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Movie Moments That Made You Go Wow

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pauljeremiah

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-the beginning of Up.
-the food critic tasting scene in Ratatouille
-the embassy takeover in Argo
-the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark
-the dismemberment scene in Loopers
-the funeral scene in Big Fish
-the first big Edith Piaf concert in La Vie en Rose
-the desert storm chase in MI4
-so many scenes in Forrest Gump
-most of the Bastogne episode in Band of Brothers
-the first time they go in a concentration camp in Band of Brothers
-the tank in Life is Beautiful
-the end of 25th Hour
-the big meet-up in Crazy, Stupid, Love
-the Michael restaurant scene in The Godfather
-the suicide scene in Shawshank Redemption
-the final torture scene in Tropa de Elite
-sidewalk scene in American History X
-the beginning narration in Trainspotting
-the standing on the desk scene in Dead Poets Society
-the ending of Se7en
-the programming facemash while blogging scene in Social Network
-the escape scene in 127 Hours

I could go on all day, probably. There should be an Oscar for "Best Scene"... I'm a sucker for powerful scenes.

couldn't agree more
 

Jarnet87

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Unexpected up close gun shot's are always fantastic.

Children of Men - car scene where Julliane Moore gets blown away.

Pulp Fiction - John Travolta shooting Marvin

Burn After Reading - Brad Pitt in the closet surprising Clooney lol.

Observe and Report - Might be the most unexpected one. Epic chase scene ends with Rogen blasting a streaker.
 
Every moment in a Sergio Leone movie.

The very first entrance of Captain Jack Sparrow.

Many of the major moments in an Indiana Jones movie.

The medallion scene in The Secret of Nimh.

The fight scenes in Cowboy Bebop the movie.

Many if the major moments in Hard Boiled and The Killer.

When Jackie unleashes on the corrupt bad guy in the end of Police Story.

Many of Jackie Chans major stunts.

Many of Bruce Lees fights.

The fight between Jackie and The Jet in Meals on Wheels.

The Indian massacre in the Searchers and many other moments.

When Groucho and Harpo Marx do the mirror scene in Duck Soup.

The animation in Tintin.

The opening music in An American Tail.

When Tanya makes the villain cry in Fievel Goes West.

The end speech by James Stewart as Wylie Burp in Fievel Goes West.

The eagle flight in Rescuers Down Under.

The death of Mufasa. The tank fight in Ghost in the Shell and the final fight in Sword of the Stranger.Many of the fights in Kamui no Ken. When Jack Sparrow went down with his ship.The first time I saw Heath as the Joker.
 
Burn After Reading - Brad Pitt in the closet surprising Clooney lol.

Came here to post that, love the look on Brad's face:

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Prologue

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I still remember when whole theater was screaming. Never experienced that type of atmosphere.




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I love the whole mech battle scene. Such eye candy.
 

aku:jiki

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Tonight, it was the body slams the russian dude pulled in Warrior. Shit was vicious. Also, wow at Nick Nolte being able to really act.

Before that, the shotgun anal rape in the I Spit On Your Grave remake.
 
Prometheus - C-Section Scene
Tim & Eric B$M - "She makes me hard. Rock hard"
Contact - Second machine built by Japanese subcontractor
Dumb & Dumber - Montage culminating in fart-lighting
A.I. - Last scene, where David spent one more day with his mother.
I cried so hard.

Just off the dome.

Adult Genre:
Fist time I saw someone do A2OGP... I just can't imagine the trust that must go into that... just... wow.
 
Most recently, Stallone vs Van Damme in The Expendables 2. I wish the scene was longer, but I've been waiting since I was 10 years old to see that.

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shintoki

sparkle this bitch
Easily the best movie this decade for it

Sunshine.

Kaneda meets the sun
Capa meets the sun
Capa's Jump(Already posted)

The Wachowski Bros are also produced some of my favorites.

"Reboot Sequence": Speed Racer
"Emerging Stories" Cloud Atlas, basically when everything starts to fit together in Cloud Atlas.
 

DominoKid

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Inception Revolving Corridor Fight scene:

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i remember seeing inception in theaters and saying that scene/situation was "clever as fuck" out loud during the movie.


the whole movie made me say wow but after the Final Race i just sat there in silence because it was that awesome.

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The production design of this movie is beyond awesome.

the eyecandy (visuals and women) and music saved the hell out of this movie lmao.
 

MormaPope

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Watched Collateral again recently and these moments never ever get old.

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The chase scene out of the hospital, the club scene, the coyotes running into the middle of the road(which wasn't planned by the way).
 

rukland

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The twist in Saw truly was one of the best theater moments. Crowd was insane.

Pissed off insane right? Because that ending was foreshadowed at the start of the movie. It was a wow moment for me where I really wish I could have gotten not only my money back but my wasted time as well. Turned me off to the whole idea of ever watching another one in that series.

Back on topic .. well I guess for me the most recent one was already covered but to second it the night time skyscraper scene in Skyfall
 

HylianTom

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LUCKY DEVIL said:
Dumb & Dumber - Montage culminating in fart-lighting

I kid you not: when I saw this in the theatre, I laughed until I was tasting blood and wheezing asthmatically. It was a moment of comedic supremacy that just spoke to me. It was perfection.

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YES!
 

Data West

coaches in the WNBA
The chase scene at the end of Pee Wee's Big Adventure is incredible to this day. No CG effects, funny, varied, and it goes on for a while. It's also amazing because you totally don't expect what's basically a comedy to have such a great action scene in it.

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Fry

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Watched Collateral again recently and these moments never ever get old.

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The chase scene out of the hospital, the club scene, the coyotes running into the middle of the road(which wasn't planned by the way).[/QUOTE]

I cannot express how much I fucking love this movie.
 

Kunan

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Tin Tin just looks crazy.
That entire section of the movie was great. The way the camera moved with the opera singer while she sang, to that scene with the water crashing down in the background. Then there is the ensuing chase that effortless tracks between multiple groups back and forth through camera panning.
 

PAULINK

I microwave steaks.
The last 20 minutes of Hot Fuzz, watching it for the first time and I just had my jaw dropped in awe.

And in Kick Ass when Hit Girl Mauled through the baddies in the hallway, always gets me.
 
The Matrix fight that takes place in the lobby had me going "WTF". Well, I was going WTF the whole movie but at least I understood the action scenes
 
  • All of "The Social Network
  • As stated before, the Shanghai sequence in "Skyfall"
  • The beginning of Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • Pretty much all of AVATAR
  • The Dark Knight ending


There's more, I just can't think of any at the moment.
 

Maddocks

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Tron Legacy - once Sam is on the grid.

Amadeus - Don Giovanni scene and when Mozart dictates while Salieri transcribes throughout the night.

Inception - Hallway fight

Sunshine - When they are all sitting down looking at the sun through the observation room.

So many more that I shall not name as it would take a long time lol
 

Slevin

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Oh there are so many moments for me.

Capa's jump in Sunshine.

Even though Gaf hates Crash, when Matt Dillon saves Thandie Newton from the explosion.

The opening credits of Enter the Void.

Motel shootout scene in Drive.

Kid getting shot in City of God.

Ending of Dead Man's Shoes.

Final shootout scene of L.A. Confidential.

That's all I can think of right now.
 
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