Good example, but…
I would put up the chase scene in Ronin against The French Connection.
I would put up the shooting of Officer Murphy from Robocop against Sonny’s demise, if only for its sadistic brutality.
I’ll second this.
And this.
That was a cockfight.
Best cockfight - Men in Tights.
No, the best cockfight was from The Family Guy.
I would have thought one of those hentai would be a shoe-in for that one!
Best swordfight would be the trampoline swordfight in “The Great Race”.
“The Great Race” also has the best “use of carrier pigeons by Natalie Wood in a corset” scene.
Best “I’ve been tricked” Realization Scene: Usual Suspects
Best Car Chase: The Blues Brothers
That one.
Best opening monologue: Patton
Best Hitchcockian twisted ending: The Usual Suspects.
Best use of contemporary-guy-goes-back-in-time plot: Army of Darkness.
Best resurrection of dead historical figure for the screen: the much parodied Hitler screaming at his commanders scene in Der Untergang.
Most effective switch from cast speaking subtitled foreign language to English: The “Armageddon” scene in The Hunt for Red October.
Best use of a five-second throw-away shot that punches you in the gut 90 minutes later: the little girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List.
Best scene that is (intentionally) funny for no other reason than perfect comic timing: “Rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist” from, well, you know.
Best Plan To Deal With The Alien Menace: Ripley - “I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
How about a category for: Best Bite in a film?
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The titular monster in John Carpenter’s The Thing, in response to the use of a defibrillator.
Max Cady raping Ileana Douglas in Cape Fear.
More “bite scene” contenders: Jurassic Park where the T Rex chomps the guy hiding in the outhouse, and Deep Blue Sea where Samuel L. Jackson’s speech gets rudely interrupted.
For Best Courtroom Scene, I’m kind of partial to Al Pacino in … And Justice for All. At the end, when he’s screaming in court about how his client really is guilty and they have to drag him out still screaming:
Arthur Kirkland: That man is guilty! That man, there, that man is a slime! he is a slime! If he’s allowed to go free, then something really wrong is goin’ on here!
Judge Rayford: Mr. Kirkland you are out of order!
Arthur Kirkland: You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order! That man, that sick, crazy, depraved man, raped and beat that woman there, and he’d like to do it again! He told me so! It’s just a show! It’s a show! It’s “Let’s Make A Deal”! “Let’s Make A Deal”! Hey Frank, you wanna “Make A Deal”? I got an insane judge who likes to beat the shit out of women! Whaddya wanna gimme Frank, 3 weeks probation?
Frank Bowers: Dammit!
Arthur Kirkland: [to Judge Fleming] You, you sonofabitch, you! You’re supposed to stand for somethin’! You’re supposed to protect people! But instead you rape and murder them!
[dragged out of court by bailiffs]
Arthur Kirkland: You killed McCullough! You killed him! Hold it! Hold it! I just completed my opening statement!
I disagree
Ripley ariving in a powerloader suit ( qualified with a class II license so the QHSE department was happy)
Both had a similar " back off dude ’ cos i’m through with this crap" line.
Best kissing your sister scene : Star Wars. With a repeat in Empire.
Eta ; Leia kissed luke both times
The wife of Garp in " the world according to Garp"
Which leads to the best " intimating bad things happened" line which was , " at least I had mine removed under surgury"
Best opening of a door: LotR, The Two Towers. Dude just opens the fuck out of that door.
Runner up goes to No Country for Old Men.