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My Top 25 Movie Moments. What Are Yours?

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May be a little long winded, but this is my top movie moments. I am sure they will change with time.

25.) Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) sings “the stars at night are big and bright” and gets a spirited response and claps from the friendly Texan public: “Deep in the heart of Texas.”
(Pee-wee's Big Adventure, 1985)

24.) Darth Vader tells Luke Skywalker that he is his father.
(Star Wars®: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)

23.) Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) and his Droogs beat down a man while singing “Singing in the Rain.”
(A Clockwork Orange, 1971)

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22.) Neo (Keanu Reeves) realizes that “Whoa” he’s the one.
(The Matrix, 1999)

21.) The knight, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), challenges Death (Bengt Ekerot) to a chess game for his life. A much parodied concept.
(The Seventh Seal, 1957)

20.) Barney “Bonehead” Springboro uses his telekinetic powers to burst open Jane Mitchell’s blouse revealing her beautiful, pink bra clad bosom as Peyton Nichols looks on in pleasure. Scott Baio, Heather Thomas and Willie Aames star in this classic 80’s flick. In the mid '90s, the shady and always-sidekick Aames began starring as an evangelical superhero in the Bibleman series of youth-oriented musical videos.
(Zapped!, 1982)

19.) The super powers of Officer Dave Speed…Dave becomes able to move objects with the mind force, discover mysterious crimes, jump with no problem from a skyscraper and blow a massively huge bubble from one piece of gum to save he and his friends from a sunken ship. Like most heroes, there is a weakness…the color red.
(Super Fuzz, 1980)

18.) Rodney Dangerfield dons swim trunks, climbs upon a diving board and executes a flawless Triple Lindy.
(Back to School, 1986)

17.) Rowdy class clown Jay-Jay Manners (Michael J. Fox) beats the cocky king of the preps: Beau Middleton (Anthony Edwards) for the love of Beth Franklin (Nancy McKeon).
(High School USA, 1983)

16.) The fabulous Joe Don Baker puts on a very frighteningly real portrayal of a beer swilling, ill tempered and all around unlikable scumbag detective named Mitchell. You are treated to watching Joe Don stuff his face and play mirror games with an annoying kid while oafishly screaming the line “Buzz off kid!”
(Mitchell, 1975)

15.) Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) mangles his “franks’n’ beans” by zipping them up.
(There’s Something About Mary, 1998)

14.) Piter De Vries (Brad Dourif) swills the juice and delivers this classic ditty: “IT IS BY WILL ALONE I SET MY MIND IN MOTION. IS BY THE JUICE OF SAFU THAT THOUGHTS AQUIRE SPEED, THE LIPS AQUIRE STAINS, THE STAINS BECOME A WARNING. IT IS BY WILL ALONE I SET MY MIND IN MOTION…”
(Dune, 1984)

13.) Killer Bob/Leland Palmer (Bob Silva/Ray Wise) rapes his own daughter in a twisted multiple personality sex scene. The first line of TP:FWWM is "Get me Agent Chester Desmond in Fargo, North Dakota!” delivered by F.B.I. Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (David Lynch).
(Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992)

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12.) The Massachusetts 54th Colored Regiment sings and testifies “Oh my Lord” around a campfire the night before participating in the assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina.
(Glory, 1989)

11.) Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) calls Professor X (Patrick Stewart) “Wheels.”
(X-Men, 2000)

10.) In XANADU did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree… “Rosebud” was the final word of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles).
(Citizen Kane, 1941)

9.) George (Marshall Bell) lifts up his shirt and enters a trance to reveal the disturbing, knowledgeable and puppet-like Kuato living in his belly.
(Total Recall, 1990)

8.) Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) gives little Butch Coolidge his birthright and relates the story of the watch “being up his ass” for two years.
(Pulp Fiction, 1994)

7.) Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, the Drill Instructor (R. Lee Ermey), introduces the recruits to the foul-mouthed beginnings of basic training. “THIS IS MY RIFLE There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life.”
(Full Metal Jacket, 1987)

6.) A retired elite commando, Col. John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator. During the adventure, Matrix delivers the line ‘Remember when I said I was going to kill you last?’ to Sully (David Patrick Kelly). Arnold boasts, ‘I lied’ and drops Sully off a cliff. When asked where Sully went, Matrix replies, ‘I had to let him go.’
(Commando, 1985)

5.) Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), Commanding Officer of Burpelson Air Force Base delivers the classic “bodily fluids” speech. "A foreign substance is introduced into the precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual and certainly without any free choice. That's the way the commies work . . ."
(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964)

4.) Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) proposes marriage and dry humps the ground to the sweet sounds of a mimicking mariachi band. "Hey, baby, let me put some meat in your taco…” band singing “SOME MEAT IN YOUR TACO”
(Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, 2000)

3.) Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken play a little game of Vietcong roulette.
(The Deer Hunter, 1978)

2.) A toxic-waste doused thug (Paul McCrane) disintegrates on the windshield of a speeding car. McCrane also played Pete Conrad in the TV Mini Series From the Earth to the Moon in 1998.
(Robocop, 1987)

1.) Travis Bickle (De Niro) cleans the filth and scum off the streets of New York.
(Taxi Driver, 1976)

- Mr. Russell A. Dale

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