Top Ten Fave Scenes from your fave movies.

[dean_martin]

Blue Velvet - several great scenes, but the one that sticks out in my mind is Ben (Dean Stockwell) performing In Dreams by Roy Orbison. So f***in suave!

Once Upon a Time in the West - The opening scene where the 3 bad guys including Jack Elam are waitng for the train carrying Charles Bronson.

True Romance - the showdown between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken.

This Is Spinal Tap - the "little people" dancing around the miniature Stone Henge!

Joe Dirt - alright, call me stupid, but the scene where Joe Dirt is posing shirtless at the tilt-a-whirl for the blonde had me rollin'.

Touch of Evil - opening scene with explosion, I guess it's the camera angles and Mancini music, but it draws me in everytime.

Jason and the Argonauts - toss-up between the fight with the huge bronze Talos and skeletons.

Trainspotting - Ewan McGregor's character goes into toilet after drugs - wanted to turn away but couldn't. Probably a good summation of the whole addiction thing.

Attack of the Giant Leeches - OK, this is a stretch but the scene where Yvette Vickers (classic bombshell type) taunts her pathetic husband by applying lotion to herself is timeless.

My last one is categorical - scenes depicting the vastness of space and huge spaceships really get to me, e.g., Star Wars and the Deathstar, the space scenes in 2001, 2010 and Alien (just saw this again recently - man the ship was huge)

[eqm]

in no particular order....

taxi driver...the shootout in the whorehouse
the killer...sniper scene
blazing saddles...oh...it's twooo...it's really twoooooo!!!
teen wolf...styles on top of the van (jk)
bedazzled...you go out there and try to play pretty good...and you hope you do pretty good...i think we did pretty good.
waiting for guffman..."so that's the way it is? that's the way it is? well, i just HATE you and i HATE YOUR ASS-FACE!"

that's all i can think of now

[Dusty Chalk]

Spinal Tap -- "Mime is Money"
Spinal Tap -- "It's sort of a "mock" piece"
Spinal Tap -- "I call it, 'Lick My Love Pump'"
Spinal Tap -- "Don't even look at this guitar"
Spinal Tap -- the foil-wrapped cucumber
Spinal Tap --
Ian: Look, look...I...I...this is...this is my position okay? I am not managing it with you or any other woman, especially one that dresses like an Australian's nightmare. So f*ck you!!!
Jeanine: F*ck you too!!!
Ian: And f*ck all of you...because I quit! Alright? That's it! Good night!!!
awkward silence
Derek: Can I raise a practical question at this point?
David: Yeah.
Derek: We gonna do Stonehenge tomorrow?
David: No we're not gonna f*cking do Stonehenge!!!

I should explain this last one -- the first time I saw it, my gf at the time came in right at that scene. We were all laughing our asses off, but because they were portraying it so well as a documentary, she thought it was real. She chided us for enjoying other peoples' misery, and reminded me that since I wanted to become a rock star, I should be particularly sympathetic, since this could happen to me.

Spinal Tap --
Marty: Now, during the Flower People period, who was your drummer?
David: Stumpy's replacement, Peter James Bond, he also died in
mysterious circumstances...we were playing a...
Nigel: Festival...
David: Jazz-blues festival, where was that?
Nigel: Blues-jazz really.
Derek: Blues-jazz festival...
Nigel: It was in the Isle of, it was in the Isle of....
Nigel + Derek: Isle of Lucy.

Spinal Tap -- I've always wanted to do a collection of my acoustic numbers with, the London Philharmonic as you know.

...and of course, the infamous "eleven" moment. Specifically, the pause before the punchline.

I could probably come up with 10 favourite scenes from From Dusk Til Dawn.
I could also probably come up with 10 favourite dirty scenes (Phoebe Cates from Fast Times at Ridgmont High comes to mind, as does Jamie Lee Curtis from Love Letters)

[Kam]

Since most of my top ten are mentioned, here are my fav scenes in these (diff from the above) and a few not mentioned:

godfather2: toss up here: the scene with senator geary, and the line that i think captures the two movies: "we're both part of the same hypocrisy senator, but never think it applies to my family." And the final flashback scene, before pop comes home and sonny introduces carlos to connie at the dinner table, sonny and tom talk to mike about his future... perfection.

platoon: barnes coming in to their hole after elias was killed. chilling.

full metal jacket: the scene may be cliche now but it's cliche for a reason: the bathroom scene... "I AM in a world of ****"

gladiator: commodus killing pop, he shoulda won the oscar for this scene alone, that, "one full hug would be like the light of a thousand suns" lines... oh classic!

the usual suspects - 'oswald was a pussy' the whole attack on the ship was great.

glory - right on with this one worfster.. powerful scene.

Ran - the parade of colors in the first battle, the runners with the flags... wow.

Aliens - the intro to the marines scene, amazing how in about 3 mins, you know each of those characters inside and out. great filmmaking. ("have you ever been mistaken for a man vasquez. No, have you.")

Bridge on the river Kwai - saito breaking down and striking Col. Nicholson... awwwwwwww yeah.


that's my 2 cents!
peace
k2

[sc03979]

Sixth Sense - at the end when willis realizes he's dead. Can't believe I didn't see that one coming

Matrix (first one) - at the end when Neo kicks some Agent Smith butt

Return of the King - battle at the Pelennor Fields. Pure classic. nough said

Lost in Translation - about an hour after the movie when I started to think about it and really felt how the two main characters felt at that instant in their lives.

Saving Private Ryan - The very beginning

Transformers The Movie - When Optimus Prime dies, I was crushed as a 7 year old

The Usual Suspect - The end

Final Fantasy The Spirit Within - The whole movie, what a beautiful looking movie

Shawshank Redemption - When Robbins double crosses the warden at the end

Tommy Boy - The spanky incident

[Smokey]

Cliffhanger: The first scene where girl fall off to here death, while Hal (Michael Rooker) keep shouting not to let her fall.


Die Hard 2: Scene where Bruce open fire at airport security chief Lorenzo with blank bullets, and Lorenzo saying at the end of scene.."Lets kick some ass!"


Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Burt Lancaster trying to arrest bunch of [armed] drunk rowdy cowboys at the saloon without any guns....."your talking too big for a man without gun", one of cowboys said.


Silver Streak: The scene where Richard Pryer try to teach Gene Wilder to act like a brother...."Lets hope a Muslim brother don't see you", Pryer told Gene.


Driving Miss Daisy: The cemetery scene where Jessica Tandy tell Freeman to find a name on a grave, not knowing Freeman can not read....."what does the first letter in Brauer sound...Brrrrr, Brrrrrr".