100 Most Memorable Film Moments

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26 Jun 2007, 07:24 PM
The_Meach

100 Most Memorable Film Moments

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Originally Posted by Guardian

1: The Usual Suspects: Kujan realises that he has been conned

2: Psycho: The shower scene

3: The Third Man: Harry Lime appears

4: 2001: A Space Odyssey: From flying bone to space ship

5: Apocalypse Now: Dawn helicopter attack

6: Blade Runner: Batty's dying speech in the rain

7: The Great Escape: The Cooler King escapes on his motorbike

8: Casablanca: Rick and Ilsa part at the airport

9: Planet of the Apes: Taylor finds the Statue of Liberty

10: Some Like It Hot: 'Well, nobody's perfect'

11: Singin' In The Rain: Gene Kelly does just that - sings in the rain

12: The Deer Hunter: The prisoners play Russian roulette

13: Ben Hur: The chariot race

14: Don't Look Now: The hooded figure

15: Saving Private Ryan: The Normandy landings

16: The Birds: The crows gather on the climbing frame

17: Platoon: Sergeant Elias staggers out of the jungle

18: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: The mothership appears

19: Lawrence Of Arabia: The entrance of Sherif Ali

20: Taxi Driver: 'You talkin' to me?'

21: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The cemetery gunfight

22: The Shawshank Redemption: The escape hole is discovered

23: Alien: The birth of the alien

24: Dirty Harry: 'Do you feel lucky punk?'

25: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Chief Bromden escapes

26: Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Indiana shoots the swordsman

27: The Full Monty: The dole queue dance

28: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid: The final, doomed shootout

29: North By Northwest: The crop-dusting plane

30: Seven: What's in the box?

31: Brief Encounter: Laura says goodbye to Alec

32: Gone With The Wind: 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'

33: Kes: Brian Glover's football lesson

34: On The Waterfront: 'I coulda been a contender'

35: Pulp Fiction: Vincent shoots Marvin

36: The Shining: 'Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!'

37: True Romance: 'You're Sicilian, ha?'

38: E.T. The Extraterrestrial: E.T. and Elliot ride a bike against the moon

39: Goodfellas: 'What do you mean funny?'

40: Spartacus: 'I'm Spartacus!'

41: The Italian Job (1969): The final cliffhanger

42: The Wizard Of Oz: The journey to Oz

43: Jaws: The opening

44: Now Voyager: Two cigarettes, one light

45: Star Wars: Destruction of the Death Star

46: The Crying Game: Fergus discovers Dil's true gender

47: The Producers (1968): The chorus sing 'Springtime For Hitler'

48: When Harry Met Sally: The fake orgasm

49: A Few Good Men: 'You can't handle the truth'

50: A Matter Of Life And Death: 'There's a catch...''

51: Battleship Potemkin: A pram bounces down the Odessa steps (think: the baby carriage going down the steps in The Untouchables)

52: Bullitt: Car chase through San Francisco

53: Carrie: The horror ending

54: It's A Wonderful Life: George discovers he's still alive

55: LA Confidential: Dudley Smith shoots Jack Vincennes

56: Reservoir Dogs: Ear amputation

57: Shane: 'Shane! Come back!'

58: The Empire Strikes Back: 'I am your father'

59: The Godfather: The horse's head

60: The Railway Children: Bobbie's father walks through the steam

61: Thelma And Louise: Drive over the cliff edge

62: Trainspotting: Renton goes cold turkey

63: Witness: Dance in the farm barn

64: Manhattan: The opening sequence

65: Manon Des Sources: César discovers he has a child

66: Once Upon A Time In The West: The mystery man's flashback

67: Paris, Texas: The peepshow booth encounter

68: Play It Again Sam: Woody and the Oscar Peterson album

69: The Graduate: Sitting at the back of the bus

70: The Princess Bride: The clifftop duel

71: The Searchers: Ethan Edwards' final cut

72: There's Something About Mary: The unusual hair-gel

73: Titanic: Lovers at the ship's bow

74: Zulu: The final battle

75: Delicatessen: The bedsprings scene

76: William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet: The young lovers gaze through an aquarium

77: Scarface: 'Say hello to my leetle friend'

78: Dr Strangelove: Bomb descends to 'We'll Meet Again'

79: The Piano: Piano playing on the beach

80: Cinema Paradiso: Compilation of love scenes

81: Edward Scissorhands: Ice sculptures

82: Babette's Feast: The old general tastes the food

83: The Jungle Book: Mowgli meets Baloo

84: Henry V (Kenneth Branagh): Henry carries away his dead page

85: La Dolce Vita: The frolic in the fountain

86: Cabaret: Tomorrow belongs to them

87: Un Chien Andalou: Eye-slicing

88: Four Weddings And A Funeral: The W. H. Auden recital

89: Great Expectations: Pip meets Magwitch in the graveyard

90: Happiness: The, er, climax

91: Braveheart: The battle of Stirling Bridge

92: High Noon: Will Kane realises he is alone

93: Ice Cold In Alex: 'Four ice-cold lagers'

94: Les Diaboliques: He rises from the dead

95: Schindler's List: The girl's red coat

96: Cool Hand Luke: The egg-eating contest

97: The Thomas Crown Affair (1967): The chess game

98: Bambi: The death of Bambi's mother

99: The Sound Of Music: 'The hills are alive'

100: Heat: Neil McCauley and Vincent Hanna first meet

McCauley: Maybe we should both be doing something else pal.
Hanna: I don't know how to do anything else.
McCauley: Neither do I.
Hanna: I don't much want too either.
McCauley: Neither do I.

The Guardian.

Keep in mind that this survey compiled responses from the British public (which explains alot of the foreign films and also how popular movies get their due; yay no silent films!).

Discuss.
26 Jun 2007, 07:40 PM
Doc Holliday

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5: Apocalypse Now: Dawn helicopter attack

21: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The cemetery gunfight :tu: :tu:

25: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Chief Bromden escapes

30: Seven: What's in the box?

56: Reservoir Dogs: Ear amputation

66: Once Upon A Time In The West: The mystery man's flashback :tu:

69: The Graduate: Sitting at the back of the bus

71: The Searchers: Ethan Edwards' final cut :tu:

86: Cabaret: Tomorrow belongs to them :tu:

91: Braveheart: The battle of Stirling Bridge

92: High Noon: Will Kane realises he is alone

96: Cool Hand Luke: The egg-eating contest

I was glad to see these.
26 Jun 2007, 09:33 PM
Space Pirate Roberts

"No Luke, I am your father" at anything other than 1 = fail.
26 Jun 2007, 09:46 PM
The_Meach

SW was the only series to have more than one scene but how the Death Star blowing up is higher than "Obi-Wan never told you about your father," is really puzzling.
26 Jun 2007, 09:49 PM
MechDeus

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12: The Deer Hunter: The prisoners play Russian roulette

That's the only scene from that movie I've watched, just because I happened to come across it while flipping channels and then kept going when it was over.

I'm also glad a Baz Luhrmann film made it on there.
26 Jun 2007, 11:20 PM
Drewbacca

Call me when they include porno's.
26 Jun 2007, 11:49 PM
Will

Why they don't have Roddy Piper and Keith David beating the fucking shit out of each other in They Live......I don't know.
27 Jun 2007, 12:09 AM
gamevet

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Originally Posted by The_Meach

SW was the only series to have more than one scene but how the Death Star blowing up is higher than "Obi-Wan never told you about your father," is really puzzling.

That line is from The Empire Strikes Back. ;)

The most famous lines from A New Hope are: "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope." and "May the Force be with you." I'm surprised those didn't beat out the Death Star blowing up.
27 Jun 2007, 12:46 AM
bbobb

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Originally Posted by The_Meach

SW was the only series

Reading comprehension get Gamevet.
27 Jun 2007, 01:06 AM
gamevet

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Reading comprehension get Gamevet.

Yeah, I'm going to bed.

I've had maybe 8 hours of sleep in 3 days. :bang:
27 Jun 2007, 02:47 AM
The_Meach

:tu: to Blade Runner at No. 5. Although this scene is not in my personal Top 10, it is an under-recognized scene. It really is beautiful and is the perfect ending to a seminal sci-fi movie.

:tu: 17: Platoon: Sergeant Elias staggers out of the jungle. This movie is 20 years old now and is getting less and less love as we get farther away from Vietnam (which is inevitable and I'm totally fine with it; how overrated do movies like Hamburger Hill, Forrest Gump, and even Full Metal Jacket seem today as we leave the boomer generation behind?). But it is still a tremendously moving, yet poignant, scene. Still get misty watching it.

:tu: 26: Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Indiana shoots the swordsman. One reason I'm so glad to see this here is b/c it scenes like this (silly, funny scenes) are so rarely recognized by the Academy or even the Golden Globes. Yeah, I know those awards are supposed to look at whole films and aren't concerned with individual scenes. But they are also a little too full of themselves; as in, if something is funny, they seem to discount it. Comedy is hard to do. And Raiders of the Lost Ark is practically a perfect "Adventure" movie and that scene really captures the feel of Indy's character and the movie as a whole. I'm probably not making any sense here, but if Raiders is on cable and I'm close to that scene, I wait around for it. That's the best way I know of describing what constitutes a great scene.

:td: 35: Pulp Fiction: Vincent shoots Marvin. How is this possibly better than the uber-scene b/w Vince and Mrs. Marsellus Wallace at Jack-Rabbit Slim's? That is arguably Tarantino's best scene ever.
27 Jun 2007, 03:06 AM
Calliander

I would like to add the following to the list somehow.

The Big Lebowski: Mr. Lebowski is in seclusion in the west wing...
27 Jun 2007, 03:35 AM
JBNagis

Deliverance- you got a purty mouth/Squeal like a pig!/Dualing Banjos

Phantom of the Opera-The Phantom Takes his mask off. Im talkin the old b/w one.

Othello(with Fishburn)-Has a seizure while being tricked into believing his wife is cheating on him.

Boyz in the Hood-Ricky is Killed

At least thats wat i think should be on there.

JBNagis
27 Jun 2007, 03:59 AM
The_Meach

Good point about Othello. Speaking of Shakespeare, I was glad to see Henry V (although when Mel Gibson's Hamlet confronts his mother is pretty decent, too) on there. I think a major loss was forgetting to include the Ghost scenes from Olivier's Hamlet (and his confrontation of Ophelia - great, great stuff). But considering that this was the general public, I don't know how many ppl are familiar w/Olivier's Hamlet (from the 50s or 60s?).
27 Jun 2007, 04:16 AM
Tigana

Hmm, which scene from The Godfather would you guys take? I would take the Baptism personally.
27 Jun 2007, 04:53 AM
The_Meach

When Michael kills Sollazzo in the diner, (along w/Gen. Ripper, er, Capt McCulskey). This is, undeniably, the most important scene in the entire series.

From when Michael shows up, then excuses himself to go the bathroom, all the way to where he comes back out...
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7...father1yl6.gif

Most impressive.
27 Jun 2007, 04:54 AM
Kaneda

They forgot Phoebe Cates' pool scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the Scanners head explosion. Also, Commando and the Star Wars series should be about half the list.
27 Jun 2007, 05:03 AM
The_Meach

So many Commando scenes to choose from: "Don't disturb my friend; he's dead tired."

"What happened to Sully?"
"I had to let him go."

"Hey Benett! Let off some steam!"
27 Jun 2007, 07:08 AM
bbobb

Hell there's over 100 memorable moments in Commando alone.
27 Jun 2007, 08:48 AM
Klonoa

Ben Stein calling attendance in Ferris Bueller, top 100.
27 Jun 2007, 01:40 PM
gir

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Originally Posted by JBNagis

Deliverance- you got a purty mouth/Squeal like a pig!/Dualing Banjos

that was actually the first thing i thought of after reading that list. it's like, where's deliverance's "squeal like a pig" line? it should be there.

also, i feel like the aliens scene "game over man, game over" should be somewhere in the top 100. but at least the alien chestburster scene is mentioned.

citizen kane. "rosebud."

and i hate to say it, but home alone's aftershave scream-scene should be in there.
29 Jun 2007, 11:47 AM
Cheebs

Resuvoir (damn French and their bizzare spelling) Dogs: Dude, I stillt can't listen to that damn Stuck in the Middle song without seeing that ear amputation scene in my head!
29 Jun 2007, 12:12 PM
BerringerX

Woodchipper. Need I say more?

Also, I agree with the High Noon moment. That crane shot when it pulls back to show the entire street empty... Not something that you'd soon forget.
30 Jun 2007, 03:50 AM
Cheebs

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Originally Posted by BerringerX

Woodchipper. Need I say more?

Rumble in the Bronx?

Also: Death of Optimus Prime imo.
30 Jun 2007, 04:43 AM
JBNagis

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

Rumble in the Bronx?

Also: Death of Optimus Prime imo.

Uh....no. That would be Fargo.

One of my fave moments:
Hero-Moon is Killed by Flying Snow and all the brown leaves turn crimson red.
Very cool moment in my opinion.

JBNagis
01 Jul 2007, 02:14 AM
Taito

Number 1? Seriously?
01 Jul 2007, 02:38 AM
Kev

The fact that neither of the Cameron-directed Terminators are mentioned completely invalidates this list.
01 Jul 2007, 03:14 AM
voltz

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45: Star Wars: Destruction of the Death Star

eh? Are you telling me the part where Han was chasing a couple of storm troopers didn't count? come on......

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23: Alien: The birth of the alien

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/space/images/alien.jpg
"oh no....... not again!"
01 Jul 2007, 05:50 AM
Anthony

Control F did not find rocky, so i did not read this list.
01 Jul 2007, 10:06 AM
Bojack

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Originally Posted by Destin

Control F did not find rocky, so i did not read this list.

Ctrl F also did not find Apollo 13 so the list is doubly invalid.
02 Jul 2007, 01:56 AM
The_Meach

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Originally Posted by Kev

The fact that neither of the Cameron-directed Terminators are mentioned completely invalidates this list.

What single scene from T1 would make this list? Sure, I can think of great dialogue scenes from the first movie...

"Terminators can't feel pain. I do. Don't do that again."

"It won't stop, EVER, until you...are dead!"

...but what single scene stands out?

On second thought, the first disco scene in T1 (where Arnie first comes across Sarah Connor) still resonates. And the whole 'escape from the asylum' scene (from Sarah fucking up the orderly to T1000's 'hand' left on the trunk of deputy's car) still rocks.
22 Jul 2007, 11:41 PM
Nisera

All most all the major action scenes in Hard Boiled. The opening teahouse scene as well as the hospital scene comes to mind. They should look even better on the Special edition dvd that comes out next week.