One word:

"Khaaaaaaaaannnn!!!!"

Made it this far without the following? Shameful.

The one, the only:



Because is still gives me goose bumps 40+ years later.

"You don't have to worry, kid. I ain't going to kill you. You're the only friend I got."

I love this scene because the cocky, young, Schofield Kid finds out the gentle, sober widower he's been riding w/ is way more than the pig farmer he rode up on. As legends go, he assumes it's just that. Just story.

Same w/ the young lady who rode out to meet them in this scene. It's become apparent that the reward to avenge their "billiards co-worker" has drawn in someone w/ a quite unsavory history. This was a concern w/ Gene Hackman's character, but they had no idea.
And then she and the Kid witness their fears as widower William Munny, who just lost his best friend, takes the bottle from the Kid.
And he starts hitting the bottle and asking questions about the display of his best friend in front of the saloon.
"You better ride on back miss".
-She and the Kid are thinking he's going to kill the Kid. Not so.
The old William Munny emerges.

Or maybe this. I feel no explanation needed.

“But then again, why take a chance?”

https://youtu.be/Ka7hSZhgplk

Still one of my favorite movies I never get tired of seeing:





“From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”

Old dogs, old tricks

Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, extracting a confession.



It would be fairly ordinary, but for the camera soaring above the action in a "herky-jerky" fashion, accompanied by that music.

The hot extract scene from “Act of Valor”.

Pretty self explanatory. As they are being overwhelmed by a superior force, they ditch the truck in the water, and as the the bad guys catch up to them, the SWCC boats roll in and “bbbbbuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr”

A feel good story if there ever was one.

As a Gen-Xer, I was raised on a lot of media that inspired my love of driving and an eagerness to get my license. I devoured cartoons such as Speed Racer, Speed Buggy, Wheelie & The Chopper Bunch, and Wacky Races. I watched the movies The Love Bug, Gumball Rally, Vanishing Point, Eat My Dust, Corvette Summer, and the climactic end to Used Cars with the high schoolers helping out Kurt Russell by tearing through the desert. This is another scene that always got my pulse pumping as a young 'un:

I really like the poker game on the train in The Sting. I think it's Paul Newman at his best. The way he "unconsciously" baits Robert Shaw's Lonnegan character until he furious is priceless.

The whole movie is a classic, but this scene is my favorite.

For me, this is PERFECT. This scene brings back the nostalgia of aviation to me, and it doesn't hurt that the Convair B-36 Peacemaker is in my top 5 of favorite vintage military aircraft. This is just pure BEAUTY!!!

Saving private Ryan. “Earn this”

The bucket scene in Quigley Down Under.

SAS storm the US Ambassador's residence in the last 10 minutes of The Final Option.

I've given this a ton of thought. I'm a child of my media and I have to say that, to choose just one, mine is the part of The Fifth Element that begins when Corbin Dallas gives Ruby Rod the gun to hold on the Mangalore prisoner and ends with the Federation President stating "I wonder?"

I could watch that looped for hours. It has more humor than the nightclub gunfight from John Wick, the first combat scene from Terminator where Sarah and Reese first encounter the CSM 101, and the Colonial Marine extraction scene from Aliens. Is science fiction over, say, the SWAT storming Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard, and while I really like the movie, I actually only really like scenes from it, because as a movie with a plot it is lacking, especially the very end which I HATE. But my joy over specific parts of it, this scene, most of the scenes with Zorg, especially his first with introducing the ZF-1 and the intercutting with the scenes of Lee-Loo explaining her part, the scenes at the spaceport with all of the Corbin Dallases appearing for launch, those are SO GOOD, and I can just skip to them.

So there's my $.02.

Scenes leading up to the air battle between two F14s and two Japanese Zeros from The Final Countdown.

Many from Tombstone

Climax of Last of the Mohicans is up there, no sense in duplicating.