2011 by the Moments (SPOILERS)

Justine's entire wedding celebration in Melancholia. Beautifully shot, strange, complex and engaging performances from an inspired cast, emotionally honest and brutally funny. 

"Go fuck yourself."  -- X-Men: First Class

I'm gonna be a total HOG.  There may be some spoilers, so beware!

Green Hornet - "Ha HA!  I'm UNGASSABLE!!!"

Adjustment Bureau - Any moment between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

Source Code - A living freeze-frame of positivity brought to us by Russell Peters?!

Hanna - "I just missed your heart."

Fast Five - Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel clasping sweaty muscular arms together.

Super - "You don't sell drugs! You don't molest little children! You don't profit off the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago! They don't change!"

Midnight in Paris - Basically all of Midnight in Paris.

Kung Fu Panda 2 - "I... LOOOOOOVE... YOOOOOU... GUUUUYZZZZ!!!"

Tree of Life - All of the central portion of The Tree of Life.

X-Men First Class - Fassbender in Inglorious Mutants

Transformers 3 - Hobo Megatron and Fascist Asshole Prime

Harry Potter - Severus Snape montage

Captain America - Steve Rogers' selfless courage.

Rise of the Apes - Why cookie Rocket?

Rise of the Apes - "NO!!!!"

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - The opening and finale of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Warrior - Hardy, Nolte, and Edgerton in Warrior

Drive - The entirety of Drive.  Goes down smooth.

50/50 - Joseph Gordon Levitt seeings the books in Seth Rogen's bathroom.

Footloose - The dance sequences in Footloose.

Harold & Kumar Christmas- Danny Trejo jizzing on a Christmas tree in 3D.

Breaking Dawn - A bunch of werewolves arguing with each other telepathically.  Hilarious.

Young Adult - "Fuck Mercury."

*edited at Schwartz's gentlemanly suggestion

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Originally Posted by BlackyShimSham 

Justine's entire wedding celebration in Melancholia. Beautifully shot, strange, complex and engaging performances from an inspired cast, emotionally honest and brutally funny. 

All due respect to the rest of that movie, but it all comes down to that last shot. Terrifyingly gorgeous.

If it may please the court: The entire pre-history sequence of Tree of Life.

Friendly reminder, we don't need to go full bore with spoiler text, but please list the title first so folks who didn't see every film and show released this year can employ their skipping muscles.

THE INTERRUPTERS: A young man who robbed a barber shop comes back to the shop to apologize to the people he terrorized. There are many, many, many more such moments.

REBIRTH: At the memorial service for a boy's mother, who died in 9/11, a bird lands on his head and lets him hold it for a moment right at the moment he mentions his mother's name.

LIFE IN A DAY: Barefoot skydive.

BRIDESMAIDS: The simultaneous attack of food poisoning on all the bridesmaids, culminating in the bride shitting in the street. "DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!"

THE TREE OF LIFE: The evolution of the universe.

ATTACK THE BLOCK: The "tooling up" sequence and the climactic slow-motion chase.

The final fight in Real Steel.  Been long time since I've seen an audience that ramped up and on their feet.

THE GUARD

- The magnificent Brendan Gleeson during the climactic shootout walking along the dock completely disregarding the notion of "cover", guns a-blazing.

SENNA

- In a life which reads like a movie script Senna's performance in an underpowered car in an underfunded team on the most technical track in the worst weather conditions at Monaco in 1984 is the moment heads turn and people begin to ask "Who IS that kid?".

- San Marino 1994 is the moment the world stops and we can't believe it's real.

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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson 

The final fight in Real Steel.  Been long time since I've seen an audience that ramped up and on their feet.

Kinda sad that I missed out on this one in theaters.  Just didn't get to it.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS: The detective gets lost in time.

SUPER

HORRIBLE BOSSES

WARRIOR

Paddy Conlon: "Ahab! You Godless sonofabitch! You stop the ship, you Godless sonofabitch!" - Nolte

CONTAGION:  A major character, about to expire from the disease, desperately tries to give up their blanket to an unknown fellow patient right next to them.

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE:  Martha wakes up in the middle of the night to someone throwing rocks at her window.  OR ARE THEY?

YOUNG ADULT:  Mavis drives through her hometown at night and looks around with utter contempt and loathing while 4 Non-Blondes blares on the radio.

50/50:  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, about to go into risky cancer surgery, struggles to tell his dementia-stricken father that he loves him.  Fucking slayed me.  

We should probably open a separate thread for 2011 TELEVISION MOMENTS, because there are a shit-ton of those, too.

GREEN LANTERN: The movie ends.

Drive:

"It's over... it's over..."

BUCK: The real life horse whisperer meets his match in a borderline feral stallion. It's a sequence that's tense as all hell and ultimately heartbreaking.

The Muppets: The utter joy of "Life's A Happy Song", both times. The climactic performance of "The Rainbow Connection". And the pure, undiluted hilarity of chickens belting out Cee-Lo Green.

Winnie the Pooh: Pooh gives Eeyore his tail back.

Drive Angry: William Fichtner drives through a police blockade in a semi while head-bobbing to "That's The Way I Like It".

Horrible Bosses: Charlie Day's utterly hilarious horror at Aniston's blackmail pictures.

Rango: The first appearance of Rattlesnake Jake.

Captain America: "What's so special about you?" "Nothin'. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn." People rag on the second half of Cap (which I like, but recognize its problems), but that exchange easily lives up to the preceding movie.

"Fast Five" - "That's for my team, you son of a bitch." I haven't enjoyed someone shooting someone else without looking at them so much since "The Dark Knight", and the one-liner this time made it even better.

"Captain America" - The farewell between Peggy and Steve was very moving, and brought unexpected poignancy to an otherwise fairly light movie. Tommy Lee Jones was a pleasant surprise and the movie's most consistent highlight was his hilarious one-liners, particularly "I'm not gonna kiss ya".

"Winnie the Pooh" - Favourite moment: that moron Owl flying back into the hole to wait with the others for help, instead of realizing he could just fly out and get help. I laughed so hard. Also loved the inspired punning on the word "knot" with Piglet. I became obsessed with the song in the closing credits. Loved the adorable shots of the toys to go with it.

"Drive" - The elevator scene. Never have I seen romance and violence as perfectly juxtaposed as they were in this movie, never moreso than in this scene. "A Real Hero", played incessantly throughout the movie, was the other song I became obsessed with this year after hearing it in a movie. Any scene with the song in it was especially mesmerizing.

"Warrior" - "How about a cup of coffee?" was the most heartbreaking line I heard in any movie this year. Nolte's delivery was devastating. The last fight was captivating on both a visceral and emotional level. I was aware that it was excessively sentimental and overwrought, but it still got to me and made me teary.

"The Muppets" - The performance of "Rainbow Connection" was the only other thing I saw in a new movie this past year that put tears in my eyes. I was surprised, because in "The Muppet Movie", I didn't find the scene where it was performed all that effective. I actually liked it more in this movie. The performance was just so wonderfully shot with all the characters together...so much better than Kermit just performing it alone. I was disappointed with the movie overall, but this song and "Life's a Happy Song" were sublimely sweet and uplifting.

Hanna - Hanna and her new friend have a tender moment with some really warm colors and impossible body positioning.

Hobo With A Shotgun - Abby downthrusts with her lawnmower shield into the bed of a truck killing one of The Plague in a shower of sparks.

Drive Angry - Pretty much everything involving Piper but the absolute tops has to be when she says she is going to paint her nails *wink wink* and then gets the guy to paint her nails.