The Best [Blank] Scene in Any Movie Is...

[Tom_Scud]

Best performance by an actor in roughly half the roles in the movie: Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets

[Hypno-Toad]

Best scene to discuss the necessity of badges: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

[StusBlues]

@phungi

Best uninterrupted camera shot in a movie: opening sequence of The Player

I haven’t seen The Player, but it’s tough to beat *Touch of Evil *in this category.

[MaxTheVool]

Best sequence of climactic moments of awesomeness at the end of the movie: Back to the Future

Best robot death scene: The Iron Giant

Best montage: The beginning of Up

[HeyHomie]

Best Heavy Petting Scene (outside of an “adult” film): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

[phungi]

@StusBlues

I haven’t seen The Player, but it’s tough to beat *Touch of Evil *in this category.

Opening 8-minute single-shot scene from The Player

[zamboniracer]

Best card game scene: The Sting

Floyd: Doyle, I KNOW I gave him four THREES. He had to make a SWITCH. We can’t let him get away with that.
Doyle Lonnegan: What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?

[tdn]

Best Awkward First Kiss: Dog Fight

Best Awkward Dinner scene, drama division: Sid and Nancy

Best Ridiculous Hats: Dune (SyFy version)

[tdn]

@zamboniracer

Best card game scene: The Sting

I’ll see your Sting and raise you a House of Games.

[zamboniracer]

@tdn

I’ll see your Sting and raise you a House of Games.

I’ll cop to being unfamiliar with House of Games. What’s so great about the card game in it? It’ll have to be pretty good to top “The Sting” though.

“Always drink gin with the mark, kid. He can’t tell if you’re cutting it.”

[Morbo]

@JohnT

But the WH in 2012 wasn’t just destroyed by a big wave or a meteor strike or terrorists or invading aliens - it was hit by an aircraft carrier.

I salute any man with balls big enough to put such a preposterous shot in their movie.

The USS John F. Kennedy, no less. “Ich bin ein Flugzeugträger, das Weiße Haus!”

Best Crazy Nicolas Cage scene: Not the Bees!!"

[Lemur866]

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[Lemur866]

Best Movie-Stealing Performance by an Actor who appears in only one scene: Alec Baldwin in Glen Garry Glen Ross (of course).

[Morbo]

@Lemur866

Best Movie-Stealing Performance by an Actor who appears in only one scene: Alec Baldwin in Glen Garry Glen Ross (of course).

I’ll nominate my earlier “dressing down” candidate Wilford Brimley from Absence Of Malice.

[tdn]

@zamboniracer

I’ll cop to being unfamiliar with House of Games. What’s so great about the card game in it? It’ll have to be pretty good to top “The Sting” though.

I don’t know if I can explain it. The cinematography? The script? The acting? The acting is a little stiff, which isn’t surprising as it’s adapted from a stage play.

The basic plot is that a best-selling psychologist is trying to help one of her patients with his gambling addiction. He’s in huge debt and about to get his knees broken. She goes to the House of Games to convince the debtee to tear up the debtor’s marker. He agrees if she’ll help him cheat at a card game. The card game itself is really tense.

And it has Linsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna.

[Little_Nemo]

Best scene shot from the point of view of an inanimate object: Lord of War

[UncleRojelio]

Best “I am so screwed” Realization Scene: The Shawshank Redemption

[Miller]

@NiceGuyJack

I see there are quite a few nominations for best sword fight, but no one has yet to mention Kill Bill.

Nah, the best sword fight is in the John Ritter movie Skin Deep.

[Trepa_Mayfield]

Best Good Angel/Bad Angel scene: The Emperor’s New Groove

[blondebear]

Best attack by a giant creature with 8 or more appendages: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Disney version)