Time for another tournament: favorite movie scenes.

[Rain Man]

Edit: The Tournament Is Now Underway and no more nominations will be accepted after Post 498. Look for the SceneItAll Tournament Threads.


I saw two movies today that featured iconic scenes: Big, with the piano dancing scene, and Risky Business, with the underwear dance.

It got me wondering about my favorite movie scenes, and I thought it would be a good tournament topic. So this is the nomination thread. Tell me your favorite movie scenes.

The rules:

1. A scene is generally defined as a segment in a particular place and time, continuous in presentation.

2. A scene should be no more than about three minutes in length.

3. I debated on what adjective to use. Most memorable scene? Best scene? I ended up landing on "favorite scene", because that lets you select based on your own feelings.

4. Probably no porn scenes since they would automatically win.

5. We're talking scenes, not lines. So your nomination needs to be at least one minute long unless you can argue that it's a full standalone scene that's shorter.

I'll likely do this as a brutal one-on-one single elimination tournament since I expect to get a lot of nominations. However, I could change this once I see what we have lined up.

I'll start by nominating the following:

- the piano dancing scene in Big



- the underwear dance in Risky Business (sorry about the ad - starting at 0:32 in this clip)



- the scene staring into the Seurat painting in Ferris Bueller (from 0:53 to the end of this clip, though they cut it off a little too soon)



- the Ferris Bueller parking attendants flying in the Ferrari



- Forrest Gump deciding to stop running (5:08 to 6:37 in this clip)

[Nzoner]

Classic from the original Dirty Harry

[Nzoner]

Cagney,enough said

[Discuss Thrower]

[Deberg_1990]

Got to throw some John Carpenter in here....

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Thanks to all the embedding, my shitty work computer won't let me rep this, but I will rep another of your posts to make it up.

[Predarat]

Kind of an underdog but the SlapShot Hanson Bothers debut

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

I was going to post this, but it obliterates the 3 minute limit. However, I think this scene proves that said limit is ill advised.

Yeah, the time limit is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the fact that you're limited to what you can find online. I mean, if someone puts a 4-minute clip on youtube, is that really not going to be accepted?

[Predarat]

Star Wars Mos Eisley Cantina scene

[Predarat]

Die Hard yippie kia yeah

[Rausch]

I wouldn't list a CW scene as one of my favorites, personally, that's just, it's who I am. I hope, in confidence, you'll understand, my friend, and we can agree to disagree amongst friends.

But if, per se, I were to be a fan of the Walken I'd post this video as one of, as I would put it, his better performances.

Just me. I only say this because you've flipped the rock and uncovered this topic. It's not what I would do, but what is IS...

(NSFW)

[Rausch]

Mein own favorite...




For the n00bs...

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users...omb/latin.html

[Bowser]

http://youtu.be/vzN3qO-qc8U


no embed

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Bowser

http://youtu.be/vzN3qO-qc8U


no embed

[mdchiefsfan]

[rico]

Originally Posted by mdchiefsfan

I tried posting a Memento clip yesterday!!!! But the vid did not allow embedding.