Jerremy Clarkson turning up with a whole cow ontop of his Camero.
That whole episode was easily the best bit of telly for a long time.
From Magician: Master, second in Raymond E. Feist’s Riftwar series, the scene where Pug aka Milamber becomes EXTREMELY angry upon witnessing a Roman style gladatorial game. And then proceeds to go all Wrath-of-God with storm and lightning and rains of fire on the whole place.
Der Trihs, have I ever mentioned that you have *terrific * taste in SF/Fantasy?
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In this video you see early on Dean Lance of Canberra absolutely flatten Steve Roach of Balmain in the 1989 Grand Final. What makes it cool is that, only minutes earlier, Lance had been tackled and pushed over the sideline costing his side possession. Roach stood over him and abused him.
Lance’s comeback tackle virtually blotted Roach out of the game. He spent the rest of the match keeping one eye out for Lance. I have always thought that if Steve Roach had kept his mouth shut Balmain would have won that year. But kudos to Dean Lance.
When it was happening for real the whole world was watching on TV - and none of us were breathing either.
Another helicopter scene - only this one was in live theatre in London.
Miss Saigon, when a helicopter LANDS ON THE STAGE! Indoors!
The “Yeah!” scene for me in Apollo 13 is when the the daughter of Lovell is talking to her grandmother, Lovell’s mother (played, IIRC, by director Ron Howard’s mother). The granny is a bit ga-ga, they’re not really sure if she’s tracking what’s happening with her son. In a moment of clarity and quiet confidence, she says to her granddaughter:
“Are you scared? Well, don’t be. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.”
I loved that scene.
Call me sentimental, but I loved the scene in Spiderman when Spiderman is trying to save both Mary Jane and the cable car full of kids, and the Green Goblin is about to come up from behind and kill him, only to get beaned by a brick thrown by a New Yorker on the bridge, backed up by several hundred other angry New Yorkers throwing rocks, bricks, garbage, and whatever else they can get in their hands, at the GG.
Similarly the scene in Spiderman 2 after he saves the train, and the commuters save him from falling to his death.
Also, in Iron Man, “He’s all yours…” and The Dark Knight, “He missed!”
Why, thank you. 
I remember; I am still rapt during most of the movie.
Ditto. I always get a little teary-eyed at that point. I can safely say that Apollo 13 is my favorite movie ever.
“This is from…Mathilda.”
What got me in that episode was the end, when they turned up in a still devastated New Orleans and for once were just stunned into silence. Top Gear’s Lotus vs Apache shootout + Motorhead is still pretty hard to top, though.
From “Family of Blood”
While I appreciate action sequences that are amazing (Buffy, Die Hard etc), I still think this moment is incredible on so many levels:
- black people in this town have no rights
- they can be railroaded by an all-white jury
- only one white man is prepared to defend the accused
- the black people cannot show their appreciation publically
So the result is silent respect, which the saintly recipient doesn’t even see.
Awesome.