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?

Ooo and The Big Country, where Jean Simmons pretends to be willing to get romantic with Buck in order to protect Gregory Peck, also the scene where Buck's father talks to his dead son.

The beginning of up, makes me cry every time. Also the 'big reveal' at the end of oceans 11

The BBQ scene at the end of Secrets and Lies. The awkwardness is just so palpable and then all the truth comes out. Can't ever watch it with a dry eye!

artificial intelligence, that film is banned in my house now because the last scene where they give him one last day with his mum again had me sobbing for about an hour last time i watched it!! not in any way due to the white wine i'd been drinking

just thinking about it gets me choked up

Pay It Forward - the end bit, all the candles, the unfairness of it all mixed with what amazing effect he had on so many people.

Another Billy Elliot one; When his dad discovers his secret and finds him in the studio, Billy looks straight in his eye and starts dancing for him.

Schindler's list, when his female workers end up at Auschwitz-Birkenau instead of the new factory, having stood on the very spot where they were herded off the trains last week, it brought the horror home to me even more
Trading places, Dan Akroyd as the drunken Santa, sheer comic genius, as is the whole film.

Stargate, when James Spader figures out that the gate symbols are constellations.
Deathly Hallows, when you realise Harry isn't dead and when Bellatrix gets her comeuppance.

Yes, AI had me sobbing for ages. The one more day. And when he is trapped and prays... Oh dear. And I'm not usually a film crier.

The other film that really got me was a random Disney one I think, about elephants. Wish I could remember the name, but it was live action, and an unmotherly type ended up looking after a young elephant after his mother was apparently killed. She sacrificed herself for him, and his mother had lived and found him in the end. It had me in bits.

Zing, I love that film. Woof.

True lies, the horse in the lift

I love big musical numbers. 'Consider Yourself', Oliver! has always stuck in the mind. And 'You'll never walk alone' from Carousel. Had been welling up. Oh ok, maybe I am a film crier

Ferris Bueller doing twist and shout. That scene makes me happy and wistful all at the same time

Love Actually - when Emma Thompson cries in the bedroom realising Alan Rickman has given a gold necklace to someone else

An Affair to Remember - when Cary Grant goes into the bedroom and realises that Deborah Carr has lost the use of her legs...

A Room with a View. Its a long time since I've seen it, but the scene when the men (the rev, George and Freddy) are 'having a bathe' in the pool in the woods and are happened upon by Lucy and Cecil and I think Lucys mother. Cecil is mortified at the sight of the naked vicar and pals, but Lucy and her mum are snorting with laughter.

any film where the main character shows their talent. I love those shmaltzy scenes. Eg. Dirty Dancing is the obvious one - at the end when she dances on stage with Johnny. Shine - where the main character is being laughed at in the restaurant when he's tinkering on the piano, and all of a sudden he launches into 'flight of the bumblebee'. Even 'Burlesque' when good old Christina shows how she can use her set of pipes and the backing 'mimers' suddenly become backing 'singers' :)

Has to be the ending of Forest Gump, so sweet :)

Or shawshank when the old guy hangs himself :(

The end of Lost In Translation (and the "worst lunch" scene, the "are you awake?" scene, the alone in Kyoto part... Basically the whole film)

Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy, the kiss in the street

Garden State, the airport scene

"Trading places, Dan Akroyd as the drunken Santa"

Eating smoked salmon through his beard on the night bus.

"And I'm teeeeelling yoou, I'm not going". Dreamgirls

When the animals finally make it home in The Incredible Journey, and Homeward Bound.

Continuing the animal theme, Turner and Hooch always had me in stitches!

One that made an impact from childhood, Song of the South, share the boy runs through the bull field...

The hallway scene in the X Files movie is a memorable one for my teenage self

"when Emma Thompson cries in the bedroom realising Alan Rickman has given a gold necklace to someone else."

Is there a chance that a wife would just assume that there must have been something wrong with the necklace (broken?) and he'd taken it back to the shop to exchange for the Joni Mitchell CD?

I can't remember the whole storyline to this, but did Emma Thompson's character already have suspicions that her husband was a cheating arse?

Made I don't think she particularly had serious suspicions but IIRC did see the husband dancing with the assistant at the Xmas party and flirting

Also who would swap a necklace for a CD and clearly she already owned the cd so it was a rubbish present, not a thoughtful one

The scenes with neurologist Raleigh St. Clair and his patient Dudley in The Royal Tenenbaums.

All of Paddington but particularly when he gets cream on his fur and is caught surreptitiously licking it off!

Megamind where Metroman is revealed to be live and well and living in the old 'shhool' house.

"Also who would swap a necklace for a CD"

Yeah that's true; you'd generally swap like-for-like with presents if there's something wrong. The xmas party dancing part actually sounds familiar now that you mention it Diane, thanks, so she probably did already have slight concerns.

Ooh yes, the end of Lost in Translation.
Children of a Lesser God - where they are naked in the swimming pool

I absolutely love Lost In Translation dementedma. I think a lot of people can't stand it because they say nothing much happens, but for me it's one of my favourite films. The music and the Japanese setting is great and it's just a really nice film to watch late at night with the lights off.

Might watch it again tonight.

Schindler's List - when it changes to the present day and we see the actors with their real life counterparts and families, then Liam Neeson right at the end. It breaks me every single time.
Also the scenes with the little girl in the red coat.

The chase scene in Blues Brothers at the end

Return of The King - Sam saying: "I can't carry the ring - but I can carry you!"

Battle of Pellanor Fields, death of Theoden.

Also when Frodo says to Sam: "I'm glad you're here with me, Sam. At the end of all worlds."

Gladiator - "Are you not entertained?"
And Oliver Reed's: "You sold me queer camels!"

Talking of Oliver Reed, I always cry at the end of 'Oliver!' when Oliver Twist runs into the housekeeper's arms.

OP mentioned another of my favourite films - Platoon. I love all Tom Berenger's scenes.

Oh yes, as someone else says, the end of The Incredible Journey. When the bull terrier appears. I grew up with white bull terriers as my dogs, (and had a BT til last year when she died aged 14). I cry every single time.