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Greatest Movie Moments I

smg97791smg97791 Posts: 151
edited August 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I love talking about movies, I'm not a movie buff but its still fun. Also, I'm gonna have a large bias towards post-1980 movies because i'm 29. Anyways, here goes. Topic one, what is the greatest action sequence of all time?

Two way tie in my opinion:

Braveheart: Battle of Stirling. No CGI, all real people. No wonder Gibson won the best director Oscar. Just epic.

Saving Private Ryan: Opening sequence. Surprise,surprise. The studio set up a hotline for veterans who had flashbacks due to this. To me this is just amazing filmmaking.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Last of the Mohichans- The end scene fighting their way up the mountain. I can watch that a million times and still get into it. The music is great and the scenary is wonderful. One my favorite scenes in any movie ever.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The final battle between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker
    Lawrence of Arabia when he flips out and orders the massacre of the Turkish troops.
    The Holy Grail sequences in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Mel Gibson (Sgt. Riggs) asking Gary Busey (Mr. Joshua) if he would like a "shot at the title" in Lethal Weapon
    The battle in the nebula between the U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Reliant in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
    "Swing away, Merrill....swing away" from Signs
    The dancing hamburger, to Van Halen's "Everybody wants Some", from Better Off Dead
    Phoebe Cates ripping off her bikini top in Fast Times at Ridgemont High :twisted:
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  • bernmodibernmodi Posts: 631
    The Fugitive - Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones on the dam
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    The Private Ryan opening was amazing to watch...

    The ending scene of Usual Suspects when everything comes together.

    In Tombstone when Doc Holiday shows up for the duel.

    I liked the scene in 25th Hour where Ed Norton's character goes through all of the different types of people that he hates.

    There are a couple of scenes in Schindler's List that are very powerful.

    Goodfellas, the "funny guy" scene... classic Pesci

    There are probably so many more that I am forgetting.
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  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    All of the arena scenes from Gladiator.
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  • surfanddestroysurfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    Tombstone gun fight.
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    When Ray Kinsella has a catch with his dad.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Dissidentman wrote:
    When Ray Kinsella has a catch with his dad.

    I think you might have a winner there...
  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    soulsinging wrote:
    Dissidentman wrote:
    When Ray Kinsella has a catch with his dad.

    I think you might have a winner there...


    That scene gets me every time.
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    Dissidentman wrote:
    When Ray Kinsella has a catch with his dad.


    i was just about to say that. such a great scene. since my Dad passed, the whole father/son dynamic really gets to me. it always has, but now it's different. Big Fish really gets to me as well. the dream sequence at the end when he takes his Dad to the river.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    car chase scenes from ronin
  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    Imagine if Ray turned ans saw his dad, and the opening notes to Release start playing... I may stroke out.
  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    intodeep wrote:
    Last of the Mohichans- The end scene fighting their way up the mountain. I can watch that a million times and still get into it. The music is great and the scenary is wonderful. One my favorite scenes in any movie ever.
    Agreed.

    Also....When Charlton Heston gets caught in a net on Planet of the Apes and says Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    The ending scene of Schindlers list, with the 'Schindler Jews' dropping rocks on his grave is one of the most powerful scenes I've ever seen.
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  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I agree with the Field of Dreams moment.

    Also - the end of Cinema Paradiso.

    The De Niro on the roof sequence in Godfather II (I guess that's not really a moment).
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The train station sequence from "The Untouchables"
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  • pineapplesandwaves.pineapplesandwaves. GTA Posts: 1,808
    Dissidentman wrote:
    When Ray Kinsella has a catch with his dad.

    +1
  • YefaYefa Posts: 1,133
    the 3-way duel in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly between Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef

    the final battle in The Wild Bunch

    the duel & subsequent reveal of info between Bronson & Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West
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  • coco buttercoco butter Posts: 1,476
    the pool scene in "Caddyshack"!

    the final arm wrestling match in "Over the top"!

    the t-rex scene in "Jurassic Park"!

    the jive brothers talking in "Airplane"!

    when their setting the trap in "Predator"... if it bleeds we can kill it!

    the final scene in "Rambo First Blood" when he is crying and you cant understand one word he is saying! gets me everytime!

    any scene in "Fletch"!
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  • coco buttercoco butter Posts: 1,476
    how could i forget.... the greatest scene ever!

    Black awarness night in "Coming To America" when Randy Watson and his band Sexual Chocolate take the stage!

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    the best scene ever! period!
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    edited August 2009
    keeponrockin wrote:
    The ending scene of Schindlers list, with the 'Schindler Jews' dropping rocks on his grave is one of the most powerful scenes I've ever seen.

    the little girl in the red coat. at the time i was so angry at spielberg for doing that.


    oh for me the movie scene is in the last starwars film when they lowered the vader helmet over anakins head and we all waited for that first breath... it closed a circle for me that had been open since 1977.

    also the flying bicycle scene in ET.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    coco butter wrote:
    how could i forget.... the greatest scene ever!

    Black awarness night in "Coming To America" when Randy Watson and his band Sexual Chocolate take the stage!

    "I believe the children are the future... thnak you"

    the best scene ever! period!
    My favourite scene in that movie was any one featuring Eddie Murphy as the Jewish guy!
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  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    coco butter wrote:
    how could i forget.... the greatest scene ever!

    Black awarness night in "Coming To America" when Randy Watson and his band Sexual Chocolate take the stage!

    "I believe the children are the future... thnak you"

    the best scene ever! period!
    The whole movie is one of the best comedies ever.

    In Jaws when they Quince is telling his story about the SS .....shit I forget the name of the ship!
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    acoustic guy wrote:
    In Jaws when they Quince is telling his story about the SS .....shit I forget the name of the ship!

    independence
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
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  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    norm wrote:
    acoustic guy wrote:
    In Jaws when they Quince is telling his story about the SS .....shit I forget the name of the ship!

    independence
    No the Battle ship
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    acoustic guy wrote:
    norm wrote:
    acoustic guy wrote:
    In Jaws when they Quince is telling his story about the SS .....shit I forget the name of the ship!

    independence
    No the Battle ship
    U.S.S. Indianapolis?
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    tybird wrote:
    U.S.S. Indianapolis?

    that's it...


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  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBXjThmQwWY

    Private Ryan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WcfDNpmmpw

    End of Band of Brothers
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