Best sequence/s in a film ever!

I love the whole - seemingly everlasting - Bexhill Battle scene in Children of Men. Action packed but without being overly gory or Gung-ho. A fabulous sense of tension, yet so much is going on.
 
Our first glimpse of Anthony Hopkins in silence of the lambs.

Snow fight scene in Kill Bill 1.

Weapon selection by bruce willis in Pulp Fiction.

Training sequence of full metal jacket...

List goes on and on and on!
 
Have to put my twopennyworth in. Jp one of the few films CGI was used to make a film better not smother the film making. And using models worked much better in close ups.

A great film, watched it recently and can't believe the mess CGI has made of some other films since then IMO.
 
In Gladiator at the end..... then I again I love all of it. :)

Then in ALL disney movies when theres a really epic bit with amazing music. For example, my faves are The Lion King when he goes up Pride Rock, and Pocahontas when she just stanRAB there waving John off- its stunning!
 
I think the reason that CGI worked so well in JP & JP2LW was because the computer "puppets" were controlled by match-move stop-frame armatured controlled by traditional animators. Also, the CGI images are so well 'grounded' in the film as well - they're very convincing, especially in JP2.

Agree with peformingmonk about the USS Indianapolis scene from Jaws, and with noops re. the Bladerunner scene.

Another favourite sequence of mine, again from Mulholland Drive (watched it again last night) - the "discrete assassination" scene where the hitman shoots the guy for the "history of the world in phone numbers" book, then while setting up the gun in the dead man's hand to make it look like suicide accidentally shoots through the wall and injures the woman next door, has to then shoot her, but is witnessed by the night cleaner, so he has to then shoot him, who then accidentally switches on his vacuum cleaner while he's falling, so the hitman shoots the vacuum cleaner, causing an electrical short which sets off the intruder alarm. It's such a surreal sequence of events. There are so many wonderful sequences in that film!
 
Superman - where he catches the falling helicopter with Lois Lane inside

American Flyers - a little known film - the Hell Of The West cycle race

The Core - the Shuttle flying over LA and landing in the LA river (hilarious although I'm not sure it was meant to be funny)
 
Couldn't agree more about the mis-use of CGI - I think the original Star Wars films look much better than Episodes 1, 2 & 3....I think there is something organic about using real models....y'know, something tangible that you could almost touch and feel.

Whilst PJ's King Kong was great, I did titter at some of the CGI (when Billy Elliot is running from the dinos.....for example) - my suggestion is if it looks a bit fake or bad with CGI, then maybe it shouldnt be filmed!
 
Goodfellas, at the end when Henry is making meatballs, picking up the drugs and the helecopter is following him, with Money Man by the Stones playing in the background. Genuis.
 
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