon wants his cookies in "Dick"..lol kidding

[moof]

7. gotta be one of these

" You can't handle the truth "

and

" Frankly my dear I don't give a damn "

because

" Luke, I'am your father "

[Jack Rabbit]

8. The revelation of the mystery of Rosebud

Final shots of Citizen Kane.

[George_Bonanza]

9. The Usual Suspects... Keyser Soze revealed

Absolutely chilling every time. I'm getting tingles right now. The first I saw it, I was terrified and amazed at the same time. No other movie has ever done the same, and so consistently with every viewing.

I also remembered being floored when I saw that brachiosaurus on Jurassic Park. Simply amazing SFX. It just looked too damn real.

[alphafemale]

29. I loved the Usual Suspects, but had figured out the ID well B4 the end.

But that didn't ruin the movie for me.

Don't want to possibly be a spoiler for anyone else though, so I'm not going to even give a hint in an open forum like this.

(But if anyone really wants to know, send me a private message) :hi:

[Kat45]

45. Yes, I agree. That was one of those rare film moments.

The ending of The Usual Suspects totally blew me away. It was such a shock, but at the same time I kept asking myself why I didn't see it, it should have been obvious. That was the movie that reminded me of how good a film can be, and got me going to movies again. And yes, even with the surprise now gone, I can still watch the movie again and again.

edited for clarity

[electricmonk]

10. Dr Strangelove

When Peter Sellers wanted some change from the Coke machine to call the White House, sorry can't remember the actors name, said "Ok but you'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Company".

That scene has always stood out to me for some reason. There are a bunch of other great moments from that movie but I always loved that one.

[EX-CONservative]

22. The closing scene...

The most chilling scene in a movie is from the closing of Dr. Stranglove when the bombs are exploding to the tune of "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn.

Gives me goosebumps.

[UCLA02]

39. "You can't fight in here...this is the war room!"

[5thGenDemocrat]

59. That was Keenan Wynn

Where do you start with the great scenes in Doctor Strangelove?
Mine's probably Slim Pickens going through the survival kit, ending with "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Wichita with all this."
John
My favorite is below.

[VOX]

61. Actually, Slim says "Dallas," but "Vegas" was dubbed in later...

Major Kong's comment about the survival kit ("a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff") originally referred to Dallas instead of Las Vegas, but was overdubbed after President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.

[Blue_Chill]

11. The tango scene in Scent of a Woman

Incredible.

[Semi_subversive]

12. Who gives a shit

It's not real life. Get focused!

[lynndew2]

13. I hear GD calling your name Semi

n/t

[OneTwentyoNine]

63. Damn.... Chiefs won again today....

Gee,could this be the year?!?!?!?!


David

[zelda7743]

17. My favorite

Is when semi_subversive lectures the room about real life, but no one pays attention....no, wait....

[Piperay]

25. Hmmmmmmm, well THIS IS the Lounge...

that is what it is here for, things besides real life. :shrug:

[VOX]

58. Don't be a boor, SS. This is the LOUNGE...

It *is* a place to de-"focus!"

Do you go to a party and throw up on your host's shoes?

[MisterP]

70. *snort*

[OneTwentyoNine]

67. Hey Semi,who pissed in your boots??? geezzz... n/t

...

[expatriot]

14. The scene in Journey of Natty Gann when the wolf brings Natty a rabbit....

and drops it at her feet.


Or in Holiday Inn when Bing goes back to NY from Vermont with the jars of apricot preserves as a present to his friends and they explore and it gets all over the ceiling!!!

Or in Europa! Europa! when he slaps that German girlfriend of his for making an anti-Jewish comment!

Or in Ice Age when the mammoth gives back the baby to the humans!

Or in Sex Oddysey 2069 when the girl alien points to two cattle in the field mating and asks a human male "what are they doing?" and the man answers... "well, it is hard to explain." and the girl replies, "well, is there anyway you can show me?"

[eileen_d]

16. I've got tears in my eyes...

"Sex Odyssey 2069"... whatta classic :cry:

[Twillig]

15. All your moments suck.

geezus. What a bunch of dreck.

The moment is when Charles Bronson stuffs the Harmonica into Henry Fonda's cold dying teeth!

Once Upon a Time in the West.

[Swede]

51. Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone

doesn' get much better

[TXlib]

18. "Almost Famous"

When the three chicks say, "Hey, let's deflower the kid" about the 15-year-old male protagonist.

OK, maybe not the most memorable, but we saw it tonight, and that was my favorite scene.

[OneBlueSky]

19. Blazing Saddles . . . campfire . . . nuff said . . . :) n/t

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[JackDragna]

20. The Godfather..

..when Michael Corleone blows away Solozzo and the police chief. The look in his eyes before he does it and what it means as far as his turning from good to evil make it very powerful.

[Awsi Dooger]

21. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The duel that was declared a draw.

I understand Bob Arum's distant relative filed an official protest with the Knights Who Say Ni.

[Piperay]

23. It's in an old movie..."The Heiress"...

at the end Olivia de Havilland leaves Montgomery Clift screaming and pounding at the door in twisted revenge for first jilting her. "Poor" Monty left a broken man without the love and fortune he was seeking from her. What a movie, what a scene, they don't make them like that anymore! :cry:

[Dogmudgeon]

24. In "Deep Impact"

Tea Leoni and Maximilian Schell, on the beach of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, watching as a mile-high tsunami is about to fall on them.

Always gets me.

--bkl
Don't let the name fool you. I'm just an ol' softy.

[FireHeart]

28. Oh yeah...that hit me too. n/t

[hobbes159]

26. E.T.

E.T.'s death, Elliot saying goodbye, Elliot discovering E.T. isn't dead....

[Supply Side Jesus]

27. Excalibur

After years of death and famine, Purcivel brings the Holy Grail to Arthur. The King drinks and his soul with the land is healed. The remaining knights and loyal soldiers ride of to their fate with Carmina Burana "O Fortuna" playing.
Goose bumps with tears.

or
When Bluntman and Chronic with Bongsabers in hand, do battle with Cock Knocker. wow, riveting!

[NashVegas]

30. Top Gun

When Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis ride into the sunset on that bike, I just get all moist inside.




















Okay, the real one:

When the flying monkeys terrorize Dorothy and the gang in Wizard of Oz.











Okay, the real, real one

When Julianne Moore has her breakdown in the pharmacy in Magnolia.

[underpants]

31. My fav:Walken and Hopper in "True Romance"

Just a personal choice.

Walken is a mobster looking for Hopper's son Christian Slater. He offers Hopper a cigarette and Hopper declines. Then it becomes apparent that Walken is going to kill/have killed Hopper no matter what he tells him. So Hopper asks for the cigarette (he knows it his last) and as he smokes it recounts how the Moors (black) conquered Sicily (Walken is supposedly of Sicilian blood) so there for Walken has "black blood" (not the same wording) in him. Hopper knows this will infuriate Walken but he makes sure the last cigarette is worth it.

That scenes is incredible.


I'll add the M-16 battle in the middle of the street in "Heat"

[toddzilla]

32. dan akroyd

"it's the stay puft marshmallow man"

not my fave, but certainly unforgettable!!

[Bossy Monkey]

33. Something about a plane and a hill of beans; maybe y'all didn't see

that one :eyes:

[kodi]

34. gene kelly singing in the rain in "singing in the rain"

if there is a better memory of film itself, i cant think of it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. The Wild Bunch, final scene

Peckinpaw bloodblath all around, but unlike so many bloodbath directors, peckinpaw's is filled with emotion. Gut-wrenching film.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Oh, and the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (well, all scenes, really) but...

The scene in which Lawrence is at the well and there's the long, long camera shot of Omar Sharif riding up on his horse. Brilliant film-making, andmega kudos to the director for the courage to "waste" minutes of film on it.

I might have to watch it today.

Also love the torture scene in Lawrence, and the scene Lawrence has to shoot the guy he went into the desert to save earlier.

Gods, what a movie.

[kodi]

37. or the scene first showing waddi lamp (?) (anthony quinn's camp)

but yours was the best from that film. out of the nothingness of the desert came a speck which slowing became a figure. that was art.

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Yes, also a good scene!

And dammit, I AM gonna watch it now! Been thinking about it all morning...

[mitchum]

38. The last look that Dunaway and Beatty exchange...

in "Bonnie and Clyde"

Harry Lime's cuckoo clock speech in "The Third Man"

"they massacred my boy" Marlon Brando in "The Godfather"

final scene in "The Wild Bunch"

[VOX]

60. Yes! Welles' "cuckoo clock" turn from "The Third Man"...

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"

Speech written by Welles himself. Extraordinary.

[soleft]

40. "Dad, do you want to have a catch?"

Field of Dreams. Great, not sad sobbing moment.

[bleedingheart]

42. When Rhett Butler finds Scarlett drinking in the dining room

and he puts his hands around her head and threatens her... his voice is so filled with passion....then followed by the scene where he scoops her off and takes her up the stairs....
that's some fine romance....hee hee

I watched Anne of a Thousand Days and the scene where Henry VIII tells Anne how he wants her in graphic detail is pretty good too...my husband and I have been quoting that all day...

[LanternWaste]

43. Here's my awful truth...

This one is out of the blue and may seem a bit traditional, but my all-time favorite movie moment and movie-quote is from the Cary Grant/Irenne Dunne (my gosh, I want to find a woman like that...lol) called "The Awful Truth" (1935 or '36, I think):

Upon meeting the fiance of the man she loves-

"I've seen your picture in the papers before and wondered what you look like..."

But, man! You guys have picked out some GREAT ones so far.

A close second would be Richard Dreyfuss walking up the plank to the mothership in "Close Encounters...". The mixture of joy, wonder, awe and fright was truly a classic moment I'll never forget.

[maveric]

44. Transformation from B&W to color in "The Wizard of Oz".

That one always stuck out for me and my parents who saw it for the first time at the theater.

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. Okay - I hate Waterworld, but there's one scene:

It's when someone is approaching that shitty actor's ship/sailboat thing, and that feral little girl is onboard, and she starts yelling or something and the shitty actor swats her in the head ans says "What're ya thinkin'?"

Friends and I have always remembered that line,a nd used to use it often.

"What're ya thinkin'?"

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. And one that likely none of you were at, but you might have seen similar:

Was at a movie one time, in the theater, and the film just stopped mid-reel. It froze on one frame, and we got to watch it melt in the projector. I can't remember the film, but I remember it stopped ona close-up of the actress' face. Only lasted about ten seconds before the film guy killed the light, but it was WAY cool.

[carpetbagger]

49. Darth Vader turns on the Emperor.

Along with Bucky Dent's home run, that would have to stand as the high point of my childhood.

[latebloomer]

50. "We'll always have Paris"

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[Swede]

52. Carpazzo's dieing and he's yelling

"This letter,copy it Fish,it's to my dad. It's,it's got blood on it."
Saving Private Ryan

[HEyHEY]

55. Or when the paramedic is dying

The blood from the wounds in his chest, and how no-one knows what to do. ALmost cried when I saw that.

[TrogL]

53. Priscilla queen of the desert

Riding on top of the bus with the 150' long banner/train.

[arwalden]

54. Steel Magnolias: M'Lynn's "Why-Why-WHYYY?" Scene At The Cemetary...

... right after Shelby's graveside service.

"I'm so mad I want to hit something."

"HERE! Hit Ouiser! Half the county wants to hit her. We'll sell t-shirts.. 'I-HIT-OUISER-BOUDREAUX'" (or something like that).

-- Allen

[HawkerHurricane]

56. The ending to Saving Private Ryan...

Captain Miller, bleeding to death, turns to Private Ryan and says...
"Earn This"

Then segue to the cemetary, where Private Ryan, with his wife and family, kneels in front of Captain Miller's grave, and asks...
"Am I a good man?"

[5thGenDemocrat]

57. The Right Stuff

At the end, when Gordo finally became The Greatest Pilot Anyone Had Ever Seen.
John
The whole movie is great, though.

[Nailzberg]

73. Go hot dog go.

I hate when The Right Stuff is on TV, cause I have to stop my entire day, sit down, and watch.
But my fav scene is after Yeager crashes and the recovery crew are racing across the desert to the crash site. I love the shot through the heat distortions of Sam Shepard walking toward them, dragging his chute, beaten and burned.

[VOX]

62. Sean Connery on the suspension bridge in "The Man Who Would Be King"...

In his final moments, his nobility regained by having come to his senses, and having asked the forgiveness of his partner-in-adventure-and-crime (Michael Caine). They both sing "Minstrel Boy" to ward off the fear the bloody justice about to come down upon them.

It's troweled on pretty thick, but this scene just sticks in memory.

[OneTwentyoNine]

65. From Blazing Saddles...

The Reverend speaking:

Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped.

[OneTwentyoNine]

66. Actually there are so many from Apocalypse Now....

Where to start??

[LynneSin]

68. John Cusask standing outside the bedroom window with the boombox

Holding it up and it's playing "In Your Eyes".

I love that scene - I wish some guy would do that for me - they can even play the same song (which I absolutely adore)

Edit Note: That's from the movie "Say Anything"

[Rabrrrrrr]

69. I'll play that and then invite you down for some

fettucini with shrimp and scallop cream sauce!

[JohnKleeb]

72. tough choice

Seeing the end result of Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan and that cemetery. The music nearly brings me to tears. Those who fell on that day and all days shall rest in peace. I am not sure, I have a lot.

[Wickerman]

74. Groundhog Day

You know, that part where he wakes up and he clock says & AM and Sonny and Cher are playing and th song is I've got You Babe, and you get to experience total and absolute hell - about a dozen times.

[Twillig]

75. "Saving Private Ryan Moment" the most true real to life thing..

To me anyway--was when Tom Hanks character, after several days of combat, got summoned to the rear to get the mission and he saw the sandwich that some REMF had just sitting there on a table...

Perfect moment. Perfect look.

[Cheswick2.0]

76. This is sooooooooooo corny, I can't believe I am going to tell you all

In Carosel, Billy Biggelo is a bad guy. His Wife Julie is pregnant and in deperation he agree to commit a robbery to support her and their baby who he thinks is going to be a boy names Bill after him. When the cops come he pulls a knife and ends up falling on it and dying.

When he goes to heaven, the star keeper tells him that 15 minutes is like 15 years on earth and his son is really a daughter named Louise.

Billy sees that she is about to throw her life away from anger and self distructiveness because of her shame over him and the poverty they she grew up with. So he appears to her and tells her he knew her father and that he wasn't such a bad guy. He tries to give her a star, but she becomes afraid and when she refuses to take it, he slaps her.

Billy decides to stop being visible when Julie comes out to see what is going on. She picks up the star and seems to sense that Billy is there.

Outside a schoolhouse. The same day

It is graduation day, and the students are seated on benches, Louise among them. The principal introduces the main speaker, a Dr. Seldon, who, Billy notes, bears a striking resemblance to "that fella up there on the ladder," i.e., the Starkeeper. Seldon tells the graduates they can't lean on the success of their parents. Looking at Louise, he says, "And don't be held back by their failures. . . You just stand on yer own two feet."

Billy, still invisible, says to Louise, "Believe him, Darling. Believe." She raises her head and listens. To Julie he says: "I loved you, Julie. Know that I loved you." Herface lights up, and she begins to sing with the others : "Walk on, walk on. With hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone.