Got the spirit?
Well, here are my pics (may contain some SPOILERS, be warned!):

1) Steven Segal being killed just after 15 minutes of movie in EXECUTIVE DECISION

2) Morgan Freeman finding Gwineth Paltrow's head inside a box in SEVEN

3) John Hurt giving birth to an ALIEN

4) Gerard Depardieu finaly understanding that his fate was more than just A SIMPLE FORMALITY

5) Toto witnessing the destruction of his beloved CINEMA PARADISO

6) Jeff Goldblun dissolving John Getz's leg with THE FLY gruesome acid vomit!

7) Michael Palin trying to make John Cleese and the other Roman guards to expose themselves while he mention his friend's Biggus Dickus name in LIFE OF BRIAN

8) Cap. Kirk destructing the Enterprise on TREK III

9) Cap. Kirk's son, David D. Bore, being killed by a very nasty Klingon in TREK III

for me it was

well, Sixth Sense

ET,

Ronin

and others I can't think of right now.

"Excuse me while I whip this out!"

The first time we see a ghost in The Sixth Sense. ( I dunno, I was scared shi*less)
The finale music for The Sixth Sense! (last track on the album)

"Soylent Green is people!"

"ladies and gentlemen: ex-ZIPIT A"!

Tom Hulce's AMADEUS laugh

Mozart rearranges Salieri's march in AMADEUS

Molly runs to the bath tub, looking for her mother in CORRINA, CORRINA

Ricardo discoversd the truth in THE DISAPPEARANCE ON GARCIA LORCA

A defeated Stegosaurus closes its eyes in death in FANTASIA

Cassiel catches the falling girl in FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!

Basil rises from the mist in THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE

The first appearance of a brachiosaur in JURASSIC PARK

Shatner looks out the window at the end of KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (he he he...)

The death of Littlefoot's mother in THE LAND BEFORE TIME

Sara's father regains his memory in A LITTLE PRINCESS

Sean Connery falls to his death in THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

Trudy tells Norville she is pregnant in THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK

The very end of SAFEHOUSE

Jonathan Pryce goes forward on the carousel in SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

The Enterprise & the Excelsior defeat Chang in STAR TREK VI

The sight of hundreds of frozen dead in the water in TITANIC (this affected me more than the entire story of Jack & Rose)

Jack reunites with WHITE FANG

Damiel finally finds Marion in WINGS OF DESIRE

Just to name a few...

James

I loved MAGNOLIA too, guys. The frog thing is an amazement. I haven't really read any reviews about the movie yet, but I know some folks are gonna pick on one of my very favorite moments from it -- all of the cast getting a turn at singing that UNBELIEVABLY sad song (Aimee Mann?). Call me a sucker: for once at the movies, I didn't care that the film makers "broke the wall down" with the audience. I cried buckets. Wow.

How about:

Superman flies through the roof of Luthor's Lair after Ms. Tessmacher frees him of his Kryptonite necklace.

A TIE fighter (wingman to Vader) explodes, and the Millenium Falcon dives down out of the sun to save Luke.

The lights explode in a magic fireworks display to mark the redemption of The Natural.

The starship Enterprise is seen rising slowly from behind/through the "rollbar" of the Reliant.

The simple and brave professor calmly rides an errant crane to the salvation of man, and his own doom, in QUATERMASS AND THE PIT.

Rocky Balboa, beaten and bleeding, motions for Creed to come back for more - and breaks Creed's ribs as the bell sounds.

All over the world, as people crowd churches in search of at least a spiritual salvation, Martian war machines wobble and crash as the invaders are exposed to "the smallest of all God's creations".

The Triffids are led to their demise in salt water by an ice cream truck.

SOOOO many more. What a great thread! Thanks, guys.

How about GORGO, taking her beloved "baby" back to the sea, away from the horror that is humanity. When momma breaks her child out of the circus, and then that Lavagnino music kicks in... I can't help but be moved.

Then there's the end of Hammer's CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF. Achingly sad.

And like you mentioned above, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. When you add Leith Stevens' music to the scene near the end when Gene Barry and Ann Robinson find each other in the collapsing church, what an unforgettable moment.

And there are so many more.

Motoko and the Tank in the Floating Museum, in the film, "GHOST in the SHELL".

Nausicaa's resurrection in the film, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind

The lobby scene of The Matrix.

Leaven explores the outer shell in Cube.

Eugene's launch in Gattaca

Opening credits to 12 Monkeys

The camera swoops out to space and reveals the exterior of the city in Dark City.

Monkeys chanting around the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Shocking ending of "Seven"

1. Episode 1 - Lightsaber duel
2. The Rock - Finale
3. TWINE - Opening boat chase

More to come, I hope, as the three above are what I can think of right now.

- Lion King (where Simba climbs up to the top of Pride Rock and roars... the music sends shivers down my spine)!

- I second Segal's death in Executive Decision

- Meteor shower over NYC in Armageddon
- Launch sequences in Amrmageddon

That's all I can think of, right now...

The "ark" launches from its mountain railway just before Earth dies, in WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.

Damien, motally wounded and still defiant, expires in front of the living Christ, in THE FINAL CONFLICT (and oh, the music!).

THE IRON GIANT hurtles toward doom in saving us from ourselves, secure in its knowledge that "Souls never die".

Spock chooses fro the needs of the many over the needs of the few - or the one - in repairing the crippled Enterprise's warp drive. Terrific music and exciting editing make this one of my favorite sequences from ANY of the ST movies.

The Monster, aware that its creation and existence are cursed, allows love and life to flee (but not the evil Praetorious) before ending that same curse, in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. This is lovingly and movingly referenced again a half-century later in the final moments between Decker and Blatty in BLADE RUNNER.

THE FIFTH ELEMENT is Love; and Love saves the world. Deeply flawed movie with a deeply affecting climax.

And Tom, you are SO right about CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF. Good call, as usual.

Let's keep this one going!

Lightsaber duel in all Star Wars movies

Head to head fighters in ID4

Jurassic park first dinossaurs

Ray Park in Sleepy Hollow (the boy sequence)

Clint in the rain , Bridges of Madison County

I have to second Mark's IRON GIANT comment. "You are who you choose to be." "Superman..." I almost cried the first time I saw that.

The scene near the end of ALIEN where Ripley is preparing to go into hypersleep and the alien's arm comes out of nowhere makes me jump every time I watch it.

Liam Neeson's "I could have done more" speech in Schindler's List.

Thank you, Sean, for mentioning Gattaca. What a moving and uplifting film! WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER--The part that always gets me is when Anton asks Vincent, "How have you done any of this?" Vincent's reply: "I never saved anything for the swim back!"

King Henry's speech to his men before the Battle of Agincourt in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of HENRY V. Doyle's music is outstanding.

John Murdoch "remembers" at the climax of DARK CITY, breaking out of his restraints and defeating the Strangers.

Roy Batty's acceptance of his own mortality in BLADE RUNNER is poetically moving. Vangelis' score is perfectly fitting.

Those are just a few, but it should be noted that the music in all of these accentuated the emotion that came out of these scenes (even Alien, although the music came in right after the arm appears). This really is a great thread.

And probably many more. Note that all of the above mentioned are perfectly scored.

1) Snake Plisskin surfing with Peter Fonda on ESCAPE FROM LA

2) "... As for the Road Warrior... he lives now... only in my memories..." from THE ROAD WARRIOR

3) Princess Leia: "I love you", Han Solo: "I know", just before he gets frozen in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

3) Bob de Niro screaming "I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!" when decided to chase dr. FRANKENSTEIN

4) Russel Crowe playing Russian Roulet in the mouth of a guy who abused from a girl just after destroying a chair with his bare hands in LA CONFIDENTIAL

5) Bob De Niro being consumed by paperwork in BRAZIL

6) Ed Harris discovering what lay in the bottom of THE ABYSS (YES!!)

7) The attack upon the old King's castle overwhelming scene (image and music only) from Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece RAN

8) The fat man explodes while the Monty Phyton guys tries to discover THE MEANING OF LIFE

9) To our deep despair, Tangina explains that "To her he's just another child. But to us... it is the Beast!" (chills! chills! chills!) in POLTERGEIST

10) Tim Curry first entrance as Darkness in LEGEND

12) Charlton Heston discovers finaly that he wasn't at the PLANET OF THE APES after all...

More, please!!

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RAISING ARIZONA-The chase through the town, the houses and the supermarket.

CLOSE ENCOUONTERS-Barry's abduction, seeing Devil's Tower and the finale.

APOLLO 13-the lift-off

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL-(big spoiler) when Kevin Spacey gets killed.

LAST OF THE MOHICANS-The attack where Hawkeye saves the British, the attack on the survivors after the surrender, the waterfall,
the fight on the cliffs

SLEEPING BEAUTY-Maleficent turning into a dragon (I was lucky to see this on a WIDE screen some years ago, and it blew me away).

STAR TREK II-Spock getting up from his chair and the aftermath. I think I have watched ST II over thirty times and that sequence still works!

SECRET OF NIMH-When Mrs. Brisby uses the amulet and Goldsmith rips loose!

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD-When they stand around the edges of the saucer, still a classic scene of science fiction film.

CHASING AMY-When Holden admits to Alyssa how he feels and the fight in the parking lot.

FIELD OF DREAMS-A game of catch.

SILENT RUNNING-The final shot of the drone caring for the forest.

THE THIRD MAN-The scene in the ferris wheel car and the chase through the sewers.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION-The opera, the escape and the finale.

E.T.-Flying across the moon, escape from the agents and the goodbye.

Michael Corleone's revenge carried out to a great montage during the christening sequence at the end of THE GODFATHER

The 'behave yourselves or else' speech given by Klaatu at the end of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

The first grinding movement of TALOS in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Chrissies death at the begining of JAWS

Four ice cold beers at the end of ICE COLD IN ALEX

Brookes finding life on the outside too much culminating with the taking of his own life in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

The revelation end sequence of THE USUAL SUSPECTS

First appearence of the T-rex from JURASSIC PARK

The 'locals' realise Sean Connery is not a God from THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

The Runic Scroll is passed back to the bad guy in a Newspaper, thus sealing his fate in THE CURSE OF THE DEMON

The Birds on the climbing frame in the school playground in THE BIRDS

John Barry conducting a concert while Michael Caine robs the safe next door in DEADFALL

The Millenium Falcon looping the loop into an Asteroid in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

I'm Sparticus from... yep you guessed it SPARTICUS

Kong's last stand against the bi-planes from KING KONG

John Cassevette's head bounces on the carpet at the end of THE FURY

Tommy's (Joe Pesci) "what do ya mean I'm funny?" speech from GOODFELLAS

The brilliant bit in SWARM where.....er?!....I think that's enough!!

timmer

2.) Mel Gibson's sprint at the end of GALLIPOLI

3.) The final scene in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

4.) Lobby scene from THE MATRIX

5.) Samuel L. Jackson's untimely demise in DEEP BLUE SEA

6.) Christopher Walken's watch monologue in PULP FICTION

--Ted

The shower scene in Psycho

Rock Hudson's heartbreaking struggle at the end of Seconds ( I get a lump in my throught everytime I see it)

The Stargate scene in 2001

The rising of the Mothership over Devils Tower in CE3K

The Star Destroyer flyover in Star Wars

The cool rollover shot of the Klingon ship in the opening of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The building windows in the Jewish ghettos lighting up with machine gun fire as a German SS plays the piano in Schindler's List (spooky)

The Normandy Beach landing in Saving Private Ryan

The arrival of the alien ship over New York in ID4 (the best done thing in the whole movie)

just a few of many...

The Seven Year Itch - Shame on you if you have to ask which scene

The Mask - Cameron Diaz's first scene; just like the Hollywood glamour girls of old, before she got all gross on us(There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich)

The Jerk - "The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!"

And I wholeheartedly agree with the chase in Raising Arizona

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: When Donald Sutherland makes that horrible alien noise at the end of the movie. I have never been so horrified! I felt exactly what Luke Skywalker must have felt when Vader told him he's his father. I nearly started to cry "Noooooooo"!. NO JOKE!

Don't Look Now: When Donald Sutherland is murdered. I'm still afraid when I think of the red-hooded face.

Phantom Menace: Liam Neeson being stabbed is also rather memorable. In my opinion, a really violent scene (the only violent scene in all 4 movies).

NP: Angela's Ashes, "Plenty of Fish and Chips in Heaven" (Williams)... I actually just had fish and chips

Bill and Ted getting killed by their evil robot doubles and when they play games with Death in BOGUS JOURNEY.

From "They bought it" to "Never had one lesson" in FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF(I can quote that entire sequence).

"City Slickers"
Daniel Stern...when his pregnant shop attendant crashes the party....Billy Crystal..when his coffee percolator triggers off a "stampede"!!

Marilyn Monroe "snogging" Tony Curtis in "Some Like it Hot"..Jack Lemmon in Drag!!! and the rest of the movie is just one big "classic" scene!

Another Jack Lemmon...when he gets shot at the end of "The China Syndrome"

Kirk Douglas hesitates and gets killed by Tony Curtis on the tower at the end of "The Vikings"

Raquel Welch in a skin tight suit "Fantastic Voyage" and a designer fur-skin bikini "One Million Years B.C...what the hell does "aceetah" mean anyway?

Christopher Lee in any scene playing "Dracula"

Boris Karloff in any scene as "Frankenstein's monster"

"Remember Luke..the force will be with you...always"
(or as kenobi said to him in the Chinese restaurant..."Use the Forks Luke, use the Forks")

Any scene with one of "Ray Harryhausen's" creatures and effects.

Towering Inferno..when that lovely lady (Jennifer Jones) falls out of the lift and falls to her death...and she was so sweet too!! (its a cruel world!!!)

Richard Dreyfuss discovers the corpse in the hull of the boat in "Jaws"...I tell you that gave me nightmares for weeks at the age of 10!!)

Oh well, theres a few different ones not mentioned above!!
Gae NP Braveheart

Nice refrence to the Simpsons! (Use the Forks)

1) When the Falcon zooms out of that hole in the 2nd Death Star as the fire bursts out around it in "Return of the Jedi." Lando screams "YAAAAAAHOOOOOOO!" Afterwards. That scene is sooooo SLICK!!

2) When Indy is on the bridge in Indy II (Or Indy I, depending on which version you have), and holds up the sword. He looks to the left, then to the right, and nervously says "Oh ****..."

3) Fraaankensteeen's monster singing "Puttin' On The Ritz!" on stage with Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein".

4) "The Last Supper" scene in History of the World" Part 1. Leonardo walks in to paint the famous painting and says "OK, if all of you wanna be in `da picture! You all gotta be on the uther side of `da table!"

5) The scene in the end of Lethal Weapon 4 when Rog rescues Riggs from being crushed underwater.

6) "The Lord says that he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure, your "f*cked" from Braveheart.

7) "Are you suggesting coconuts MIGRATE!"
"Not at All, It could be carried!"
"WHAT, a Swallow carring a coconut!"
"It could GRIP it by the HUSK!"
"It's not a question of where he GRIPS it, its a simple matter of weight rations..."
"Look would you PLEASE tell him that Author of Camelot is here!!"
"It could have been carried by an African swollow!"
"An African swollow mabye, but not a european swollow!"
"But then again African Swollow's are Non-migratory!"
"Wait! Supposing TWO Swollow's carried it together!"
"What?! Held under the doursle guiding feathers!"
"Why not?!........."

Email me if you don't know where THAT's from!!

Most Memorable scenes for me.

Alien: When Ripley HEARS the deaths of Veronica Cartwright (her gulping shrieks) and
Yaphet Kotto, leaving her the last human on ship.

Aliens: When Ripley rides down the elevator to rescue the child, donning warrior gear to
transform into a female Rambo.

Man of a Thousand Faces: When James Cagney, playing Lon Chaney, slowly unravels his
twisted, knarled body to Skinner’s lovely themes.

Cool Hand Luke: When Luke, beaten bloody, staggers into the barracks needing help the
fellow prisoners and cries, “Where are you now?” to his deserting disciples.

When Luke eats 50 eggs, and when the bloodhounds sniff pepper.

First growl from Old Yeller indicating rabies.

Ditto on shower scene from Psycho and the joyous opening credits in Much Ado About
Nothing, and Magnolia’s raining frogs.

Bonnie and Clyde. First extended blood bath I’d scene. Trillions of machine gun bullets
that form a wall and keep their bodies from falling.

Burmese Harp: When the Japanese and American soldiers simultaneously sing.

All time favorite scene from Terms of Endearment: The second before Winger dies, she
gives her mom that thank you-unconditional love look.

NP Much Ado About Nothing, Doyle ****/*****

I want to see OLD YELLER, but I really think it will upset me too much (I'm not kidding) is it good enough to go though that? You're talking to a kid that could berely handle GREYFRIERS BOBBY, or TOMASINA'S visit to Cat Heaven (what a wonderful sequence, why don't people remember that scene more?).

My picks are as follows (not in any particular order):

1/ The time Sean Connery says "Bond, James Bond." in Dr No.

2/ The boat chase in The World is Not Enough.

3/ The Matrix lobby scene.

4/ The lightsaber duel in The Phantom Menace. This one just out does anything done previously.

5/ "Luke, I am your father." The Empire Strikes Back.

6/ The first appearance of the Emperor in Return of the Jedi.

7/ The destruction of Paris in Armaggeddon. Just seeing a HUGE crater that covers most of Paris was something to see.

8/ The battle between Kahn and Kirk in the Mutara Nebula in Star Trek 2.

9/ The destruction of the Enterprise D in Star Trek Generations.

10/ The death of Kirk.

12/ The death of Spock.

13/ The pull back shot from Picards eye in the Borg cube in Star Trek First Contact.

14/ The death of "Bond" in the pre-titles for From Russia with Love.

15/ The news reels in Starship Troopers.

16/ The helicopter/bike chase over the rooftops in Tomorrow Never Dies.

17/ The destruction of the first Death Star in Star Wars.