Your favorite "moment" in movie history

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Obviously there are some extremely famous movie moments that will always stand the test of time:

-Han Solo returns just in time to save Luke and blow up the Death Star

-The Matrix "freeze frame"

-Joe Pesci in Goodfellas asking why he's funny

-Bruce Willis is dead in The Sixth Sense

But I want to know what everyone's favorite moment is here. I'm sure some will be a bit outside the box, which always makes in interesting.

Mine is probably a bit unfair because it came from a book series, but I believe if you really line up all of the most emotion-stirring scenes in the history of movies, "Snape's memories" from Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Part 2 can go toe-to-toe with any of them. That to me was the perfect example of the audience thinking they have a grip on a character, and realizing they had no idea who or what he was the whole time.

What are some others?
 
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In the movie The Perfect Host, when...

Warwick starts writing the postcard to himself from "Julia", letting you know he knew what was going on the whoke time.
 
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In no particular order, a few of my favorites

1. Saving Private Ryan- "Earn this. Earn it"
2. Shawshank Redemption- ending scene
3. ET- telekinesis scene on the bicycle
Arguably the most iconic scene
4. Jurassic Park- "Welcome to Jurassic Park"
5. Forrest Gump- Forrest by Jenny's grave

Honorable mention from Childhood: The Fox and the Hound- Copper leaving Todd behind in the woods, after both have reconciled.
 
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The Godfather part 2- the last scene which was a flashback of Vito's kids at the dinner table in a happier time.
Good Will Hunting - Will leaving the note for Sean that he was going to see about a girl.
Dr. Strangelove - Slim Pickens riding the Nuke.
Animal House - Belushi downing the Jack.
 
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Favorite is tough but these are easily remembered.

Usual Suspects- Holy crap...HE'S Kyzer Soze!
Jaws-You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Star Wars-Luke...I am your father.
Alien-critter breaking out of John Hurts chest.

OK, after thinking about it had to add these to my list:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High- Phoebe Cates pool scene.

The Exorcist- 360 head spin, but that movie had a lot of "sticks in your head" moments.
 
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Clark Griswold -

I think you're all **** in the head. We're ten hours from the **** fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. You're gonna have fun, and I'm gonna have fun... We're all gonna have so much **** fun we're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our **** smiles! You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your ****holes! I must be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy ****!
 
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Scenes that give me goosebumps -

Restaurant scene in Godfather
William Wallace shouts freedom in Braveheart
Furiosa hangs onto Max's foot in Fury Road
Carthage battle reenactment in Gladiator
President's speech in Independence Day*
Coin flip gas station scene in No Country for Old Men
Rorschach makes his move in prison cafeteria in Watchmen
The people take to the streets in V for Vendetta
Call fights man who was whipping Newt in Lonesome Dove
Bathtub scene in Training Day

*by far the cheesiest scene that gets to me
 
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Jaws - Quint tells the story of the USS Indianapolis
This is Spinal Tap - "These go to 11"
Planet of the Apes - The Statue of Liberty
Alien - The dinner scene
The Godfather Part 2 - The greatest monologue in film:

Hyman Roth: There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts! And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye! No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, "This is the business we've chosen." I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
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chatt-townVOL said:
Obviously there are some extremely famous movie moments that will always stand the test of time:

-Han Solo returns just in time to save Luke and blow up the Death Star

-The Matrix "freeze frame"

-Joe Pesci in Goodfellas asking why he's funny

-Bruce Willis is dead in The Sixth Sense

But I want to know what everyone's favorite moment is here. I'm sure some will be a bit outside the box, which always makes in interesting.

Mine is probably a bit unfair because it came from a book series, but I believe if you really line up all of the most emotion-stirring scenes in the history of movies, "Snape's memories" from Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Part 2 can go toe-to-toe with any of them. That to me was the perfect example of the audience thinking they have a grip on a character, and realizing they had no idea who or what he was the whole time.

What are some others?
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Funny how? :)
 
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The last 5 mins of The Usual Suspects when the identity of Kaiser Soze becomes known.
 
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Clark Griswold's epic rant in "Christmas Vacation"

the snake wrangler scene from "Earnest Saves Christmas"

The Conversation from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

lobby shootout from "The Matrix"

pretty much any scene from "Deadpool"

from "Amadeus" when a dying Mozart is dictating his Requiem to Salieri
 
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The epic shootemup scene in True Romance. Cops,Mobsters and armed bodyguards...killing whoever's not dead yet. The original version where Alabama finished it...not the less controversial fix.
 
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I think were going need a bigger boat.
I want the truth! YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!
I love you.I know
here's johnny!
 
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hndog609 said:
Favorite is tough but these are easily remembered.

Usual Suspects- Holy crap...HE'S Kyzer Soze!
Jaws-You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Star Wars-Luke...I am your father.
Alien-critter breaking out of John Hurts chest.

OK, after thinking about it had to add these to my list:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High- Phoebe Cates pool scene.
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All great. Mmmmm.... Phoebe Cates

volinbham said:
first thing that came to mind

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o[/youtube]
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Hell yes!!
 
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MG1968 said:
Clark Griswold's epic rant in "Christmas Vacation"
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Now that you mention that, I always loved his rant in the original Vacation when they were near the park and his family wanted to call it off. I think about it whenever I go on a long road trip with my family.

edit: oh yeah, that one

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Clark Griswold -

I think you're all **** in the head. We're ten hours from the **** fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. You're gonna have fun, and I'm gonna have fun... We're all gonna have so much **** fun we're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our **** smiles! You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your ****holes! I must be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy ****!
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Upham letting Mellish get killed. I'm not sure I've ever been that angry at a fictional person before.
 
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malinoisvol said:
I'll give my wife's answer.

"Play it again, Sam."

Casablanca
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Not quite as old school as Casablanca, but the ending freeze frame scene of Butch and Sundance running out of the building with the Bolivian soldiers waiting outside to riddle them with bullets.
 
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The scene in The Last Samurai when the Japanese commander bows to Cruise's character and all of the samurai they have killed and the entire Japanese division follows his lead. That scene gets me every damn time.
 
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