About half of Fight Club would win this contest.

I can't find a video of the entire opening sequence of "Inglorious Basterds," 16 minutes of brilliant, chilling interrogation.

This movie also has plenty of quality scenes.

I also enjoyed when they're all having breakfast and they interrogate the filmmaker gal (I forget her name -- the one who originally escaped).

The introduction of the Bear Jew is good too.

I'd like to nominate the beginning of 28 Weeks Later.

The music, in itself, is amazing.

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I looked back and didn't see these.

The opening scene from Once Upon a Time in the West, and the crop duster scene from North by Northwest.

This.


It's tied with Pulp Fiction as my all-time favorite movie.

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The first 3:30 is the Raiders of the Lost Ark boulder scene (my nominee), though one ought to consider the Psycho shower scene (the second clip) that follows as well. FWIW, the end of the Graduate (the third scene in this clip) doesn't do that much for me...

I used this youtube clip because I couldn't find just the Raiders scene by itself.

The Graduate FTMFW

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Shaw was so drunk the night before the original shoot, he botched it. They showed up next morning he did the used cut in one take.

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The final bomb scene from Hurt Locker is pretty intense, as well.

Maybe the most overrated movie of all time. I nearly fell asleep.

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