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! Peter's 100 Favorite Movie Moments (at the moment)

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This is inspired by a similar list ("Mr. Molly's 100 Favorite Movie Moments") posted as an [Ain't It Cool article|http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17386], which evidently is going to become a regular feature on the site.

I figured I would come up with a list of my own.  It is subject to change.  I'm kind of saddened to see how many of the movie moments come from the last 20 years; I like to think that I have a broader interest in film, but I guess my 'recent bias' is very strong.

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# The chase/shooting sequence from _Seven_
# Bill Murray's last, inaudible line in _Lost in Translation_
# The opening credits of _Castle in the Sky_
# The closing credits of _Kiki's Delivery Service_
# The Stonehenge "scaling problem" in _This Is Spinal Tap_
# From _The Iron Giant_:  "Superman."
# The ending of _Monsieur Hulot's Holiday_ (if only because it produces the peaceful feeling that you'd like to see the movie again sometime)
# HAN SHOOTING FIRST.
# From _Rejected_:  "For the love of god, and all that is holy, my anus is bleeding!!!!"
# The European-vacation-in-twenty-seconds from _The Rules of Attraction_
# From _The Accountant_:  "Have you ever even *met* anyone named Jim-Bob?!"
# The city construction in _Das Rad_
# That one falling guy who hits the propeller and then spins around and around, in _Titanic_
# The action that decides the last fight in _Diggstown_
# From _The Life of Brian_:  "We are all individuals!"  "We are all individuals."
# From _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_:  the opening credits.  Then the next opening credits.  Then the final opening credits.
# Gene Kelly jumping up and down in a puddle in _Singin' in the Rain_
# Bill Murray's character trying to kill himself over, and over, and over, in _Groundhog Day_
# The "How do you feel about getting old?" dialog from _Jackie Brown_
# Charlie Kaufman learning A Valuable Lesson About Life from his dying brother in _Adaptation_
# From _Shrek_:  "You *are.*"
# The couple looking out at the abandoned drive-in screen at the end of _Lone Star_
# The montage of empty locations at the end of _Before Sunrise_
# The 'scimitar-versus-handgun' showdown in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
# Jonathan Richman getting shot at the end of _There's Something About Mary_
# Tim Robbins getting severely (and hilariously) beaten with a rotary phone in _High Fidelity_
# Dr. Teeth consulting the script to _The Muppet Movie_ in _The Muppet Movie_
# Wallace transports twenty sheep on a motorbike through a tunnel in _A Close Shave_
# The conga line that ends _The Impostors_
# The brief lens flare as the band boards the bus in _Almost Famous_
# From _... say anything_:  "Ding."
# Tara Reid's one and only line in _The Big Lebowski_
# The chase through thousands of closet doors in _Monsters, Inc._
# The dance sequence in the train station in _The Fisher King_
# From _Lilo & Stitch_:  "It's okay -- my dog found the chainsaw."
# The trailer for _The Phantom Menace_
# From _Die Hard_:  "I have a machine gun now... ho ho ho."
# The car chase through oncoming traffic in _The French Connection_
# From _Boogie Nights_, the long, long, ''long'' unbroken opening shot.
# From _X-Men_:  "How do I know it's you?"  "You're a dick."  <pause> "Okay."
# Rabbi Levartov's attempt to rapidly reassemble a hinge in _Schindler's List_
# The bone/spaceship transition in _2001_.
# The flying cow in _Twister_.
# The huge, plunging triangles in the opening of the Fifth Symphony piece in _Fantasia 2000_
# Salieri reading a score by Mozart for the first time, in _Amadeus_
# From _American Beauty_:  "... and now I own it.  I rule!"
# A massive piece of masonry being hurled from Minas Tirith down to the feet of one of the besieging orcs, in _The Return of the King_
# Mike Judge and Jennifer Aniston dispute the correct quantity of 'flair' in _Office Space_
# The closing shot of the director's cut of _Brazil_
# The mammoth pile-up of cop cars in _The Blues Brothers_
# The video-store-in-an-action-movie sequence in _The Last Action Hero_
# The first musical response from the alien ship in _Close Encounters_
# From _Chinatown_:  "I *like* my nose.  I like *breathing* through it."
# Edward G. Robinson explains exactly why it *couldn't* be suicide, in _Double Indemnity_
# Michelle Yeoh gracefully and valiantly defends a block of tofu in _Wing Chun_
# The opening voiceover from _The Mighty._
# The laughable "Unix interface" from _Jurassic Park._
# Quentin Tarantino's explication of _Top Gun_, in _Four Rooms_
# The _Good Will Hunting II:  Hunting Season_ sequence in _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back._
# "Wheel... of... fish!" on _UHF_
# The "place that no man should ever see!" in _Being John Malkovich_
# Ringo takes a walk in _A Hard Day's Night_
# Alec Baldwin chews out the sales team in _Glengarry Glen Ross_
# Woody Allen asking passers-by how they keep romance alive, in _Annie Hall._
# The opening credits of _Monsoon Wedding_
# The initial robbery in _Bottle Rocket_
# "I want my _six_ dollars!" from the [Mr Sinus|http://www.mrsinus.com] presentation of _Mac & Me_.
# "'Yeah, _triple_ that and ya got me,' says Ronnie the Bear," from the 'Wizard People, Dear Reader' version of _Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone._
# From _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_:  "I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul... than enter heaven without you."
# David Spade freezes the film for a short football-analysis-like monolog in _The Emperor's New Groove._
# The actors hang out at the catering table with the people they are portraying, in _American Splendor._
# The history of the apartment in _City of God._
# A jaguar complains of the London Zoo's paucity of red meat, in _Creature Comforts_
# The opening fight sequence of _The Matrix_
# Jim Carrey's last line in _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind._
# Stanley and Stella make up (after the famously bellowed "STELLA!") in the Kazan _Streetcar Named Desire_
# Kenneth Brannagh's brilliant re-punctuation of this line: "Love me?  _Why?!_  It must be requited." in _Much Ado About Nothing._
# That one time at the Drafthouse showing of _A Hard Day's Night,_ where the projector broke down in the last couple of minutes, and within seconds, the whole crowd started singing the last song from the film.
# When the sailors realize the ship they attacked had a crew aboard, in _Das Boot._
# The tearful dialog at the end of _You Can Count on Me._
# The explication of why _Star Wars_ is oppressive, in _Mallrats._
# The resolution of the last shipboard battle of _Star Trek II:  the Wrath of Khan_
# The short sequence (wherein Skrat tries to procure an acorn) that begins _Ice Age._
# The creative use of a lawnmower in _Dead/Alive_.
# Everybody follows Steve Martin -- or more precisely, his nose -- to the scene of a fire, in _Roxanne._
# From _Ghostbusters_:  "If somebody asks you if you're god, you say _yes_!!"
# Also from _Ghostbusters_:  Rick Moranis, in a situation of some duress, causes a brief but totally-silent pause at a dinner party.
# Zeppo does a piano solo for a crowd of children, in _A Night at the Opera_
# The "Elephant Room Medley" in _Moulin Rouge._
# The "Find the Fish" game from _The Meaning of Life._
# From _Punch-Drunk Love_:  "Are you threatening me?!"  "Well... yeah."  "Well... okay, then."
# The poisoned-drink game from _The Princess Bride_
# Any one of the puppy-squishings in _A Fish Called Wanda_
# From _Memento_:  "No.  Wait.  _He's_ chasing _me_."
# The trashcan through the window in _Do the Right Thing._
# Kevin Kline, in maximum discomfort, advises ''not'' to do it in the shower (as it wastes time ''and'' electricity) in _The Ice Storm_
# From _The Big Lebowski_:  "The old man told me to take any rug in the house."
# The animated baby angrily storming off-set at the start of _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_
# The 'boom stick' speech from _Army of Darkness_.
# The giant singalong at the end of _There's Something About Mary._

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