OldBoy

"Oldboy"...hammer scene.

nuf said.

Geofferson

The Wild Bunch -- march of the gunmen into the shootout.

Yeti4623

When Rocky cuts Drago in Rocky IV.

visitor Q

Witchblade Anime Series

Most recently, the

Animated or not; the camera angle, the reasoning, the drama of the situation is captured perfectly. Brings a tear to my eyes even when I think about it.

Spoilered since a couple of members are in the middle of the series.

Reminds me of another great getting out of the building with the baby scene. Hard Boiled! The entire hospital shoot out sequence is a classic! If it's not, it should be...

DieselsDen

As far as comic book movies go...

SUPERMAN - Helicopter sequence

IRON MAN - first appearance in the desert

X-MEN - Magneto versus the police

SPIDER-MAN - web-slinging before end credits

SUPERMAN RETURNS - conversation and night flight with Lois and Superman

THE DARK KNIGHT - Bat-pod chase

X-MEN UNITED - Nightcrawler in the White House sequence

SUPERGIRL - first flight by the lake

SUPERMAN II - "General, would you care to step outside?"

BATMAN - first appearance of Batmobile

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER - Jessica Alba in glasses

Torchur317

Pacino & De Niro coffee scene from Heat
Walken & Hopper scene from True Romance

OldBoy

that is a great one!

Michael Corvin

William Wallace's speech in Braveheart:

Giles

Hardboiled - hospital shoot out
Close Encounters - mothership rising up from behind the mountain
Jaws - overhead shot of the boat and the shark moving under the boat
Metropolis - Tower of Babel sequence
Un Chien Andula - eye slice
Hellraiser II: Hellbound - 'Jesus Wept' recap uncut scene
Excalibur - the sword drawn back into the water.
Pink Floyd The Wall - 'Comfortably Numb'
The Devils - Rape of Jesus sequence
Spirited Away - the train sequence
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 'Someday son, this will all be yours' 'Whaaat? the curtains?'
Ikiru - the swing set scene
Moulin Rouge! - 'Your Song'
The Howling - werewolf transformation
Cat People (original) - the 'bus' scene
King Kong (original) - Kong/T-Rex fight
Sleeping Beauty - Maleficent: "Now shall you deal with ME, o Prince - and all the powers of HELL!"
Playtime - the restaurant scene
West Side Story - 'Cool' dance sequence
Suspiria - first murder sequence
Trainspotting - "the world's dirtiest bathroom" CORRECTION: "Worst Toilet in Scotland"
ratcatcher - the house in the middle of nowhere
Hello, Dolly! - title song/dance sequence in glorious 70mm!
Japon - the final tracking shot down the traintracks.
3 Monkeys - fnal shot of rolling clouds/approaching storm
The Exorcist - 'Help Me'

modfather

Trainspotting - "Worst Toilet in Scotland"

Giles

^ opps

MovieMaster11

The Whole Eddie Kaye Thomas drug deal Scene in "Fifty Pills".
Fucking Hilarious!!!!!!!

Dr Mabuse

The 'car' scene in 'Man On Fire', several scenes from that film are exceptional.

The robbery scene in 'Rififi'.

The robbery scene in 'Le Cercle Rouge', particularly where Montand free hands the shot.

The final confrontation in the street in 'Lawman'.

Any scene from 'Hero', but especially the first scene with Donnie Yen.

Opening scene of 'Aguirre: The Wrath Of God', also the last scene.

Rocky turning down the fight with Apollo, what a scene. Also 'it stinks!' scene.

Opening scene of 'Le Samourai'.

Butterfly scene from 'Mein Liebster Fiend'.

Final scene of 'Infernal Affairs'(Mou Gaan Dou).

Countless scenes from the 'Bourne Trilogy'.

Final minutes/confrontation of 'One False Move'.

Robbery gone bad/shootout in the street scene in 'Heat'. The foley work there was actual gunfire and rounds on cars, some of the best ever in film history.

Taking the beach in 'Troy: Director's Cut'.

Quite a few scenes from 'The Mission', the cross going over the falls, the penitence scene dragging the armor, the final battle.

Frank visits the Italians in 'King Of New York'.

There's a few.

redcon1

The Right Stuff is full of them, but my favorite is the intercutting between the fan dance and Yaegar's flight near the end of the film.

Is that a man, sir?
You're damn right it is.

maxfisher

It's amazing how many people post in a thread based solely on it's title without reading the original post. For me, I think horror movies most typically represent the type of movie the OP is talking about. Jason X has the sleeping bag scene. Ghost Ship has it's opening scene. Deep Blue Sea has Samuel Jackson's speech.

In addition to horror movies with a single scene that pays off, there are quite a few where they're only worth watching for a handful of death scenes. The Final Destination and Saw series come to mind.

redcon1

I'd also add the interrogation and Metro scenes from this film.

Kurosawa's High And Low: The Bullet Train sequence

Maxflier

Oops, I am guilty as charged. I bumped this one because it was the only applicable type thread on the subject that came up with search.

llandros

I will add the scene in Aliens where Ripley is backing out of the egg chamber as one egg opens, cocks her head, and then lets loose with the flamethrower. Of course, this is just one of many great scenes!

gmanca

In the form of what the OP described, the Adventures of Pluto Nash and Ernest Scared Stupid fit the bill for me.

Pluto Nash is so terrible but the scene where Mohr tells Murphy he has to swing on electrical cables, dodge fast elevators, and stand on small ledges to get into a casino boss' office. Murphy just stares at him the whole time, ending with a moment of silence and a stare of disbelief, and Murphy responding: "Tell me the other way to get there."

The delivery and it's actual quality at the end of an awful movie made it great.

Ernest fighting the troll with his truck in Scared Stupid: "How 'bout a bumper sandwich, boogerlips!" and then after hitting the troll, he does one of his Ernest-isms, "eh-eww-eww."

BrewCrew

The scenes with Luke, Vader and the Emperor in Return of the Jedi are my favorite, especially the last one when Luke refused to turn to the darkside and Vader redeemed himself by saving his son and killing the Emperor. The rest of the movie I never need to see again.

gglass4269

The Shawshank Redemption- Andy's escape

The Big Lebowski- the scene with Jesus. "Nobody fucks with de Jesus!"

Ky-Fi

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johnnysd

Barn raising scene in Witness

PopcornTreeCt

The drug dealer scene in Boogie Nights.

Clarence and Drexl in True Romance.

woody5254

Cropduster scene-North by Northwest
What am I a Clown?-Goodfellas
Dafoe's Death-Platoon
Russian Roulette Scenes-Deer Hunter
Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying-Shawshank
End Gunfight-The Professional
Woodchipper Scene-Fargo
D-Day-Saving Private Ryan
Lecter's Escape-Silence of the Lambs
Whipping Scene-Glory
Chainsaw Scene-Scarface
Sacrifice/Eclipse Scence-Apocalypto
Eating Eggs-Cool Hand Luke
Penn getting the "truth" from Robbins-Mystic River