FILM: Favourite film moment, ever?

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That isn't even the best Bond moment. The best is in "A View to a Kill" when Christopher Walken's character starts gunning down all of his employees in the mine with an Uzi while laughing maniacally.

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No, the best moment is in Dr. No. when Bond is questioning the scientist who just shot the bed of the female enemy agent, where he had been sleeping, full of holes. The scientist is sprawled on the rug not too far from the gun he dropped. Bond puts his own gun down on the table next to him while he casually messes around with a cigarette. The murderous scientist's hand slowly creeps toward the gun as he speaks, while Bond seems to have stopped paying attention, and then he lunges for it, brings it up to bear on Bond, and the gun clicks -- empty. Bond, never interrupting his own relaxed business, with utterly cool coldness, leisurely reaches for his gun after finishing lighting his cigarette, points it at the scientist, and says, "That's a Smith & Wesson. Your six are up." And fires.

Obviously Bond could have killed him in the beginning, but was just setting him up to screw himself over and doom himself. And to pay him back, Bond, after being a smartass and letting the terror sink in to the guy, took a methodical and completely unnecessary revenge on him. Why? Because he could. Because he didn't like the guy. Because he enjoyed the cruelty of the trap. And because he didn't like people f*cking with him. Screw either the morality or the utility of keeping the guy alive.

Now THAT was a Bond!

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choose life speach - TRAINSPOTTING

bathroom scene/three cops scene- RESEVOIR DOGS

jack pretending to be brain fried then winking
- ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST


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Good choices!

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Heat - the bank robbery, the Pacino/De Niro scene, the last shootout

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Great scenes, well worth watching an almost infinite amount of times.

[speirs]

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Band of Brothers - Episode "Points" - when they are playing baseball and Winters recaps what happened to each of them after the war. I'm tearing up just thinking about that scene right now.

Swede

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This indeed is one of the best scenes from BoB. Wow, the best series of WOII ever.

[ackid]

Great Post. It's hard to decide, so many great films over the past 3 decades.

Some off the dome....

1. The last scene in Alien where Ripley's the last one left and has 20 mins. to evacuate and blow the ship.

2. Mad Max, last scene where he handcuffs kids ankle to a tractor trailor and sets a time bomb near the rig. He drops a hacksaw and says " The bomb will go off in ten minutes if your lucky you can hack through your ankle in five". and drives off.

3. Game of Death- When Bruce Lee reaches top of pagoda and fights Kahreem too the death.

4. Wait Until Dark- When Audrey Hepburn knocks out lights at the end and battles burglar, She's blind the last scene is 10 mins of total darkness.

5. When a stranger calls- The calls are coming from inside the house!

6.The scene in Jaws were they see the shark for the first time. Where Brodie says " Your gonna need a bigger boat".

7. The last Scene in "Saw". I've heard alot of people say it was lame but It caught me off guard and people in the movie were freaking out.

8. I kind of like the part in "Shawn of the Dead" when there trying to get to the pub and they act like goofy zombies to evade mass of undead gathered in front of the bar. Then at the end he playing xbox with his friend (whos now a zombie) and keeps him chained and gaged in a shed in the backyard.

9. The transformation scene in "American Werewolf in London".


Damn Brain Freeze......

[theben]

every al pacino tirade

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Dude's practically been on autopilot for the last 20 years.

[SinCityGuy]

Richard Dreyfuss in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". After losing his job, his family, and nearly losing his sanity, he is rejuvenated with awe, wonder and hope as he boards the mother ship at the end of the movie.

[ethan]

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Heat - the Pacino/De Niro scene

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I always liked the diner scene between Jude Law and Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition. For some reason it works better for me than the similar scene in Heat.

For that matter, I just like the whole movie. So far Mendes has directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, I'm curious to see how Jarhead works as his third film.

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What's Jarhead about? Sounds like a reference to Marines. Is that from the book a guy wrote recently about his experiences in Iraq?

I'm a big fan of American Beauty.