Okay, I'll play.
randomly recalled top ten movie moments, as per zagzagael , with handy links to IMDB just in case our pop cultural education is too different
- 2010: The silent black monoliths proliferating around Jupiter until it implodes, while one of the fleeing astronauts is shrieking, "It's shrinking! It's shrinking!"
- Tenshi no Tamago: The shadows of the ghostly coelacanths drifting past on the facades of the gray dead city. I was obsessed with this fish as a child, so I then became rather obsessed with this film as a teen.
- Bite the Bullet: Gene Hackman as Sam Clayton in the sand dunes riding down and whipping the cocky kid Carbo as he stands over the horse he rode to death in a cross-country race for a cash prize. Absolutely the best western film of the 70s.
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Jedediah the Pilot and the rescued children flying over the ruins of Sydney and realizing that the fantasy of civilization that had sustained them all this time was a thing of the past.
- Blade Runner: Roy Batty's last words, with the dove flying away and everything. *sniff* (shared with zag)
- Hardware: Carl McCoy walking out of the radioactive desert sandstorm with the head of the robot soldier.
- Near Dark: Vampire Jesse Hooker and Diamondback's last moments as they drive down the highway and burn up in the sun.
- In the Mood for Love: Maggie Chung walking down the stairs with a bucket on her arm to buy rice.
- The English Patient: The long shot of Count Lazlo flying out of the desert with Katherine's body.
- The Great Escape: Steve McQueen riding the motorcycle up the hill toward the barbed wired border into Switzerland.