What moments in cinema sticks out to you as a great scene?

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These are a few of my favorite scenes that Cinema has provided throughout the years.
The Warriors and the come out to play scene


The bottles are so grating and annoying but it does a wonderful job at harassing someone and doing some sort of mental torture where it's so easy to get a rise simply from the clanking of those bottles. Plus the annoying voice that goes along with it just makes you want to come out and beat the shit out of that guy.

Rocky V
Mickey's Gym flashback


The music is incredibly heart breaking and Mickey's speech hits a lot harder then it should. It didn't mean anything when I was younger but as I age I feel that it's an inevitability and far harsher than it was ever meant to be. I've lost friends, family, and children as I've aged. So this scene hits incredibly hard. Though this Rocky movie isn't the best it has some of the harshest doses of reality I've ever seen in a movie when it comes to aging and what's lost as one ages. There's a lot of continuity errors in this film, but the reality it displays is far better than what Rocky III and IV did and probably even greater than Rocky II and Balboa.
 
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It's so cliche, but...



Star Wars under Lucas is just full of these dialogue-less, beautiful moments, often letting Williams emotionally guide them. Even Episode 3 ended with some really gorgeous, moving scenes.
 
There are so many, but from a filmmaking/cinematography perspective;



A great scene from a terrific flick - it does a hell of a job of building up the tension;



Another particularly great one with escalating tension;



...and finally, if you happen to feel like running through an effing wall, the Adrian "Win" scene plus montage in the first half of this clip;


Sure, the Rocky IV training montage is probably better, but when those bells toll in "Going the Distance" as Adrian tells Rock she wants him to go out and whip Apollo...man, chills every time.
 


Not only super cool from an action perspective and iconic in that sense. It is also the first major turn in one of the most fascinating and well made character arcs in movie history. (Michael Corleone)



The Clint Eastwood western trilogy are criminally underrated nowadays. This scene is how you build a legendary character.

"Why do you do this?
- Why? Because I knew someone like you once, and there was no one there to help".
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Very vague, and that is a good thing. The viewer fills in the blank here so that whatever resonates the most with you is who that dialogue, and hence the actions of the protagonist throughout almost the entire movie, can be true. If it was his sister, friend, girlfriend, mother or someone else we will never know for sure. The mysterious lone wanderer keeps on being mysterious, but you get a more sympathetic relationship with him either way.
 
That scene in Taxi Driver when Travis takes his date to the movies but it is actually a porno theater and shes expectedly repulsed and storms out, and hes all genuinely perplexed and dismayed like, "What?! I thought you you said you liked movies?!!"
 
Kubrick is the man. i love the intro from A Clockwork Orange.

when i saw this in a theater, and the entire screen filled with that red orange color, and the psychedelic music hit, it's a visceral experience!



love this scene as well. shot at the famous "Chelsea Drug Store" (appy polly loggies for the terrible quality)

 
Inception camera work and visuals were genius level, as were Shutter Island.

The winner is John Wick 3. Halle Berry + Dogs + Wick. The action going on in the background of each action is shot, is filmed better than most action films these days. It is a joy and a pleasure to watch. Bonus: Halle Berry is 50, 50!!!!! Smoking hot.
 
Shaun of the Dead pub scene.

Great dialogue, great visual comedy, and it actually foreshadows the entire forthcoming plot.

 



I will die on the hill of Event Horizon being the 2nd best sci-fi horror movie after Alien.

From what I understand the cast and crew was incredibly unnerved being on that set by themselves.
 
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Actually, many scenes from Ridley Scott's debut 'The Duelists". The initial confrontation, the duels, the climactic duel, more besides... that movie was fucking great!

 
The following scene from The Equalizer is fantastic all around; from the dialogue, acting, composition, etc.



Also... an iconic example of how important music can be.

 


Not sure what really got me with this scene. I guess it's the fact that the realization that Joi was never really his.


It's not possible! No it's necessary
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I mean seeing this in IMAX was amazing. The score and actually hoping he makes it even though you already know he will.
 
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Lots of great ones already posted, here are a few more that come to mind:

SLJ's diner monologue in Pulp Fiction (and ofc the apartment tirade).

MM breaking down after returning to the ship when adult Murph tells him off on vid.

Forest breaking down at Jenny's grave about their son.

I've also always been very fond of the entire prison sequence in Natural Born Killers, that interview scene is fantastic.

Edit: Carl opening the memory book in Up!
 
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Favourite moments from the Marx Brothers:

Hello I Must Be Going


The Laws of My Administration


Chico and Harpo at the piano


The Mirror Scene
 
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Some vids are blocked, if not posted yet: No Country for Old Men - Coin Toss




-Arcadia- said:
It's so cliche, but...



Star Wars under Lucas is just full of these dialogue-less, beautiful moments, often letting Williams emotionally guide them. Even Episode 3 ended with some really gorgeous, moving scenes.
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The picture with Luke alone, without clicking the video, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Followed by dread at what Star Wars has become.
 


This scene from Contact continues to blow my mind every time I watch it.



Also this scene from Road to Perdition always stuck with me. Masterful use of sound and the *absence* of sound. The silent gunfight and then the barrage of noise from the Tommy gun at the end lends so much emphasis.
 
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Shitty blurry quality vids, but you get the idea. Cheesy looking now, but for the time it was kind of cool even though as a kid you could tell it was still cheap looking.


 
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