I always think of it more as a Bond film – it’s got the archetypical Bond Villain.
Which reminds me … the “Woman! Where is my super suit???” scene is one of my all time favorites.
My husband (Andy L’s) favorite scene from that movie is earlier, when Dane is filming a commercial and forces himself to say, “By Grapthar’s hammer…what a savings.”
My favorite Galaxy Quest scene is, “It’s all real.” And the kid says, “I knew it!”
I’ll chime in with “Ooooooooooh, they’re so cute!” “Don’t you ever watch the show?!?” :dubious:
Actually, *Galaxy Quest *reminds me of Casablanca. It’s full of favorite scenes and favorite lines.
“Whoever wrote this episode should DIE!”
“Oh, that’s not right!”
“Well, how does it feel Jason, you’ve murdered us all!”
“And what you fail to realize, is that MY ship is towing mines!”
After the GIs have taken the chateau in The Dirty Dozen:
"Kill the Germans, feed the French.
The little girl’s pink coat being carted off on a pile of refuse.
and
Meet Me in St. Louis: Tootie decapitating the snowmen.
The Tingler: when the Tingler attacks the projection booth.
How to Marry a Millionaire: when Lauren Bacall says she likes older men, and mentions the old guy in African Queen. (Humphrey Bogart, who, IRL was Bacall’s lover)
A Night to Remember: when the boy returns to the ship.
Another from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, although it’s just a single shot within a scene. Toward the beginning, Lee Van Cleef’s character shares a meal with a man he’s going to kill. He stares intently, obviously enjoying his victim’s mounting anguish, and—this is the shot—he hides his evil smile behind a piece of bread he’s holding in his hand. The shot lasts about one second but I find it unsettling as hell because it somehow looks menacing and coquettish at the same time.
Bird. The scene in which the baby cries in the midst of a heated argument between Forest Whitaker’s character (Charlie Parker) and his wife.
He jumps up from the table and runs toward the baby’s room and the wife chases after him because she thinks he’s going to hurt the baby. They realize it’s a misunderstanding and embrace hard, leaving the baby to scream unattended.
Mulholland Drive. In the second half, when Naomi Watt’s character gets up and makes coffee and we start to realize that something’s different.
Runaway Train. Jon Voight’s character saying, “You don’t know what you can do!” Eric Roberts has some great scenes, too, alternately expressing exaggerated admiration of and disappointment in Voight’s character. I still can’t believe that’s a Golan-Globus production.
A Simple Plan. The scene in which they try to make an audio recording of Brent Briscoe’s character in order to frame him.
The Milagro Beanfield War. The last scene. Too beautiful for words.
In general, any scene featuring M. Emmet Walsh.
the Last of Sheila – the final revelations scenes, on the boat
Forbidden Planet – The Krell laboratory
Lady Caroline Lamb – The debate in Parliament
The Flight of the Phoenix (the 1965 original, of course) – the scene where The Phoenix finally takes off
Firefox – the scene where the Firefox takes off. What can I say, I like scenes with airplanes taking off against the odds. It helps that this was the first unoppressive daylight scene in the movie, after over an hour of nighyt scenes and pressure-filled daytime scenes.
The Day of the Jackal - the Testing Out the Assassin’s Rifle sequence.
To kill a Mockingbird - the scene in which Atticus Finch leaves the courtroom after the dreadful verdict and the black population (in the upstairs gallery) silently stand.
This resonates with me on so many levels:
- the total respect for the only white man who would stand up for justice
- the injustice to the innocent black defendant
- the fact that Atticus doesn’t even notice the gesture
- the pause between the Reverend saying “Stand up Miss Jean Louise” and “Your father’s passing.”
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?”
“As quickly as you can, snatch the pebble from my hand.”
Apocalypse Now - tiger
The Blues Brothers–The final song.
Wait Until Dark–the refrigerator scene. Scared me to death.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest–The Chief talks.
Peter O’Toole in Club Paradise when he is riding in on his horse. At his age, still someone to watch!
Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia in the scene where he rides in off the desert in full arab costuming. Holy shit, what a beautiful man he was in his youth. I really do prefer letterboxing to pan and scan, in a movie like this you lose so much when you can not see the original long panoramic views. Omar Sharif is no slouch either.
Casablanca - I’m shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on in here!
There really are so many great movies out there, it is hard to list my favorite scenes.
A great scene. And my favorite part of it is something subtle a lot of people miss. Robert Shaw’s performance is brilliant as he tells the story of surviving the sinking of the Indianapolis. But watch Richard Dreyfuss in that same scene. The three men are joking but as soon as Shaw mentions the Indianapolis, Dreyfuss gets serious - it’s clear he already knows the story even before Shaw tells it.
Scarlett swearing she’ll never go hungry again
Rick Blain with head bowed playing chess
“I Love You” dance between Animal and Shapiro (I sing that to my wife when she’s grouchy)
“I’m Tired” sang by Lily von Shtupp
“Moses supposes” (perennial question of “who’s the better dancer?”)
“America” from West Side Story
Henry VIII talking to Sir Thomas More
The kick to Sonny Corleon’s face as he lay dying
Young Vito arriving in America with “The Immigrant” playing
The roof chase in “The Stuntman”
“Ascot Gavotte”
Various dialogues in “Salt and Pepper”
Marcellus Wallace being rogered by two crazy whites
Tarantino’s “dead nigger storage”
The first two seduction scenes in “The Witches of Eastwick”
“I am not a horse!!!”
The mad sniper monologing over a prostrate Harry Callaghan
The baseball umpire in “The Naked Gun 1” (before they changed the Herman’s Hermits song as background music)
Sword duel between Rob Roy and Archibald
“The Dueling Banjos”
Moneyless Joe Buck wandering aimlessly with the Thieleman harmonica playing
First shooting scene in “Leon, The Professional”
“You talking to me?”
Last chase scene in “Carlito’s way” up to “…remember me, Benny Blanco from the Bronx?”
O Brother Where Art Thou - The forest scene when the people start walking past the 3 main characters and *Down to the River to Pray *starts playing.
Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder stabs himself in the leg with a scalpel - “Class… is… dismissed”
The Abyss - Catfish uses “The Hammer”
American Werewolf in London - Out on the moor’s at night, with the howling slowly getting closer.
Dog Soldiers - Luring a pack of werewolves away from some other survivours: “Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!”
Conan the Barbarian (1982) - Conan’s prayer.
In the Heat of the Night - Tibbs returns Endicott’s slap and the following exchange:
Eric Endicott: Gillespie?
Chief Gillespie: Yeah.
Eric Endicott: You saw it.
Chief Gillespie: I saw it.
Eric Endicott: Well, what are you gonna do about it?
Chief Gillespie: I don’t know.
I’ve always liked the opening scene from Silverado, especially where Scott Glenn steps out of the cabin after the shootout and there’s a simply gorgeous “Western vista” spread out in the distance.
The movie is great and people should catch it on Netflix when they get a chance.
It’s not my favorite movie. My favorite movie is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I guess you could say I think Jim Carrey is very talented, perhaps under appreciated, and picked/got lucky with a few good dramatic roles.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
Clementine: Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.
Joel: I remember that speech really well.
As all the bindings on the books in the book store fading away.
And:
Joel and Clementine saying goodbye to each other as the cabin is falling apart inside Joel’s mind
Also:
Joel reminiscing about his childhood as it starts to rain inside. “Row row row your boat gently down the stream…”
The movie is great and people should catch it on Netflix when they get a chance.
Better: More talking to Richard Rich during the trial:
“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Wales, Richard?”