Movie Scenes (Funny, Powerful, Cool… etc)

[Søren]

Here's a handy topic to post your favorite movie scenes. Quote them, post videos, whatever you like.

Here's mine, oddly enough the first two off the top f my head star Benedict Cumberbatch.
Star Trek: Into Darkness:

Sherlock Season 2:

Spoilers + Blood and death

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[Luftwaffles]

I can't post them directly because some might be offended by them, but the final speeches at the end of both "The Great Dictator" and "Accepted" are incredibly worth-watching.

[Gonff the Mousethief]

Ii love the speech at the end of The Great Dictator Sierra!

I will try to find a video, but one of the cool scenes I can think of is when Legolas hops on those falling bricks in Battle of the Five Armies and when he slides on the shield in Two Towers.

[SoranMBane]

One of my all-time favourite fight scenes in a movie is still the one from the end of The Secret of NIMH. I love it; it's just intense, exciting, and wonderfully-animated (although I suppose that last bit also applies to the entire movie).

The Secret of NIMH

A bit of a low-quality video, but it seems to be the best I can find on Youtube.

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[The Skarzs]

That scene was good (I rather like the fact that it showed blood and death ), but the whole movie was so far distant from the book that I can't really enjoy it. (The whole "magic" stuff in it was weird.) Nicodemus wasn't old, Jenner wasn't a bad guy (he was Nicodemus's best friend) they just had a falling out and he left the rest of the rats, and Brutus was a bigger part and more prominent character than Justin.

[Banya]

This one from The Bourne Ultimatum:

[SoranMBane]

That scene was good (I rather like the fact that it showed blood and death ), but the whole movie was so far distant from the book that I can't really enjoy it. (The whole "magic" stuff in it was weird.) Nicodemus wasn't old, Jenner wasn't a bad guy (he was Nicodemus's best friend) they just had a falling out and he left the rest of the rats, and Brutus was a bigger part and more prominent character than Justin.

I suppose that's fair enough, although I've personally never had a problem with adaptations diverging from the works they're based on. In my mind, the adaptation and the source material are completely separate entities, and the adaptation's only responsibility is to be well-made (and The Secret of NIMH is quite well-made). Though I will admit that, of the changes they made, that magical element they added was the most clumsily-handled. If they'd just had some more explanation of where that amulet actually came from and what it's significance was, then it wouldn't have felt so completely out-of-left-field.

[Luftwaffles]

"The song of Freedom" is one of the most powerful scenes in ANY animated movie that I have ever seen. Not only the song itself it's beautiful, but it is also backed up for some great visuals and a really cool use of CGI -that doesn't get in the way-. It is just awesome:

Spoiler

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[Hickory]

I was gonna post a scene from Austin Powers, but decided against it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXYoitSHAU

[The Skarzs]

In my mind, the adaptation and the source material are completely separate entities

Case in point: the Bourne series. In the books there were no cell phones, computers were limited to boxes that had half the processing power of an IPod, etc. It's better to think of them as completely different stories.