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Loki45 -> RE: Best movie scene ever.... (6/29/2009 2:20:02 AM)
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Like others, I vote for the "way too many to pick just one."
However, one of the first ones that popped into my head (probably because it was the most recent I've seen, thanks to the FX channel) was in "The Rundown" with The Rock.
The scene is towards the end, when all hell is breaking loose. Earlier in the movie, The Rock's character tells Sean Williams Scott's character that he doesn't like to use guns, because as he puts it "They take me to a place I don't want to go."
In the climactic scene, he's crouched behind some cover, two shotguns next to him. He's pinned down by heavy gunfire and SWS's character is trapped in a bus that's about to explode. The camera rapidly switches between Scott, The Rock, the many firing guns around him and the fuel leaking from the bus.
All the while, is interjected scenes from the Scottish pilot sitting nearby drinking a beer and quoting the lines of the poem about "raging against the dying of the light." (One of the shotguns has "do not go gentle" written on the handle.)
Finally, after multiple camera swaps, the view centers on The Rock, with his eyes closed, which suddenly open (to very guitar-heavy rock music) as he grabs both shotguns and procedes to lay waste between him and the bus to rescue Scott's character.
Sure, it's over-the-top action and not very realistic. But the music, the tense moment, the inner turmoil in The Rock's wish not to use guns followed by the music-accompanied destruction is just awesome.
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