WOW! Moments in Movies

[MalcolmBrass]

I started this sort of thread over at the Home Theater Forum boards and am interested to see what moments in movies really blew you guys away, either at the theater or on DVD.

A few that really stand out for me:

Opening shot in Star Wars
The Mothership rising up behind Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The lobby scene from The Matrix
And Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places (yeah, THAT scene!)

There are tons of others, but this is a start.

[eswat]

Nemo didn't die in Finding Nemo (I was told he did :/)
The Neo vs Smith fight in Matrix Revolutions
The ending of Return Of The King
All of the car chase scenes in Terminator 3

[Tedakin]

The entire Moria sequence in The Lord of the Rings.
Yoda whipping out a lightsaber and throwing down.
The freeway chase in The Matrix Reloaded
The first time the T-Rex appeared in Jurassic Park.
The Bride vs. The Crazy 88.

[Auf_Der_Maur6]

The French Connection car chase (Gene Hackman chasing an L-Train)
The Blues Brothers car chase
The final shootout in The Wild Bunch
The D-Day sequence in Saving Private Ryan
The truck's death in Duel

[AcquiredTarget]

The shitiness of Battlefield Earth. RIght on :smt023!!!!!!!


Standout scene: Excalibur - Arthur shouting "Knights Gaurds Squires" followed by scene of armored knights riding between Cherry(?) trees with Carmina Bruna as the theme music.

[DarthEvilDude]

Learning Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers Father in The Empire Strikes Back

Every single moment from The Empire Strikes Back

Kill Bill: Vol 1 when Uma killed tons of Yakuza dudes with a samurai sword

Resievor Dogs when they were all walking in slow motion with Little Green Bag playing in the background (the first ever Tarintino Moment)

all of Pulp Fiction

and thats all i can think of right now.

[Zepoliney]

The first one that comes to mind right now is the last charge scene in The Last Samurai and everything that followed that.

[Snowmiser]

Seeing the actual shark in Jaws for the first time.

Death Star Trench Run in Star Wars

Luke finding out Vader is his father.

Lobby Scene in the Matrix

Neo vs. the 99 Smiths in Matrix Reloaded

The Lightsaber Duel in Phantom Menace

Yoda Throwing Down in Attack of the Clones

The Showdown in Kill Bill Vol. 1 with Lucy Liu

Ash sporting his chainsaw arm and saying "Groovy" for the first time in Evil Dead 2

Finding Out Who the Cop is Reservoir Dogs

The Split Personalities of Ed Norton in Fight Club

[Tom the First]

The taxi crash scene in Collateral (probably one of the most kickass scenes I have ever seen)
The helicopter scene in Mission Impossible
The first gun fight scene in Face Off
The Crazy 88 scene in Kill Bill vol. 1
The removal of Elle Driver's eye in Kill Bill vol. 2
The end of Identity
The Podracing scene in Star Wars Episode 1
The Hoth scene in Star Wars Episode 5
More to come....

[KingKongSushi]

That infamous Keira Knightley scene in "The Hole". Nuff said.

[Arandar]

Heh the nice dormroom scene is Lost and Delerious. Some of you may know what I'm talking about. :D I actually liked the movie to and watch the whole thing. Go figure.

Then basically all the Star Wars and Matrix scenes everyone else mentioned.

[MalcolmBrass]

My latest WOW moment was realizing that I wasted 90 minutes of my life watchng AvP!!! Sheesh.

[EmpyII]

RIght on :smt023!!!!!!!


Standout scene: Excalibur - Arthur shouting "Knights Gaurds Squires" followed by scene of armored knights riding between Cherry(?) trees with Carmina Bruna as the theme music.


Hell yeah that scene is definately in the top 10 best scenes evere in my book!
hehe right up there with the Uther doing the girl in full plate :-P

[Style]

Heh the nice dormroom scene is Lost and Delerious. Some of you may know what I'm talking about. :D I actually liked the movie to and watch the whole thing. Go figure.

Then basically all the Star Wars and Matrix scenes everyone else mentioned.

that movie got me so depressed, that I couldnt play my socom correctly afterwards. Lost and Delirious btw, not matrix or star wars.

If you guys have seen spun, its a movie about speed, but anyways theres a scene where the two lead characters: jason swartzman and brittany murphey are driving in the car. and they do a hit of speed. and they're talking.

but its the cinematography during this scene that I think is so visually attractive. theres so much going on with camera angles and everything during this scene. that it would take me so long to explain how it looks visually.

but everytime im just blown away, its literally like sensory overload while watching this scene.

[Digital*Firefly]

I don't know if Video game movies count, but seeing last years E3 video of Half Life 2 made me crap my pants.

[Zombie Dave Coulier]

The lawnmower scene at the end of Dead Alive, and most of the other scenes in that last half.

The showdown in the hospital at the end of the Frighteners. It was so light-hearted until then, but showdown scene was surprisingly dark.

Bub with a gun in Day of the Dead.

How hilariously shitty Jack Frost and Jack Frost 2 were.

[MalcolmBrass]

Tom Cruise popping a final cap into the ass of the punk already down in Collateral.