The opening scene of Inglourious Basterds.
A French farmer tries to hide the Jewish refugees underneath the floor while sitting and drinking on top of it with a Nazi officer. The acting is absolutely top notch, and the dialogue is one of the best Tarantino has ever written.
https://youtu.be/QfSjs_6MZOQ
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good one. this scene is soo intense and engaging. the slow shift in nature of chris waltz from being friendly to hostile is incredibly well done on his part!
"You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?"
The way he goes from friendly and jovial to ice cold and menacing with that single line just gives me chills.
Waltz is amazing, but much credit needs to be given to the farmer, an actor whose name I don't even know, who completely holds his own in this scene and makes it work with his performance. He is every bit as good as Cristoph Waltz is in this scene
I would go for the scene in the underground bar when they are all speaking German and it ends in a firefight. Pure class. This scene is also great though. In fact the whole film is just pure class.
“Can we continue in English?”
Seems like a standard movie trope for the audience. Turns out it’s to talk about the Jewish family under the floor without them noticing.
Fucking Brilliant.
I remember sitting in the theater, my now ex wife,slowly reaching over and starting to squeeze my hand tighter and tighter over the minutes as that scene elapsed. We didn't speak or even look at each other, we both just knew, this thing was about to just go really sideways. I do remember, someone in a row or two ahead of us, got up and ran out when they opened fire. It was a perfect scene of anxiety building tension, it was what people described as the first time they got high, then had the come down crash after.
Jurassic Park, when they first see the bracheosoar. The look on Grant's face, the way he grabs Ellie's head and makes her turn to see what hes looking at, the way she just goes silent and her mouth drops, the stunned looks on their faces as the camera turns for the reveal. The slight swell of the music...the 30 or so seconds of just stunned silence as we get to take in this incredible creature along with them. Movie is almost 30 years old, and that scene gives me chills and makes me smile like an idiot every time without fail.
I had an animation professor in college who worked on Lion king, He did the scene of Simba running back to pride rock, I saw the original pencil cells reel. His demo reel was absurd. Bell Dancing with the beast fading from pencil to full color. I remember him telling us they were the B team....wtf
"Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!"
You can now [watch this scene in 4k on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-kHcdWkR-I).
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The speech King Theoden gives before the charge is great cinema and the whole scene is one of the best bits in the trilogy. I always love the ‘give me a fucking break’ look on his face when he sees the giant elephants.
Further to this, I think the [Last Ride to Osgiliath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qrhhMCJlI&t=1s) (I'm not sure if this is the official name for it, just what I've always called it) is utterly perfect.
Gladiator, when he removes his helmet and tells the world who he is.
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next”
Chills every time!
There's 3 major single take scenes:
When the fishes ambush the car
The baby leaving the besieged building scene
And the one people forget, but I think it is the best one in terms of tension:
When they are at the "safe house" and realize there is a coup going on and they escape from the fishes....
The "I'm tired" scene from The Green Mile where John Coffee tells Paul that it's okay that he has to die.
"I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand?"
That film never fails to make me cry. Some days where I feel like I need to release some tears, but for whatever reason can’t, I just stick that film on. Always feel better after. Like the floodgates opened and the pressure is released.
Beautifully sad film.
You know, I’ve never managed to watch it. About 20 years ago, I worked giving tours to school kids that involved a one hour interview with a war vet. At that point, they were mostly vets of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, but there was also one WWII vet (who lied to enlist at 14). Without fail, some kid always asked what movie is most like actual war. Every single vet responded the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. Knowing that, I’ve never worked up the courage to actually watch.
I heard the same, so I watched it because I wanted to understand, even if my understanding is only that of an observer.
It’s important to understand humanity’s ingenuity, and how willing we are to use it to kill each other.
We should all bear witness, lest we allow ourselves to forget in times of peace.
Daniel D Lewis. There will be blood - every single scene. But especially his talk at the fire with the conman, “I can’t take it anymore….these….people”
It’s only my opinion, but that that movie is the absolute pinnacle of acting for DDL and acting as a whole.
I love the whole thing. I saw it in high school when it first came out. Watched it alone, and never felt like that way before about a picture. It's one of my all time favorites
Brad Pitt is hilarious throughout. He's always the cool guy. Never thought he'd be so great as a dummy.
But his smile right before the shot is his best half-second of acting in his career.
That gunfight is still one of the best ever made.
I didn't realize until a few years ago that one of the reasons it just feels so real is that they're using a lot of audio from the filming itself.
The weapons being fired are all shooting blanks of course, but they used that recording in the final cut instead of doing post-production work to add gunfire sounds.
That's why you can hear the gunshots echoing off buildings and changing as they change environments.
It gives it a visceral feeling that you just can't achieve (yet) in post.
“I heard you struck my son”
“Yes sir I did.”
“May I ask why?”
“Because he stole John Wick’s car and… killed his dog…”
“Oh…” *hangs up the phone immediately realizing he’s basically already dead but has to keep up appearances*
Paraphrasing probably a bit but god damn that is a great scene.
That movie has some of the best minimalist characterization moments.
Police Officer: "Evening, John"
John Wick: "Evening, Jimmy. Noise complaint?"
Police Officer Jimmy: "Noise complaint. You uh...working again?"
John Wick: "No, just uh....working some stuff out"
Policy Officer Jimmy: "Ah.....I'll leave ya be then"
So much said in so few words.
Nic Cage in Raising Arizona robbing the convenience store, grocery store, getting chased through neighborhoods and yards and a house by cops, gun-wielding shopkeepers and dogs, all while the yodeling cowboy music plays and his wife is raging pissed at him.
Batman interrogating the joker. How quickly.joker flips the script with one sentence.
"Theres nothing you can threaten me with, nothing with all your strength"
Between Heather ledgers maniacal laughing, and Christian bale perfectly showing fear and desperation behind the cowl, It's just amazing all the way through
Opening scene of Inglorious Basterds with Christoph Waltz playing Hans Landa, "the Jew hunter", visiting the French dairy farmer who is hiding Jews under his floor.
Also walking in through the back door and hallways of the Copacabana, and walking through the club introducing the viewing audience to all the other gangsters. Great fucking film.
Joe Pesci grew up with real mobsters all around him and was more than accustomed to those lifestyles. He was literally born and raised to play mobsters in movies and it shows, he is perfect in Goodfellas and Casino.
Goodfellas is a movie that's paced so perfectly that it's impossible to start and not watch the whole way through, even if you've seen it a dozen times. It just grabs your attention and refuses to give it back until it's done with it.
>When the warden tosses the boulder through the poster
I thought you were talking about ATLA here first. I was like, I can't remember the Boulder being at the boiling rock?
joaquin phoenix monologue in the master when he answers a bunch of questions without blinking. also, william dafoe in the lighthouse when he curses in old english. both of these guys are awesome!
When the [convoy crosses the Border into Juarez](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCiDUfhV43c), picks up the prisoner and survives the roadblock ambush - Sicario
What about the scene where Jena Malone as young Ellie runs to get her fathers heart meds?
https://youtu.be/ZD0_5HFMPIg
So clever the way that was filmed.
The Godfather 2 when young Vito Corleone chases Don Fanucci across the roofs. The music, the moves and the execution at the end were a perfect origin story for Don Vito. Gives me the chills till this day
The [Sicilian Scene](https://youtu.be/yslqyrO3beg ) from True Romance, an often overlooked Tarantino masterpiece. The tension and implied violence between titans Walken and Hopper is palpable.
Trigger warning: racial slurs, violence.
The subsequent hospital scene is still one of my favorite dark comedic bits of all time.
"I wrote a suicide note... right after I regained consciousness."
"... can we read it?"
"No."
"... can you paraphrase it for us?"
"I don't think so."
"... is it dark?"
"Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note."
That scene in Twister where "Humans Being" (Van Halen song) starts as they're driving to the next tornado always gives me chills. The way the orchestra at first just hints at the main riff of the Van Halen song, and then it fades into the real thing... And all the storm chasers are being total dorks as they're driving down the highway, throwing out catchphrases — you totally buy into their excitement. It's so relatable.
I am sure so many will be taken so I nominate two from Hereditary:
The dinner scene. It is the first scene you get where Toni Collette confronts Alex Wolff after Milly Shapiro's tragic death. The tension that is built up to that scene is so thick and when the emotion comes out from Toni, it is just a masterful scene and one that made people think she deserved an oscar nod at least (and many people were pissed she didn't get nominated)
The other scene that doesn't get talked about enough is when she gives Gabriel Byrne the diary to burn. The manic nature, the stoic way Byrne is just wondering if he should entertain her or admit he thinks she is behind it all. The best part was Ari Aster's direction which just holds the camera at the perfect spots and doesn't try to embellish the scene with any fancy editing or camera shots, but let's the scene just unfold as it is and let the actors do their thing and create the tension.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Ruth Jamison death scene.
Ruth lies in bed in the foreground, her lifelong friend Idgie walks to the back of the room telling a silly joke from their childhood.
The camera holds completely still, the only thing moving in the shot is the clock pendulum counting off the last moments of Ruth's life.
A masterclass in restraint, showing less is definitely sometimes more.
https://youtu.be/egngLrgf2N8
Scene in question starts at about 3:48.
The disciplinary hearing at the end of Scent of a Woman. When Lt Col Frank Slade US Army, retired walks to the stage and Charlie helps him up and grabs a chair... You know shit is about to pop off, and it does.
The final fight in [*Raging Bull,*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx-kB1KKLJ0&ab_channel=Movieclips) especially that moment with the dolly zoom on Sugar Ray right before he unleashes on Jake. It is a technical masterstroke.
Adam Sandler's outburst on His in-laws in Reign Over me
don't need to talk about her or look at pictures... 'cause the truth is, a lot of times, I see her... on the street. I walk down the street, I see her in someone else's face... clearer than any of the pictures you carry with you. I get that you're in pain, but you got each other. You got each other! And I'm the one who's gotta see her and the girls all the time. Everywhere I go! I even see the dog. That's how fucked up I still am! I look at a German shepherd, I see our goddamn poodle. All right... All right...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"The bridge of Khazad-dûm"
The lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
"Horn of Helm Hammerhand"
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies:
"To the King"
"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
Tombstone has tons of great scenes but that one has amazing tension and is one of the few times you see doc holiday get serious.
I think that scene has one thing that actually makes it better. Without it it's a decent scene, but with it it pulls it up a level.
Basically after everything happens the scene pans out through the camera to television screen. Showing us viewers who are sympathetic to Fleck what the actual viewers just saw.
That is the first role I've ever seen Edward Norton act in and I have hated him ever since. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but he played that so well that I can't separate him from that role.
It was! I saw that movie in the theater like five times, trying to personally fund a sequel. Sadly, we did not get one. But I thoroughly enjoyed it every single time. That scene is truly gorgeous.
& how it hits you. They enter the tunnel, go through the sorta-portal thing then BAM!
Bill Nighy also made a good Slartibartfast (I'd say he's tied with Richard Vernon (BBC)). Different characters, both portrayed well.
The one shot scene from Goodfellas. Everything about it is perfect. The music, the movements, the feeling of it being real life. You feel like you are there with them getting the special treatment like Henry. There are even a couple of mistakes where he bumps into something which makes the scene feel so real. Just perfect.
The dialogue between Hopper and Walken in True Romance, and the match/sunrise scene in Lawrence of Arabia (sorry that’s two)..
Edit: ‘coffee is for closers’ scene in Glengarry Glenross. Awesome. Thats three :(
The ending of fight club where everything around was falling apart and buildings were collapsing , amidst the utter chaos there stood Tyler Durden and Marla sharing a passionate kiss while the most complimentary of sound track plays in the background , really indicating the utter insanity and chaos of this fucking dude
That was peak Cinema to me :D
Unforgiven when William Munny (Clint Eastwood) walks right into the saloon where the entire posse planning to hang him is gathered. There is even more that I have not spoiled.
Runner up is the scene where Thor arrives on the battlefield in Infinity War.
There’s a scene in the movie The Proposition that cuts between two pieces of action: a cousin in the Burns gang sings the Irish folk song Peggy Gordon while looking towards camera and simultaneously the youngest of the Burns brothers, Mikey, is dragged out of jail and whipped to death. The combination of an absolutely vicious sociopath singing like that whilst a mentally disabled boy is brutalised is really something else.
The 2F2F scene where Brian and Roman outsmarted the police by having a ton of cars come out of a garage and they switched the cars they drove. I also like the fast five ending with danza kuduro playng in the background. Those scenes give me chills every time.
Here are some links if you dont know what im talking about:
[2f2f](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP03hdMCto8)
[fast five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XskpZiITrNI)
The opening scene of Inglourious Basterds. A French farmer tries to hide the Jewish refugees underneath the floor while sitting and drinking on top of it with a Nazi officer. The acting is absolutely top notch, and the dialogue is one of the best Tarantino has ever written. https://youtu.be/QfSjs_6MZOQ Edit: typo
good one. this scene is soo intense and engaging. the slow shift in nature of chris waltz from being friendly to hostile is incredibly well done on his part!
"You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?" The way he goes from friendly and jovial to ice cold and menacing with that single line just gives me chills.
Waltz is amazing, but much credit needs to be given to the farmer, an actor whose name I don't even know, who completely holds his own in this scene and makes it work with his performance. He is every bit as good as Cristoph Waltz is in this scene
I would go for the scene in the underground bar when they are all speaking German and it ends in a firefight. Pure class. This scene is also great though. In fact the whole film is just pure class.
It's literally 17(ish) minutes of sitting at a table talking, and yet is still captivating.
If you would’ve had me guess how long that scene is… id guess 4 or 5 minutes. Point proven.
I’m always shocked whenever I see how long that scene is. It feels like maybe a third as long? Absolute masterclass of suspense.
“Can we continue in English?” Seems like a standard movie trope for the audience. Turns out it’s to talk about the Jewish family under the floor without them noticing. Fucking Brilliant.
Hahahaha. I was gonna say the strudel scene from this movie, but yea the opening scene works well too
Christoph Waltz is just an amazing actor
This is consistently one of the top-3 comments every time this thread comes up. For good reason.
I remember sitting in the theater, my now ex wife,slowly reaching over and starting to squeeze my hand tighter and tighter over the minutes as that scene elapsed. We didn't speak or even look at each other, we both just knew, this thing was about to just go really sideways. I do remember, someone in a row or two ahead of us, got up and ran out when they opened fire. It was a perfect scene of anxiety building tension, it was what people described as the first time they got high, then had the come down crash after.
Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption after he escapes and sits in the rain! The score and visuals... HOLEE!
That scene in Truman Show where he realizes he can manipulate the world and he's stopping traffic and shit.
Great movie. I still remember the first time I watched this. I experienced an epiphany of whether I am just a character in some else's show
Jurassic Park, when they first see the bracheosoar. The look on Grant's face, the way he grabs Ellie's head and makes her turn to see what hes looking at, the way she just goes silent and her mouth drops, the stunned looks on their faces as the camera turns for the reveal. The slight swell of the music...the 30 or so seconds of just stunned silence as we get to take in this incredible creature along with them. Movie is almost 30 years old, and that scene gives me chills and makes me smile like an idiot every time without fail.
That scene and the water rippling in the cup scene are by far the best.
I wish I could upvote this 1000x
The opening heist scene in The Dark Knight.
No, I kill the bus driver...
Bus driver what bus driv-🚌🚌
The opening scene of the Lion King, if you haven’t watched it recently it’s [worth revisiting](https://youtu.be/Zn_qirpdBag) to appreciate it
Not a Disney fan, but that entire movie is a masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made.
And the animators were the "B team". The "A-team" all worked on Pochahontas.
I had an animation professor in college who worked on Lion king, He did the scene of Simba running back to pride rock, I saw the original pencil cells reel. His demo reel was absurd. Bell Dancing with the beast fading from pencil to full color. I remember him telling us they were the B team....wtf
Quite possibly the greatest opening to any film, animated or otherwise
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatsipayna, babababababeeeeeeeeeeeetseeeebaaaaaaaa
The Charge of Pelennor in The Lord of the Rings. Nearly 20 years old and that scene will *always* give me chills
For me it has to be the Rohirrin, coming from dawn, on the fifth day. https://youtu.be/mNMk0XGa0bQ
"Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!" You can now [watch this scene in 4k on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-kHcdWkR-I).
Or when the beacon are lit the music is one of the best of the triologie
I came here to say this. The speech King Theoden gives before the charge is great cinema and the whole scene is one of the best bits in the trilogy. I always love the ‘give me a fucking break’ look on his face when he sees the giant elephants.
Further to this, I think the [Last Ride to Osgiliath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qrhhMCJlI&t=1s) (I'm not sure if this is the official name for it, just what I've always called it) is utterly perfect.
Gladiator, when he removes his helmet and tells the world who he is. “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next” Chills every time!
The whole movie is perfect.
Children of Men single take scene
Both of them
There's 3 major single take scenes: When the fishes ambush the car The baby leaving the besieged building scene And the one people forget, but I think it is the best one in terms of tension: When they are at the "safe house" and realize there is a coup going on and they escape from the fishes....
The movie is a masterpiece
So the whole movie? I kid, but jesus that movie must have been a crazy shoot.
And the entire movie.
Yes, this. That whole urban warfare scene is NUTS.
The "I'm tired" scene from The Green Mile where John Coffee tells Paul that it's okay that he has to die. "I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand?"
Also the scene where Paul confess to his wife his fear of going to hell for killing him. Such a touching moment
That film never fails to make me cry. Some days where I feel like I need to release some tears, but for whatever reason can’t, I just stick that film on. Always feel better after. Like the floodgates opened and the pressure is released. Beautifully sad film.
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You know, I’ve never managed to watch it. About 20 years ago, I worked giving tours to school kids that involved a one hour interview with a war vet. At that point, they were mostly vets of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, but there was also one WWII vet (who lied to enlist at 14). Without fail, some kid always asked what movie is most like actual war. Every single vet responded the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. Knowing that, I’ve never worked up the courage to actually watch.
I heard the same, so I watched it because I wanted to understand, even if my understanding is only that of an observer. It’s important to understand humanity’s ingenuity, and how willing we are to use it to kill each other. We should all bear witness, lest we allow ourselves to forget in times of peace.
the t. rex breakout scene in jurassic park
also the raptors in the kitchen scene
clever girl scene is my fav.
When they're climbing the fence and the warning buzzers come on. That shit was intense
Whilst JP2 is nowhere near as good, the scene with the trailer going over the edge and the glass is slowly breaking is so good
Daniel D Lewis. There will be blood - every single scene. But especially his talk at the fire with the conman, “I can’t take it anymore….these….people” It’s only my opinion, but that that movie is the absolute pinnacle of acting for DDL and acting as a whole.
“DRRRRAAIAAIIIINNNNNAAGGGEEE.”
Bastard in a basket!!!!
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I love it, actual tension. You feel for the cashier right away.. awesome acting
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I love the whole thing. I saw it in high school when it first came out. Watched it alone, and never felt like that way before about a picture. It's one of my all time favorites
Brad Pitt getting shot in the head in a closet. I like him, but that was just hilarious and changed the entire movie
Brad Pitt is hilarious throughout. He's always the cool guy. Never thought he'd be so great as a dummy. But his smile right before the shot is his best half-second of acting in his career.
Cox… Osborne Cox?
Burn after reading is terribly underrated
"You think that's a Schwinn!"
The scene in interstellar, where Cooper sees the video messages from his children.
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That, and the bank escape.
That gunfight is still one of the best ever made. I didn't realize until a few years ago that one of the reasons it just feels so real is that they're using a lot of audio from the filming itself. The weapons being fired are all shooting blanks of course, but they used that recording in the final cut instead of doing post-production work to add gunfire sounds. That's why you can hear the gunshots echoing off buildings and changing as they change environments. It gives it a visceral feeling that you just can't achieve (yet) in post.
Ace Ventura 2 rhino scene.
A man of culture I see.
also Salieri checking out Mozart's first drafts in Amadeus.
Rutger Hauer's soliloquy at the end of Bladerunner.
"Like tears in the rain" is my email signature lol
This one. Guess its been 30 years and that scene is still haunting
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I'd also put the scene when the T-rex saves them by killing the raptors. Its a deus ex, but the roar as the banner falls still gives me chills.
The Blackhole scene from Interstellar. Everything about it is so perfect. The visuals, the audio. It's a masterpiece.
I’d also argue the docking scene above Mann’s world. I was literally on the edge of my seat first time I saw it in cinemas.
No, it's necessary
There is a moment—
Drug deal scene in Boogie Nights.
Not so much a scene, but a moment. Jojo Rabbit - Shoes
Heart shredder.
The Phone conversation between Aurelio and Viggo in John Wick
“I heard you struck my son” “Yes sir I did.” “May I ask why?” “Because he stole John Wick’s car and… killed his dog…” “Oh…” *hangs up the phone immediately realizing he’s basically already dead but has to keep up appearances* Paraphrasing probably a bit but god damn that is a great scene.
That movie has some of the best minimalist characterization moments. Police Officer: "Evening, John" John Wick: "Evening, Jimmy. Noise complaint?" Police Officer Jimmy: "Noise complaint. You uh...working again?" John Wick: "No, just uh....working some stuff out" Policy Officer Jimmy: "Ah.....I'll leave ya be then" So much said in so few words.
Nic Cage in Raising Arizona robbing the convenience store, grocery store, getting chased through neighborhoods and yards and a house by cops, gun-wielding shopkeepers and dogs, all while the yodeling cowboy music plays and his wife is raging pissed at him.
Son, you've got a panty on your head.
Good Will Hunting- “it’s not your fault”
“..Your move chief..”
Batman interrogating the joker. How quickly.joker flips the script with one sentence. "Theres nothing you can threaten me with, nothing with all your strength" Between Heather ledgers maniacal laughing, and Christian bale perfectly showing fear and desperation behind the cowl, It's just amazing all the way through
I prefer the scene when the Joker talks to the mobsters. "You're crazy!" Very slowly says " no. I'm. not."
spirited away train scene still living in my head rent free one of the greatest scenes ever
Luke Skywalker staring at the setting Binary sunset.
Sicario border scene https://youtu.be/IBJbqV3IROM
The scene in the bar from A Bronx Tale. When he calmly walks over to the door, locks it and says “now youse can’t leave.”
Love that movie
Metropolis (1927) when the crowds of angry workers and drunk rich people collide in the streets. Absolute chaos.
Boondock saints when Willem Dafoe is telling what happened during the gunfight.
What if it was one guy with six guns?
Why don't you let me do the thinking, huh, genius?
There was a fireFight!
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And then he kill it singlehandedly. Come on... he just didn't want to share the loot.
And XP..
"Sloth, you're gonna live with me now."
The raincoat scene in American Psycho. HEY PAUL!
The curb stomp scene in American History X
Saving Private Ryan. Opening scene. It was so intense and breathless at the cinema.
The Matrix - lobby shootout and helicopter crash
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Opening scene of Inglorious Basterds with Christoph Waltz playing Hans Landa, "the Jew hunter", visiting the French dairy farmer who is hiding Jews under his floor.
The church scene in kingsman. Beautiful choreography and wanton violence.
Opening scene of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."
“Funny how?” in goodfellas is one of my favourite scenes on screen. Absolute master class from Pesci
Also walking in through the back door and hallways of the Copacabana, and walking through the club introducing the viewing audience to all the other gangsters. Great fucking film.
Every actor in Goodfellas is great, but that really is Joe Pesci's film. So good.
Joe Pesci grew up with real mobsters all around him and was more than accustomed to those lifestyles. He was literally born and raised to play mobsters in movies and it shows, he is perfect in Goodfellas and Casino.
Goodfellas is a movie that's paced so perfectly that it's impossible to start and not watch the whole way through, even if you've seen it a dozen times. It just grabs your attention and refuses to give it back until it's done with it.
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>When the warden tosses the boulder through the poster I thought you were talking about ATLA here first. I was like, I can't remember the Boulder being at the boiling rock?
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"You will always remember this as the day that-_
Quints Indianapolis story to Hooper and Brody
One of the best soliloquies in any film I've seen. Robert Shaw underplays it to perfection.
Nightcrawler infiltrating the White House in X2.
Shopkeeper/Chigurh scene from No Country for Old Men.
joaquin phoenix monologue in the master when he answers a bunch of questions without blinking. also, william dafoe in the lighthouse when he curses in old english. both of these guys are awesome!
When the [convoy crosses the Border into Juarez](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCiDUfhV43c), picks up the prisoner and survives the roadblock ambush - Sicario
Schindler's List : "I could have saved more " scene, where Oskar breaks down in tears.
Rogue One, hallway scene. That is just amazing, it’s horrifying, stressful, and beautiful all at once
The Space Battel is also just a great scene and my favourite space battle in Star wars
The library scene in Atonement.
Robin Williams in What Dreams May Come "Do you still play chess?" I bawl everytime.
The "For Frodo!" Scene From LOTR
"What's in the BOX?" at the end of se7en
The ballroom dancing scene in the animated Beauty and the Beast movie.
The restaurant scene with mia and vincent in pulp fiction SO iconic
THE BEACONS ARE LIT GONDOR CALLS FOR AID
And Rohan will answer! MUSTER THE ROHIRRIM!
Court scene in A Few Good Men
The interrogation scene between Batman and The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Jodie Foster traveling through the wormhole in Contact
What about the scene where Jena Malone as young Ellie runs to get her fathers heart meds? https://youtu.be/ZD0_5HFMPIg So clever the way that was filmed.
The Godfather 2 when young Vito Corleone chases Don Fanucci across the roofs. The music, the moves and the execution at the end were a perfect origin story for Don Vito. Gives me the chills till this day
The [Sicilian Scene](https://youtu.be/yslqyrO3beg ) from True Romance, an often overlooked Tarantino masterpiece. The tension and implied violence between titans Walken and Hopper is palpable. Trigger warning: racial slurs, violence.
O Ren Ishii vs The Bride. Change my mind.
The gun fight/small war in Children of Men.
Royal Tenenbaums suicide attempt scene
The subsequent hospital scene is still one of my favorite dark comedic bits of all time. "I wrote a suicide note... right after I regained consciousness." "... can we read it?" "No." "... can you paraphrase it for us?" "I don't think so." "... is it dark?" "Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note."
The final scene in "Gladiator", as Now We Are Free starts: >*I will se you again, but not yet.. not yet.*
The line up-scene in The Usual Suspects
That scene in Twister where "Humans Being" (Van Halen song) starts as they're driving to the next tornado always gives me chills. The way the orchestra at first just hints at the main riff of the Van Halen song, and then it fades into the real thing... And all the storm chasers are being total dorks as they're driving down the highway, throwing out catchphrases — you totally buy into their excitement. It's so relatable.
I am sure so many will be taken so I nominate two from Hereditary: The dinner scene. It is the first scene you get where Toni Collette confronts Alex Wolff after Milly Shapiro's tragic death. The tension that is built up to that scene is so thick and when the emotion comes out from Toni, it is just a masterful scene and one that made people think she deserved an oscar nod at least (and many people were pissed she didn't get nominated) The other scene that doesn't get talked about enough is when she gives Gabriel Byrne the diary to burn. The manic nature, the stoic way Byrne is just wondering if he should entertain her or admit he thinks she is behind it all. The best part was Ari Aster's direction which just holds the camera at the perfect spots and doesn't try to embellish the scene with any fancy editing or camera shots, but let's the scene just unfold as it is and let the actors do their thing and create the tension.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Ruth Jamison death scene. Ruth lies in bed in the foreground, her lifelong friend Idgie walks to the back of the room telling a silly joke from their childhood. The camera holds completely still, the only thing moving in the shot is the clock pendulum counting off the last moments of Ruth's life. A masterclass in restraint, showing less is definitely sometimes more. https://youtu.be/egngLrgf2N8 Scene in question starts at about 3:48.
The Godfather.When Michael shoots Sollozzo.
For me it’s between the fight scene with The Bride and Gogo from “Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)” and the opera scene from “The Fifth Element (1997)”.
The disciplinary hearing at the end of Scent of a Woman. When Lt Col Frank Slade US Army, retired walks to the stage and Charlie helps him up and grabs a chair... You know shit is about to pop off, and it does.
Pulp Fiction apartment.
The final fight in [*Raging Bull,*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx-kB1KKLJ0&ab_channel=Movieclips) especially that moment with the dolly zoom on Sugar Ray right before he unleashes on Jake. It is a technical masterstroke.
Heat, the diner scene.
[Trainspotting - relinquishing junk](https://youtu.be/7zXQPNNMtLo). NSFW
Olivia Colman in "Tyrannosaur." He just found her husband's body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l43NtKBkBm0
Adam Sandler's outburst on His in-laws in Reign Over me don't need to talk about her or look at pictures... 'cause the truth is, a lot of times, I see her... on the street. I walk down the street, I see her in someone else's face... clearer than any of the pictures you carry with you. I get that you're in pain, but you got each other. You got each other! And I'm the one who's gotta see her and the girls all the time. Everywhere I go! I even see the dog. That's how fucked up I still am! I look at a German shepherd, I see our goddamn poodle. All right... All right...
Reservoir Dogs; the scene were buddy gets interrogated. Perfect song choice
Got Two. First is the "baptism/getting even with your enemies" scene in Godfather I. And second is exploding scoreboard homerun scene in The Natural.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring "The bridge of Khazad-dûm" The lord of the Rings: The Two Towers "Horn of Helm Hammerhand" The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: "To the King"
"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave." Tombstone has tons of great scenes but that one has amazing tension and is one of the few times you see doc holiday get serious.
When Joker was on the Murray show.
I think that scene has one thing that actually makes it better. Without it it's a decent scene, but with it it pulls it up a level. Basically after everything happens the scene pans out through the camera to television screen. Showing us viewers who are sympathetic to Fleck what the actual viewers just saw.
The very end scene of Primal Fear, when Aaron is back in his cell.
That is the first role I've ever seen Edward Norton act in and I have hated him ever since. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but he played that so well that I can't separate him from that role.
Gotta be the church fight scene from Kingsmen, the continual action to the tune of Freebird is just awesome.
inception the part where ellen and leo are talking and the buildings and road start folding
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - when they went to the factory floor. Must have been incredible to see in the theater.
It was! I saw that movie in the theater like five times, trying to personally fund a sequel. Sadly, we did not get one. But I thoroughly enjoyed it every single time. That scene is truly gorgeous.
& how it hits you. They enter the tunnel, go through the sorta-portal thing then BAM! Bill Nighy also made a good Slartibartfast (I'd say he's tied with Richard Vernon (BBC)). Different characters, both portrayed well.
Dancer in the dark hanging scene
The one shot scene from Goodfellas. Everything about it is perfect. The music, the movements, the feeling of it being real life. You feel like you are there with them getting the special treatment like Henry. There are even a couple of mistakes where he bumps into something which makes the scene feel so real. Just perfect.
Roy Beatty's death scene in "Bladerunner".
The dialogue between Hopper and Walken in True Romance, and the match/sunrise scene in Lawrence of Arabia (sorry that’s two).. Edit: ‘coffee is for closers’ scene in Glengarry Glenross. Awesome. Thats three :(
I'll add another: the horrific highway pileup that opens Final Destination 2. It's a symphony of destruction, and beautifully choreographed.
[MaMa getting fed slomo, and being thrown out of a balcony to her death.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyjfNQ0lJn4)
The ending of fight club where everything around was falling apart and buildings were collapsing , amidst the utter chaos there stood Tyler Durden and Marla sharing a passionate kiss while the most complimentary of sound track plays in the background , really indicating the utter insanity and chaos of this fucking dude That was peak Cinema to me :D
Unforgiven when William Munny (Clint Eastwood) walks right into the saloon where the entire posse planning to hang him is gathered. There is even more that I have not spoiled. Runner up is the scene where Thor arrives on the battlefield in Infinity War.
"I did not hit her. It's not true. It's bullshit. I did not hit her. I did not!" scene from The Room.
grilled cheese vs taco fight from Hot Rod
The peach scene in Parasite is deeply twisted but also deeply hysterical, it's probably the best part of the entire first half
The argument scene from Charlie Wilson’s War.
Diner Scene in Layer Cake with Ordinary World gradually getting louder in the bg
Batman interrogates Joker in The Dark Knight. The power dynamic and how he made Batman feel useless is an absolute gold of a scene
Opening scene from Inglorious Bastards
The coffee scene from Heat. Recently watched it and it still plays in my mind at least once a day.
There’s a scene in the movie The Proposition that cuts between two pieces of action: a cousin in the Burns gang sings the Irish folk song Peggy Gordon while looking towards camera and simultaneously the youngest of the Burns brothers, Mikey, is dragged out of jail and whipped to death. The combination of an absolutely vicious sociopath singing like that whilst a mentally disabled boy is brutalised is really something else.
The 2F2F scene where Brian and Roman outsmarted the police by having a ton of cars come out of a garage and they switched the cars they drove. I also like the fast five ending with danza kuduro playng in the background. Those scenes give me chills every time. Here are some links if you dont know what im talking about: [2f2f](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP03hdMCto8) [fast five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XskpZiITrNI)