Gustaive's top 15 favorite (Greatest) movie scenes and sequences

[Gustaive]

Here is something fun. My list of the 15 greatest scenes in movie hostory! Of course I understand most people will not agree with me but it's just somethign to talk about and discuss :) These are scenes that I will always remember and almost all of them include memorable musical scores. I'll try and include a screenshot of the scenes as well.

Starting with #15

From the movie, The Two Towers, Foundations of Stone (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a357/todpicsgus/FoundationsofStone.jpg) is my #15.

It's hard to dramatize the written word. Gandalf explains what happens when he falls but it's much later in the story. With Howard Shores score starting at the New Line Cinema logo, we are thrown right into Middle Earth. It was a great way to start the movie and one that I'll never forget. It's how I judge all other movie intros now.

[Thadda Al-Munik]

As a kid, I thought when He-man grabbed the sword from skeletors machine in the movie was sweet.

Nowadays, Every battle scene in Gladiator makes my favorite movie scene

[Vlad Morbius]

The lightning fast kick to Han's head by Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon!!!

[Moxie]

A lord of wisdom throned he sat,
swift in anger, quick to laugh;
an old man in a battered hat
who leaned upon a thorny staff.


He stood upon the bridge alone
and fire and shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone,
in Khazad-dum his wisdom died




Boy i really hope they pull of LoTR's!

[Gustaive]

#14

From the movie: The Lion King it's The Circle of Life (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a357/todpicsgus/COL.jpg).

I was 18 when this movie came out and I remember thinking "ah yeah .. Disney. Pfft" but I worked at a theater at the time and we could preview all the movies a few days to a week in advance. So we watched The Lion King. For many of the same reasons as #15, this is an unforgettable scene. The music, the quality of the art, the animals bowing ... it showed me I wasn't in for "just a kids movie".

[Lokania]

I don't have a list and could never come up with just 15 anyway. I love movies, all I ask from them is to entertain me for a couple of hours. One scene came to my mind immediately when I saw this thread..

The scene in Signs when Graham suddenly realizes what he has denied to himself since his wife's death. That moment still gives me chills. I don't know if it is the look on Mel Gibson's face, or everything that led up to it but there is something there that gets me each and every time I watch it.

[Thadda Al-Munik]

this part of a movie I thought was pretty funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJ3BiHuKrs

watch 1:55

Most of the best clips from Gladiator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV0ChylgeC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOu1EJ44o9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_1hkxJ3cg4

[Gustaive]

#13

From the movie: A Christmas Story it's Ralphie beats up Scut Farkus (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a357/todpicsgus/farkas.jpg).

As a little kid, watching this whole movie was funny but I'll never forget the fight scene with the bully. It wasn't UFC or Mortal Kombat ... it was just a realistic account of a kid who catches a bully by surprise. Bullies always count on the passive response ;)

[Thadda Al-Munik]

Gustaive, that was always a favorite of mine as a kid too.

[Gustaive]

#12

From the movie: We Were Soldiers The Bayonet Charge. (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a357/todpicsgus/weweresoldiers.jpg).

Again, music played a big part in creating the drama of this scene. The soldiers, low on ammo decide to charge the hill where the enemy base is. It looks like it will be a slaughter ... until Major "Snake" shows up in a gunship to even the odds a bit. Now, I had read the movie was based on a true story and this seemed hard to believe so I went and researched it.

Sure enough, the charge never took palce but it was well done and very dramatic. It also prompted me to do some research to find out what really happened. When ever a movie does that, it's a good thing.

[ZaQuest]

The ending fight scene in V For Vendetta where he is surrounded by 12 agents and the leader says "Go on what you gonna do, You can cant fight us with all your fancy kung fu tricks, we have guns" then V says "No my good man what you have are bullets, with the hopes of by the time you have reloaded you will be dead with my hands around your throat", he is shot like hell with so many bullets by the chancellors Agent's he drops to the ground...and everything goes into slow motion and one of the agents drops an empty gun magazine which drops to the ground...V gets up and says in a dark voice "My Turn" and throws 2 knives at two agents in proper Matrix style slow motion where you can see the knives cut the air. Then fighting every agent with his knives until he comes to the leader lol.

Now me being british and V For Vendetta being british i gotta say that was a freaking awesome scene in the movie :D.

[Holt Politician]

The first few minutes of Full Metal Jacket, where the Drill Instructor gives them the lowdown. That's probably one of my top 5. I could watch that scene everyday and still laugh. Wish I had a tape recorder of some of the things my navy DIs said.

Seeing Cowboy get killed in "Full Metal Jacket" makes me want to donkey punch someone. -least favorite scene. *RIP* Cowboy