Best movie scenes - what are your favourites?

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

mine are:

Shawshank Redemption - when they discover how Andy escaped

Ocean's 12 - the "laser dance" in the museum (and the soundtrack of it)

Platoon - Elias running out of the jungle and trying to make it to the chopper

Hair - when Berger has no choice but to board the plane

Phantom Menace - the Darth Maul/Obi Van Kenobi fight

Untouchables - the shootbout on the rtain station stairs

Frozen - Elsa "Let it go" (Stockholm Syndrome? )

there are so many other fantastic scenes, what are yours?

The kiss in the film with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.

Probably lots but first one that came to mind is in This Years Love when Danny talks to Hannah about what love means when she's working on the check out.

Wish You Were Here. When Emily Lloyd proudly pushes her baby past all the sneery judgy fuckers with a huge smile and her head held high. always seemed a shame to me that she wasn't more well known. Excellent actress given her age and subject at that time.

Pretty In Pink when Duckie runs into the record shop dancing and lip synching Try A Little Tenderness.

Notting Hill when Julia Roberts confronts the table of boozy wankers talking trash about her. I feel proud of her.

Despicable me. When Gru reads Sleepy Kittens to the girls. I fill up. I bought the book to read to my kids. :o

Little Women - Beth has just died and Hannah is scattering rose petals over her dolls at the end of her empty bed . Seen it loads of times and still makes me cry.

The Railway Children - Daddy my Daddy. My stomach does a strange flippy thing when the eerie music starts as they are waiting for train to arrive. Also love the bit when Bobbie is celebrating her birthday and she looks like shes floating around the room.

A star is born- When Judy Garland sings the man that got away. Makes all the hairs on my neck stand up.

Love the start of Austin Powers when they are all doing cartwheels in the street.

Oh yes, that final scene of Wish You Were Here. Superb. I am much the same age as her, my mum much the same generation as her character. We were both .

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Do you mean Speed?

Bridget jones diary: after their first kiss she said that she didn't think good boys kiss like that and he said "oh yes they fucking do"

And Bridget Jones diary, the way he wraps his jacket round her as they stand hugging in the snow.

Amadeus: when Salieri is helping Mozart compose the Requiem on his deathbed.

Manon des Sources: when Cesar discovers the true identity of Jean.

Remains of the Day: when Emma Thompson tries to take the book from Antony Hopkins and you can see he wants to kiss her.

Some Like it Hot: on the beach scene.

Hurt Locker: carton of juice stakeout scene.

Once: music shop scene

Oh and the chimney sweeps dancing on the rooftops in Mary Poppins

Erin Brockivich - when Julia Roberts sits opposite 3 lawyers and ask them how much their uterus is worth etc...and then the quip about bringing in the water especially for them. Love it!

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - when Caesar shouts "Noooo!!" and you realise he can talk! One woman in our cinema called out "Oh my God!" at that bit!

Drive - kiss scene in the lift - oh....my....word! not the head stamping

Ryan's daughter - handsome young broken soldier sitting on the beach with a box of shells......heartbreaking

Clawdy you just reminded me of the original film with Charlton Heston. I was in my early teens when I saw it about 1968. It was the final scene and he discovers the ruined Statue of Liberty on the beach. 'Damn you, You blew it up' he screams as the waves run around him - up and down the beach.

We had been brought up in the Cold War with an overriding threat of nuclear war. There was always this dark underlying fear in my childhood of another war.

It's a very powerful moment but when I look at it now as an old granny I think it might have been Hollywoodpropaganda .

There are some very funny parodies of the scene too on Youtube, if anyone wants to have a look.

JamNan I remember going to see the original,too! That final scene was mind-blowing,particularly as it was before the time of "spoilers" in trailers and reviews so no-one was expecting it.

The Truly, Madly, Deeply moment that silveroldie mentioned when Jamie first comes back.

The Marseillaise scene in Casablanca.

In Witness, when Samuel is looking at the cabinet, sees the newspaper article and recognises the killer. And the barn raising sequence is amazing.

Also, I agree with Pretty much every scene in Local Hero but I particularly love Gordon dancing in his office, the old men at the ceilidh and "I'd make a good Gordon, Gordon".

The Other Guys

• Samuel L. Jackson & "The Rock" (phwoar) leaping off a building
• Eva Mendes singing "pimp don't cry"

Interstellar - the almost unbearably tense docking scene with , I'm pretty sure I barely breathed watching that for the first time and the music still gives me shivers.

Officer and a Gentleman - 'way to go Paula, way to go!' Love that film

Quint's USS Indionapolis speech in Jaws

Charlie Allnut realising he was going to have to beat his phobia and get back into the leech infested waters to pull the boat and save his love in The African Queen.. True courage.