Best film scene's of all time?

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deltaevo16

755 posts

171 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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drivin_me_nuts said:
The scenes for me that are the greatest are those that create a resonance and trigger a deeper response. I'm a sucker for wide panoramic views and saturated colours of the big screen, but for me, story telling is all.

The girl in the red coat, the moment you realise she is dead - do I even need to name the film? Very powerful film with quite a few scenes that are compelling, sickening viewing in their rendering of human excess and depravity.

I find it a film I can no longer watch - and that scene, it leaves me feeling troubled for days as I can't shake the red colour from my mind. Equally though, it is one of the few films I have watched that has left me with nothing but the deepest admiration and respect for those for whom bravery is not a tabloid exageration, but an absolute matter of life and death. 'Story telling' at its very best.
It's a scene that brings tears to my eyes, also the old chap who has to make the hinge.

epom

11,498 posts

161 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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lexusboy said:
One of the best martial arts sequences put on film

http://youtu.be/v_LHPYERoyk
Crikey..... That reminds me I need to make an appointment with my osteopath.

Fastchas

2,644 posts

121 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Pesty said:
Morningside said:
Six pages and no mention of that scene from Basic Instinct.

PH is slipping.
I was going to mention Jenny a gutters norks in an American werewolf in London

But thought better of it,.

But while it's on my mind the dream sequence from that Film with the nazi zombies.
Jenny Agutter in THAT dress getting out of the water in Logan's Run. OMG.

Stevemr

541 posts

156 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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RoadRunner220

945 posts

193 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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How about the Bohemian Rhapsody scene in Wayne's World ?

slipstream 1985

12,211 posts

179 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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little328ci said:
The scene in layer cake, when Gambon explains the layer cake to Daniel Craig , another favourite is bring us the finest wines known to humanity in withnal and I .
I use that little speach to remind myself not to care about work as much as i do.

Pesty

42,655 posts

256 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Farmhouse scene at the beginning of inglorious and the bar scene same film.


Urban Sports

11,321 posts

203 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Battle of Hoth has to be up there.

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

203 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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robsco

7,825 posts

176 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Hamlet soliloquy at the end of Withnail & I.
Execution of John Coffey towards the end of The Green Mile.
Opening scene of The Italian Job.

And to lower the tone...

The toilet scene, Dumb & Dumber. hehe

poing

8,743 posts

200 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Some great stuff posted so far, some I totally get and agree with and some is just far too highbrow for me and my cheesy tastes.

I would have nominated the opening scene from the modern Star Trek film but someone already posted a link to that. I'm going to go with a couple of scenes from The Crow, even if it's cliched rubbish I still like it. I love the music in the film which helps and I always believe a great scene can be made or broken by the soundtrack, Gladiator and Last of the Mohicans are good examples of this. 2 scenes from The Crow I found on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWPlSpm0LY&sp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJA3JQby604&sp...

I still maintain this inspired Heath Ledger a little.


Park'O

656 posts

174 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Anal delight 2...... some cracking scenes.

grumbledoak

31,532 posts

233 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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poing said:
I still maintain this inspired Heath Ledger a little.
I think it inspired quite a few actors and directors. Very, very stylishly done, dark clothing, guns and bullets, and slow motion martial arts. In 1994.

ETA- many already mentioned, but I'll add the fight with the Frenchman in Grosse Pointe Blank. Now that looked like a fight to the death between two professional killers.

Edited by grumbledoak on Sunday 7th December 08:01

Pesty

42,655 posts

256 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Benny the jet. He was a real fighter and went into film coordintion.

Still one of the most realistic fights in screen I think. I'm guessing he told cusack to really kick him.

twoblacklines

1,575 posts

161 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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Always liked the barracks fight scene in Heartbreak Ridge, so much attitude!

Goughie

616 posts

189 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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The St. Crispin's day speech in Ken Brannagh's Henry V is stirring stuff. The end of Million Dollar Baby is very affecting and the "there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman" soliloquy from American Psycho is fantastic.

944fan

4,962 posts

185 months

Tuesday 6th January 2015
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Shootout in Heat.

The battleship potempkin homage in The Unotuchables

La Marseillaise scene in Casablanca

Dr No. "That's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your six"



sirtyro

1,824 posts

198 months

Tuesday 6th January 2015
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Where Eagles Dare - Clint Eastwood on the staircase wasting all the germans coming up the stairs.

Coatesy351

861 posts

132 months

Tuesday 6th January 2015
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The cake scene in under siege.

Edited by Coatesy351 on Tuesday 6th January 18:36

Veeayt

3,139 posts

205 months

Tuesday 6th January 2015
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He what? yikes