The Top 50 Movie Moments of All Time

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[P.O.E.]

“The Potemkin” baby carriage scene
“Psycho” shower scene
Melies “Trip to the Moon” rocket in eyeball scene
Speaking of eyeballs, “Un Chien Andalou”
Chaplin’s potatoes dancing in “Gold Rush”
The patricians’ quiet suicide in Fellini’s “Satyricon”
W.C. Fields’ “Carl LaFong” scene, or the “Mr. Muckle” scene
The Third Man “cuckoo clocks” and closing scene
Citizen Kane clapping
Lon Chaney’s “Phantom of the Opera” unmasking
Charles Laughton’s “Sanctuary”
Cagney’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Elsa Lanchester’s “Bride of Frankenstein” scream
Lang’s “Metropolis” Maria transformation
Klaatu zaps the tanks

Another Casablanca scene - Rick’s drunken reverie

[Leaning Right]

> By the time Casablanca premiered, the 8th Air Force was pounding the Reich copyright office to dust. <

Ha! Good story. By the way, I wonder if the La Marseillaise scene would even be in ‘Casablanca’ if that movie were being made today. After all, the song is very nationalistic. And that sort of thing is frowned upon these days.

Maybe they’d replace it with some sort of EU inclusiveness poem.

[central_va]

Steve McQueen jumping the fence on a BMW Motorbike in The Great Escape.

[OttawaFreeper]

Another in the sports department is the movie “Face Off”, made in 1971 about a young Toronto Maple Leafs player and his experiences (John Vernon plays the coach). Best moments in this one are the shows of footage from Maple Leaf Gardens and other great NHL venues of the past (Detroit Olympia, Philadelphia Spectrum, Los Angeles Forum, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and others) along with the teams and players at that time.

[Dr. Sivana]

As for me, I would've put in the scene where the bar patrons in 'Casablanca' sing La Marseillaise. But I guess that movie - like me - is too old.

I knew a very learned man who lived in that part of the world and learned French and Arabic, and he found the scene silly. The folks who actually populated Morocco had no use for Nazis, but they also wouldn't identify in any way with France or the French Revolution.

[CIB-173RDABN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQvYE8sbc8

The last scene of BATTLEGROUND

This platoon just survived the Battle of the Bulge. They are being relieved. At the beginning they don’t know that, but soon the sgt has them do an about face and they begin walking away from the battle as new troops are marching towards it.

[CptnObvious]

“You’ve got mail” when Tom Hanks puts his finger over Meg Ryan’s mouth and says not to say anything she might “regret” later.

[A_perfect_lady]

1. Scarlett O'Hara's silhouette in the sunset, vowing, "I'll never be hungry again."
2. Truman's boat hitting the wall
3. Forrest Gump at Jenny's grave
4. Marianne Dashwood seeing Willoughby at the ball with another woman (Jane Austen)
5. Bill Murray dancing with Andie MacDowell in the snow in Groundhog Day
6. Tom Cruise crying at his father's bedside in Magnolia
7. The old man and his wife in the bed with water rushing toward them in Titanic
8. Blending Lady Marmalade with Smells Like Teen Spirit to a dance scene in Moulin Rouge (that blew my mind)
9. Romeo fights Tybalt (1968)
10. Neo on the rooftop dodging bullets in Matrix.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sol’s euthanasia backdropped by Beethoven’s 5’th.

"Soylent green".

And the piece you are thinking of was a cut from Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") by Beethoven. The whole scene was a mix of classical pieces...

The main theme from Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique") by Tchaikovsky, the Peer Gynt Suite ("Morning Mood" and "Åse's Death") by Edvard Grieg...and of course, Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven.

[UnBubba]

The Great Escape. Damn, I loved that movie. The scene with the bike stuck with me for many years. Awesome!

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

The first arrival of the tyrannosaurus in the original Jurassic Park.

[GOPJ]

Yeah, this thread struck me as another slightly disguised Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test too...

[JBW1949]

The final explosion and follow-up in “Armageddon”...

[DIRTYSECRET]

“You don’t listen do you asshole” Dirty Harry.

[A Navy Vet]

The town gunfight in Open Range.
"I'll be your Huckleberry." - Tombstone
"You're men may get me in a rush, but not before I turn your head into a canoe." - Tombstone
"Think we need a bigger boat." - Jaws
The mothership coming over Devil's Tower. - Close Encounters.

[OttawaFreeper]

They always mention the game of catch between the father and son at the end of “Field of Dreams”, but my favourite is young Archie Graham playing ball with the older pros.

[BipolarBob]

Shirley you can’t be serious.

[Joe 6-pack]

Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman speech

[laplata]

“The Best Years Of Our Lives”

One of the best movies ever.

[BenLurkin]