Favorite movie scene

This thread has convinced me to get Netflix once I get back to the US.

 

A couple more:

"Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope": Obi-Wan Kenobi trying to hurry back to the Falcon after shutting off the tractor beam stops suddenly. Standing, waiting, light saber already lit, is Darth Vader. Obi-Wan's expression is one of, "Oh, fuck. I'm a dead man." And then of course, Vader's line - "I've been waiting for you Obi-Wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner, now I am the master."

"Raiders of the Lost Ark": When Indy's in the map room, waiting for the sun to shine through the medallion. The sun finally does, and the music playing the whole time is one of John Williams' finest. The whole scene still puts me on the edge of my seat.

"Field of Dreams": When Ray meets Terrance Mann for the first time. "I'm gonna beat you with a crowbar until you go away!"

"Saturday Night Fever": When the dance floor clears to "You Should Be Dancing" and John Travolta goes batshit with his dancing.

 

From 3:15 to 4:24 (one of my 3 favorite movies "You're A Big Boy Now," Coppola's senior thesis at UCLA)

From 7:00 on, when Bernard and Amy go into the underground club. The scene drips with counter-culture.

The song that starts at 3:58. One of the best songs in a movie.

 

More:

* Final scene in "Bad Boys" -- the one with Sean Penn and Esai Morales.

* Rambo, First Blood Part II -- the escape scene with the microphone.
"Murdoch ... I'm coming to get YOU!"

* "Karate Kid" when Daniel-san first realizes he's been learning karate while being Mr. Miyagi's "slave."

* "A League of Their Own," when the player finds out her husband was killed in the war. Tear-jerker.

* The end to "A Fistful of Dollars"

* Bar scene in "For a Few Dollars More"
"Remember me, Amigo?"
"No."
"Sure you do. El Paso."
"Ohhh, small world."
"Light a match."
"I usually smoke after dinner. Why don't you come back in about 10 minutes?"
"In 10 minutes you'll be smoking in hell!"

 

"People will come" from Field of Dreams. Actually, that whole last part, the last half-hour at the ballfield.

Obscure geekdom: The first time Khan and Kirk meet in space battle after Khan gets off the planet in "The Wrath of Khan." From Khan's surprise attack to the way Kirk gets out of it.

And sorry, the last scene from It's a Wonderful Life....gets me every time.

 

The one where Kirk orders that the self-destruct code for Khan's hijacked Federation ship to be implemented?

(Yes, I'm a geek, too, and proud of it... )

 

Ricky Vaughn and Haywood ... but, yeah, you were pretty close too.

That was Casualties of War, wasn't it? At least, that's the one that MJ Fox was in.

 

The baseball and Drebin falling in love montages in Naked Gun.

 

Some good moments from Jaws have already been mentioned, but there are a couple I've always liked. Early in the film, the Brody family is finishing dinner and Brody knows he has to close the beaches even though nobody in town wants it. He goes through this sequence, running his hands over his face and holding his head in his hands, and the youngest son is sitting at the table with him, mimicking the movements until Brody realizes it and makes a funny face at him. No dialog, but a great moment that humanized Brody.

The other one from Jaws is when Quint is questioning whether Hooper is tough enough to go out and track down the shark and he asks him to tie some sort of knot. Hooper is all into it and says "you didn't say how long you wanted it." He ties the knot and tosses the rope across the room to Quint, who catches it and tosses it aside without ever looking at it and comes up to Hooper continuing to question him. Always thought that was funny.

And another couple from another Spielberg film, E.T. I was 10 when that came out, so that movie has always resonated for me because that's about how old Elliott was. There's the scene when all the government people invade the house and they have Elliott and E.T. in the beds side by side, and Elliott tells Peter Coyote's character that he has to help E.T. get home because "he came to me." And Peter Coyote tells him "Elliott, he came to me too. I've been waiting for him since I was 10 years old. I don't want him to die. What can we do that we're not already doing."

And then the final scene in E.T., did it to me then, still does it to me now, every time I see it. That one's a tear-jerker.

 

Well, the bridge code, to order Reliant to lower its shields.

 

--When Kate Winslet is on trial in The Reader (a film with many great scenes)
--The prom scene in Valley Girl
--The diner scene in Swingers where they discuss the value of their lifestyle
--The final fight scene in Any Which Way But Loose
--The tape of the mother poisoning the daughter in Sixth Sense

 

Hey, I was confusing myself trying to straighten out!