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What do you consider to be the best scenes in movies or what are your favorite scenes?

I love these:

In The Passion of The Christ, the flashback of Jesus and Mary discussing how tall he was building that table and they were laughing and joking together, then He kissed her on the cheek.

Maverick and Goose singing “You’ve Lost that Love and Feeling” in Top Gun.

Rocky and Adrienne’s first date in the original Rocky movie.

When Jim Braddock had to go to the boxing headquarters office to ask for money to keep his family together in Cinderella Man and when he was talking to his little boy on the sidewalk after making him return the stolen item.
 
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Karen1996:
What do you consider to be the best scenes in movies or what are your favorite scenes?

I love these:

In The Passion of The Christ, the flashback of Jesus and Mary discussing how tall he was building that table and they were laughing and joking together, then He kissed her on the cheek.

Maverick and Goose singing “You’ve Lost that Love and Feeling” in Top Gun.

When Jim Braddock had to go to the boxing headquarters office to ask for money to keep his family together in Cinderella Man and when he was talking to his little boy on the sidewalk after making him return the stolen item.
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In the Passion I loved that part to but my all time favorite is Mary Magdalene at the feet of Jesus. Loved that scene from Top Gun. I want to see the Cinderella Man.
But my other favorite movie part is in Jesus of Nazareth with Ernest Borginine saying I am not worthy for you to enter my house.
The Count of Monte Cristo when Caviezel is in his cell and the old man bursts through.
I could think of millions for this thread. Luckily I have not seen a million movies
Anne of Green Gables when Anne dyes her hair green and Marilla agrees that she can stay.
Little House the Movie When Mr. Edwards comes with the Christmas gifts.
Meet me in St. Louis of course the trolley scene
 
My memory is mush, but I can recall a few favorites:

The Passion: The flashback of Mary to Jesus’ fall as a child, when he falls on the road to Calvary;

Jesus of Nazareth: A tie between Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Messiah at Caeserea (sp.) Phillipi and Jesus’ telling of the parable of the Prodigal Son;

Ghost: The scene at the end when heaven is opened for Sam (not exactly Catholic theology, but pretty moving anyway);

Field of Dreams: The end when Ray asks his dad if he “wants to have a catch”. It’s a guy thing…

Groundhog Day: When Rita and Phil are in the diner and Phil tells her all that he knows and loves about her.

I admit it. I’m a softie… 😉
 
One of my all time favorites is from “Witness”-when Harrison Ford and Kelly are"dancing" in the barn. Talk about 2 people “wanting” each other! Every time I hear " Don’t know much about history…" I think of that scene. That HAD to be some of the best “no sex…sex ever”
My second favorite is from " Bridges Of Madison County"…when Robert Kinkade is waiting in the rain at the red light and the camera goes from Francesca’s hand on the door knob to him and back…I was screaming “Open the door you fool!”
~ Kathy ~
 
The scene from Apollo 13 where the astronauts return safely and Mission Control goes wild (which apparently would never have happened IRL 😉 ). I get teary eyed every time I watch it. The music is amazing! 👍
 
The modern version of Great Expectations when Finn finally becomes successful and is standing outside Estella’s brownstone confessing his love to her.

Bourne Supremacy when Bourne and the last assassin from his group are fighting in the apartment.
 
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MaryB23:
The scene from Apollo 13 where the astronauts return safely and Mission Control goes wild (which apparently would never have happened IRL 😉 ). I get teary eyed every time I watch it. The music is amazing! 👍
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YES! :yup:

The barn dancing in *Witness *is good, but the scene that always gives me chills is when the boy identifies the bad guy in the pollice station – No dialog, just eye contact between him and Harrison Ford.

The Quiet Man: The “good stretch of the legs” and ensuing fight.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: The escape from Jabba’s sail-barge.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: When the Enterprise drops the Reliant’s shields and peppers it with photon torpedoes.

Pulp Fiction: The Bonnie Situation. (Or: Every other scene)

Crocodile Dundee II: Hanging the goon by his heels from the balcony. (Or: Any other scene)

The Trouble With Angels: When Halley Mills joins the convent.

Remember the Titans: When Sunshine goes into his first game and flips the defenseman. (Or: Any other scene)

The Last Boy Scout: “If you touch me again, I’ll kill you”

True Lies: The kiss framed by a nuclear detonation.

The Hunt for Red October: Emergency Blow! (Or: Any other scene)(Okay, I guess you can add this tag to all of my entries 😛 )(**Except: ***Star Wars *-- The rest of that movie stunk on ice)

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tee
Who watches too many movies, so will give it a rest now
(No, not “a rest” from watching movies. “A rest” from posting favorite scenes)
 
more recently, the scene in Narnia of the “confession”

Not often when a scene requires no words to make a dramatic impression… on me anyways.
 
Too many in The Passion to list.

Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven near the end. Clint and the young gunfighter are waiting to collect their bounty for killing the cowboys. The younger man, trying to justify the killings says “Well I guess they had it comin’.” Clint replies, “Kid, we all got it comin’.”

BTW I agree with tee about Jedi. I just saw it again with my son on video. Worst Star Wars movie ever!
 
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MrS:
more recently, the scene in Narnia of the “confession”

Not often when a scene requires no words to make a dramatic impression… on me anyways.
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I forgot about that one. That’s a great scene.
 
From the Passion of the Christ: where the Blessed Mother see Our Lord fall and flashes back to when He fell as a baby. Pulls you a little further into what she was going through at that moment.

From A Man for All Seasons: The scene where Saint Thomas, finally and unjustly condemned, thunders his contempt at the court and tells them precisely what he thinks.

From Becket: The excommunication scene. Gives you chills.
 
I said I was going to give it a rest, but I have to add:

City Slickers: Fatalistic Career Day at Billy Crystal’s son’s school. (standard disclaimer 😛 )

tee
 
Forgot to add the scene in *Return of the Jedi *whenVader is taunting Luke, then threatens to turn his sister to the dark side, then the final lighsaber duel that follows. Definately the second best fight in the series!
 
Being a Lord of the Rings (all 3 movies) devotee I make the same disclaimer as tee. :tiphat: But, purely cinematically speaking, the scene where we see a long shot of the burning Balrog (and Gandalf, although he is not visible in it) fall through the final cavern and into the underground lake. It is simply phenomenal! And the music is absolutely perfect. You think for certain that we have just witnessed the fiery sacrifice of Gandalf. And then Frodo awakening from dreaming it is icing on the cake!
 
The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is saying goodbye to everyone before she clicks her heels…I’m a softie too and it makes me :crying:

Star Trek: The Search For Spock when the planet is falling apart and Kirk is kicking down the Klingon and says: “I have had ENOUGH of you!” and the Klingon falls.

Field of Dreams, when the Doctor appears out from the cornfield to treat the boy who had fallen AND of course the father/son tossing the ball (mentioned above).

The final scene of Sunset Boulevard, where Gloria Swanson’s character (Norma Desmond) who just killed a man is upstairs in her room putting makeup on. When she finds out that the ‘cameras’ are there. You can tell she’s gone off the 'deep end" and she thinks the news reel cameras are for her and her return to movies.
 
Maybe it’s cheesy, but, here are a couple of my favorites:

In Forrest Gump, the final scene when his little boy goes off on the school bus and Forrest is sitting there and the feather flies by…:crying: or when Jenny dies and he’s standing by her grave and the birds fly by behind him after talking to her…:crying: alot of scenes in that movie tear me up.

In A League of Their Own, at the end when the girls are old and they go back to the hall of fame and look at their old pictures…

Gone with the WInd, full of memorable scenes. I like the barbecue in the beginning the best though.

🙂
 
the Quiet Man, where they have their first kiss in the cottage, and then their next kiss in the ruined Church, talk about passion without overt sex. then the scene after the “good stretch of the legs” when Sean takes the money from the brother, and Mary Kate opens the stove so he can throw it in to burn. Marital harmony at last.

Casablanca - “kiss me as if it were the last time” man they really knew how to kiss in those old movies, did not need bare bodies and gyrations to get the point across

Gone with the Wind, where Scarlet has just killed the Yankee and Melanie helps her dispose of the body, boy those southern belles were tough cookies

North by Northwest with Cary Grant clambering about on Mt Rushmore, still can’t watch it, I’m afraid of heights even in movies

that movie with Shirley MacLaine where her daughter is dying of cancer in the hospital and she loses it with the nursing staff demanding help for her - Steel Magnolias?

Being There when Chance the Gardener is interviewed by the reporter and made to sound like a genius

the Pink Panther movie with this dialogue:
I thought you said your dog does not bite.
That is not my dog.
and
That’s a priceless Steinway
Not any more.
 
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Celia:
Gone with the WInd, full of memorable scenes. I like the barbecue in the beginning the best though.
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Lots of good scenes in that movie. I like the line at the end, where Scarlett says, “I’ll think about that tomorrow!” It’s a line I use a lot myself.

(During the shooting of GWTW, there were only 7 technicolor cameras available in the entire world, and GWTW was using them all. At that time, technicolor used B&W film, running 3 separate film rolls thru the camera, each filtered for a particular color of light.)
 
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JKirkLVNV:
From A Man for All Seasons: The scene where Saint Thomas, finally and unjustly condemned, thunders his contempt at the court and tells them precisely what he thinks.
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Ditto of dittos!

oh and pretty much any and every scene in LOTR.
esp:
Boromir’s deathbed conversion
The council where Frodo volunteers
Galdalf’s death (the whole sequence, in parts 1 and 2)
pretty much ever scene involving Frodo and Sam in Mordor

oh an in Passion, the overlap of the last supper and the crucifixion. i watched the whole movie and THAT is the part that made me cry…
 
Men in Black: Recruiting Agent J.

North by Northwest: The Auction.

Young Frankenstein: “Seda-give!?!?”

The Untouchables: The train station. (standard disclaimer. “Here endeth the lesson”)

tee
 
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