Time for another tournament: favorite movie scenes.

[Rain Man]

Edit: The Tournament Is Now Underway and no more nominations will be accepted after Post 498. Look for the SceneItAll Tournament Threads.


I saw two movies today that featured iconic scenes: Big, with the piano dancing scene, and Risky Business, with the underwear dance.

It got me wondering about my favorite movie scenes, and I thought it would be a good tournament topic. So this is the nomination thread. Tell me your favorite movie scenes.

The rules:

1. A scene is generally defined as a segment in a particular place and time, continuous in presentation.

2. A scene should be no more than about three minutes in length.

3. I debated on what adjective to use. Most memorable scene? Best scene? I ended up landing on "favorite scene", because that lets you select based on your own feelings.

4. Probably no porn scenes since they would automatically win.

5. We're talking scenes, not lines. So your nomination needs to be at least one minute long unless you can argue that it's a full standalone scene that's shorter.

I'll likely do this as a brutal one-on-one single elimination tournament since I expect to get a lot of nominations. However, I could change this once I see what we have lined up.

I'll start by nominating the following:

- the piano dancing scene in Big



- the underwear dance in Risky Business (sorry about the ad - starting at 0:32 in this clip)



- the scene staring into the Seurat painting in Ferris Bueller (from 0:53 to the end of this clip, though they cut it off a little too soon)



- the Ferris Bueller parking attendants flying in the Ferrari



- Forrest Gump deciding to stop running (5:08 to 6:37 in this clip)

[Bowser]

And of course

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I need to get on this

Word.

[Chiefburger]

i love this thread. a few more scenes i didn't see mentioned:

"There Will Be Blood" ending (The Milkshake Scene) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hFTR6qyEo
"Goodfellas" (Funny like a clown scene) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ff46b58Hk
Fargo (Fleeing the interview scene, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2HfixB9_8&t=2m13s
"The Shining" (here's johnny scene)
"Network" (I'm mad as hell ... ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGiX5tbLKiY
"Rocky" (Training montage)
"American Psycho" (Some scene, maybe "Business Card" scene) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY

[O.city]

Not sure if one here, but



The Gladiator scene when J. Phoenix figures out who Maximus is.

[Rain Man]

Building the list through Post 79. If others can add to it, that'd be great.

I recognize that there may be some duplicates in here, but I'll take them out when I set up the tournament. Don't worry about dupes if you're adding to the list.

Big - Piano Dancing Scene - Post 1
Risky Business - Underwear Dance - Post 1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Seurat Stare - Post 1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Parking Lot Ferrari - Post 1
Forrest Gump - End of the Run - Post 1
Cape Fear - Parking Lot Fight - Post 2
Of Mice and Men - Lenny and Curly Fight - Post 4
Big Jake - Hostage Scene - Post 5
Wuthering Heights - Heathcliff can't have Cathy - Post 6
Cool Hand Luke - Boxing - Post 7
Cool Hand Luke - Failure to Communicate - Post 7
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Tequila - Post 8
Gladiator - Are you not entertained? - Post 9
Diggstown - Thumbs Down at 10:09 - Post 10
Tombstone - Doc Holliday vs. Johnny Ringo - Post 11
Bullitt - Car Chase - Post 12
Tombstone - Well, bye - Post 13
Tombstone - Train Station Scene - Post 14
Last of the Mohicans - Final Scene - Post 15
Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Private. Pyle's greatest hour. - Post 21
Full Metal Jacket - Get Some - Post 22
Rocky IV - Final Speech - Post 23
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Chief Bromden leaves - Post 24
Tenacious D - Kickapoo - Post 25
Tenacious D - Classico - Post 25
Tenacious D - Sasquatch and Trippy Mushrooms - Post 25
Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny - Lasers - Post 25
Tenacious D - Master Exploder - Post 25
Tenacious D - Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown) - Post 25
Caddyshack - Bill Murray's Dalai Lama - Post 26
Caddyshack - Boat accident - Post 27
Super Troopers - Opening scene - Post 28
Super Troopers - Meow - Post 29
The Fly - Help Me! - Post 31
Kill Bill - The Bride vs GoGo Yubari - Post 32
Pulp Fiction - Breakfast Scene - Post 34
The Birds - Introduction - Post 35
The Birds - Gas station - Post 35
The Godfather - Baptism - Post 36
The Godfather - Ending - Post 36
The Godfather Part II - You Broke My Heart, Fredo - Post 37
Spartacus - I'm Spartacus - Post 39
Duel - Desert Road - Post 40
Blazing Saddles - The New Sheriff - Post 42
Full Metal Jacket - Boot Camp - Post 43
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Final Scene - Post 44
The Deer Hunter - Russian Roulette - Post 44
The Notebook - Ending - Post 44
The Alamo - Davy Crockett plays the violin - Post 46
The Alamo - Davy Crockett asks for Santa Anna's surrender - Post 46
The Alamo - Sam Houston whips Santa Anna - Post 46
The Shawshank Redemption - Escape - Post 47
The Shawshank Redemption - Ending Scene - Post 47
Anchorman - Fight Scene - Post 48
Anchorman - Brick Killed a Guy - Post 49
Pulp Fiction - Say What Again? (Missed gunshots) - Post 50
Planet of the Apes - Ending Scene - Post 51
Spaceballs - Comb the desert - Post 52
A Few Good Men - You can't handle the truth - Post 53
Pulp Fiction - Guns of the Navarone (Cleaning up Marvin) - Post 54
The Unforgiven - Final scene - Post 56
Heat - Restaurant Scene - Post 58
Animal House - Bluto's Pearl Harbor Speech - Post 59
Forrest Gump - Reminiscing - Post 60
Saving Private Ryan - The beach at Normandy - Post 61
Willard - Can't escape the mice - Post 62
Cable Guy - Porno password - Post 63
Requiem for a Dream - Two girls, one device - Post 64 (Since it's NC-17 I'll eliminate this one unless people want to make a strong argument that it should be included.)
War of the Worlds (1953) - Battle Scene - Post 65
Se7en - Final scene - Post 66
A Few Good Men - breakfast with the colonel - Post 67
Iron Giant - Final scene - Post 68
Pulp Fiction - Final Diner scene - Post 69 (need video link)
Pulp Fiction - At the bar with Marcellus - Post 69 (need video link)
Pulp Fiction - Butch gets his orders - Post 70
The Unforgiven - Final scene - Post 71
Jaws - The Indianapolis Speech - Post 72
25th Hour - Mirror Scene - Post 73
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Whip Scene - Post 74
The Empire Strikes Back - Luke, I am your father - Post 75
The Blues Brothers - Rawhide - Post 77
The Blues Brothers - Car in the rain - Post 77
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Drinking, driving, and smoking - Post 78
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Black Knight - Post 79

[Mama Hip Rockets]

[Rasputin]

Ya this is a ten minute part but got to watch it. The smoking threads reminded me of it. Starts out actor James Woods joins a quit smoking program. Stephen Kings movie Cat's Eye is a great 3 story flick from 1985. Long time since I have seen it.

[Aries Walker]

Two from Rounders. Definitely NSFW for language.

[DeepPurple]

"Taxi Driver" The ending (1976) Director Martin Scorcese, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster.

[Rasputin]

Hey. "Pigs don't eat it because the don't know how."




This is two part 10 min scenes but ya just got to watch to get it. Again from Cat's Eye, Stephen King is a master mind for suspense, drama, & sick twisted humor.

[Rain Man]

Building the list through Post 100. If others can add to it, that'd be great.

I recognize that there may be some duplicates in here, but I'll take them out when I set up the tournament. Don't worry about dupes if you're adding to the list.

Big - Piano Dancing Scene - Post 1
Risky Business - Underwear Dance - Post 1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Seurat Stare - Post 1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Parking Lot Ferrari - Post 1
Forrest Gump - End of the Run - Post 1
Cape Fear - Parking Lot Fight - Post 2
Of Mice and Men - Lenny and Curly Fight - Post 4
Big Jake - Hostage Scene - Post 5
Wuthering Heights - Heathcliff can't have Cathy - Post 6
Cool Hand Luke - Boxing - Post 7
Cool Hand Luke - Failure to Communicate - Post 7
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Tequila - Post 8
Gladiator - Are you not entertained? - Post 9
Diggstown - Thumbs Down at 10:09 - Post 10
Tombstone - Doc Holliday vs. Johnny Ringo - Post 11
Bullitt - Car Chase - Post 12
Tombstone - Well, bye - Post 13
Tombstone - Train Station Scene - Post 14
Last of the Mohicans - Final Scene - Post 15
Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Private. Pyle's greatest hour. - Post 21
Full Metal Jacket - Get Some - Post 22
Rocky IV - Final Speech - Post 23
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Chief Bromden leaves - Post 24
Tenacious D - Kickapoo - Post 25
Tenacious D - Classico - Post 25
Tenacious D - Sasquatch and Trippy Mushrooms - Post 25
Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny - Lasers - Post 25
Tenacious D - Master Exploder - Post 25
Tenacious D - Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown) - Post 25
Caddyshack - Bill Murray's Dalai Lama - Post 26
Caddyshack - Boat accident - Post 27
Super Troopers - Opening scene - Post 28
Super Troopers - Meow - Post 29
The Fly - Help Me! - Post 31
Kill Bill - The Bride vs GoGo Yubari - Post 32
Pulp Fiction - Breakfast Scene - Post 34
The Birds - Introduction - Post 35
The Birds - Gas station - Post 35
The Godfather - Baptism - Post 36
The Godfather - Ending - Post 36
The Godfather Part II - You Broke My Heart, Fredo - Post 37
Spartacus - I'm Spartacus - Post 39
Duel - Desert Road - Post 40
Blazing Saddles - The New Sheriff - Post 42
Full Metal Jacket - Boot Camp - Post 43
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Final Scene - Post 44
The Deer Hunter - Russian Roulette - Post 44
The Notebook - Ending - Post 44
The Alamo - Davy Crockett plays the violin - Post 46
The Alamo - Davy Crockett asks for Santa Anna's surrender - Post 46
The Alamo - Sam Houston whips Santa Anna - Post 46
The Shawshank Redemption - Escape - Post 47
The Shawshank Redemption - Ending Scene - Post 47
Anchorman - Fight Scene - Post 48
Anchorman - Brick Killed a Guy - Post 49
Pulp Fiction - Say What Again? (Missed gunshots) - Post 50
Planet of the Apes - Ending Scene - Post 51
Spaceballs - Comb the desert - Post 52
A Few Good Men - You can't handle the truth - Post 53
Pulp Fiction - Guns of the Navarone (Cleaning up Marvin) - Post 54
The Unforgiven - Final scene - Post 56
Heat - Restaurant Scene - Post 58
Animal House - Bluto's Pearl Harbor Speech - Post 59
Forrest Gump - Reminiscing - Post 60
Saving Private Ryan - The beach at Normandy - Post 61
Willard - Can't escape the mice - Post 62
Cable Guy - Porno password - Post 63
Requiem for a Dream - Two girls, one device - Post 64 (Since it's NC-17 I'll eliminate this one unless people want to make a strong argument that it should be included.)
War of the Worlds (1953) - Battle Scene - Post 65
Se7en - Final scene - Post 66
A Few Good Men - breakfast with the colonel - Post 67
Iron Giant - Final scene - Post 68
Pulp Fiction - Final Diner scene - Post 69 (need video link)
Pulp Fiction - At the bar with Marcellus - Post 69 (need video link)
Pulp Fiction - Butch gets his orders - Post 70
The Unforgiven - Final scene - Post 71
Jaws - The Indianapolis Speech - Post 72
25th Hour - Mirror Scene - Post 73
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Whip Scene - Post 74
The Empire Strikes Back - Luke, I am your father - Post 75
The Blues Brothers - Rawhide - Post 77
The Blues Brothers - Car in the rain - Post 77
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Drinking, driving, and smoking - Post 78
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Black Knight - Post 79
Blazing Saddles - New Sheriff - Post 81
Lion King - Circle of Life - Post 81
Karate Kid - The fight - Post 81
True Romance - Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken - Post 82 (need video link)
Goodfellas - Copacabana - Post 83
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - Khan, You Bloodsucker - Post 84
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - Khan with worms - Post 84
Swing Kids 16 - Dance club raid - Post 85
Heat - Deniro/Pacino restaurant scene - Post 86
My Cousin Vinny - Court scene - Post 87
Old School - Tranquilizer gun scene - Post 88 (need video link)
American Psycho - Posing and banging - Post 88
Fight Club - Chemical burn - Post 90
Inglorious Basterds - Opening 16 minutes - Post 91 (need video link)
Inglorious Basterds - Breakfast and interview - Post 92 (need video link)
Inglorious Basterds - Introduction of the Bear Jew - Post 92 (need video link)
28 Weeks Later - Opening scene - Post 93 (need video link)
Braveheart - Final scene - Post 94
Braveheart - Blueface speech - Post 94
Once Upon A Time In The West - Opening Scene - Post 95 (need video link)
North by Northwest - Cropduster scene - Post 95 (need video link)
Big Lebowski - Over the line - Post 97
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Rolling boulder - Post 98
Psycho - Shower scene - Post 98
Saving Private Ryan - Single sniper shot - Post 100

[Gary]

[Gary]

Not that it's a great movie, but how can you forget Alvin Mack.

[frankotank]

to whoever posted the Huey Lewis Hip To Be Square scene from American Psycho....THANKS!
watched it yesterday for the first time since originally seeing it when it first came out. what a cool frigging movie! Batman shoulda won an award.

[Frazod]

I waited to see if ONE, just ONE, of you goddamn heathens would mention the Rick/Sam bar scene from Casablanca.