The most amazing movie scene you've ever....er seen!

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dr.dextrous

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(did a search for sequence and scene, didnt find anything)


for me it would be a few scenes and sequences in alien resurrection

and also the matrix

where the two lorries go head to head in slow motion

still in awe of that now when i watch it
 
There are a lot of great scenes in those movies. For me two of the best are Gandalf's ride from Edoras to Gondor and up through the white city, and the lighting of the beacons. The second one is mostly made by the music. and the cinematography. Virtually nothing happens in it, but it's awesome, especially on a big screen.

I also like the opening of the gates at, I think, Cirith Ungol, when Frodo is at the bottom of the stair and the army marches out.
 
The Indianapolis speech by Robert Shaw in Jaws.

The Ratso Rizzo moment on the bus at the end of Midnight Cowboy.

Taxi Driver: The final shoot out and the "Are you talking to me" sequence.

The Deathstar attack at the end of Star Wars.
 
Star Wars (or Episode 4: A New Hope, as it's now known). The opening scene. You all know it. Princess Leia's corvette flies past the camera firing its guns, followed by the most awesomely oversized starship ever seen in cinema history - accompanied by the best soundtrack to a movie ever written. A scene that grabbed you by the balls and didn't let you go until the end credits rolled.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The whole of the battle of Helm's Deep. My jaw was sat on the sticky cinema floor for the whole time. I'd never seen anything quite like it before. The Seige of Gondor may have topped it in Return of the King, but we were kinda expecting it after seeing this. I never expected to actually see an army of great orcs standing - ten thousand strong - before a medieval castle, chanting like drunkern rugby fans. Oh my god, it was just the most amazing scene EVER!

And that could only be followed by the Ride of the Rohirrim as Theoden turned the tide in The Battle of Pellenor FielRAB. Yep, they just couldn't top Helm's Deep because we'd be expecting anything they could throw at us after that. But then this army of horsemen shows up and Theoden gives the most rousing war speech ever and we watch as all those horses pile down into an army of 300,000 orcs. You just can't top scenes like that!
 
Certainly reminiscent of the scene in Kubrick's 2001 where a long, long, long starship moves across the screen. I know in real terms the Discovery was probably smaller than the Correllian corvette of Lucas' film (complete with shameless rip-off of 633 Squadron), but in 1968 it was reported to be a mindblowing scene and put into perspective it is!
 
To me it's not some big action scene it's the quiet beautiful moments that get me. Like in Wings of Desire when the angels listen to peoples thoughts in a public library. Or in Paris, Texas the monologue Harry Dean Stanton has with his estranged wife. To me these scenes are amazing and fill me with hope.

Yeah having said that...Neo stopping bullets is also way cool :D
 
Goes on my list of cinema magic. Makes me a little sad too that we will never see superhero films like this anymore what with all the current crop of crappy Marvel films of crappy characters.
 
A scene that few people will probably ever have seen...from a somewhat rather lacking remake of the classic Clouzot movie Wages Of Fear by William Friedkin from 1977...but this one scene is quite frankly incredible...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6YK9x7uLZg&feature=related

Unfortunately, this is a rather truncated version of the scene...but it does give an impression of just how dangerous this was to shoot...I just love the spectacle of the guy in the white suit sitting Shaman-like on the bridge as this huge, lumbering metal beast comes towarRAB him, dangerously lurching from side to side...
 
Erm i wouldnt say the most amazing ever but in The Dark Knight the bank robbery at the beginning i love as well as The Chase part and when the truch flips over. When i saw the chase scene at the cinema when it ended i was like 'oh sh*t that was so awesome'
 
Well, just loving the love there still is for Superman The Movie. Donner's original is full of wonderful scenes in addition to the one mentioned; the first shot of Supes flying in the Fortress; 'he's coming Mr Lut'or' and the end fly-by. Afraid we'll never see the likes of this type of fantasy/superhero film again. Superman Returns can't for me, be even mentioned in the same breath. Awful, awful film....but that's a whole other thread.


Also suggest The Spy Who Loved Me and the opening ski chase sequence, with Roger Moore's unfurling of the union jack parachute. Surely, the best intro of any Bond movie ever, followed by the best Bond music score ever?
 
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