Apocalypse Now "fight or surf!"

Lots have been mentioned already but here are a couple of my favorites:

When The Wonders first hear their song playing on the radio in "That Thing You Do!"

I may have missed it but I don't recall anybody mentioning the 3 minutes leading up to, and after the first appearance of the Brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park. I still get goosebumps whenever they show that wide shot and John Williams' score swells and then the dinosaur bellows at the same time. One of The Greatest Moments Ever.

"Show me the money!" from Jerry Maguire

Helicopter rescue scene in Superman: The Movie

[flame suit on]3 minutes leading up to the "I'm flying Jack" moment in Titanic. [/flame suit on]

The funniest sequence ever - the sequence right in the middle of Slapshot. If you've seen the movie you know what I mean - if not go see it!

Al Pacino going after Robert De Niro at the end of Heat.

Most my choices were already said so ill give some i didnt see

end in armageddon when bruce willis gotta go

some parts in the beggining of Face Off

Many Fights in gladiator and the ending

When the girl comes out of the tv in the ring

Requiem for a dream when they are all *****

Ending of Snatch just rocked

Some of my favorites:

Welles destroying his wife's room in Citizen Kane (obvious choice)
The montage of the girl ****ing up the guy's apartment in Chungking Express set to a Mandrin version of "Dreams"
The OD/needle scene in Pulp Fiction
The baked beans scene in Blazing Saddles
The hospital shootout stedi-cam shot in Hard Boiled
The opening motorcycle chase in Akira
The montage of images set to "A Quick One..." in Rushmore(begins with Max putting bees into Bill Murray's hotel room)
Ben Stiller's improvised freak out on the plane at the end of Meet the Parents
The Rolling Stones doing "Sympathy for the Devil" in Gimme Shelter while the crowd freaks out.
ET's goodbye scene in ET
Spacey and James Cromwell in the kitchen in LA Confidential (who saw that one coming?)
The opening pullback on Alex and his droogs in Clockwork Orange
Mifune charging down enemy soldiers on horseback in Hidden Fortress
The cross cutting of Leo getting laid and Tom Hanks doing his laundry in Catch Me If You Can
Batty vs. Deckard at the end of Blade Runner
The "clearing the ghetto" scene set to crazy piano music in Schindler's List
Jessie's song in Toy Story 2 (tell me that didn't get to you)

Plane going down in Behind Enemy Lines

Nobody has mentioned what might be my top favorite:
the Grand Central Station waltz scene in The Fisher King.

I don't want to reiterate some of the great ones already said but I'll toss out a few others of my own...

1. Race Decoder/Tip Sheet - A Day at the Races - my personal favorite scene from any Marx Brothers movie.
2. Mariachi Trio Shootout - Desperado: Subwoofer does flips everytime the rocket his the limo.
3. The Caravan Ambush - Clear and Present Danger
4. First Organ Scene - The Abominable Dr. Phibes
5. The Voyage of the Gnome - Amelie
6. Business Cards - American Psycho
7. Genesis/Phil Collins Orgy - American Psycho
8. Lawnmower vs. Zombies - Dead Alive
9. The Luggage Sale - Joe vs. the Volcano
10. The Big Win - Let It Ride

...and many more...

Some great ones in here, I'll mention a few more:

1. The entire "ball room" section of Ghostbusters: "Wait wait wait. I've always wanted to do this..."

2. The first real gunfight in Desperado. Those pistols popping out of his sleeve friggin rule.

3. The scene in Gideon's pawn shop in The Crow: "Mr. Gideon, you aren't paying attention."

4. The "meow" scene in Super Troopers.

Ignorance is not an excuse - read the forum rules before posting - rules which include SPOILER tags. -Blake

"stealing harley" scene in Terminator 2
"off with the head" scene in re-animator
"i want you to hit as hard as you can" scene in fight club
"snow car chase" scene in 007 the living daylights
"elevator pop quiz" scene in speed

Some off the top of my head.....

" In your eyes " scene from Say Anything
Tyrese making peace with Ving Rhames at the end of Baby Boy
The " diner robbery " in Sudden Impact
The murder scene in Bully
Closing minutes of Dances With Wolves
When Eastwood comes to Van Cleef's aid at the end duel of For A Few Dollars More
When John Vernon lets Eastwood go at the end of The Outlaw Josey Wales
The twist at the end of The Train Robbers
Closing minutes of Cruising ( Don't tear me apart )
Bridge scene in Sorcerer

El Tango de Roxanne - Moulin Rouge
The drug deal in Boogie Nights (start with "Jessie's Girl" if it's too long)
Michael Sullivan tying up loose ends in Road to Perdition ("I'm glad it was you")

The car chase from Ronin.
The end of Leon.
The opening scene from Alien really sets the tone for the rest of the film.
The beginning of The Shining.
The "Processing Station" scene from Aliens.

I've been nodded my head in hearty agreement with many of the choices. For my own:

-'Make 'Em Laugh' sequence in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN. The most amazing preformance I have ever seen.
-The choas at the TV station in the beginning of DAWN OF THE DEAD. I think this is the greatest opening of all time.
-'Under My Thumb' in GIMMIE SHEALTER. The shot where Mick is singing and over his shoulder you see that Hell's Angel guy tripping out. I swear to God it looks like he's turning into a werewolf.
-The industry section of KOYANISQUATSI (however it's spelt)
-The Columbine scene in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. As problematic as a lot of that movie is, I've never seen something so torturous and draining on an audience.

1) The ending of Chaplin's City Lights
2) The breakfast montage in Citizen Kane
3) The final minutes of Casablanca
4) Sunset Blvd. ("All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.")
5) STELLAAAAA!!!! from Streetcar Named Desire
6) The final moments on the bus in The Graduate
7) The shower scene - Psycho (probably the most famed of the all)
8) The bloody end of Bonnie and Clyde
9) The baseball sceen in Cuckoo's Nest
10) Ride of the Valkyries from Apocolypse Now

(the hard part of this was to try to find moments/scenes that were 3 minutes or under. Choosing the BEST, however, is a tough one. If we are talking fame I would probably go with Psycho. Really tough to choose)

(older films but still some spoilers)

The "rat" scene in 1984
The Ending scene in Koyaanisqatsi
When Timothy Hutton's character visits his psychiatrist just after learning of his friends suicide in Ordinary People
The scene in which Grace Kelley tries to get the wedding ring out of the apartment in Rear Window
When Jim Caviezel's character winds up in the field surrounded by Japanese soldiers in Thin Red Line
John Cusack's character's marriage proposal monologue in High Fidelity

-Gunshy

A few from last year:

Steak-&-Fries initiated into Little Ze's gang in "City of God"

The f***-you monologue in "25th Hour"

The silent movie in "Talk to Her"

The stink-monster(?) in "Spirted Away"

The history of the white man in "Bowling for Columbine"

Kaufman starting from the "beginning" in "Adaptation"

The massacre in "Bloody Sunday"

The hot tub scene in "About Schmidt"

The 2nd desk scene in "Secretary"

Bulding a groove in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown"

It's rare I come into a three-page thread like this and my answer has not already been used, but my choice would be the POW camp Russian roulette scene in Deerhunter. That's the most intense scene of any movie ever.

The T-Rex's thundering roar as the "when dinosaurs ruled the earth" banner falls to the floor in Jurassic Park
When Tequila and Alan burst out on the morgue trays in Hard Boiled
The jetpack chase scene in Minority Report
The daydream of Marion in a red dress in Requiem for a Dream
And many more....

The dock/fight scene or the "I could'a been a contender" scene from On the Waterfront.

Reservoir Dogs - three-way shooting

Clerks - Star Wars contractors

Pulp Fiction - apartment meeting with Brett, Flock of Seagulls and Seinfeld

Tombstone - OK Corral

SuperTroopers - Opening scene

Star Wars - Luke, Biggs, and Wedge in Death Star Trench

Toy Story 2 - Jessie's Song

Ghostbuster - Top of building / crossing the streams

Apocalypse Now - Ride of The Valkyries

A Day at The Races - intercom/phone call sequence

Joe vs. The Volcano - Are you joe?

Fight Club - This is a chemical burn

Fight Club - "Fight" with boss

Bridge over the River Kwai - blowing up the bridge

Sunset Blvd - End staircase scene

Some Like It Hot - ending

Ben's love confession in Chasing Amy

Neo running from the Agents at the end of The Matrix

The first reveal of the dinos in Jurassic Park

The rave scene at the start of Blade

and if it wasn't 6 am I'd try to think of more.

I'll try to mention ones that weren't already chosen a bunch of times.

The opening montage + bicycle scene in Akira
The opening sequence in Amélie of her as a small girl
Audition torture scene
Big Kahuna where Facinelli's Bob Walker and Spacey's Larry Mann argue about who is being sincere.
The village scene in Idi i smotri
The shard scene in Viskningar och rop
Michelle Yeo's and Zhang Ziyi's fight in Crouching Tiger
Desperado "And in he walked..."
The swimming pool scene in General Idi Amin Dada

(if you can tell, I'm going through my list alphabetically)

The Alec Baldwin scene in Glengarry Glenn Ross
The final scene from In the Mood for Love
The argument on how to split the money in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The trial in M
Tyrone's scenes in Snatch ("It's a four-ton truck Tyrone. It's not like it's a packet of *#$&ing peanuts, now is it?")
The ending of You Can Count on Me

But the grand prize is a tie between:

The "Love. where does it come from?" montage in A Thin Red Line and Margo exiting the bus to Nico's 'These Days' in The Royal Tenenbaums.

(Edited to add: I misquoted two scenes, and I had to run down and see like 3 of them... ).