"Best Scenes" Chwer's picks for 2009 (Spoilers)

-The opening credit sequence of Watchmen

-Sam hearing the real Sam's voice in Moon

-Ronnie shooting the streaker in Observe and Report. That scene saved the entire movie.

-Shoshanna getting her revenge.

-Parking garage fight in Drag Me To Hell

-the final insult-off between Gandolfini and Peter Capaldi in In The Loop. "Hey, General Flintstone!"

Chevzilla.

Inglorious Basterds... the opening scene or the basement bar scene; can't decide which one is better.

The pool scene in 'Let The Right One In'

Shoshana's laughing face on the burning movie screen, 'Inglourious Basterds'.

The photo montage at the end of 'The Hangover'.

Pretty much ANY scene with Dug or Alpha in 'Up!'.

Good call on The Hangover...don't recall a cinema so loud with pure laughter as when that montage unspooled.

DISTRICT 9 - a Prawn makes a rose from some garbage.

INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS - Hitler takes a hearty load right to the face.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE - Max tells his mom a story.

DRAG ME TO HELL - "I DON'T WANT YOUR CAT! HRGHGHRHGHRHGURGLE!"

THE BROTHERS BLOOM - The red turns brown.

THE HURT LOCKER - Tense showdown with some snipers.

UP - Carl turns to the back of Ellie's book.

AWAY WE GO - "Will you marry me?" "Never."

Hunger: Bobby Sands and the priest having a conversation.

Antichrist: Opening scene.

I know it was 2008 for you gents 'cross the pond but 'The Wrestler' came out here in January, and the deli counter scene is easily one of my favourite moments of the year.

Zombie Bill Murray

"Why'dja stop, motherfucker?"

"White Stripes, get out." Also, "After a war you need to have some people left over, or it looks like you lost."

The Hurt Locker - The first time out with James. The car running the roadblock and finding all the bombs wired together. One of the most tense moments I've seen in any film.

EDIT:
Also the scene in the cereal aisle.

District 9 - The reval of the Prawn Hand

The Hurt Locker - The nightime bombing

Second on the photo sequence at the end of Hangover

The dawn scene in Adventureland

That shot in Adventureland of Joel and James on the lawn with Frigo setting off rockets behind them is one of many from that film that's stuck with me. I was talking to a friend, and that's one of those shots you wish you could make into a poster.

District 9: Wikus holds the soldiers off while Christopher and his kid make a run for it.

The Hangover: Ken Jeong jumps, naked, out of the trunk and wails on the guys with a crowbar.

Inglourious Basterds: The Bear Jew's first appearance, Shoshanna putting on her make-up to David Bowie

UP - montage of Ellie and Carl's life together

I'll second the sniper attack in THE HURT LOCKER

The montage of all of Rachel Weisz's hobbies in The Brothers Bloom.

This, yes.

For me, probably the number one scene of the whole year would be the La Louisiane scene in Basterds. There's so much going on in that scene and it all plays out perfectly. Loses none of its impact on the second viewing.

Obviously the montage that sets up the plot of Up is masterful, moving stuff.

Ronnie and Dennis getting messed up - "I'm not gonna lie to you Ronnie - there's nothing good about this" - in Observe and Report.

The shootout in the woods in Public Enemies.

Jon on Mars, telling his story, in Watchmen was exactly as chillingly good as I hoped it would be.

The train station in Drag Me To Hell -exactly the ending the film needed.

Max et al howling as his boat sails away in Where The Wild Things Are

The 21-Wand Salute in Half Blood Prince.

Ponyo running across tides to keep up with Sasuke's car.

Chev Chelios, screaming, on fire, giving the screen the middle finger in Crank 2.

Adventureland: "You're not a fucking idiot I'm a fucking idiot!"

(500) Days of Summer: Split screen "Expectations vs. Reality"

Public Enemies: Little Bohemia.

Duplicity: Opening credits.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The Burrow attack.

The titular, dialogue-free scene in Goodbye Solo

The poetry recitation "love scene" in Bright Star

"Difficult difficult lemon difficult" in In the Loop

The last goddamn line of Cheri, which basically knocked me on my ass, as indifferent as I had generally been to the film up to that point

The prologue story of The Brothers Bloom

Nash Out!

Ratty FTW. Rachel with two turntables and a microphone is gold.

Also: the penis that yells "Bruno!"

John Connor fighting off the Terminator torso - the only scene in TERMINATOR SALVATION that felt even vaguely dangerous.

And the only funny line in TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (paraphrased):

Shia: "Sorry, I was just trying to find your friend a tighter T-shirt"
Fratboy: "There are none. We checked." (Fratboys high-five)

The scene where Liam Neeson's daughter gets TAKEN.

Kirk's fat lesbian comedy hands in STAR TREK.

I do like Kirk's exasperated "STOP THAT!" to the frequent injections by Bones.

Call me geeky if you must, but this shot actually watered my eyes with its filmic beauty.

I'm still amazed this moment works so well. It's been done before. It's the definition of schmaltz. And yet somehow I was a blubbering mess both times I saw the movie.

Bryan Mills pumps his gun clean into the head of the sex-slave company and the "Now I've got a machine gun, ho ho ho"-esque aftermath. (Taken)

Eddie Blake's funeral. (Watchmen)

Dr. Manhattan reflects on his past. (Watchmen)

"DO IT!" (Watchmen)

"Slappin' da bass, mon!" (I Love You, Man)

Ronnie assaults Nell's boss. (Observe and Report)

"I ain't gonna lie to ya, Ronnie. There is nothing good about this at all." (Observe and Report)

The entire ending of Observe and Report.

Kirk meets Spock Prime. (Star Trek)

The opening 10 minutes of Up. Never came so close to crying at anything else this year.

Carl and Russell met Dug. (Up)

Dogs playing poker with bones. (Up)

At the train station. (Drag Me to Hell)

The night in pictures. (The Hangover)

Smash cut to title. (Away We Go)

"I fucking hope so." (Away We Go)

First day with James. (The Hurt Locker)

The meeting with the British contractors goes to shit. (The Hurt Locker)

Dillinger breaks out, segueing into Melvin Purvis hunting down Pretty Boy Floyd to "Ten Million Slaves." (Public Enemies)

"FUCK OFF!!!!!" (Bruno)

Wikus gets sick. (District 9)

Wikus fights back in the alien robot suit. (District 9)

Landa visits Perrier LaPadite. (Inglourious Basterds)

Don't wanna eat a sauerkraut sandwich again? Meet the Bear Jew. (Inglourious Basterds)

Operation Kino implodes at La Louisane. (Inglourious Basterds)

All of Chapter 5 of Inglourious Basterds, from Shoshanna's Bowie-enhanced preparation to Aldo's masterpiece.

"Why 0014? Because I'm twice as smart as 007!" (The Informant!)

"Bill Fuckin' Murray!" (Zombieland)

Columbus gets too trigger happy. (Zombieland)

Carl literally and figuratively unburdening himself in Up. Glorious scoring from Giacchino, and that shot of Carl and Ellie's chairs together on the ground perfectly encapsulates how you can remember and still let go. Plus it kicks us off into one of the more thrilling finales in recent years.

Another one I just remembered:

World's Greatest Dad: Robin Williams desperately trying to not burst out laughing while describing his dead son on that Oprah-esque talk show.

"I love you. But I shouldn't have married you." Also, "Divide that by nine!"

I'd also add the first meeting between Mr Fox and Badger that ends in the growl-off.

Yeah, the growl-off is a great scene. I love when Ash finally gets his bandit hat and there's stars on it.

The BLACK POWER mutual salute between the wolf and Mr. Fox.

Yes. I mentioned this bit in the Post-release thread-- not sure why I left it out here.

A Serious Man's tooth story from the 2nd rabbi. What an awesome detour.

Clint playing finger gun with some thugs - Gran Torino

The Golden Gate Bridge confrontation (the only worthwhile thing in the movie, actually) - Monsters Vs.Aliens

"Sorry, car". Paul Walker's night battle across LA with both Dom and his own GPS - Fast & Furious

The garage hunt - State of Play

Ronnie's night out at The Corner - Observe & Report

The Wolfpack speech - The Hangover

"Let's cover ourselves in dinosaur piss" - Land of the Lost

Paris - GI Joe

The basement surprise - The Road

Blackwell's return - Sherlock Holmes

The tornado - A Serious Man

...And since it counts for me as I saw it this year, but you can definitely chalk it down for 2010, the night-vision shootout from (the equally masterful & superb) Kick-Ass.

-The scene with the Eagles beating the Giants thus eliminating them from the playoffs (Big Fan)

-I DON'T WANT IT!!! (Big Fan)
Why wasn't Patton Oswalt nominated for a Spirit?

-The confrontation between the two messengers and Steve Buscemi (The Messenger)

-Han Solo (500 Days of Summer)

-Does Hans Landa have to choke a bitch? (Inglorious Basterds)

-The Exosquad scene (District 9)

This might violate the list but Best TV Scenes of the Year...

Walts wife confronts him about his lies (Breaking Bad)

Negro and Azul narcocorrido intro (Breaking Bad)

Shut up Cunt (Dexter)

I loved the scene in District 9 where Wikus first tries to buy weapons from the gangster. It's quite tense and uncomfortable for him and then he picks up the weapon and it begins charging up, then boom, goon blown 20ft backwards out of the tent. I almost cheered.

Also, the quick cut-away gag in Up were Carl imagines trying to drop Russell off on the roof of a building. Genuine shock then delight.

Ronnie beating up the drug dealers in Observe and Report, quite a WTF moment.

The quick shot of Penelope juggling chainsaws while riding a really tall unicycle in The Brothers Bloom.

The helicopter crash at the begining of Terminator: Salvation, the only interesting thing I remember about that film

Wow - this thread reminds me how I haven't really seen anything this year.

Oh well, my 2 cents:

"Shut it, Love Actually." In the Loop

Snape looming over Harry at the end of The Half Blood Prince

"You're an idiot" and inside the kidnappers' hideout in Men Who Stare at Goats

The garage fight in Drag Me to Hell

The "love aint done nothing for me" speech in Precious

Malcolm Tucker: Linton! Linton!
Linton Barwick: Mr Tucker, isn't it? Nice to see you again.
Malcolm Tucker: Are you fucking me about?
Linton Barwick: Is there a problem, Mr Tucker?
Malcolm Tucker: I've just come from a briefing with a nine-year-old child.
Linton Barwick: You're talking about AJ. AJ is one of our top guys. He's a Stanton College Prep, Harvard. One of the brightest and best.
Malcolm Tucker: Well, his briefing notes were written in alphabetti spaghetti. When I left, I nearly tripped up over his fucking umbilical cord.
Linton Barwick: I'm sorry it troubles you that our people achieve excellence at such an early age. But could we just move on to what's important here? Now, I understand that your Prime Minister has asked you to supply us with some, say, fresh British intelligence, is that true?
Malcolm Tucker: Yeah, apparently, your fucking master race of highly-gifted toddlers can't quite get the job done...
Linton Barwick: All right.
Malcolm Tucker: ...between breast feeds and playing with their Power Rangers. So, an actual grown-up has been asked to fucking bail you out.

There are probably a dozen scenes from this film that could go in this thread.

I figure we'll have the full script posted here eventually.

"Turn that fucking racket off! It's just VOWELS! Subsidised... foreign... vowels!"

"Glass offices, in my opinion, are for perverts."

"OK. Firstly, don't raise your voice. This is a sacred place. Now, you may not believe that and I may not believe that, but, by God, it's a useful hypocrisy."

‘I know you don’t like swearing, so let me put it this way, you’re an f-star-star-CUNT!’

Another from Mr. Fox:

"You wrote a bad song, Petey!"

This. I just finished rewatching this and it's killer.

-Bronson and the pedophille in the Looney Bin. (Bronson)

-Every scene where the Messenger's deliver the news to the military families. (The Messenger)

I think about that scene every time I'm in the supermarket.