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Someone Asked “What Is The Greatest Single Movie Scene Ever Filmed?” And 29 Shared Their Opinions
There are so many movies being created right now that it’s certain they can’t all be good. You may find that the dialogue is lacking, the characters aren’t relatable or the effects are very obvious. The mistakes are distracting and you can’t fully immerse yourself into the story. But some movies are so good that you can’t forget about them as they touched something in your heart.
Usually good movies draw us in from start to finish but they still have scenes that stand out more than others. People on Reddit shared those scenes that they liked because of the emotional impact, the special effects or how well the actors played their role when janearcade asked “What is the greatest single movie scene ever filmed?”
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#1
The opening scene of Up. That montage of a life together was pure poetry.
Mistersinister1 added:
F**k you it brought me to tears as a grown a** man, I looked over and my gf was balling her eyes out.
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#2
Beach scene is Saving Private Ryan
samgamgeerules added:
My uncle, now gone, asked me to see this with him. He served in WWII, and was one of the men landing on Omaha Beach. The first bullet, he took my hand. By the 3rd, he was squeezing it so hard I thought every bone was going to break. By the 5th bullet, a tear down his cheek. By the 10th he was openly weeping. This man who loved and laughed hard, but never ever cried. I knew he was flashing back, so I simply rested my other hand on his arm. When the full scene ended, he whispered in my ear "It's like they looked inside my brain and put my memories up there." That scene was literally that authentic. My uncle was the only one of his entire platoon that made it off the beach. Miraculously no outward injuries save a few scratches. The mental and emotional injuries devastated him to his last breath.
#3
The sword fight between Inigo Montoya and The Man in Black.
#4
The end of Shawshank redemption was pretty good
#5
When the T Rex showed up in Jurassic Park
Woperelli87 added:
I never noticed until recently but there is no music whatsoever during that scene. 99.9% of films would force in a score to up the tension or pop in a few stingers to make sure the audience is perked up. Nope, not the JP paddock scene. The rain served as the score and the scene was 1000x better without background music.
#6
It's when Dorothy steps out of the house into Technicolor and into a new world. It changed film.
The emotional aspect is unreal. That scene is forever engraved.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
When I was young we had black and white tv then color. But being color blind in one eye I only see shades of black and white really. The other eye gets color. At dusk and dawn unless I concentrate on say a tree or house and what the color is of it I can't see color in those moments. So watching this I just was like it's a black and white movie. Then the color comes in and it was flabbergasting to my brain. I still can't explain that single moment but I never realized the color tv was in color. Like I knew my colors and crayons and toys but that as a kid of like 7-8 it smashed me. It wasn't till about 8-9 that the eye doctor realized I didn't see color from my left eye. Hope this makes sense.
#7
For me its the scene where Forest Gump meets his son. I love that movie. I was a 90s kid and for some reason Gump taught me a lot about the world I didn't understand. He was like this slow witted observer of all the biggest events that changed American history from the 50s through the 80s. All the time we see him as stumbling through life getting constantly lucky, but always driven by his love of friends and family, and Jenny. It never even occurred that he might be self aware. Then in the final act he finds Jenny in her apartment and she tells him they have a son together.
"Is he...like me?"
The realization that he understood his place in the world the entire time, and still managed to be the person he is, it wrecked me. That film is deeply sentimental for me for other reasons but when I think about the first time I saw that scene and how deeply it affected me, I haven't had such an emotional experience from many other scenes. It won best picture that year for a reason. It really is a fantastic bit of story telling.
simply.Taz 2 years ago
In Forrest Gump, the scene that affected me the most was when Jenny was throwing the rocks at her old childhood home and Forrest states, "Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." Me and my childhood in a nutshell! My second favorite one was the one where he meets his son.
#8
The opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark set the bar awfully high
Sans Serif 2 years ago
Forty years later and it has lost NONE of it's luster. Watched it recently and it was still as heart pounding as it was on my first viewing! Brilliant!
#9
The charge of the Rohirrim. Still gives me chills.
Sans Serif 2 years ago
“Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!”
#11
The scene in Schindler’s List when the Nazis are rounding up Jews in the multi-story building to a frenetic piano soundtrack, and then it shows Nazis playing the same piano in one of the rooms, laughing and dancing. The joy and fun the Nazis are having compared to the panic of the innocents... Spielberg is a master
#12
Truman finally realizing his reality and trying to escape it.
MargotFenring added:
When he's on the boat in the storm, and you can really see that he'd rather die trying than give up...it always has such an impact on me.
#13
Binary sunset in A New Hope
ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago (edited)
That always made me wonder about the orbit of Tatooine. Edited to correct my spelling
#14
The USS Indianapolis monologue from Jaws. Robert Shaw's delivery is just chilling.
Sans Serif 2 years ago
"So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway... we delivered the bomb.” Chilling!
#15
The lobby shootout in The Matrix. It's so well edited and the visual effects are amazing
RL_Meeseeks added:
The ticket guy at the theater told me AFTER I bought a ticket for a different movie that it had started 20 minutes before (I was 15). He told me just to go to whatever other movie I wanted that was starting soon.
I went into The Matrix with absolutely zero idea what it was about. I only knew it was rated R.
MIND BLOWN
#16
The opening scene of Inglorious Bastards
RagDollLali 2 years ago
IChristoph Waltz is absolutely amazing in this movie, right down to the way he moves and the facial expressions he makes. He was so good it's almost hard not to hate him, and to separate the actor from the role. Actually, the whole cast did an incredible job.
#17
Call it predictable but Roy Batty final monolog in Blade Runner. Hard to do better than that IMO.
#18
The night vision sequence in Silence of the Lambs is great suspense.
RagDollLali 2 years ago
This scene made me sweat every time I was in full dark for months after watching the movie for the first time as a teen. Just thinking about it now and all the hair on the back of my neck is standing 🫣
#19
No matter how insufferable I find Tom Cruise, watching him question Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men is mesmerizing every time I watch it.
#20
Goodfellas "You're a funny guy". You could cut that tension. Greats scene.
#21
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: the showdown at the Sad Hill cemetery.
#22
The final scene of Last of the Mohicans.
#23
The baptism scene in The Godfather. Michael not only renounced Satan but he also settled all the family business that day
#24
A giant worm breaks into Reba's basement and then the camera pans over to the wall of guns. :)
Lisa H 2 years ago
This is one of the best campy movies ever! Michael Gross absolutely MADE that movie! "Broke into the wrong goddamned rec room!" Also, shout-out to the scene in the sequel where he's in said rec room, on the phone, and the camera pans to a giant taxidermied Graboid mounted on his wall 🤣🤣🤣
#25
Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in True Romance.
ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago
The discussion of different types of lies, then the fish tank... brilliant
#27
HEAT. The bank shootout. It’s the best gun battle in Hollywood
#29
Close tie between the “I could have saved more” speech in Schindlers List and the Moto Moto introduction in Madagascar 2
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Will Cable 2 years ago
Wall-E when we see how humans are in the future, so obsessed with the latest trend, not looking up from screens, lack of physical action......or maybe that was my journey in to town last week.
Spannidandoolar 2 years ago
The way he slowly transforms out of character
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
This should be so much higher. Absolutely gut-kicking.
Load More Replies... Will Cable 2 years ago
Wall-E when we see how humans are in the future, so obsessed with the latest trend, not looking up from screens, lack of physical action......or maybe that was my journey in to town last week.
Spannidandoolar 2 years ago
The way he slowly transforms out of character
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
This should be so much higher. Absolutely gut-kicking.
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