[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')apanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb.

The Hiroshima bomb.

Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent.

They didn't even list us overdue for a week.

Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour.

On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again.

So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

[whatpeak]

Scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where Billy Bibbit while stuttering begs Nurse Ratched not to tell his mother about sleeping with prostitute Candy. And then the rage of Randle McMurphy after he discovers that Bibbit has committed suicide and Ratched asks him if is now satisfied with the result. The ensuing mayhem in the ward climaxes with McMurphy attacking Ratched. Powerful acting.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('whatpeak', 'S')cene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where Billy Bibbit while stuttering begs Nurse Ratched not to tell his mother about sleeping with prostitute Candy. And then the rage of Randle McMurphy after he discovers that Bibbit has committed suicide and Ratched asks him if is now satisfied with the result. The ensuing mayhem in the ward climaxes with McMurphy attacking Ratched. Powerful acting.

[WildRose]

Thanks for submitting that scene from Jaws, Aaron. I recognized it right away. I've seen Jaws several times but I could never make out everything that was said in that scene, possibly it was just the actor's accent or perhaps he got a little quiet in parts, I don't know. Anyway, it was nice to read the dialogue in its entirety.

I can't think of a favorite scene just yet...so many movies...but will post when I think of one.

[Gridlock]

Where eagles dare. Just before Eastwood blows away half the nazi base single-handedly, Burton carries out the ruse.

[Dreamtwister]

Oh, so many to choose from...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou just shot an unarmed man!

Well, he shoulda armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.

You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.

That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And now I'm gonna kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'O')h, so many to choose from...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou just shot an unarmed man!

Well, he shoulda armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.

You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.

That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And now I'm gonna kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

[PrairieMule]

The battle scene from Akira Kurosawa's Ran. King Lear with Samurais. 1000's extra's in coreographed fighting before digital extras.

[holmes]

Hondo - JOHN WAYNE

When he throws the boy Johnny into the river to teach him to swim and then his mom confesses she doesnt know how to swim Hondo gives her a look and she runs away. great scene.

"Paw never taught me to swim."
Hondo gives him classic john wayne look and grabs him by the seat of his pants and nap of the neck and throws him far out into the river.
great scene.

[sparkylab]

One scene that always stays with me is that moment in Goodfellas where Jimmy (DeNiro) finds out that Tommy (Pesci) has been whacked, that it was down to 'real greaseball stuff' (because he had whacked a made guy), and he's powerless to do anything about it.

He's in a phone booth and just starts bashing the phone into the cradle. Over and Over. I find his rage and frustration absolutely mesmerizing.

People talk about the nightclub tracking shot from earlier in the film, but this one has aways been my favourite.

[PenultimateManStanding]

one that was pretty special: in the original Rod Taylor "Time Machine" when he's in the machine after the nuclear war and he puts the machine into full throttle fast forward because he's buried under a mountain. The years and eons go flashing by at a dizzy rate until the mountain erodes around him in a flash. Then comes that strange moment: he pulls the lever to stop and the machine falls over; some kind of twinkling dust falls on him & he's lying on a grass lawn in front of the most fearsome looking sphinx. then he wanders off through the bizarre forrest of millions of years hence as unusual sounds reach his ears and he sees totally strange plants. no people, he runs, he panics; there are old broken down futuristic domes that look like no one has lived in them for ages. as he runs he stops by a river and hears laughter: carefree youths bath in the sun wearing pastel togas. cool scene.

[Madpaddy]

For me hands down - it's gotta be this.

[quote]"I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen,here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?"
"Two thousand against ten?" - the veteran shouted. "No! We will
run - and live!"
"Yes!" Wallace shouted back. "Fight and you may die. Run and you
will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now,would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one cahnce, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!"
Army roars "Alban go brea"

[MD]

This one comes to mind at the moment.

"gopher everett?"

"no thanks delmar...uhhhh.... third of a gopher would jus' arouse muh appetite without beddin' 'er back down"

"that's ok...you can have the whole...thing...pete and i already had one...we stumbled on a...whole...gopher...village."

I have no idea why.

[Madpaddy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wg-4scu6Dw

[PenultimateManStanding]

some runner-ups: the alien pops out of John Hurt's belly. Schwarzenegger's Terminator shoots up the police station after saying "I'll be back". Steve McQueen tries to escape from Nazi Germany by motorcycle. Paul Newman wipes out Minnessota Fats in pool but George C. Scott says, "stick with this kid, he's a loser". Rio(Marlon Brando) and his gang are hanging out by the old Chinese fishing village near Monterey, California in One Eyed Jacks, playing cards and Ben Johnson mentions Rio's girlfriend referring to her as a "Mexican jumping bean" Rio throws the table aside, goes for his gun and sez "GET UP! GET UP you scum-sucking pig!"

[Aaron]

In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race disappeared in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.

HA!

[Madpaddy]

Sorry this is the one,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGQahPo6hU

[Aaron]

Best Star Wars Kid Ever...

[web]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Ize9piRWw[/web]