re: What is the greatest scene in cinema history?

Posted by Patrick_Bateman

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:25 pm to Rougarou4lsu

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cinema

You mean, movie?

Posted by Scoop

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:28 pm to jg8623

Good calls on both.

Posted by nevilletiger79

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:28 pm to Patrick_Bateman

Opening scene of Patton

Posted by Scoop

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:30 pm to Jack Ruby

Yeah.

Top of my head, like Imsaid.

That's as iconic as it gets.

Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:30 pm to Jamohn

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Gonna have to concur with this choice.

Posted by GeauxTigers2020

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:40 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

I mean, this is basically an impossible question. But....

I'll throw out the park bench scene in Good Will Hunting.

Also, the coin flip scene from No Country is pretty much perfect.

And if it counts, Married Life montage from Up

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Posted by jg8623

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:46 pm to GeauxTigers2020

quote:
Also, the coin flip scene from No Country is pretty much perfect.

Yea, this question is about as impossible as you could get. So many to pick from

Posted by Demet

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:12 pm to Rougarou4lsu

Quints telling of the sinking of the uss Indianapolis from Jaws.

Posted by Jack Ruby

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:21 pm to Demet

If you want go No Country For Old Men, the opening, haunting landscape shots with Tommy Lee Jones voice over is about as good as cinema gets...especially in the last 25yrs or so.

Posted by Slippy

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:38 pm to Rougarou4lsu

Car chase under the L in The French Connection.

First holy water scene from The Exorcist.

"Excuse me, sir. Is this the Delta house?"

Posted by Carson123987

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:39 pm to finchmeister08

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The Jokers monologue in the interrogation room.

Posted by tiderider

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:40 pm to Jack Ruby

LINK

from the Guardian ... didn't view the entire 100, but did look at the top 20 ... not a fan of their #1, but some of the others are spot-on ...
1 ending of Usual Suspects
2 shower scene from Psycho (should be somewhere in the top 10)
3 Harry Lime appears in The Third Man (was a bit freaky)
4 apes realization in Space Odyssey
5 helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now (probably one we'd all forget - awesome, awesome scene; if you've never seen the documentary about the making of this movie, you should)
6 - ending of Blade Runner (greatest sci fi ever, imo)
7 - King escapes on his motorcycle in The Great Escape (haven't seen it)
8 - Rick and Isla at the airport in Casablanca
9 - finding the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes (hadn't thought about that one)
10 - Some Like it Hot ending

Posted by ipodking

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:44 pm to Rougarou4lsu

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Posted by dpd901

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 7:58 pm to ipodking

R Lee Ermy first Barracks scene in Full Metal Jacket

Posted by LanierSpots

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 8:20 pm to dpd901

oh and of course

Posted by Decker

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Posted on 10/21/16 at 8:25 pm to Rougarou4lsu

La Marseillaise scene from Casablanca

Closing scene from It's A Wonderful Life

Opening scene from The Godfather

Watching the World Series scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark

Quint's USS Indianapolis scene from Jaws

Bike scene from ET

Could go on forever