epic scenes.

[The Mothman]

what are some of you're favorite epic scenes? Im talking about perfect film making scenes. ones where the musical score, the acting, and the direction all fit together perfectly and send chills down your spine.
The final scene in The Dark Knight when Batman is running from the cops with the intense musical score and Gary Oldman's voice in the background "He is not the hero Gotham City needs, but one it deserves. He is a Dark Knight" or something like that. both Times i've seen it I got chills.
Every single time I see the epic showdown at the end of the Good The Bad And The Ugly with Morricone's epic score I get shivers.
The scene in raging bull when Deniro's in the jail cell is highly powerful as well, mostly because of lighting and Deniro's flawless acting.

anyone have any favs like these?

[ferretchucker]

When travolta shoots the guy in the car in Pulp Fiction.

[The Mothman]

I'd consider that more of a funny (well done none the less) than epic scene.

[The Flayed One]

I don't know if I'd consider it epic, but the hallway scene in Exorcist III always sends a chill down my spine. The way it's filmed, the absolute lack of music. It just lulls you into a comfort zone and then destroys you at the end. It helped make it my favorite movie of all time.

[roshiq]

The scene when McMurphy started the commentary for the world series & spread the 'excitement' on others...that was mind blowing! And obviously the unforgettable ending scenes of this masterpiece enlightens the same class.

[Ferox13]

Robert Michum in Cape Fear where hes explaining what he did to his wife - great acting, chilling dialogue. Scary.

[Angra]

what are some of you're favorite epic scenes? Im talking about perfect film making scenes. ones where the musical score, the acting, and the direction all fit together perfectly and send chills down your spine.
The final scene in The Dark Knight when Batman is running from the cops with the intense musical score and Gary Oldman's voice in the background "He is not the hero Gotham City needs, but one it deserves. He is a Dark Knight" or something like that. both Times i've seen it I got chills.
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Will people please shut the faggety fuck up about this movie soon. My eyes has been fed up about it for a month now. When will you people get into your tiny sculls that this isn't a masterpiece. This isn't one of the wonders of the world. It's a freakin SUPER HERO MOVIE!!!!

YOU PEOPLE ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!! :mad:

[The Mothman]

shut up. verbally attacking people because they like a movie is fucking stupid. sometimes I'll give people shit if they like or dont like something, but I dont go that far, its completely unnecessary.

[Angra]

shut up. verbally attacking people because they like a movie is fucking stupid. sometimes I'll give people shit if they like or dont like something, but I dont go that far, its completely unnecessary.



.............. I want you banned..

[urgeok2]

Will people please shut the faggety fuck up about this movie soon. My eyes has been fed up about it for a month now. When will you people get into your tiny sculls that this isn't a masterpiece. This isn't one of the wonders of the world. It's a freakin SUPER HERO MOVIE!!!!

YOU PEOPLE ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!! :mad:

wow, when you're wrong, you're wrong.


it wasnt a superhero movie .. it was a well done crime drama film.

it's the 'Scarface' for this decade.

[The Mothman]

.............. I want you banned..

thats nice.

[Angra]

wow, when you're wrong, you're wrong.


it wasnt a superhero movie .. it was a well done crime drama film.

it's the 'Scarface' for this decade.



So it comes to this...... they got you too, Urge.. :(


Scarface I can easily understand. It's got one of the all time bad asses in it. And the story is almost flawless.


The Dark Knight... It's got Heath as The Joker. I think that might be pretty much all people will remember about this movie in 20 years. And yes, I'm pretty sure about that statement. I'm not just saying this to be a jerk.

[ferretchucker]

I agree and dissagree with you Angra. I'm getting a bit bored of constantly hearing about it. It's a good film but it is getting a bit tiresome now. And although up near there, I wouldn't put it in the top 20 films of the past say, 70 years. But it is still a brilliant film and was more than just a superhero movie. It wasn't about cool superhuman powers etc. It was about insanity and chaos.

Also, when did you and mothman start hating each other?

[Angra]

Also, when did you and mothman start hating each other?



Just now.

And if you go outside and you see Mothman, I want you to shoot that fucking thing. And if it's got Dave Coulier's hair on it, I want you to shoot that thing of first, then shoot Mothman.

[urgeok2]

. It's got Heath as The Joker. I think that might be pretty much all people will remember about this movie in 20 years. .

did you think about why ?

because his performance was deserving of all the hype. I was prepared to be let down - and was blown away. I dont care if it was batman, or little miss sunshine, or driving miss daisy ... heath ledger gave a huge performance in this film.

take him out and you still have a very cool film... al ot of other things were going on with a lot of other good actors ... but Heath as the Joker was mesmerising.


this is why people still remember midnight cowboy (dustin hoffman)
this is why people still remember Angel Heart (mickey rourke)
this is why people still remember the Maltese Falcon (bogart)

memorable movies are made memorable by memorable performances ..

your statement may very well be true - but its also true of a lot of other really good movies that people still remember.

[The Flayed One]

This gives me an idea for an interesting thread.

[Angra]

did you think about why ?

because his performance was deserving of all the hype. I was prepared to be let down - and was blown away. I dont care if it was batman, or little miss sunshine, or driving miss daisy ... heath ledger gave a huge performance in this film.


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Agreed. 100%.

I just don't see what all the hype, especially on a horror site like this, is coming from.

Sure it was pretty good, but compared to LOTR it was fairly forgettable. And i didn't see as much hype about LOTR when those movies were coming up.

[Angra]

Not that I take small things like this personal. But I wish you will all rotten in hell. :D :p

[alkytrio666]

- The final showdown in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (like MM said).
- The final scene in The French Connection (gunshot). Sends chills up my spine.
- The Kurtz execution in Apocalypse Now (a la 'The End' by The Doors).
- The scene in Goodfellas where De Niro snaps inside and we know it by a twinkle in his eye ('Sunshine of your Love')

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Angra- epic fail. :)

[massacre man]

The car chase and ending to Dark Knight are the most recent ones that come to mind.

And the scene from John Carpenter's Halloween after Laurie finds the bodies and is leaning against the wall when Michael's mask slowly fades in from the door behind her.

[urgeok2]

the scene in the Thing where all hell breaks loose in the operating room


the final battle in Equilibrium (and the 1st gunfight)

Lair of the White Worm - hugh grant cutting the vampire in half - then spinning into a drum kit - in slow motion - in the middle of a midieval castle

Phantasm .. the 'living photograph' of the tall man reacting to the cold of the ice cream truck

An american werewolf in London - the transformation to the song Bad Moon Rising


tons more

[neverending]

The ending of Harold & Maude.

It just screws with your head.

The beginning of The Evil Dead.

It just screws with your head.

[alkytrio666]

An american werewolf in London - the transformation to the song Bad Moon Rising

Got to agree with that one. Probably one of my favorite scenes, period.

[Elvis_Christ]

The opening of The Warriors

[ferretchucker]

Very end of Friday 13th in the lake.

[Doc Faustus]

The Halloween party in Ms. 45
The opening fight in Gangs of New York
The funeral procession opening of Frankenstein
I second the opening of the Warriors

[Ferox13]

The opening of The Warriors


Good call...

[_____V_____]

The opening of The Warriors

Thats my fav scene of all-time in ANY movie. :cool:



Also, a very powerful scene from Platoon :-


(***WARNING - HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD***)


- When Willem Dafoe mows down a bunch of vietcongs and walks back with a grin to Tom Berenger, who isn't smiling at all, and has THE look on his face...Dafoe's grin fades, and he instantly realises. Before he could even think, Berenger shoots...

...and when they are all air-lifted in a chopper, out comes Dafoe, running through the trees, chased by a thousand vietcongs...clutching his chest and running for his life...they look on down helplessly, while he raises his arms towards them...just as bullet after bullet starts to thud into his body...


...god, that is such a HUGE scene, in every sense of the word. I got the goosebumps just typing it out, thinking about it.

[The Mothman]

this scene from Outlaw Josey Whales is so ice cold. i love it, great lighting too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5gFrB_ldhk&feature=related

[newb]

The Bonnie & Clyde death scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGxn6lYtJ3M

[Papillon Noir]

The ear scene in Reservoir Dogs.

Also, when Henry Fonda guns down the family in the beginning of Once Upon the Time in the West.

I think westerns and asian movies tend to have a lot of "epic" scenes. I can name a number from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Leaves, Curse of the Golden Flower, etc.

[newb]

They probably don't get any more "epic" than the chariot race scene from "Ben Hur".

[_____V_____]

They probably don't get any more "epic" than the chariot race scene from "Ben Hur".

I see your epic scene, and raise you an epic scene :-


- The final showdown in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

OR

- The climactic showdown in Kung Fu Hustle.


Take your pick - either one, I win. :D

[Vodstok]

V, great description on the scene in pLatoon, I probably would not have remembered it if you hadnt mentioned it, but that scene is one that stays with you in great detail for the rest of your life. Another one from Platoon is the group walking away as the village burns in the background and pockets of weapons explode. Everyone is devestated by what just happened, except for the jerkoffs who are just pissed at everything.


Hall of mirrors in Equilibrium. The puppy gunfight too.


The climax of 28 Days Later. The moddy guitar music overlaying the rain, all filmed in high speed digital giving it an unreal and hyper real feel at the same time. The Infected tearing around the mansion, juxtaposed with Jim running around like an angel of death, culminating with one of the most brutally satisfying kills ever.


The closing fight of Fellowship of the ring. I love it when aragorn is facing the crowd of uruk hai, and you dont doubt for a second that he is going to come out on top.

[urgeok2]

V, great description on the scene in pLatoon, I probably would not have remembered it if you hadnt mentioned it, but that scene is one that stays with you in great detail for the rest of your life. Another one from Platoon is the group walking away as the village burns in the background and pockets of weapons explode. Everyone is devestated by what just happened, except for the jerkoffs who are just pissed at everything.

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its funny - but the scene that got me the most was a smaller one - where charlie sheen was freaking out in confusion because he couldnt tell where the bullets were coming from, if it was friendly fire or not ..

it was the 1st war film i saw that conveyed that experience - that it wasnt one clearly marked side shooting at another clearly marked side ... that at times it was a giant lethal clusterfuck that would take a miracle to make it out of alive.

[newb]

its funny - but the scene that got me the most was a smaller one - where charlie sheen was freaking out in confusion because he couldnt tell where the bullets were coming from, if it was friendly fire or not ..

it was the 1st war film i saw that conveyed that experience - that it wasnt one clearly marked side shooting at another clearly marked side ... that at times it was a giant lethal clusterfuck that would take a miracle to make it out of alive.

you used one of my favorite words in the statement.

[Vodstok]

Platoon is one o fthose rare movies where the whole damn thing was practially an epic scene. Even the one where they are burning barrels of human waste. It was the pinacle of Oliver Stone's carreer in my book.

[urgeok2]

you used one of my favorite words in the statement.


i use it all the time myself

[_____V_____]

Platoon is one o fthose rare movies where the whole damn thing was practially an epic scene. Even the one where they are burning barrels of human waste. It was the pinacle of Oliver Stone's carreer in my book.

Absolutely.

When they come across one of their own by the river, throat slit and layed up in front of the tree...

When the fat dude gets shot during night-shift, and is bleeding torrents among the confusion and chaos...

The kids crying behind-the-scene as Charlie Sheen chances upon them (and his fellow soldiers) in sheer horror and disgust..."She's a fucking human being man!" and gets spat upon...

...Its not a war movie by any means, its an exercise, in identification. Its basically a journey of every human on this planet, in discovering himself.

There is so much unsaid and being conveyed in currents throughout the movie (specially through Sheen's describing to his Grandma)..."We didn't fight the enemy, we fought ourselves..."

...goodness, if ever they handed out a prize for the Best Epic Movie Ever Made, Platoon would be my immediate choice. And a strong contender for the prize.

[Vodstok]

you used one of my favorite words in the statement.
i use it all the time myself
I like Lethal too :)

[Papillon Noir]

...goodness, if ever they handed out a prize for the Best Epic Movie Ever Made, Platoon would be my immediate choice. And a strong contender for the prize.

I would have to go with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for that one.

[Vodstok]

Blackhawk down is another one that i think is epic. Excellent acting by an amazing cast; they did a great job of showing the scale of the incident. Also shows how damn good americans are at making sure we follow the philosophy that Gen. George Patton coined:

Don't die for your country. Make the other son of a bitch die for his.

[Festered]

Alexander Nevsky. Battle on the frozen lake still is awesome.

[The Mothman]

The climax of 28 Days Later. The moddy guitar music overlaying the rain, all filmed in high speed digital giving it an unreal and hyper real feel at the same time. The Infected tearing around the mansion, juxtaposed with Jim running around like an angel of death, culminating with one of the most brutally satisfying kills ever.



I forgot about that one. One of my all time favorite horror movie endings.

[bloody_ribcut]

the obvious... ending to The Devils Rejects


and Young Guns
when there trapped in the house at the end.

[The Mothman]

the obvious... ending to The Devils Rejects


i'm with you on that one.
this scene even more so. William Forsythe is sooo badass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DZ3tTx9YE&feature=related

[bloody_ribcut]

i'm with you on that one.
this scene even more so. William Forsythe is sooo badass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DZ3tTx9YE&feature=related


yeah, the mirror scene. i never get tired of that one....

that link is to jason goes to hell.

[ferretchucker]

Dunno if this has been said but the ending of The Exorcist.

[Vodstok]

Dunno if this has been said but the ending of The Exorcist.
Goood call.

Surprised this hasnt been mentioned yet: pretty much every battle in 300. Hell, it isnt as emotially impacting as Platoon (or as relevant), but 300 is one big epic.

The explosives scene in the Dark Knight. Holy fucking intense. If you are tired of hearing about it, then quit reading the posts. TDK was a fucking amazing movie, and Heath Ledger will live on forever as the Joker.

Christ, even if he was still alive, he would be remembered forever as the Joker.

[ferretchucker]

I think a scene that will always be remembered is the Sweet Transvestite song from RHPS.

[bloody_ribcut]

I think a scene that will always be remembered is the Sweet Transvestite song from RHPS.

not to me.

[illdojo]

not to me.

Or me.....yuck. :rolleyes:

[illdojo]

The final scene of There Will Be Blood....."I'm finished."

[ferretchucker]

This exact scene from Pirates of the Carribbean : At Worlds End.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHSBZc8Mp0Y

[illdojo]

This exact scene from Pirates of the Carribbean : At Worlds End.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHSBZc8Mp0Y

Epic?? :rolleyes:

[ferretchucker]

Epic?? :rolleyes:

well it's a great scene! :mad:

[Elvis_Christ]

No its not. It the equivalent of smearing shit on your TV screen.

[Vodstok]

No its not. It the equivalent of smearing shit on your TV screen.
Brilliant response...:rolleyes:


Give FC some credit, he's got some pretty sophisticated tastes, for the most part for a kid his age. Not to mention it IS a big scene, and targeted toward the teenage demographic.

Are you going to tell me that in high school you only watched the highest caliber of film abd BEVER liked anything but the best?


Bullshit. This is an opinion thread, so dont shit on other people's simply because you either dont agree or you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.


For the record, if you had posted "I think It the equivalent of smearing shit on your TV screen" i would nto have said a thing. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and most people dont want to hear it :)

[Elvis_Christ]

Are you going to tell me that in high school you only watched the highest caliber of film abd BEVER liked anything but the best?


Yes. In MY opinion I did :) I had broader taste than dull blockbuster shit like that.

You must've got quite worked up by my comment and were mashing the fuck outta your keyboard. The spelling in your post was EPIC :D

[Vodstok]

Yes. In MY opinion I did :) I had broader taste than dull blockbuster shit like that.

You must've got quite worked up by my comment and were mashing the fuck outta your keyboard. The spelling in your post was EPIC :D
Still hung over from Saturday night. :)

I find its easier to type with my elbows.:D

[ferretchucker]

Yes. In MY opinion I did :) I had broader taste than dull blockbuster shit like that.

You must've got quite worked up by my comment and were mashing the fuck outta your keyboard. The spelling in your post was EPIC :D

Whether or not you like it I don't see how a film like pirates of the Caribbean can be called dull. A little predictable, a lot of wannabe one liners but it's full of action and good CG monsters (aside from the giant woman).

Plus, Pirates of the Caribbean is a bit of an epic.

[Vodstok]

Whether or not you like it I don't see how a film like pirates of the Caribbean can be called dull. A little predictable, a lot of wannabe one liners but it's full of action and good CG monsters (aside from the giant woman).

Plus, Pirates of the Caribbean is a bit of an epic.
The scope is definitely epic.

[urgeok2]

POTC #1 was a good film - especially considering the source.

and i do love the scene - the 1st appearance of Depp on the sinking boat - stepping off onto the dock hust as the boat went under ..


pretty sweet scene (and the music was great)

[Despare]

The scene in The Princess Bride where Westley (as The Dread Pirate Roberts) is chasing Buttercup and has to battle Inigo Montoya, Fezzik, and Vizzini.

[Elvis_Christ]

Whether or not you like it I don't see how a film like pirates of the Caribbean can be called dull. A little predictable, a lot of wannabe one liners but it's full of action and good CG monsters (aside from the giant woman).

Plus, Pirates of the Caribbean is a bit of an epic.

Just not my thing mate. I always find those types of flicks a bit overblown, overlong and don't really get engaged with the story. I'm more into my trashy "b-movie" kinda stuff which a lot of people can't stand :)

My comment earlier wasn't a personal attack either so I hope you don't think that bro. It was another case of Elvis vs Hollywood haha :)

[ferretchucker]

Don't worry, I didn't take it personally. Just felt I should justify my reasoning.

[The Mothman]

yeah, the mirror scene. i never get tired of that one....

that link is to jason goes to hell.oops, yeah i meant to post this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RASoyDcrmhM
that JGTH clip was classic though.

[The Mothman]

If you are tired of hearing about it, then quit reading the posts. TDK was a fucking amazing movie, and Heath Ledger will live on forever as the Joker.



word........

[urgeok2]

Just not my thing mate.


dont you mean : Just not my thing Matey ?

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t182/Billiey2k/CELEBRITY%20PHOTOS/JOHNNYDEPP36.jpg



:D

[ferretchucker]

That was such a terrible joke but I defy anybody for whom it didn't crack a smile.

[Vodstok]

That was such a terrible joke but I defy anybody for whom it didn't crack a smile.
I did. a little one, but I did.

A, so far, overlooke dscene that is still as amazing now as the day it was first shown: the marine stand off at the end of Aliens. Gets my adrenaline flowing every time i see it.

[ferretchucker]

Dunno if anybody said it and some may not agree that it's epic, but it's definetely iconic.

Opening scene of JAWS.