Favorite Movie Moments – Meme Monday

It all started here. Then continued here. And here’s my list of favourite movie moments (in no particular order):

[Since I started with the other two lists, the beginning might seem a little copy-catty. And I tried to have no more than one scene per film. And I’ve probably forgotten a billion scenes. Also, first I thought I’d go for 75. Then I was suddenly at 100 and not done yet, so I just stuck with 111 112 113 114. :)]

  1. Up: the story of Carl and Ellie
  2. Wall-E: the first 20 minutes
  3. The Usual Suspects: Verbal Kint leaving the police station
  4. The Dark Knight: Joker tells of his origins
  5. Batman Begins: Bruce Wayne drops into a push up
  6. Fight Club: Explaining the rules
  7. 25th Hour: Fuck New York
  8. The Matrix: bending spoons
  9. Spirited Away: Chihiro and No-Face on the train
  10. Howl’s Moving Castle: Howl in bird-form talking to Calcifer
  11. Princess Mononoke: Seeing the Forest Spirit
  12. Nausicaä in the Valley of the Wind: Nausicaa protecting the little ohm
  13. Castle in the Sky: the robot with the flower and the birds
  14. My Neighbor Totoro: Waiting for the bus
  15. Jurassic Park: the water glass
  16. E.T.: that bike ride
  17. Singing in the Rain: dancing through the rain
  18. There Will Be Blood: Daniel Plainview DRINKS YOUR MILKSHAKE
  19. Inception: Folding Paris
  20. The Truman Show: Truman leaves
  21. What Dreams May Come: seeing the city for the first time
  22. Brokeback Mountain: The reunion kiss
  23. Atonement: Briony visiting Cecilia and Robbie
  24. Pan’s Labyrinth: Ofelia and the Pale Man
  25. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Boromir’s Death
  26. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Ents
  27. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: “I can’t carry it for you, …”
  28. When Harry Met Sally: “I’ll have what she’s having!”
  29. Casablanca: The Marseillaise
  30. Edward Scissorhands: Kim dancing in the ice shavings
  31. Pirates of the Caribbean: Introducing Jack Sparrow
  32. Man on Wire: Stepping onto that rope
  33. Life is Beautiful: Roberto entering the hall on his “white steed”
  34. Once: Broken-Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy
  35. Hero: The White Sequence
  36. House of the Flying Daggers: In the woods
  37. Amélie: The Garden Gnome
  38. Penelope: Prologue
  39. The Princess Bride: Inigo Montoya vs. the Dread Pirate Roberts
  40. The Prestige: The Reveal
  41. The Lion King: Mufasa’s death
  42. Aladdin: the genie shows off
  43. Arielle: The almost kiss
  44. The Beauty and the Beast: Belle and Beast dance [I’ll stop here now with the Disney movies]
  45. Big Fish: Ed meets the witch
  46. Mary and Max: Mary’s wobbling mother
  47. Rain Man: The escalator
  48. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Harry brings back Cedric
  49. The Professional: Mathilda, Léon and the plant walking down the street
  50. Love Me If You Dare: the dream sequence
  51. The Producers: “back into the closet”
  52. A Streetcar Named Desire: “STELLAAAA!”
  53. The Shining: “Here’s Johnny.”
  54. Little Miss Sunshine: Dwayne realising he can never be a pilot
  55. In Bruges: Harry chasing Ray
  56. Lost in Translation: Bob shooting the commercial
  57. Benny and Joon: the dancing bread
  58. Dead Poets’ Society: “Oh Captain, my Captain!”
  59. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: The luminescent crabs on the beach
  60. Four Weddings and a Funeral: Matthew reciting Auden at the funeral
  61. Memento: “What am I doing? Chasing this guy. No, wait, he’s chasing me!”
  62. The Machinist: Trevor looking at himself in the mirror
  63. Equilibrium: the training session
  64. Wait Until Dark: Susy extinguishing all the lights
  65. Children of Men: the baby crying
  66. The Piano: the beach
  67. Fargo: Gaear uses the wood chipper
  68. Constantine: the devil kicks everybody’s ass
  69. Back to the Future: The concert
  70. Charlie Bartlett: Charlie channeling Ray Charles
  71. Purple Rivers: the fight
  72. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: Arnie killing the grasshoppers
  73. Battle Royal: The girl in the car with the teddy
  74. Old Boy: The ant
  75. Trainspotting: The toilet dive
  76. Moulin Rouge: Roxanne
  77. City of God: The chicken
  78. Stand By Me: The boys walking on the train tracks
  79. Babe: “That’ll do, pig.”
  80. Titanic: Jack and Rose partying
  81. Mirrormask: Stepping on the books
  82. Dirty Dancing: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
  83. Billy Elliott: Billy hearing Swan Lake for the first time
  84. LV: LV’s performance
  85. The Fall: The Black Bandit’s brother’s burial
  86. 10 Things I Hate About You: “You’re just too good to be true…”
  87. Never Been Kissed: at the baseball field
  88. Pulp Fiction: Jules citing the bible
  89. Reservoir Dogs: Stuck in the Middle with You
  90. Kill Bill: Bill talks about Superman
  91. Forrest Gump: Elvis
  92. Sweeney Todd: Sweeney Todd arrives in London
  93. The Fountain: Tomas sitting in the bubble
  94. Ed Wood: Shooting the cemetery scene
  95. Dead Man: William Blake lying in the boat
  96. 300: “Tonight we shall dine in hell!”
  97. A Beautiful Mind: John realises the truth
  98. Dogma: God shows up
  99. Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Hedwig sings about the origin of love
  100. Love the Hard Way: Jack writing in his container
  101. The Last Unicorn: defeats the red bull
  102. My Beautiful Laundrette: Johnny licks Omar’s neck
  103. The King Dances: The King dances
  104. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sweet Transvestite
  105. All About My Mother: Agrado talks about her life
  106. Sense and Sensibility: Elinor loses her composure
  107. Emma: Emma realises what an ass she’s been
  108. Clueless: Cher brings her two teachers together
  109. Love and Other Disasters: The end in the cinema
  110. Natural Born Killers: The interview with Mickey
  111. Coffee and Cigarettes: Segment “Cousins?”
  112. I’m Not There: when it all comes together
  113. Casino Royale (the new one): Where Bond comforts Vesper in the shower [which totally sounds like a porn scene but isn’t]
  114. Happy-Go-Lucky: “En-Ra-Ha, Poppy.”

12 comments

  1. @ dead poets society: No one can resist the beauty of this moment.

    Love it. I think I’m going to do this list. With 20 scenes as I haven’t seen as many movies.

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