# Scenes you don't want to miss in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 15, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856 "2024-03-15T03:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/21 "2024-03-16T02:42:18Z")
[https://youtu.be/VG7JAM6DQnM?si=LZqyODboM5gPwxcc&t=53](https://youtu.be/VG7JAM6DQnM?si=LZqyODboM5gPwxcc&t=53) “I thought we were friends.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/22 "2024-03-16T02:47:35Z")
Kind of depends on your definition of ‘scene’. It appears the OP is more interested in short, one-line or a few seconds scene, and two of my don’t miss are: “I. Have Had. Enough. Of YOU!!!” and the couple of minutes leading to it. (Star Trek: The Search for Spock “Please be advised. Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.” Loved it in both the book and the Movie The Martian As for longer, ‘single take’ scenes, I still think the courthouse meeting scene in “Absense of Malice” is so perfectly acted, scripted, blocked and filmed that it still rivets me to my chair. And of course the opening minute or two of Star Wars…THE Star Wars, no bloody 2, 3, 4, or 5. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/23 "2024-03-16T04:32:09Z")
This scene always makes me cry: - the injustice of the times - the silent respect - Atticus doesn’t even know it’s happening [To Kill a Mockingbird - Your Father’s Passing (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXYvB4BZb1E) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/24 "2024-03-16T06:22:40Z")
Oh yes, that’s one I neglected to mention. Best line in the film. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/25 "2024-03-16T06:29:20Z")
The fight scene from Anchorman: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ipsPgNEmAXI/maxresdefault.jpg "ANCHORMAN COMPLETE FIGHT SCENE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipsPgNEmAXI) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/26 "2024-03-16T06:45:52Z")
“That’s some bad hat, Harry”…and yeah, that thing about needing a bigger boat. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/27 "2024-03-16T16:57:22Z")
The firing-every-bullet-we-can-lay-our-hands-on scene in Predator. Trees splintering, leaves flying, rocks sparking and locking on Old Painless’ trigger even after the ammo runs out. The minigun’s motor just whirring away is just the right touch to end the scene. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/28 "2024-03-16T16:58:22Z")
Enough is enough. I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. (Well, you didn’t say it had to be from a _good_ movie.) ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/29 "2024-03-20T20:26:40Z")
[Ghostbusters: Bill Murray says "Yes it’s true…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6dySBLSx8Y) Totally deadpan. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856/30 "2024-03-21T00:20:26Z")
1. The emergency airlock scene in 2001 2. The border scene in Sicario 3. “Madness!” at the end of Bridge on the River Kwai [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-movies/998856.md?page=1)